Gundam Extreme Versus Maxi Boost ON has not received a new release or official announcement for Nintendo Switch 2 or Steam, but a Japanese opinion column arguing for such a port was the third most-read article on Game Spark for the week of May 22-28, 2026.
Gundam Extreme Versus Maxi Boost ON, the arcade-style mecha fighting game from Bandai Namco, has not been the subject of any direct coverage in Yomimono. The only mention of the title appears in a weekly ranking of most-read articles on the Japanese gaming site Game Spark, covering the period of May 22-28, 2026. In that ranking, an opinion column arguing that the game should be released on Nintendo Switch 2 and Steam took third place.
The column's popularity suggests continued fan interest in a home port of the game, which originally launched in arcades and later on PlayStation 4. No stories in the provided set report any official statement from Bandai Namco, any new release announcement, or any update on the game's status. The column itself is not summarized in the provided stories beyond its placement in the ranking.
No other Yomimono stories address Gundam Extreme Versus Maxi Boost ON's development, sales, competitive scene, or any related events. The entity's current status is defined entirely by the absence of news and the presence of a single opinion piece that resonated with readers.
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KADOKAWA will integrate five anime production studios, ENGI, Studio KADAN, Chiptune, Bellnox Films, and Raging Bull, into a new company called Studio One Base Co., Ltd. in November 2026. The new company will be based in Toshima Ward, Tokyo, with Tsuyoshi Kikuchi as representative director and president. About 310 employees will move over, and KADOKAWA will hold 100% of the capital.
Famitsu's ranking for August 31 to September 6 puts Onimusha: Way of the Sword at the top on PS5 with 76,530 copies sold in its release week of September 4. A Switch 2 version of the same game sits third at 19,499 copies. Rhythm Heaven Groove holds second on Switch with 29,360 weekly copies, and Splatoon Raiders is fourth at 10,267.
BS12 TwellV airs "Mobile Suit Z Gundam: A New Translation II Lovers" on its Sunday Anime Theater slot on September 13 from 7 PM. The 2005 theatrical film is the second entry in the New Translation "Z" trilogy. It follows Kamille Bidan's encounter on Earth with Four Murasame, an enhanced human of the Titans, before he returns to space and the Z Gundam.
Episode 12 of Mushoku Tensei III: Jobless Reincarnation, titled "The End and the Beginning," airs September 13 at 24:00 on TOKYO MX and BS11, with the fastest streaming available simultaneously on ABEMA and d Anime Store. The episode follows Rudeus and an old man who appears saying he came from the future, who tells Rudeus about cruel events about to befall him. Advance cuts show an old, worn-out diary.
The Nintendo Switch 2 version of Persona 4 Revival launches May 20, 2027, with physical pre-orders opening in sequence. Persona 6 will also appear on the system, with no release date set. Both are planned for Nintendo Switch 2, Xbox Game Pass, Xbox Series X|S, Windows, PlayStation 5, and Steam. A Switch 2 announcement trailer and a September 20 special program are also planned.
The second main promotional video for the television anime Vertex Force debuted at Aniplex's Aniplex One Focus presentation event. The series, directed by Kazuhiro Takamura, whose prior directing credits include Strike Witches and Vividred Operation, begins airing on October 3. Along with the new footage, the event named the artists handling the theme songs: ClariS performs the opening, and singer and track maker Hoshimelo handles the ending. Two additional cast members were also announced, Nana Mizuki and Uraura Ki. The announcement did not include details about which characters the new cast members will play. The second PV follows an earlier promotional video for the series, and the October 3 premiere date is unchanged. Aniplex did not announce an episode count or a streaming plan alongside the video.
The Aniplex One Focus livestream on Saturday revealed a new video and a cast member for Rakuen Tsuihō -Expelled from Paradise- Kokoro no Resonance, the feature-length sequel to the Expelled from Paradise film. Rie Kugimiya reprises her role as Angela Balzac. The film opens in Japan on November 13, and a game, Expelled from Paradise -The Stellar Angel-, launches November 26 for Nintendo Switch and PC via Steam.
The staff of Detective Conan: 30-go Satsujin Jiken, a new two-hour special, released a promotional video, main visual, and the news that Mai Kuraki will perform the opening theme "Hallelujah." The special airs September 25 at 9:00 p.m. on NTV and its affiliates' Kinyo Roadshow block. Elaiza Ikeda joins as a guest voice cast member. Conan and Heiji pursue counterfeit bills, with stops at the National Printing Bureau in Nagano and Osaka.
