Anime
VTuber Suisei Hoshimachi, Hatsune Miku Throw 1st Pitch at Baseball Game – Interest
VTuber appeared on the mound for a perfect first pitch
VTuber Suisei Hoshimachi and virtual idol Hatsune Miku threw the first pitch at the Chiba Lotte Marines match up against the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks on Monday. Hoshimachi released a video of the event to her X (formerly Twitter) account. The video shows the VTuber appearing on the pitcher’s mound on a screen and throwing a perfect pitch to Marines player Shingo Ishikawa:
本日、 千葉ロッテマリーンズさんのファーストピッチに登場しました⚾️✨
会場の皆さん、#初音ミク ちゃん見守っていただきありがとうございました‼️#chibalotte #BSW pic.twitter.com/GVR7VBjmaj
— 星街すいせい☄️Studio STELLAR (@suisei_hosimati) July 20, 2026
The event was part of Lotte’s “Tsumetakute Aoi, Natsu ga Kita! Coolish & Sō Day” (A cool and blue Summer is here!) ice cream campaign, which began on July 3. Lotte streamed 30-, 60-, and 90-second advertisements featuring Hatsune Miku and Suisei Hoshimachi on its YouTube channel.

© CFM © Studio STELLAR COVER
The Chiba Lotte Marines faced the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks at home for the final game of their three-game series. The Marines gained an early lead in the first three innings. However, the Hawks mounted a comeback starting in the fourth inning and clinched the win in the ninth inning, beating the Marines 5-4.
Sources: Suisei Hoshimachi‘s X/Twitter account, Lotte’s YouTube channel (link 2, link 3), PR Times
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Anime
Manga ‘Studio Cabana’ Gets TV Anime in 2027
Production company Kadokawa opened an official website for a television anime adaptation of Aguri Uma‘s Studio Cabana on Wednesday, revealing the main cast, staff, and a teaser visual (pictured). The anime series will air in 2027.
Voice actress Sayumi Suzushiro (Bocchi the Rock!) is starring as the lead female character Yukari Maki.
Staff
Director: Shinichirou Ushijima (Kimi no Suizou wo Tabetai)
Series Composition: Sawako Hirabayashi (Ookami Shoujo to Kuro Ouji)
Character Design: Haruka Sagawa (Yofukashi no Uta)
Studio: Juvenage
Uma began drawing the music romance manga on the pixiv Sylph web magazine in June 2021. Kadokawa published the eighth volume in November 2025, with the ninth scheduled to be released on August 21. Studio Cabana has a cumulative 500,000 copies of its volumes in circulation.
Yen Press licensed the manga in English on May 25 and plans to release the first volume on December 15.
Studio Cabana was nominated in the Web Manga category for the 2023 Tsugi ni Kuru Manga Awards (Next Manga Awards).
Synopsis
Yukari Maki is a high school girl who prides herself on honesty—and she’s starting to get the feeling that she and her delinquent classmate, Yuusuke Kusaka, don’t have a single thing in common! But her straitlaced unwillingness to let him skate by in school earns her an almost chaperone-like reputation, and his apparent disdain. Yet, despite Yuusuke’s disapproval of her hovering, Yukari refuses to let a new rumor about him spread. After following Yuusuke home to discuss it, she watches him stop at a music studio. And there, Yukari sees—and hears—a side of Yuusuke she had never imagined… (Source: Yen Press)
Official site: https://studio-cabana.com/
Official X: studiocabana_pr
Source: Press Release
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Anime
ippatu’s Shōjōhime Manga Moves to YanMaga Web on August 2 – News
Manga with new interpretation of Journey to the West story launched in December 2025

©ippatu, Kodansha
This year’s 34th issue of Kodansha‘s Young Magazine announced on Tuesday that ippatu‘s Shōjōhime (Monkey Princess) manga will move to Kodansha‘s YanMaga Web website, where it is simultaneously serialized, on August 2. The manga will also start its new arc in its next chapter.
The manga simultaneously launched in Young Magazine and on the YanMaga website in December 2025. The manga is a new interpretation of the Chinese classic Journey to the West. Kodansha published the manga’s first compiled book volume on April 6 and the second volume on July 6.
ippatu began drawing the Tsugumi Project (Tora Tsugumi) manga, and French publishser Ki-oon began releasing it as an original manga in France in 2019. Kodansha‘s Weekly Young Magazine began serializing the manga in Japan in January 2021. The manga ended in September 2023, and got an epilogue chapter. Kodansha published the manga’s seventh and final volume in November 2023. Kodansha USA Publishing licensed the manga and released the final volume in September 2025, and it shipped in France in February 2024.
Tsugumi Project is inspiring a television anime adaptation.
Source: Young Magazine issue 34 and X/Twitter account
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Anime
‘Mahou no Princess Minky Momo: Akogare no Yume e – Magokoro no Duo’ Reveals Additional Cast, Teaser Trailer
The official website for the new Mahou no Princess Minky Momo: Akogare no Yume e – Magokoro no Duet (Fairy Princess Minky Momo) original video anime revealed additional cast members, main visual (pictured), and a teaser trailer on Wednesday. The OVA is scheduled to open in theaters on November 13 ahead of its home video release.
Cast
Databook: Fukuchi Ochiai (Karakai Jouzu no Takagi-san)
Chamocha: Natsumi Fujiwara (Saikyou no Ousama, Nidome no Jinsei wa Nani wo Suru?)
Pipirupi: Rie Kugimiya (Gintama)
Ayumu Watanabe (Summertime Render) is directing at Ashi Productions and Deko Akao (Witch Watch) is penning the script. Hiroshi Watanabe (Minky Momo in Tabidachi no Eki) and Mari Tominaga (Cardfight!! Vanguard) aare designing the characters. Tomoki Hasegawa (Jiisan Baasan Wakagaeru) is composing the music.
Produced by Ashi Productions, the original television anime aired in 63 episodes from March 1982 to May 1983. A second anime series aired in 62 episodes from Fall 1991 to Fall 1992.
The Minky Momo in Yume ni Kakeru Hashi (Minky Momo in the Bridge Over Dreams) original video anime was released in May 1993, followed by Yume no Naka no Rondo (La Ronde in my Dream) in July 1985, and Minky Momo in Tabidachi no Eki (Minky Momo: The Station of Your Memories) in June 1994.
Teaser Trailer
Source: Comic Natalie
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