The Society for the Promotion of Japanese Animation (SPJA), the organizer of Anime Expo, announced on Friday that this year’s four-day event had a record turnstile attendance of more than 422,000 attendees from more than 65 countries, an increase from last year’s 410,000 turnstile attendance. “Turnstile attendance” is the number of attendees on each day added together, so a person who uses a four-day pass is counted four times.

The SPJA stated this year’s event had an estimated economic impact of more than US$115 million, an increase from the estimated US$110 million last year.

This year’s event marked the event’s 35th anniversary.

Anime Expo 2027 will again be held at the Los Angeles Convention Center, and will take place on July 2-5 (a Friday through Monday). The SPJA stated credentials for the event will go on sale early next year.

Anime Expo 2026 was held at the Los Angeles Convention Center from July 2-5 (a Thursday through Sunday), and was also held in other venues such as the Crypto.com Arena, The Novo, Peacock Place, L.A. LIVE, and Figueroa Street.

A list of all the announcements and reviews from the event can be found here.

Source: Press release

Crunchyroll revealed on Friday it will stream a same-day English dub for the television anime of Hekiru Hikawa‘s Hanaori-san Still Wants to Fight in the Next Life (Hanaori-san wa Tensei Shite mo Kenka ga Shitai) manga starting on Saturday.

The English dub cast includes:

The English dub staff includes:

The anime will debut on July 11 on the Animazing!!! block on ABC TV, TV Asahi, and 22 other affiliate channels at 26:00 JST (effectively July 12 at 2:00 a.m. JST). The anime will then air on AT-X on July 12, and on BS NTV on July 13.

Crunchyroll will stream the anime in North America, Central America, South America, Europe, Africa, Oceania, the Middle East, CIS, and India.

The anime’s staff includes:

Masayoshi Ōishi performs the opening theme song “High Maintenance Girl” and Maaya Uchida performs the ending theme song “Very Good Encounter.”

Seven Seas Entertainment announced in December it will release the manga in English in omnibus format. The first volume will ship in October 2026. The company describes the story:

Narukami Ryusei is your typical NEET. He spends his days shut in his room playing video games without a care in the world, living a lazy life. But the truth is, Ryusei used to be a powerful demon king in another world! So why not spend this new life doing whatever he wants? Except, he wasn’t the only one reincarnated into this world. The hero who struck him down is here too—and she’s a really cute high school girl?! Can Ryusei survive reuniting with his foe in a new world, or will he find himself fighting even in this life?

Hikawa (Pani Poni manga creator; character designer for Concrete Revolutio anime) launched the manga in Kodansha‘s Morning two magazine in August 2021. Kodansha released the ninth volume on March 23.

Source: Crunchyroll (Liam Dempsey)

Award-winning Houston-based smash burger chain Trill Burgers announced a collaboration with My Hero Academia on Friday. The collaboration is in celebration of the anime series’ 10th anniversary set to include the One For All Burger combo with the Plus Ultra Fries and the Detroit Smash Lemonade. The set will be available from July 11 until August 9 at the Montrose, Spring, and Missouri City locations.

Trill Burgers co-founders Bun B. and Andy Nguyen describe the burger combo as a “tender hamburger steak patty with demi-glazed beef gravy, American cheese, cabbage and onion, all topped with sesame-citrus dressing and served with Trill Burgers’ seasoned fries.” The Plus Ultra Fries are Trill Burgers’ in-house seasoned fries topped with okonomi sauce, mayonnaise, Japanese furikake seasoning and bonito flakes – dried tuna shaved into paper thin flakes.” The Detroit Smash Lemonade will be made with “lemon, pineapple pieces, slices of mango and a kiwi syrup base.” Trill Burgers previewed the menu items on its Instagram account.

The My Hero Academia x Trill Burgers collaboration also includes a t-shirt, featuring the character Izuku “Deku” on his journey to becoming the Number 1 Hero on the back with a 10th anniversary logo and Trill Burgers branding on the front. The shirts will be available in unisex from small to 2XL sizes in white.

Trill Burgers is no stranger to anime collaborations. The smash burger chain previously partnered with SPY×FAMILY in late 2025 for the SPY×FAMILY Trill Burger.

Sources: Press release, Trill Burgers’s Instagram account