Kaede Hondo joins Ascendance of a Bookworm Part 3: Adopted Daughter of an Archduke as Charlotte, the character announced Saturday alongside a climax promotional video on the anime's website. The series premiered on April 4 on Yomiuri TV and NTV, airing across two consecutive cours, with Crunchyroll streaming English subtitles and a dub. Yuka Iguchi and Show Hayami return as Rozemyne and Ferdinand.
The second cast reveal PV for the original TV anime Kaze wo Tsugu Mono has been released, debuting character voices for five newly announced cast members: Ryohei Kimura as Shinshichi Nagakura, Ayumu Murase as Heisuke Todo, Shinba Tsuchiya as Sanosuke Harada, Takeo Otsuka as Keisuke Yamanami, and Yasuyuki Kase as Kamo Serizawa. The series, directed by Tomohiro Kawamura with scripts by Yutaka Nari and music by Shigeru Kishida, is produced by Aniplex, Live2D, and Drive.
The theatrical-only trailer for Rakuen Tsuiho: Kokoro no Resonance, opening nationwide on November 13, 2026, has been released on YouTube. It shows Angela Balzac, protagonist of the 2014 film, who had not appeared in earlier trailers. Rie Kugimiya returns as Angela and the video includes a comment from her. Character visuals will be released over five consecutive days starting September 12, and the original soundtrack arrives on the film's release date.
Aniplex released the second cast-reveal PV for the original TV anime Kaze wo Tsugu Mono on September 12. The video carries the first character voices for Ryohei Kimura as Shinpachi Nagakura, Ayumu Murase as Heisuke Todo, Shinba Tsuchiya as Sanosuke Harada, Takeo Otsuka as Keisuke Yamanami, and Yasuyuki Kase as Kamo Serizawa. Comments from the five actors were also released.
MAYLA will take pre-orders for a Bungo Stray Dogs Iconic Dress from September 17 at 5:00 PM to October 19 at 5:00 PM, priced at 31,900 yen with tax. The dress draws on the 15-year-old Osamu Dazai, with a tailored collar, brown tortoiseshell buttons for his eye color, a trench-coat-style waist belt, and embroidery reading No Longer Human, his ability in the series.
Publisher HARRISONWORLD released Cavi Studio's Dice Tavern: One Throw of Fate on September 8 for PC via Steam. The roguelike dice game builds on Farkle: players roll six dice, bank scoring combinations, and risk a reroll that can wipe out a turn's unbanked points. At the time of writing, 93 percent of 93 Steam user reviews are positive, giving it a Very Positive rating.
COSPA is releasing new Frieren: Beyond Journey's End goods: a domestically produced Frieren Necktie at 6,050 yen, a Frieren's Seductive T-Shirt in WHITE and SUMI, a Frieren & Fern 'Mimic Escape' T-Shirt in BLACK, and three Detachable Full-Color Patches. Each item sells early at the COSPA booth at Tokyo Game Show 2026 and Kyoto International Manga Anime Fair 2026, with general release in early December 2026.
The television anime of Ryo Ariyama's Romelia War Chronicle light novels will debut streaming in Japan on October 3 at 9:00 p.m. on U-NEXT, Anime Times, and Netflix, then air on Tokyo MX, BS11, and Sun TV on October 5. A new promotional video previews Chogakusei's opening theme "Akatsuki ni Naru" and Kohta Yamamoto's ending theme "Nightfall feat. Maika Loubte." The anime runs two cours, with Crunchyroll streaming as it airs.
Spike Chunsoft published the PC operating environment for Super Danganronpa 2x2, due January 14, 2027. Minimum requirements are an Intel Core i5-14400 or AMD Ryzen 5 4500, 8GB RAM, an RTX 2060 or RX 6600, and 40GB of storage. Recommended requirements jump to a Core i7-14700 or Ryzen 7 7700, 32GB RAM, and an RTX 4070 or RX 7700 XT.
A Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War collaboration cafe will run at Shibuya PARCO's THE GUEST CAFE BY PARCO from Friday, September 18, 2026. The menu includes beef stroganoff for Ichigo Kurosaki, chilled pasta for Toshiro Hitsugaya, lava pasta for Kenpachi Zaraki, pancakes for Yhwach, and a rare cheesecake for Uryu Ishida and Jugram Haschwalth, along with the Gato-den Plate tied to Kirio Hikifune's cooking.
