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Japanese Animation TV Ranking, August 31-September 6 – News [2026-09-12]
Screenwriter Jukki Hanada, music video production group Hurray!, and 100Studio‘s original anime film A Few Moments of Cheers aired on NHK Educational on Saturday, September 5 at 3:50 p.m., and it earned a 0.2% rating.
The television ratings above are an estimate of the percentage of the population that watch a given program, based on data from a survey of households in Japan’s Kanto region. The ratings do not count recordings that viewers watch later.
Source: Video Research (Kanto region)
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Orb, 100 Meters Manga Creator Uoto to Launch 2 New Manga Series – News
Orb: On the Movements of the Earth artist Uoto announced two new manga series on Friday and Saturday.
Hallucination Meat will launch in Shogakukan‘s Weekly Big Comic Spirits magazine. The launch date is still to be determined, but Uoto thinks it will be this year. The artist had teased the announcement with a diagram of a methane molecule.

© Uoto, Shogakukan Inc. 2026
Uoto will partner as the story writer with artist Kyō Yoneshiro on the series Test Taker/Cheaters. The title will launch in Kodansha‘s Monthly Afternoon magazine. Its launch date is also still to be determined, but Uoto thinks it will be at the start of next year. He had teased the announcement with an image of a pencil and a handgun.

© 2008-2026 Kodansha Ltd., Uoto, Kyō Yoneshiro
Uoto launched the Orb: On the Movements of the Earth (Chi -Chikyū no Undō ni Tsuite-) manga in Weekly Big Comic Spirits in September 2020, and ended it in April 2022. Shogakukan published the manga’s eighth and final compiled book volume in June 2022. Seven Seas Entertainment licensed the manga. With this manga, Uoto became the youngest ever to win the Grand Prize for the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize awards at 24 years old in April 2022. The manga was nominated for the 68th Shogakukan Manga Awards in 2022. The manga ranked at #22 in Da Vinci’s “Book of the Year” manga list in 2022. The manga’s 25-episode anime adaptation premiered in October 2024, annd episodes streamed on Netflix and ABEMA after each episode’s airing.
Uoto‘s 100 Meters (Hyakuemu) manga inspired an anime film that premiered in Japan in September 2025. GKIDS screened the film in North American theaters in October 2025.
Kaneshiro launched the Netsuzō: Chijin no Ai (Fabrication: A Fool’s Love) manga, based on Junichirō Tanizaki‘s 1924 novel Chijin no Ai (published in English under the title Naomi), in Shogakukan‘s Weekly Big Comic Spirits magazine on August 3.
Shueisha‘s Shonen Jump+ service published Yoneshiro’s “The 11th hour” one-shot manga in October 2025. Shueisha‘s MANGA Plus service published the one-shot in English.
Uoto and Furumachi ended the Dr. Muscle Beetle manga in Akita Shoten‘s Weekly Shōnen Champion magazine in May 2025. The manga launched in Weekly Shōnen Champion in January 2025. Akita Shoten shipped the second compiled book volume on July 8. Uoto is credited for the first volume’s original concept.
Yoneshiro launched the Ageku no Hate Kanon (And he arrived at the KANON) manga in Shogakukan‘s Monthly Spirits magazine, and the Ōjōgiwa no Imi o Shire! manga in Weekly Big Comic Spirits in 2020.
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Tokyopop Releases Can’t Buy My Love, Romantically Challenged, 3 More Manga in 2027 – News
Company also licenses A Fangirl’s Guide to Learning How to Date 3D Men, LOVE IS PAIN, How to Fall In Love with You Again
Tokyopop announced on Friday it has licensed the following manga titles and will release them in English in spring-summer 2027:

Title: Can’t Buy My Love
Creator: Pitari Mishima
Summary: University student, Yu, lost everything he owned and his home in a fire. Out of luck and money, he had no one to turn to. That is, until the “Odd Jobs” Madoka offered a helping hand. Madoka takes Yu in as a live-in part-timer, and even took care of Yu when he needed him most. The kindness touches Yu, and he feels himself falling for Madoka. But behind the mask of what he thought was a “perfect angel” was actually a money-grubbing man who announces that “the job is only a means to make money, nothing more.”
As the rose-colored glasses fall, Yu gets worked to his bones from his sloppy and candid boss-and-roommate. But at times, Yu notices a mature, sexy side of Madoka that he cannot forget. Before long, Yu finds himself entangled in Madoka’s secret past…

Title: A Fangirl’s Guide to Learning How to Date 3D Men
Creator: Ari Asato (art), Chizu Aoi (original work), Kagari Mizuno (original character design)
Summary: Kaoruko has lived 24 years of her life completely uninterested in men in the 3D world. Being an obsessed otome game fan, she only cares for her 2D men in the 2D world! That is, until her parents force her to go to a matchmaking meeting with a man who looks exactly like her favorite character?! She agrees to the marriage right away! But…he doesn’t! Unlike the prince of her video game, Tsukasa is unfriendly and cold, giving Kaoruko a reality whiplash. But for the first time, her heart moved for a real, 3D man… so her only option now is to “conquer” the Tsukasa route and have her happy ending!

