Bad Girl Anime Release Dates, Schedule, and All Episodes

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Soul Kiwami
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Nikumaru’s Bad Girl manga finally receives the anime adaptation that fans have been waiting for. Yu Yutani’s first-year of high school is bound to be eventful, and Final Weapon has everything you need to know about Bad Girl, including the weekly release schedule for all episodes.

Yu may be a bad girl, but she’s an incredibly good girl at heart. In fact, she often thinks of Atori Mizutori, the beautiful and beloved head of the student disciplinary committee. In the Bad Girl anime, it’s Yu’s mission to get the attention of Atori by any means necessary in school.

Bad Girl Anime Release Dates, Exact Premiere Time and Schedule

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New episodes of Bad Girl will release on Saturdays at 8:30 a.m. PDT / 11:30 a.m. EDT on HIDIVE. The anime will be streaming with English subs, and 12 episodes are expected to air this season.

Here are the release dates and schedule for Bad Girl (subject to change):

  • Episode 1 – July 5 – OUT NOW
  • Episode 2 – July 12 – OUT NOW
  • Episode 3 – July 19 – OUT NOW
  • Episode 4 – July 26 – OUT NOW 
  • Episode 5 – August 2 – OUT NOW
  • Episode 6 – August 9 – OUT NOW
  • Episode 7 – August 16 – OUT NOW
  • Episode 8 – August 23 – OUT NOW
  • Episode 9 – August 30 – OUT NOW
  • Episode 10 – September 6 – OUT NOW
  • Episode 11 – September 13 – OUT NOW
  • Episode 12 – September 20 – OUT NOW

New episodes of Bad Girl will premiere at the following times (subject to change):

  • Pacific Daylight Time (PDT): 8:55 a.m.
  • Mountain Daylight Time (MDT): 9:55 a.m.
  • Central Daylight Time (CDT): 10:55 a.m.
  • Eastern Daylight Time (EDT): 11:55 p.m.
  • Greenwich Mean Time (GMT): 3:55 p.m.

OP, Cast and Staff

Tenrogun performs the opening theme song “Super Big Love!” 

The cast includes:

  • Azusa Tachibana as Yū Yutani
  • Niina Hanamiya as Atori Mizutori
  • Yui Horie as Maria Komari
  • Miharu Hanai as Rura Ruriha
  • Kaori Maeda as Mizuka Mizutori
  • Lynn as Kiyoraka Sumiki
  • Misato Matsuoka as Suzu Suzukaze
  • Ayane Sakura as Marimo Nishikawa
  • Akari Kitō as Momiji Kaname
  • Maaya Uchida as Aoi Aoyama
  • Yui Horie as Maria Komari
  • Sumire Uesaka as Rin Mōri
  • Sora Amamiya as Nana Matsuda
  • Saori Hayami as Yume Izumi

Takeshi Furuta, known for his work on Shaman King, is directing the anime at Bridge. Yūki Morimoto is handling the character design, Arisa Okehazama composes the music, and Shoji Yonemura is handling the series composition.

Where Can I Watch Bad Girl?

Bad Girl key visual
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Bad Girl is streaming on HIDIVE, Amazon Prime Video, DMM TV, ABEMA, and other streaming service (access may vary by region). In Japan, the anime is airing on Tokyo MX, BS11, RCC Chugoku Broadcasting, HTB Hokkaido TV, and AT-X channels.

What is Bad Girl About?

Lastly, here’s an overview of the anime via HIDIVE:

Yu Yutani is a first-year high school student with sharp eyes, large piercings and flashy two-tone hair. She’s become notorious as a bad girl… but she’s really not. At heart, Yu is an incredibly good girl, but her mind is always full of thoughts of the beautiful and popular Atori Mizutori, the school’s Madonna and head of the student disciplinary committee. So, on her mission to attract the attention of Atori, Yu decided to quit being an honor student and become a “bad delinquent!” 

