More Cardcaptor Sakura Nendoroids that aren’t just variants of Sakura Kinomoto are coming, and the next two figures will be Toya Kinomoto and Yukito Tsukishiro. Both are based on their appearances as of the Clear Card anime and mangasequel series. These two are early in development. As such, only concept art of the two in Nendoroid form showed up in the showcase.

As the name suggests, Toya Kinomoto is Sakura’s older brother in the series. For the sake of avoiding spoilers, Yukito is his classmate, and the two are extremely close. When the series begins, both attend Seijyo High School. As such, their Nendoroids will feature them in those uniforms. There are no hints about possible accessories for either one.

Here's a closer look at their full concept art:

This is the first time either of these two characters appeared in the Nendoroid line of Cardcaptor Sakura figures. However, in the past we’ve seen various versions of Sakura Kinomoto, both in her costumes and her school uniform. Years ago, Nendoroids of Tomoyo Daidouji in her Tomoeda Elementary School school unform and Syaoran Li in his uniform for using magic appeared. One of the other more recent releases is a Nendoroid of Yue, which is available now.

You can watch the full Nendoroid Funs 2025 Winter showcase on YouTube below:

The Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card Nendoroids of Toya Kinomoto and Yukito Tsukishiro are in development, and there’s no release window for the figures yet. The anime is streaming on Crunchyroll. Kodansha handles the manga worldwide.

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While one of the two new shojo anime series debuting on Crunchyroll in January 2025 took quite some time to go from manga to animated adaptation, Anyway, I’m Falling in Love with You ended up rather swiftly heading to screens. Honestly, I can see why. I get it. This story is rooted in the COVID-19 pandemic experience, and telling it via another medium as swiftly as possible helps ensure those watching will better connect with it. But the thing is, I feel like this adaptation isn’t leaning as much into telling a unique love story shaped by how society changed and reacted to the pandemic as it could, though I hope future episodes could prove me wrong.

Editor’s Note: There will be spoilers for the first episode of Anyway, I’m Falling in Love with You below. 716m51

While most shojo series begin completely focused on the heroine and her school life, the early moments of the Anyway, I’m Falling in Love with You anime adaptation don’t. Rather, it is about setting a scene. Instead, it begins with a vision of a Japanese city. The color palette is washed out and feels dismal. The news report is on the screens in the city. When Mizuho Nishino, our heroine, finally appears, it is an adult version of her. She laments the fact that her birthday was terrible, and a business email just came in asking if Megu Kawaguchi’s series could end that year. After seeing a high school girl walk past with four of her classmates, she is reminded of her own past and what happened on her 17th birthday. I really loved how it started, as it felt different from other shojo series and left me feeling like maybe it could pull from real-life events to make this reverse harem love story be unique.

From there, things flash back to July 2020. This would be about the height of the pandemic. It’s 95 degrees out, and the radio is warning about the heat and “infectious diseases,” which is COVID-19 of course. Mizuho’s father walks up to her room with a meal, to find her sleeping on the floor alongside her childhood friend. Her sketches of him are all around them. He’s understandably upset, of course, and cautions them about acting like they did when they were little. She says Kizuki Hazawa is like her little brother, which he doesn’t seem to pleased to hear. So we meet her first possible love interest, and realize that due to everything going on in the world that it is actually her birthday.

We meet the whole reverse harem once Mizuho leaves her house to head to school. In addition to Kizuki, she also grew up around Airu Izumi, Shin Kashiwagi, and Shugo Hoshikawa. In a fairly short span, we learn she stays up late drawing manga, suggesting she’s the “Megu Kawaguchi” referenced in the introduction, and quick snippets of Airu, Shin, and Shugo’s personalities come up in response to her being lazy about wearing makeup and staying up late. It’s a bit rushed, though I suppose that makes sense since this first episode is more about swiftly establishing things and focusing on Mizuho and Kizuki’s relationship. 

