Kitty Media has set a new release for next month with the acquisition of Kakushi Dere as the Lust-Luck Trilogy. The three-episode OVA series is planned for an October 23rd, 2018 release priced at $29.99 and $34.99 on DVD and Blu-ray respectively. It’ll be in English and Japanese with English subtitles. No extras are listed with it at the moment.

Casting hasn’t been revealed overall but Venus LeMay revealed on Twitter that she’d be playing Nonoka in the project.

The OVAs saw release in Japan during 2013 from MS Pictures based on the original work by Hyocorou. Pashmina handled the production for the project.

Plot Concept: In Episode One, Noknoka sends love letters, under an alias, to express her repressed lustful longing for Ryutaro, the elder brother of her classmate, Hiroaki. When Ryutaro continually ignores the letters, Nonoka reluctantly dates Hiroaki in order to get closer to Ryutaro to express her pent up lustful and mixed emotions to him in the flesh, literally!

Episode Two tells the story of Makoto who is unaware that his sexy step-sister Misaki harbors erotic feelings for him. One day, Makoto accidentally catches Misaki pleasuring herself on his bed and her dark secret is exposed! When they finally confess their true feelings to each other they decide to take their relationship to the next level!

Episode Three concerns a student named Taiki who obsesses and fantasizes about his high school crush, Mihashi, in various compromising and lewd sexual situations. After he reveals his hidden feelings to her, he learns about a nasty rumor circulating the campus that involves Mihashi and her Teacher. Taiki confronts his new girlfriend about the gossip and demands to know the truth. The question is- can Taiki handle the truth?

Get ready for a new anime series that will be coming in 2019 with an adaptation of Ken Wakai’s manga Joshi Kausei. The property began online back in 2013 and has received eight volumes in print form so far. No details regarding the adaptation were revealed but potential fans can check out the series early as the manga is available through Crunchyroll.

Plot Concept: Who needs dialog when you’re this cute? The beautiful (but unlucky) Momoko, the cool, collected Shibumi, and the refreshingly innocent Mayumi star in a “silent manga.” No speeches, no dialog! Just pictures, sound effects, and three high school girls living their daily lives.

[Source: ANN]

The battle becomes even more desperate.

Creative Staff:
Story: Kieron Gillen
Art: Salvador Larroca
Colors: Guru e-FX
Letters: VC’s Clayton Cowles

What They Say:
HAN SOLO…admiral? PRINCESS LEIA leads a squad to try and recover the secret that can save the rebel fleet…Unfortunately, it’s aboard the EXECUTOR.

Content: (please note that content portions of a review may contain spoilers):
The Hope Dies arc has been pretty decent overall so far though I continue to get the sense that it’ll be a solid trade read since it’s a little decompressed with the focus on the battle. Kieron Gillen is having a good time in shifting up where everyone is and how they interact with others so that it doesn’t feel like we’re getting another group event. And while Salvador Larroca’s character artwork doesn’t work for everyone it continues to work for me in being a midway point toward capturing the actual likenesses. With this issue, it’s heavy on the dogfight aspect of this storyline and that’s something that’s hard to capture but plays out very well here.

For Leia and the command infrastructure, we continue to see them basically in wait mode until the technical side can break through the coding that has put them into these dire straights. Leia’s definitely feeling some intense thoughts toward Trios at this point and she gets to make them actionable here as the command codes they need are actually on the Imperial super star destroyer. Now, this is where we get that kind of absurd moment in that they come up with a way to sneak onto the ship under the guise of Trios in order to steal the codes but you kind of look past that in the chaos of the battle. It’s good classic serial adventure kind of stuff and it sets the stage for a much more interesting installment coming next since Vader is right behind them.

