The last release week of September is here and there’s a whole lot of new anime landing for fans to check out. Discotek Media has a couple of license rescues arriving with Koi Koi 7 and Gokudo while Aniplex USA goes new with Plastic Memories dropping its back half. Funimation has a lot on tap with more Seraph of the End and Mikagura School Suite as well as Maria the Virgin Witch and Rainy Cocoa. Sentai Filmworks have a couple of releases with separate formats out as well with Eden/Labyrinth of Grisaia and Chaika: Avenging Battle.

1. Rainy Cocoa (incl. Season 1 & Season 2) Complete Collection DVD
2. Eden of Grisaia Complete Collection DVD
3. Eden of Grisaia Complete Collection Blu-ray
4. Gokudou Complete Collection
5. Chaika: Avenging Battle Complete Collection DVD
6. Chaika: Avenging Battle Complete Collection Blu-ray
7. Maria The Virgin Witch Complete Collection Blu-ray & DVD Combo
8. Koi Koi 7 Complete Collection
9. Mahou Shoujo Madoka★Magica Blu-ray Boxset
10. Mikagura School Suite Complete Collection Blu-ray & DVD Combo
11. Seraph of the End Part 2 Blu-ray & DVD Combo
12. Seraph of the End Part 2 Blu-ray & DVD Combo Collector’s Edition
13. Plastic Memories Vol.2 Blu-ray
14. Tekkaman Blade II Complete Collection Blu-ray

The spring 2016 anime series Haven’t You Heard, I’m Sakamoto ran for its twelve episode run this past spring but had a planned thirteenth episode that didn’t make it on air due to the Kumamoto earthquake at the time and how that impacted broadcast coverage. With the episode slotted for the home video release next month in Japan, Crunchyroll has nabbed the streaming rights for it now and has added it to the service, giving fans a chance to bring the show to a close. It’s a full-length episode that keeps the fun running!

The anime adaptation has Shinji Takamatsu as the director with Atsuko Nakajima as character designer. It was animated at Studio DEEN.

The series comes from Nami Sano, their first formal work, which began serialization back in 2011 in the Fellows magazine. The series has four volumes out so far in Japan while Seven Seas Entertainment brought out the first volume of their adaptation out in August 2015.

The cast includes Akira Ishida as Yoshinobu Kubota, Tomokazu Sugita as Atsushi Maeda, Ken Takeuchi as Mario, Nobuyuki Hiyama as Kenken, Showtaro Morikubo as Yuuya Sera, Yui Horie as Aina Kuronuma, Mai Nakahara as Megumi Fujita, Yukari Tamura as Kana-chan, Kana Ueda as Mii-chan, Hitomi Nabatame as Yagi-san, Saki Fujita as Tanaka-san, Mikako Takahashi as Erika, Tomoaki Maeno as Morita, Tatsuhisa Suzuki as Yasuda, Kujira as Shigemi Kubota, Masahito Yabe as Shigeru Kobayashi, Jouji Nakata as Kakuta-sensei, Kouji Yusa as 8823-senpai and Mitsuo Iwata as Fukase-san.

Plot concept: First year high school student Sakamoto isn’t just cool, he’s the coolest! Almost immediately after starting school, he began attracting everyone’s attention. The girls love him, and most of the boys resent him. There’s even a boy in the class who works as a model, but who is constantly upstaged by Sakamoto! No matter what tricks the other boys try to play on him, Sakamoto always manages to foil them with ease and grace. Though Sakamoto may seem cool and aloof, he helps others when asked, such as in the case of the boy in his class who was being constantly bullied. No matter what difficulties Sakamoto encounters, he moves through his high school life with confidence and class!

The last release week of the month tends to be a busy one and this month is no exception as there are thirty volumes of manga landing at the retail level. And that means fun titles like the third omnibus for Franken Fran from Seven Seas Entertainment among others. Kodansha Comics has several books such as new Fairy Tail and Attack on Titan: Colossal Edition. Yen Press is the one that goes the biggest here as we get more Fruits Basket in its collector’s edition form as well as Overlord and Servamp as well as a welcome new installment of Triage X.