Chainsaw Man Opening Theme Achieves RIAA Platinum Certification

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Saras Rajpal
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Chainsaw Man Opening Theme Achieves RIAA Platinum Certification

Sony Music Masterworks has announced that the opening theme of the Chainsaw Man anime, “KICK BACK” by Kenshi Yonezu, has achieved RIAA Platinum Certification. It is now the first and only song written and performed in Japanese to be certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America.

Yonezu initially released “KICK BACK” when the first season of Chainsaw Man premiered in  2022. He will return to perform the opening and ending theme for Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc. The opening theme is “IRIS OUT,” while the ED is called “JANE DOE.” Both are available to stream now on various music streaming services. Yonezu also released a remix of “KICK BACK” last week, which you can check out here.

Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc will open with midnight screenings on September 19 in Japan across 12 theaters in Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Fukuoka, and Hokkaido. There will be MX4D, 4DX, and Dolby Cinema screenings. The movie heads to US theaters on October 24 with English dubs and English subs with Japanese voice-overs.

What’s more, the movie premieres September 24 internationally and October 29 in the U.K. Maximum The Heroine performs the insert song “Hawatari Nioku Centi [2-hundred-million-Centimeter-long-blades] (70% Unlocked edit).” The cast includes:

  • Kikunosuke Toya as Denji
  • Reina Ueda as Reze
  • Tomori Kusunoki as Makima
  • Shiori Izawa as Pochita
  • Shogo Sakata as Aki Hayakawa
  • Fairouz Ai as Power

Lastly, here’s a story synopsis for the film, via TOHO:

Denji became “Chainsaw Man,” a boy with a devil’s heart, and is now part of Special Division 4’s devil hunters. After a date with Makima, the woman of his dreams, Denji takes shelter from the rain. There he meets Reze, a girl who works in a café.

SNK World Championship 2025 Will Take Place At Dreamhack Atlanta

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Saras Rajpal
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SNK World Championship 2025 Will Take Place At Dreamhack Atlanta

SNK has revealed new details for the upcoming 2025 SNK World Championship, confirming that it will take place at Dreamhack Atlanta. It will take place from October 31 to November 2 and feature a prize pool of $4.1 million. 

The following games will be present at the event:

Additionally, those who win the City of the Wolves tournament will be granted $1.5 million dollars. Further, the winner of KOF XV‘s tournament will get $500,000, Samurai Shodown‘s winner will get $250,000, and Art of Fighting 3‘s winner will get $50,000. Check out the trailer for the SNK World Championship 2025 below:

Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves will receive many additions in fall 2025, such as character-specific ranks. Phase 0 of the Ranked Match matchmaking lasts until fall 2025. Afterwards, Phase 1 of the Ranked Match mode will introduce another rank within the mode and character-specific ranks.

Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves is available now for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC via Steam and Epic Games Store. We had a chance to interview Yasuyuki Oda, Nobuyuki Kuroki, and Joshua Weatherford, with teases on the future of Capcom collaborations. The Steam page describes the game as follows:

SNK’s beloved Fatal Fury series first hit the market in 1991, spearheading the fighting game boom of the 1990s that swept the industry thereafter. GAROU: MARK OF THE WOLVES (released in 1999) has, for some time, served as the franchise’s most recent installment. But that is all about to change: 26 years on, a brand-new entry—FATAL FURY: City of the Wolves—is set to arrive on the scene!

Go for It, Nakamura! Anime Reveals Several New Cast Members

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Soul Kiwami
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Go for it Nakamura cast

Seven new cast members for the TV anime adaptation of Syundei’s Go for It, Nakamura! boys-love manga were revealed on the anime’s official website.

The new cast members of Go for It, Nakamura! include (from left to right):

  • Takuya Eguchi as Sou Otogiri
  • Fairouz Ai as Hifumi Kawamura
  • Yukihiro Nozuyama as Kota Takeuchi
  • Atsushi Tamaru as Ryou Mukai
  • Makoto Koichi as Yuka Hamaoka
  • Yume Maihara as Masako Okuda
  • Tsubasa Sasa as Tsukasa Omori

The anime’s cast also includes Chiaki Kobayashi as Okuto Nakamura and Yuki Sakakihara as Aiki Hirose. Kappei Yamaguchi and Junko Takeuchi are also a part of the cast, but their characters have not been revealed yet.