What makes up the bulk of the book as this plays out is following the battle itself. With Vader out there sniping at the Rebels and taking some hard shots at the Falcon, there’s still the attempts at trying to launch the rest of the fighters. It’s a fun sequence as you get Luke trying to figure out a way to signal Ackbar how to do it since he’s watching the fleet that they built crumble around them with so many ships falling to the incoming attacks from the capital ships. It’s engaging to watch as Han ends up figuring out how to get back into the action after the Falcon gets taken down for the moment and combining that with some of the dialogue, particularly the whole Admiral Solo bit, just hits a certain sweet spot. The Falcon crashing bit didn’t work for me but the rest of it was a lot of fun.

In Summary:
The main Star Wars book has another solid installment as we get to the middle point of the arc and everything shifts with it. It’s here that we get a good battle sequence further underway as Larroca captures it very well with the movement and style while giving it the kind of backgrounds that adds to the scale at times. The subplot with Leia is one that is kind of ridiculous in a way but it’s also something that I’m looking forward to more of because it’ll be fun to watch with her having to go up against Vader and whatever else they find on the Imperial ship.

Grade: B

Age Rating: All Ages
Released By: Marvel Comics via ComiXology
Release Date: September 5th, 2018
MSRP: $3.99

© Moritaka Yuji · Adachikeji / SKY PerfecTV! · Kodansha

The spring 2018 anime adaptation of the Gurazeni manga is getting ready for its second cour as part of the fall 2018 season. We’ve known that it was coming for awhile but now the official site has confirmed an October 5th, 2018 debut on the same network and time, which should have the simulcast through Crunchyroll landing at the same time as the first cour as well when they firm that up.

The series has Ayumu Watanabe directing based on the series composition by Hideo Takayashiki. Kenichi Oonuki is working on the character designs with Studio Deen animating it.

The Japanese cast includes Fukushi Ochiai as Natsunosuke Honda, M.A.O as Yuki, Issei Futamata as Tanabe, Kenji Nomura as Sakota, Ryuuzou Ishino as Kozato, Daisuke Namikawa as Tokunaga, Takanori Hoshino as Shibuya, and Hideo Matsumoto as Announcer Matsumoto.

The manga comes from Yuji Moritaka and Keiji Adachi that began back in 2010 that ran for seventeen volumes before kicking off the sequel series in 2014.

Plot concept: This is the story of Natsunosuke Honda, a pro baseball player—a relief pitcher who has been playing pro in a team called Spiders for 8 years. The team operates as a highly-stratified society, where the player’s performance determines his annual salary. Natsunosuke is one of the highest paid players in the game. He measures how good players are by how much money they make, and he intends to be on top and stay there, and as such is always looking for players to challenge and does everything to ensure that he is better than they are.

While no dates are set for it yet, an anime adaptation of the Over Drive Girls manga from Oyster has been given the green light as OVer Drive Girl 1/6. The manga series began in 2012 and has four volumes out with a sequel series that’s getting ready to kick off in print form this month.

Plot Concept: The story focuses on Nona, a bishōjo character figure that the young male otaku office worker Haruto bought, suddenly comes to life, and begins moving and talking on her own. The slapstick romantic comedy centers on the daily lives of Haruto and Nona.

[Source: ANN]

A long way to go for the story but it still works.

Creative Staff:
Story: Simon Spurrier
Art: Caspar Wijngaard
Letterer: VC’s Joe Caramagna

What They Say:
One’s a cyborg with a bad attitude, the other’s a cold-blooded reptile. They’re happily married. They’ve been hired by a mysterious contact to bag an ultra-deadly monster from the heart of an ancient temple. N.B.: For “mysterious contact” read DOCTOR APHRA, who — and this will shock you — is definitely up to something. N.B.: For “happily married” read THIS IS GOING TO GET MESSY.

Content: (please note that content portions of a review may contain spoilers):
While annuals continue to be one of my least liked aspects of comics, the Star Wars side has been a bit better in having them be meaningful in what they do. But not always. With this one we get something that’s basically a side story that takes place within an earlier part of the run with series regular Simon Spurrier writing it. He’s gotten a decent handle on the characters so far and with Aphra being the only regular here it’s easy enough to work with. The book has the artwork and coloring done by Caspar Wijngaard and it’s pretty great throughout, though Apha isn’t really here until toward the end of it. There’s a good sense of location design to it and I like the character artwork as it deals with the slightly off-kilter stuff that you get with aliens in the Star Wars universe.

