The official website of the Wareware wa Uchuujin (We Are Aliens) announced additional cast on Thursday. The film is scheduled to premiere in Japanese theaters on September 25.

Cast

Seiya Toda: Sano Gaku

Seiya Toda (child): Ozeki Reika

Elmo Matsushita: Sasaki Arisa

Calligraphy Teacher: Harumi Edo

Kouhei Kadowaki (Beastars 2nd Season episode director) is helming and handling the screenplay for the movie at Nothing New. Yaffle (Entotsu Machi no Poupelle) is composing the music.

The studio opened a crowdfunding campaign on Motion Gallery in November 2025, aiming to raise 8 million yen. The project has since surpassed its goal, with current funding exceeding 9 million yen.

Source: PR Times

The staff for Eiga Meitantei Precure! Fushigi na Niwa to Futari no Himitsu (Star Detective Precure! The Movie: The Mysterious Garden and the Secret of 2 People) — the film for Star Detective Precure!, the 23rd main anime entry in the Precure franchise — announced on Thursday that Jinji Nishimura and Kyon from the comedy duo cotton are guest cast members for the film. The two play creatures known as Dame Dame, who can slap an X mark on things to make them unusable and unable to move.

The film’s story begins with the Detective Precures investigating the “X Mark Incident,” when a fairy named Rain appears and requests for the Detective Precures’ help. Rain leads the team to a lovely garden called “Karin’s Garden,” but it is being overrun by tiny creatures called “Dame Dame.” The team investigates the “Dame Dame” creatures and discovers the secret hidden in the garden.

The cast members who voice the film’s original characters are:

Past Precure characters from You and Idol Precure♪ and Wonderful Precure! also appear in the film.

Hanako Ueda (You and Idol Precure♪, Summer Time Rendering My Hero Academia FINAL SEASON episode director) is directing the film. Yoshimi Narita (Eiga HappinessCharge PreCure! Ningyō no Kuni no Ballerina, Eiga Precure All Stars New Stage 3: Eien no Tomodachi, Eiga Tropical-Rouge! Precure: Yuki no Princess to Kiseki no Yubiwa! films) is writing the script, Erika Fukasawa (Eiga Kimi to Idol Precure♪ Omatase! Kimi ni Todokeru Kirakkilive!) and Misaki Umase (You and Idol Precure♪) are composing the music, and Emiko Miyamoto (Eiga Precure All Stars F, Precure Super Stars! original character designer) is designing the characters and is also the film’s chief animation director. 

Additional staff members include art director Risa Fujii, color key artist Satoshi Takezawa, compositing director of photography Takumi Arai, and production manager Hirotaka Naota.

Yūka Masui and Chihaya Yoshitake performs the film’s ending theme song “FIRST PRISM.” Ami Ishii performs the insert song “First Step.”

The film will open in Japan on September 18.

The Star Detective Precure! anime debuted on February 1 on ABC TV, TV Asahi, and their affiliate channels at 8:30 a.m. JST. Crunchyroll is streaming the anime in North America, Central America, South America, Australia, New Zealand, Europe, Africa, the Middle East and CIS.

The anime centers on Anna Akechi, a second year middle school student who lives in Makoto Mirai Town. She travels back in time from 2027 to 1999 when her “companion fairy” named Pochitan appears on her birthday. In 1999 Makoto Mirai Town, Anna meets Mikuru Kobayashi, another second year middle school student who dreams of becoming a great detective. The two girls witness the troubles caused by the Phantom Thieves who steal people’s precious belongings, and they transform into great Precure detectives and use their deductive reasoning skills to protect the people’s smiles.

The anime stars:

Ami Ishii performs the series’ opening theme song “Heart ni Hint! Meitantei Precure!” (Hint In My Heart! Star Detective Precure!). Akane Kumada and Yūka Masui perform the ending theme song “Naze? Nazo?! ANSWER” (Why? Mystery?! ANSWER).

Sources: Star Detective Precure! film’s website, Comic Natalie

Artist apologizes for “discomfort,” “concern” caused by social media posts

Manga artist Ayano Yamane announced on Wednesday that she has withdrawn from the manga adaptation of Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou’s The Husky and His White Cat Shizun: Erha He Ta De Bai Mao Shizun novel series. The artist prefaced the announcement by apologizing for previous posts on social media which caused “discomfort and concern.”  Libre Publishing had announced minutes earlier that the manga adaptation project has been suspended.

Libre Publishing had announced the manga adaptation on Monday, and the adaptation had been set to debut in the December issue of Biblos‘ Be-Boy Gold boys love magazine on October 28 in print (and on November 19 digitally) after a preview.

The announcement was met with backlash from fans on social media, who accused the artist of anti-Chinese and anti-Korean sentiments in previous social media posts.

Yamane ended the Crimson Spell manga in January 2020. She launched the manga in Chara Selection in 2004, and Tokuma Shoten published the manga’s final compiled book volume in July 2021. Viz Media‘s SuBLime boys-love imprint publishes the manga in English and shipped the seventh volume in April 2025. Media Blasters Kitty Media label had previously released the first two volumes in the series in English in 2007-2008.

Digital Manga Inc. released Yamane’s Finder manga in North America, and SuBLime picked up the license in 2016. DMI also released Yamane’s A Foreign Love Affair manga in North America. A Foreign Love Affair inspired a two-episode video anime series in 2007, and Finder inspired an “Animix” adaptation in 2010.

Sources: Ayano Yamane‘s X/Twitter account, K -Comics Beat (Kalai Chik)