Title: Romantically Challenged
Creator: Hi Calo
Summary: Haruki, an omega, was only trying to buy a second-hand t-shirt. But when the package comes coated in alpha pheromones, it hits Haruki that whoever these pheromones belong to has to be his fated mate.
It has always been his dream to meet his alpha in a romantic, dramatic style and become bonded to them. But when he faces the shocking reality that the owner of those pheromones is far from the ideal man he dreamt of, Haruki has to make a decision.
The gloomy and dark alpha can be described as the opposite of Haruki’s type! But his instincts are screaming for him.
Wavering between his instincts and ideal, will Haruki be able to push his fated mate away? Or will he succumb to his instincts and drown in the ecstasy he never asked for?

Title: LOVE IS PAIN
Creator: Arata Minami
Summary: Yui is at the end of his rope. If he doesn’t snag a client, he’s done for. But today is his chance! And he’s going to show his new client just how good he is in bed… But who would’ve thought that this new client would be a tall, scary-looking man with a menacing aura, Gichi. Lucky for Yui, things seem to be going just as he imagined…until it doesn’t. Gichi takes control and has Yui wrapped around his fingers, bound by these feelings he had never experienced before.
“Aren’t you a pro? Can’t you try a little harder?”
“Screw you and your money! You can shower me with bills and the answer is still no!”
Yui was determined never to see this client a second time…but he can’t seem to get the guy out of his head. When fate brings the two together again, Yui realizes that there might be a kinder side to him behind all the scary muscles.

Title: How to Fall In Love with You Again
Creator: Kazuma Akutagawa
Summary: Shoma Yagi is 18 years old. He’s been harboring one-sided feelings for his childhood friend, Mizuki…or he was.
When Shoma wakes up, an adult Mizuki is standing right next to him. What’s even more shocking, Mizuki claims that they’re boyfriends?! To Shoma’s surprise, he had lost all of his memories of the past 7 years. The Mizuki who stands before him now is mature, sexy, and nothing like the Mizuki in his memories. But to Shoma, the last thing he remembers is realizing that he had a crush on his childhood friend. The sudden change in their relationship may be too much for poor Shoma to handle…
Source: Press release
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Japan’s Video Game Rankings, August 31-September 6 – News [2026-09-12]
Onimusha: Way of the Sword PS5 version debuts at #1, Switch 2 version at #3
Japan’s Game Ranking: August 31-September 6
| Rank | System | Title | Publisher | Release Date | Weekly Copies | Total Copies | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | PS5 | Onimusha: Way of the Sword | CAPCOM | September 4 | 76,530 | 76,530 | |
| 2 | NSw | Rhythm Heaven Groove | Nintendo | July 2 | 29,360 | 975,289 | |
| 3 | NSw 2 | Onimusha: Way of the Sword | CAPCOM | September 4 | 19,499 | 19,499 | |
| 4 | NSw 2 | Splatoon Raiders | Nintendo | July 23 | 10,267 | 648,529 | |
| 5 | NSw | Tomodachi Life | Nintendo | April 16 | 9,880 | 1,596,536 | |
| 6 | NSw 2 | ELDEN RING Tarnished Edition | FromSoftware | August 28 | 6,559 | 34,163 | |
| 7 | PS5 | The Blood of Dawnwalker | Bandai Namco Entertainment | September 3 | 4,618 | 4,618 | |
| 8 | NSw 2 | Mario Kart World | Nintendo | June 5, 2025 | 4,259 | 3,028,216 | |
| 9 | NSw 2 | Orbitals | Kepler Interactive | September 3 | 3,949 | 3,949 | |
| 10 | NSw | Minecraft | Nippon Microsoft | June 21, 2018 | 3,754 | 4,274,163 | |
| 11 | NSw | It Takes Two | Electronic Arts | December 8, 2022 | 3,374 | 191,859 | |
| 12 | NSw | Powerful Pro Baseball 2026-2027 | Konami | June 11 | 3,349 | 212,985 | |
| 13 | NSw 2 | Village in the Shade | Nippon Ichi Software | July 30 | 3,184 | 33,064 | |
| 14 | NSw 2 | Pokémon Pokopia | Nintendo | March 5 | 3,108 | 1,122,013 | |
| 15 | PS5 | Cities: Skylines Remastered Japan Special Edition | Spike Chunsoft | September 3 | 3,061 | 3,061 | |
| 16 | NSw | Ganbare Goemon Daishūgō! | Konami | July 2 | 2,412 | 87,234 | |
| 17 | NSw | Village in the Shade | Nippon Ichi Software | July 30 | 2,308 | 19,325 | |
| 18 | NSw 2 | My Hero Academia: All’s Justice | Bandai Namco Entertainment | September 3 | 2,181 | 2,181 | |
| 19 | PS5 | Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 2 | Konami | August 27 | 2,013 | 14,704 | |
| 20 | NSw | Super Smash Bros. Ultimate | Nintendo | December 7, 2018 | 1,933 | 5,947,780 |
Source: Famitsu
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