1. Aka ya Akashi ya Ayakashi no Vol.4
2. Akame ga Kill! Zero Vol.3
3. Aldnoah.Zero Vol.4
4. Amaama to Inazuma Vol.2
5. Are You Alice? Vol.12
6. Bakemono no Ko Vol.2
7. Ballroom e Youkoso Vol.1
8. Devil’s Line Vol.3
9. Doubutsu no Kuni Vol.11
10. Fairy Tail Vol.56
11. Franken Fran Omnibus Vol.5 & 6
12. Fruits Basket Collector’s Edition Vol.5
13. Happiness Vol.1
14. Hatsukoi Monster Vol.5
15. Himitsu no Akuma-chan Vol.1
16. Hitsugi no Chaika Vol.5
17. Junketsu + Kareshi Vol.8
18. Kamigoroshi-hime Zilch Vol.2
19. Mahouka Koukou no Yuutousei Vol.4
20. Ouji-sama to Haiiro no Hibi Vol.1
21. Overlord Vol.2
22. Servamp Vol.7
23. Shin Kozure Ookami: Lone Wolf Vol.10
24. Shingeki no Kyojin Colossal Edition Vol.3
25. Space☆Dandy Vol.2
26. Strike the Blood Vol.4
27. Triage X Vol.12
28. Übel Blatt Vol.6
29. Umineko no Naku Koro ni Chiru – Episode 6: Dawn of the Golden Witch Vol.2
30. Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Comedy wa Machigatteiru. @comic Vol.2

Light Novels:

1. Owari no Seraph: Ichinose Guren, 16-sai no Catastrophe Vol.3

It’s a weak week for the slate of anime releases landing on DVD and Blu-ray in Japan once again as little seems to break through to big numbers in general. The biggest seller on Blu-ray is the second Starmyu OVA, which isn’t a surprise considering the fans there, though that it did better than the DVD side is a bit surprising. New shows are slowly making their way out and we’re seeing how not-well they’re doing, such as Qualidea Code hitting 1,300 copies on Blu-ray and Hatsukoi Monster at 742 copies. Naria Girls does as poorly as expected with 418 copies. And while we didn’t expect much from Mahoutsukai Precure!, 963 copies does make you cringe a bit and wish they did box sets instead. The top of the DVD side is surprisingly One Piece as the latest collection that’s arrived hits just under 6,800 units, making it tops for the week.

Rank / This week’s sales by copies / Cumulative sales / Titles

Blu-ray
*1.　*3,890　**3,890　Starmyu OVA Vol.2
*2.　*2,713　**2,713　Flying Witch Vol．4 Vol.4
*3.　*2,014　**2,014　Binan Koukou Chikyuu Bouei-bu Love! Love! Vol.1
*4.　*1,921　**1,921　Uchuu Kyoudai: Number Zero Limited Edition
*5.　*1,452　**1,452　Yosuga no Sora Blu-ray BOX Limited Edition
*6.　*1,283　**1,283　Active Raid: Kidou Kyoushuushitsu Dai-Hachigakari 2ndDirector’s Cut Vol.1
*7.　*1,052　**1,052　Qualidea Code Vol.1
*8.　**,963　***,963　Mahoutsukai Precure! Vol.1
*9.　**,888　***,888　Super Lovers Vol.4 Limited Edition
10.　**,827　**6,482　Haikyuu!! Second Season Vol.9

11.　**,742　***,742　Hatsukoi Monster Vol.1 Limited Edition
12.　**,736　*26,329　Kotonoha no Niwa with OST
13.　**,418　***,418　Mahou Shoujo? Naria☆Girls Vol.1
14.　**,332　***,332　Sakamoto desu ga? Vol.4
15.　**,328　198,502　Girls und Panzer der Film Special Limited Edition
(cut-off 328)

DVD
*1.　*6,769　**6,769　One Piece Log Collection “Caesar Crown” (eps.612-628)
*2.　*3,395　**3,395　Binan Koukou Chikyuu Bouei-bu Love! Love! Vol.1
*3.　*2,723　**2,723　Starmyu OVA Vol.2
*4.　*1,210　**1,210　Diamond no Ace: Second Season Vol.7
*5.　**,942　***,942　Super Lovers Vol.4 Limited Edition
*6.　**,810　*70,965　Tonari no Totoro
*7.　**,775　*59,608　Youkai Watch Movie 2: Enma Daiou to Itsutsu no Monogatari da Nyan! Special Price Edition
*8.　**,737　**5,318　Haikyuu!! Second Season Vol.9
*9.　**,559　*10,488　Doraemon Movie 36: Shin Nobita no Nippon Tanjou
10.　**,516　***,516　Hatsukoi Monster Vol.1 Limited Edition

