"Anime 1 Week" introduces the latest anime news from the past week. From April 20th to 16th, news items that attracted attention included the serialization of "Mobile Suit Gundam Eight" in "Monthly Gundam Ace" (KADOKAWA) and the screening of "Be Forever Yamato: Rebel 3199"'s third chapter "Ultramarine Asteroid", which was accompanied by YamaTalk.
On the 20th, it was announced that the light novel "The Easygoing Lord's Enjoyable Defense of Shosetsuka ni Naro a Novelist", will be made into a TV anime.
On the 20th, it was announced that the movie version of the 22nd installment of the popular anime "PreCure" series, "You and Idol Pretty Cure ," will be released on September 12th.
On the 21st, a small autonomous distributed environmental sensor developed by TEAM SPACE LIFE, an official project of Gundam Open Innovation (GOI), a sustainable program promoted by the Bandai Namco Group, was launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The sensor will be transported to the International Space Station (ISS) by commercial transport aircraft and then undergo an in-orbit demonstration inside the ship.
On the 22nd, a screening with YamaTalk of the third chapter of the latest installment of the remake series of the popular anime "Space Battleship Yamato", "Be Forever Yamato: Rebel 3199", "Ultramarine Asteroid", was held at Shinjuku Piccadilly (Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo). Titled "CG Edition", general director Harutoshi Fukui, director Naomichi Yamato, screenwriter Hideki Oka, and CG director Masahiro Uechi appeared on stage to talk about the behind-the-scenes of CG production.
On the 23rd, it was announced that a collaboration between the popular anime and game series "Aikatsu!" and "Pripara", titled "Aikatsu! x Pripara THE MOVIE - A Miracle Encounter!", will be produced as an animated film and will be released this fall.
On the 24th, it was announced that as part of the 20th anniversary project of Hideaki Sorachi's popular manga "Gintama," 4DX versions of the two animated films "Gintama: The Final Movie - Be Forever Yorozuya" and "Gintama THE FINAL" will be screened in theaters.
On the 25th, it was announced that the movie version of the TV anime "Zombie Land Saga," which has the themes of zombies, Saga, idols, and comedy, "Zombie Land Saga Yumegin ga Paradise," will be released on October 24th. A Teaser trailer was released, revealing that the movie will depict the "2025 Saga Expo."
On the 25th, it was announced that the light novel "I Made Friends with the Second Prettiest Girl in My Class(Kurani Ka)" from Kadokawa Sneaker Bunko (KADOKAWA) will be adapted into a TV anime in 2026. It is a "friends" romantic comedy about a shady boy and his "second" heroine, and it was announced that the main cast will include Ishiya Haruki as the shady boy Maehara Maki, Manaka Iwami as the second cutest girl in the class, Asanagi Umi, Sayumi Suzushiro as Amami Yu, Umi's best friend and the most beautiful girl in the class, and Ikumi Hasegawa as Nitta Niina, Umi and Yu's friend.
On the 25th, it was announced that "Mobile Suit Gundam Eight" will be serialized in the manga magazine "Monthly Gundam Ace". It will be a "completely new alternative series". In the issue, the visual and story of the new Gundam that will be the main character were revealed for the first time.
On the 26th, it was announced that the TV anime "Mattanare ni saitei toki tara" based on the popular manga by Masakuni Igarashi, which is currently being serialized in "Dengeki Maoh" (KADOKAWA), will be broadcast from July. It was also announced that singer-songwriter Taiiku Okazaki will be in charge of the opening theme "Suffer", and the main PV featuring the song was also released.
