Sigma Star Saga DX is Coming to PC, PS5 and Switch on April 7

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Soul Kiwami
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Sigma Star Saga DX release date

WayForward announced that shoot ’em up RPG hybrid Sigma Star Saga DX is coming to Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, and PC via Steam on April 7. Revived with Limited Run Games’ Carbon Engine, physical editions of Sigma Star Saga DX for Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 5 will be available at Limited Run Games.

Here’s an overview of the game, via WayForward: 

The classic shooter/RPG is back and better than ever! Featuring a unique mix of side-scrolling shoot-’em-up space battles and top-down planetary exploration, Sigma Star Saga DX is an explosive genre mashup that lets you take control of Allied Earth Federation pilot Ian Recker and infiltrate the alien Krill Empire as a double agent in a last-ditch effort to save mankind.

With loyalties divided between humans and Krill, you must investigate six planets using an ever-expanding set of tools and abilities, and jump into the cockpit to engage enemy forces in intense shmup-style combat using more than 70 different Gun Data items. Gorgeous pixel-art graphics, epic boss battles, and a twist-filled story with multiple endings await.

The new DX version adds numerous refinements over the original 2005 release, including an improved map, decreased random encounter rate, rebalanced EXP system, enhanced dialogue, additional save points, assorted bug fixes and quality-of-life updates, and more.

Key Features:

      • The handheld classic returns after 20 years!
      • Top-down RPG-style exploration mixed with action-packed space-shooter battles!
      • Survive as a double agent for the humans and the Krill, and discover the secret of the six planets
      • Stunning pixel-art graphics and fantastic soundtrack
      • Explore using tools like the Scanner, Krill Boots, Wings, and more
      • Customize your ship with more than 70 different Gun Data items yielding 15,000+ combinations
      • Branching story with multiple endings
      • The definitive DX version adds an improved map, decreased random encounter rate, rebalanced EXP system, updated script, various bug fixes, and other enhancements

Sanda Manga is Now Available on Crunchyroll Manga

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Soul Kiwami
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SANDA manga

Crunchyroll Manga has added Paru Itagaki’s Sanda manga to the lineup alongside various titles from J-Novel Club and COMPASS. Sanda is available alongside a massive catalog of titles on Crunchyroll Manga, which include The Brilliant Healer’s New Life in the Shadows, Stuck in a Time Loop: When All Else Fails, Be a Villainess, Dragon Daddy Diaries: A Girl Grows to Greatness, The Invincible Summoner Who Crawled Up from Level 1, and more.

Here’s the full list of recently added titles:

  • A Pale Moon Reverie
  • A Royal Rebound: Forget My Ex-Fiancé, I’m Being Pampered by the Prince!
  • Accidentally in Love: The Witch, the Knight, and the Love Potion Slipup
  • Belladonna’s Remedial Poison
  • The Brilliant Healer’s New Life in the Shadows
  • Do Women Need Sex Entertainment?
  • Dragon Daddy Diaries: A Girl Grows to Greatness
  • Gamera – Rebirth – : Code Thyrsos
  • The Ghostly Darkness of Kanata
  • Gran Familia
  • I Only Have Six Months to Live, So I’m Gonna Break the Curse with Light Magic or Die Trying
  • The Invincible Summoner Who Crawled Up from Level 1
  • Isekai Metaller
  • Jeanette the Genius: Defying My Evil Stepmother by Starting a Business with My Ride-or-Die Fiancé!
  • The Magician Who Rose From Failure
  • The Raven Dark Hero
  • The Retired Demon of the Maxed-Out Village
  • Safe & Sound in the Arms of an Elite Knight
  • Saint Seiya: Dark Wing
  • Sanda
  • Stray
  • Stuck in a Time Loop: When All Else Fails, Be a Villainess
  • The Troubles of Miss Nicola the Exorcist

Paru Itagaki first released the manga in Akita Shoten’s Weekly Shōnen Champion magazine in July 2021 and concluded it in July 2024.

Sanda is described by Titan Manga as:

In a future where youth is preserved as a means of survival, there is no time for trivial celebrations like Christmas – until Kazushige Sanda awakens the legendary power of Santa Claus. He teams up with Shiori Fuyumura and Hitoshi Amaya to find their missing classmate, but they must keep his powers and their investigation a secret, all while navigating the terrors of middle school.

Daisuke Namikawa Joins the Cast of The Case Book of Arne as Vlad

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Soul Kiwami
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The Case Book of Arne Vlad

The staff of the TV anime adaptation of Game Magazine’s The Case Book of Arne (Arne no Jiken-bo) RPG Maker title has announced that Daisuke Namikawa is joining the cast as Vlad. Vlad will appear in episode 11 of The Case Book of Arne, which premieres on March 17. 

