"Anime 1 Week" brings you a summary of the latest anime news from the past week. From November 18th to 23rd, news items that attracted attention included the announcement that the third chapter of "Yamato Forever REBEL3199", "Ultramarine Asteroid", will be screened on April 11th, 2025, and the release of a Gunpla (plastic model) of Delta Zain, the "silver Gundam" from "Mobile Suit Gundam: Phantom of the Silver Gray".
On the 17th, it was announced that a fourth series of the TV anime "Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun", based on the manga by Nishi Osamu currently being serialized in "Weekly Shonen Champion" (Akita Shoten), will be produced.
On the 18th, it was announced that "Dekin no Mogura", the latest work by Eguchi Natsumi, who is known for the popular manga "Hoozuki no Reitetsu", will be made into a TV anime and will begin airing in July 2025. It was also announced that voice actor Nakamura Yuichi will play the main character Mogura, also known as Hyakuan Momoyumi.
On the 18th, it was announced that the manga "Ugly Men Gachi Fighter," which was serialized in "Big Gangan" (Square Enix), will be made into a TV anime. This comic adaptation of a light novel born from the novel submission site "Let's Become a Novelist" features an unbeatable "ugly men." The anime will be produced by EGGFIRM and produced by WHITE FOX. It was also announced that Junichi Suwabe will play the main character, Shigeru Yoshioka.
On the 18th, the Gunpla "HG 1/144 Delta Zein" (Bandai Spirits) of the "silver Gundam" Delta Zein, which appears in the VR video "Mobile Suit Gundam: Phantom of the Silver Gray" from the popular anime "Gundam" series, will be released. The price is 7,700 yen. Pre-orders began at noon on the same day on Bandai Namco Group's official shopping site "Premium Bandai," and it has become so popular that it "sold out immediately."
On the 19th, it was revealed that the light novel "Watashi ga koibito ni nai jan, murimuri! (※It wasn't impossible!?)" by Shueisha Dash-X Bunko (Shueisha) will be made into a TV anime in the summer of 2025. The anime will be produced by studio MOTHER, which has produced "More than a couple, less than a lover" and "Reincarnated Nobleman, Rising to the Top with Appraisal Skills." Kanna Nakamura will play the main character, Rena Amaori, and Saori Onishi will play Mayu Ozuka and Yukari Anzai will play Ajisai Sena.
On the 20th, it was revealed that Montgomery's timeless masterpiece "Anne of Green Gables" will be made into a TV anime. The anime series "Anne Shirley" will be broadcast on NHK Educational TV from April 2025. "Anne of Green Gables" was broadcast as a TV anime directed by Isao Takahata in 1979 as the fifth work in the "World Masterpiece Theater" series, and it will be made into an anime again.
On the 21st, it was revealed that the next installment of the popular anime series "KING OF PRISM" will be produced. On the same day, a special PV "∞ Love Thanks Movie" was screened and announced at the event "-∞ Love Thanks Week Eve Festival-" held at Shinjuku Wald 9 (Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo).
On the 21st, it was revealed that a completely new anime version of Hojo Tsukasa's manga "Cat's Eye," which was popular mainly in the 1980s, will be produced and distributed exclusively on Disney+ in 2025. The same work was also broadcast as a TV anime from 1983 to 1985, and Hojo, the original author, commented, "It's been 40 years since 'Cat's Eye' was made into an anime series again."
On the 22nd, the key visual for the third race of the second season of the TV anime "MF Ghost," based on the "successor" to the popular manga "Initial D" by Shigeno Shuichi, was released. The 86 has evolved as the second race, Lake Ashi GT, reaches its climax, and the third race, The Peninsula Manazuru, is depicted. The 86 has been turbocharged by Hiroya Okuyama of "Spiral Zero". The engine power has increased to over 300 horsepower, and the bonnet has been changed to a carbon fiber bonnet for weight reduction and efficient cooling.
On the 22nd, it was announced that the Blu-ray Disc (BD) box "Tenkuu Senki Shurato Blu-ray MEMORIAL BOX (Special Limited Edition)" will be released on February 26, 2025 to commemorate the 35th anniversary of the broadcast of the popular anime "Tenkuu Senki Shurato". This is the first time that the work has been made into a BD. In addition to the TV series, which consists of 38 episodes and two compilation episodes, all six episodes of the OVA series "Tenkuu Kai Memorials" and all six episodes of "The Dark Struggle for Creation" will be included. The images will be beautifully rendered with high-definition remastering of film scans.
On the 22nd, it was announced that the latest installment in the remake series of the popular anime "Space Battleship Yamato," "Yamato Forever REBEL3199," the third chapter "Gunjou no Asteroid," will be screened on April 11, 2025. A special trailer featuring Sasha/Sanada Mio and a teaser visual drawn by Asamiya Kia were also released.
On the 23rd, it was revealed that the new TV anime "Shin Samurai Den YAIBA," based on the manga "YAIBA" by Aoyama Gosho, known for "Detective Conan" and other works, will be broadcast every Saturday at 5:30 pm on the Yomiuri TV/Nippon TV network starting in April 2025. The same network broadcasts the TV anime "Detective Conan" every Saturday at 6 pm. Starting in April 2025, two anime works based on Aoyama's original work will be broadcast consecutively on Saturday evenings, creating an hour of "Gosho Aoyama World." The protagonist of "Shin Samurai Den YAIBA", Kurogane Yaiba, and the protagonist of "Detective Conan", Edogawa Conan, will both be played by voice actress Takayama Minami.
