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Land
The entity covered here is the manga Land, which was nominated for Best Manga at the 2026 Harvey Awards. No new Land material has been announced in the stories gathered.
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Yomimono stories · updated
Oct 15
Land appears in this coverage only as a nominee. The Harvey Awards, voted on by comics professionals, announced their winners on a Friday at New York Comic Con, and Land was one of six titles up for Best Manga. The award went to Naoki Urasawa and Takashi Nagasaki's Billy Bat, released by Abrams ComicArts' Kana imprint and translated by Kristi Iwashiro. The other nominees in the category were He Rolled Me Up Like a Grilled Squid, Miss Ruki, My Gorilla Family, and My Life in 24 Frames per Second.
That single nomination is the whole of what the stories establish about Land. None of the other items in this cluster concern the title. The release calendars, streaming dates, game updates, and box office reports gathered alongside it cover different works that happen to share part of the word Land, and they say nothing about the manga.
So the current state is narrow and settled: Land went into the 2026 Harvey Awards as a Best Manga nominee and did not take the category. No publisher, creator, or format for Land is named in the coverage beyond its appearance on the nominee list, and no new volume, adaptation, or reprint is mentioned anywhere in the stories. Readers looking for what comes next for the title will not find it here.
Key facts
- Award nomination
- Land was a nominee for Best Manga at the Harvey Awards ↗
- Category winner
- Billy Bat, by Naoki Urasawa and Takashi Nagasaki, won Best Manga ↗
- Fellow nominees
- The other Best Manga nominees were He Rolled Me Up Like a Grilled Squid, Miss Ruki, My Gorilla Family, and My Life in 24 Frames per Second ↗
- Award venue
- The Harvey Awards announced their winners on a Friday at New York Comic Con ↗
Timeline
- Oct 15, 2026 dreamland Sets October 18 Streaming Debut On U-NEXT, DMM TV, Hulu
- Oct 15, 2026 Are You a Landmine, Chihara-san? Anime Lands January 7 Debut
- Oct 14, 2026 Shield Hero Season 4 Leads A Week Of Anime And Manga Releases
- Oct 14, 2026 Chocotto Land To End Service On March 29, 2027
- Oct 13, 2026 The Promised Neverland And Blue Box Get New Novels In December
- Oct 13, 2026 Brush Burial: Bruiseland Demo Adds New Map And Enemies Ahead Of 2026 Steam Release
- Oct 13, 2026 Highlanders to Show Mass-Production Humanoid N Prototype at CEATEC 2026
- Oct 10, 2026 Billy Bat Wins Best Manga At The Harvey Awards
- Oct 9, 2026 Tree Of Savior: Neverland Adds Home Building And Outfit Design For Second Anniversary
- Oct 8, 2026 Pony Island 2: Panda Circus Sets April 28, 2027 Release, Steam Playtest Live
- Oct 8, 2026 Triple-i Initiative Airs Eight World Premieres Over 45 Minutes
- Oct 8, 2026 Faaast Penguin Adds FPX Badlands Wasteland World On October 15
- Oct 8, 2026 Open Land Trailer Shows Eco Restoration Loop on Steam
- Oct 7, 2026 AtomTeam Plans Large ATOM RPG Update And Plague Island DLC
- Oct 6, 2026 Twisted-Wonderland Master Chef Cafe Opens At OH MY CAFE In October
- Oct 6, 2026 Direland Trailer Shows Giant Creature Fights in a Voxel World
- Oct 5, 2026 Land Of Nowhere Opens Language Vote As Wishlists Pass 2,000
- Oct 5, 2026 Sanrio Party Land Lands On Switch, Kawaii Me Live Hits Phones
- Oct 5, 2026 AUTOMATON's 102nd Weekly Roundup Picks Seven Game Introductions
- Oct 5, 2026 Regista Releases Free Switch Demo for Alice in Wonder Underland
- Oct 4, 2026 Anime Times Streams All 12 Episodes Of Zombie Land Saga Season 1 Free
- Oct 4, 2026 Furai no Shiren 6 Hits New Steam Concurrent Player Peak After Torneko Remaster
- Oct 4, 2026 Twisted-Wonderland Launches EVOLVE RACER Web Game For A Limited Time
- Oct 4, 2026 Chiikawa Film Slips To No. 2, Precure Holds No. 3
- Oct 4, 2026 Monster Hunter Outlanders Launches October 29 on iOS and Android
- Oct 4, 2026 Crunchyroll Sets One-Day U.S. Screenings For Dive In Wonderland On November 16
- Oct 4, 2026 Wit Studio's George Wada Says Attack On Titan Was The Studio's Only First Project
- Oct 3, 2026 Nivalis Nights Launches On Steam With 7,000 Peak Players
- Oct 3, 2026 Monster Hunter Outlanders Gets Hands-On at TGS2026 Ahead of October 29 Launch
- Sep 24, 2026 Tobariku Male VTuber Project Sets Debut Stream Relay For September 26
Synthesized by Yomimono from the cited Yomimono stories below, each itself
sourced, then editorially reviewed. Every
fact links the story it came from.
