Anime
The Chiikawa Film Is at 14.66 Billion Yen and the Number Everyone Is Quoting Is Two Weeks Old
The Chiikawa film has taken ¥14.66 billion and ten million admissions in Japan. The figure travelling in English is ¥13.9 billion, it is three updates old, and "biggest film of 2026" means something narrower than it sounds.
September 17, 2026 10:07 am
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 Is Not Season Two, and Imaishi Is Not Directing
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 arrives on 20 October with new characters, a new director and no David. The official title does not contain the word season, and that is the point.
September 16, 2026 12:16 pm
Steel Ball Run’s First Season Was One Episode Long
Steel Ball Run returns on 25 September for its second stage. Season one was not twelve episodes. It was one episode, forty-seven minutes long, in March.
September 15, 2026 3:41 pm
Bleach Delayed Episodes 49 and 50. Also Known as 415 and 416.
Bleach pushed its last two episodes to late October. Depending on which numbering you use, those are episodes 49 and 50, or Part 4 episodes 9 and 10, or 415 and 416.
September 14, 2026 10:12 am
The Live-Action Akira Ended Without Anyone Cancelling It
Warner Bros. spent 23 years and eight figures on a live-action Akira and never exposed a frame. Last week the 1988 original out-earned its entire American history in one weekend.
September 13, 2026 11:30 am
Hunter x Hunter Has Missed Roughly 960 Issues of Shonen Jump
Hunter x Hunter stopped again after chapter 420. The joke is that Togashi is always on hiatus. The arithmetic says he has been absent from roughly 960 issues of the magazine he writes for.
September 12, 2026 11:05 am
Look Back Has Now Been Adapted Twice in 26 Months
A 143-page manga has now been adapted twice in 26 months, by two directors, in two media. The animated version holds 100 percent on Rotten Tomatoes. The live-action one opens today.
September 11, 2026 12:20 pm
Black Clover Just Turned 170 Episodes Into Season One
Black Clover returns on 3 October as its 2nd Season, which quietly reclassifies 170 previous episodes as the first one. There are four official ways to count them and they all disagree.
September 10, 2026 11:45 am
Attack on Titan Day Does Not Commemorate What You Think It Does
Today is the first Attack on Titan Day. It is one week old, it was registered by a publisher, and it does not commemorate anything that happens inside the story.
September 9, 2026 10:30 am
Demon Slayer broke every anime box office record. Chapter two still has no date.
Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle is the highest-grossing anime film ever made and the highest-grossing Japanese film ever made. It has been streaming since July and it won Film of the Year in May. Fourteen months after release, nobody — ufotable, Aniplex, Sony or Crunchyroll — can tell you when chapter two opens.
September 8, 2026 5:10 pm