The premise for this one takes us past the outer rim to where there are just number classifications of planets. It’s here that a lot of strange things take place at times and those that want to exist fully out of the Imperial system operate. The focus is on a pair of monster hunters named Winloss and Nokk, a human and Trandoshan pairing that’s definitely amusing. They’re very distinctive in terms of how they hunt monsters as they won’t hurt them but they will acquire them for the right price. A bit of morality, you might say. They’re not high ranked but they’ve been called in by Aphra, who appears as a headshot on a hologram for much of the book interacting with them, to go after a creature that she needs acquired. Winloss and Nokk are definitely an amusing in-love couple that operates as a team as they don’t bicker but there’s definitely a lot of banter that you wouldn’t get from most other relationships.

Aphra has them going down deep into a series of ruins in order to get the oversized creature that needs it very quickly and that has them getting tempted by some artifacts that they come across from time to time and touches of what’s here. It’s not a big archaeological dive like one might get from Aphra but as we get to the gimmick of the book and the time limit and all it makes a lot of sense. There’s a decent bit of pacing to it when you get down to it but the book does feel somewhat overly long as it progresses in getting to said point. But the journey has its moments and the big reveals are definitely comically suited for a character like Aphra. There isn’t any sort of really big payoff in the classic sense since it’s a standalone tale but it provides for an enjoyable read overall.

In Summary:
Doctor Aphra is a fun character in general and this is a fun enough book overall, even if her presence in a lot of it is just a headshot hologram encouraging the journey. It makes for an enjoyable read the second time around once you have the trick of what’s going on but it was fun in the discovery phase too, especially if you figure out the trick ahead of time and enjoy the journey. Spurrier continues to handle the Star Wars world well, though I hope he gets the opportunity to orchestrate something big at some point, what Caspar Wijngaard’s artwork is really great and I hope we see him providing something for a miniseries or guesting on a main Star Wars book in the near future.

Grade: B

Age Rating: 13+
Released By: Marvel Comics via ComiXology
Release Date: September 5th, 2018
MSRP: $4.99

© CAPCOM / Yomiuri TV · A-1 Pictures

With a bit of a gap between seasons with the first for Ace Attorney coming out back in the spring 2016 season, Funimation has confirmed that they’ll be handling the simuldub for the second season. It’s set to premiere in Japan on October 6th, 2018 with details to come regarding Funimation’s startup of the simuldub. Simulcasting is expected to continue from Crunchyroll but they have not announced it or the details yet.

Known in Japan as Gyakuten Saiban, Capcom went big with the franchise as there’s a live action film, stage play, music and manga adaptation.

The show was directed by Ayumu Watanabe based on the composition from Atsuhiro Tomioka with A-1 Pictures handling the animation. The Japanese cast includes Yuki Kaji as Ryuuichi Naruhodou, Aoi Yuuki as Mayoi Ayasato, Masashi Tamaki as Reiji Mitsuruji, Chie Nakamura as Chihiro Ayasato, Masami Iwasaki as Keisuke Itonokogiri and Tooru Nara as Masashi Yahari.

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Plot concept: Ace Attorney follows rookie lawyer Naruhodo Ryuuichi (Phoenix Wright) and his assistant Mayoi (Maya) as he defends his clients in a court of law. With limited evidence and logic as his only weapon, can Naruhodo turn the case around when all the odds are stacked against him?

The latest Monthly Shonen Sunday magazine is hitting stands and early scans and that means we’ve learned that the manga series Hokago Saikoro Club from Hiro Nakamichi has gotten the green light for an anime adaptation. No details about the production were revealed. The manga began in 2013 in the magazine and it has twelve volumes out so far in Japan.