New episodes of The Case Book of Arne will release on Tuesdays at 9:30 a.m. PT / 12:30 p.m. ET on Crunchyroll. 

Sou performs the opening theme song “Q.E.D.” and singer-songwriter Watashi Kobayashi performs the ending theme song “Ningyō no Machi (Doll Town).”

The anime’s cast members include:

  • Mariya Ise as Louis Hartmann
  • Kōki Uchiyama as Arne Neuntöte
  • Aimi Tanaka as young Arne Neuntöte
  • Yuka Nukui as Lynn Reinweiß
  • Yuki Sakakihara as Zisye
  • Yūki Shin as Nachzehrer
  • Yōko Hikasa as Amy
  • Hiroshi Naka as Gordon
  • Reo Osanai as Diana
  • Momoka Terasawa as Elise
  • Rikuya Yasuda as Bernd
  • Yūto Uemura as Heinz
  • Kakeru Hatano as Kai

Keisuke Inoue, known for his work on My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!, is directing the anime at studio SILVER LINK. Inoue is also co-writing The Case Book of Arne with Murasaki, the game’s original scenario writer and producer. Akiko Satō is also designing the characters and serves as the chief animation director of the anime. What’s more, Yoshiaki Fujisawa is composing the music for the anime.

The Case Book of Arne key visual
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Harumurasaki created The Case Book of Arne and launched it on Game Magazine’s website in November 2017. A manga adaptation was launched by Soraho Ina in Kadokawa’s Monthly Comic Gene magazine in 2018. Ina launched a manga adaptation of the anime’s episodes, titled The Case Book of Arne: Memory of Blood, on Bushiroad Works’ Comic Growl website on January 7, 2026.

The game’s story focuses on the partnership between vampire detective Arne Neuntöte and Lynn Reinweiss, the daughter of a noble family who loves vampires. The pair investigates murder cases that may or may not involve vampires.

Magical Sisters Lulutto Lilly Anime Premieres April 5 with Two-Cour Run

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Soul Kiwami
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Magical Sisters Lulutto Lily

Bandai Namco Filmworks has announced that Studio Pierrot’s original anime Magical Sisters Lulutto Lilly will premiere on April 5 and run for two cours, or quarters of a year, with a break in between. The anime will debut on Tokyo MX at 10:30 p.m. JST, followed by ABC TV, TV Aichi, BS NTV, and AT-X after the April 5 premiere. 

A new promotional video was also released. The video reveals that the in-story idol Lulutto Lilly performs the ending theme song “Calling.” Lulutto Lilly consists of main characters Lilly Konpeto (voiced by May Tachibana) and Lulu Mashū (voiced by Nao Ojika).

What’s more, early screenings of Magical Sisters Lulutto Lilly will be available at 10 AEON Cinema theaters in Japan from March 20 through April 2, and the screenings will also include the first episode of Magical Angel Creamy Mami.

The cast of the Magical Sisters Lulutto Lily anime includes:

  • May Tachibana as younger sister Fū Nonoyama / idol form Lily Konpeto
  • Nao Ojika as older sister Rui Nonoyama / idol Lulu Mashū
  • Hiroki Nanami as feline creature and Felix Star denizen Uguisu
  • Ai Kayano as fellow feline creature Azuki
  • Fūka Izumi as Tōko Kandachi
  • Fū Hirohara as Sena Aozono
  • Hikaru Yaotome as Miitaa
  • Kōhei Amasaki as Shōta Seo
  • Tatsumaru Tachibana as Hisashi Kadoya
  • Tomokazu Sugita as Yasuo Kandachi
  • Jun Kasama as Keiichi Nonoyama, Fū and Rui’s father (new)
  • Megumi Ōhara as Shio Nonoyama, Fū and Rui’s mother (new)
  • Aya Endō as Matsuri Hinoura, Dabudabu cafe manager (new)

K-pop girl group ILLIT performs the opening theme song “Bubee.”

Shintarō Dōge is directing the Magical Sisters Lulutto Lily anime at Studio Pierrot and is credited for the original character designs. Yūko Kakihara supervises and writes the series scripts. Namiko Tori, Hirono Nishiki, and Asami Sodeyama are the character designers.

