During the May 2025 Tudum showcase, Netflix revealed the live-action version of Tony Tony Chopper in One Piece and confirmed his voice actor. He’ll be played by Mikaela Hoover. There’s also a brief trailer showing him off, during which the 2026 launch window for the second season appeared. 

The teaser video began with Chopper trying to hide behind a column. Inaki Godoy, as Monkey D. Luffy, mentioned that we can see him and told him to come out. Chopper then stepped out and introduced himself, walking down the steps as he did. He noted that the second season of the live-action adaptation will come out in 2026. After he fell down the stairs, he called for a doctor. However, at that point he brought up that he is a physician. It doesn’t note if any of his other forms will appear.

Here’s the full One Piece live-action video from Netflix showing how Chopper will look in the series.

The character is also now part of a new daily life series called Chopper's. That shows up on social media sites like Instagram and shows him as he goes through daily life and ordinary situations in the modern world.

Many of Mikaela Hoover’s performances prior to her role in One Piece involved ing roles or one-time appearances in ongoing series. For example, she was in one episode of Duster, and she played a Humanimal named Floor in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3.  

This marks the fifth English voice actor for Tony Tony Chopper in One Piece, with Brina Palencia perhaps being the most recent recognizable one. Palencia portrayed him since 2000. 

The first season of the One Piece live-action adaptation is on Netflix. The anime is streaming on services like Crunchyroll and Netflix. Viz Media handles the manga outside Japan. 

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Bandai Namco announced its latest entry in the Bikkura Bath Bombs series, and it’s a Sanrio My Fave Color series with toys of five characters wearing bows. While some stores will sell them individually, at the moment two of the only places selling full boxes of them are Entertainment Earth ($130.99) and Bandai ($120). This collection is immediately available.

This is a recurring series involving anime characters, stars of games, and mascots. Once you open a package and drop the bath bomb in a full tub, it will disappear and reveal a figure. Each toy is about an inch tall. 

In the case of the Sanrio My Fave Color Bikkura Bath Bombs series, there are 10 possible toys. Each one is inside a bath bomb that smells like strawberry cake. Cinnamoroll, Kuromi, My Melody, Pochacco, and Pompompurin are all available, with two variants of each one as options. The general poses for each are identical, but the facial expressions and colors of the bows they wear will be different. As an example, Pochacco is wearing a pink bow with shirt and sleeping in one and winking and wearing a teal bow and shirt in the other. A full case contains 15 random toys, so someone will likely get doubles and might not get every character.

Here are the official photos of the package and toys. Bandai Namco didn’t share any pictures of the bath bombs themselves.

There is actually another line available as well. That one features Hello Kitty, Cinnamoroll, My Melody, Pochacco, and Pompompurin, with each figure designed to be posed in a line together.

In the past, other entries in the series included toys of the shark from Jaws, characters from One Piece, and Tamagotchi hair ties.

The Sanrio My Fave Color series Bikkura Bath Bombs are available now.

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Back in January 2025, Marvelous confirmed Sakuna and Tama from Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin would appear in Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma, and now there’s a full trailer for the free DLC. It turns out that, after we the add-on, she’ll appear as a villager and be able to seen around town or added to our party as an ally when adventuring. It will be available at launch.

The video begins with a close-up of Sakuna’s character model in Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma. Then, we see her use some attack actions with her hoe. After that, we can see her with Tama in front of a house and some rice paddies. It is then that a player using the Subaru male avatar comes up to speak with her. 

After that, it confirms Sakuna won’t be confirmed to the village in-game. She’ll be considered one of the NPCs you can add to your party as an ally. She is an Attacker type unit, and of course her physical attack is stronger than her magical one. The footage of the menu shows her at level 20, and there’s more gameplay that highlights the height difference between the avatar and her.

Here’s the full Japanese trailer:

Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma will be available for the Switch, Switch 2, and PC on June 5, 2025, and the Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin free DLC will debut on that same day. Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin is available on the Switch, PS4, and PC. 

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Timi Studio, Activision and Square Enix announced that the Call of Duty Mobile NieR: Automata event is about to begin, and they also shared the various character skins based on 2B, 9S, and the YoRHa Commander White. Everything starts at 5pm PT/8pm ET on May 30, 2025. 

There are three NieR: Automata character skins in Call of Duty Mobile, though only one can be earned for free. By playing, we can get the 9S costume for Ryotaro "Kui Ji" Nagashima. The 2B and Commander White outfits will show up for Lizbeth "Kestrel" Warnholdt and Fiona St. George, though both of those will appear via the Draw banners. The 2B one also will feature Legendary PP19 Bizon, while the Commander one will have AK47 - Final Apocalypact. 

