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ラグナロク：アドベンチャーズ, a new auto-battle RPG in the long-running Ragnarok Online series, is heading to Japan with one-handed portrait-mode play and a casual idle-growth system.
Six new items featuring REBORN! characters recreated in the deformed "yurukoma" style are now available to order at AMNIBUS, an online shop for original anime and manga merchandise, including acrylic stands, a mini art frame, acrylic cards, can badges, and an aurora card sticker.
SABUROMARU Distillery in Toyama Prefecture has picked up three Double Gold awards and one Gold award at Asia World Spirits Competition 2026, an international blind-tasting competition for the Asian market. Three bottlings from its SAB. series took the top Double Gold honor, while a limited single cask release earned Gold.
A refreshing mango and yogurt dessert layered with warabimochi joins Seven-Eleven's mix-and-stir "Mazemaze Sweets" lineup, arriving at stores nationwide from August 11.
The keyboard customization app Simeji has teamed up with the time-reversal RPG Reverse: 1999 to celebrate the game's 3rd anniversary, offering a compatibility quiz that matches players with an Arcanist and rewards results shared on X with exclusive collaboration keyboard skins.
System Service is bringing a new lineup of TV anime Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You prize merchandise to amusement facilities, with deformed plushies debuting in August 2026 and a big plush following in September.
An online lottery celebrating the first anniversary of The Summer Hikaru Died TV anime goes on sale on Kujibikido starting August 20, 2026, featuring newly drawn illustrations and prizes including an acrylic diorama stand, tapestries, acrylic stand figures, and mini shikishi.
The light novel and manga series The Strongest Adventurer Called the Thunder Emperor Enters the Magic Academy and Becomes a Warrior Without Any Reservations has passed a combined 300,000 print and digital copies. Publisher Hifumi Shobo is also running a summer ebook discount campaign from August 10 to 16.
To mark the 60th anniversary of "Thunderbirds" premiering on Japanese television, V Inc. has created a giant 3D model of "Thunderbird 3," now on display in the VRChat world "Lumarnity®" starting August 12, 2026.
Thunderbirds, whose Japanese rights are handled by Tohokushinsha Film Corporation, marks 60 years since its Japanese TV debut on September 30, 2026, with a new key visual, anniversary merchandise, a VR world collaboration, and a special screening and talk show at Marunouchi Piccadilly on "Thunderbirds Day."
Tokyo Disneyland has revealed the names of two new attractions set to transform Tomorrowland: "Sugar Rush: Sweet Rescue," based on the Disney film Wreck-It Ralph, and "Space Mountain: Earthrise." The ¥100 billion renewal also brings a new "Tomorrowland Plaza" and several shops when the attractions open in 2027.
A lineup of 15 merchandise items featuring newly drawn Baseball Shirt Ver. artwork of Takemichi Hanagaki, Manjiro Sano, Chifuyu Matsuno, Haruchiyo Sanzu, Ran Haitani, and Rindou Haitani is now available for pre-order on AMNIBUS.