It has been announced that the newest *Pokémon* movie that releases on July 18 (Sun.) in Japan will be titled *Pokémon the Movie XY: Ringu no Choumajin Fuupa (The Archdjinn of Rings: Hoopa)*.
*Psycho-Pass: The Movie* was just released on Jan. 9, and it’s off to a good start. It’s now releasing collaboration ramen with *Takumen.com*, a popular ramen site.
In 2014, “Attack on Titan x Real Escape Game Collaboration – Escape from the Walled City” was held in large venues nationwide in Japan, and since the game has achieved huge popularity, it will now head to the United States.
The nominees of the 38th Japan Academy Prize, an award ceremony for honoring the excellent films of 2014 and the staff who made them, were announced on Jan. 14. This year, five works were nominated for Animation of the Year.
It has been announced that pre-orders for Part 2 of a series of collaboration PC glasses between *Kuroko’s Basketball* and Jins PC called “Kuroko’s Basketball x Bandai x Jins PC” (5,292 yen, tax included, shipping & handling separate) will begin on Bandai’s official shopping site, Premium Bandai, on Monday, Jan. 19 at 11:00 a.m. (JST).
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The seventh and most recent chapter in *The Next Generation - Patlabor* series of live-action shorts, started showing in theaters on Jan. 10. Meanwhile, anticipation builds for the nationwide release on May 1 of the full-length feature film, *The Next Generation - Patlabor: Shuto Kessen* (Final Battle in the Capital).
The Pullip fashion doll collaborative series with *Sailor Moon*, the new second season of which has started on Niconico, was only lacking Sailor Mars and Sailor Jupiter of the Inner Sailor Guardians.
Pre-orders have begun for collaboration pumps and booties between Clamp’s popular comic *Cardcaptor Sakura* and shoe brand Tyake Tyoke. Pre-orders will be taken until Sunday, Feb. 1.
An anime adaptation has been confirmed for *Sore ga Seiyu!*, a tag team effort between an active voice actress and a popular manga artist. The broadcast will begin this summer.
In the road race anime *Yowamushi Pedal: Grande Road* the interhigh is half over and the fight is getting more and more intense in the mountains of Hakone. Various collaborations are currently underway and tons of items are being released, among them the long-awaited “Keychain Plushies”!
Staring at a cold computer screen banging the keyboard with a “kata kata kata” all day long… Now a product is here to give a bit of relief from this daily grind. That product is super-cute *Bonobono* keyboard stickers.
*My Love Story!!*––a shoujo manga with a main character who is 2 meters tall, 120 kilograms, and has a rough, stern face––is getting a TV anime adaptation. The confirmation of the anime came in November 2014, and now at last the staff and cast on this attention-grabbing series have been revealed.
*Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha ViVid*, the newest sequel to the popular anime series *Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha* was announced in August 2014. As the series has many enthusiastic fans, the news was greeted with great applause.
The movie *Arpeggio of Blue Steel: Ars Nova DC* will release on Jan. 31 at Shinjuku Wald 9 and other theaters across Japan. Along with this release, various events are set to begin in Shinjuku, Tokyo.
Japan Expo in Thailand 2015 is coming to Bangkok, Thailand from Feb. 6-8 with Jeducation, a company that supports students in Thailand in studying abroad in Japan, as the main sponsor.
Model and figure maker Kotobukiya will release in May 2015 the plastic model “Eva Unit-13 Pseudo-Evolution No. 3+ Phase (Estimated).” This Eva appeared in *Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo*, and grabbed the spotlight.