Warner Bros. Japan revealed the teaser promotional video, main staff, and 2027 debut for the television anime of writer Kumo Kagyu and illustrator so-bin‘s Blade & Bastard light novel series on Tuesday. HIDIVE also announced on Tuesday that it will exclusively stream the anime simultaneously with its Japanese release as part of its 2027 lineup.

Tomoki Kobayashi (Akame ga KILL!, Summer Pockets, Utawarerumono) is directing the anime at Xingfu Entertainment. Naruhisa Arakawa (Kingdom, Let’s Make a Mug Too, There’s No Freaking Way I’ll Be Your Lover! Unless…) is in charge of series scripts, Rina Iwamoto (Akuma no Memumemu-chan, Magical Suite Prism Nana) is designing the characters, Kisuke Koizumi (Anne Shirley, Chainsaw Man, My Happy Marriage) is the sound director, and Hayato Matsuo (Heaven’s Design Team, The World God Only Knows) is composing the music. 

J-Novel Club publishes the novel simultaneously with the Japanese release, and describes the dark fantasy set in the world of the pioneering computer role-playing game franchise Wizardry:

Deep in the unexplored reaches of the dungeon, a corpse is discovered―one that shouldn’t exist. After Iarumas is resurrected, his memories of life before death are gone, and he spends his days delving into the dungeon to retrieve the bodies of dead adventurers. Can they be revived as well? Or will God reduce them to piles of ash on the altar? Either way, Iarumas collects his finder’s fee. And though his skills earn him some grudging respect, he’s also scorned for this cold, utilitarian attitude. The living keep their distance―Iarumas consorts primarily with the dead. That is, until he meets Garbage, a feral young swordswoman who’s the sole survivor of a massacred party. With Garbage by his side, Iarumas ventures deeper, scouring the dungeon for clues to his past, avoiding monsters, traps, and the inevitability of a permanent ashen demise.

The anime stars:

Kagyu (Goblin Slayer) and so-bin (Overlord) launched the light novel series in December 2022. Drecom published the light novel series’ sixth volume on March 10.

Makoto Fugetsu launched the manga adaptation on Drecom‘s website in June 2023. Drecom published the manga’s eighth compiled book volume also on March 10. Yen Press licensed the manga and released the fourth volume in English on June 23.

Source: Press release

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This year’s 31st issue of Shueisha‘s Weekly Shonen Jump magazine announced on Monday that Yoshihiro Togashi‘s Hunter X Hunter manga has exceeded 100 million copies in circulation (including digital copies). A special website commemorating the manga’s 100 million copies also opened on Monday, with details of special campaigns including the “Shibuya Hunter Street” campaign, in which a total of 115 characters are appearing on decorations all around Tokyo’s Shibuya ward. 

The manga resumed serialization on Monday. Shueisha will publish the manga’s 39th compiled book volume (image right), its first volume in 22 months, on July 3.

Shueisha published chapters 401 to 410 of the manga in its Weekly Shonen Jump magazine from issue 45 of 2024 to issue two of 2025. Togashi underwent surgery and announced that he had drafted the storyboard layouts for two more chapters of the manga in December 2024.

Shueisha published the manga’s 38th volume in September 2024. The volume included new chapters of the manga up to chapter 400. Viz Media shipped the 38th volume in English on January 6.

Togashi revealed in March 2023 that chapter 401 of the series had been completed. He teased progress of chapter 405 in May 2024.

The manga went on hiatus in January 2023, citing health issues for the author. Shueisha stated at the time that it consulted with Togashi, and decided that the manga should not follow a weekly serialized format going forward. The editorial department added that once it knew concrete details of the manga’s return and how the manga would be serialized going forward, it would reveal the details in the magazine.

Togashi launched the manga in Weekly Shonen Jump magazine in 1998. The manga inspired two television anime series, two anime films, several original video anime titles, and several stage plays.

The third stage play adaptation, titled Hunter X Hunter The Stage 3, began running in May 2025 at the The Galaxy Theatre in Tokyo, and in June 2025 at the Sky Theater MBS in Osaka. The third stage play featured the manga’s “G.I. (Greed Island) Arc.”

Hunter X Hunter Nen x Survivor “survival roguelike” game launched worldwide for iOS and Android devices on February 18.

Bushiroad Games and Eighting released the Hunter X Hunter Nen x Impact 2D 3v3 fighting game worldwide for PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, and PC via Steam in July 2025.

Source: Weekly Shonen Jump issue 31 and X/Twitter account

Production company CyberAgent opened an official website for a television anime adaptation of Mozuku Sora and Higoro Toumori‘s Sensou Kyoushitsu (The Bugle Call: Song of War) on Tuesday and revealed the main staff, a teaser visual (pictured), and a teaser promotional video. The anime is scheduled to premiere in 2027.

Staff

Director: Shinya Watada (Rock wa Lady no Tashinami deshite)

Series Composition: Michihiro Tsuchiya (Akane-banashi)

Character Design: Michinori Chiba (SK∞)

Action Animator: Hiroshi Arisawa (Kidou Senshi Gundam: Tekketsu no Orphans chief animation director)

Concept Design: Kanetake Ebikawa (Gundam Build Fighters design works)

Prop Design: Takayuki Yanase (Kidou Senshi Gundam: Suisei no Majo mechanical design)

Music: Hitomi Koto (Nijusseiki Denki Mokuroku: Eureka Evrika)

CG Production: Shirogumi

Studio: CA Soa

Sora and Toumori began serializing the military fantasy series in Jump SQ. in September 2022. On April 6, the decision was made to transfer the manga to Jump SQ.Rise beginning in the Summer 2026 issue. Shueisha published the 13th volume on February 4, with the 14th volume scheduled to be released on July 3.

Viz Media licensed the manga in English in October 2024. The seventh volume went on sale on June 2, and the eighth volume is planned for an August 4 release.

Synopsis

In Arboral Year 1294, the world is dominated by nine massive towers known as the Spires, remnants of an ancient civilization. Filled with lost secrets and powerful knowledge, nations struggle to possess them. Luca is a bugler in a mercenary company who wants nothing more than to leave the battlefield behind and become a true musician, a maestro. But marked as one of the enigmatic Branch-hexed, and gifted with the strange ability to see the sound of his instrument, Luca finds himself drawn reluctantly into a war of epic proportions! (Source: VIZ Media)

Teaser PV

Official site: https://thebuglecall-anime.com

Official X: @BugleCall_anime

Source: PR Times