Netflix Streams 4th Part for Pokémon Horizons: The Series on November 22
Netflix announced on Tuesday that the third part of the Pokémon Horizons: The Series anime will begin streaming on November 22.
The Pokémon Company had originally announced that the anime would debut on Netflix in the U.S. on February 23, but the series debuted instead on March 7. The second part began streaming on May 10. The third part premiered on August 9.
The anime premiered in Japan in April 2023 with a one-hour first-episode special. The show airs on Fridays at 6:55 p.m. JST. The anime started its second arc, "Terapagos no Kagayaki" (The Brilliance of Terapagos), with its 29th episode last October in Japan. The "Terastal Debut" arc for the anime debuted on April 12.
The anime follows completely new dual protagonists, who are named Liko and Roy. The anime features Sprigatito, Fuecoco, and Quaxly from the Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet video games, and also the Legendary Pokémon Rayquaza in its Shiny form. The anime also introduces the new characters Friede and Captain Pikachu, who are a Pokémon professor and Pokémon partner duo who battle alongside Liko and Roy.
Date A Live: Ren Dystopia Game Launches Worldwide on Steam on September 5
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Idea Factory International announced on Tuesday that it will release Date A Live: Ren Dystopia, a game based on Koushi Tachibana's Date A Live light novel series, worldwide on PC via Steam on September 5. The release will include two audio dramas ("Natsumi Encounter" and "Origami Friendship") and a short novel ("Ren Masques") exclusive to the Deluxe Edition.
Compile Heart released the game in September 2020 for PlayStation 4 after a delay from summer 2019. The company cited "various circumstances" as causing the delay.
The game's story begins on a normal night, when Shido dreams of a voice calling out from within a deep darkness. When he wakes up in the morning, he finds a box decorated with serpentine patterns by his bedside. At first he thinks it is a prank, and asks everybody about it, but something happens when he opens it.Tachibana wrote the original draft for the game's story, and Tsunako designed the characters. The game features the character Natsumi, who appears in the anime's third season (voiced by Ayumi Mano). The game also introduces new Spirits.
Manga Up! Global Adds The Duke's Daughter Drops Her Engagement and Facade Manga
Square Enix's Manga UP! Global added author Neko Suzumori and artist Ryō Miyama's The Duke's Daughter Drops Her Engagement and Facade (Konyaku Haki Sareta Kōshaku Reijō wa Reijō no Kamen o Nugisuteru) manga on Wednesday.
The company describes the story:
After being publicly dumped by her fiancé, the Crown Prince Lombard, the duke's daughter Christiana appears unshaken. Despite being educated to be a refined noblewoman and the perfect queen, she has always harbored a different dream—to become Lombard's knight. Now, with the engagement off, she finally has the chance to pursue her true calling.
The manga debuted on Square Enix's Manga UP! in March 2023. Square Enix published the manga's second compiled book volume in November 2023, and it will release the third volume on September 6.
Chiikawa Gets Chiikawa Pocket Smartphone Game
The Chiikawa franchise announced last Saturday that it will have a smartphone game titled Chiikawa Pocket. The game will include mini-games, costumes, and item collecting.
Nagano's original Chiikawa manga follows the sometimes happy, sometimes sad, and a tad stressful daily life of "some sort of small, cute creature" (Nanka Chiisakute Kawaii Yatsu) known as Chiikawa. Chiikawa enjoys delicious food with bees and rabbits, toils hard every day for the rewards of work, and still maintains a smile.
The manga's anime premiered in April 2022, and it previously aired every Friday within Fuji TV's morning news and entertainment program Mezamashi Terebi, before it began airing twice weekly on Tuesdays and Fridays beginning in April 2023. Sentai Filmworks licensed the anime, and is streaming it on HIDIVE with English subtitles.
Child actress Haruka Aoki (Liza in the Japanese dub of Mighty Express) voices the titular character Chiikawa as her first television anime voice acting role. Child actor Makoto Tanaka (Okko's Inn) voices Hachiware. Ari Ozawa voices Usagi.
Takenori Mihara (Lovely Movie: Itoshi no Muco) is directing the anime. Shūgo Tokumaru is composing the anime's music. Doga Kobo is producing the anime.
Nagano originally started serializing the manga under the title Nanka Chiisakute Kawaii Yatsu on Twitter in January 2020.