The Seven Deadly Sins: Origin Adds Merlin in Major Content Update

The Seven Deadly Sins: Origin

Netmarble has released a new update for The Seven Deadly Sins: Origin, which adds a new hero by the name of Merlin. The update also adds a new continuation to the story, new events, a new dungeon, and more. 

Merlin is a member of the Seven Deadly Sins who bears the mark of the Boar Sin of Gluttony. She posesses vast knowledge while endlessly pursuing truth and joins the roster as a versatile battlemage who can use Grimoire, Wand, and Staff as weapons. Players can experience different combat styles, depending on which weapon they chose. For example, when equipped with Grimoire, Merlin acts as a main damage dealer utilizing the Frost Mark effect. With Staff, she can summon clones to activate Buster skills more reliably. 

The update also expands the story with Act 14, “The Snare of Time,” and also adds a new region titled “Sealed Sanctuary.” Further, it adds a new raid dungeon titled “Taranis’s Sanctuary,” alongside several events. These include a check-in event, which offers Special Mastery EXP, Hero Pick Up Draw Tickets, Brilliant Engraving Seal, and 100 star fragments every day for two weeks. You can also use the event to earn an exclusive Grimoire for Merlin, titled “Sacred Treasure: Morning Star Aldan.”

The Seven Deadly Sins: Origin is available now for Android, iOS, PlayStation 5 and PC via Steam and Google Play Games. Final Weapon had the opportunity to interview The Seven Deadly Sins: Origin executive producer Do-Hyung Koo to discuss the game’s development, the team’s initial goals, consultation with manga creator Nakaba Suzuki and more. We also had the chance to play an early build of The Seven Deadly Sins: Origin to see what the original story and combat system offered.

Solo Leveling: ARISE Adds SSR Hunter Liu Zhigang

Solo Leveling: ARISE Adds SSR Hunter Liu Zhigang

Netmarble has released a new update for Solo Leveling: ARISE, which adds new SSR Hunter Liu Zhigang. The update also adds new story content, a new dungeon, new events, and more. 

SSR hunter Liu Zhigang is a Fire-type Elemental Buster known for his combat style that alternates between a sword and dao. His skills include “Hidden Dragon,” a technique where he swings his sword and dao powerfully from side to side, “Skyborne Dragon,” which sends him leaping into the air with an upward slash before delivering a powerful downward strike, and “Fire Dragon Ascension,” a skill that allows him to absorb the power of a dragon to gain immense strength.

The update also features new story content, with Chapters 32 through 34 now available on Hard and Reverse Hard difficulties. Players can also explore the new Story Codex, where they can view webtoon scenes and illustrations from cleared main story chapters in one place. the new dungeon “The First Land,” anew Remnant Power from Legia, two new Wind-type SSR weapons (“Soma & Asura” and “Moonlit Gale”) as well as eight new Surtur’s Flame artifact armor and accessory items, are also available now. Players can also participate in the “On the Road to the 3rd Anniversary!”, the “2nd Anniversary Celebration! Artifact Crafting & Modification Event,” and Challenge events. 

Solo Leveling: ARISE OVERDRIVE is available now for PC via Microsoft Store and Steam, followed by PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S in Q3 2026. Final Weapon reviewed Solo Leveling: ARISE OVERDRIVE and gave it a 4/5 score, noting that the game has “many improvements across the board, including major gameplay tweaks and additions, a more immersive story mode structure, and the removal of gacha mechanics.”

Lastly, Solo Leveling: ARISE is available now for Android, iOS, and PC. 

DXRACER Reveals Dead by Daylight Collaboration

DXRACER Reveals Dead by Daylight Collaboration

DXRACER has announced that it has created a series of exclusive Dead by Daylight-themed CRAFT Series gaming chairs to commemorate the game’s 10th anniversary. These will not be available for retail purchase, and will instead provide comfort for attendees of the Dead by Daylight 10th Anniversary Party on June 14, 2026 in Montreal. 

