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Synduality Echo of Ada Game to End Online Service in 2027 – News
Bandai Namco Europe announced on Monday that Bandai Namco Entertainment‘s Synduality Echo of Ada game will end its online service after May 2027, and will transition to an offline version.
With the end of the online service, updates and events will no longer be available after the content scheduled for October.
Sales of in-game items including the “SYN COINS” tokens will end on December 18. The launch of the transfer of save data to local save data is also scheduled for December. The end date of the online service is scheduled to be announced in March 2027, and transition to the offline game is scheduled after May 2027.
The game launched on January 24, 2025 (January 23 in Japan) for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC via Steam.
Sony describes the game:
The year is 2222. It has been years since Tears of the New Moon, a mysterious rain, poured and wiped out almost the entire human race. The poisonous rain gave birth to deformed creatures devouring for humans, and humanity fled from the danger. As means for survival, the humans then build an underground haven; Amasia. In this new built dystopian city, on a pursuit of maintaining their existence, they run into an Artificial Intelligence named Magus. Not knowing how things will work between them, the story of how Humans and AI coinciding and trying to find their truths begin.
©SYNDUALITY Noir Committee
The game is part of Bandai Namco Filmworks and Bandai Spirits‘ Synduality project, which includes the television anime Synduality: Noir. The anime’s first cours premiered in July 2023. Disney+ streamed the anime exclusively worldwide as it aired in Japan. Hulu streamed the anime in the U.S. The second cours (quarter of a year) premiered on the TV Tokyo, TV Osaka, TV Aichi, TV Setouchi, TV Hokkaido, and TV Q Kyuushuu channels in January 2024. Disney+ exclusively streamed the second cours starting a day later in Japan.
While the game is set in the year 2222, the anime is set 20 years after in 2242.
The franchise also has a manga spinoff titled Synduality: Ellie, focusing on the titular character, which launched in Kadokawa‘s Monthly Comic Alive magazine in July 2023. The second and final compiled book volume shipped in Japan in January 2025. Hiroshi Mishima drew the manga. The manga also has a novelization under Kadokawa‘s MF Bunko J label.
The franchise also has a separate novel spinoff “photo story” titled Synduality: Kaleido, which launched in Hobby Japan‘s Monthly Hobby Japan magazine in July 2023.
Source: Bandai Namco Europe’s website and YouTube channel, Synduality Echo of Ada game’s Japanese website
Disclosure: Kadokawa World Entertainment (KWE), a wholly owned subsidiary of Kadokawa Corporation, is the majority owner of Anime News Network, LLC. One or more of the companies mentioned in this article are part of the Kadokawa Group of Companies.
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Manga launched on Monday
Manga creator Katsuwo launched a manga adaptation of Renren Ii’s Ōja no Ban Kuruwase: Net Shōgi no Teiō, Real Taikai de Chōjō o Mezasu (Underdog Upsets the King) light novels in the November issue of Kadokawa‘s Dengeki Daioh G on Monday. The issue’s front cover will also feature the manga.
© Kadokawa
© Renren Ii, Fujiko, Kadokawa
The story centers on Mikado Watanabe, an introverted high school student who maintains a double identity online as the so-called “King of Self-Destruction,” a high level online shōgi player who makes even pro players shudder. Mikado joins his high school’s shōgi club after a series of strange events, enter the amateur shōgi tournament Kōryūsen, and begins his rise in the game outside of the Internet, alongside his fellow club members.
Renren Ii launched the originals story’s serialization in Kadokawa‘s Kakuyomu website in December 2023, and the story is ongoing. Kadokawa published the story’s first print volume on March 21, with illustrations by Fujiko. The third volume shipped on August 24, and the fourth volume will ship on November 20.
Katsuwo launched the #Zombie Sagashitemasu (#ImLookingForZombies) manga in Kadokawa‘s Comic Dengeki DaiohG magazine in June 2022. Kadokawa published the third and final compiled book volume in January 2024. Yen Press licensed the manga. The manga is getting a television anime that will debut on October 3. Crunchyroll will stream the anime.