Here’s Kestral as 2B: 

And here’s St. George as Commander White: 

The Kui Ji as 9S costume shows up at the very beginning of the general crossover trailer:

The 9S skin isn’t the only item people can earn by playing Call of Duty Mobile during the event. There are also five weapons. Four of these are based on ones that appeared in NieR: Automata. These are Cruel Blood Oath, Cruel Oath, EM2: Initieno Atonement, Virtuous Contract, and Virtuous Treaty. The remaining item is a Smoke Grenade design to look like the Machine Lifeform enemies from Square Enix’s game.

There’s an official image showing off all of those rewards we can earn, which you can see below.

Call of Duty Mobile is available on Android and Apple iOS devices. NieR: Automata can be found on the Switch, PS4, Xbox One, and PC, and the anime is on Crunchyroll. The crossover between the two starts on May 30, 2025, and some rewards are free to earn.

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The Pokemon Center announced a new run of Ditto plush, and each one features the character mimicking another one. There are 17 in this collection. Each one is available now and costs $19.99.

While all of the Ditto Pokemon plush are the same price, the size of them does vary a bit. The tallest one is actually the Mareep version at 8 and a half inches. The smallest are the Dragonite and Jigglypuff, which both stand at five inches tall. Each one features the Duplica’s Ditto face that keeps their expression looking like a standard Ditto design, like the character in the anime series.

Here’s the full list of all the different types of Dittos available in this collection. 

• Ditto at Dragonite
• Ditto as Eevee
• Ditto as Espeon
• Ditto as Flareon
• Ditto as Glaceon
• Ditto as Jigglypuff
• Ditto as Jolteon
• Ditto as Lapras
• Ditto as Leafeon
• Ditto as Lucario
• Ditto as Magikarp
• Ditto as Mareep
• Ditto as Mew
• Ditto as Pikachu
• Ditto as Snorlax
• Ditto as Vaporeon
• Ditto as Vulpix

Since the tier cut-off for free shipping in the US is $20, someone would need to get another item to qualify.

Here's how all 17 plush toys look:

It isn’t uncommon for there to be plush toys of the character disguised as other Pokemon. However, they don’t always show up that often. One of the other notable collections involved a series of plush keychains like this from 2016.

All 17 of these new plush are available in The Pokemon Center now.

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HoYoVerse announced the first sign that the 8.3 update is on the way for Honkai Impact 3rd by announcing the beta test phase that introduces elements like the new Erdos Helia Planar Armament: Warped Spacetime Battlesuit. Applications are now open for all of us who play the game.

Gaining access to the test server for 8.3 works in the same way as previous ones offered for Honkai Impact 3rd. You need to be an active player, for one. This is because the only way to access the application is via the client. It’ll show up as a news item under an announcement labeled “Recruiting v8.3 Tester.” After clicking on that, you can fill out a form. HoYoVerse will then email anyone picked to participate in the beta.

While the official YouTube hasn’t shared any Honkai Impact 3rd footage of the Erdos Helia Battlesuit Planar Armament: Warped Spacetime, multiple videos appeared on the official Bilibili one. Some of these were story-based, while others looked more at gameplay. Given the past trends and release schedules, we’ll likely start seeing English of those closer to the global launch of the 8.3 update.

This will mark the second Battlesuit available for the character. Erdos Helia debuted in Part 2. When she did, her Valkyrie Boltstorm unit appeared. 

Honkai Impact 3rd is available for the PC and mobile devices, and the new story missions and Erdos Helia Planar Armament: Warped Spacetime Battlesuit will appear in 8.3 in the near future. 8.3 beta test recruitment is open until June 3, 2025.

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Good Smile Company shared the release windows for the new Persona 3 Reload Nendoroid of protagonist Makoto Yuki, and the Basic version of the figure will release later in 2025 in some regions. In Japan, we’ll see it show up in September 2025. The worldwide release is set for Q1 2026. 

As this is a Nendoroid Basic figure, it won’t be as robust or expensive as others in the line. It’ll be ￥3,900/$26.99. His facial expression is a stoic, neutral one. He also hold his base one-handed sword in his right hand.