But right away, I’m also feeling like there are missed opportunities. It’s like the Anyway, I’m Falling in Love with You anime adaptation is doing more telling than showing. I sort of would expect more people to be wearing face masks during this period of time, given it was July 2020, but there are none. (Given that they want to highlight the art and character designs, I guess I can understand.) References to current events are minimal. We don’t really see so much the effect of things, rather than hear they happened. Prime examples include the initial report on the radio, Kizuki noting that swim practice finally resumed after being halted due to the pandemic, and upper-classman Saito Ryosuke mentioning classes being canceled for a time due to “some infectious disease.” But instead of properly responding to it in potentially meaningful ways in the first episode, we instead see it as an excuse for Airu to tease her about her crush on Saito or Saito to talk about how events, class trips, classes, and sports were canceled for a while. 

I suppose I hoped for more reactions like Saito’s. It’s only about halfway through this first episode that we see someone react to current events, and it isn’t even one of the established “main” characters in Mizuho’s group. It’s a ing cast member acknowledging his depression over things that happened. The fact that Mizuho reacts to his ission the way that she does also left me disappointed. I knew it was coming, since I’m familiar with the source series. And I’m still impressed with Saito’s characterization and response to her reaction. Honestly, it’s the moments with Saito and Kizuki opening up that left the strongest impressions on me here, as they’re the two that seemed to have the strongest emotions and reactions here. Both in of feelings about the current state of things and emotions relating to Mizuho, they seem to really ring true and make this first episode.

I am hoping that maybe Anyway, I’m Falling in Love with You starts to feel stronger and more unique as episodes go on. This first one was very focused on Mizuho and Kizuki, really breezing through establishing other characters and pandemic life. If handled well, it could end up being fun. After all, I did enjoy the original manga! I just feel like with the anime adaptation, it’s an opportunity to really show and highlight what life was like during a unique period of time in Japan, and so far it feels more like any shojo love story than a period piece.

The Anyway, I’m Falling in Love with You anime adaptation is now airing in Japan and streaming on Crunchyroll worldwide, and the manga is available via Kodansha worldwide.

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CLAMP announced that the xxxHolic Rei manga will resume serialization in the 21st issue of Young Magazine. It’ll come out on April 21, 2025. [Thanks, Oricon!]

xxxHolic Rei is the second series, and it serves as a sequel to the original xxxHolic. It started serialization in 2013, though there are only less than 60 chapters as of the time of writing. This is due to multiple hiatuses throughout the series. Volume 4, the newest volume in the series, came out in Japan in 2016.

The first xxxHolic manga series ran from 2003 to 2011, with a total of 19 volumes in the manga. It focuses on Kimihiro Watanuki, a high schooler who can perceive the supernatural. Upon meeting a mysterious witch and shopkeeper, Yuko Ichihara, he asks for her to remove his ability to see spirits. She agrees, but in exchange for her help, he needs to work for her. The manga was very popular. Despite the lack of updates in the series proper, there was even a xxxHolic collaboration event in Identity V in 2023.

CLAMP is an influential manga artist group, known for multiple popular manga series and its work on character designs. Past works from CLAMP include Cardcaptor Sakura, Magic Knight Rayearth, and Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle. An exhibition for CLAMP’s works will appear in Japan in February 2025.

xxxHolic Rei will resume serialization from April 21, 2025.

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The Medaka Kuroiwa Is Impervious to My Charms manga really does a good job of showing how funny it is for a “beloved” girl to not get what she wants and have someone not fall all over her, and it only takes one episode of the anime to confirm this carries over to the full show. The SynergySP adaptation now running on Crunchyroll really drives home the lengths Mona Kawai will go to in order to get Medaka Koroiwa’s attention as we see every action in the adaptation. Not to mention Yu Serizawa’s performance as Mona and the depiction of her actual personality and response to being ignored and not adored comes across even stronger when animated than when appearing in a manga.

Editor’s Note: There will be some minor spoilers for the first episode of the Medaka Kuroiwa Is Impervious to My Charms anime below. 5i204k

Medaka Kuroiwa Is Impervious to My Charms has an absolutely hilarious start. Our first introduction to Mona Kawai is seeing every baby and visiting person in the newborn ward at the hospital focused on her, smiling, because she’s so adorable. She can’t even hold up her head yet, but everyone is smitten. A flash forward to her as a small child at an amusement park shows that even when she went to town on an ice cream cone and became a mess, her reaction to that and cleaning it up stole hearts from everyone around her. It absolutely sets the stage for a heroine who is supposed to be it. Cute, irresistible, outgoing, and yes, completely conniving. 

