"Anime 1 Week" introduces the latest anime news from the past week. From December 29, 2024 to January 4, 2025, news about Comic Market 105, Japan's largest doujinshi convention, and the serialization of a spin-off manga of Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury were all the rage.
On December 29, 2024, it was revealed that a completely new TV anime series, "Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha EXCEEDS Gun Blaze Vengeance," based on the popular anime series "Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha" will be produced. This is the first completely new anime announced in about six years since the 2018 anime movie "Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Detonation." The title includes the words "Gun," "Blaze," and "Vengeance," and it is said that "Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha" will enter a new stage in the milestone year of the series' 20th anniversary.
On the 29th, it was announced that a spin-off manga of the popular Gundam anime series Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury, Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury , will be serialized on the website Comic Newtype from spring 2025. The parallel story is set in a near-future Japan and follows the encounter between high school girls Sletta and Miorine.
On the 29th, it was revealed that the title of the fourth season of the TV anime "Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War," based on the final chapter of the popular manga "BLEACH" by Tite Kubo, which was serialized in "Weekly Shonen Jump" (Shueisha), will be "Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War- Kashintan." The final chapter, "The Thousand-Year Blood War Arc," will be broadcast in four separate seasons, with "Kashintan" being the final season.
Comic Market (Comiket) 105, Japan's largest doujinshi convention, was held at Tokyo Big Sight (Koto-ku, Tokyo) on the 29th and 30th, and it has been reported that approximately 300,000 people visited over the two days. The number of visitors on the 29th was approximately 150,000, and on the 30th it was approximately 150,000. This is an increase of approximately 40,000 people compared to the previous Comiket 104, which attracted approximately 260,000 visitors over the two days. This is the first time in 10 years, since Comiket 87 in 2014, that Comiket will not be held on New Year's Eve.
On the 31st, it was announced that a TV anime adaptation of "Fate/strange Fake," a light novel from the popular "Fate" series of games and anime, will be broadcast in 2025.
On the 31st, it was announced that a new original anime, "Days Are Forever Delicious," will be produced with characters, story concept, and manga name creation by Atto, the author of the manga "Non Non Biyori," and will be broadcast in 2025. The anime will be directed by Kawamochi Shinya of "Non Non Biyori" and Shunsui Yuu, who has participated in "The Quintessential Quintuplets ∬," and produced by PAWORKS, which has produced "SHIROBAKO." A teaser visual featuring the main characters was also released, stating that the story will be "a story about a female college student who loves food."
On January 1, 2025, it was announced that Debata Yudai's manga "Futari Solo Camp," currently being serialized in "Morning" (Kodansha), will be adapted into a TV anime and will begin airing on TOKYO MX and other stations in July. The manga is also the subject of a live-action drama starring Morisaki Win, which will begin airing on TOKYO MX on the 9th. The anime will be directed by Hatori Jun and produced by SynergySP. Hamano Daiki will play the main character, Kinokura Gen, a solo camper who loves solitude, and Nizaki Mizuki will play Kusano Shizuku, a total beginner camper. This will be Nizaki's first regular role in an anime.
On the 1st, it was revealed that the movie version of "The Irregular at Magic High School: Yotsuba Succession", an anime adaptation of the popular light novel "The Irregular at Magic High School " by Dengeki Bunko (KADOKAWA), will be released in "Next Winter".
On the 3rd, it was announced that the newest book in the Missing Pieces series (Rittosha), which allows readers to compare the original magazine editions of Osamu Tezuka's manga with their comic book versions, Phoenix Missing Pieces - Nostalgia Chapter, will be released on February 28th. The Missing Pieces series has previously released Black Jack and The Three-Eyed One, which have been much talked about. The new book will focus on Phoenix, Nostalgia Chapter, which has had the most changes, and the related work Hagoromo Chapter.
On January 4th, it was revealed that the TV anime "Silent Witch: The Secret of the Silent Witch", based on the light novel by Iku Matsuri, popular on the novel posting site "Shosetsuka ni Naro", will be broadcast in 2025. Additional cast members were also announced, including Nabatame Hitomi as Monica Everett's familiar Nero, who can understand and speak human language, and Junichi Suwabe as Lewis, a magician who is one of the Seven Sages like Monica and who forced Monica to be the guardian of the second prince.
On the 4th, it was announced that Miki Nazuna's light novel "Noble Reincarnation: Gaining the Strongest Power from a Blessed Birth", which was born from the novel submission site "Shosetsuka ni Naro", will be made into a TV anime.
