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Nikkei Announces New Entertainment & Content Stock Index – News

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Nikkei will begin calculating and publishing the new Nikkei Entertainment and Content Stock Index on June 18. The new index focuses on entertainment companies in order to accurately capture investment trends in the industry.

The index comprises 20 companies listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange within the entertainment and content industry – such as games, animation, characters, publishing, and toys – with the largest market capitalization.

The list includes (in order of market capitalization, starting with the largest): Sony Group, Nintendo, Bandai Namco Holdings, Konami Group, CAPCOM, Nexon, Sanrio, TOHO, Sega Sammy Holdings, Koei Tecmo Holdings, Toei Animation, Square Enix Holdings, Kadokawa, DeNA, Takara Tomy, Toei, GungHo Online Entertainment, Shochiku, COLOPL, and GREE.

Source: Animation Business Journal (Tadashi Sudo)

Disclosure: Kadokawa World Entertainment (KWE), a wholly owned subsidiary of Kadokawa Corporation, is the majority owner of Anime News Network, LLC. One or more of the companies mentioned in this article are part of the Kadokawa Group of Companies.

Disclosure: Bandai Namco Filmworks Inc. (Sunrise) is a non-controlling, minority shareholder in Anime News Network Inc.

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Webtoon ‘Villains Are Destined to Die’ Gets TV Anime

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Publishing company Kakao Piccoma announced a television anime adaptation of Gyeoeul Gwon’s Villains Are Destined to Die webtoon on Sunday, revealing a visual commemorating the conclusion of the main story (pictured above).

Gwon penned the original web novel on the KakaoPage website from March 2019 to August 2020. D&C Media published the series in four volumes, as well as the side story the following month.

SUOL originally began drawing the webtoon on the Kakao Webtoon platform in May 2020 and ended the main story with 214 chapters on Sunday. D&C Media published the ninth volume on January 29.

Tapas released the web novel in English between September to December in 2023. Yen Press licensed the novel in English for physical release under its Ize Press imprint in October 2024 and released the third volume on May 12. The fourth volume is planned for a September 15 release.

Tapas began publishing the webtoon chapters digitally in English in October 2020. Yen Press licensed the webtoon under its Ize Press label in July 2022 and published the eighth volume in November 2025. The ninth volume is scheduled to go on sale on August 18.

Synopsis

The latest otome game is all the rage recently, so a regular university student decides to see for herself if its fame is well-deserved. She clears the normal mode in no time and finds herself pitying the villainess, Penelope Eckhart. Penelope is a fake―a replacement for the duke’s missing daughter, the protagonist of the game.

Initially confident about clearing the hard mode as well, the woman is shocked by the sheer leap in the level of difficulty, eventually passing out from exhaustion. However, when she wakes up, she no longer recognizes her surroundings, for she has been reincarnated into the body of the villainess!

In a world where everyone seems to be out for her blood, Penelope must make wise decisions that keep her away from the death route. A tyrant prince, a suspicious magician, a nobleman from a fallen nation, or one of her nasty adoptive brothers―whose affections will she win? [Written by MAL Rewrite]

Webtoon special site: https://page.kakao.com/content/54845189/

Source: PR Times

News submitted by NokkiMal

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Happy International Cat Day 2026 From Around the Anime World, Part II – Interest

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If Cat Day in Japan on February 22 wasn’t enough, Japan gets a second dedicated day to celebrate cats with International Cat Day on August 8. While Cat Day in Japan is primarily a wordplay on the number two (ni) in Japanese sounding like a cat’s meow (nyan), International Cat Day raises awareness on the health and welfare of domestic cats — and the anime and manga worlds are celebrating with their very own cats:

Akira Failing in Love


International Cat Day
Manga panel: Carried away by cats


Black Torch

Cyberpunk 2077

HIDIVE

Inherit the Winds


Today is International Cat Day🐈‍⬛
The world belongs to cats🌎


Atsushi Kamijou (To-Y)

August 8 is International Cat Day🐈

August 8 is International Cat Day🐈 blue cat

August 8 is International Cat Day🐈 Niya and Nia

August 8 is International Cat Day🐈

Yori Katakura (Yakuza vs. Cat)

May all the cats be happy🐾

Mitsuru Kido (Too Cute Crisis)


Today, August 8 is International Cat Day
May all the cats and their owners around the world be happy.


Kodansha

Kojima Production

Licca-chan


Today is International Cat Day☆
The kitties all gathered for Dad’s birthday party♪
Everyone’s gathered around the cakes, and it’s so lively, meow♡


Pragmata

Here are the cats from Pragmata🐱✨

Daisuke Sakuma


International Cat Day
Tomboish Shachi-chan←
　　　　　　　　　　　Mischievous Tuna-kun→


Miki Tori (Anywhere But Here)

International Cat Day

Yajima (Neko oji: Salaryman reincarnated as a kitten!)

International Cat Day

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Happy International Cat Day 2026 From Around the Anime World, Part I – Interest

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August 8 marks International Cat Day around the world. The International Fund for Animal Welfare created the day in 2002 to raise awareness for cats. Today, the unofficial holiday is run by International Cat Care, which strives to improve the health and welfare of domestic cats. The anime and manga worlds are doing their part to celebrate the holiday with greetings and more:

ANGYAMAN (Red Cat Ramen)

International Cat Day

Kamen Rider

International Cat Day

Medalist


🐈⛸️✨
International Cat Day


Yūsuke Nakamura

I am International Cat Day.

I’m also International Cat Day

Manabu Nii


International Cat Day 🐾
Takina: “Thanks for… the ears?”


Nontan

Have you read it?

Masami Ōbari


International Cat Day
A distinctive shot from my opening animation sequences
A kitty that embodies “that dazzling thing from the upper left”🐱✨


Ocha-ken

Let’s pretend to be cats and relax~🐈

Oyoneko Boonyan


Today is International Cat Day
We’d love to do something for cats through Oyoyo😺


Red Cat Ramen


＼＼　 \ 　/ 　／／
　Today, August 8 is
🐈International Cat Day🐈‍⬛　
／／　 /　 \　 ＼＼
May all the cats around the world be happy✨
Please share your favorite photo 📸🐾 too!!
“Red Cat Ramen Season 2”
Premieres in January 2027🍜


Rui (Usagi no Tsumori no Katatsumuri)

International Cat Day

Umi Sakurai (A Man and His Cat)


Toady, August 8, is International Cat Day meow🐱🐱🐱❗️❗️
I’ll make everyone in the world happy with my fluffiness, meow✨


Sega

SEGA & cat

Shikaruneko


Today is International Cat Day!
Today is “World Cat Day”!
May all the cats around the world live in happiness!!
To all you cat owners out there, show off your beloved cats in the comments section!🐾
Comic: Panel 1: Apparently today is International Cat Day
Panel 2: So, please spend the day playing with cats❤️
Panel 3: Hey! Not all day long! People have busy lives, after all…
Panel 4: Look, look❤️


SNK

Today is International Cat Day 🐈

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