Manga3 Oct 2026
Ninja Scroll 4K: the cels show through
A 4K scan of the original 35mm negative hits around 600 North American screens from 4 October. At that size you see the paint, the dust and the cel edges.
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Manga1 Oct 2026
Witch on the Holy Night: ufotable's lighting show
ufotable's Mahoyo film finally has a staff list, and the credit that decides how it will look is the one most people scroll past.
Manga29 Sept 2026
Toptoon's owner is now Ankey AX, an AI company
Topco Media became Ankey AX on 10 September and filed virtual humans as a business purpose. Its in-house studio runs Grok, NovelAI and ComfyUI.
Manga27 Sept 2026
Eri wins Ottawa with shadows cast by the cel
Honami Yano paints her backgrounds on transparent cel too, so a shadow in Eri is light that a physical sheet blocked. Her second Ottawa win.
Manga25 Sept 2026
Chiikawa's 13-week break is a production buffer
New episodes stop on 2 October and 25 reruns fill the slot to Christmas, with the Chiikawa film sitting at number one in Japan for 2026.
Manga10 Sept 2026
Ninja Scroll 4K: where a cel scan hits its limit
HIDIVE scanned the original 35mm at 3840×2160 for an October theatrical run. On cel animation, that resolution sits close to the real ceiling.
Manga26 Aug 2026
A 70-metre Shenron needs an anatomy Toriyama never drew
France and Saudi Arabia announced about €6 billion for three theme parks outside Paris this week, one of them Dragon Ball.
Manga20 Aug 2026
Look Back hands its drawing to a rotoscope director
The live-action Look Back quietly added Yōko Kuno to direct a rotoscoped sequence inside it.
Manga14 Aug 2026
Ghost in the Shell exhibition: a background masterclass
A touring retrospective at the Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art is billed as a Ghost in the Shell career survey.