11.　**,484　***,484　Qualidea Code Vol.1
12.　**,419　***,419　One Piece Characters Log “Sanji & Chopper”
13.　**,377　**6,650　Kotonoha no Niwa
14.　**,376　***,376　Detective Conan Part24 Vol.9
15.　**,331　***,331　Gudetama Vol.1
16.　**,321　***,321　Flying Witch Vol．4
17.　**,304　***,304　Gudetama Vol.2
18.　**,300　***,300　Gudetama Vol.3
19.　**,300　*23,085　Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi
20.　**,291　***,291　Mahoutsukai Precure! Vol.1

21.　**,258　**9,502　One Piece Log Collection “Laboratory” (eps.595-611)
22.　**,256　**1,275　Battery Vol.1 Limited Edition
23.　**,245　*34,755　Majo no Takkyuubin
24.　**,238　**8,299　Byousoku 5 Centimeter
25.　**,230　*22,759　Osomatsu-san Vol.8 Limited Edition
(cut-off 230)

[Source: Oricon Youtaiju via MAL]

The fall 2016 anime production Shuumatsu no Izetta has found itself a simulcast home as Crunchyroll has revealed that they’ll be streaming the show for the fall. The series will premiere on October 1st, 2016 at 11:l45 AM. Additionally, Funimation will be producing an English language dub for it for the fall season.

Masaya Fujimori will be directing this based on the scripts from Hiroyuki Yoshino while BUNBUN is handling the character designs with Yuu Yamashita adapting them while also serving as the chief animation director. The series is animated at Ajiado.

The cast for the series includes Himika Akaneya as Izetta, Saori Hayami as Fiine, Aya Uchida as Bianca, Nao Tōyama as Lotte, Kana Hanazawa as Elvira, Junichi Suwabe as Belkman, Hiroki Takahashi as Sieg, Natsuki Hanae as Rickert, KENN as Hans, Yoshimasa Hosoya as Bassler, Ryōtarō Okiayu as Helman, Junji Majima as Tobias, Koji Yusa as Görtz, Daisuke Hirakawa as Elliot, Toshiyuki Morikawa as Rudolph and Kouichi Yamadera as Otto.

The opening theme song “Cross the Line” is being performed by bless4 while thee ending theme song “Hikari Aru Basho e” is being performed by May’n.

Plot concept: Set in the wake of Germania’s 1939 invasion of its European neighbors, the series follows Izetta, the last of a clan of witches, who had been travelling in hiding across Europe with her grandmother from a young age and Fine, the smart and gentle heir to the leadership of the small Alpine state of Altstadt – struggling to remain independent as it prepares for invasion.

As the third season of PriPara continues on since getting underway since the beginning of April, the promos from TV Tokyo continue to roll out to give us a taste of it. Shows like these tend to be the hardest to make their way overseas for a range of reasons, none of which makes the lack of them any less frustrating. The 116th episode is being queued up for an October 4th, 2016 debut from TV Tokyo and they’ve now cut loose the first promo for it – which we’ll warn you end up being taken down around the same time as the episode airs in Japan.

With animation production from Tatsunoko Production, the series is directed by Makoto Morikawa based on the series composition from Michihiro Tsuchiya and character designs by Shoji Hara. The series stars Himika Akaneya, Miyu Kubota, Saki Yamakita and Yuu Serizawa.

Plot concept: PriPara (Prism Paradise) is the successor to the popular Pretty Rhythm series. The new anime is set in the PriPara world, filled with girls’ dreams and yearnings for fashion, dance, and music. Every day, there are auditions that send top idols to worldwide fame on television and online. Manaka Laala is a 5th-grader at Paprika Academy. Like most girls, she admires the world of PriPara, but unfortunately for her, her school does not allow elementary school students to participate in PriPara. However, through miraculous circumstances, Laala passes the audition to become a PriPara idol.

