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Skip & Loafer Anime’s 2nd Season Reveals April 2027 Debut in Teaser Video – News

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August 16, 2026

The official website for the television anime of Misaki Takamatsu‘s Skip and Loafer (Skip to Loafer) manga revealed in a teaser video the April 2027 debut of the show’s second season.

Skip and Loafer anime's 2nd season key visual — Image via Skip and Loafer anime’s website

Takatsugu Wakabayashi (Dragonar Academy) is returning to compose the music with new composer MICHIRU.

Kotomi Deai (Natsume’s Book of Friends) returns from the first season to direct and oversee the series scripts at P.A. Works. Scriptwriter on the first season Yōko Yonaiyama is also overseeing the series scripts alongside Deai. Manami Umeshita (Stella Women’s Academy, High School Division Class C3) is returning as the character designer and chief animation director. Reina Igawa is also returning as another chief animation director, and Yūsuke Inoue is returning from animation director on the first season as another chief animation director.

Other staff members on the second season include:

Junichi Higashi was previously listed as art supervisor but is no longer listed in the staff.

Crunchyroll will stream the second season.

Seven Seas Entertainment is releasing the manga digitally and in print in English, and it describes the story:

Excellent student Iwakura Mitsumi has always dreamt about leaving her small town, going to a prestigious university, and making positive change in the world. But she’s so focused on reaching her goals that she’s not prepared for the very different (and overwhelming) city life that awaits her in a Tokyo high school. Luckily, she makes fast friends with Shima Sousuke, a handsome classmate who’s as laid-back as she is over-prepared. Can this naive country girl make it big in Tokyo with Sousuke by her side?

The first anime series premiered in April 2023. Crunchyroll streamed the series as it aired in Japan.

Takamatsu launched the manga in Kodansha‘s Monthly Afternoon magazine in August 2018.

The manga ranked #7 in manga for male readers in the 2020 edition of Takarajimasha‘s Kono Manga ga Sugoi! (This Manga Is Amazing!) guidebook. It was nominated in the 13th Manga Taisho awards in 2020, and was also nominated in the Best General Manga category of Kodansha‘s 44th annual Manga Awards in 2020.

The manga received a stage musical adaptation that ran in March 2026 in Tokyo and Osaka.

Sources: Skip & Loafer anime’s website, Comic Natalie

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Boruto Manga Takes 1-Month Break – News

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August 16, 2026

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Manga returns in November issue that will ship on September 18

The official X (formerly Twitter) account for the Naruto and Boruto manga franchises announced on Friday that the Boruto: Two Blue Vortex manga will not appear in the October issue of Shueisha‘s V Jump magazine that will ship on August 21. The manga will return in the next issue, which is the November issue that will ship on September 18.

Manga storywriter Ukyō Kodachi and Mikio Ikemoto launched the Boruto sequel manga in Shueisha‘s Weekly Shonen Jump magazine in May 2016, and the manga ran monthly in the magazine. The manga transferred to V Jump in July 2019. Original Naruto manga creator Masashi Kishimoto replaced Kodachi as the manga’s storywriter in November 2020, starting with the manga’s 52nd chapter.

The manga went on hiatus in April 2023 and returned with the Two Blue Vortex arc in August 2023. Shueisha published the Boruto: Two Blue Vortex manga’s eighth compiled book volume on June 4.

Shueisha‘s MANGA Plus service and Viz Media are both publishing the manga digitally, and Viz Media is publishing the manga in print.

The Boruto: Naruto Next Generations television anime premiered in Japan on TV Tokyo in April 2017. The anime’s “Part I” ended with its 293rd episode in March 2023, and “Part II” of the anime has been green-lit.

Viz Media licensed the anime and streamed it on Hulu as it aired in Japan, and Crunchyroll also streamed the anime. The anime began airing on Adult Swim‘s Toonami block in September 2018. Viz Media is releasing the anime on home video.

Kishimoto launched the original Naruto manga in Weekly Shonen Jump in 1999, and ended the series in November 2014. The series has spawned multiple anime, anime films, OVAs, and game adaptations. The Naruto Shippūden anime series ended in March 2017. The manga is inspiring a live-action Hollywood film at Lionsgate.

