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News Roundup: May 26-June 9, 2017

June 10, 2017

Hakuoki: Kyoto Winds is coming to PC this summer and will be available in English, Japanese, and traditional Chinese. This will be the first game in a two-part release.

Satoru Hiura’s Hotaru no Hikari SP manga is getting a sequel that will run in Kodansha’s Kiss magazine startin in October. The title is called Hotaru no Hikari BABY.

It’s been revealed that there will be another Yuri!!! on Ice figure featuring Yuri Plisetsky in his Agape costume. The figure will be available for sale this winter.

More information has been released about the TV anime adaptation for Ikemen Sengoku: Romances Across Time, a romance mobile app.

Voltage, known for its romance app games on mobile devices that are also localized for English-speaking fans, has opened up a new anime and IP division.

Sailor Moon is collaborating with My Melody to bring cute goodies to fans. Goods include charms, clear files, pens, bath salts, cases, and hair ribbons. There’s also a new Sailor Moon makeup line debuting that is available for preorder and other Sailor Moon goodies.

Watch the teaser video for Dance with Devils: Fortuna, the anime film. The movie will premiere in November.

There will be a special chapter for Maid Sama! by Hiro Fujiwara. It will appear in Hakusensha’s LaLa DX magazine in the September issue.

You can watch the trailer for Free! -Endless Medley- Yakusoku, an anime compilation film that will debut July 1, in Japan.

Orange manga by Ichigo Takano is getting a seventh volume.

There will be a new manga chapter for Moyocco Anno’s Happy Mania manga, which runs in Shodensha’s Feel Young magazine. The chapter will be published July 7.

The music video for Re:vale’s “No Doubt” song is available to watch. The group is part of Bandai Namco Entertainment’s fictional idol group Idolish 7.

Sengoku Night Blood is now available on iOS and Android. According to Anime News Network, “The game centers around different warlords from Japan’s Warring States (Sengoku) period, who are all involved with the player character. The game is described as a ”Warring States romance fantasy.“ Each of the six factions in the game feature a different Otomate artist.”

7SEEDS, a manga by Yumi Tamura ended in Shogakukan’s Monthly Flowers magazine after 16 years. There will be a spinoff manga in Monthly Flowers in October. According to Anime News Network, “The manga centers on Natsu, who suddenly wakes up one day to find herself in the middle of the ocean. She’s with six other strangers, and none of them remember how they got into their current situation. They end up stranded on an island, where a ”guide“ explains to them that they are part of a government project to cryogenically preserve groups of people to ensure humanity’s survival after scientists predicted the destruction of the world. Natsu’s group finds that they are in Japan after a catastrophe, and must learn how to survive in their new post-apocalyptic reality.”

Rie Aruga’s Perfect World manga is getting a live-action film. The manga runs in Kodansha’s Kiss magazine. According to Anime News Network, the manga “centers on 26-year-old Tsugumi Kawana, an employee in an interior design company. When she attends a get-together with employees from a construction firm, she has an unexpected reunion with Itsuki Ayukawa, an old flame from high school. Tsugumi still thinks of her time with him fondly, but now she finds that he has to move around in a wheelchair, and initially thinks that reviving a romance with him would be impossible.”

Uta no Prince Sama is getting an anime movie. Not much is known at this time.

News Roundup: May 26-June 9, 2017

June 10, 2017

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