Originally planned to premiere in 2025, Go for It, Nakamura! will premiere in 2026. Crunchyroll will stream the anime in North America, Central America, South America, Europe, Oceania, the Middle East, and CIS as it airs in Japan.

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Aoi Umeki directs the anime, writes the scripts, and designs the characters. Drive is animating the series, Naoki Yoshibe is the assistant director, and Yasuko Aoki (Studio Monado) writing and overseeing the series scripts. Ayana Tsujita is the music composer.

Other staff members include:

  • Concept Director: Tetsuya Tatamitani
  • Art Director: Cheon Bok Lee (Studio Blue)
  • Color Design: Harue Ono (MAD BOX)
  • Director of Photography: Yū Wakabayashi (ENISHIYA)
  • Visual Director: Toshitaka Kanda
  • Editing: Yūsuke Ueno (Yanagi Editing Room)
  • Color Script: Yue
  • Prop Design, 2D Works: Ayumi Nagaki
  • Costume Design: Yumi Nakamura
  • Sound Director: Yoshikazu Iwanami

Syundei launched the Go for It, Nakamura! manga in December 2014. The series is still ongoing with the sequel manga, Go for It Again, Nakamura!, which launched in June 2017. Seven Seas Entertainment publishes the series in English. Lastly, here’s a synopsis of the series, via Seven Seas:

Nakamura is a shy boy who falls in love at first sight with one of his classmates–his dreamy high school classmate, Hirose. But there’s a problem: they haven’t met yet. And Nakamura is a total klutz who might bungle things before they even begin!

Rent-a-Girlfriend Season 5 Premieres in 2026

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Soul Kiwami
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The staff of the Rent-A-Girlfriend anime series announced that the anime will continue with Rent-a-Girlfriend Season 5 in 2026. Rent-a-Girlfriend Season 5 was technically slated to be the second cour of Season 4, and a new illustration was released to celebrate the announcement.

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Rent-A-Girlfriend Season 4 premiered on July 1 in Japan on the DMM and d Anime Store streaming services and Crunchyroll worldwide.

Revamped singing trio ClariS perform Season 4’s opening theme song “Umitsuki.” Regal Lily performs the ending theme song “Boku no Vega” (My Vega).

The staff from TMS Entertainment return their work on the third season of Rent-A-Girlfriend, with Kazuomi Koga returning to his directorial duties from the first two seasons. Mitsutaka Hirota is the scriptwriter and handles series composition.

The Japanese cast includes:

  • Shun Horie as Kazuya Kinoshita
  • Sora Amamiya as Chizuru Mizuhara
  • Nao Tōyama as Ruka Sarashina
  • Aoi Yūki as Mami Nanami
  • Yū Serizawa as Mini Yaemori
  • Rie Takahashi as Sumi Sakurasawa

The English cast includes:

  • Alex Mai as Kazuya
  • Celeste Perez as Chizuru
  • Sarah Williams as Ruka
  • Landon McDonald as Shun
  • Lisette Monique Diaz as Mini
  • Chris Hackney as Takeshi 

Lastly, here’s an overview of the anime series, via Crunchyroll:

Kinoshita Kazuya is a 20-year-old failure of a college student. He managed to kiss his girlfriend once but was dumped after a month. “Ugh… Damn it. I never want to go through that again.”

Completely spiteful, Kazuya uses a certain method to date a girl. He goes to their meeting place and suddenly hears, “You’re Kazuya-kun, right?” A beautiful girl brushing her long, black hair behind her ear was there, smiling at him. Her name was Mizuhara Chizuru. Something real is born after just a single rental! A reckless rom-com filled with love and excitement is about to begin!

