The official English YouTube channel for Suikoden: The Anime, the adaptation of Konami‘s Suikoden II game’s story, announced in a video on Saturday the series will stream with English subtitles on YouTube for free beginning October 6 with new episodes on Tuesdays.

The stream will be available in North America, Latin America, the Caribbean, Ireland, parts of Africa and the Middle East, and in New Zealand and Australia. The staff have listed the full region availability on the anime’s X/Twitter account in English.

Ani-One Asia has also licensed the anime.

The anime debuted on October 3 on Tokyo MX at 11:30 p.m. (10:30 a.m. EDT), and will debut between October 6 and October 9 on 31 other channels.

Konami describes Suikoden II:

Our story’s hero and his friend Jowy are members of the Unicorn Youth Brigade, which participated in a drawn-out border dispute between the Highland Kingdom and the City-States of Jowstown. A few months earlier, a truth agreement was signed between the two forces, both of which were happy to see an end to the fighting. However, hidden under the momentary peace the fires of a new war continued to smolder…

Previously announced cast members include:

Yūzō Satō (credited as just YUZO on the anime’s English website) is directing the anime at KONAMI animation, the game studio’s anime studio. NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan anime and music production department member Ryō Hino serves as the producer and production manager.

Michihiro Tsuchiya (PriPara, ClassicaLoid) is overseeing the series scripts. Fumi Ishikawa from Konami Digital Entertainment is credited as the game character designer, Arata Suzuki from Konami Digital Entertainment is credited for the original drafts of the anime character designs, and Ryō Yamauchi (My Master Has No Tail; Please Put Them On, Takamine-san!) is the anime character designer. Yoshikazu Iwanami (Psycho-Pass, Ghost in the Shell Arise) is the sound director, and Kōji Nakamura (EUREKA SEVEN AO, Ping Pong live-action film) is composing the music.

Suikoden I&II HD Remaster Gate Rune and Dunan Unification Wars, the HD remastered release of Konami‘s classic role-playing games Suikoden and Suikoden II, launched for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and PC via Steam in March 2025.

Konami released the original game for the PlayStation in 1995, followed by the sequel game in 1998. The series has five main installments and five spinoff games.

Konami is also developing the new mobile and PC game Gensō Suikoden: Star Leap, which launched for iOS and Android on August 7 in Japan. The game is also slated for PC via Steam. The developers assured players on August 7 the will have a release in English, French, German, Korean, and Chinese (Simplified and Traditional).

Source: Suikoden: The Anime‘s English YouTube channel and X/Twitter account

Join Maomao & Jinshi for an all-new attraction at the theme park

The Apothecary Diaries anime series and Universal Studios Japan (USJ) announced on Thursday that the anime is returning to the theme park for an all-new attraction. The new attraction is set to open on February 10, 2027 with a story set during the events of The Apothecary Diaries movie (which is opening this December).

The anime and USJ previously collaborated between July 1, 2025 and January 4, 2026 with a “Mystery Walk” attraction (where guests solved a mystery behind a panacea) and three limited-time dishes.

The Apothecary Diaries anime’s first season premiered in October 2023, followed by a second season in January 2025. A third television anime season premiered this week for its first cours (quarter of a year), and its second cours will premiere next April.

Hyūganatsu began serializing the story on the “Shōsetsuka ni Narō” (Let’s Become Novelists) website in October 2011. Japanese publisher Shufunotomo began publishing the novels in print with illustrations by Touko Shino in August 2014. Nekokurage launched an ongoing manga adaptation in Square Enix‘s Monthly Big Gangan magazine in May 2017. Square Enix Manga & Books is releasing both the manga adaptation and the original novel series in English.

Sources: The Apothecary Diaries‘ X/Twitter account, Universal Studios Japan‘s X/Twitter account, Universal Studios Japan‘s website via Nijimen

Crunchyroll added Keroro Gunsō ☆, an all-new Sgt. Frog television anime, to the streaming service with English subtitles on Friday. The company is streaming the anime under the title KERORO☆, and is streaming the series worldwide except in Asia.

The anime debuted on October 3 at 9:30 a.m. on TV Tokyo and its affiliates.

The anime features an all-new cast for the franchise. The previous Shin Gekijōban ☆ Keroro Gunsō Fukkatsu Shite Sokkō Chikyū Metsubō no Kiki de Arimasu! film that opened in June featured a returning cast from previous installments in the anime.

The cast includes:

Nobuhiro Kondō (Shōnen Ashibe GO! GO! Goma-chan four seasons, Yu-Gi-Oh! Sevens, Cardfight!! Vanguard GZ) is the chief director of the anime, and Akihiko Sano (Farmagia, animation director for Medaka Box) is directing the series at BN Pictures with production cooperation by Bridge and AISLE. Toshimitsu Takeuchi (Shōnen Ashibe GO! GO! Goma-chan four seasons, Yu-Gi-Oh! Sevens, Fairy Musketeers) is overseeing the series scripts, and Hatsue Nakayama (Cardfight!! Vanguard GZ) is designing the characters. Kan Sawada (Shin Gekijōban ☆ Keroro Gunsō Fukkatsu Shite Sokkō Chikyū Metsubō no Kiki de Arimasu!, Yowamushi Pedal anime franchise) is composing the music.

Additional staff members include:

Shin Gekijōban ☆ Keroro Gunsō Fukkatsu Shite Sokkō Chikyū Metsubō no Kiki de Arimasu! (New Sgt. Frog the Movie: The Earth Is in Mortal Peril as Soon as We Come Back!), the new 20th anniversary anime film project for the franchise, opened in Japan on June 26. The film ranked at #4 in its opening weekend, earning 150,809,200 yen (about US$927,900) in its first three days.

Crunchyroll added the earlier television anime to its catalog beginning in 2021, and it describes the anime:

Keroro is Sergeant Frog – the leader of a platoon of warriors sent to conquer planet Earth. But when the amphibious invaders discovered how much humans enjoy dissecting their comrades, the troops were scattered, the mission was aborted, and Keroro was abandoned. Now, this once proud soldier spends more time wielding a vacuum than he does the weapons of war. It’s a far cry from the glory of battle, but hey, at least he’s got his own room. And though the invasion may have slowed to a hop, Sergeant Frog still occasionally yearns to overcome his karaoke addiction and reassemble his troops.

Sunrise‘s earlier anime series based on Mine Yoshizaki‘s Sgt. Frog (Keroro Gunsō) manga ran from 2004 to 2011, and it spawned five feature films. Funimation released two “seasons” of the anime on DVD, after ADV Films had licensed but not released the anime.

Discotek licensed the anime, and its release of Sgt. Frog includes all 358 episodes in successive SD Blu-ray Disc volume releases by season, beginning in 2021. Discotek released seasons 5-7 in 2024.

American manga publisher Tokyopop released 20 volumes of the original manga in North America before shutting its doors in 2011.

Source: Crunchyroll (link 2) via @AIR_News01

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