"Anime 1 Week" introduces the latest anime news from the past week. From April 2nd to May 3rd, news of the release of the "HG 1/144 Gelgoog Sugai Custom (GQ)" Gunpla (plastic model) from "Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX" and the broadcast of "The Boy and the Heron?" attracted attention.
On April 27th, it was announced that Muchimaro's slice-of-life four-panel manga "Seitokai mo Ana wa Aru!", currently being serialized in "Weekly Shonen Magazine" (Kodansha), will be adapted into a TV anime. Naoyuki Ryurin will be the director, Ryo Imamura will be the character designer, and Masahiro Yokotani will be in charge of series composition and scriptwriting. It will be produced by Passione.
On the 28th, it was announced that the TV anime "See you tomorrow at the food court," based on the manga by Shinichiro Nariie, will begin airing in July. The original manga is a hot topic on social media as it is about "high school girls just talking."
On the 28th, it was announced that the light novel "I was kicked out of the hero's party because they said 'I don't think someone like you can defeat the demon king,' so I want to live freely in the royal capital" from GC Novels (Micro Magazine) will be made into a TV anime. Details of the anime will be announced in the future.
On the 29th, it was revealed that director Hosoda Mamoru's new animated film, Endless Scarlet, his first in about four years, will be released in Japan on November 21st. It will be distributed worldwide by Toho and Sony Pictures, and it was also announced that following its release in Japan, it will be released in the US on December 12th. It was also revealed that the theme of the new film will be "revenge," and a teaser visual was released depicting the main character, Princess Scarlet, wearing a pure white dress stained with blood.
On the 30th, it was announced that the Gunpla model "HG 1/144 Gelgoog Sugai's (GQ)" (Bandai Spirits) from the latest work in the popular anime "Gundam" series, "Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX," will be released on May 3rd. 2,420 yen. Details of the product were kept secret, as "HG Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX New Product A (tentative)," but it was revealed to be a Gunpla model of Gelgoog Sugai's. It was also announced that the Gunpla model of Gelgoog Bokata's "HG 1/144 Gelgoog Bokata (GQ)" will be released in June. 2,420 yen.
On the 30th, it was announced that the VR film from the "Gundam" series, "MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM: Silver Phantom," has been selected for the VR Series category of the official competition at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival, which will be held in Annecy, France in June, and will be officially exhibited there.
On the 30th, it was revealed that the second season of the TV anime "Aoashi," based on the soccer manga by Yugo Kobayashi currently being serialized in "Weekly Big Comic Spirits" (Shogakukan), will be produced and will air in 2026. TMS Entertainment, known for the "Lupin the Third" series, will produce the anime.
On May 1, it was announced that the anime "SAND LAND: THE SERIES", based on the manga "SAND LAND" by the late Akira Toriyama, known for "Dragon Ball" and other works, will be broadcast on NHK General TV every Saturday at 11:45 pm starting June 28. The film version of the anime "SAND LAND" was released in August 2023, and the series "SAND LAND: THE SERIES" began streaming on Disney Plus in March 2024. A new key visual was also released to commemorate the broadcast of the series on NHK.
On the 2nd, Studio Ghibli's animated feature film "The Boy and the Heron?", directed by Hayao Miyazaki, which won the 96th Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, was broadcast on Friday Road Show (Nippon TV). This is the first time the film has been broadcast on television.
On the 2nd, it was announced that the TV anime "The Barbarian's Bride," based on the manga by Kotobanoriaki that is currently being serialized in "Bessatsu Shonen Magazine" (Kodansha), will begin airing in October.
On the 3rd, it was announced that the second season of the TV anime "Tondemo Skill de Isekai Hourou Meshi", based on the light novel by Eguchi Ren, which was born from the novel submission site "Shosetsuka ni Naro", will be broadcast on TV Tokyo from October.
