Anime
Immersive Musical Show to Tell Story Set 5 Years After Mamoru Hosoda’s Belle Film – News
A website opened on Tuesday to announce Animmersive Live: Ryū to Sobakasu no Hime, an immersive musical show based on Mamoru Hosoda‘s BELLE anime film which will run from October 20 to November 15 at MoN Takanawa: The Museum of Narratives in Tokyo.
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“Animmersive,” a blending of anime and immersive show, is a new immersive musical live show where “the world of animation becomes reality.” Animmersive Live: Ryū to Sobakasu no Hime is a spinoff story set five years after the original film. In the story, Hiro-chan, the “As” (another self) avatar of the singer BELLE‘s producer, tries to produce and discover a new diva by holding the biggest music festival in the history of the virtual world U.
Yuki Hiroya is the show’s creative director, Yuichiro Komikado is writing the script, and Toshitaka Shinoda (Road to You: Kioku ni Mau Konayuki director; Horimiya, Hula Fulla Dance ending director) is the show’s video director. Akira Yamazaki (Bocchi the Rock! stage play director and writer) is the stage director, Tatsurō Ogata is the CG director, and Teddy Loid (Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt, New PANTY & STOCKING with GARTERBELT, Tojima Wants to Be a Kamen Rider music composition) is the music director. Mika Pikazo (Re:bel Robotica mixed media project creator) and Nike Shimaguchi (KILLTUBE) are designing the characters.
BELLE opened in Japan in July 2021. The film had IMAX screenings in 38 theaters throughout Japan. This makes BELLE the first of Hosoda’s films to have IMAX screenings. The film is Hosoda’s highest-grossing film.
Hosoda (The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, Summer Wars, The Boy and The Beast, Mirai) directed and scripted the film, and is also credited for the original work. The film marks Studio Chizu‘s 10th anniversary. Taisei Iwasaki (Blood Blockade Battlefront, Dragon Pilot: Hisone and Masotan, The Naked Director) was the film’s music director and composer.
GKIDS began screening the film in English and in Japanese with English subtitles in the U.S. in January 2022. GKIDS and Shout! Factory then released the film on digital platforms and on Blu-ray Disc in May that same year.
Sources: Animmersive Live: Ryū to Sobakasu no Hime show’s website, Comic Natalie
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Anime
‘Kyouran Reijou Nia Liston: Byoujaku Reijou ni Tensei shita Kamigoroshi no Bujin no Karei naru Musouroku’ Reveals Additional Cast, First Promo
The official website for the television anime adaptation of Umikaze Minamino‘s Kyouran Reijou Nia Liston: Byoujaku Reijou ni Tensei shita Kamigoroshi no Bujin no Karei naru Musouroku (Nia Liston: The Merciless Maiden) light novel revealed additional additional cast, a key visual (pictured), and the first promotional video on Tuesday. The anime series is scheduled to premiere on October 6 at 9:25 p.m. on Tokyo MX, followed by BS Nippon TV and MBS
Cast
Rinokis Funk: Fuuka Izumi (Koori no Jouheki)
Hildetora Artois: Rina Honizumi ( Kenja no Mago)
Leliared Silver: Rina Hidaka (Tensei shitara Slime Datta Ken)
Motoki Nakanishi (Isekai Shoukan wa Nidome desu) is directing the anime at Konami animation, with Nichita Seki (Kidou Senshi Gundam: GQuuuuuuX assistant episode director) serving as assistant director. Gigaemon Ichikawa (Sozai Saishuka no Isekai Ryokouki) is handling the series composition. Yuuki Itou (Nige Jouzu no Wakagimi animation director) and Kana Tosaoka (Hana wa Saku, Shura no Gotoku animation director) are designing the characters. Naoki Endou (Love Live! Nijigasaki Gakuen School Idol Doukoukai) is composing the music.
Minamino penned the fantasy novel on the Shousetsuka ni Narou website from May 2019 to January 2021. Hobby Japan began publishing the novel under its HJ Bunko imprint with illustrations by Jishaku in September 2022 and by Kanata Katana third volume onwards in September 2023. The 11th volume was released on June 1. Kyouran Reijou Nia Liston has a cumulative 2.1 million copies of its volumes in circulation.
Kodai Kabuto began serializing a manga adaptation on the Manga UP! platform in November 2022. Square Enix published the eighth volume on February 6.
J-Novel Club licensed the light novel for digital release in English in November 2023 and published the ninth volume May 26. Square Enix began simulpublishing the manga in English on its Manga UP! platform in March 2024.
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Source: kyoranreijo_pr on X
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The editors of both Houbunsha‘s Manga Time Kirara magazine and Comic Fuz website announced on Monday that manga creator Afro will go on hiatus due to their health worsening from the stress of serializing two manga at the same time. As a result, the Laid-Back Camp manga and mono manga will both go on hiatus. Both manga will return at dates to be announced later by their respective editors.
Afro launched the Laid-Back Camp (Yurucamp) manga in Houbunsha‘s Manga Time Kirara Forward magazine in 2015, and moved it to Comic Fuz website in 2019. Houbunsha published the manga’s 18th compiled book volume in November 2025. Yen Press began releasing the manga in English in March 2018.
The anime’s first season premiered in January 2018. The second season of the anime premiered in January 2021. An anime film based on the manga opened in July 2022. The third television anime season premiered in April 2024. The fourth season will debut in 2027. Crunchyroll streamed the three anime seasons and distributes the anime film.
A live-action television series adaptation of the original manga premiered in January 2019.
Afro launched the mono four-panel manga in Houbunsha‘s Manga Time Kirara Carat in March 2017. Houbunsha released the manga’s fifth volume in June 2025. Yen Press is releasing the manga in English. The manga inspired a television anime that premiered in April 2025. Crunchyroll streamed the anime.
Source: Manga Time Kirara X/Twitter account
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The official X/Twitter account for guitarist Mei Nekozuki announced via a post on Sunday from her family that she has died. The funeral will be for immediate family only.
There will be refunds offered for her originally scheduled live events, including her birthday solo live concert on July 29, which have been canceled.
Nekozuki was active as a BanG Dream! support guitarist for the millsage and Ikka DumbRock! bands, and she was also active in the C2 Kikan 1MYB band for Kan Colle.
Nekozuki had just joined The Last Diamond band on July 6. The band confirmed the news of Nekozuki’s death. They were set to release their debut single on July 29, but they will reveal more information at a later date.
Sources: Mei Nekozuki’s X/Twitter account, The Last Diamond’s X/Twitter account, Music Natalie
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