"Anime 1 Week" brings you a week's worth of anime news. From December 28, 2025 to January 3, 2026, news about Comic Market 107 and the release of the main visual and trailer for the fifth chapter of Be Forever Yamato: Rebel 3199 were all in the spotlight.
On the 28th, it was revealed that Masaoki Mato's manga "RuriDragon," which is currently being serialized in the digital edition of "Weekly Shonen Jump" (Shueisha), will be adapted into a TV anime. Kyoto Animation will produce the anime. On the 28th, it was also revealed that a sequel to the sixth series of the anime "Kingdom," based on the popular manga by Yasuhisa Hara, will be produced.
On the 29th, it was announced that the second cour of the third season of the TV anime "One Punch Man," based on the manga currently being serialized on the web manga site "Tonari no Young Jump" (Shueisha), will be broadcast in 2027.
Comic Market (Comiket) 107, Japan's largest doujinshi fair, was held at Tokyo Big Sight (Koto Ward, Tokyo) on the 30th and 31st, attracting approximately 300,000 visitors over the two days. The number of visitors on both the 30th and 31st was approximately 150,000. This is an increase of approximately 50,000 compared to the previous Comiket 106, which attracted approximately 250,000 visitors over the two days. 2025 marks the 50th anniversary of the first event on December 21, 1975.
On the 31st, it was revealed that the final chapter of the anime "Kaguya-sama: Love is War," based on Aka Akasaka 's popular romantic comedy manga serialized in "Weekly Young Jump" (Shueisha), will be produced. The anime will be based on a completely original story written by the original author Akasaka.
On January 1st, the main visual for Chapter 5, "The Incandescent Galactic War," of " Be Forever Yamato: Rebel 3199, " the latest installment in the remake series of the popular anime " Space Battleship Yamato ," was released. The visual, drawn by character designer Nobuteru Yuki, features characters such as Susumu Kodai, Sasha, Desler, Ram, and the intermediate supply base Digabras, accompanied by the tagline, "The last minute, everything turns upside down." The official trailer for Chapter 5, which brings together all the forces and characters that have appeared so far, was also released on YouTube. Chapter 5 will begin screening on February 20th.
On the 1st, it was revealed that "Historie," a manga by Hitoshi Iwaaki , known for works such as " Parasyte ," will be adapted into a TV anime. The anime will be produced by Liden Films.
On the 3rd, it was announced that a completely new TV anime series based on the popular anime " Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha," "Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Nanoha EXCEEDS Gun Blaze Vengeance," will begin airing in July. The cast for the main characters was also announced, with Ansaki Azusa Tachibana playing the protagonist, Shiina Kuze, a high school student who lives on a remote island and works as a pest control hunter.
On the 3rd, the animated feature film "AKIRA," based on the manga by Katsuhiro Otomo, was broadcast on NHK Educational TV. "AKIRA" is a manga that was serialized in "Weekly Young Magazine" (Kodansha) from 1982 to 1990. The animated feature film was directed by the original author, Otomo, himself and released in 1988.
