Crunchyroll announced during Sony Group Corporation’s CES 2025 press conference that an anime series based on Sucker Punch Productions’ Ghost of Tsushima video game and its Ghost of Tsushima: Legends multiplayer experience is officially in production. The anime will exclusively premiere on Crunchyroll in 2027. 
(Source: Crunchyroll News)

The critically-acclaimed series of animated shorts returns to Japan for a third installment in collaboration with nine anime studios. 

1) The Duel: Payback (Mizuno Takanobu, Kamikaze Douga x Anima) 
2) The Lost Ones (Hitoshi Haga, Kinema Citrus) 
3) The Ninth Jedi: Child of Hope (Kenji Kamiyama, Production I.G.) 
4) The Smuggler (Masahiko Ootsuka, Trigger) 
5) The Bounty Hunters (Junichi Yamamoto, Wit Studio) 
6) The Song of Four Wings (Hiroyasu Kobayashi, Project Studio Q) 
7) Bird of Paradise (Tadahiro Yoshihira, Polygon Pictures) 
8) Black (Shinya Oohira, David Production)

A music video for the song Toshokan Rocket by Aki Hata that was featured on NHK's Minna no Uta program.

In this sequel to Batman Ninja, the Batman family has returned to the present to discover that Japan has disappeared, and a giant island - Hinomoto - is now in the sky over Gotham City. At the top sit the Yakuza, a group of superpowered individuals who reign without honor or humanity and look suspiciously like the Justice League. Now, it’s up to Batman and his allies to save Gotham!
 
(Source: Amazon Prime Video)
 
Note: Release date reflects the release in Japan. The film was released in the US on March 18, 2025.

Kanata, Misella, and Vicious sit around a kotatsu in a Japanese-style room, when Cress, protagonist of Tales of Phantasia, the first game of the series, enters through a time-slip from 1995!

In the far future, war has destroyed the entire Earth, leaving only a barren wasteland where the supply of water is controlled by the greedy king. In search of a long-lost lake, Sheriff Rao asked the king of the demons for help...and got the king's son, Beelzebub, and his assistant, Thief. Together the unlikely trio sets off across the desert, facing dragons, bandits and the deadliest foe of all... the King's army itself! 
The first half of the SAND LAND: THE SERIES anime, episodes one to six, are titled “Akuma no Ooji” and is based on the film adaptation with some new footage, it will premiere alongside episode seven, which is the first episode of a brand-new arc titled “Tenshi no Yuusha”. 

(Source: VIZ Media, Crunchyroll News, edited)

In a desert world where both demons and humans suffer from an extreme water shortage, Beelzebub, the prince of demons, and Rao, a small-town sheriff, form a tag-team and set off on an adventure in search of the Phantom Lake somewhere in the desert. 
 
(Source: Bandai Namco Entertainment)

Music video for the song WONDER LiGHT by IDOLiSH7. The full music video mostly features scenes not seen in the anime's opening sequence. This is the 15th music video created for the IDOLiSH7 franchise. 
Note: A short "OP" version was streamed on September 17, 2022 before the TV anime aired. This song, and parts of this music video, serves as the opening of IDOLiSH7: Third BEAT! Part 2.

The second season of Poputepipikku.

Long ago, this land was home to beasts the size of mountains that have now become petrified. Mana overflowed from their remains, drawing people who sought its power, and civilizations sprang up. People came to revere these mana-producing creatures, which they named 'Primordial Beasts'. They built their lives around them. Thus began the worship of the Primordial Beasts. 
 
Time flowed ever onward, to the present day... War erupts between the Jerle Federation, an alliance of countries who worship the Primordial Beasts, and the Gildllan Empire, which has enjoyed explosive development thanks to advanced technology. The fires of war burn ever brighter. 
 
The special animated feature will tell an important juncture in the story of Luminaria, congealing and bringing to life the game's theme of "confronting antagonistic ideas of justice"! 
 
(Source: Official website)

A collaboration between animation studio Kamikaze Douga x rock group Tokyo Jihen: an animated music video for the song Noudouteki Sanpunkan by Tokyo Jihen. 