Source: Naruto and Boruto franchise‘s official Twitter account

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Patlabor the Case Files Game Debuts on September 17 – News

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August 16, 2026

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Game to launch for PS5, PC in Japanese, English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean

Good Smile Company started streaming a trailer for it and developer Chime Corporation‘s Patlabor the Case Files, a new 3D action game based on the Patlabor franchise, on Monday. The video reveals the game’s September 17 release date.

The game will launch for PlayStation 5 and PC via Steam and Epic Games Store. It will be available in Japanese, English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, and Korean languages, and will be available for international pre-orders.

The game’s Steam page describes the story:

Labors. The generic term for robots developed for industrial use. Widely adopted in construction and civil engineering, crimes involving Labors rapidly increased. The Metropolitan Police Department established the Special Vehicle Section 2 Patrol Labor Squadron to counter this threat. Thus the “Patlabor” was born.

The game features multiple missions and side missions from hero and adversary perspectives, with scenes based on the anime. There are over 20 Labors.

The developers credit three members of the franchise‘s creative unit Headgear for supervising three elements of the game: Yutaka Izubuchi for mechanics, Kazunori Itō for the script, and Akemi Takada for character animation.

The Patlabor franchise‘s original concept of police officers piloting robotic mecha (patrol labors or “Patlabors”) was developed by HEADGEAR, a group consisting of director Mamoru Oshii (Ghost in the Shell, Sky Crawlers), script writer Kazunori Itō (.hack, Dirty Pair), mecha designer Yutaka Izubuchi (Eureka Seven, Mobile Suit Gundam franchise), character designer Akemi Takada (Kimagure Orange Road, Urusei Yatsura, Fancy Lala), and manga creator Masami Yuuki (Birdy the Mighty). The franchise spawned two original video anime, a television anime series, and three anime films. The last anime film, Patlabor WXIII, opened in theaters in Japan in 2002.

Maiden Japan has licensed the Patlabor OVA series, Patlabor the Mobile Police: The New Files OVA, Patlabor: The Movie, Patlabor 2: The Movie, and Patlabor WXIII.

The franchise‘s new Patlabor EZY anime project will consist of eight episodes, and will debut theatrically as three films on May 15, August 14, and in March 2027. “File 1” and “File 2,” which debuted on May 15 and August 14, consist of the anime’s first six episodes, are in an omnibus format with stand-alone stories. “File 3,” debuting in March 2027, will contain the last two episodes, and will tell a two-part story.

Source: Press release

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Toryumon Takeda’s Doga Manga Ends in 7th Volume – News

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August 16, 2026

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Series about noble who dies, gets put in cyborg body debuted in October 2023

Volume 6 cover for DOGA — Image via Amazon Japan

The sixth volume of Toryumon Takeda‘s DOGA manga announced on July 24 the series will end in the seventh volume, which will ship in winter 2026.

An early promotional image for the series described the story:

Yote is as high-ranked as he is unaware of the reality of the world. As a new lord, he gets the opportunity to leave his castle for the first time of his life to explore the free city of Leoure. But as Yote just starts to get a glimpse of what kindness and freedom look like, he is killed by street robbers. The young man is saved by a mysterious woman who happens to be a talented inventor. She transfers his mind into a cyborg body, allowing him to survive… for a year or two.

Yote is now a robot hardly able to move around by himself. But whatever, for him it’s the first day of a new life! But to have a life, he needs to become human again. Only the legendary mermaids are said to have the magical powers to achieve such miracles. To help him on his hazardous journey, he hires Doga, a strong and witty street orphan ready to do anything to get out of Leoure and see the world. For both of them, this is the beginning of a road-trip full of surprises!

Takeda launched the series on Futabasha‘s Web Action manga website in October 2023. Futabasha shipped the sixth compiled book volume on July 24.

Alien Books will publish Takeda’s Badducks manga in English this fall.

Kadokawa published Takeda’s One More Step, Come Stand by My Side collection of manga one-shots in April 2022. Yen Press licensed the book and released it in November 2023.

Source: DOGA volume 6