Additional staff members include:

  • Magic Character Designer: Tatsuo Yamada
  • Prop Design: Mifumi Tomita
  • Art Direction: Wataru Osakabe
  • Main Animator: Kazuhiro Fukuchi
  • Art Director: Yuki Maeda
  • Art Setting: Hitomi Itō
  • Color Design: Saori Goda
  • CG Director: Takahiro Kamiya
  • Compositing Director of Photography: Hideki Imaizumi
  • Editing: Kengo Shigemura
  • Sound Director: Fumihiko Ōtera
  • Sound Effects: Yuji Furuya
  • Sound Production: Jinnan Studio
  • Music: ha-j
  • Music Production: Bandai Namco Music Live

The story of the anime focuses on the aforementioned Nonoyama sisters, who have grown a little distant recently. One day, Fū encounters a spaceship and gains magical powers, and Rui also gains magical powers as a result. They both transform into the adults they dream of being, but there are two conditions: the magic can only be used for one year, and it must be kept a secret. The pair become idols, all while keeping their secrets from each other.

Needy Streamer Overload Creator nyalra Reveals Stray Boy Overkill Manga

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Soul Kiwami
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Stray Boy Overkill

Kodansha’s Afternoon magazine and Needy Streamer Overload creator nyalra have announced Stray Boy Overkill, a new manga series seemingly connected to the Needy Streamer Overload universe. Launching on April 7 in the Good! Afternoon magazine, the Stray Boy Overkill manga features an original concept by nyalra, original character designs by Ohisashiburi, a story by Sōzō Adamuno, and art by Ōuchi

The manga focuses on Hinako, a social services worker who is a fan of streamer Hōjun Amama Pink-chan, or Amapi for short. After Amapi goes missing, Hinako goes to a house for a social service call, and she finds a boy who looks just like Amapi. Together, they fall deeper into “the abyss of the internet.”

This April,  the TV anime adaptation of WSS playground and Xemono’s Needy Streamer Overload game will also premiere. The anime features the opening theme song “Internet Angel” by Aiobahn +81 and “KAngel” (“Chōten-chan”). nyalra wrote the lyrics for the opening theme song for the anime. 

Masaoki Nakajima directs the anime at Yostar Pictures. nyalra is credited for the original idea, scenario, and supervision. Ohisashiburi is credited for the original character design, and Kenji Saikai, Akari Takei, and Umito Shimizu are the main character designers.

Additional staff members include:

  • Art Director: Ryūta Hayashi
  • 3DCG Artists: Kaoru Marumoto, Yume Sakai, Daisuke Katano
  • Color Setting: Naoto Kondō
  • 3DCG Animation Production: CHOTOTU
  • Visual Effects Design: Tailor Animation
  • Editing: Keisuke Yanagi, ACE
  • Compositing Director of Photography: Jiann Horng Wu
  • Music: Aiobahn +81, Sasuke Haraguchi, DÉ DÉ MOUSE
  • Sound Director: Fumiyuki Go
  • Sound Effects: Rei Ueno
  • Sound Production: Bit Grooove Promotion
  • Production Supervision: Ryōsuke Inagaki
  • Original Work: WSS playground

Lastly, Needy Streamer Overload is available now for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, and PC via Steam worldwide.

Dandelion Anime Confirms Theme Song by Kocchi no Kento

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Soul Kiwami
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Dandelion anime

The staff of the anime adaptation of Gintama creator Hideaki Sorachi’s Dandelion one-shot manga has announced that Kocchi no Kento performs the theme song “Goron to Doron.” A new key visual for the Dandelion anime was also revealed.

Dandelion anime key visual
©Hideaki Sorachi/SHUEISHA

Dandelion will premiere in April 2026, exclusively on Netflix.

The main cast of the Dandelion anime includes Chikahiro Kobayashi as Tetsuo Tanba and Megumi Han as Misaki Kurogane. Seven episodes will be released in total.

Daisuke Mataga directs the anime at studio NAZ. Yōsuke Suzuki oversees the series scripts, Ai Asari is the character designer, and Yūki Hayashi is the music composer.

Additional staff members include:

  • Assistant Director: Atsushi Ikariya
  • Prop Design: Yoshihiro Sono
  • Main Animators: Norie Igawa, Momoko Kawai, Yutaka Matsuhara, Hitomi Takechi
  • Art Director: Ryūsuke Shiino
  • Color Design: Emiko Okada
  • 3DCG Director: Kunihiko Mita
  • Director of Photography: Tsubasa Takagi
  • Editing: Yoshiaki Kimura
  • Sound Director: Kisuke Koizumi
  • Sound Production: FUTOKOROGATANA
  • Sound Effects: Shota Yaso
  • Animation Producer: Yasuo Suda

Sorachi’s popular Gintama series began with the manga in 2004 and ran all the way until June 2021, but the Dandelion manga preceded it in 2002 in Weekly Shonen Jump. The original Gintama anime series is streaming with English subs on Crunchyroll. Hulu is also streaming Gintama Seasons 2 and 3 with an English dub. In addition, GINTAMA – Mr. Ginpachi’s Zany Class spinoff anime is now streaming on Crunchyroll. 