Katsuwo‘s Mitsuboshi Colors manga inspired the television anime of the same name, which premiered in January 2018. Sentai Filmworks streamed the anime as it aired in Japan.
Katsuwo launched the Hitori Bocchi no Marumaru Seikatsu (Solitary “__” Life, or Hitori Bocchi’s “__” Life) manga in the inaugural issue Comic Dengeki DaiohG in September 2013, and ended it in April 2021. Kadokawa published the manga’s eighth and final volume in June 2021. The manga inspired a television anime adaptation in April 2019. Crunchyroll streamed the anime.
Source: Dengeki Daioh G November issue and website
Disclosure: Kadokawa World Entertainment (KWE), a wholly owned subsidiary of Kadokawa Corporation, is the majority owner of Anime News Network, LLC. One or more of the companies mentioned in this article are part of the Kadokawa Group of Companies.
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Now That I Can Control Reality With A Mouse Cursor Anime’s English Dub Debuts on October 4 – News
©Okumaro/Suiseisha Inc.
WWWave Corporation‘s anime streaming platform OceanVeil announced on Monday that the English dub of the television anime of Okumaro‘s Now That I Can Control Reality With A Mouse Cursor, I’m Gonna Click Away On The Girls! (Mouse Cursor de Genjitsu o Sōsa Dekiru Yō ni Natta node, Onna no Ko o Ippai Click Shima~su, or Click Me All Over) manga will debut on the service on October 4 alongside the Japanese television premiere.
The company revealed the English dub cast:
The dub staff includes:
The anime is part of the AnimeFesta programming block in Japan. The anime will debut on television in Japan on October 4 at 25:00 (effectively October 5 at 1:00 a.m.) on Tokyo MX and BS11. The anime began streaming in Japan earlier on AnimeFesta starting on September 11. OceanVeil also began streaming the anime on the same day.
OceanVeil describes Now That I Can Control Reality With A Mouse Cursor, I’m Gonna Click Away On The Girls! anime’s story:
Takumi, an ordinary otaku, is sitting in IT class when he notices something impossible: his computer mouse cursor has sprung right out of the screen and into the real world! Panicked, he asks his bossy childhood friend Mone if she can see it, but she just brushes him off. Realizing the cursor is completely invisible to others and under his control, Takumi decides to test it out by slipping it between the gaps in Mone’s clothes and clicking away!
As Mone writhes from the unfamiliar sensation, Takumi uncovers a floating real-life context menu featuring incredible controls like “Cut”, “Paste”, “Double Sensitivity Mode”, and even “The Real Deal” (if he can earn enough Click Points!). But keeping his new powers a secret isn’t easy. Between accidental wardrobe malfunctions caused by ‘Cut’, mysterious classmates pursuing him, and art club presidents who might actually see the cursor, Takumi’s clicking spree is about to set off a wild, slapstick chain reaction!
Kazuya Nakamura is the anime’s planning and executive producer, Reiga Goto is the producer, Studio Hōkiboshi is producing the anime, and Suiseisha is credited for production. Makoto Sokuza is the director, Eeyo Kurosaki is overseeing the series scripts, Minakawa Akapiv is the character designer, and Harimasu is the chief animation director.
Other staff members include:
Okumaro began serializing the manga on the ComicFesta service in March 2024, and Suiseisha published the manga’s fourth volume on September 18. Coolmic is publishing the manga in English under the title Click Me All Over.
Source: Press release
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© Alpa, SHUEISHA Inc.
Alpa launched a new series titled Slap Shot Girls on Shueisha‘s Shonen Jump+ platform on Tuesday. MANGA Plus began releasing it in English at the same time on Monday
The story follows Kurumi Kobashiri, who moves to Hokkaido after middle school due to her parents’ circumstances. Her boyfriend chooses to break up with her rather than enter a long-distance relationship, and Kurumi is heartbroken. She finds herself wandering into a skating rink where she discovers a hot man and hockey.
Alpa ended the Ankoku Delta manga in January 2025. Alpa launched the series on the Shonen Jump+ platform in March 2024. MANGA Plus publishes the series digitally in English. hueisha shipped the fifth compiled book volume in April 2025.
Sources: Shonen Jump+, Manga Plus
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