In a statement, the spokesperson of DXRACER said the following about the collaboration: “We are honored to be part of such a significant milestone in gaming history. For ten years, Dead by Daylight has brought together a passionate global community through unforgettable gameplay experiences. We are proud to contribute to this celebration with our flagship CRAFT Series chairs and help create an exceptional environment for everyone participating in this special anniversary event.”

Recently, Behaviour Interactive announced that it will add Jason Voorhees from the Friday the 13th franchise as a new killer in Dead by Daylight on June 16. For the last several years, Behaviour Interactive has been unable to add the character due to copyright issues and the existence of a dedicated Friday the 13th game. Now, ten years after Dead by Daylight‘s initial launch, players will finally be able to play as one of the most iconic characters in horror history. Over the years, Dead by Daylight has included characters from other famed horror franchises. This includes Resident EvilSilent HillAlienChucky, Nightmare on Elm StreetStranger Things, Alan Wake, Tokyo Ghoul, and most recently, Five Nights at Freddy’s

Lastly, Dead by Daylight is available now on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, and PC via Steam.

Mousebusters is Coming to Steam on June 11

Mousebusters

Japanese indie studio Odencat has announced that pixel art adventure game Mousebusters launches on June 11 for PC via Steam, followed by a Nintendo Switch version at a later date. Ahead of the Steam launch, Odencat released a new trailer and published the streaming guidelines for Mousebusters. A free demo is already available now on Steam as well.

Lastly, here’s an overview of Mousebusters, via Steam: 

Welcome to Mousebusters!

You just moved into your new place, and are excited to settle in…when all of a sudden, you get turned into a mouse! Thankfully, you soon meet a fellow rodent who knows how to help.

He asks you to call him “Chief,” and explains that there’s only one way to break the curse: by ridding the whole apartment building of the ghosts that haunt its inhabitants

Get to Know Your New Neighbors

In each apartment, you’ll find a different ghost—but it won’t be that easy to track them down. It seems they prey on negative emotions, so in order to smoke them out, you’ll have to do some major recon to figure out each resident’s biggest insecurities. Just don’t get caught!

A Partner You Can Count On

Luckily, you won’t have to go it alone, because you’ll be in frequent contact with the Chief throughout each mission. From his comfy desk at HQ, he’ll offer plenty of guidance and comedic commentary as you scour the building and solve puzzles to find each ghost.

Engage in Ghost-Zapping Action!

Once you’ve tracked down the source of each resident’s woes, you’ll have to whip out your trusty ray gun and perform a good ol’ fashioned exorcism. Protect yourself from projectiles while targeting their weak points to expose their spectral cores!

Venture Down the Rabbit Hole

Over the course of your investigations, you’ll slowly uncover more and more evidence that suggests something far more ominous is going on with this building…and it seems the Chief knows more about the curse than he’s letting on. Just how deep does this conspiracy go?

My Hero Academia Anime 10th Anniversary ‘OUR HERO’ Exhibition Announced

My Hero Academia Anime 10th Anniversary Exhibition OUR HERO

The official website for the My Hero Academia anime series announced that the “My Hero Academia Anime 10th Anniversary Exhibition ‘OUR HERO'” event will be held in Tokyo and Osaka in 2027. My Hero Academia Anime 10th Anniversary Exhibition OUR HERO will include visuals, original drawings, 3D displays, videos, photo spots, and exclusive new merchandise for eventgoers in Japan. 

The first event will be held in Tokyo from January 8 to February 7 at the Tokyo Tatemono Pia Conference (TOFROM YAESU TOWER 6F, 1-6-1 Yaesu, Chuo-ku, Tokyo). First round ticket applications for the Tokyo event will open on July 10 at 11:00 a.m. JST. Fans in Osaka will be able to experience the exhibition from March 5 to March 28 at the Osaka Nanko ATC Gallery (ITM Building 2F, 2-1-10 Nanko Kita, Suminoe-ku, Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture). 1st pre-sale tickets via lottery for the Osaka event will open on September 18 at 11:00 a.m. JST, and more details can be found at the exhibition’s official website.