BlueOrbit Inc. opened applications for the second generation of its VTuber agency EtileProduction on Saturday, September 12, 2026. The window runs through Friday, October 30, 2026, and the whole audition is conducted online. Three illustrators will design the new talents: Nagishiro Mito, Koumashiro, and Youka. All three have worked across VTubers, games, and publishing. BlueOrbit says it will interview each successful applicant about the self they want to become and reflect those wishes in the design. The agency's first generation, Hoshizuka Zeno, Urana Maina, and Mitsuno Shito, is currently active. EtileProduction states its vision as healing loneliness throughout Japan and says it wants talents to keep growing as people and creators. Applicants must be women aged 18 or older living in Japan, able to stream four or more days a week and to continue for two years or more. No initial costs are charged.
BNN WORKS' contemporary culture brand VTee is taking made-to-order orders for the "VTee x Houshou Marine 'Dead Ma'am's Chest' VARSITY JACKET," a collaboration item with hololive's Houshou Marine, from Saturday, September 12 to Saturday, October 3, 2026 at the VTee Media Store. The price is 132,000 yen including tax, with delivery scheduled for late January to around March 2027. The design draws on the animated music video for Houshou Marine's 2024 song "Ghost Ship Battle," carrying pirate ship and nautical chart motifs, patches, and embroidery across the front and sleeves, plus typography styled after the Age of Discovery. The back carries a large rendering of Houshou Marine in a pose echoing the video's thumbnail alongside the VTEE name. The jacket is the closing product of the VTee x hololive Collection, which launched in August 2026 with items for four hololive members.
HoYoverse announced two new playable agents for Zenless Zone Zero. Fiony Lefaela is a Fire-attribute Anomaly agent and an adjudicator of the Black Branch of Crampus, the group Hikari and Dialyn belong to; she is clumsy and unlucky, and Akane Fujita voices her. Severian Lowell is a Wind-attribute Attack agent, a senior inspector in the Public Security Bureau's Urban Order Division, Cissia's superior and Seth's older brother, voiced by Tomoyuki Morikawa. Both are expected in Ver.3.3.
Ponder Interactive opened the Steam store page on September 12, 2026 for the PC game fresh fish. The release date is undecided and the supported language is English only. The game is a first-person parkour FPS that combines fishing and grappling, with players firing a harpoon into fish and terrain to pull themselves across a vast ocean. Captured fish become movement abilities.
Kiki Games opened the Steam store page for Supercar Collection Together on September 12, an online co-op simulation game for 1 to 4 players. Players order stock, organize inventory, set prices, and handle customers to grow a miniature car shop. They can paint cars, apply decals, open surprise car boxes for rare finds, and buy from a miniature car black market. Release is planned for the fourth quarter of 2026, with the price undecided.
Xiaomi showed the Xiaomi 18 Fold at IFA 2026 in Berlin, its first appearance at the show. The foldable closes to passport size and opens to a roughly 4:3 display, with a 200-megapixel wide camera, a 6000mAh battery and the company's XRING O3 chip. Xiaomi also displayed a full-size model of the Xiaomi Vision Gran Turismo Concept, a virtual hypercar built for Gran Turismo 7.
Another Eden Begins arrives on September 17 for Switch 2 and Switch, rebuilding the first part of the 2017 smartphone RPG Another Eden as a buy-to-play console title. Producer Shinnosuke Hirasawa told 4Gamer that the team first tried running the existing systems on console hardware, found them thin, and rebuilt movement, battle, and progression instead. The original story is kept; the fields around it were redrawn and expanded.
Nexon plans to launch Mabinogi Mobile in Japan within 2026 and is accepting pre-registrations for the Android and PC versions. In an interview with 4Gamer, devCAT head Kim Dong-gun and director Lee Jin-hoon said the project began years ago, was shown at G-STAR early on, and now aims to keep Mabinogi's signature elements: vertical orientation for conversation, horizontal for combat.
An immersive Panda! Go, Panda! exhibition runs from December 12, 2026 to January 31, 2027 at Nagoya PARCO West Building 8F PARCO HALL. It displays production materials, setting drawings and image boards, recreates the dining room of Mimiko's house, and adds a Rainy Day Circus area with a circus train, bed boat and photo spots. Exhibition-original goods go on sale, with advance tickets from September 12.
Bandai Spirits will release two 30MM items on Saturday, September 12, 2026: the 1/144 EXM-A9p Spinatio (Pirate Spec) at 1,760 yen and the Customize Weapons (Pirate Armaments) set at 968 yen. The Spinatio kit includes a movable body, armor, a rifle, a grenade, hook and knife attachments, hand parts, and multi-joints. The armaments set adds a pirate sword, double barrel pistol, trident, leg gun, anchor hook, and effect parts.
