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A new mobile game is on the horizon—this time, inspired by the world of your favorite motorbike-riding, bug-helmeted tokusatsu heroes! A teaser site has been launched for Ride Kamens , an upcoming mobile game from Toei and Ishinomori Pro. Details are scant, with only one character image to go on in terms of the game's look. We do know, however, that this design is the work of Bucchigiri?! creator Hiroko Utsumi. Utsumi will serve as the project's character designer, while Yuya Takahashi, is handling the worldbuilding and main scenario. Related: Pull No Punches! One Punch Man: World Now Available for Download The game will be developed by Liber Entertainment, whose other projects include idol-raising games Cue! and A3! Bandai will handle planning and management. Other than the launch of a new account on X (formerly Twitter) , that's about all we've got for now. According to the site's countdown, we'll know more this Friday,...

Netflix will give a May launch to “Sanctuary,” a sports drama series set in the specialized world of Japanese sumo wrestling.

Produced by the Slowtide company for the streamer, the show follows a juvenile delinquent who becomes a sumo apprentice. He soon finds himself on a collision course with a voiceless wrestler carrying a secret.

Netflix pitches it as “a gritty look into the underbelly of professional sumo, a world full of young men with ambitions for money, women, fame, and power […] where some may find sanctuary with a history of more than 1,500 years in Japan’s traditional culture and as a religious ceremony.”

The show is directed by Eguchi Kan from a screenplay by Kanazawa Tomoki. The producer is Fujita Daisuke and the executive producer for Netflix Sakamoto Kaata. The show will upload from May 4.

The diverse cast includes Ichinose Wataru, Sometani Shota (“Themis”), Kutsuna Shioli (“Deadpool 2”), Taguchi Tomorowo,...

Titan Manga (new imprint from Titan Comics) is thrilled to announce a new partnership with Stonebot to publish Kamen Rider Kuuga and Atom: The Beginning manga series. The partnership will also include a brand-new originated comic series based on the Tokusatsu TV series Kamen Rider Zero-One (currently on Shout! Factory in the US). Written by Brandon Easton (Transformers), this series is due to launch in Fall/Winter 2022.

The partnership kicks-off on October 11, 2022 with the releases of Atom: The Beginning Vol. 1 – an original manga series based on the God of Manga Osamu Tezuka’s world-famous series Astro Boy, which has spawned multiple anime adaptations, video games, and more! Atom: The Beginning is a sci-fi manga about the turbulent lives of two robotics engineering students and their latest revolutionary project: the unassuming yet insanely strong A106, or “Six.”

Based on the original concept and story by Tokusatsu legend Shotaro Ishinomori, Kamen Rider...