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DAZBEE released the new single "Goodnight, Lucy" on August 11, 2026, the artist's first new song since the 2025 full album "Nostalzia." Composed by issey, the Alternative Pop track explores obsession and identity through images of duplication and the doppelganger, arriving alongside a new music video.
The 1988 horror adventure game Onryō Senki (PC-8801mkIISR Version) has launched on Nintendo Switch as the 111th title in the EGG Console retro game series, priced at ¥880.
To mark 18 years since launch, the MMORPG Elemental Knights R has opened the Soukai Festival, giving early access to a new underwater map and shrine, a boss battle arena, and login bonuses, alongside a comeback campaign for players returning after a long break.
TAIMATSU's cultural experience brand FUJI JAPAN has opened a new location in Nara, inviting visitors to choose their own blade and handle and craft an original knife by hand, inside the same building as knife specialty shop MUSASHI JAPAN Nara.
Ahead of its August 13 opening at Matsuya Ginza, voice actors Romi Park and Yume Miyamoto toured the Fullmetal Alchemist × Daemons of the Shadow Realm Exhibition and shared their favorite displays, exhibition-only merchandise, and messages for fans, as the touring show marks Fullmetal Alchemist's 25th and Daemons of the Shadow Realm's 5th anniversary.
Genshin Impact is exhibiting at Comic Market 108 at Tokyo Big Sight on August 15-16, 2026, with a Snezhnaya-themed booth featuring a special stage, a large-scale display, and novelties available only at the event.
A new lineup of four TV anime Goodbye, Lara merchandise items — trading acrylic cards, a desktop acrylic perpetual calendar, mugs, and BIG acrylic stands — is now open for pre-order at the anime and manga goods shop AMNIBUS.
Grand Castella is reviving its popular Whole Chestnut Montblanc Castella for a limited run from August 15 to September 30, 2026, as the Taiwan-born castella brand celebrates its 5th anniversary in Japan.
Online printing service Graphic has released Mini Canvas Print, a palm-sized canvas art print that can be ordered starting from a single piece, with five size options for photos and illustrations.
AMNIBUS, an online store selling original anime and manga merchandise, has started accepting pre-orders for three types of Haikyu!! products — trading scene photo can badges, trading scene photo L-size cards, and banner multi desk mats — starting August 7th.
Two new Haikyu!! merchandise lines — trading scene photo acrylic stands and trading scene photo acrylic keychains vol. 2 — are now available for pre-order on AMNIBUS, featuring memorable scenes of Hinata Shoyo, Kageyama Tobio, and more characters.
HAKUBA Mountain Festival 2026, set for August 29–30 at Usagidaira Terrace on Hakuba Happo-one, has revealed its final wave of performers — DJ REN and four artists joining the THE LOCAL ICONICS powered by TuneCore Japan stage — along with the full two-day timetable across 17 stage sets, capped by a fireworks finale on opening night.