"Anime 1 Week" brings you a summary of the latest anime news from the past week. From December 22nd to 28th, news that a third season of "MF Ghost" will be produced and the announcement of a new one-shot story for "Mobile Suit Gundam SEED DESTINY THE EDGE Desire" were some of the topics that attracted attention.
On the 22nd, it was revealed that the TV anime "ONE PIECE", based on the popular manga by Eiichiro Oda, will be broadcast on Fuji TV nationwide every Sunday at 11:15 pm from April 6, 2025. The series has been broadcast on the same station every Sunday at 9:30 am since October 2006, but it was announced that the broadcast time slot will be changed. It was also announced that Subaru Kimura will be the new voice actor for Straw Hat Crew member Franky from April 2025. Since his debut in 2005, Kazuki Yao has played Franky, but it has been announced that he will be replaced, and Kimura will take over.
On the 22nd, it was announced that the movie version of the anime "Chainsaw Man: Reze Arc", a sequel to the TV anime " Chainsaw Man ", based on the popular manga by Tatsuki Fujimoto , currently being serialized on Shueisha's manga app " Chainsaw Man Jump +", will be released in 2025. The release date is "around the time when a typhoon comes". Tatsuya Yoshihara, who was the action director for the TV anime version, will be the director.
On the 22nd, it was revealed that a second season of a "completely new anime" based on Rumiko Takahashi's hit manga "Ranma 1/2" will be produced.
On the 23rd, it was revealed that director Mamoru Hosoda, known for "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time," "Summer Wars ," and "The Dragon and the Freckled Princess," will be producing his first new animated film in about four years. The film will be titled "Endless Scarlet" and will be released in winter 2025. Director Hosoda will be in charge of the script and original story, and the story will be about a princess from a certain country traveling through a harsh world. A teaser visual featuring the main character, Princess Scarlet, has been released.
On the 23rd, it was revealed that the 3rd season of the TV anime " MF Ghost ," based on the "successor" to the popular manga " Initial D " by Shuichi Shigeno, will be produced. A teaser visual and teaser PV based on the image of the MFG Round 3 The Peninsula Manazuru final race were also released.
It has been announced that a special screening of works by the late director Satoshi Kon will be held in the retrospective section of the 3rd Niigata International Animation Film Festival, a feature-length commercial animated film festival, on the 24th. In addition to his directorial works such as "Paprika," "Paranoia Agent," "Perfect Blue," and "Millennium Actress," the screening will also include "Run Melos" and the sound-renewed version of " Mobile Police Patlabor 2 the Movie," in which he participated as an animation and director.
On the 25th, it was revealed that in commemoration of the broadcast of the sequel to the 13th installment of the popular anime series "Witchy Pretty Cure!", "Witchy Pretty Cure!!! ~MIRAI DAYS~", a special program "Witchy Pretty Cure! PreCure!! ~MIRAI DAYS~ Broadcast Commemoration! New Year's Maho PreCure SP" will be broadcast on TOKYO MX from 10:00 am on January 3, 2025. Voice actors Rie Takahashi, Yui Horie, and Saori Hayami will appear, and Ayaka Saito will also appear in a video. They will introduce famous scenes from the series and talk about the highlights of the sequel. The theatrical version released in 2016, "Maho Girls Witchy Pretty Cure! Miraculous Transformation! Cure Mofurun!" will also be broadcast. This is the first time that the series will be broadcast on terrestrial television.
The February 2025 issue of the magazine "Monthly Gundam Ace" (KADOKAWA), released on the 25th, featured a new one-shot story for the manga "Mobile Suit Gundam SEED DESTINY THE EDGE Desire," part of the popular anime series "Mobile Suit Gundam SEED." The new story was drawn to commemorate the release of a new edition of the comic.
On the 26th, it was announced that the theatrical versions of the robot anime "Space Runaway Ideon", "Space Runaway Ideon: Contact" and "Space Runaway Ideon: Activation", will be released on the Sunrise YouTube channel from 8:00 PM on January 3rd to 11:59 PM on the 5th, 2025.
On the 27th, it was revealed that to commemorate the 45th anniversary of the popular anime series "Gundam", a best album of the "music background music" will be released on March 26, 2025. This is the first time that a best album of music from the series will be released. The jacket will feature a Gundam and Char's Zaku designed by mechanical designer Kunio Okawara.
On the 28th, it was announced that episodes 12 to 15 of the fifth season of the TV anime "DanMachi V: The Goddess of Fertility Arc," based on the popular light novel "Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon (DanMachi)" by Fujino Omori of GA Bunko (SB Creative), which will be the "Climax of the Faction War," will be broadcast and distributed in early spring 2025. A faction war visual featuring Bell and Ottar was also released.