So once we see Mona again in high school, SynergySP perfectly established who she is, why people are so devoted to her, and sets her up as a solid heroine in the Medaka Kuroiwa Is Impervious to My Charms anime without making it seem too contrived or like she’s completely a “bad guy” for it. She just happened to be naturally lucky and blessed, which she ends up taking for granted and using to her advantage. 

This means early on, the Medaka Kuroiwa Is Impervious to My Charms anime established the comedic element. Mona knows she’s blessed. She is set up as the queen bee due to circumstances, so the idea that Medaka Kuroiwa isn’t falling into line or behaving as expected makes the premise feel even stronger. Her reaction to it and need to not show that it isn’t getting to her makes it all even better. Especially since her internal voice sounds so different both in of tone and accent. Her meeting her match in a good and respectful guy who has a dream and maintains healthy boundaries is satisfying to watch.

That also means the Medaka Kuroiwa Is Impervious to My Charms anime challenges and overarching problems are well established too. Throughout the majority of the first episode, we see the ordeals Mona goes through because one person doesn’t react the way she expected them after all experiences throughout her life. It also means we, as viewers, get to see that she isn’t just this charming from birth girl who is naturally gifted and good. She has a side to her! She’s got narcissistic tendencies! She’ll ignore boundaries if it means she gets what she wants! She can be a real brat! Him rebuffing her then leads to new challenges. So even though the first episode is focused on seeing what her ordeals in the series will be. However, I do hope that in later episodes we’ll see less boundary pushing and forced fanservice from Medaka however, and that her own developing feelings will result in her being more considerate to him.

The first episode of the Medaka Kuroiwa Is Impervious to My Charms anime adaptation faithfully depicts the series’ story. Mona’s over-the-top actions and true mindsets and behavior are perfectly depicted in the series. Its direction really prioritizes the comedic elements of the situation. Plus, it sets up exactly what to expect as both Mona and Medaka deal with their own challenges going forward.

Medaka Kuroiwa Is Impervious to My Charms is airing in Japan and streaming on Crunchyroll worldwide. The manga is handled by Kodansha worldwide. 

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Pre-registrations are open for Wind Breaker: Rebel Heroes, which is a F2P mobile game based on the Wind Breaker anime and manga series. The game will appear in Japan from March 12, 2025. [Thanks, 4Gamer!]

You can watch the second trailer for the game here:

In it, we can see the 3D models for the characters in various scenes, ranging from walking around the field, dialogue, and in battle. The trailer also shows some of the combination skills and individual techniques you can pull off. It then shows the promotional image of the characters standing in front of a graffitied wall, before a final cutscene plays.

Wind Breaker: Rebel Heroes will feature an original story. However, the author for the manga, Satoru Nii, supervised it. Wind Breaker follows the story of Haruka Sakura, an outcast who developed fighting skills due to the social ostracization from his peers. He enrolls into Furin High School, which puts emphasis on brawn over brain, in order to climb to the top. The story focuses on Haruka learning how to fight for others rather than himself, as well as making friends who care about who he is rather than what he looks like.

Wind Breaker: Rebel Heroes will come out on March 12, 2025 in Japan for the Windows PC and mobile devices.

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Three months after its Japanese debut, the Attack on Titan: The Last Attack compilation consisting of the final anime episodes will head to movie theaters worldwide in February 2025. However, we will need to act fast to see it. It will be limited to a one-day showing. Both episodes are also available to stream via Crunchroll on their own.

If you are in the United States or Canada, your day to see Attack on Titan: The Last Attack is February 10, 2025. There will only be showings in theaters that day. However, you will have options, even with that limit. There will be two types of showings. One will feature the original Japanese voice actors and English subtitles. The other will feature the English dub.

Crunchyroll also shared an official trailer for this showing. There’s no footage from the presentation. Instead, it teases the release date in North America.

There’s no specific trailer for the final presentation. However, considering this film is a compilation of the last two episodes, known as The Final Chapters Special 1 and 2, the trailers for both of those can offer a hint as to what to expect. Just know there are spoilers in both for the end of the series.

Here’s The Final Chapters Special 1 trailer:

And this is what The Final Chapters Special 2 looks like: 

Each of these episodes is over an hour long.

to stay until after the credits if you go to see this Attack on Titan movie. There is a post-credits scene. We already have an idea of what it’s like, as details about it came up after it aired in Japan.

