"Anime 1 Week" brings you a summary of the latest anime news from the past week. From March 16th to 22nd, news about the world's largest anime event, "AnimeJapan 2025," and the fact that the box office revenue of "Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuX -Beginning-" has exceeded 3.19 billion yen were some of the topics that attracted attention.
On the 16th, it was announced that a movie version of the third season of the TV anime " Sound! Euphonium, " based on the novel by Ayano Takeda , titled " Sound! Euphonium! Sound! Euphonium 3," will be produced and released in 2026.
On the 16th, it was announced that the TV anime "Gnosia", based on the popular indie game by the game development group "Petit Depot", will begin airing in October. The main cast was also announced, with Chika Anzai playing the main character Yuri, Ikumi Hasegawa playing Setsu, Akari Kito Akari playing SQ, Nanami Hiroki playing Rakio, and Asami Seto playing Jina.
On the 17th, it was announced that the popular light novel "Futsutsuna Akujo De Gozaimasu ~Hinamiya Chounei Torikae Den~" by Souki Nakamura will be adapted into a TV anime. The anime will be directed by Mitsue Yamazaki and produced by Doga Kobo.
On the 17th, it was announced that the box office revenue of the theatrical pre-release of the latest work in the popular anime series "Gundam", "Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuX -Beginning-", exceeded 3.19 billion yen. The number of audience members exceeded 1.93 million, making it a hit.
On the 18th, it was announced that a completely new anime version of Hojo Tsukasa's popular manga "Cat's Eye," which was popular mainly in the 1980s, will be exclusively streamed on Disney+ from September. The main cast was also announced, with voice actors Komatsu Mikako, Ami Koshimizu, and Hanamori Yumiri playing the three beautiful sisters who own the Cat's Eye Cafe. Komatsu will play the second daughter, Kisugi Hitomi, Koshimizu will play the eldest daughter, Kisugi Rei, and Hanamori will play the third daughter, Kisugi Ai. It was also announced that Sato Takuya will play detective Utsumi Toshio.
On the 18th, it was announced that the first new Japanese original animation in about 10 years, "Transformers Wild King," based on Takara Tomy's transforming robot toy "Transformers," will be distributed on Takara Tomy's official YouTube channel, "Takara Tomy Channel," from the 26th. Animals and dinosaurs "wild-dock" onto Optimus Prime to power up. There are 14 episodes in total.
On the 19th, it was revealed that the 32nd film in the popular anime series "Crayon Shin-chan" - "Crayon Shin-chan no Kasukabe Dancers" - will be released in theaters in India in late October. The latest film is the first in the series' history to be set in India, and will be released locally to coincide with India's biggest festival, Diwali. In addition to a Japanese version with English subtitles, dubbed versions in Hindi, Tamil, and Telugu will also be screened. The film will be released in Japan on August 8th.
On the 20th, it was announced that a new short anime called "Petit Cure~Precure Fairies~" has been produced as a spin-off of the popular anime "Precure" series, and will be distributed on the official "Petit Cure" YouTube channel and the series' SNS from 6:30 pm on April 3rd. It is the first in the "Precure" series to tell the story of "little friends" including fairies, and will be developed as a non-verbal anime without dialogue. It will be the first in the series to be distributed only on YouTube and SNS.
On the 21st, it was announced that Toyoda Minoru's manga "Kore dake wo die", which was also selected for the Manga Taisho 2023 and the 70th Shogakukan Manga Award, will be made into a TV anime. The anime is a "manga x high school girl youth story" and will be broadcast on Nippon TV.
Issue 7 of the manga magazine "Young Gangan" (Square Enix), released on the 21st, announced that Shinichi Fukuda's popular manga "Sono Bisque Doll wa Koi wo Suru (Kisekoi)," which has also been adapted into a TV anime and a live-action drama, will reach its final chapter in March, bringing the curtain down on its roughly seven-year serialization. It was also announced that extra chapters and an epilogue will be published in the future.
On the 22nd, it was revealed that the third season of the new TV anime " Rurouni Kenshin : Meiji Swordsman Romantic Story, " based on the popular manga by Nobuhiro Watsuki , will be produced.
On the 22nd, the world's largest anime event, AnimeJapan 2025, opened at Tokyo Big Sight (Koto-ku, Tokyo). Following the previous event, which recorded over 130,000 visitors, the event will be held on the largest scale ever at Tokyo Big Sight's East Exhibition Hall 1-8 and Conference Tower. A record 117 companies will exhibit, including Aniplex, KADOKAWA, and TOHO animation. The fact that idol group Sakurazaka46 will serve as ambassadors has also been a hot topic. Public days will be on the 22nd and 23rd, business days on the 24th and 25th, and the Family Anime Festa 2025 for families and kids will also be held on the 22nd and 23rd.
