We are getting a Jujutsu Kaisen season 2.

The trailer featuring the show’s opening theme, “Ao no Sumika” from Tatsuya Kitani, gives us a look at frantic combat and some sombre emotions.

The second series is due July 6th in Japan, and Crunchyroll may pick it up. Sony’s anime platform had season one and then Jujutsu Kaisen 0, which earned about $180 million worldwide.

Season 2 is the Hidden Inventory and Premature Death arc, which follows a younger Gojo and Nanami from their time at the school. However, we’ve Crunchyroll’s overall description of the series, which features more on Gojo’s pupil, Yuji, to go on.

Yuji Itadori is a boy with tremendous physical strength, though he lives a completely ordinary high school life. One day, to save a classmate who has been attacked by curses, he eats the finger of Ryomen Sukuna, taking the curse into his own soul. From then on, he shares one body with Ryomen Sukuna. Guided by the most powerful of sorcerers, Satoru Gojo, Itadori is admitted to Tokyo Jujutsu High School, an organization that fights the curses… and thus begins the heroic tale of a boy who became a curse to exorcise a curse, a life from which he could never turn back.

Via Crunchyroll.

Bucchigiri?! is an original and for-TV anime which takes the Japanese school delinquent, something between a Western school bully and a drop-out, and merges in the classic Middle Eastern story of One Thousand and One Nights.

Produced by MAPPA and directed by Hiroko Utsumi, the show is slated to hit the airwaves in January next year.

Utsumi penned the script, while Takahiro Kagami is the character designer and one of the key animators.

Make of this what you will, but Utsumi and MAPPA have worked together before and on an anime called Banana Fish. That’s not the only fishy anime Utsumi has directed; they also did Free! Iwatobi Swim Club. 

What goes on in Bucchigiri?! The plot revolves around a young man named Aladdin Tomobishi, who reunites with his former nearest buddy Matakara Asamine and quickly becomes engulfed in a battle to prove the strongest. There’s also… a genie on the horizon!

Via Crunchyroll. 

Monday may commonly be considered the worst day of the week, but luckily for us, it’s usually nowhere near as bad as the day these poor souls are having in ALIEN: MONDAY.

It’s a fan-made short film set in space (as most ALIEN films are), and following the crew members of the Thanatos as they learn the terrifying risks involved with undeclared cargo.

Slimey eggs – check. Xenomorphs – check! White med bay with those pods – check. Fear and high tension – check! Gory dead people – check! Looks like there’s all the markers here for a great ALIEN watch, and I for one am 100% here for it.

Watch the trailer here:

So, who’s the mastermind behind this? Animator Paul Johnson AKA “Paul OtaKing“, and amongst the voice cast are Sara Secora and Phillip Sacramento.

We don’t have a release date for this one yet, but hoping it’ll be soon! If it’s out for Halloween, all the better!

In the meantime, xenomorph appreciation is real here at Geek Native, and just how cool is this 12″ ‘mega figure’ xenomorph model from MenKind?!

The detail on the back is just unbelievable.

As you’d expect, it’s an official license, and if you really need it then there are even 1-working-day delivery options from the retailer.

Source: GeekTyrant

Atelier is a very popular series of computer RPGs. The first one, Atelier Marie, was published by Salburg for the PlayStation back in 1997, and the most recent Atelier Ryza 3: Alchemist of the End & the Secret Key was published by Gust and Koei in March of this year.

The first Atelier Ryza, Atelier Ryza: Ever Darkness & the Secret Hideout, dates back to 2019 and introduces Kurken Island’s Reisalin “Ryza” Stout as the hero.

In March, it was also announced Atelier Ryza would get an anime. We’ve got a new trailer.

The series lines up July 1st as the release date. The director will be Emma Yuzuriha, and Liden Films is helming the project.

Interestingly, Kazuki Yanagawa is credited with the music, the same composer from the video game.

Kazuki Yanagawa isn’t the only returning name as Yuri Noguchi her role as Ryza, Hitomi Ōwada as Klaudia Valentz, Takuma Terashima as Lent Marslink, Yui Kondo as Tao Mongarten, Hirofumi Nojima as Empel Vollmer and Haruka Terui as Lila Decyrus.

Via Crunchyroll.

A few weeks back, in episode 195 of Geek Native’s podcast Audio EXP I began by suggesting a weird plot twist where the town militia arrested RPG PCs for a crime they might do.

I was being sarky, and I was making a political comment. In the UK, protesters had been arrested by police for a crime they might do and the crime of peaceful protest.

That police dystopia is the future imagined by the anime Psycho-Pass. Police are equipped with “hounds” or enforcers for partners; one solves crimes, and the other wields an AI-powered blaster which will shoot, injure or kill a potential suspect based on what they might do.

The latest movie in the franchise is Psycho-Pass, and Crunchyroll is taking it to US cinemas. This week, Sony’s anime giant confirmed a UK release too.

In 85 cinemas across the country, Psycho-Pass: Providence will air on the 2nd of August. It’ll be dubbed, huzzah, not subbed.

The official synopsis says;

January 2118. Chief Inspector of the Criminal Investigation Department, Akane Tsunemori, receives a report of an incident on a foreign vessel – the body of Professor Milicia Stronskaya has been discovered. Behind the incident is a group known as the Peacebreakers, a foreign paramilitary organisation and a new outside threat who are targeting the professor’s research papers known as the “Stronskaya Document”.