Facts
- Noted
- Nominated for Best Manga at the Harvey Awards · 2026-10-10
- Noted
- The Best Manga category includes seven titles · 2026-07-08
- Release
- manga · 2026-05-19 · 2026-05-19
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Oct 17
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Oct 16
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Oct 16
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Oct 14
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Oct 13
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Oct 13
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Oct 13
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Oct 10
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Oct 9
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Oct 8
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Oct 8
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Oct 8
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Oct 8
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Oct 7
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Oct 6
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Oct 6
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Oct 5
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Oct 5
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Oct 5
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Oct 5
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Oct 4
The official Anime Times YouTube channel will stream all 12 episodes of Zombie Land Saga Season 1 for free, the channel announced. The original anime comes from MAPPA, Avex Pictures, and Cygames. Season 1 aired from October to December 2018, and Season 2, Zombie Land Saga Revenge, ran from April to June 2021. The story follows seven girls revived as zombies who form the idol group Franchouchou to save Saga Prefecture.
Oct 4
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Oct 4
Aniplex released the web game EVOLVE RACER for the smartphone title Disney Twisted-Wonderland on September 24, 2026, for a limited time. Players switch between three lanes to dodge obstacles, collect items, and build score across 8 stages, with the background and BGM changing per stage. Filling the ENERGY gauge triggers Energy Fever, which nullifies obstacles and raises the score multiplier.
Oct 4
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Oct 4
Capcom's Monster Hunter Outlanders will launch for iOS and Android on October 29, with a mainland China version scheduled for 2027. The open-world survival game supports multiplayer and a character-switch system, and adds a new Elder Dragon, Ruger Aidal. Chinese developer TiMi Studio Group is handling development, with franchise composer Tadayoshi Makino returning for the music.
Oct 4
Crunchyroll will screen Dive in Wonderland in select U.S. theaters for one day only on November 16, under its Crunchyroll Anime Nights program. The film, directed by Toshiya Shinohara at P.A. Works with a script by Yuko Kakihara, centers on Rise, a modern-day girl who stumbles into Wonderland and meets Alice. It opened in Japan in August 2025.
Oct 4
Wit Studio president George Wada said Attack on Titan was the only project the studio considered for its first anime. Speaking with Anime News Network at Anime Expo 2026, Wada said he chose Hajime Isayama's manga because it fit director Tetsuro Araki and because the studio's own situation matched the story. "It was the only one," he said when asked whether other options were discussed. Wada said the series helped Japanese anime reach audiences worldwide and showed what Japanese animation could do. He also noted the studio grew from six people to more than 300. Wada said Wit Studio is preparing The One Piece for release in February 2027, and he described some fear and anxiety about the adaptation alongside greater excitement. He also mentioned Tokyo Anime Next, an international animation event in Ikebukuro from October 30 to November 2, 2026.
Oct 3
505 Games and German developer ION LANDS released the cyberpunk life and shop management sim Nivalis Nights on Steam on September 29, 2026, priced at 3,150 yen with a 10 percent launch discount to 2,835 yen running through October 14. The game is set in Nivalis, the same city as ION LANDS' 2020 adventure game Cloudpunk, and has players start with a small ramen shop, then grow into restaurants and high-end nightclubs. ION LANDS says the city holds more than 130 characters, over 100 quests, 240-plus ingredients, 190 dishes, and 620 furniture types, all rendered in voxel art with day-night cycles and weather. An Epic Games Store version is planned with no release date set. The game supports Japanese display and subtitles.
Oct 3
TiMi Studio Group is developing the smartphone title Monster Hunter Outlanders under an official license from Capcom, with a worldwide release set for October 29, 2026 in regions outside mainland China. The game is free to play with item-based microtransactions and runs on iOS and Android. At Tokyo Game Show 2026, outlets played a hunt against the game's original Elder Dragon, Luga Earda, a monster whose design concept TiMi producer Don Huang described as a holy knight clad in golden armor, drawing on swordplay and shield imagery. Players sortie in a four-person party, and in the demo three NPCs joined. The demo offered two control schemes: Starting Mode, played with attack, special, and evade buttons that connect combos automatically, and Hunting Mode, which hands players multiple buttons for manual combos and skills. Capcom producer Akio Sekino said the core cycle of hunting, gathering materials, and crafting equipment is preserved, with adventurers added as an Outlanders-specific element.
Sep 24
MBS Innovation Drive and Appland unveiled the four members of Tobariku on September 24, 2026, ending a teaser period that began with the project's announcement on September 9. The male VTuber group is built around the supernatural and mysteries, and its residents are Shimawatari Reigen, Niji Guuta, Minari Touga, and Ashiya Noi. Their first streams run in relay format on September 26, starting at 19:00 with Shimawatari Reigen, then Niji Guuta at 19:30, Minari Touga at 20:00, and Ashiya Noi at 20:30, each on the member's own YouTube channel. A project PV is also out. The TOBARIQ OFFICIAL STORE opens for debut merchandise and voice packs at 21:05 that same day, with acrylic stands at 1,900 yen, random cheki-style cards at 400 yen, and debut voices at 500 yen each or 2,000 yen for the complete set.
