by On the 31st, it was announced that Kinema Citrus, an anime production company known for works such as “My Happy Marriage” and “Made in Abyss,” will be launching a new project called “Global Anime Challenge” to nurture young creators.
On the 31st, it was announced that the “Dragon Ball Daimatsuri” event, commemorating the 40th anniversary of the popular manga “Dragon Ball” by the late Akira Toriyama, will be held on October 6th at Tokyo Big Sight (Koto-ku, Tokyo). The world’s first screening of the first episode of the utterly new anime series “Dragon Ball DAIMA” will be held, with voice actress Masako Nozawa and others taking to the stage.
On August 1st, a promotional video commemorating the 25th anniversary of “Digimon Adventure,” the first TV anime in the famous “Digimon” series, was unveiled for the first time in the world at Alta Vision in Shinjuku, Tokyo. The video featured the late Koji Wada’s famous song “Butter-Fly,” with Yagami Taichi, the other “chosen children,” and their partner Digimon. The video ended with Agumon saying, “See you later, Taichi.”
On the 1st, it was announced that the famous novel “A Country Old Man Becomes a Sword Master,” which originated from the novel submission site “Let’s Become a Novelist,” will be adapted into a TV anime and broadcast on TV Asahi’s anime slot “IMAnimation” from April 2025. The comic adaptation was selected for the Piccoma Award 2023 and other awards, and the series has sold over 5.5 million copies. The anime will be directed by Akio Kazumi and produced by Passione and Hayabusa Films.
On the 1st, it was revealed that a new anime series based on the manga “Undead Unluck” by Yoshifumi Totsuka, currently serialized in “Weekly Shonen Jump” (Shueisha), will be produced as a one-hour special and released in winter 2025.
On the 2nd, it was announced that the title of the anime based on the “College Student Arc” of the popular light novel series “Rascal Does Not Dream of Santa Claus” (Dengeki Bunko) will be “Rascal Does Not Dream of Santa Claus” and that it will be broadcast as a TV anime in 2025.
