From cosplay brand Cospatio comes costumes themed after Shiratsuyu Class Destroyers Shigure Kai Ni and Yudachi Kai Ni from the popular browser game *Kantai Collection*.
A limited-time shop will be opening for *Bungo Stray Dogs*, just announced to be becoming an anime. The shop will be open in Shinjuku Marui Annex from Aug. 29 to Sept. 16.
The popular manga born from tweets on Twitter, *Mr. Nietzsche in the Convenience Store*, is getting a drama adaptation. Streaming will begin first on Hulu in January 2016. A TV broadcast will also be on air at the same time.
The official launch trailer of *Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain*, the newest chapter of immensely popular *Metal Gear* series, was released on Aug. 25 around the world. The game will be made available for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, Xbox One, Xbox 360, as well as PC.
Bushiroad has announced that a *Tantei Opera Milky Holmes* movie titled *Gekijoban Tantei Opera Milky Holmes ~Gyakushu no Milky Holmes~* (Tantei Opera Milky Holmes the Movie: Milky Holmes' Counterattack) will be released in February 2016.
*Kodoku no Gourmet Season 5*, a drama starring Yutaka Matsushige, was cleared for broadcast! The series will air from Oct. 3 (Sat.) 12:12 a.m. on TV Tokyo in the drama block Drama 24.
Ume Aoki will hold her first solo exhibit this fall at the Mori Art Museum in Ueno, Tokyo. The “Ume Aoki Exhibition” will run for 10 days, from Oct. 3–12.
In the early morning of Aug. 25, an interesting new anime project was announced. The title of the anime is *Hai-Furi*, and Atto is in charge of character designs.
The first movie adaptation has been confirmed for Kaoru Tada’s popular original manga, *Itazura na Kiss*. The title of the movie is *Itazura na Kiss the Movie: High School Arc*, and it’s slated for release in fall 2016.
Based on Masamune Shirow’s *Ghost in the Shell* series, the first key visual to the stage play *Ghost in the Shell: Ghost is Alive* has been released. The visual puts the focus on Motoko Kusanagi played by Kaede Aono.
On Aug. 23, maids and cosplayers gathered in Akihabara for a water sprinkling event, Uchimizu Musume Daishugō!! 2015, bringing some relief from the hot summer weather.
*One Piece* is a widely loved anime that even now is a representative of the genre in Japan. The newest news on the series was revealed on Aug. 22. Production on the series’ long-awaited theatrical film was announced.
From Aug. 14–19, Anime!Anime! conducted a reader survey. Twenty anime titles that remind one of the arrival of summer where lined up, and readers chose from them three anime.