Streamed exclusively through the docomo anime store platform for a limited time, this music video utilized a smartphone's gyro-sensor technology to give the viewer the capability to freely switch between two videos for the song: A new take on the 2009 song made in 2020 with full 3DCG animation (when viewed vertically) directed by Junpei Mizusaki and the prior 2011 live-action music video for the song (when viewed horizontally).

An anthology of animated shorts celebrating Star Wars through the lens of the world's best anime creators and storytellers. 
 
1) The Duel (Mizuno Takanobu, Kamikaze Douga)
 
2) Tatooine Rhapsody (Taku Kimura, Studio Colorido)
 
3) The Twins (Hiroyuki Imaishi, Trigger)
 
4) The Village Bride (Hitoshi Haga, Kinema Citrus)
 
5) The Ninth Jedi (Kenji Kamiyama, Production I.G.)
 
6) T0-B1 (Abel Gongora, Science SARU)
 
7) The Elder (Masahiko Ootsuka, Trigger)
 
8) Lop and Ochou (Yuuki Igarashi, Geno Studio)
 
9) Akakiri (Eun-Yeong Choi, Science SARU) 
Note: A further batch of 9 episodes released on May 4, 2023 as Star Wars: Visions Volume 2 does not meet our eligibility requirements as only a single episode was animated by a studio meeting our Country of Origin criteria.

The Japanese research lab SACLA has released a short anime titled "Mirai Koushi SACLA: Harima Sakura" to promote their X-ray Free Electron Laser (X-FEL), the brightest x-ray source in the world. 
As described on her official webpage, the feature character Harima Sakura is a G4-type Picodroid, a living entity with self-learning and evolutionary capability. She can shrink down and dive into the world of atoms, invisible to the human eye, known as the "Pico Universe." Her athletic ability is very high. In cooperation with a variety of researchers and scientists, she explores the world inside atoms with a strong sense of justice.

A collaboration between Kamikaze Douga and Polkadot Stingray: an animated music video for the song Keshin by Polkadot Stingray. Mixed in with the animation is a back and forth with live-action segments of the band.

Animated music video for the song A Stinging Spica by Polkadot Stingray. This animation was produced by Kamikaze Douga and aired exclusively on NHK’s program “Minna no Uta” from December 2019 to January 2020.

The opening song for IDOLiSH7: Second BEAT!, featuring the members of IDOLiSH7. This is the 14th music video created for the I7 franchise.

Short animated TV special depicting the prologue of the main story of TALES OF CRESTORIA, showing Kanata and Misella setting off on their journey.

In this anime visual album, a mysterious driver heads deep into a post-apocalyptic hellscape toward a ferocious showdown with two monstrous opponents. 
 
(Source: Netflix)

After a night of drinking, Kaede wakes up realizing that in her drunken daze she had brought an unexpected guest home—a dinosaur! Kaede just goes with the flow and accepts her new living situation. Now she navigates her daily life while eating, watching TV, and shopping with her prehistoric roommate. Together, the duo enjoys each other’s company as they take on whatever the day brings. 
 
(Source: Funimation)

There is a world in which an endless rain of dark ash fills the sky, and covers the earth. Humanity, fearing the ash that burns and melts away human flesh, had no choice but to cover themselves in protective suits, and their faces with gigantic masks. Bundled up in their suits and hidden away behind their masks, the people have fled deep within the underground. This is the story of the children growing up in this fearful world, this is "COCOLORS".
 
(Source: Kamikaze Douga)

Official music video for IDOLiSH7's song WiSH VOYAGE also released on the album of the same name.

Official music video for TRIGGER's song DIAMOND FUSION also released on their "HEAVENLY VISITOR" album. The male idol group is primarily a rival to IDOLiSH7, the latter of which is also the name of the overall game franchise being adapted.

Gorilla Grodd's time displacement machine transports many of Batman's worst enemies to feudal Japan - along with the Dark Knight and a few of his allies. The villains take over the forms of the feudal lords that rule the divided land, with the Joker taking the lead among the warring factions. As his traditional high-tech weaponry is exhausted almost immediately, Batman must rely on his intellect and his allies - including Catwoman and the extended Bat-family - to restore order to the land, and return to present-day Gotham City.
 
(Source: Anime News Network)