Here are two photos Good Smile Company shared with us that highlight how the figure will look:

This isn’t the first Persona 3 Nendoroid, as the original figure based on Makoto’s appearance in the PS2 game debuted in 2022. Since that is a more traditional model, it included extra face plates, hand parts, and accessories. It only showed up once worldwide, and there’s been no rerun since its debut. 

While this is a Persona 3 Reload model, it isn’t too dissimilar from the original Persona 3 version. The hairstyle and facial expression are identical to the 2022 release, and the uniform seems almost exactly the same. The weapon is different, however, as the one-handed sword for this figure is an all-silver one that resembles Makoto’s starting weapon and the one with the original figure was a more traditional sword with gold hilt. 

The Persona 3 Reload Nendoroid Basic figure of the protagonist Makoto Yuki will appear in Japan in September 2025. It will appear later worldwide in Q1 2026. Pre-orders for it will close on June 25, 2025. Persona 3 Reload is available worldwide on the PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, and PC, and the original game first debuted on the PS2.

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Cygames released a number of new trailers for the English release of Umamusume, with one of them going over the notable unit Mejiro McQueen and the other highlighting what we can expect from the Anime Expo 2025 appearance of the title. There are four new unit trailers to watch total, and all of them should be in-game when it launches worldwide at the end of June 2026. 

First, the Anime Expo 2025 Umamusume reveal video featured Silence Shizuka and Oguri Cap voice actresses Marika Kohno and Tomoyo Takayanagi in-costume discussing what we’ll see at the convention. Umamusume: Pretty Derby - Beginning of a New Era, the 2024 movie, will be shown in Room 403AB at 1:45pm PT on July 6, 2025. That’s not streaming anywhere, so it being shown at the event is notable. Cygames will give away Silence Shizuka, Special Week, and Tokai Teio pins at its booth throughout the event. Mini cushions will be present there. Takayanagi introduced Oguri Cap and Kohno shared details about Silence Shizuka to close out that video.

As for the new Umamusume character trailers, they featured Grass Wonder, King Halo, Mejiro McQueen, and Mejiro Ryan. Grass Wonder is the star of the thirteenth trailer. She’s voiced by Rena Maeda. She is a part of Team Rigil alongside units like El Condor Pasa and Taiki Shuttle. 

King Halo’s trailer showed up after that. Iori Saeki plays that heroine. She’s not associated with any team.

As for Mejiro McQueen, she’s considered one of the better characters to use in Umamusume even after all this time. She’s also prominently featured in the game and anime adaptation. She’s played y Saori Onishi. While her team affiliation varies based on what you’re playing or watching, she’s on Team Sirius in the game. Oguri Cap used to be on that team, and characters like Narito Brian and Rice Shower are on it with her. 

Finally, the most recent trailer goes over Mejiro Ryan. Yes, she is related to Mejiro McQueen. She isn’t associated with any particular team. Afumi Hashi voices her.

Cygames regularly shares new horse girl trailers ahead of the English Umamusume launch. One of the latest batches included major ones like Daiwa Scarlet.

The Umamusume: Pretty Derby English release date is June 26, 2025, and we’ll be able to pre for the global version of the game on the PC via Steam and Android and iOS mobile devices on April 28, 2025. It is already available in Asia. The new Umamusume: Cinderella Gray anime is on Amazon, and other anime adaptations are on Crunchyroll. Anime Expo will be held July 3-6, 2025, and Cygames will have a booth and show one of the movies based on the series there.

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At the end of May 2025, Level-5 confirmed that the Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time upgrade update would be available for the Switch 2 at launch and teased its changes. It noted it would look and run better, basically. Now the company further explained the difference with two more detailed videos that compare Switch and Switch 2 gameplay.

In each case, there are split-screen videos on YouTube that directly compare the same instances in the Switch 2 version of Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time to show the changes between the two. Each one is rather brief and designed to give a quick glimpse of the changes in action. The shorter of the two is the Graphics Showcase. That only lists 15 seconds. In both, a player’s avatar is using the Woodcutter role to chop down one of the bosses for that job in the field. In the case of the Switch 2 version, the textures for the environment are clearer and we can more clearly see the character’s facial features and clothing. 

The one comparing the load times in Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time on both Nintendo platforms is a bit longer. That comes in at 40 seconds. This is because it is showing the time it takes to start the game from the main menu and to go between the Guild Hall in the Present to Ginormosia. It takes 6:19 seconds to load the game on the Switch 2 after starting and 12:12 to do so on the Switch. In the case of heading to Ginormosia with the teleportation gate, it takes 9:39 seconds on the Switch 2 and 17:06 seconds on the Switch. So in each case, the time is almost double on the older console. 

Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time is available now on the Switch, PS4, PS5, Xbox Series X, and PC, and the Switch 2 version and upgrade update file will launch on June 5, 2025. 

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Good Smile Company and miHoYo announced the release of a new Nendoroid figure of Dr Ratio from Honkai: Star Rail. The figure costs 349 yuan (or about $48.44), and it is expected to release first in China on December 2025. At the moment, there is no information regarding a release date for other regions, though past ones like Aventurine and March 7th appeared worldwide.

The Dr Ratio Nendoroid figure is approximately 100mm (or about 3,94 inches) tall and is articulated. The figure comes with three different faces plates, as is common with Nendoroids. These will be a standard smiling face, a thinking face, and a closed-eyes face plate. In addition to the faces, the figure comes with 4 other parts, including his signature Book of Truth, a rubber duck, a pistol, and a bathtub. The bathtub pose appears on a Light Cone in-game.

Furthermore, a special acrylic stand will be added with the Chinese release. It’s still unclear if the stand or a different bonus will be included once the global release of the figure is announced.

You can check out the figure in more detail, alongside its optional parts, here:

As a reminder, the Honkai: Star Rail Nendoroids figures of Robin and Sunday are expected to release on August 2025, and an Aventurine Nendoroid was recently announced and it will be coming out in Japan on February 2026 and in North America sometime in Q3 2026.

The Honkai: Star Rail Nendoroid figure of Dr Ratio costs 349 yuan (~$48.44) and will release in China on December 2025. Honkai: Star Rail is readily available for the PS5, PC, Android, and iOS devices.

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HoYoVerse shared details about the Zenless Zone Zero Beard Papa cream puff crossover that will feature Anby and Burnice. The promotion will run in the US starting on June 8, 2025, and it will end on July 15, 2025. In addition to exclusive merchandise, there will also be Perfect Taste Bundle codes for in-game items.

Essentially, the Beard Papa promotion guarantees Zenless Zone Zero merchandise and codes if you get certain collaboration sets. The basic one is called ZZZ x Beard Papa’s Operation Yum Collab 2-Puff Set. This gives you the Anby Key Lime Crumble Puff with vanilla bean filling and key lime topping and the Burnice Royal Raspberry Puff with vanilla filling and raspberry glaze. You also get one random pin with either of the two characters or a Bangboo mascot in the restaurant’s costume and the Perfect Taste Bundle code. The 4-puff set comes with both of the limited edition cream puffs, two Original Vanilla ones, an acrylic standee of one of the two heroines and the code. Finally, a 6-puff set comes with two of the Anby puffs, two of the Burnice ones, two Original Vanilla ones, a standee, a random pin, and the code. 

Here’s how all of the Zenless Zone Zero cream puffs and merchandise will look. The Bangboo mascot is paired with the Original Vanilla option.

As for the Perfect Taste Bundle code, that gives anyone who claims it a Bangboo Beard Papa avatar, collectible, and namecard, a Stamina Item, three Senior Investigator Logs, and 30,000 Dennies.

This is the second recent Beard Papa crossover with a popular series. At the start of 2025, a Mashle event appeared. This involved both merchandise and specific cream puffs inspired by characters from the anime and manga.

Zenless Zone Zero is on the PS5, PC, and mobile devices now. The Xbox Series X version and 2.0 update comes on June 6, 2025. The Zenless Zone Zero Beard Papa Anby and Burnice 

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It’s taken 10 years, but Good Smile Company announced it will finally release a new Cardcaptor Sakura Tomoyo Daidouji Nendoroid. This latest figure isn’t an update of the original, as it depicts an older version of the character from the Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card anime. It will cost ￥6,800 when it debuts in November 2025 in Japan, and it will be $44.99 when it launches in the US in Q2 2026.

Since this is an older version of Tomoyo, she wears her Tomoeda Junior High uniform for the figure. In the original, she wore the elementary branch’s, which featured a simpler white skirt and a hat. She comes with an updated video camera accessory and a phone, both for taking pictures and footage of Sakura. Her school bag can be held in her right hand too. She comes with a neutral smiling face plate, one in which she’s extra happy, and a new take on the "Sakura-chan is incredibly cute" expression. (The original Nendoroid featured a similar one with stars in her eyes. 

Here are the first photos of the figure Good Smile Company shared with all of us via the shop.