With the first collection of Snow White with the Red Hair landing now in France as it has a release date of September 28th, 2016 – on DVD only, Kaze France is now getting things scheduled for the second collection. That’s now been given a November 16th, 2016 debut for season 2 where it’ll again be spread across three discs with the original Japanese language plus French subtitles. No extras are currently listed for it but we did get the artwork revealed as you can see below.

The work comes from Sorata Akizuki which began back in 2006 in the LaLa magazine and has fifteen volumes out so far. The series is known as Akagami no Shirayukihime and was produced by Studio Bones with Masahiro Ando directing based on the scripts by Dekao Akao. Kumiko Takahashi servedd as the character designer.

The cast includes stars Saori Hayami as Shirayuki, Ryota Ohsaka as Zen, Jun Fukuyama as Raji Shenazard, Kaori Nazuka as Kiki Seiran, Nobuhiko Okamoto as Obi, Toshiyuki Toyonaga as Mihaya, Yuichiro Umehara as Mitsuhide Roen, Akira Ishida as Izana, Yuko Kaida as Garack and Yuko Sanpei as Ryu.

Plot concept: Shirayuki was a young girl born with unique apple-red hair. She meets a famous but foolish Prince Raji, who falls in love with her at first sight and orders her to become his concubine. With nowhere else to go, Shirayuki cuts her hair and escapes to a neighboring country. While traversing through the forests, she meets a young boy, Zen, who helps her after she boldly cures his wounds but then gets poisoned by an apple given to Shirayuki. Meanwhile, Prince Raji sends out henchmen to search for her. What will happen to Shirayuki? What is Zen’s true character? A refreshing fantasy story between an optimistic heroine and a prince who constantly stays on her watch.

[Source: Snow White with the Red Hair]

Tsukasa Fushimi and Hiro Kanzaki’s manga series Eromanga Sensei – My Little Sister and the Locked Room revealed that an anime adaptation is in the works for the property way back in March of this year. With the manga kicking off back in December 2013 and with over six volumes of material, we’re pretty much on track for a standard single cour series. We learned previously that Akane Fujita is on board to play the main role of Sagiri Izumi, a role that she did with the visual drama that came out previously. Fujita hasn’t had a lot of roles overall since she began her career, but this marks her second leading role after playing Yuzuka Hanami in this season’s series Mahō Shōjo Nante Mō Ii Desu Kara.

Now, more of the cast has been revealed through a new Nico Nic Live stream event as the new addition includes Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Masamune Izumi.

We also got some of the staffing positions revealed with Ryohei Takeshita directing it while Tatsuya Takahashi is handling supervision of the scripts for the series.

A-1 Pictures will be producing the animation for this Aniplex production.

Plot concept: The story revolves around Masamune Izumi, a light novel author in high school. Masamune’s little sister is Sagiri, a shut-in girl who hasn’t left her room for an entire year. She even forces her brother to make and bring her meals when she stomps the floor. Masamune wants his sister to leave her room, because the two of them are each other’s only family.

Masamune’s novel illustrator, penname “Ero Manga Sensei,” draws extremely perverted drawings, and is very reliable. Masamune had never met his illustrator, and figured he was just a disgusting, perverted otaku. However, the truth is revealed … that his “Ero Manga Sensei” is his own younger sister! To add to the chaos that erupts between the siblings, a beautiful, female, best-selling shōjo manga creator becomes their rival!

[Source: ANN]

Kaze France has revealed a street date for a very popular Makoto Shinkai film with The Place Promised in Our Early Days. The feature film now has a November 16th, 2016 street date planned for both DVD and Blu-ray releases. The formats are being priced at € 9.96 and € 19.96 respectively but have not revealed what their specs will be like with language options nor any of the extras.

The films were recently picked up by 101 Anime back in 2015 with a summe release.

Plot Concept: In 1996, an enormous tower is constructed on the southern shore of Hokkaido, it’s purpose-unknown. Curious, three school children make a vow to discover the mysterious tower’s secrets. Will this promise have to be left unfulfilled when one of the three falls into a coma?

[Source: The Place Promised in Our Early Days]

With a new movie coming out it’s no surprise that Marvel Comics is working to expand interest in the short-term for the character Doctor Strange, which isn’t a bad thing as he’s one of the best there is in the books. Set for release on October 26th, 2016 is a new ongoing with Doctor Strange and the Sorcerers Supreme that comes from writer Robbie Thompson and artist Javier Rodriguez. Ahead of that debut they’ve now brought out the finalized first cover, a look at several of the variants, and some unlettered preview pages so you can get an idea of what’s coming.

