The official website for the television anime of Midori Satō‘s Horror Collector (Kyōfu Collector) novel series revealed three new cast members for the anime on Thursday. The new cast members include:

Sae Hiratsuka as Momo

Ryōta Ōsaka as Raita

Hana Hishikawa as Sachiko Konno

The anime’s staff also revealed the anime’s guest cast for the first three episodes. Yōko Hikasa voices Urban Legend Woman in the first episode. Sumire Uesaka voices high schooler Seira Takada in the second episode. Yūma Uchida voices magazine journalist Takaaki Saitō in the third episode.

Previously announced cast members include:

Hiiro Ishibashi as Fushigi Senno

Jun Fukuyama as Jimmy

Saori Hayami as Himitsu

Nobuhiko Okamoto as Blue Umbrella Man

The anime will debut on NHK on October 10. Crunchyroll will stream the anime as it airs in Japan.

Yuki Inaba (KamiKatsu: Working for God in a Godless World, Our Last Crusade or the Rise of a New World season 2) is directing the anime at Studio Palette, and is also in charge of series composition. Kaori Yoshikawa (KamiKatsu: Working for God in a Godless World, Our Last Crusade or the Rise of a New World season 2) is designing the characters. Masato Kōda is composing the music. Tetsuya Gunji is the audio director.

Yen Press is releasing the novel series and Niko Yuki‘s manga adaptation in English for its “JY for Kids” middle-grade imprint, and it describes the story:

The internet is full of creepypastas, cryptid sightings, tales of paranormal activity, and unsolved disappearances. These are mostly rumors and pranks fueled by trolls—entertainment. But the unlucky few learn the hard way that some legends are true. Many of these unfortunate souls are doomed, but their luck may change if they cross paths with the boy in the red hood. He roams from town to town and appears wherever strange things occur. Is he a light in the dark? Or living proof that monsters are all too real…?

Sato writes the novels, Norio Tsuruta is the supervisor, and Yon draws the art for the novel series. Kadokawa started releasing the novel series in June 2015, and published the 29th volume on Wednesday.

Yuki’s manga adaptation ran in Kadokawa‘s Monthly Comic Gene magazine in 2021-2022. Kadokawa published the manga adaptation in one volume in March 2022.

Yen Press published the sixth novel volume in May 2025, and published the manga in one volume in May 2025.

Sources: Horror Collector anime’s website, Comic Natalie

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Crunchyroll announced on Wednesday that its Crunchyroll Manga app is now available in the United Kingdom, Ireland, India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Australia, and New Zealand.

Crunchyroll also announced that it will be “easily accessible” in a new dedicated anime hub for the PlayStation 5 console that will launch next spring. The anime space on the console will also include anime games and anime-inspired games.

The Crunchyroll Manga app launched on iOS and Android devices in the United States and Canada in October 2025. The ad-free app is separate from the main Crunchyroll streaming service.

Crunchyroll is discontinuing its main app on the Nintendo Switch on October 30. Crunchyroll is still available on Xbox and PlayStation, as well as on mobile devices, media players, Smart TVs and TVs, service providers, and via web browsers.

Crunchyroll increased the prices for all of its subscription tiers in the U.S. in February, and Crunchyroll halted free ad-supported streaming on its service last December.

Source: Press releases

The official website for the television anime of Nao Iwamoto‘s Marronnier Ōkoku no Shichinin no Kishi (The Seven Knights of the Marronnier Kingdom) manga announced three more cast members for the anime on Thursday:

Natsuki Hanae as Justice, a knight of the Marronnier Kingdom and Hugo’s nephew

Mitsuki Saiga as Zoe, Justice’s adjutant

Miyuri Shimabukuro as Colette, the daughter of the kingdom’s head chef

The fantasy romance manga centers on seven brothers who are knights of the Marronnier Kingdom. The kingdom lies in the center of a group of eight kingdoms, and each brother is dispatched to a different kingdom as ambassadors, to go on an adventure to find their fated partner.

The anime stars:

Kiyoko Sayama (Skip Beat!, Vampire Knight, To Your Eternity seasons 2-3) is directing the anime at J.C. Staff. Shinzō Fujita (To Your Eternity seasons 1-3, The World Is Still Beautiful) is both writing and overseeing the series scripts. Yuriko Maeda (chief animation director for Requiem of the Rose King, One Punch Man TV 2) is designing the characters, Yoshiaki Fujisawa (Apocalypse Hotel, Land of the Lustrous, Love Live! School idol project) is composing the music, and Jin Aketagawa (Dr. Stone, Fire Force) is the sound director.

The anime premiered on the NHK Educational channel on October 3 at 6:25 p.m. JST (5:25 a.m. EDT). Amazon Prime Video is streaming the anime, and is also streaming an English dub.

Viz Media licensed the manga on October 1 and uploaded the first two chapters digitally on the same day.

The manga launched in Shogakukan‘s Flowers magazine in 2016. Shogakukan shipped the 11th volume on June 10. The manga topped the list of manga for female readers in the 2018 edition of Takarajimasha‘s Kono Manga ga Sugoi! (This Manga Is Amazing!) guidebook.

Sources: The Seven Knights of the Marronnier Kingdom anime’s website, Comic Natalie