Just like the first Nendoroid, there is a Good Smile Company Online Shop bonus. The initial one came with a Kero-chan figure. This one comes with extra hand parts for an additional pose, which you can see below:

This figure is designed to match another recent Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card Nendoroid. One of Sakura Kinomoto appeared in 2024. Her and Tomoyo’s uniforms will match. This could mean that, if you own both, you could swap their hand, arm, and leg parts for more potential poses.

The Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card Tomoyo Daidouji Nendoroid will debut in Japan in November 2025 and worldwide in Q2 2026. Pre-orders are open until July 9, 2025. The anime is streaming on Crunchyroll.

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Sega announced that Suicide Squad Isekai figures of Harley Quinn and Joker are now part of its Desktop x Decorate collection. They are currently showing up in arcades and online crane games, like Taito’s, in Japan. US storefronts aren’t showing them yet, though places like Amazon and Big Bad Toy Store do often sell items from this line for $20-30 each. 

Both the Joker and Harley Quinn figures are static ones based on their appearances in the anime series. He’s slightly taller at almost six and a half inches tall (16.5 cm), and she’s just over six inches tall (16 cm). Neither one is holding any sort of weapons. However, their poses do match a little, as each character has their right hand on their hip.

Here’s how both look: 

This isn't the only time Sega released merchandise based on the characters' anime appearance. Back in December 2024, it also released four plush toys. King Shark and Katana ed Joker and Harley Quinn for that collection.

At the moment there is only one season of the Suicide Squad Isekai anime series. However, that did end on a cliffhanger. Warner Bros and Wit Studio haven’t confirmed if a second one is in the works.

The Suicide Squad Isekai Harley Quinn and Joker Desktop x Decorate figures are now available in Japan via places like arcades, and the anime is streaming on Amazon and HBO Max.

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Cover announced that two Holo Indie Hololive Vtuber games already available on PCs will come to the Nintendo Switch in June 2025. Both Hololive Treasure Mountain and HoloParade will debut on June 19, 2025. These will appear worldwide.

The product pages for both of these Hololive Vtuber games are already live on the Switch eShop. Hololive Treasure Mountain MegaPack costs $19.99. This includes the base $8.99 PC game, as well as the Omaru Polka, Shirakami Fubuki, and Usada Pekora DLC packs that were $3.99 each. This means Switch owners are getting a slight discount on the Suika Game style matching puzzle title, as a PC copy with all add-ons would be $20.96. For those unfamiliar, it’s basically a reskinned version of Bexide’s Fruit Mountain.

Meanwhile, the Switch version of HoloParade is the Deluxe Edition of the 2D tower defense game that isn’t dissimilar from the Battle Cats titles. It will be $10. This is actually about a $1.67 discount from the bundle on Steam, as it includes the base game and the Minato Aqua, Shirakami Fubuki, and Usada Pekora DLC. 

Hololive Treasure Mountain MegaPack and HoloParade Deluxe Edition will both come to the Nintendo Switch on June 19, 2025 and feature the base Hololive Vtuber games with all of their add-ons.

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Good Smile Company is making a new Hatsune Miku figure of the Vocaloid in a Shooting Star a la Mode dress from Japanese fashion brand Baby The Stars Shine Bright. It will cost ￥33,900/$222.99. It will first debut in Japan, where it has a June 2026 launch window. A worldwide release will follow, with the company’s US storefront estimating it will appear by Q4 2026. 

This is a static, 1/7 scale figure, so there are no extra accessories or face plates. The design of it is based on a piece of En Morikura art that showed the character in the Lolita style dress. The idea is for it to not only be a replica of the artist’s design, but also of the outfit sold by the fashion brand itself. It will stand at over 10 inches tall (260mm). It will also stand on a translucent blue base. 

Here’s how the figure is expected to look:

To compare, Baby The Stars Shine Bright’s official site shared photos of the original Shooting Star a la Mode dress and Morikura art so we could compare them to the figure. 

In Japan, the Baby The Stars Shine Bright stores sold other merchandise based on this crossover and showing the original En Morikura art. You could get items like an acrylic stand, clear file, keychain, and tapestry. 

This is the second Hatsune Miku figure from a major artist to show up recently. Another one featured a Mai Yoneyama design. Like the Baby, The Stars Shine Bright design, additional merchandise based on that art also is on the way. 

The Hatsune Miku: Shooting Star a la Mode figure of the Vocaloid in the Baby The Stars Shine Bright dress will launch in June 2026 in Japan, with a worldwide release following in Q4 2026. Pre-orders are open until July 9, 2025.

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