Plot Concept: The story focuses on Aya, who moves and starts to attend an all-girls high school in Kyoto. Her first friend is her reserved classmate Miki. After school one day, the committee chairwoman Midori takes them both to an analog game specialty shop called “Saikoro Club” (Dice Club). There, they start playing a German board game without thinking. Thus begins Aya and Miki’s search for fun through the world of analog games.

[Source: ANN]

The first steps into new dangers.

Creative Staff:
Story: Simon Spurrier
Art: Bilquis Evely
Colors: Mat Lopes
Letterer: Simon Bowland

What They Say:
There is a place where stories are born. Today its walls lie slashed and bleeding. Dream has abandoned his realm, and until he is found, its residents must protect its broken borders alone. But the most senior storysmiths are tormented by invasive secrets, the warden Lucien is doubting his own mind—and beyond the gates something horrific waits with tooth and talon.

Only Dora, the monstress, finds opportunity in madness, stealing dreams for the highest bidder. But she has no idea how deep the danger lies. Meanwhile, in Dream’s gallery, something new is growing…

Content: (please note that content portions of a review may contain spoilers):
The return of the Sandman world under the Sandman Universe barrier gets underway in full with the launch of The Dreaming. After the standalone that set the stage and introduced various elements, Simon Spurrier ushers in the fuller story here as we get to know the characters more.It’s one that’s certainly very dialogue-driven with a good bit of exposition but it sets things in motion well enough if you hadn’t read the other special. It also looks great with Bilquis Evely delivering a really strong looking issue with lots of detail and a sense of wonder about The Dreaming, which Mat Lopes captures very well in bringing to life further through the color design. It’s a good looking book and one that even as verbose as it is ends up being very easy to read with Simon Bowland producing another round of great lettering with diverse characters and styles of speech here.

With The Dreaming beginning to crack thanks to the prior events and Lucien having stage-played the role of Dream himself in order to ease the minds of those that reside there, the panic is on to figure out what to do next. Matthew at least makes clear that his flying around to find their Lord won’t do any good as the last time he went on walkabout and was captured ended up costing seventy years. Lucien’s doing his best to provide a sense of continuity amid all of those while Matthew knows the reality. Everyone else is just going about their business, though Merv is really struggling with all the Blanks that have shown up that he’s trying to corral. The emphasis that they’re like blank canvases is an interesting one that I can see coming back later in some way, possibly as though we’re going to see a reconfiguration (modernization?) of The Dreaming for the 21st century through this.

The heavier focus for this issue is on Dora herself, as she’s going to be key to a lot of what’s going on. There’s anger about her being in The Dreaming, though she was given specific permission by Dream to be there, but with the way she leaps into dreams, massages them and steals them, it doesn’t sit well to say the least. While some may cringe at the included sexual aspects, I like that we learn how she’s cauiqinr them and giving them to a duke of Hell named Balam and that she’s using him for sex as well. It has its quirky moments here but it provides a connection to that world and its cast while providing for something that’s a bit more tangible in a way than most of the other characters. Dora’s the one that feels the most human and seeing her seek out what she needs and getting it on her tems definitely delights.

In Summary:
It’s a quieter start for a series but one that feels very much in the Sandman vein in the way I had hoped for. It’s a very dialogue-driven book in a world where most things that I’ve seen the last few years tend to be lighter on it and filled with quips. But the mood is well-staged by the opener as Spurrier gets a handle on the characters voices and their motivations. It skims over most of them with Lucien getting a good bit of time alongside Dora while Merv and his problems with the Blanks provides for some additional fun. Bilquis Evely is a perfect presence on this series in capturing the look of this world and I can’t wait to see what creativity is in store here through it all.

