EASYGOING TERRITORY DEFENSE BY THE OPTIMISTIC LORD Anime Series Trailers, Images and Posters

"Easygoing Territory Defense by the Optimistic Lord" is a new anime series based on the Japanese light novel series "Easygoing Territory Defense by the Optimistic Lord: Production Magic Turns a Nameless Village into the Strongest Fortified City" written by Sou Akaike and illustrateed by Kururi, which has been serialized on the user-generated novel publishing website Shousetsuka ni Narou since May 2020. A manga adaptation is also available, illustrated by Maro Aoiro. As of April 2025, the light novel's web version has surpassed 300 million page views, and it took third place in the Paperback category of 2022's Next Light Novel Awards.

The anime is directed by Tetsuya Tatamitani ("Africa Salaryman") at studio NAZ, with scripts by Yutaka Yasunaga ("Reborn as a Vending Machine, I Now Wander the Dungeon") and music by Kana Utatane ("Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill")

The opening theme song is "Okirakuze~shon" performed by Rei Nakashima, while the ending theme song is "Make It", performed by Nonoka Ōbuchi. The voice cast includes Yumi Uchiyama, M.A.O, Mariya Ise, Yoko Hikasa, Shion Wakayama, Kenyu Horiuchi and Chikahiro Kobayashi.

"Easygoing Territory Defense by the Optimistic Lord" has premiered on January 10, 2026 and also streams on Crunchyroll.

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MADE IN ABYSS: THE GOLDEN CITY OF THE SCORCHING SUN - Season 2 Complete Collection Blu-ray Premium Box Set

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Product Description: No one has ventured into the sixth layer of the Abyss and remain unchanged. No one returns from their Last Dive, and no one knows what happened to those who delved further. Even with the possession of a White Whistle, an ominous specter hovers above Riko, Reg and Nanachi as they advance down to the sixth layer, the Capital of the Unreturned. The pathways are more treacherous, the environment harsher, and the creatures even more dangerous, but the most unsettling thing of all is the ruins of the Golden City. Here each of the delvers will be forced to forge their own destinies and paths as they investigate the city's mysterious origins and the strange beings who still dwell there. The answer to their questions, as always, lies somewhere ahead, down and forward, in MADE IN ABYSS: THE GOLDEN CITY OF THE SCORCHING SUN.

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WELCOME TO THE OUTCAST'S RESTAURANT ! Anime Series Trailers, Clips, Images and Posters

"Welcome to the Outcast's Restaurant!" is a new fantasy cooking series based on the Japanese light novel series written by Yuki Kimikawa, illustrated by Gaou, and published in Japan by Overlap under their Overlap Novels imprint.

The series was first serialized on the Japanese self-publishing site Shosetsuka ni Naro by Kimikawain 2018 before being picked up for print in 2019 with illustrations by Gaou. It was then adapted into an ongoing manga in 2020 from Tsumumi. As of December 2024, the series boasts 850,000 copies in circulation. Kaiten Books also publishes an English language version of the manga adaptation with artwork by Tsumumi.

The series is directed by Joji Shimura ("Tamagotchi!") at studio OLM. Series composition is handled by Deko Akao ("WITCH WATCH"), with character designs by Aoi Yamato ("Life With an Ordinary Guy Who Reincarnated Into a Total Fantasy Knockout") and music by Masato Koda ("Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill").

The ending song is "Magokoro My Heart" by Cho Tokimeki Sendenbu, and the opening song is "Unique" by Dannie May. The voice cast includes Shunsuke Takeuchi, Marika Tachibana, Sayumi Suzushiro, Mariya Ise, Satsumi Matsuda, Ryōta Suzuki and Chika Anzai.

"Welcome to the Outcast's Restaurant!" premiered in Japan on TOKYO MX and other stations on July 3, 2025, and it is also streaming on Crunchyroll.

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SHIROHIYO - REINCARNATED AS A NEGLECTED NOBLE Anime Series Trailer, Images and Poster

"SHIROHIYO - Reincarnated as a Neglected Noble: Raising My Baby Brother With Memories From My Past Life" is a new anime series based on the light novel series written by Yashiro and illustrated by keepout. The show's opening song is "Kuchinaoshi" by Wanuka, while "Mada Shiranai Story" by Ms.OOJA plays during the ending.

The voice cast includes Misaki Kuno, Mariya Ise, Shunichi Toki, Aki Toyosaki, Haruhi Nanao, Rie Hikisaka, Koji Yusa, Ayumu Murase and Hiroki Nanami. "SHIROHIYO - Reincarnated as a Neglected Noble: Raising My Baby Brother With Memories From My Past Life" is set to begin streaming on ABEMA in Japan and on Crunchyroll from April 20, 2025.

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New on Blu-ray: TOKA GETTAN - THE MOONLIGHT LADY RETURNS - Complete Collection

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Product Description: Toka Gettan: The Moonlight Lady Returns contains episodes 1-26 of the anime directed by Yuji Yamaguchi. Kamitsumihara is a beautiful but mysterious place, a land where traces of ancient magic still exist and a drama two millennium old has yet to play through to it's final chapter. For all this time, the Kamiazuma clan have acted as protectors, a fact that Toka Kamiazuma, whose body holds the stone sword Sekiken, has inherited as his duty. But when an unusual girl named Momoka Kawakabe enters his life unexpectedly, Toka begins to discover that they are connected by more than just physical attraction. How are their destinies linked and why? As the strands of fate and bindings to legend pull them ever closer, they will have just a short time to discover their own secrets and undo the ancient tragedy that forever changed their world!

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New on Blu-ray: FLOWERS OF EVIL Complete Collection

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Product Description: It takes only a second for evil to take root in the human heart, and for Takao Kasuga, the germination begins when his obsession with his beautiful classmate Nanako leads him to steal her used gym clothes. Unfortunately, this loathsome act of theft is witnessed by Nakamura, the strange girl who sits behind Takao in class, and she quickly blackmails him into fulfilling her own dark obsessions.

As Nakamura's twisted tendrils worm their way into Takao's miserable psyche, their relationship blossoms, entwining him in a nightmarish existence as her virtual slave. But what is Nakamura's final goal? And will even poor Nanako be ultimately drawn in? The harvest has only begun as Takao finds himself led down the garden path to damnation when the seeds of sin and a soiled gym suit give birth to the Flowers of Evil!

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New on Blu-ray: MADE IN ABYSS - Theatrical Collection

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Product Description: Anyone can descend into the Abyss, but few who survive the massive, multi-leveled pit's dangers make it back unravaged by madness and nightmarish physical transformations. Still, when 12-year-old Riko learns that her missing mother may be alive in the Abyss' inky depths, she and her friend Reg decide to brave the ultimate darkness in the astonishing twin feature films that recap the acclaimed TV series, Made In Abyss.

But as harrowing and gut-wrenching as those adventures may be, the tensions will only continue to mount. Because now Riko, Reg and Nanachi must ford seas of corpses, survive fields of parasitic insects, and confront the most potentially dangerous entity of all, Bondrewd, the body shifting guardian of the gate to the sixth level, in the all-new feature length masterpiece - Made In Abyss: Dawn of the Deep Soul.

Made In Abyss Theatrical Collection contains three anime movies: Journey’s Dawn, Wandering Twilight, and Dawn of the Deep Soul.

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