Here is the full list of debut dates for the movie outside Japan:

• February 6, 2025: Australia, New Zealand
• February 10, 2025: United States, Canada
• February 12, 2025: Finland
• February 13, 2025: Spain
• February 20, 2025: Denmark, The Netherlands
• February 21, 2025: Norway, Sweden
• February 25, 2025:
• February 26, 2025: United Kingdom, Ireland
• March 1, 2025:
• March 3, 2025: Italy

Attack on Titan: The Last Attack will be in movie theaters in the United States and Canada on February 10, 2025. The anime is streaming on Crunchyroll, and Kodansha handles the manga.

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A new Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha manga project is in production, with Shuichi Kawakami returning to work on it. The manga series will appear on Kodansha’s Wednesday Sirius. [Thanks, Famitsu!]

Shuichi Kawakami previously worked on Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Innocent. This will be his first serialization since Innocent, and he stated on X (formerly Twitter) that he would pour all of his energy into this new series. There is no information on the name, main character, or chronology for the new manga series, but more information will appear on the official X for the series.

As well, to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the show, a special program will air on December 28, 2024. The program will be a celebratory episode of Mikako’s Room, which previously appeared on home releases like Blu-Rays. Yukari Tamura (Nanoha) and Nana Mizuki (Fate) will appear on the episode as well, and the three of them will look back on the show’s history and share new information.

Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha first started airing in 2004, and had some unique twists to the typical magical girl genre. For example, much of the magic on the show is combined with technology. There are multiple shows in the series, showing Nanoha and her rival Fate meet, become friends, and later the Time-Space istration Bureau.

You can watch Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha on Amazon Prime.

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Victor Entertainment has launched Tokyo Revengers: Last Mission for PC and mobile devices in Japan. This is the first 3D action RPG game adaptation for the popular anime and manga series. [Thanks, PR Times!]

You can Tokyo Revengers: Last Mission via DMM Games, the App Store, and Google Play. As for what the game is like, the official Twitter for the game has posted some clips to introduce its playable characters. You can check out the one for Tetta Kisaki here:

Tokyo Revengers: Last Mission follows along the main story, allowing you to re-experience the plot yourself. As a F2P game, you will need to pull for characters and you can pay real-world money via microtransactions for in-game currency if you need more. You’ll be able to dress up your characters and explore Shibuya with your favorite character. However, if you’re not careful, enemies might try to pick a fight with you. In of gameplay, it’s a 3D action game in which you can dish out combos, as well as use combination techniques with your party.

Tokyo Revengers is an anime and manga series that was in serialization from 2017 to 2022, making for a total of 31 tankobon volumes. It follows Takemichi Hanagaki, a part-timer who learned that his ex-girlfriend died as a result of gang wars. After someone pushes him off a subway platform, he travels back in time and he decides to use his knowledge of the future to change his friends’ fates. The story was popular enough that the Japanese government used it to spread awareness about its new age of majority laws.

Tokyo Revengers: Last Mission is readily available on PC and mobile devices. It will also appear on the PS4, PS5, and Nintendo Switch some time in the future.

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Kodansha has revealed that it will release a series of art books based on the anime adaptations of The Quintessential Quintuplets. Each book will focus on one of the sisters in the Nakano quintuplets, and the company will start with the first sister Ichika Nakano in mid-December 2024.

The book will be available with a tax-inclusive MSRP of 2,200 yen (~$14.30). It will contain a total of 360 pages with illustrations from all anime adaptations known to date. The list of featured entries includes the first season in 2019, the second season "∬" in 2021, the 2022 movie, the third season in 2023, and the fourth season.

While Ichika is set to become the first character to have her own book, Kodansha has promised that it will eventually release art books for all five sisters in the Nakano quintuplets, who are the main heroines of The Quintessential Quintuplets franchise. The company has confirmed that it will release the second book starring Nino roughly a month after Ichika on January 15, 2025. The remaining three sisters—Miku, Yotsuba, and Itsuki—are also set to follow suit.

The first of The Quintessential Quintuplets Anime Visual Books, which stars Ichika Nakano, will be available for sale on December 17, 2024.