Suffice to say, there’s another Skottie Young cover I need. Why they don’t put these in a big slick hardcover coffee table book is beyond me…

Plot concept: When an ancient evil threatens to unravel the fabric of reality, Doctor Strange must unite Sorcerers Supreme from across time to stem the coming darkness. Merlin, the Ancient One, Wiccan and more must unite to stand against The Forgotten. But even a team of the greatest sorcerers history has ever known may not be enough! Not to mention Strange should watch his back, not all these Sorcerers have his best interests in mind. Be there as the magical adventure across space and time begins on October 26th in DOCTOR STRANGE AND THE SORCERERS SUPREME #1!

DOCTOR STRANGE AND THE SORCERERS SUPREME #1 (AUG160798)
Written by ROBBIE THOMPSON
Art by JAVIER RODRIGUEZ
Cover by RAFAEL ALBUQUERQUE
Variant Covers by JAVIER RODRIGUEZ (AUG160799)
And SKOTTIE YOUNG (AUG160801)
Design Variant by JAVIER RODRIGUEZ (AUG160803)
Action Figure Variant by JOHN TYLER CHRISTOPHER (AUG160800)
Teaser Variant by MIKE DEODATO (AUG160802)
Champions Variant by JAMAL CAMPBELL (AUG160804)
Hip-Hop Variant by JUAN DOE (AUG160805)
Blank Variant Also Available (AUG160806)
FOC – 10/03/16, On-Sale – 10/26/16

Potentially serving as a trial run for something bigger along the way, Monthly Comic Zero-Sum has revealed that the manga series Landreaall from Chika Ogaki is going to have an OVA that will be bundled with an upcoming volume. The series has its 29th volume set for a February 25th, 2017 debut and that will have more details in the coming months with the production behind it.

The series began back in 2002 and has been serialized very consistently and had the 28th volume released this past summer.

Plot concept: The alternate-world story begins with the journey of the would-be hero DX to save Marion, who has sealed a fire dragon threatening the land. DX is the heir of the lord of the town Ekariipu, and he is also potentially in the line of succession for the royal throne. He encounters Marion, a girl who dwells in the mighty tree that protects Ekariipu, and falls in love with her. However, if Marion’s soul gets close to a human, that would resurrect the fire dragon she has sealed away. DX embarks on an adventure to learn the secrets to freeing Marion and vanquishing the dragon.

[Source: ANN]

To help celebrate the 30th anniversary of the property, TMS Music is bringing out a new Bug tte Honey “select” release. Scheduled for November 21st, 2016, the DVD-only release will be priced at 2,160 yet. It’s essentially an eighty-minute special that contains the original first episode and then a compilation of greatest hits from the next fifty episodes to showcase the series that has had singles and box set releases previously.

Originally airing in the fall of 1986 and running for 51 episodes, the series worked to bring the toycom games that were popular at the time to greater life. The show was overseen by Minoru Okazaki with Akinori Nagaoka as the chief animation director. It stared Yuu Mizushima and Chie Koujiro.

Plot concept: The story starts off by the kidnapping of Genjin Takahashi, a superstar in the world of toycom games. He is kidnapped by Kyura-the-Great, who plots evil in order to rule this game world and become the star himself. Honey Bee, living in this game world and also the girlfriend of Genjin, learns of this and sets out to save him. She goes to the actual world to seek the help of three game geniuses and brings these three toycom buddies to the game world. With their help and desperate struggles, they try to overthrow Kyura-the-Great and rescue Genjin. Can they overcome the numerous roadblocks of hidden tricks and riddles?

[Source: Bug tte Honey]

Funimation has another subtitled-only release coming up soon with Jinsei, a show they simulcast previously. With a planned October 4th, 2016 release scheduled where the DVD/BD combo set is priced at $49.98, they’ve now unveiled their first clip from it. Since it’s in its original Japanese only, we get the subtitles for it clear enough but most of the focus is going to be on all the fanservice/sexuality of cute girls in wet shirts, right?

