Bungo Stray Dogs Anime's 3rd Season Casts Masaaki Mizunaka, Yuuna Mimura

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Bungo Stray Dogs Anime's 3rd Season Casts Masaaki Mizunaka, Yuuna Mimura

The official Twitter account for the anime adaptations of Kafka Asagiri and Sango Harukawa's Bungo Stray Dogs manga revealed two more cast members for the Sheep group for the television anime's third season on Wednesday. Masaaki Mizunaka will play Shirase, and Yuuna Mimura will play Yuan. The characters will debut in episode 27 on April 19.

Masaaki Mizunaka as Shirase

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Yuuna Mimura as Yuan

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The season premiered on April 12, and Crunchyroll is streaming the series as it airs.

The main cast and staff from the previous two television anime seasons and film are returning for the third season. Takuya Igarashi and Yoji Enokido return to respectively direct and pen the scripts for the season. BONES is also returning for the animation.

Kenichi Suzumura will join the anime's cast as the character Katai Tayama. Tayama is a hacker who has known Kunikida for a decade. A former Armed Detective Agency member, he now lives as a shut-in in his apartment.

GRANRODEO performs the opening theme song "Setsuna no Ai," and Luck Life performs the ending theme song "Lily." Both groups have previously performed theme songs for the previous television anime and the Bungo Stray Dogs: Dead Apple film.

The manga centers around a league of literary figures with supernatural powers. For example, in real life, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa wrote acclaimed stories that inspired Akira Kurosawa's Rashōmon film and the Aoi Bungaku Series anime's Jigoku Hen (Hell Screen) arc. In Bungo Stray Dogs, he has the power to transform and manipulate his cloak into a monster-like entity. Together, some of these writers solve mysteries as part of the "Armed Detective Agency," while others appear as antagonists.

Yen Press is publishing the manga in English.

The manga has inspired two previous television anime seasons, and an anime film.

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Judgment Game's Trailer Reveals New Character Model for Kyohei Hamura

Ryu ga Gotoku Studio began streaming a new trailer for it and Sega's Judgment (Judge Eyes: Shinigami no Yuigon) PlayStation 4 game on Tuesday. The trailer shows the new character model for Kyohei Hamura. The character was previously based on the appearance of Denki Groove member and actor Pierre Taki (real name Masanori Taki), who also voiced the character in the Japanese version of the game.

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IGN also posted a comparison video between the old and new character models.

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Sega's Toshihiro Nagoshi revealed earlier this month that it had already finished changing the character model and Japanese voice for the character. The Narcotics Control Department of Japan's Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry arrested Taki on March 12 for illegal possession and use of cocaine, prompting Nagoshi's development team to replace Hamura in the game.

The new model will appear in the game when it goes back on sale in Japan. Sega temporarily ceased sales of the game, which shipped in Japan last December. The new model will also appear in the game's Western version, which will launch as previously scheduled on June 25. Nagoshi credits the team's quick decision to change the model as the key to avoiding a possible delay for the Western release.

Square Enix is replacing Taki as the voice of Frozen's Olaf in the Japanese-dubbed version of the Kingdom Hearts III game, and Disney will replace him in the Japanese dub of Disney's Frozen 2 film sequel before it opens on November 22 in the United States and Japan. However, TOHO decided to open Mahjong Hōrōki 2020, a new live-action film based on Takehiro Irokawa's Mahjong Hōrōki novel, as planned on April 5 without any edits to Taki's scenes.

According to authorities, Taki tested positive for cocaine in a urine test conducted on the night of March 12. Authorities have confiscated his smartphone, and are investigating when and where he used it. Authorities also confiscated a rolled up South Korean won bill that he supposedly used as a straw. According to the Narcotics Control Department, Taki had been under investigation since fall last year. Taki was released on bail.

Taki's lawyer reported earlier this month that Taki checked into a medical facility, but could not comment further. The Sankei Sports paper reported that Taki will undergo a full-scale treatment program for drug dependency at the end of May, after the court system hands down its sentencing.

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Ys VIII: Lacrimosa Of Dana Game Gets iOS, Android Release Worldwide

Nihon Falcom announced on Wednesday that the Beijing-based company Linekong Entertainment Technology Co., Ltd. will release its Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of DANA action role-playing game as an app for iOS and Android smartphones worldwide.

NIS America describes the story for the previous release:

Ys returns with a brand new adventure for the first time in 8 years! Adol awakens shipwrecked and stranded on a cursed island. There, he and the other shipwrecked passengers he rescues form a village to challenge fearsome beasts and mysterious ruins on the isolated island. Amidst this, Adol begins to dream of a mysterious blue-haired maiden living in an unknown world. Join Adol as he unravels the riddle of the cursed isle and the blue-haired maiden Dana in Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana!

Nihon Falcom released the game for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita in Japan in May 2017, and NIS America released the game for PS4 and PS Vita in North America and Europe in September 2017. NIS America released the game on PC in April 2018 after a delay from its previous January 2018 release date. The company then released the Nintendo Switch version of the game in North America and Europe last June. The game has sold more than 500,000 copies worldwide as of October.