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The first official picture book for The Quintessential Quintuplets will be reprinted mere days after its initial release. The Quintuplets and Pancakes will cost 1500 JPY ($10.55) and appear in bookstores in Japan once more. [Thanks, PR Times!]

This picture book was released to commemorate the theatrical release of The Quintessential Quintuplets. Though it came out on September 12, 2024, many fans have reported that they weren’t able to buy it, or that they bought the last one. The high demand for it led to the decision to reprint the book even though it just came out.

It features the Nakano family’s childhood, depicting a happy memory with their mother and some pancakes. Many fans think it’s an adorable book, which may be why it was so popular. Kodansha notes that the book’s location may differ depending on the bookstore. Some place it with the children’s picture books. Others may place it in the comics section. So if you can’t find it in one section, you may want to try looking for it somewhere else or asking an employee.

The The Quintessential Quintuplets TV anime special will appear in theaters in Japan for a limited time. It’ll be available for about three weeks from September 20, 2024.

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The Fable: Manga Build Roguelike will come out on the Nintendo Switch and Windows PC. Gameplay for this requires you to put together manga s. [Thanks, ryokutya2089!]

You can watch the trailer for The Fable: Manga Build Roguelike here:

It has a very unique manner of gameplay in which you can collect various manga s. Each manga depicts a different scene and has various stats or effects. In battle, we can see how the player puts together these s to create a manga page, and then their character acts according to the s. There are also various missions you can complete for each , such as frying a mackerel or lining things up in a row. At the end of the trailer, there’s a mode that looks like Coffee Talk in which you speak with two different characters as a bartender. More information on the game will reveal what that’s all about.

The game will be available in Japanese, English, and Chinese (both Traditional and Simplified). Kodansha is the publisher and Mono Entertainment is the developer. Previous games from Mono Entertainment include Ignistone and Clock Rogue. Both of them are roguelike games, so this genre appears to be Mono Entertainment’s niche.

The Fable: Manga Build Roguelike will come out some time in 2025.

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Fairy Tail: Dungeons offers quick, snappy roguelite deck-building for someone looking for a few quick hands of high-stakes cards. Strikingly simple, but with some great depth to the systems you can quickly pick up, it’s highly entertaining whether you only have a few minutes to play or if you want to spend a good deal of time in its dungeon depths.

As someone with no knowledge of the anime, the game offers a fast introduction to some of the characters that felt like just enough to get you rolling. I was concerned that I’d be totally lost after the last few anime games that I’d played when I didn’t know the show, but this title doesn’t really need you to know much. It gives you a handful of playable characters (as well as some other ones you meet), but all you really need to know is their play style and how they fight. As this game is light on plot, it feels like you don’t lose anything from not knowing the show and you still feel like you “get” everything that’s happening. That said, this game is extremely light on plot, but I didn’t find I needed a story.

Instead, I was more focused on the card play. In Fairy Tail: Dungeons, you get a small deck of cards to play with at first. You get a mixture of attack cards that deal damage to foes as well as defensive cards that will block incoming damage. These cards area dealt to you four at a time, and you’ll start each round with a full hand of four. You’re given three MP every round you can use, and you get to decide how you spend those MP with your cards (most of which cost one or two MP to cast).

As for what you should do with your MP every turn, that depends on what your enemies are up to. The game will indicate some damage numbers beside the monsters if they’re going to attack you. If they’re not, you can select an enemy to figure out what sort of defensive or buff spells they may be casting instead. Enemies can also prepare highly-damaging attacks that come with unique ways of stopping them (play X number of attack cards, for example). Knowing everything your opponents are doing helps guide you in what you should do each round.

And while you only have four cards to choose from each round, it feels like you really need to think about what to play – you’ll agonize a lot over that simple hand. Should you bulk up your defenses? Try to kill something before it hits you? Prioritize playing the right cards to stop and incoming big hit (always do this one)? Your life points persist across the dungeon, so you can’t just blunder through a fight and then recover afterwards. Mistakes pile on, and if you take too much damage over several fights, you’ll be back to the start of Fairy Tail: Dungeons.

You’ll agonize quickly, though. With only a few cards to play, things move briskly through the game. There’s only so much you can do with each hand, so things hurry along. You can spend a bit of your life to redraw your hand if it’s utterly useless, but usually you’ll want to play what you have. This means you’re not usually taking too long to make your decisions, but there still feels like there’s a great depth every round despite the small hand size.

