"Anime Week" brings you a week's worth of anime news. From November 23rd to 30th, news that the 23rd installment of the "Pretty Cure" series will be titled "Detective Pretty Cure!" and the interim results of the "Global Gundam General Election 2025" were announced were the hot topics.
On the 23rd, it was revealed that "DARK MACHINE THE ANIMATION," a completely new original anime from the cross-media project between e-sports and anime, will be broadcast as a TV anime on Fuji TV in 2026. The main cast was also announced, with Ono Kensho Ono playing the protagonist Kairi, along with Miyuki Sawashiro as Rudra, Uchiyama Kouki as Shin, Riho Sugiyama as Bran, Saya Aizawa as Isana, and Yuichi Nakamura as Ajima.
On the 24th, it was announced that the manga "Chiikawa" by popular X-rated illustrator Nagano will be adapted into a film, titled "The Secret of Chiikawa the Mermaid Island" and released in the summer of 2026. The TV anime adaptation of the work has been airing since 2022, but this will be the first time it has been adapted into a film. The popular feature-length story "Siren Arc," which Nagano wrote specifically for the film, will be adapted into an anime.
On the 25th, the third special preview video for the new TV anime "Yoroiden Samurai Troopers," the official sequel to the "Yoroiden Samurai Troopers" anime series, "Special First Look Ver.3," was released on YouTube. The video is mainly composed of battle scenes.
On the 25th, it was announced that Wadomura's manga "Tadaima, Ojamasamasu!", which is currently being distributed on the manga distribution site "Comic Seymour" (NTT Solmare), will be made into an anime and will be broadcast in 2026.
On the 25th, it was announced that director Mamoru Hosoda's latest animated film, "Scarlet, " had grossed approximately 270 million yen in the four days since its release on the 21st. The film attracted an audience of approximately 170,000 people. It debuted in third place in the weekend audience rankings for the 21st to 23rd (according to the Box Office Information Company).
On the 26th, 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 submission site " Shosetsuka ni Naro ", has exceeded 45 million.
On the 26th, the interim results of the "Global Gundam General Election 2025," a voting project for the popular anime series "Gundam," were announced, revealing the 20 mobile suits competing for the top 20. The G-Self (Reconguista in G), Z Gundam ( Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam), Turn A Gundam (Turn A Gundam), Strike Freedom Gundam (Mobile Suit Gundam SEED DESTINY), and Nu Gundam (Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack) are among those competing for the top 20.
On the 27th, it was announced that the theatrical anime version of "Macross Plus," part of the popular anime series "Macross," called "Macross Plus MOVIE EDITION," will be remastered in 4K and released as a 4K ULTRA HD Blu-ray and Blu-ray Disc set on March 25, 2026. The 4K remaster set will be released to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the film's theatrical release in 1995. It was also announced that "Macross Plus MOVIE EDITION 4K ULTRA HD ver." will be released in theaters from March 20, 2026.
On the 27th, it was revealed that the title of the 23rd installment of the popular anime series "Pretty Cure" will be "Detective Pretty Cure!" The catchphrase is "That mystery! Cure solve it!"
On the 27th, it was announced that Tayama Aoi's K-POP themed manga "Girl Crush" will be adapted into a TV anime and broadcast on TBS and other channels.
On the 28th, it was announced that the second season of the TV anime "Saga of Tanya the Evil," based on the war fantasy by Carlo Zen that was born from a web novel, titled "Saga of Tanya the Evil II," will be broadcast in 2026.
On the 28th, it was announced that to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the broadcast of the TV anime "Gamba's Adventures" which was aired in 1975, the movie version "Adventurers: Gamba and His Seven Friends" will be screened again at Aeon Cinemas and other cinemas nationwide from January Getsuku, 2026.
On the 29th, it was revealed that a new anime series based on the monster movie "Godzilla" will be produced. This unprecedented anime will feature a boy who "possesses the power of Godzilla" as the protagonist, and will be produced by Orange, the studio behind "Godzilla SP (Singular Point)," in collaboration with Igloo Studio, an up-and-coming Thai animation studio. Concept art depicting a boy about to fire a "radiant heat ray" has also been released.
On the 29th, it was announced that a theatrical version of "Himitsu no AiPri" from the popular "Pretty Series" anime and game series, "Himitsu no AiPri Mankai Buzzrium Live!", will be produced and released on March 13, 2026. This will be the first time that "Himitsu no AiPri" will be made into a movie.