Grade: B+

Age Rating: 16+
Released By: Vertigo Comics via ComiXology
Release Date: September 5th, 2018
MSRP: $3.99

© Ishida Sui / Shueisha · Tokyo Ghoul: re Production Committee

The second season is coming for the Tokyo Ghoul:re anime adaptation as this week confirmed it for an October 9th, 2018 on Tokyo MX. With that now out in the wilds, the official site has updated with a new 90-second promotional video that showcases some of the key moments coming from the season with some pretty intense visuals tied to it. The show is coming from Funimation this fall and is expected to get done up like past seasons.

This season was directed by Odahiro Watanabe with Chuji Mikasano handling the scripts and composition. The character designs this season were done by Atsuko Nakajima. Studio Pierrot and Pierrot Plus handled the animation production.

The Japanese cast includes Natsuki Hanae as Ken Kaneki/Haise Sasaki, Kaito Ishikawa as Kuki Urie, Yuuma Uchida as Ginshi Shirazu, Natsumi Fujiwara as Tooru Mitsuki, and Ayane Sakura as Saiko Yonebayashi, Yu Kobayashi as Kanae von Rosewald, and Mamoru Miyano as Shu Tsukiyama.

Plot Concept: Two years have passed since the CCG’s raid on Anteiku. Although the atmosphere in Tokyo has changed drastically due to the increased influence of the CCG, ghouls continue to pose a problem as they have begun taking caution, especially the terrorist organization Aogiri Tree, who acknowledge the CCG’s growing threat to their existence.

The creation of a special team, known as the Quinx Squad, may provide the CCG with the push they need to exterminate Tokyo’s unwanted residents. As humans who have undergone surgery in order to make use of the special abilities of ghouls, they participate in operations to eradicate the dangerous creatures. The leader of this group, Haise Sasaki, is a half-ghoul, half-human who has been trained by famed special class investigator, Kishou Arima. However, there’s more to this young man than meets the eye, as unknown memories claw at his mind, slowly reminding him of the person he used to be.

Back Street Girls Japanese Volume 1

The summer 2018 anime series Back Street Girls caused its share of controversy upon its announcement of getting an adaptation. The original manga from Jasmine Gyuh is now about to end according to Weekly Young Magazine as the next issue on September 15th, 2018 will be the final chapter. It has eleven compiled volumes so far and the twelfth and final will be scheduled for later this year.

The anime TV series has Chiako Kon directing it based on the series composition by Susumu Yamakawa. JC Staff was on board to produce the animation.

The Japanese cast includes Daisuke Ono as Kentarō Yamamoto, Yuka Nukui as Airi Yamamoto, Satoshi Hino as Ryū Tachibana, Kaori Maeda as Mari Tachibana, Kazuyuki Okitsu as Kazuhiko Sugihara, Hikaru Akao as Chika Sugihara, Keiji Fujiwara as Inugane Boss/Inugane Producer, Junichi Suwabe as Mandarin Kinoshita, Yasuhiro Mamiya as Kōji Nagata, and Natsuki Hanae as Kimura.

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Plot Concept: A group of 3 yakuza failed their boss for the last time. After messing up an important job, the boss gives them 2 choices: Honorably committing suicide, or go to Thailand to get a sex reassignment surgery in order to become “female” idols. After a gruesome year-long training to become idols, they successfully debut, with overwhelming popularity, much to their dismay. This is where their tragedy truly begins.

[Source: ANN]

© 2017 Akihito Tsukasa · Takeshobo / Made in Abyss Production Committee

With a second season in the works, we learned in March that the Made in Abyss first season is being reworked into two compilation films. We’ve had the key visual for the first film for a bit now and now a second key visual has landed that highlights the second film that will be coming a few weeks after the first. They’ll be released under the subheading of Journey’s Dawn and Wandering Twilight with the first film coming out on January 4th, 2019 and the second on January 18th, 2019 in Japan.

The show was directed by Masayuki Kojima based on the series composition by Hideyuki Kurata. Character designs were handled by Kazuchika Kise with Kinema Citrus on board for the animation production.

