1+ hour, 22+ min ago  (399+ words) Season 2 opens in what the trailer calls "Ashikaga's Kamakura" — the shogunate capital under Takauji's new Muromachi regime. Viewers coming cold to Season 2 need one piece of historical context to understand the stakes: Japan at this moment had two simultaneously valid…...

2+ hour, 8+ min ago  (540+ words) Respawn Entertainment and CD Projekt Red launched the Apex Legends × Cyberpunk event today, July 14, bringing Night City to Wildcard's E-District map, two new ability mechanics tied directly to Cyberpunk lore, and a Mythic weapon skin that talks back — the first…...

5+ day, 17+ hour ago  (444+ words) For anyone who has been following the franchise since the January 2017 debut, the math is brutal: twelve episodes, one film, one announcement, and then five years of silence. Episode 1 of Season 2 — titled "Salamander Combat Unit" — is on Crunchyroll right now....

5+ day, 17+ hour ago  (403+ words) The answer, examined through five connected threads of real research, is considerably more substantial than a franchise revival. Co-creator DiMartino, speaking to Entertainment Weekly after the July 25 date was announced, said the excitement had returned now that the film would…...

5+ day, 17+ hour ago  (339+ words) Studio ENGI's visual upgrade — noted immediately by Anime News Network's Summer 2026 Preview Guide, which called the improvement "ridonkulous" — makes Season 2 a reasonable entry point for new viewers. But the series rewards a STEM lens applied to its worldbuilding, which is…...

6+ day, 5+ hour ago  (470+ words) Tokyo Game Show 2026 officially released its exhibitor list on July 8, confirming 759 companies from 51 countries and regions — more nations than any previous edition of the show — spread across 3,946 booths at Makuhari Messe in Chiba, Japan. The figures will continue to grow…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (645+ words) What separates Edgerunners 2 from a standard sequel, according to reviewers and the creative team's own pre-premiere framing, is a deliberate architectural shift. Season 1 was built around a single protagonist — David Martinez's rise and fall, told with the romanticized intensity of…...

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1+ week, 1+ day ago  (247+ words) "The manga is obviously hand-drawn on paper; it's analog," Mokochan told Variety ahead of the Annecy premiere. "And so even though what is depicted here is this cyber world, the fact that it's been hand drawn by people is what…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (349+ words) The opening animation is in production at MAPPA, the studio behind the anime's final season, directed by Arifumi Imai. It will not be included at launch and will instead arrive as a free post-release update — an unusual arrangement that reflects…...