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Seven Seas Entertainment Licenses Scarlet Yuri Manga

Seven Seas Entertainment announced on Tuesday that it has licensed Chiri Yuino's Scarlet yuri manga. The company will release the series physically and digitally, and the first compiled book volume will ship on February 11, 2020.

Seven Seas Entertainment describes the manga:

After ingesting an illegal drug that makes her hunger for blood, Finé Hera makes a pact with a beautiful but wolfish Red Riding Hood. Iris Redhood offers herself up to help Finé slake her bloodlust, but her…services come with a price. Now, the two are narcotics officers on the hunt for the very drug that changed Finé!

Chiri launched the series in Ichijinsha's Comic Yuri Hime magazine in 2018. Ichijinsha released the first compiled book volume on February 18.

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Isekai Quartet - Episodes 1 & 2 [Review]

Isekai Quartet is exactly what its name implies: a crossover between four of the most currently popular isekai series in one grand meta-fictional exercise. This is effectively a double-isekai story, where characters who have been transported to another world get transported to yet another world, this time a modern school setting with their supporting casts along for the ride. Based on the first two episodes, this series is clearly targeted at genre superfans who are fully familiar with all four contributing anime series: Saga of Tanya the Evil, KONOSUBA, Re:Zero, and Overlord. Experienced fans will have the richest experience with this series, though I think you could satisfactorily follow things if you're familiar with at least half the material and know the basic premises of the others. I am going to assume that not everyone following these reviews has seen all four series, so I may periodically provide explanatory notes for character gags that do not explain themselves in context.

Since episode two was all about more thorough character introductions, let's start with a brief primer:

From Re:Zero, we have the characters Subaru, Emilia, Rem, Ram, Beatrice, and Puck. Emilia and Puck are largely explained in episode two, but Rem and Ram are actually twin oni and Beatrice is a powerful mage who's hundreds of years old. Subaru is a normal human from another world except for his “Return by Death” ability, which allows him to time-jump back to specific save points when he dies. The unnamed homeroom teacher, Margrave Roswaal, is also a mage of substantial ability from this series. Based on Subaru and the girls' conversations in episode one, Isekai Quartet can be assumed to happen after the events of the Re:Zero TV anime.

From KONOSUBA, we have Kazuma (the reincarnate), Aqua, Megumin, and Darkness. Their respective specialties and quirks are mostly laid out in episode two; Darkness always has her mind on masochism, while Megumin has a hyper-strong explosion spell that she can only use once per day because it's so draining. (I have to think that will come into play at some point.) Also watch for Kazuma's nefarious Steal ability (often used to filch panties right off his target's body) to come up at some point. It's less clear where they're coming from in the KONOSUBA timeline, but it's probably after the first season at least.

From Saga of Tanya the Evil, we have the reincarnate Tanya (who was originally a middle-aged salaryman) and her chief subordinates in the 203rd Air Mage Battalion. The first episode alluded to Tanya's struggle against Being X, the godlike entity who made her into an orphaned girl in a war-torn world to teach her a lesson of some kind, and her magic is extra-potent due to a special-class computational jewel and the ability to heighten her powers with “prayers.” The two older men in the Principal's office are the two top generals in her series. (Why they seem to know what's going on remains a mystery at this point.) This could be happening anywhere after the halfway point of the TV series based on who's present.

Finally, from Overlord we have the skeletal Momonga/Ains Ooal Gown, a VRMMO gamer who was locked into his character in a world where his game became real. The other monsters are his utterly loyal subordinates in the Great Tomb of Nazarick, the original home of his party's guild, and he reigns from the shadows as the supreme sorcerer of his world. Their conversations in the first episode refer to events in the third anime season, so this takes place fairly far into Ains' adventures.

Bringing all of these characters together in a school setting, where their participation is mandatory, offers wonderful opportunities for all of these strong personalities to bounce off each other. We are already seeing signs of that in episode two, especially in Aqua's predictable confrontation of the Overlord crew and the far less predictable impact that has on Ains; this just goes to show that Ains and his ultra-powerful crew won't automatically be untouchable in this new world, and that's awesome. Seeing how each character's powers balance out when compared to one another on neutral ground will also be a real treat, as the character dynamics whip up new opportunities for conflict and companionship. The opener suggests that a certain degree of respect will develop between Ains and Subaru, but there are all sorts of other fun possibilities to anticipate.

Frankly, these first two episodes are just pure silly fun. Everything from the chibi-fied art, to the abundance of amusing character quirks, to the jolly opener and a closer featuring female characters from each series singing together. The animation is decent, the musical score is spot-on, and the Japanese voice actors sound like they're having fun. By episode two, the script is smoothly cycling through all four franchises almost equally and nailing all of the characterizations well. The only negative is that there aren't more than 12 minutes of entertainment each week.

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