Mecha BREAK Season 1: Pulse of the Indigo Stone is Now Live

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Soul Kiwami
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Mecha BREAK Season 1

Amazing Seasun Games has launched Mecha BREAK Season 1: Pulse of the Indigo Stone with the new HEL and ALPHARD Strikers, new weapons, and new missions. The developers also announced their plans for Tokyo Game Show 2025, which runs from September 25 to 28 at the Makuhari Messe venue in Chiba, Japan.

HEL is a specialized Striker with long-range sniping capabilities, artillery strikers, Reflective Attack and Deception abilities, and mimetic optical camouflage. Meanwhile, ALPHARD is gear toward frontal assaults with high-speed attacks that can overwhelm opponents, thanks to a groundbreaking thruster.

Moreover, Mecha BREAK Season 1: Pulse of the Indigo Stone introduces eight new seasonal weapons, new exclusive skins, Striker Archive: Narukami Type-S and its exclusive pilot Kanon Kamiya, more Special Strikers and Pilots, and improved tutorial sessions. The Battle Pass system Matrix Selections and Matrix Contract now offer greater rewards, and there are additional daily, weekly and monthly missions for more chances at Supply Crates and rewards from Matrix Selections.

During Tokyo Game Show 2025, Amazing Seasun Games will showcase Mecha BREAK at a dedicated booth in Hall 2, Booth #N05. Attendees may try out Season 1 and experience cosplay performances at the booth stage, the finals of the Ace Elites Chiba tournament with live voting and giveaways, and creator and streamer exhibition matches. The Purple FALCON Mecha Action Figure will be available for the first time as well.

Lastly, Mecha BREAK is available now for Xbox Series X|S and PC via Steam. 

Sentenced to Be a Hero Anime Reveals 2nd Promo Video and New Cast Members

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Soul Kiwami
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Sentenced to Be a Hero anime trailer

The official website for the TV anime adaptation of Rocket Shokai’s Sentenced to Be a Hero: The Prison Records of Penal Hero Unit 9004 light novel series has revealed the anime’s second promotional video and two new cast members. Shōya Chiba joins the Sentenced to Be a Hero cast as Jayce alongside Yōko Hikasa as Neely.

Sentenced to Be a Hero: The Prison Records of Penal Hero Unit 9004 premieres in January 2026, and the first episode will be a 60-minute special. Originally, the anime was initially meant to air in October 2025.  

The previously announced cast and staff for the anime include:

Cast

  • Yōhei Azakami as Xylo Forbartz
  • Mayu Iizuka as Teoritta
  • Shizuka Ishigami as Patausche Kivia
  • Shun Horie as Dotta Luzulas
  • Shunichi Toki as Venetim Leopool
  • Yōji Ueda as Noragalle Senridge
  • Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Tatsuya
  • Jun Fukushima as Tsav

Staff

  • Director: Hiroyuki Takashima
  • Studio: Studio KAI
  • Assistant Director: Yoshitake Nakakōji
  • Scriptwriter: Kenta Ihara
  • Character Designer: Takeshi Noda
  • Music Composer: Shunsuke Takizawa
  • Worldbuilding: Nobutaka Ike
  • Prop Designer: Kouta Sugawa

Rocket Shokai’s hit novel series debuted in October 2020 on Kadokawa’s Kakuyomu site. Since then, Kadokawa has been publishing the series in print, starting in September 2021, with illustrations by Mephisto.

Lastly, here’s an overview of the novel series, via publisher Yen Press:

Heroism—a punishment for only the worst criminals. Those sentenced to the fate of a hero are forced to fight at the front lines against the demon king’s army—and if they die, they can expect to be revived and continue the battle. But when their leader, convicted of killing a goddess, meets another goddess himself, the contract they forge may be enough to change the world…

Lies of P: Overture Original Soundtrack is Now Streaming

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Soul Kiwami
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Lies of P: Overture

NEOWIZ and Round8 Studio released the original soundtrack of Lies of P: Overture is now available on various streaming services, including Spotify, Apple Music, and Amazon Music. The Lies of P: Overture original soundtrack includes 51 songs with a total runtime of an hour and 45 minutes.

