"Anime 1 Week" brings you a summary of the latest anime news from the past week. From March 2nd to 8th, news items that drew attention included auditions for the role of the diva in the latest installment of the "Macross" series, and the fact that the box office revenue of "Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX -Beginning-" has topped 3 billion yen.
On the 2nd, it was revealed that a sequel to the film version of "Haikyu!! The Haikyu!! the Movie: Decisive Battle at the Garbage Dump", based on the anime "Haikyu!!", a popular volleyball manga by Haruichi Furudate, titled "Haikyu!! The Movie: Battle at the Dump", will be made.
On the 2nd, it was announced that an audition for the role of the diva in the latest installment of the popular anime series "Macross" will be held, "Macross x Sunrise "New Macross" Super Dimensional Diva Audition 2025". It has been announced that the latest installment will be produced by Sunrise (Bandai Namco Film Works). FlyingDog and Lantis (Bandai Namco Music Live) will be in charge of the music, and the audition theme song "Eye to Eye" was unveiled.
On the 3rd, it was announced that Fuji TV's anime slot "Noitamina" will be moving to 11:30pm on Fridays nationwide starting April 4th. Noitamina is Fuji TV's anime slot that began airing in 2005 and has been aired late at night for many years, but will be moving in April this year, the 20th anniversary of its broadcast. The first work to be aired after the move will be the TV anime "Nazotoki wa Dinner no Ato de," based on Atsuya Higashikawa's popular mystery novel, which will begin airing on April 4th.
On the 4th, Toei Animation producer Washio Ten, who worked on the animated short film "Magic Candies" (directed by Nishio Daisuke), which was also nominated for the Best Animated Short Film at the 97th Academy Awards, held a press conference at TIAT SKY HALL in Haneda Airport's Terminal 3 (Ota Ward, Tokyo). This is the first time that a Toei Animation work has been nominated for an Academy Award. The Best Animated Short Film at the 97th Academy Awards was awarded to Iran's "In the Shadow of the Cypresses," and "Magic Candies " missed out on the award. Producer Washio, who returned to Japan on the 2nd (local time) to attend the awards ceremony held in Los Angeles, shared his thoughts.
On the 4th, it was announced that "Genso Suikoden II" from the popular RPG "Genso Suikoden" series (Konami Digital Entertainment) will be made into an anime. It will be directed by Yuzo Sato and produced by KONAMI animation.
On the 4th, it was revealed that the arcade game " Starwing Paradox " (Square Enix), for which Yoshiyuki Sadamoto , known for the " Evangelion " series, was in charge of character design, will be made into an animated film, "AS ONE," and will be released in the summer of 2025. The film will be directed by Kobun Shizuno and will have a completely original story that takes place 20 years before the original. Sadamoto will be in charge of character design, and all the characters will be revamped.
On the 5th, it was announced that the second season of the TV anime " Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, " based on the manga currently being serialized in "Weekly Shonen Sunday" (Shogakukan), will be broadcast on Nippon TV from January 2026.
On the 6th, it was announced that Toya's popular novel " A Tale of the Secret Saint, " which was born from the novel posting site " Shosetsuka ni Naro a Novelist," will be adapted into a TV anime. The main cast was also announced, with Shion Wakayama as Fear Rude, Shinnosuke Tokudome as Xaviria, Yuichiro Umehara as Savith Nerve, and Nobunaga Shimazaki as Cyril Sutherland.
On the 7th, it was announced that "Higashijima Tanzaburou Wants to Become a Kamen Rider," a manga by Shibata Yokusaru, known for "Hachi-One Diver," will be made into an anime. On the 5th, a mysterious advertisement reading "Shocker Appears!!" appeared inside the east ticket gates of JR Shinjuku Station in Tokyo, which became a hot topic, and it was revealed that the manga is the adaptation of "Higashijima Tanzaburou Wants to Become a Kamen Rider."
On the 7th, it was announced that the theatrical pre-release of the latest work in the popular anime series "Gundam", "Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuX -Beginning-", has exceeded 3 billion yen in box office revenue in the 49 days since its release on January 17th. The movie has been a hit, with the number of viewers exceeding 1.8 million.
On the 8th, a project to mark the 10th anniversary of the death of manga artist Shigeru Mizuki was launched, and it was announced that a selection of masterpieces from the first to sixth seasons of the anime "GeGeGe no Kitaro " , "GeGeGe no Kitaro: My Beloved GeGeGe", will be broadcast every Sunday at 9am on Fuji TV and other stations starting from April 6th. The Masako Nozawa Nozawa, Keiko Toda, Yoko Matsuoka, Minami Takayama, and Miyuki Sawashiro.
On the 8th, it was announced that the original anime "Turkey!", set in Chikuma City, Nagano Prefecture, will be broadcast on Nippon Television, BS Nippon Television, and TV Shinshu from July. The anime features five high school girls from a bowling club, and will feature Hana Hishikawa, Kana Ichinose, Hiyori Iwata, Yuuki Amano, and Ayasa Ito.