The real depth lies in building your deck and planning what possibilities you want to have in Fairy Tail: Dungeons. As you explore the dungeon map by choosing tiles to visit, you can pick up cards after fights, events you can stumble across, or shops that appear. Now, I loaded my deck with high-damage cards whenever I came across one, and while it worked great for a while, it eventually meant that my defensive cards didn’t show up as much when I was in combat purely because I had more attack cards in my deck. It was a pure probability thing that I had foolishly ignored in hopes of just slamming enemies. Not that playing more defensively got me any further a few rounds later. Still, I really liked that I had to consider how I was composing my deck for probability.

And there are several ways you can shape your deck. You can improve some of your capabilities in combat or add better abilities to specific cards using an upgrade system that costs Lacrima, a currency you pick up as you play. You can also just outright refuse some of the cards you’ve been offered, as well as prune a card from your deck at specific points. After a short time, it felt more important to remove cards, refuse to take them if I felt I had too many high cost cards, or to focus on just improving what I had to better know what to expect each hand rather than continually expand and mess up a predictable probability of getting the cards I wanted.

Still, there are some cool things that may make you really want to take that new card. Some cards can play off of one another to cause improved effects (Magic Chains), so you’ll want to ensure you get those often. But is adding a new chain worth it if it bloats your deck? Alternatively, you might unlock a new chain in your upgrade tree that you’ll wish you had picked up a card for earlier. It gave me a lot to think about as I sat mulling over whether to take a card or not.

How you stack that deck also depends on the character you use in Fairy Tail: Dungeons. Natsu plays offensively but is still more an all-rounder, but Gray plays more defensively, stacking up huge amounts of protection against damage. Lucy offered some more buffs and casts. The playable characters give some fun options on how to play and build your deck, and their abilities all look very different from each other’s adding some nice visual flair and variety.

You also have a fair amount of wiggle room in how you play based on the map as well. Not every tile you can reach is an encounter. There are spaces that have you meeting other characters and having events, tiles with Lacrima on them, and shops as well. You can only see so far ahead so you can’t fully plan your route, but you can shoot for paths with fewer fights to preserve life (or more if you want better rewards). How you walk matters as much as how you play your cards.

And when you die (and I died a lot), you gain points towards a rank that unlocks amulets for future runs. These rarely offered extreme bonuses, but can give you little boosts in health, the probability of getting zero cost cards, the ability to carry more items (which is limited gear that can also give you some nice effects), and more. They don’t really break the game so I never felt like I was gaining overwhelming power, but it was enough to get a little leg up here and there.

Fairy Tail: Dungeons feels like a straightforward, but still nicely tactical, deck-building game. Being able to play a few quick hands in a fight was great for moments when there wasn’t much time to play, and the ability to dive right in and pick up the rules in seconds made it easy to just jump right into. Even so, the systems underneath had enough depth that it kept pulling me back in to reshape my strategies for the next run.

Fairy Tail: Dungeon is available for PCs.

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Kodansha announced that it has established the Fairy Tail Indie Game Guild project. It will use this guild to help independent game creators release games themed after Hiro Mashima's manga series of the same title.

The company also revealed the first two games that will be part of the project. It will release both titles on PC via Steam worldwide in seven languages: Japanese, English, French, Korean, Thai, Traditional Chinese, and Simplified Chinese.

Fairy Tail: Dungeons will be the first game in this project. It will feature a rogue-lite gameplay system where the player will collect magic cards based on attacks from the series' characters and construct a deck with them for the chosen character to fight monsters inside the dungeon. This game will be available on August 27, 2024 in Japan, South Korea, Eastern Australia, and New Zealand, or August 26, 2024 for the rest of the world.

The second game in the project will be Fairy Tail: Beach Volleyball Havoc. As the title suggests, this game will feature casual beach volleyball matches between Fairy Tail characters with additional special magic effects. Kodansha will release this game simultaneously worldwide on September 16 or 17, 2024, depending on the time zone.

The Fairy Tail series already has an official RPG for PC and consoles developed by Koei Tecmo's Gust, and the same studio is working on its sequel that will appear in Winter 2024. The new indie titles will further complement the lineup of games based on the franchise. In the Japanese press release, Kadokawa added that it will release Fairy Tail: Birth of Magic, a versus game with original magic creation system, as the third indie title.