A24 will produce a film based on the SCP Foundation, positioned as the latest entry in the found-footage horror V/H/S series and aiming for a 2027 theatrical release. Spooky Pictures, led by Roy Lee and Steven Schneider, co-produces, with Josh Goldbloom and Michael Schreiber, who worked on V/H/S/94 and V/H/S/99, also involved. Image Nation Studios CEO Ben Ross is among the executive producers. Story details are being kept under wraps.
Relic Entertainment has pushed Company of Heroes - Definitive Edition from fall 2026 to early 2027, saying several more months of development are needed. The remaster of the 2006 WWII real-time strategy game is co-developed with Blackbird Interactive and marks the series' 20th anniversary. It adds reworked textures, lighting, and water, quality-of-life changes, a Merciless AI difficulty, ultrawide support, and the Opposing Fronts and Tales of Valor content.
The week's North American home video and print slate includes Kaiju No. 8: Mission Recon and My Hero Academia: Vigilantes Season 1 on Blu-ray from Crunchyroll, both dated September 8, alongside new manga volumes from Viz Media, Kodansha USA, Seven Seas, Yen Press, Vertical, One Peace Books, Titan, and Tokyopop, among them The Amazing Digital Circus volume 1 and Say Hello to Mr. Wallaby! volume 1.
Tan Ant Games posted a development log for Building Relationships, the romance adventure where single buildings search for a partner on an island. Ending cutscene storyboards are finished and minigame work continues, with side content still outstanding. The studio says it can still hit its 2026 window. A PS5, Xbox Series X|S and Xbox One release was set for June 2026, and porting work has produced a stable frame rate that also holds on old-spec PCs.
Sound! Euphonium, The Final Movie Part 2 opened in Japanese theaters on Friday, and the staff began streaming a special video that includes new footage the same day. Director Taichi Ogawa posted an illustration to mark the premiere. Tatsuya Ishihara is chief director and Jukki Hanada wrote the screenplay for the film, which Kyoto Animation describes as the conclusion to the series.
The column recaps a Sony State of Play that leaned on Resident Evil film news, a Monster Hunter Wilds: Ascendance expansion, and a Mobile Suit Gundam game set for March 2027, plus impressions of the Final Fantasy Resonance demo. It argues Sony still routes Japanese games to a separate stream while its main show favors mainstream franchises, and it questions the Switch 2 Game Key Card format.
2080 Games released the early access version of Gunman Contracts - Stand Alone on Steam on September 11, 2026, priced at 3,150 yen including tax. The single-player FPS is developed by solo developer ANB_Seth, whose prior work includes the Gunman Contracts - Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 mods for Half-Life: Alyx. Players take the role of an operative called Gunman and hunt the criminal organization The Collectors. The early access build includes three story contracts set in an old safehouse on the outskirts of town, a warehouse district, and a mafia-run restaurant, plus two challenge modes, Take Down and Last Stand, a weapon and attachment system, leaderboards, and a base area called The Hive with speed-shooting courses, pop-up and classic target ranges, and holographic combat training. The gun wall at the base unlocks more than 18 weapon types, among them dual pistols, an assault rifle, and a compound bow. The game supports both VR and non-VR play.
Good Smile Company opened preorders for a PLAMATEA assembly kit of Kongou Kai Ni C from Kantai Collection -KanColle-. The kit stands about 155mm tall with movable joints and rigging that includes turrets and torpedo tubes, and a swappable skirt allows a sitting pose. It ships with two pre-painted expression parts, three unpainted ones with decals, interchangeable hands, and a base with a movable support pillar. Suggested retail price is 11,000 yen, listed at Rakuten Books for 9,581 yen.
Episode 10 of Young Ladies Don't Play Fighting Games shifts focus from competitive play to character work, as Aya blushes while watching Mio win and thinks about becoming Mio's number one. The episode pairs that with Arisa and Miyu, former friends whose bond broke after Arisa surpassed Miyu, who turned bitter rather than motivated. Arisa spends much of the episode in the bathroom, frustrated by a loss to a Zangief. The community score is 4.2.
PANORA will hold its VTuber Snack Bar District event on September 22, 2026, this time in a real rented snack bar rather than an event space. Makino Monaka, Babu Kasu, and Hakoneku's Meido Shirone appear as the first round of mamas, each with two 40-minute slots on a rotation system. Tickets are on sale through LivePocket, and some slots have already sold out.
Voice actor Yuki Kaji's voice AI project Soyogi Fractal and Yoyogi Animation Academy will hold a joint CM narration contest. Students at the academy's nine campuses will make original narration by combining the voice synthesis software Bon Soyogi, built from Kaji's voice, with their own voices. Kaji heads the judging panel. His quote: using AI is not the goal, the question is how to use it as an extension of expression.