Available now for $29.99, Lies of P: Overture serves as a prequel to the base game, taking players back to the beginning of the Puppet Frenzy. It will reveal the events that lead to Lies of P, and the gameplay trailer revealed never-before-seen environments, new bosses, and a mysterious guide. 

Lies of P is available now for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, PC via Steam, and Mac via App Store. Final Weapon reviewed Lies of P: Overture and gave it a 4 out of 5 score, nothing that the DLC “largely retains the quality of the base game, if not improving upon it in some aspects. While it isn’t particularly experimental, it is more Lies of P, and it proves why that isn’t a bad thing in the slightest.”

Lies of P took 2023 by storm while fans were waiting for the Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree DLC. NEOWIZ and Round8 Studio’s title received two nominations at The Game Awards 2023, including “Best Role Playing Game” and “Best Art Direction.” With over seven million players worldwide, it’s no surprise that the game continued to take home awards, including two at the 28th Webby Awards in 2024.

Stella Sora Pre-Registration is Now Open on Google Play and App Store

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Soul Kiwami
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Stella Sora

Yostar announced global pre-registration for top-down action adventure RPG Stella Sora is now open for Android via Google Play Store and iOS via the App Store. Global pre-registration for Stella Sora is already open on the game’s official website.

What’s more, players have the opportunity to earn several rewards at launch. Fans can earn multiple rewards at launch by pre-registering and meeting the following pre-registration goals:

  • 1 million pre-registrations – Dorra x10000
  • 2 million pre-registrations – Stellanite Dust x200
  • 3 million pre-registrations – Disc: Tranquil Retreat x1
  • 4 million pre-registrations – Stellanite Dust x600
  • 6 million pre-registrations – Trekker: Ann x1
  • 8 million pre-registrations – Cerulean Ticket x10

Stella Sora is coming soon to Android, iOS, and PC via Windows with cross-platform play. Yostar notes that the developers will reveal the game’s official release date “later.”

Lastly, here’s an overview of the game, via Yostar:

A whimsical adventure awaits! Mysterious colossal structures known as Monolith dominate the Nova Continent. Lord Tyrant, embark aboard the Lucky Oasis and join forces with the New Star Guild to uncover the secrets of the Monoliths and the Nova Empire! Along the journey, meet a vibrant cast of cute Trekkers, delve into truths hidden beneath the mundane, as startling revelations rise to the surface!

Daisenryaku SSB2 Revealed for PC, PS5, Switch and Switch 2

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Soul Kiwami
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Daisenryaku SSB2

Nippon Ichi Software subsidiary SystemSoft Beta announced Daisenryaku SSB2, a new modern war simulation game for Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5, and PC via Steam. Daisenryaku SSB2 launches on February 26, 2026 in Japan for 8,778 yen (tax included). 

Lastly, here’s an overview of the game, via the official Steam page:

Get fired up. Strategy is individuality.

Since 1985, the Daisenryaku series has defined modern war strategy games. On every battlefield, victory hinges on how you deploy forces, balance offense and defense, and break the deadlock—your “Grand Strategy” is put to the test.

Game Features:

      • 300+ Units – Take command of more than 300 units—fighters, tanks, assault ships, and ASW aircraft—drawn straight from today’s active forces. Cutting-edge weapons still in development also make their debut, letting you experience the future of modern warfare.
      • Turn-Based System for Careful Strategy – Battles unfold on hex-based maps, with players and CPU taking turns. Lead your fleet across the seas, seize the skies with aircraft, advance over land with tanks—your careful planning shapes the course of the war.
      • 50 Brand-New Maps – The game offers 50 entirely new maps. From small islands suited for light play to large-scale battlefields for total war, both newcomers and experienced players can take their time and enjoy strategic gameplay.
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