The series is directed by Keiichiro Kawaguchi based on story setting by Tsuyoshi Tamai and Keiichiro Ouchi. Character designs are being done by Tomoyuki Shitaya and the series is being produced at animation studio feel, which has worked on some interesting shows as of late including Outbreak Company.

Plot concept: From the studio behind Dagashi Kashi and My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU Too! comes a slice of life chock full of adorable girls, humor, and helpful advice. Yuki Akamatsu desperately needs to work on his social interactions”at least according to the 2nd Newspaper Club president. And by that, she means getting him a girlfriend! After a barrage of personal insults, she assigns him to work the Life Counseling section of the paper. Yuki has no idea what this really means for him until he meets the three cuties responsible for providing advice. Rino Endo specializes in the sciences, Fumi Kujo covers humanities, while Izumi Suzuki handles the world of sports”and snacks! Unfortunately, these three girls cannot agree on anything. Which means Yuki has to keep them on track and guide them to the answers that will help their classmates in need. Can he survive the onslaught of their boisterous personalities and compromising positions a plenty? There’s only so much a teenage boy can take!

It’s the end of the season and the start of the season in some ways so the calendars begin to enter that state of flux. With some shows being announced just as they go live it makes for some real fun. Crunchyroll has two new shows on tap for today with:

• 7:00am - TWIN STAR EXORCISTS - Episode 25
• 3:00pm - CASE CLOSED - Episode 833

The free side brings out last week’s finales as well as the back half of Pita-Ten for streaming.

• 7:00am - TWIN STAR EXORCISTS - Episode 24
• 11:30am - FATE/KALEID LINER PRISMA ILLYA 3REI!! - Episode 12
• 12:30pm - OZMAFIA!! - Episode 12
• 12:45pm - MAHOU SHOUJO? NARIA GIRLS - Episode 12
• 7:00pm - PITA-TEN - Episodes 14-26

Funimation’s subscriber side has a pair of Broadcast Dubs up…

	D.Gray-man - HALLOW	112	Dub	TV-14	9/28/16
	Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope’s Peak High School	20	Dub	TV-MA	9/28/16
	The Disastrous Life of Saiki K. - Season 1	Special 64	Sub	TV-14	9/28/16
	The Disastrous Life of Saiki K. - Season 1	Special 59	Sub	TV-14	9/28/16

While their free side brings out last week’s Tsukiuta finale.

TSUKIUTA. The Animation - Season 1

12

Sub

TV-14

9/28/16

The Anime Network doesn’t have anything on its schedule for today.

The folks at Kaze France previously scheduled the first box set for Ushio & Tora where the first set landed on DVD and Blu-ray in box set form on September 14th, 2016 priced at 30 euro and 35 euro respectively. With that all set now, the distributor has revealed their plans and cover artwork for the second set as it now has a November 2nd, 2016 release date. It’s definitely going to hopefully force Sentai Filmworks to step up their game on the cover/packaging design!

The show ran for thirty-nine episodes total between the two season. The first twenty-six episodes ran summer 2015 and now the final thirteen-episode arc where it’ll finish off by dealing with events from the final battle in the manga ran in the spring of 2016. Sentai Filmworks has licensed the show in North America while Madman Entertainment has the Australian rights.

The anime adaptation is directed by Satoshi Nishimura with animation done by MAPPA and studio Voln. They’ll be working off of scripts by Toshiki Inoue and character designs by Tomoko Mori. The group Kinniku Shojo Tai will be handling the opening theme song for the series while Sonar Pocket is handling the ending theme

The series has an expansive cast that includes Tasuku Hatanaka as Ushio, Rikiya Koyama as Tora, Mikako Komatsu as Asako, Kiyono Yasuno as Mayuko, Keiji Fujiwara as Shigure Aotsuki, Yui Makino as Reiko Hanyu, Daisukie Namikawa as Hyo, Yuichi Nakamura as Kenichi Masaki, Aki Toyosaki as Yu Hiayama, Masaki Terasoma as Kyoji Atsuzawa, Miki Shinichiro as Raishin, Yuuki Kaji as Juro, Risa Shimizuo as Kagari, Yuuka Nanri as Saya Takatori, Ai Kayano as Omamori-sama, Maaya Sakamoto as Sumako, Fumiko Orikasa as Mikado, Nana Mizuki as Hinoawa Sekimori, Yoshimasa Hosoya as Nagara Akiba, Ryota Ohsaka as Satoru Moritsuna, Ayahi Takagaki as Jun Moritsuna, Megumi Han as Kirio Inasa, Mamoru Miyano as Giryo, Kana Hanazawa as Jie MeI and Nao Nagasawa as Izuna.