Fairy Tail: Dungeons will appear first on August 26 or 27, 2024, and Fairy Tail: Beach Volleyball Havoc will follow on September 16 or 17, 2024. Both Fairy Tail indie games will be available worldwide digitally on PC via Steam.

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Crunchyroll announced that its official storefront kicked off a sale on Kodansha manga volumes. This covers physical volumes and is running alongside the publisher’s $0.99 digital volume sale. 

Here’s a list of some of the more notable Kodansha manga series on sale at Crunchyroll during the promotion. Note that the prices tend to be rather uniform. So if a volume is normally $12.99, then it will likely be $9.09. Also, while specific volumes noted in the list below that are typically the among the most recent ones, odds are all books in that series are reduced and available at that price. Though in some cases, the newest volume is more expensive than others in the series.

• Bless volume 1 - $9.79
• Blue Lock volume 12 - $9.09
• Don’t Toy with Me, Miss Nagatoro volume 16- $9.07
• Gachiakuta volume 2 - $9.09
• Edens Zero volume 28 - $7.69
• Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest volume 15 - $7.69
• I was Reincarnated as the 7th Prince so I can Take my Time Perfecting my Magical Ability volume 11 - $9.09
• Immortal Hounds volume 7 - $9.07
• Initial D Exclusive Edition Omnibus volume 1 - $16.09
• My Lovesick Life as a 90s Otaku volume 1 - $9.09
• Orient volume 19 - $7.69
• Paradise Kiss 20th Anniversary Edition - $20.97
• Parasyte Full Color Collection volume 6 hardcover - $13.99
• Rent-a-Girlfriend volume 24 - $9.09
• Seven Deadly Sins: Four Knights of the Apocalypse volume 11 - $7.69
• Shangri-La Frontier volume 11 - $9.09
• Shikimori’s Not Just a Cutie volume 16 - $9.09
• That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime Omnibus volume 1 - $16.09
• Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun volume 7 - $9.07
• Wind Breaker - $9.09
• Witch Hat Atelier Kitchen volume 3 - $9.09
• Yuri is my Job volume 12 - $9.09

In addition to single volumes, the Kodansha sale also covers manga box sets. So the hardcover, 35th anniversary Akira set is $153.99. There are also some smaller box sets, such as the $54.56 That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime part 1 option that includes the first six volumes and stickers. Crunchyroll exclusives, like the one of the first Blue Lock volume for $9.09, are included.

As for the Kodansha $0.99 manga sale on digital copies, it covers the first volumes of a number of series. Here are a few of the notable ones:

• Am I Actually the Strongest?
• Cells NOT at Work!
• Farewell, My Dear Cramer
• The Great Cleric
• How to Grill Our Love
• My Unique Skill Makes Me OP even at Level 1
• Saving 80,000 Gold in Another World for My Retirement 
• That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime: Trinity in Tempest
• That Time the Manga Editor Started a New Life in the Countryside
• Yozakura Quartet

While exact dates weren’t listed for the Crunchyroll sale, the one for Kodansha direct digital volumes ends on June 17, 2024.

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A new CLAMP Collection edition of the popular Chobits manga will release in Japan on March 6, 2024. The volume costs 946 yen (or approximately $6.30), and pre-orders for it are now open on sites that offer international shipping like Amazon Japan.

So far, the new edition has only been announced for release in Japan. CLAMP also announced that Volumes 2 through 8 of the new re-release of the manga will appear monthly in Japan after the release of the first. The covers for the volumes consist of newly drawn illustrations by CLAMP.

Furthermore, postcards with cover illustrations of the previously published volumes is added as a bonus. Those that purchase all volumes can apply for a postcard binder bonus gift to store the collectible postcards.

You can check out the new cover art for the first volume of the CLAMP Collection edition of Chobits here:

Additionally, a 20th Anniversary Edition of the first Chobits volume was released back in 2020. The digital version of the volume appeared on June 2020, and the hardcover collector’s edition released in August 2020.

The new CLAMP Collection Chobits manga will release in Japan on March 6, 2024. The volume costs 946 yen (~$6.30,) and is now available for pre-order on sites like Amazon Japan.

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