Fans can also look forward to a new anime short based on the My Hero Academia Fan Book: Ultra Age manga short story by creator Kōhei Horikoshi, titled “I am a hero too.” The “I am a hero too” anime shirt will release this summer, following up after the release of the “More” episode this past May.

Further, the My Hero Academia in Concert U.S. tour will run from September 12 to October 25. The tour will feature music directly composed by My Hero Academia series composer Yūki Hayashi, along with scenes from the anime.

Fans can watch My Hero Academia Vigilantes Season 2 on Crunchyroll with English dubs and subs, just like My Hero Academia Final Season. A total of 26 episodes have been released for My Hero Academia Vigilantes thus far across two seasons.

KAMUI: He’s Behind You Anime Premieres on July 3

KAMUI: He's Behind You

The official website for the TV anime of Eroki and Shinko Konoshiro’s KAMUI: He’s Behind You (Ushiro no Shōmen Kamui-san) manga has confirmed the anime’s July 3 premiere with “Normal” (on-air) and “There Be Ghosts” (uncensored) versions. The on-air version will be airing on Tokyo MX and BS11. Two new trailers were released to highlight the Normal and There Be Ghosts versions of KAMUI: He’s Behind You, but be warned, as both trailers have NSFW content.

KOTOKO performs the ending theme song “SAY-BYE!!”

The anime’s main cast includes: 

  • Tomokazu Sugita as Kamui
  • Riko Aono as Shizuka Mimitsuka
  • M.A.O as Oichi
  • Yuka Aisaka as Kyōko
  • Shiori Izawa as Inagawa

Takumi Tsukumo directs the anime at Zero-G and ZG-R. Motofumi Nakajō is in charge of series scripts, and Toshinari Yamashita is the character designer. 

Additional staff members include:

  • Sub-Character Designer: Nana Hiiragi
  • Color Key Artist: Takuya Kawami
  • Chief Animation Directors: Takayuki Noguchi, Tomyuki Abe
  • Art Director: Shinji Katahira (Studio Arkansas)
  • Art Setting: Junichirō Nishikawa
  • Compositing Director of Photography: Tatsuya Yanagihara
  • Editing: Masaki Utsunomiya
  • Sound Directors: Shūhei Abe (on-air version), “Nankai-Teiō” (full Deregula version)
  • Music: Chihiro Endō
©えろき・コノシロしんこ/小学館/ウェイブ

WWWave Corporation’s Deregula anime label is producing the anime. The company also owns the ComicFesta web manga service and AnimeFesta programming block, so it will likely be streaming on AnimeFesta as well.

The story of Ushiro no Shōmen Kamui-san focuses on Shizuka, a high school girl who can see ghosts. Shizuka works as an assistant for the famous psychic Kamui, who has a peculiar way of handling exorcisms.

Eroki and Konoshiro launched the manga in March 2020 on Shogakukan’s Manga ONE app. Shogakukan is publishing the manga series in print, and 12 compiled book volumes are available as of February 19, 2026.

GRANBLUE FANTASY: Relink – Endless Ragnarok Releases Fediel ‘Meet the Crew’ Trailer

Cygames has released a new “Meet the Crew” trailer for GRANBLUE FANTASY: Relink – Endless Ragnarok highlighting playable character Fediel. Fediel is voiced by Savy Des-Etages in English and Asami Tano in Japanese in GRANBLUE FANTASY: Relink – Endless Ragnarok.

Previously, Cygames released “Meet the Crew” trailers for GRANBLUE FANTASY: Relink – Endless Ragnarok on YouTube to highlight the following characters: Zeta, Rosetta, Tweyen, Seofon, Id, Sandalphon, Cagliostro, Ghandagoza, Ferry, Vaseraga, Narmaya, Yodarha, Charlotte, Siegfried, Percival, Vane, Lancelot, Eugene, Io, Rackam, Katalina, Djeeta, and Gran.

