Smartphone/PC game launched in 2022

The official website for the Code Geass: Lost Stories social game announced on Wednesday that the game will end service on December 7. Sales of the in-game Sakuradite currency, Lost Stories Pass, and Starter Pack has also ended on Wednesday. 

The game launched for smartphones as well as on PC via the DMM Game Player in May 2022. The game is free to play, with optional in-game purchases available. Rock band FLOW performed the game’s original theme song “Pendulum.” 

The game’s English version launched for iOS and Android in September 2023 and ended service in August 2024.  

The action role-playing game had been originally slated to launch in winter 2018 as a PC browser game, but was then listed with no release window. DMM Games then announced in November 2021 that it was restarting the game’s development process with f4samurai as the developers.

Game developer JORO launched the separate Code Geass Knightmare Survivor game for iOS and Android on September 15. The “survivor action” game is free to play, with optional in-game purchases.

The Code Geass franchise is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year and onward with several projects, including a new anime titled Code Geass Hoshi Oi no Aspal (Code Geass: Aspal the Star Chaser), a new musical stage play, and an exhibition.

Source: Code Geass: Lost Stories game’s website and X/Twitter account via Yaraon!

Manga to enter final stage with 15th volume out on December 8

Retailers are listing the story of Hiromasa Okujima‘s Baban Baban Ban Vampire manga as entering its “final stage” in its 15th compiled book volume, which will ship on December 8.

Dark Horse Comics licensed the manga, and will release the first volume in English on November 10. Dark Horse describes the manga:

An unassuming worker in a long-established public bathhouse is really the lustful 450-year-old vampire Ranmaru Mori! The heir to this esteemed Koi No Yu Bathhouse, Rihito Tatsuno, is a fifteen-year-old virgin—who is about to fall in love for the first time with a girl in his class! Ranmaru begins to weave a desperate plan to prevent Rihito from losing his virginity and to make him fall for Ranmaru instead, so the bloodsucker can eventually have pure, eighteen-year-old virgin blood for his own vampiric self!

Okujima launched the manga in Akita Shoten‘s Bessatsu Shōnen Champion magazine in October 2021. Akita Shoten published the manga’s 14th volume on August 6.

The Baban Baban Ban Vampire anime adaptation premiered in Japan on January 11. The anime is streaming on Netflix.

A live-action film of the manga was originally scheduled for a February 2025 release, but was postponed due to “various circumstances.” The preview screening scheduled in January 2025 was also canceled. The film opened in July 2025, and ranked at #5 in its opening weekend in Japan.

Sources: Amazon, Rakuten Books

The official website for the television anime of Kuzushiro‘s The Moon on a Rainy Night (Amayo no Tsuki) manga began streaming the anime’s first full promotional video on Wednesday. The video announces the anime’s main cast members, as well as more staff members.

The cast members include:

Iori Saeki as Saki Kindaichi

Sora Amamiya as Kanon Oikawa

The newly announced staff members include Seung Deok Kim and Tsutomu Tomoyuki as assistant directors, Haruko Nobori as the color key artist, Mai Ichioka as the art director, Atsushi Satō as the compositing director of photography, Masahiro Gotō as the editor, Nobuyuki Abe as the sound director, and jizue as the musical composer. CompTown president Masao Yamamura is also credited as animation producer.

Tomoe Makino (Aharen-san wa Hakarenai, A Tale of the Secret Saint, Woodpecker Detective’s Office) is directing the anime at CompTown. Shōgo Yasukawa (Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma, Mitsuboshi Colors, Rock is a Lady’s Modesty is writing and overseeing the series scripts, and Ayumi Nishibata (Otherside Picnic, Migi & Dali) is designing the characters.

The anime will premiere in 2027.

Kodansha USA licensed the manga, and it describes the story:

One rainy night, Saki is rushing to a piano lesson when she crashes into a beautiful, long-haired girl, dropping her sheet music in the process. Saki stutters an apology, but the girl simply hands back her sheet music and leaves without a word. Saki begins her first day of high school the following morning, only to find the stranger from the night before sitting at the desk next to hers. She learns that the girl’s name is Kanon and that she is not quite completely deaf, but very hard of hearing. Though Kanon needs to be close to people to read their lips, she tends to push people away with her icy demeanor. Through one kind gesture, Saki slowly begins breaking down the walls around Kanon, even as she feels something new blossoming within her.

Kuzushiro launched the manga on Kodansha‘s Comic Days website in June 2021. Kodansha published the manga’s 12th volume in Japan on June 19. Kodansha USA released the eighth volume digitally on December 23.

Kuzushiro also created the Egao no Taenai Shokuba Desu, Chihaya-san wa Sono Mama de Ii (You’re Fine the Way You Are, Chihaya-san), Living With My Brother’s Wife (Ani no Yome to Kurashiteimasu.), Tobaku Senpai Nani Kakeru?, and Akuma no Mama (Mama Akuma) manga. Manga UP! publishes Living With My Brother’s Wife in English, and Yen Press publishes Mama Akuma in English.

A television anime adaptation of Egao no Taenai Shokuba Desu debuted in October 2025. Crunchyroll streamed the series as it aired under the title A Mangaka’s Weirdly Wonderful Workplace.

Kuzushiro launched her Inugami-san to Nekoyama-san manga in Ichijinsha‘s Comic Yuri Hime magazine in 2011, and ended it in January 2017. Ichijinsha published the manga’s sixth and final compiled book volume in August 2017. The manga received a 13-episode television anime series adaptation, which premiered in Japan in April 2014. Crunchyroll streamed the series as it aired in Japan.

Source: The Moon on a Rainy Night anime’s website