The Japanese cast includes Miyu Tomita as Riku, Mariya Ise as Regu, Shiori Izawa as Nanachi, Mutsumi Tamura as Natto, Manami Numakura as Shigi, Manami Hanawa as Kiui, Taishi Murata as Jiruo, and Maaya Sakamoto as Raiza.

The opening song is “Deep in Abyss” as performed by Miyu Tomita and Mariya Ise while the ending theme song is “Tabi no Hitarite, Saihate no Migite” by Miyu Tomita and Shiori Izawa.

© 2017 Akihito Tsukasa · Takeshobo / Made in Abyss Production Committee

The original work is by Akihito Tsukushi which began in 2012 and has six volumes out as of the end of 2017 as serialized in Web Comic Gamma.

Plot Concept: The enormous cave system, known as the Abyss, is the only unexplored place in the world. Nobody knows how deep down this titanic pit goes. It is inhabited by strange and wondrous creatures and full of mysterious ancient relics whose purposes are unknown to modern man. Generations of bold adventurers have been drawn by the cryptic depths of the Abyss. Over the course of time, those bold enough to explore the dangerous pit came to be known as “cave raiders.”

In Oosu, the town at the edge of the Abyss, there lives a little orphan named Rico, who dreams of becoming a cave raider as great as her mother was and solving the great mystery of the pit. One day while exploring the murky depths, she stumbles upon a little boy, who turns out to be a robot…

© KINOKO NASU / Seikaisha, Aniplex, Kodansha, Notes, ufotable

September continues on with new releases and a new Tuesday means more anime on … Blu-ray only this week! Aniplex is the one that goes really big with a large Garden of Sinners Blu-ray collection that clocks in at a couple hundred bucks for their marquee property.

Sentai Filmworks has some new shows out with Action Heroine Cheer Fruits and the complete opposite with Vatican Miracle Examiner landing.

Funimation has some classics in the mix as well as a complete for Yona of the Dawn and the first-time release of AOKANA.

© Marvelous Inc. / Honey Parade Games Inc.

Announced last summer, the second season of Senran Kagura is coming up next month in Japan and we’ve already got Crunchyroll confirming their streaming for it. Now, the latest Animedai magazine has brought out details, according to ANN, of the cast for the series with twenty-eight returning members for it. This season is directed by Tetsuya Yanagisawa based on the series composition by Yukinori Kitajima. Junji Goto is handling the character design work for it with TNK producing the animation.

• Yumi Hara as Yumi
• Hisako Kanemoto as Murakumo
• Kaori Ishihara as Yozakura
• Ayano Yamamoto as Shiki
• Hiromi Igarashi as Minori
• Hitomi Harada as Asuka
• Asami Imai as Ikaruga
• Yu Kobayashi as Katsuragi
• Kaori Mizuhashi as Yagyuu
• Yuka Iguchi as Hibari
• Hiromi Hirata as Miyabi
• Sayuri Yahagi as Murasaki
• Chiwa Saito as Imu
• Yōko Hikasa as Ryōbi
• Mako as Ryōna
• Eri Kitamura as Homura
• Ai Kayano as Yomi
• Ryoko Shiraishi as Hikage
• Saori Goto as Mirai
• Megumi Toyoguchi as Haruka
• Yuki Matsuoka as Kagura
• Yuko Kaida as Naraku
• Minami Tsuda as Renka
• Sora Tokui as Hanabi
• Shiori Izawa as Kafuru
• Kana Asumi as Fubuki
• Riko Kohara as Gekkō
• Akane Fujita as Senkō

The opening song is “Scarlet Master” by Sayaka Sasaki while the ending is “Junsei Erotic” by Mia REGINA.

Check out our review of the first season of the series.

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Property Concept: Asuka and her friends may look like any other girls at Hanzo Academy, but they’re secretly studying the ancient art of Ninjutsu! While other students do their homework, Asuka and the gang push their beautiful bodies to the breaking point in pursuit of their perfect form. Life is one sexy sparring session after another until a Deviously Demented rival clan of evil ninjas ambushes the Hanzo hotties – and steals their sacred ninja scroll. Faced with their toughest – and most well-rounded – enemies ever, Asuka and her fellow Deadly Divas will have to go further than they’ve ever gone before to prove they’ve mastered the art of full frontal combat!

