Azuki announced on Tuesday that it will digitally publish NAZ and Masato Fujisaki‘s Gloomy Bear: Apocalyptic Love manga based on Mori Chack’s Gloomy Bear character in English on April 4. The one-shot manga will be available on Azuki‘s website as well as on its iOS and Android applications.

Azuki describes the manga’s story:

A young man and woman have kept keychains as mementos of each other, even after they drifted apart. But one day, when they find themselves under attack by zombies, the keychains come to life to protect them! Can Gloomy Bear and All-Purpose Bunny defeat the zombies and bring the two back together?

Mori Chack created the Gloomy Bear character in 2000. The illustrator also created characters such as Podolly and Kumakikai.

The Itazura Guma no Gloomy (Gloomy the Naughty Grizzly) television anime series premiered in April 2021. The anime celebrated the 20th anniversary of the character. Mori had released a “trial” animated short for the character in 2014.

Source: Press release

Crunchyroll announced on Tuesday that it will screen the North American premieres for several anime and anime films at this year’s Sakura-Con event at the Seattle Convention Center on April 7-9. including:

This year’s event will host Junya Enoki (voice of Yuji in Jujutsu Kaisen), Yoshihiro Watanabe (Orange studio producer), Waki Kiyotaka (Orange studio chief producer), Kenji Muto (Trigun Stampede director), Hisashi Kagawa (She, The Ultimate Weapon character designer), Junichi Hayama (JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood movie director), and Kōhei Eguchi (Eight Bit Co., Ltd. producer).

Last year’s Sakura-Con took place at the Seattle Convention Center on April 15-17, 2022. Sakura-Con 2020 and 2021 were canceled due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Asia Northwest Cultural Education Association hosts Sakura-Con in Seattle annually. It describes the convention as “the oldest and most well attended anime convention in the Pacific Northwest.” The convention started in 1998.

Source: Crunchyroll

The official website for the Yu Gi Oh! Cross Duel iOS and Android game announced on Tuesday that the game is ending service on September 4 at 1:00 a.m. EDT.

Sales of in-game Crystal currency have halted. Refunds for unused Crystals will will be available starting on September 5.

There will be a new single-player event based on Yu-Gi-Oh! Sevens on April 4 and a new raid event on April 13.

The game launched for smartphones in July 2022 in Japan and on September 6, 2022 worldwide. It features four-player card battles.

Source: Yu Gi Oh! Cross Duel game’s website (link 2) via Hachima Kikо̄