"Anime 1 Week" brings together the latest anime news from the past week. From February 23rd to March 1st, news items that attracted attention included the news that the TV anime series "Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX" will be broadcast on 30 Nippon TV affiliates starting April 8th, and the new series by Yoshikazu Yasuhiko, "Silver Road - Handa Ginzan Ibun" to be serialized in "Young Jump" (Shueisha).
On February 23rd, it was announced that the latest TV anime series in the popular Gundam series, Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuX, will be broadcast on 30 Nippon Television affiliates every Tuesday at 12:29am starting April 8th. It was also announced that the theme song will be "Plazma" by Kenshi Yonezu, just like the theatrical advance version, Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuX -Beginning-.
On the 24th, it was announced that "Shumatsu Touring", a unique touring manga by Saito Sakae currently being serialized in "Dengeki Maoh" (KADOKAWA), will be adapted into a TV anime and broadcast in 2025. It was also announced that Konomi Inagaki , who will play Yoko, and Tomita Miyu, who will play Airi, two traveling girls, will appear in the series. Nexus will produce the anime. Aniplex made headlines when it announced that it would be releasing information about a "mysterious" new anime at 6pm on February 24th, and it has now been revealed that "Shumatsu Touring" will be adapted into a TV anime.
On the 24th, it was announced that Shinsuke Kondo's manga "Ninja and Yakuza," which is currently being serialized on Kodansha's web manga service "Comic DAYS," will be made into a TV anime.
On the 25th, it was announced that the fourth season of the TV anime " The Rising of the Shield Hero, " based on a popular light novel on the novel submission site " Shosetsuka ni Naro, " will begin airing in July.
On the 26th, it was revealed that popular novel "Hikui Tori: Ushu Boro Tobigumi" by Naoki Prize-winning author Shogo Imamura will be made into a manga this spring and a TV anime in winter 2026. The manga by Shinobu Seguchi, who is also known for "Prisoner Riku", will be serialized in "Weekly Shonen Champion" (Akita Shoten) from this spring. The TV anime will be produced by SynergySP.
On the 27th, it was announced that as part of the 10th anniversary project of the popular anime and other group "Wake Up, Girls!", a "big reunion" will be streamed with the seven members of the voice acting unit "Wake Up, Girls!". A special edition of the program "Famitsu presents WUG Channel!", which was streamed during the latter half of their career, will be streamed on the Niconico Channel "Famitsu Channel" and the YouTube channel "Famitsu Game Commentary ch" from 7pm on March 16th.
On the 27th, it was announced that the second season of the popular anime and game "Pretty Series" TV anime " Himitsu no AiPri", "Himitsu no AiPri Edition", will be broadcast every Sunday at 9:30 am starting from April 6th. The first season is currently being broadcast on TV Tokyo at 10 am every Sunday, and the broadcast time will be changed.
On the 27th, it was announced that Yoshikazu Yasuhiko, a manga artist known for his work on character design for Mobile Suit Gundam, will begin a new series called Silver Road - Handa Ginzan Ibun in issue 14 of the manga magazine Young Jump, which goes on sale March 6th. This is the first time that the 77-year-old Yasuhiko has serialized a manga in the magazine. The series will be a short, concentrated, biweekly series about the great Meiji era merchant Godai Tomoatsu.
On the 28th, the cast for the new anime adaptation of the popular manga "Hell Teacher: Jigoku Sensei Nube," which was serialized in "Weekly Shonen Jump" (Shueisha), was announced, revealing that voice actor Morikawa Toshiyuki will play Tamamo Kyosuke, Nube's biggest rival , Nube . Morikawa played Tamamo in the TV anime that aired from 1996 to 1997, and will reprise his role in the new series. It was also announced that the students of Class 5-3 will be played by Shiraishi Ryoko as Tatsuno Hiroshi, Suzaki Aya as Inaba Goko, Ryota Iwasaki as Hosokawa Miki, Iwasaki Ryota as Kimura Katsuya, and Kojomon Shiho as Kurita Makoto. Aya Endo will play Takahashi Ritsuko, the homeroom teacher of Class 5-2, and Kakuma Ai will play Yukime, a mysterious girl who claims to be Nube 's fiancée.
On the 28th, it was announced that the latest film in the popular anime series "KING OF PRISM", "KING OF PRISM-Your Endless Call-Everyone Sparkle! Prism Tours", will be released in theaters on June 27th. The seven members of "SePTENTRION", including the protagonist Ichijo Shin, travel across time and worlds in a time machine to the origins of Prism Shows. The film depicts a sparkling Prism Show journey that transcends the boundaries of the "Pretty Series" and intertwines with the worlds of the "Pretty Rhythm" series, "PriPara" series, "Kiratto Pri☆Chan" and "Waccha PriMagic!"
On the 28th, it was announced that the total number of copies of the popular light novel series " The Apothecary Diaries " by Natsu Hyuga, which was born from the novel posting site " Shosetsuka ni Naro ", has exceeded 40 million. The series is also popular as a TV anime, and the total number of copies published as of the end of September 2023 before the first season began was about 24 million, and after the TV anime began broadcasting, the number of copies increased by about 16 million.
On March 1, it was revealed that the first chapter of the new movie version of the anime " Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba: Kimetsu no Yaiba the Movie: Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle Arc ," based on the popular manga by Koyoharu Gotouge , will be released on July 18. It has been announced that the movie version will be produced as a trilogy, and the domestic release date of the first chapter has been revealed. The first chapter will be released in 443 theaters, the largest number yet for the film, and the IMAX version will also be released on the same day.