Reunited with Shinya Kogami, a former fugitive from the Criminal Investigation Department, Akane grapples with a case that quickly escalates beyond their expectations. The Stronskaya Papers could reveal a truth that would shake Japan’s government, and even the Sibyl System, to the core.

It is in this untold story that the missing link is revealed.

There’s often a dedicated website set up to show which cinemas have the anime, but until then, there’s always a Fandango search.

If you’re going to murderhobo your way through a fantasy land of flora and fauna, why not cook as you go?

Delicious in Dungeon is a Studio Trigger TV anime based on Ryōko Kui’s Delicious in Dungeon (Dungeon Meshi). Yeah, it’s about eating your way through a dungeon. 

There are English subs for those who click the caption button.

Sound like a one-shot idea? We’re up to the 12th compiled volume of the manga, all published through Kadokawa.

Yen Press have the English license, and then manga on Amazon. They say;

What do you get when you cross dungeon adventures and food manga? You get Delicious in Dungeon, where we find our troupe of adventurers on a mission to save their lost team member while figuring out how to survive on the food that the dungeon provides. When young adventurer Laios and his company are attacked and soundly thrashed by a dragon deep in a dungeon, the party loses all its money and provisions. They’re eager to get right back to it, but there’s just one problem: if they set out with no food or coin to speak of, they’re sure to eat it on the way! But Laios comes up with a brilliant idea: “Let’s eat the monsters!” Slimes, basilisks, mimics, and even dragons…none are safe from the appetites of these dungeon-crawling gourmands!

Via Anime News Network.

In the isekai “Am I Actually the Strongest?” we’ve a super-powered magical baby.

The good news is that time zooms forward just a bit based on the trailer to that awkward teenagerish age beloved of so many anime stories.

This is the first trailer for the adaptation of “Sai Sumimori’s Am I Actually the Strongest?” which began life as a web story in 2018 (and is still being written). Kodansha took the light novels and made the anime the following year.

It’s Kodansha Comics who translate the series to English, and they say;

To be reincarnated into another world with the promise of a “cheat” power is one thing… but to be reborn as a baby, and then left for dead after your royal parents think you’re powerless?? That’s another thing entirely! Now the newly-born Reinhart—or Hart to his new friends—must find his way through a dangerous world…but luckily he’s got magic that’s quite literally off the charts!

The anime is being directed by Takashi Naoya with Staple Entertainment at the helm. It’ll air on Japanese TV in July.

Via Anime News Network.

Have you ever played an elf in a fantasy setting where elves can live forever? Did you finish the campaign by bringing peace to the land?

What happened afterwards? Did your elf live forever while their old adventuring allies all died?

Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End is an adaptation of a manga about an immortal elf and her companions.

The original was written by Kanehito Yamada and illustrated by Tsukasa Abe. Madhouse has picked up the project, which has a 2023 slot on Nippon TV and is being directed by Keiichiro Saito.

There’s an English version of the manga from Viz Media who say;

Elf mage Frieren and her courageous fellow adventurers have defeated the Demon King and brought peace to the land. But Frieren will long outlive the rest of her former party. How will she come to understand what life means to the people around her?

I may have grimdarked the intro, as this trailer all seems very wholesome…

Via Crunchyroll.

Fishing for a new twist on isekai and finding a blend of comedy and combat in Kurokata’s web novel Studio Add and Shin Ei Animation are exploring “The Wong Way to use Healing Magic”.

The TV anime is due out next year.

The series is directed by Takahide Ogata.

The web novel has already been adapted into a manga, with art by Reki Kugayama and distributed by Kadokawa. There’s even an English adaptation of the novels and manga by One Peace Books.

One Peace has both paperback and Kindle versions of the comedy on Amazon. The synopsis given is;

Usato, an ordinary high schooler, happens to run into two fellow students after school one rainy day. Suddenly, all three of them are engulfed in a magic circle and transported to a fantasy world. There’s just one tiny problem—Usato is simply dragged along by accident! On top of that, Usato learns that he is capable of using healing magic—an incredibly rare affinity in this new world. Now Usato must spend his days with the rescue team thugs, struggling through their hellish training regimen—learning the wrong way to use healing magic. Get ready for an eccentric otherworld fantasy filled with comedy and combat!

There’s a very popular series called “Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?” and the visual for “The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic” makes me wonder whether an alternative title could have been “Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Bears on an Adventure?”

Via Crunchyroll.

A Playthrough of a Certain Dude’s VRMMO Life is a TV anime due for release in Japan in October.

The series is based on Howahowa Shiina and Yamada’s light novels and is being picked up by Maho Film.

Our hero, Earth, is played by Kaito Ishikawa (Sakuta in Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai) while the voice of Rimuru in That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime plays Milly.

There’s a Fairy Queen by Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba’s Kanao thanks to voice actor Reina Ueda and Tasuku Hatanaka (Reki in SK8 the Infinity) is Zwei.

JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders’ animation director Yuichi Nakazawa is at the helm.

There’s an English version of the manga published by Alpha Manga and they describe the series;

A new type of VRMMO called “One More Free Life Online” is out. He logs in as a young boy avatar called “Earth”. Taichi Tanaka (38, single) has a regular office job and enjoys playing video games in his free time. In a world where the player is free to do as they wish, he decides to master a skill that’s been deemed to be useless! He makes potions that are too much of a hassle to make, cooks food that is excessively too good, and uses bizarre original weapons to hunt monsters… An adventure manga about an ordinary middle-aged man leisurely enjoying his VRMMO sandbox game!

Via Crunchyroll.