Japanese news outlet Jiji.com reported on Wednesday the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department’s Marunoichi Police arrested former GungHo Online Entertainment executive Takanori Kikuchi under suspicion of breach of trust. He is accused of embezzling company funds while working as the head of the systems division and has admitted to the charges.

GungHo Online Entertainment shared a statement following the arrest on Wednesday, revealing it had filed criminal charges against Kikuchi on October 5, but refrained from announcing the news publicly to avoid potential interference with authorities’ investigation. While Jiji.com mentioned the name of the former employee arrested, GungHo Online’s statement on Wednesday did not mention the person by name.

GungHo Online announced in August 2025 it had dismissed a former executive-level employee for embezzlement in July of that year. 

The company stated the employee had misappropriated approximately 246 million yen (about US$1.675 million) of company funds by making fictitious business orders to themselves through a work-matching service operated by a third-party company for several years. The employee, acting as the contractor, caused an outflow of about 100 million yen (about US$681,000) by improperly paying outsourcing fees to a business partner, despite no actual business. Following the initial investigation, GungHo formed an internal investigation team by two independent auditors.

The company stated on Wednesday it will continue to implement measures to prevent recurrence, including expanding internal compliance education and training, among other measures.

GungHo’s CEO, President, and Representative Director Kazuki Morishita stepped down from his positions on February 1. CFO, Director, and Executive General Manager of Finance Accounting Division Kazuya Sakai became the new CEO, President, and Representative Director on the same day. 

GungHo Online Entertainment is known for its puzzle game Puzzle & Dragons. The company hosts the Japanese server of the MMORPG Ragnarok Online. GungHo has also worked on the TEPPEN, Ninjala, and Disney Pixel RPG games.

Sources: GungHo Online, Jiji.com via Hachima Kikō

Netflix announced on its website on Monday that it will add the television anime of Akimi Yoshida‘s Banana Fish manga in select regions on August 12.

The anime was previously available with subtitles on Amazon Prime Video, but left the service recently.

Amazon Prime Video‘s streams of the anime previously listed “AI beta” dubs for its English and Latin American Spanish dubs in late November. ANN reached out to Aniplex regarding the dubs on November 28 but did not receive a statement. Prime Video removed the dubs in December.

The anime premiered on Fuji TV‘s Noitamina block in July 2018. The anime adapted the entire manga, but took place modern day New York, instead of in the 1980s when the original manga took place. Amazon Prime Video streamed the series as it aired with English subtitles.

Viz published the manga in English, and it describes the story:

Vice City: New York in the 80s… Nature made Ash Lynx beautiful; nurture made him a cold ruthless killer. A child runaway brought up as the adopted heir, hatchet man, and sex toy of “Papa” Dino Golzine, the East Coast’s Corsican crime lord, Ash is now at the rebellious age of seventeen – forsaking the kingdom of power and riches held out by the devil who raised him, preferring a code he can live with among a small but loyal gang of street thugs. But his “Papa” can’t simply let him go – not when the hideous secret that drove Ash’s older brother mad in Vietnam has suddenly fallen into his insatiably ambitious hands.

It’s exactly the wrong time for Eiji Okamura, a pure-hearted young photographer from Japan, to arrive in NYC and make Ash Lynx’s acquaintance… and fall with him into the bloody whirlpool of pride, greed, lust and wrath unleashed by the enigma code-named Banana Fish…

Hiroko Utsumi (Free!) directed the anime at MAPPA, and Hiroshi Seko (Ajin, Mob Psycho 100, Inuyashiki Last Hero) was in charge of the series scripts. Akemi Hayashi (Fruits Basket, Peacemaker, Doukyusei -Classmates-) designed the characters. Shinichi Osawa (Ninja Slayer From Animation) composed the music. Akitsugu Hisagi (key animator for Kids on the Slope, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 2nd GIG) was the show’s “hard-boiled supervisor.”

Source: Netflix

Tomofumi Ogasawara launched the previously announced official crossover manga between Code Geass and Gundam Wing, titled Shin Kidō Senki Gundam W x Code Geass – Hangyaku no Lelouch – Minuet Zero (Mobile Suit Gundam Wing x Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion – Minuet Zero), on Kadokawa‘s KadoComi platform on Friday. Kōjirō Taniguchi from Sunrise is credited with the scenario.

Ogasawara previously drew the Mobile Suit Gundam Wing Endless Waltz: Glory of the Losers  and Code Geass: Lelouch of the Re;surrection manga.

Bandai Namco Filmworks board director and producer Naohiro Ogata announced during the “Gundam Conference Spring 2026″ livestream event in May the Mobile Suit Gundam Wing franchise is getting a “new visual project.”

The franchise celebrated its 30th anniversary last year, and screened a promotional video at San Diego Comic-Con International. The Mobile Suit Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz anime also returned to theaters in the United States in 4K resolution, and screenings started last fall.

The “Code Geass Project ‘To 20th’ Event” in December revealed several projects for the Code Geass franchise’s 20th anniversary, including an all-new anime titled Code Geass Hoshi Oi no Aspal, the manga collaboration with Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, and the television broadcast of Code Geass: Rozé of the Recapture in July 2026. The franchise’s 13 films also held revival screenings in Japan every first and third Tuesdays and Thursdays of the month, from January 6 until June 25.

Sources: KadoComi, Comic Newtype‘s X/Twitter account

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