Sep 21
Fujimi is adding two versions of the Suzuki Jimny JB23 (Land Venture) to its 1/24 Car NEXT Series. The pearl white kit is priced at 4,950 yen and the non-color kit at 5,170 yen. Both are 1/24 scale, measure about 165 by 77 by 72 mm, and are scheduled for release on Thursday, December 17, 2026.
Sep 19
Dengeki Hobby Web compiled Amazon.co.jp's Kindle manga sales ranking for tankobon volumes as of September 18, 2026. The JOJOLands volume 9 tops the chart, followed by Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation volume 25, Gushing over Magical Girls volume 13, The Star of the Girls' Garden volume 5, and Benri-ya Saito-san, Isekai ni Iku volume 15.
Sep 19
Sanrio Games held a developer talk stage for Sanrio Party Land at Tokyo Game Show 2026 on September 17, the event's first business day. Katsuyoshi Tanabe, general manager of Sanrio's Game Business Division, and Toya Yoneda, senior manager in the same division's marketing section, spoke, with Hello Kitty and Pompompurin on stage. Sanrio Party Land is scheduled for release on October 29, 2026 as a Nintendo Switch party game priced at 6,380 yen. It supports solo play, local multiplayer, and online play for up to four players. The game features more than 145 Sanrio characters and over 45 original cooperative minigames set across five areas of Party Land. Tanabe said the team aimed for a game themed on Sanrio's corporate philosophy of everyone getting along, one that three generations of a family can play together, which led to the party game genre. Yoneda demonstrated three minigames live.
Sep 18
The official website for the television anime of Ryon's Are You a Landmine, Chihara-san? (Jirai nandesu ka? Chihara-san) posted the teaser promotional video on Friday. The anime will debut in January 2027 in the Super Animeism Turbo block on MBS, TBS, and 26 affiliated channels, running Thursdays at 00:26, effectively Fridays at 12:26 a.m. The staff had previously announced the anime would air in 2026. Yasuaki Fujii directs at Synergy SP. Keiichiro Ochi oversees series scripts, Majiro designs characters, and Arisa Okehazama composes music at King Records. The cast is Sayumi Suzushiro as Mai Chihara, Kazuki Ura as Kuroki, Maaya Uchida as Chinatsu Iwakura, Tomokazu Sugita as Hibiya, and Daisuke Ono as Kazami. The teaser shows Kuroki seated beside Mai Chihara at the start of a new semester. Seven Seas Entertainment licensed the manga and will start its English release on September 29, 2026.
Sep 18
The TV anime dreamland has released a second promotional video ahead of its October 17 premiere on ABC TV and TV Asahi affiliates. Faulieu. performs the opening theme, movin'on, and Ai Tomioka performs the ending theme, dream catcher. The series adapts Reno Lemaire's French manga Dreamland, which has more than 800,000 copies printed. Sho Hatano voices Terence, the protagonist who awakens as a Dreamer.
Sep 18
Capcom began accepting applications on September 19 for a hands-on event for the Nintendo Switch 2 version of Monster Hunter Wilds, limited to subscribers of the series email newsletter Monhan-bu. The Tokyo venue at the Capcom Tokyo Branch hosts on October 10 and 11, with applications closing at 13:00 on September 28. The Osaka venue at the Capcom Head Office runs October 17 and 18, with applications closing at 13:00 on October 5. Attendees can play four-player multiplayer over local communication, join a Hunter Card Exchange Meetup, and take part in a Team Competition Trial Quest Challenge. Commemorative items for participants include a Hunter Self-Introduction Card, a sticker, a microfiber handkerchief, and an original rubber keychain. The winning team in the quest challenge receives an original T-shirt. A trial version of the game is scheduled for release at a later date.
Sep 18
BANDAI SPIRITS will re-release Ichiban Kuji HUNTER×HUNTER GREED ISLAND 2 in 2027 at 850 yen per draw, with exact timing and participating stores to be announced later. The lottery covers the Greed Island arc: the A Prize is a G.I. Binder & Ring, the B through F Prizes are figures of Gon, Killua, Hisoka, Razor and Goreinu, and the Last One Prize is Biscuit Krueger in her muscle-bound form.
Sep 18
505 Games and developer ION LANDS announced on September 18 that the Steam wishlist count for Nivalis Nights has passed 1 million. The cyberpunk life simulation is set for release on Steam on Wednesday, September 30, 2026 Japan time. Players start with a small eatery such as a ramen shop and work toward owning a popular restaurant or a high-end nightclub in the neon-lit city of Nivalis, where gangs, CorpSec crackdowns, and a mysterious serial murder case shape daily life. ION LANDS creative director Marko Dieckmann said he never imagined reaching 1 million wishlist additions, noting the wishlist count for the studio's earlier release Cloudpunk was about 130,000 at launch and felt like a major achievement at the time. In it, every action connects to the player's influence; the game also includes fishing by boat, chess tournaments against NPCs, home customization, and curfew-night sabotage of rivals.