Ushio & Tora comes from the manga by Kazuhiro Fujita, which had an anime OVA adaptation was done back in the early 90′s that ADV Films licensed and released years ago on VHS and DVD. The manga originally ran for 33 volumes between 1990 and 1996 and Fujita has done a couple of little things with it since there, largely for charity.

Plot concept: Ushio thinks that his father’s talk of an ancient ancestor impaling a demon on a temple altar stone with the legendary Beast Spear is nuts, but when he finds the monster in his own basement, Ushio has to take another look at the family legend! To save his friends and family from the invading spirits, Ushio is forced to release Tora from his captivity. But will the creature prove to be worse than the curse?

[Source: Ushio & Tora]

The second cour of BBK/BRNK, whose first cour aired this past winter season, is just about here and a expected it’s getting simulcast by Crunchyroll for the season. The service has revealed that the series will debut on October 1st, 2016 at 10:00am ET for their members. Availability for the show is good as it’s worldwide excluding Asia, Spain, Portugal, Australia, New Zealand; and German, French, Italian and Dutch Speaking Europe

The TV series was directed by Daizen Komatsuda as his directorial debut. He worked with Jiro Ishii and Yukinori Kitajama’s scripts for the project while Yuuseuk Kozaki did the character designs.

The cast includes Yuusuke Kobayashi as Azuma Ikki, Ari Ozawa as Kogane Asabuki, Soma Saito as Hiiragi Nono, Shizuka Ishigami as Noa Oogi, Mikako Komatsu as Shizuru Taneomi, Megumi Han as Rioko Banryuu, Kenjirou Tsuda as Shuusaku Matoba, Yoko Hikasa as Zetsubi Ken, Subaru Kimura as Souya Arabashiri and Kazuyuki Okitsu as Akito Tsuwabuki.

The series has actress Megumi Han taking on the opening theme song while actress Mikako Komatsu is handling the ending theme song.

Plot concept: When Azuma Ikki returns to Japan after 10 years, he gets assaulted by a group of armed men and becomes their prisoner. Kogane Asabuki, a childhood friend, saves him with a weapon on her right hand known as Bubuki; a weapon with its own mind. Azuma Ikki, who is a Bubuki user himself, learns about the existence of Bubuki and goes on a journey alongside the companions he has found, in an attempt to find and revive Oumai, a Buranki (titan) who sleeps underground.

The last new comic book day Wednesday of September is here and it’s a pretty good mix of releases with lots of ongoings and trades landing. On the new front, things are a bit quieter as one might expect. Archie is launching Josie and the pussycats while Dark Horse debuts Tarzan on the Planet of the Apes. Vertigo Comics brings out the first installment of Frostbite while IDW Publishing gets more of the Revolution material out with MASK and Micronauts as well as a special. Add in Star Trek: Waypoint and it’s a busy day for the publisher. Image Comics launches Surgeon X while Marvel Comics brings out a Doctor Strange and Deadpool annual alongside other previews and the like.

DC Comics is working more of its Rebirth event as Batman Beyond: Rebirth debuts as does the first ongoing issue for Blue Beetle. We also get the Teen Titans: Rebirth special.

On the Star Wars side, Marvel has the 23rd installment of the main ongoing series and the Star Wars Legends Epic Collection: Legacy Volume 1 dropping today.

On the manga front, Seven Seas is bringing out the seventh volume of Servamp while Kodansha Comics has a new simulpub chapter of Space Brothers.

The anime adaptation of the Nanbaka manga got an early pickup as Crunchyroll has grabbed the rights for it back in August. They’ve now revealed that the series will premiere on October 4th, 2016 with worldwide availability outside of Asia. They’ve also revealed that Funimation will be producing an English language dub for the series.

The work is adapting Sho Futamata’s manga as it will be directed by Shinji Takamatsu, who has experience in comedy material with School Rumble and Gintama, and he’ll be working off of scripts from Mitsutaka Hirota.