Gintama New Film Version: Yoshiwara in Flames opened in theaters on February 13 in Japan. The film adapts the Gintama anime’s Yoshiwara in Flames arc, including episodes 139 through 146. What’s more, the film features newly animated scenes and characters who didn’t originally appear in the arc. 

Mistress Kanan is Devilishly Easy Anime Trailer Previews Theme Songs

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Douglas
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Mistress Kanan is Devilishly Easy

The official website for the upcoming anime adaptation of nonco’s Mistress Kanan is Devilishly Easy (Kanan-sama wa Akumade Choroi) manga has revealed a new promotional trailer, new visual, and additional cast members. The latest trailer previews the opening and ending theme songs “Hatsukoi Moment (First Love Moment)” by rock band Faulieu. and “Pop, Snack, Junk na HUNNY” by VTuber group Asagiri Kōkō.

©nonco・講談社／カナン様はあくまでチョロい製作委員会

Newly announced cast members include:

  • Takaya Kuroda as Beelzebub
  • Yui Ogura as Yuriko Yurino
  • Ayana Taketatsu as Yui Rorikawa
  • Yū Kobayashi as Ryoko Reizen

The previously announced cast of the anime includes:

  • Aoi Koga as Kanan
  • Seiichirō Yamashita as Yōji
  • Sayumi Suzushiro as Jeanne
  • Maki Kawase as Ami
  • Ayaka Nanase as Nadeko Masurao
  • Fūka Izumi as Milch Zebul
  • Hikaru Tōno as Miel Zebul
  • nYoshino Nanjō as Lilim Zebul

Yasushi Muroya directs the anime at Studio KAI, and Hisashi Isogawa is the assistant director. Rintarō Ikeda handles the series scripts, and Akari Minagawa is the character designer.

Additional staff members include:

  • Sub-Character Design: Chisa Shibata
  • Prop Design: Nana Koinuma
  • Art Director: Nobuaki Mihara
  • Art Setting: Studio Uni, Quun Plant
  • Color Key Artist: Mineyo Ōnishi
  • 3D CG Director: Masanari Kira
  • Compositing Director of Photography: Shigeki Asakawa
  • Editing: Masato Yoshitake
  • Sound Director: Yasushi Nagura
  • Sound Effects: Rio Satō
  • Music: Shūhei Mutsuki
  • Music Production: King Records
  • Animation Producer: Hirokazu Shiba

nonco’s Mistress Kanan is Devilishly Easy manga was released in June 2022 on Weekly Shōnen Magazine. The story of the manga series focuses on Kanan, a demoness who infiltrates human society as a high school student to devour souls. A particular high school boy catches Kanan’s interest, but she quickly becomes her boyfriend and leaves her primary objective up in the air. With the prospect of her first love, Kanan’s relationship is filled with new experiences for her.

I Want to End This Love Game Anime Premieres April 14

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Douglas
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I Want to End This Love Game

The official website for the upcoming anime adaptation of Yūki Dōmoto’s I Want to End This Love Game (Aishiteru Game o Owarasetai) manga has revealed the main key visual, additional cast and staff members, theme song artists, and the anime’s April 14 debut. CHICO with Honeyworks perform the opening theme song “Kimi no Sei de Aishiteru” (It’s Your Fault that I Love You), while PompadollS performs the ending theme song “Little World.”

I Want to End This Love Game key visual
©堂本裕貴／小学館／「愛してるゲームを終わらせたい」製作委員会

Newly announced cast members include:

  • Wakana Maruoka as Wakana Asagi
  • Takehito Koyasu as Masaru Shinonome
  • Yui Ogura as Hinako Hanaba
  • Kaede Hondo as Natsuki Moegi

The previously announced cast members includes Kaito Ishikawa, who stars as Yukiya Asagi and Miku Itō as Miku Sakura.

Azuma Tani, known for his work on Thermae Romae, is directing the I Want to End This Love Game anime at Felix Films. Keiichirō Ōchi writes and oversees the series scripts, Yūki Fukuchi is the character designer, and Akito Matsuda is the music composer.

Newly announced staff members include:

  • Sub-character Designers: Ryōsuke Tanigawa, Tomokazu Sugimura
  • Prop Design: Tomokazu Sugimura
  • Art Director: Masanori Nishiyama
  • Color Design: Natsuko Ueno
  • 3D Director: Masaomi Suzuki
  • Compositing Director of Photography: Jun Kubota (Cyan)
  • Editing: Azuma Tani, Misaki Enokida
  • Sound Director: Satoshi Yano
  • Music Production: POPHOLIC
  • Music Cooperation: Myrica Music

 

Dōmoto launched the manga series on the Sunday Webry website in 2021. Shogakukan publishes the manga series in Japan, and in the west, VIZ Media publishes the manga in English.