Sanrio Puroland's Halloween event PUROMONSTERSCRAMBLE runs from September 11 to November 3, 2026, under the theme KAWAII x MONSTER HALLOWEEN. LABUBU appears alongside Sanrio characters in monster form. The main attraction is a 360-degree immersive live show, with the monster Jack O' Happens voiced by Subaru Kimura. The Sanrio Character Boat Ride adds a Halloween-limited horror version directed and supervised by Obaken.
Multimodal Art Projection released the music generation AI YuE2 on September 10, 2026. The development team describes it as an open music generation model comparable to Suno 5. YuE2 accepts text and sheet music in ABC notation as input, and generated examples with Japanese vocals are posted on its official site. The model runs locally, and the development team reports a 214.85-second song generated in 71.04 seconds on an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090. The license is CC BY-NC 4.0.
The Bombon Drop Seal account announced three new Chiikawa seal designs for September 25: Chiikawa Sushi, Chiikawa Baby, and Chiikawa Land. The seals go on sale from Chiikawa Market online, Chiikawa Land, and Chiikawa POP UP SHOP. A date for sales through the Q-Lia official online store will be announced later.
Sega will run a Puyo Puyo booth at the Tokyo Game Show 2026 Family Game Park, held at TKP Tokyo Bay Makuhari Hall from September 19 to 21, 2026. The free area is open to junior high students and younger with a guardian. It includes Puyo Puyo eSports play and daily qualifiers for the PGRS U-15 Special Tournament, a programming workshop taught by pro gamers, and a Kids Stage.
Banpresto will release "Banpresto Kuji PREMIUM One Piece -Monkey D. Luffy-" on September 19. The premium kuji offers a large 30cm Luffy figure in three coloring variations, priced at 10,000 yen tax included per draw. Each figure depicts Luffy as he aims to become the Pirate King. Details are available on the official website.
Developer bleachmama announced on X that Dead Extraction, an adult 2D top-down extraction survival roguelite, is in development for Steam, and a demo is now available there. Players survive to an extraction point and carry back weapons and supplies, losing everything on death, then expand a base and manage survivors with set relationships. The game is currently available in Japan for PC via DLsite and BOOTH.
Konami Arcade Games published prize information for two NEEDY GIRL OVERDOSE figures on its Konami Prize Collection site. The TV Anime 'NEEDY GIRL OVERDOSE' FiguCube Ame-chan and FiguCube Choten-chan are amusement facility-exclusive prizes, each measuring W100mm x D100mm x H100mm and manufactured by Konami Arcade Games. Both are scheduled to appear sequentially starting Thursday, September 24, 2026.
Nippon Ichi Software announced on September 11 that its life simulation game Hono Gurashi no Niwa will receive two free updates and a paid expansion. Free Update 1 arrives September 29 and adds 11 Camp Series furniture pieces, four livestock animals, and two systems: Farmland Expansion and a Furniture Catalog. The catalog, which the announcement describes as highly requested by users, lets players reorder furnishings previously bought at the general store or from the peddler, with delivery to the in-game mailbox the following day. Free Update 2 is set for October 27 and adds the protagonist's birthday event. Paid DLC is planned for spring 2027 and is under consideration with additional systems, scenarios, maps, and standalone events. The game is available on PS5, Nintendo Switch 2, Nintendo Switch, and PC via Steam and Windows. It has surpassed 200,000 cumulative domestic sales and holds a Very Positive rating on Steam.
Feux will hold two events in Paris starting September 11, 2026. A one-night screening of Satoshi Kon's Paprika runs at the Musee Guimet rooftop, marking 20 years since the film's release. A PERFECT BLUE x Paprika pop-up store runs at Junku Paris through September 22, with limited goods made by U-NT. Items will also be sold on the U-NT STORE online shop.
Rapper Daichi Yamamoto announced the co-performing artists for his two-man live tour, "Daichi Yamamoto Joint Show Series 'Hakka,'" across four Japanese cities. Yuta Orisaka performs in Fukuoka, Miko Suzuki in Sapporo, Watson in Nagoya, and Kaho Nakamura in Hiroshima. The second advance ticket lottery runs from September 11 at 18:00 to September 20 at 23:59, with all-standing tickets at 6,500 yen.
Bandai Spirits has released the full prize lineup for Ichiban Kuji One Piece -Love Song Ringing in the Sky-, a Skypiea arc lottery on sale sequentially from October 29 at 850 yen per draw. Prizes A through D are figures of Monkey D. Luffy, Nami, Mont Blanc Cricket and Wyper. Lower tiers cover an art board, a pen stand, a map collection, desktop mascots, charms, cloud goods and stickers.