The Japanese cast includes Yuuto Uemura as Jūgo, Tetsuya Kakihara as Uno, Airu Shiozaki as Rokku, Daiki Kobayashi as Niko, Tomokazu Seki as Hajime Sugoroku, Satomi Akesaka as Momoko Hyakushiki, Kenjirou Tsuda as Mitsuru Hitokoe, Kimeru as Kiji Mitsuba, Shouma Yamamoto as Kenshirou Yozakuro, Soichiro Hoshi as Samon Gokuu, Shunsuke Takeuchi as Yamato Godai, Keito Okuyama as Seitarou Tanabata, Toshiyuki Toyonaga as Tsukumo, Yuuki Fujiwara as Liang, Yuu Kobayashi as Upa, Genki Okawa as Qi, Yuto Adachi as Trois, Takao Mitsutomo as Honey, Yoshimasa Hosoya as Musashi and Eishin Fudemura as Hitoshi Sugoroku.

The manga began back in the PlayArt app back in 2013 and has two volumes to its name.

Plot concept: A super exciting action comedy starring the inmates and guards of the world’s most formidable prison; Uno, a man who likes to gamble with women; Rokku, a man who likes to get into fights; and Niko, a man who likes anime. Along with their warden Hajime, the high-tension action comedy story unfolds.

Originally released in 1991 and 1992, French distributor Dybex brought out the release of the two Silent Mobius films on Blu-ray back in January with what appears to be a limited run. They’ve now set a new release for November 30th, 2016 as a DVD/BD combo package, check out the packaging below, with a price of € 28.92. The films will be in their original Japanese language with French subtitles only. The films have had a haphazard release in North America over the years and were last released by Bandai Entertainment on DVD in the last decade. Both films are currently out of print in North America and have no formal license holder nor a Blu-ray release.

Plot concept: In a futuristic Tokyo, several policewomen fight a monster. One of them, Katsumi Liqueur, remembers where she saw it before… Katsumi Liqueur, an American-born woman of Japanese descent, travels to Tokyo to visit her mother, Fuyuka, who is sick in the hospital. She takes a shortcut through an alley after her taxi gets stuck in traffic, only to encounter a monster and two policewomen fighting it. Later, she meets their chief, Rally Cheyenne, who, it seems, has been expecting her, though Katsumi has never met her before. The policewomen want Katsumi to help them fight the monster, but Katsumi, who does not want to believe in magic, resists.

The anime adaptation of the Magical Girl Raising Project is scheduled for an October 2nd, 2016 premiere in Japan and we now know that the show will be simulcast by Crunchyroll overseas. The service has announced the pickup of the rights for it but has not finalized the premiere date or regional availability for it yet. The series will be directed by Hiroyuki Hashimoto based on the series composition and scripts from Takao Yoshioka. It’s being animated at studio Lerche.

The Japanese cast includes Nao Touyama will play Snow White while Manami Numakura will play Ripple. Additional cast includes Ayane Sakura as La Pucell Yumi, Uchiyama as Top Speed, Kurumi Mamiya as Fav, Yoko Hikasa as Ruler, Inori Minase as Swim Swim, Risae Matsuda as Minael, Satsumi Matsuda as Yunael, Asuka Nishi as Tama, Yumiri Hanamori as Nemurin, Saori Hayami as Sister Nana, Yuu Kobayashi as Wess Winter Prison, Kikuko Inoue as Calamity Mary, Satomi Arai as Magicaloid 44, Megumi Ogata as Cranberry and Rina Hidaka as Hard Gore Alice.

Manami Numakura will also sing the opening theme song “Sakebe”.

The novels began back in 2012 with eight so far, the latest of which has the wraparound announcing the adaptation, and a drama CD came out earlier this year, a promo of which you can see below. No details about the adaptation have been revealed though such as production, cast or what season we’ll see it in.

Plot concept: In a risky, unreasonable game, 16 girls are trapped. For the magical girls to remain in their positions at stake, a cruel battle begins! To fool, outwit, compete; all in becoming the only magical girl left. Then one day, the management arbitrarily decides that “There are too many magical girls, so the number will be halved.” One by one, within a span of a week, they decrease. While being under the mercy and toyed around by the mastermind, these magical girls need to come up with plans so they can continue as one. Transforming into being cold and ruthless, the girls still have their feelings. Will they be able to survive the relentless and cruel survival game?