Whether you like blondes or brunettes; good or evil; big or EXTRA BIG; this series based on the action-packed video game proves once and for all that a ninja beat down is the most exhilarating beat down of all!

While last week didn’t have much in the way of new series getting underway this one shifts gears with a lot of new properties landing. This includes the launch of Radiant ahead of the anime adaptation as well as the Sailor Moon Eternal Edition run. The Delinquent Housewife makes an appearance as does Undead Messiah among a few others in the list.

Ongoings are there as well as we get more D-Frag! in the mix along with Hayate the Combat Butler still churning out volumes. There are also a pair of novels this week, including a new series launch.

Sentai Filmworks has the Made in Abyss series coming up release on October 23rd, 2018 in regular and premium editions that’s being done in bilingual film. While we’ve gotten the dub cast list previously, we now have the updated finalized look at the packaging for the limited edition itself. There are some really fun items in the mix included in this premium edition release, including a phone stand that just looks like it’d be great to have on any desk or table.

The English cast includes:

• Luci Christian as Reg
• Brittany Lauda as Riko
• Brittney Karbowski as Nanachi
• Monica Rial as Mitty
• Shannon Emerick as Nat
• Terri Doty as Shiggy
• Daniel Regojo as Jiruo
• Kalin Coats as Kiyui
• John Swasey as Habolg
• Christine Auten as Ozen
• Kelley Peters as Marulk
• Shelley Calene-Black as Lyza
• David Harbold as Bondrewd

The show was directed by Masayuki Kojima based on the series composition by Hideyuki Kurata. Character designs were handled by Kazuchika Kise with Kinema Citrus on board for the animation production.

The Japanese cast includes Miyu Tomita as Riku, Mariya Ise as Regu, Shiori Izawa as Nanachi, Mutsumi Tamura as Natto, Manami Numakura as Shigi, Manami Hanawa as Kiui, Taishi Murata as Jiruo, and Maaya Sakamoto as Raiza.

The opening song is “Deep in Abyss” as performed by Miyu Tomita and Mariya Ise while the ending theme song is “Tabi no Hitarite, Saihate no Migite” by Miyu Tomita and Shiori Izawa.

The original work is by Akihito Tsukushi which began in 2012 and has five volumes out as of the end of 2016 as serialized in Web Comic Gamma.

Plot Concept: The enormous cave system, known as the Abyss, is the only unexplored place in the world. Nobody knows how deep down this titanic pit goes. It is inhabited by strange and wondrous creatures and full of mysterious ancient relics whose purposes are unknown to modern man. Generations of bold adventurers have been drawn by the cryptic depths of the Abyss. Over the course of time, those bold enough to explore the dangerous pit came to be known as “cave raiders.”

In Oosu, the town at the edge of the Abyss, there lives a little orphan named Rico, who dreams of becoming a cave raider as great as her mother was and solving the great mystery of the pit. One day while exploring the murky depths, she stumbles upon a little boy, who turns out to be a robot…

© Yūki Tabata / Shueisha · TV Tokyo · Black Clover Production Committee

The summer 2018 season is moving right along and one of the big shows is the continuing anime adaptation of the Black Clover manga property. With Crunchyroll streaming episodes every Tuesday at 6:25 am ET for their members, we now have out a preview of the fifteith episode that arrives on September 18th, 2018. Its availability is excellent as it’s open to viewers worldwide outside of Asia.

Please note that TV Tokyo takes these down when the episode goes live.

Tatsuya Yoshihara, who recently directed Monster Musume and Long Riders, is on board to direct based on the series composition by Kazuyuki Fudeyasu. Itsuki Takeda is working on the main character designs with Kumiko Tokunaga as the sub-character designer.