Lastly, here’s an description of the manga series, via VIZ Media:

After leaving behind his image as a quiet nerd, Yukiya’s ready to break hearts and take names with the ultimate high school glow-up. Well, he’s really just got one girl in his sights—his best friend, Miku! Using her favorite shojo manga as his weapon, he’s prepared to pin her to the wall and gaze at her with the perfect smolder! Will his advances get her heart racing? Or will Yukiya end up making a fool of himself?

Kamiina Botan, Yoeru Sugata wa Yuri no Hana Anime Trailer Reveals Opening Theme Song

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Douglas
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Kamiina Botan, Yoheru Sugata wa Yuri no Hana

The official website for the upcoming anime adaptation of Hey’s Kamiina Botan, Yoheru Sugata wa Yuri no Hana (Botan Kamiina, Her Drunken Appearance Is Like a Lily Flower) manga has revealed the first promotional video and a visual by character designer Kō Yoshinari. The video previews the opening theme song “Mebuku Toki (Time to Sprout)” by yonige.

Check out the video below:

© 塀（秋田書店）／上伊那ぼたん製作委員会

Sayumi Suzushiro will star as Botan in Kamiina Botan, Yoeru Sugata wa Yuri no Hana, alongside Yoshino Aoyama as Ibuki Tomino, Minako Kotobuki as Kanade Gujō, Yurina Amami as Akane Yusa, Miyu Tomiya as Yaeka Kitamori, and Maki Kawase as Chang Chin-Lan. Additionally, each of the six main cast members will sing a different version of the ending theme song “Kanjō Glass” (Emotional Glass).

Takashi Sakuma directs the anime at Soigne with Shuntarō Tozawa as the assistant director. Kou Yoshinari is the character designer, and Yūsuke Matsuo and Miyachi are the main animators. In addition, Yōko Yonaiyama is in charge of series scripts, and Kana Hashiguchi is the music composer.

Hey launched the Kamiina Botan, Yoeru Sugata wa Yuri no Hana manga on Akita Shoten’s Manga Cross website in March 2019. What’s more, Akita Shoten published the manga’s first compiled book volume back in January 2020, and the sixth volume shipped on March 18, 2025.

Lastly, here’s an overview of the ongoing manga series, via MangaDex:

Kamiina Botan is a 20-year-old college student. At the welcome party for the dorm she was assigned to, the dorm leader Ibuki gives her a highball to drink and she becomes tipsy, leading to her involvement with Ibuki from now on… A tipsy teasing girl’s comedy!

Ghost of Yōtei Legends Mode Reveals New Details

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Saras Rajpal
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Ghost of Yōtei Legends Mode Reveals New Details

In a new PlayStation Blog post, Sucker Punch has revealed new details about the upcoming Ghost of Yōtei Legends mode. The mode releases tomorrow as a free update. 

According to Sucker Punch, the mode’s development started alongside the single-player campaign’s. It’s meant to be a mythic retelling of the events of the main narrative, with the Yōtei Six antagonists taking the form of demonic monsters rather than powerful warlords. Each boss has various enemies that are unique to it, such as the Kitsune with elite soldiers called the “Snow Woman.” 

There are four main classes to play as, each with a focus weapon. The Samurai has the Odachi, the Archer has the Yari, the Mercenary has dual katanas, while the Shinobi has the Kusarigama. They can use other weapons beyond their focus and upgrade their abilities via a “tech tree.” You can pick from four different difficulty levels: Bronze, Silver, Gold and Platinum. The higher you go, the greater the challenge and the more XP you get.

Various cosmetics will be available to use for the four main classes as you play. Additionally, you can pick to play either story missions or survival missions with friends or by yourself. Survival in particular is a four-player mode where you have to defend an area or fight against waves of enemies. Next month, the game’s first raid will be available. The lobby in Ghost of Yōtei Legends also has various mini-games to play through with your friends, such as the base game’s coin-flicking game. 

Ghost of Yōtei is available now on PlayStation 5. Final Weapon reviewed the game, rating it a 4/5, and described it as a “great evolution by the foundation that Sucker Punch built with Ghost of Tsushima. While the story feels like a retread of every other revenge story of the past few years, complete with the same frustrating pitfalls, the characters, new gameplay mechanics, and extra content make for a game that will hook you from beginning to end.”

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