GRANBLUE FANTASY: Relink – Endless Ragnarok launches on July 9 for Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, and PC via Steam. Pre-orders for the Standard Edition of GRANBLUE FANTASY: Relink – Endless Ragnarok are available now for $59.99 featuring the base game and the Upgrade Kit. 

The GRANBLUE FANTASY: Relink – Endless Ragnarok Special Edition will be available for $79.99 featuring the Standard Edition and Special Pack, which includes special characters colors and useful items for unlocking Seofon, Tweyen, and Sandalphon. The Special Edition also includes the GRANBLUE FANTASY: Relink Downloadable Content Collection, which includes previously released DLC for the base game such as the Ignition Pack.

For those who already own GRANBLUE FANTASY: Relink, players can purchase the GRANBLUE FANTASY: Relink – Endless Ragnarok Upgrade Kit for $29.99 to get all of the new content. An GRANBLUE FANTASY: Relink – Endless Ragnarok Upgrade Kit will also be available for $54.99 featuring the Upgrade Kit, Special Pack, and Downloadable Content Collection.

Bungo Stray Dogs is Getting a New Spinoff Manga

The July 2026 issue of Kadokawa’s Young Ace magazine has confirmed that a new spinoff manga for Kafka Asagiri and Sango Harukawa’s Bungo Stray Dogs series will launch in the August 2026 issue, which releases on July 3. The new spinoff manga serves as an adaptation of the bonus novel “The Day I Took In Dazai,” which was given to moviegoers who watched Bungo Stray Dogs the Movie: Beast live-action film in 2022. Shikiji Sorakura is the author of the new manga.

Fans can also look forward to Bungo Stray Dogs Wan! Season 2, the continuation of the Bungo Stray Dogs spinoff anime, in July 2026.

The cast of Bungo Stray Dogs Wan! 2 includes:  

  • Yūto Uemura as Atsushi Nakajima
  • Mamoru Miyano as Osamu Dazai
  • Yoshimasa Hosoya as Doppo Kunikida
  • Sumire Morohoshi as Kyōka Izumi
  • Kenshō Ono as Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
  • Kishō Taniyama as Chūya Nakahara

Additionally, the staff for the season includes:

  • Director: Toshihiro Kikuchi 
  • Studio: BONES and Nomad
  • Assistant Director: Yūdai Hanaoka
  • Series’ Scripts: Tōko Machida
  • Character Designer: Hiromi Daimi
  • Color Design: Azusa Sasaki
  • Art Director: Hibiki Nagatomo (Cosmo Project)
  • Music: Taku Iwasaki
  • Music Production: Lantis
  • Sound Director: Kazuhiro Wakabayashi
  • Sound Production: Glovision

Season 1 of Bungo Stray Dogs Wan! is available to watch now on Crunchyroll alongside all five seasons of the original Bungo Stray Dogs anime. Lastly, here’s an overview of Bungo Stray Dogs, via the streaming service:

Kicked out of his orphanage and on the verge of starving to death, Nakajima Atsushi meets some strange men. One of them, Dazai Osamu, is a suicidal man attempting to drown himself in broad daylight. The other, bespectacled Kunikida Doppo, nervously stands by flipping through a notepad. Both are members of the “Armed Detective Agency” said to solve incidents that even the military and police won’t touch. Atsushi ends up accompanying them on a mission to eliminate a man-eating tiger that’s been terrorizing the population…

Magilumiere Magical Girls Season 2 Reveals 2 New Cast Members

Magilumiere Magical Girls Season 2

The official website for the TV anime adaptation of Sekka Iwata and Yu Aoki’s Magilumiere Co. Ltd. manga series revealed two new cast members for Magilumiere Magical Girls Season 2. Kōsuke Gotō voices Commissioner Koshigaya, and Taketora voices President Manda, the head of the National Institute of Magical Science and Technology. 