The Japanese cast includes Gakuto Kajiwara as Asta, Nobunaga Shimazaki as Yuno, Junichi Suwabe as Yami Sukehiro, Genki Muro as Magna Swing, Ayumu Murase as Luck Voltia, Jun Fukuyama as Finral Roulacase, Nana Mizuki as Vanessa Enoteca, Kana Yūki as Noelle Silva, Satoshi Hino as Gauch Adlai, Kiyono Yasuno as Charmy Pappitson, Kenichirou Matsuda as Gordon Agrippa, Toshiyuki Morikawa as Julius Nova Chrono, Kousuke Toriumi as Nozel Silva, Katsuyuki Konishi as Fuegoleon Vermillion, Yuu Kobayashi as Charlotte Roselei, Daisuke Namikawa as Jack the Ripper, Daisuke Ono as William Vangeance, Asuka Nishi as Mimosa Vermilion, and Takuma Terashima as Klaus Lunette.

The manga comes from Yuki Tabata which began in February 2015 and has sixteen volumes released so far. Viz Media is releasing it here in compiled volumes as well as part of the Weekly Shonen Jump digital magazine.

Plot Concept: In a world where magic is everything, Asta and Yuno are both found abandoned at a church on the same day. While Yuno is gifted with exceptional magical powers, Asta is the only one in this world without any. At the age of fifteen, both receive grimoires, magic books that amplify their holder’s magic. Asta’s is a rare Grimoire of Anti-Magic that negates and repels his opponent’s spells. Being opposite but good rivals, Yuno and Asta are ready for the hardest of challenges to achieve their common dream: to be the Wizard King. Giving up is never an option!

Distributor Shout Factory is doing a little expansion with one of the properties as they’re now streaming three Danguard Ace compilation films over on Tubi TV. The work came out back in 1978 based on the original creation by Leiji Matsumoto. Animated by Toei Animation, it was directed by Masayuki Akehi abased on the screenplay by Tatsuo Tamura. The features are in their English language adaptation only.

Plot concept: Evil scientist Doppler will stop at nothing to destroy the giant transforming robot Danguard Ace, so he can conquer a new planet.

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As we get further into the latest Puzzle and Dragons series with PuzzDra, which got underway on April 2nd, 2018, TV Tokyo is doing some new promotion for it. The latest is a look at the twenty-fifth episode that will arrive on September 17th, 2018.

The show has set Hajime Kamegaki to direct, following his work on Puzzle & Dragons X, with series composition by Shinzo Fujita. Studio Pierrot continues on with the animation production.

The Japanese cast includes Asuna Tomari as Taiga and Tetsuya Kakihara as Toragon.

Check out our review of the first DVD/BD set of the previous series.

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Plot concept: Set in the modern day, it follows the growth of the protagonist Taiga Akashi, an elementary school kid who wants to be a professional gamer someday.

Those looking for a bit of nostalgia or just classic anime material that doesn’t get much in the way of attention will want to take a peek at Tubi TV tonight. The service is now streaming on their site the three compiled Gaiking features in their English language form. The films are compiled versions of the show that originally began airing in 1976 from Toei Animation and Dynamite Planning and featured Tomoharu Katsumata as the overall director with Souji Yoshikawa on the scripts for it. It’s also an earlier Akira Kamiya series where he played the lead role in it.

Plot concept: Earth is still in danger: aliens from planet Zeraz are willing to invade our planet because theirs is being swallowed by a Black Hole. Led by Great Darius and his four generals, they begin seeding death and destruction. When an ESP warrior is killed by aliens, professor Hi-Tech understands the danger and builds the huge Space Dragon (Daiku Maryuu) piloted by Pete, and the gint robot Gaiking whose pilot is Sanshiro Shiwobuki, an ex-baseball player. Daiku Maryuu is a big dragon shaped spaceship and his head is the Gaiking torso. When the Gaiking enters the action, Daiku Maryuu launches other Gaiking’s components and then it re-unite neck with tail, becoming unbreakable.