The Prince of Tennis is a manga series written and illustrated by Takeshi Konomi that was serialised in Weekly Shonen Jump from 1999 to 2008. It has spawned an anime series, musical, and live-action film. Shortly after its run ended a sequel manga titled New Prince of Tennis began serialisation in Jump Square which is currently ongoing.   Next year will mark the franchise's 20th anniversary. In line with this, the manga's author Takeshi Konomi appear at Jump Festa 2019 which was held at Makuhari Messe on December 22. There he revealed that a new movie titled Ryoma! Rebirth Movie The Prince of Tennis will be release in early spring 2020. The film will feature a completely original story that takes place in the three months between The Prince of Tennis and New Prince of Tennis. The title logo was also unveiled at the event featuring a stained glass design with the colours of each school. A visual was also shown drawn by Konomi himself that features a cool and collected Ryoma wielding a tennis racket like a samurai would hold his blade. The event wrapped up with Konomi performing the song Tenipuri tte Iina which he composed and wrote himself.

V6’s 50th double A-side single, “Super Powers / Right Now” will be released on January 16th. The music video of this song has now been released. The concept of the song is “a love song for adults” and was written by Shimizu Shota. It is a dark/sexy song with a tricky beat and is a song where you can feel the “new sound” of Shimizu Shota. The song depicts the game of love from a man’s honest perspective.

The music video depicts a dance scene and six variations of one scene using some gimmicks and editing effects. The sound is simple but the dance is very complicated.   Also, the single includes the theme song of the animation, “ONE PIECE” called “Super Powers.” The sleeve jacket of the first edition released with the music video is also gathering much attention. This “ONE PIECE’s original illustration sleeve” is a special sleeve that includes an illustration depicting the members of “the wheat straw clan” and V6. The members of the clan and V6 are making the same pose in the illustration. This valuable illustration shows that it is possible to create a strong power by gathering everyone’s spirit together.   Shimizu Shota’s comments (“Right Now” – lyrics, music and arrangement) I am very happy that I could write a song for V6. And I am very pleased that the members of V6 directly asked me to write a song for them. I am so happy that idols which have been watching since my childhood are dancing in tune to this song that I wrote. I want to go back to my childhood and tell myself that I am going to write a song for them in the future. I tried to write a song which elevates the charm of the group and I hope that many people will watch them dancing.

Haregake, a creator of riddle-solving games that have brought in over 100,000 participants, has developed an all-new puzzle game called "Psycho-Pass: Sinners of the System in JOYPOLIS" that is set to run at the indoor theme park TOKYO JOYPOLIS in Daiba, Tokyo from January 11 to March 17 next year. The game will make use of the entire JOYPOLIS building and have participants solving riddles. You will take the role of an executive officer and use your smartphone to talk with Shinya Kogami, Nobuchika Ginoza and Shuusei Kagari to gather clues and solve the puzzles.   Trailer:

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