Previously announced new cast members for Magilumiere Magical Girls Season 2 include: 

  • Sayumi Watabe as Iroha Akasaka
  • Mariko Higashiuchi as Hitomi Koshigaya

VTuber Marine Houshou performs the ending theme song “BooooM!!!”

Riki Fukushima directs the second season at J.C.STAFF. Michiko Yokote is the new script supervisor, Masahiro Fujii returns as chief animation director, and Makoto Miyazaki is the anime’s composer once more.

The new staff members include: 

  • Assistant Director: Hiroyasu Oda
  • Sound Director: Yoshikazu Iwanami
  • CG Director: Shunsuke Kasuga
  • Color Key Artist: Asuka Hino
  • Compositing Director of Photography: Yūsuke Noguchi

Magilumiere Magical Girls Season 2 will premiere on NTV on July 4 at 24:55 / July 5 at 12:55 a.m. JST.

Magilumiere Magical Girls Season 2
©岩田雪花・青木裕/集英社・マジルミエ製作委員会

Iwata and Aoki initially began the Magilumiere Co. Ltd. manga series in 2021. Shueisha publishes the series, with digital distribution on Manga Plus and Shonen Jump+. VIZ Media releases the series in North America and describes it as follows:

Kana Sakuragi is an excellent candidate for the job. Any job! She’s motivated and organized, and has a fantastic memory. So why has she interviewed at over 15 companies without receiving a single offer? She’s trying to keep a positive attitude, but it seems like her bad luck is only getting worse when a monster crashes her latest interview.

As havoc ensues, she finds herself helping the magical girl who comes to their rescue and ends up with more than just her life in return. Meet the newest magical girl at Magilumiere Magical Girls Inc.!

The Irregular at Magic High School Anime Confirms ‘Part II’ is in Production

The Irregular at Magic High School Part II

Aniplex has announced that “Part II” of the anime adaptation of Tsutomu Satou’s The Irregular at Magic High School light novel series is in production. It’s unclear what The Irregular at Magic High School Part II will entail or how it will release yet, however. A new key visual was also released on the anime’s portal website.

The Irregular at Magic High School Part II key visual
© 2024 佐島 勤/KADOKAWA/魔法科高校四葉継承編製作委員会

The Irregular at Magic High School THE MOVIE – Yotsuba Succession Arc opened on May 8 in theaters across Japan.

The cast and staff for the upcoming movie include:

Cast

  • Yūichi Nakamura as Tatsuya Shiba
  • Saori Hayami as Miyuki Shiba
  • Chiwa Saitō as Maya Yotsuba
  • Emiri Katō as Fumiya Kuroba
  • Daisuke Ono as Katsushige Shibata
  • Ai Kayano as Yuuka Tsukuba
  • Daisuke Ono has Katsushige Shibata
  • Ai Kayano as Yuuka Tsukuba

Staff

  • Original Story: Tsutomu Sato (Published in Dengeki Bunko)
  • Character Design: Kana Ishida
  • Animation Production: Eightbit
  • Director: Jimmy Stone
  • Music: Taku Iwasaki

LiSA performs the film’s theme song “Yes.”

Satou’s light novel series  debuted in 2008 and concluded with the 32nd volume in September 2020. Yen Press publishes the original light novel series and Yu Mori’s The Honor Student at Magic High School spinoff manga.

The Irregular at Magic High School anime first aired in April 2014 and consisted of 26 episodes. A second season, titled The Irregular at Magic High School: Visitor Arc, premiered in October 2020 and ran for 13 episodes. The anime’s third season premiered in April 2024.

Additionally, the anime franchise also includes The Irregular at Magic High School: The Movie- The Girl Who Summons the Stars, which aired in 2017. The Honor Student at Magic High School manga inspired an anime adaptation, which aired in 2021.