"Anime 1 Week" introduces the latest anime news from the past week. From June 22nd to 28th, the news that "Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway's Flash: The Witch of Circe" will be released this winter and the topic of "Takopi's Original Sin" began streaming were in the spotlight.
On the 22nd, it was announced that a new TV special, "Kaguya-sama: Love is War - The Stairway to Adulthood", will be produced for the anime "Kaguya-sama: Love is War", which is based on the Aka Akasaka romantic comedy manga by Akasaka Aka that was serialized in "Weekly Young Jump" (Shueisha).
On the 22nd, it was announced that the second season of the "completely new anime" based on Rumiko Takahashi's hit manga "Ranma 1/2" will begin airing on Nippon Television from October. The series was broadcast as a TV anime from 1989 to 1992, and this will be the first time it has been adapted into a TV anime in about 32 years. The first season aired on the same station from October to December 2024. It was also announced that Seki Toshihiko will reprise his role as Moose, with Nazuka Kaori playing Kuonji Ukyo, Inoue Kazuhiko playing Happosai, Mayama Ako playing Colon, and Akira Ishida playing Gosunkugi Hikaru.
On the 24th, it was revealed that the popular anime "The Apothecary Diaries" was selected as the grand prize winner of the "TikTok First Half Trend Awards 2025," which announces the content and keywords that were popular on TikTok in the first half of 2025. It also won the anime/manga category award.
On the 25th, it was announced that a figure of Kikeroga, who appears in the popular anime series "Gundam" "Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX (Zeku Axe)", will be released by Bandai Spirits. It was also announced that a figure of Sharia Bull, who became a hot topic as the "Green Uncle", will be released.
On the 26th, it was announced that the title of the second part of the popular anime "Gundam" series' theatrical anime "Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway's Flash" (directed by Murase Shukou) will be "Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway's Flash : The Witch of Circe" and will be released this winter. A teaser trailer featuring Hathaway Noah, Gigi Andalusia, Kenneth Sleg, Lane Aim, and others was released on YouTube. It was announced that "Hathaway's Flash " will be made into a three-part series, with the first part being released in June 2021.
The manga "Mobile Suit Gundam Eight" began serialization in the August issue of the magazine "Monthly Gundam Ace" (KADOKAWA), released on the 26th. Kamoshida Hajime and Takagi Hideaki have teamed up to create a "completely new alternative series" to commemorate the magazine's 24th anniversary.
On the 27th, it was announced that the second season of the TV anime " The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten, " based on a popular light novel on the novel submission site " Shosetsuka ni Naro, " will begin airing in April 2026.
On the 27th, it was announced that the original TV anime "Eternal Yugure" will be produced by "PAWORKS", the animation production company behind "True Tears" and "SHIROBAKO", and will be broadcast nationwide on the MBS/TBS late-night anime slot "Super Animeism TURBO" from October. It will be a full-scale love story set in a future world, and it was announced that the main cast will include Umeda Shuichiro Umeda as the protagonist Himegami Akira, Ishikawa Yui as the heroine android Yugure, and Ai Kayano as Ou Maki Towasa, a genius scientist and Akira's childhood friend.
On the 27th, it was announced that a completely new anime, "Fist of the North Star," produced to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the popular manga "Fist of the North Star" by Tetsuo Hara , originally written by Buronson and a huge hit in the 1980s, will be broadcast and streamed in 2026.
On the 27th, it was announced that the TV anime " A Witch's Life in Mongol " based on the manga by Tomato Soup, which was also ranked first in the women's category of " This Kono Manga ga Sugoi! 2023" (Takarajimasha), will be broadcast on TV Asahi in 2026.
On the 28th, it was revealed that the title of the first chapter of the new theatrical 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 Koyoharu, will be "Akaza Returns." The official trailer for the first chapter was also released for the first time in the world, featuring Tanjiro Kamado and the Demon Slaying Corps, as well as Akaza, Upper Rank Three of the Twelve Kizuki. It was also announced that singers Aimer and LiSA will be performing the theme songs. The double theme songs will be "A World Where the Sun Doesn't Rise" sung by Aimer and "Shine on a Cruel Night" sung by LiSA.
On the 28th, the anime "Takopi's Original Sin," based on the manga by Taizan5, which was serialized on Shueisha's manga app "Shonen Jump +," began streaming on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, ABEMA and other video streaming services. The original work was serialized on "Shonen Jump +" from December 2021 to March 2022, and although it was a short-term series, it was a hot topic as it recorded the highest number of views among works serialized during the same period.
