Popular mobile game Azur Lane's Fifth Anniversary is coming up soon, and they've picked another of the United States' many warship museums to hold it on.

Back in 2019, Yostar came aboard the USS Iowa (BB-61) in Los Angeles in order to celebrate that momentous first-anniversary occasion. This time, for the new milestone, they've chosen the USS Hornet in Alameda, California, in conjunction with CarrierCon, which also takes place on the USS Hornet.

Anime Impulse, originally based out of Southern California, is taking their show on the road to the rest of California, and in just a few weeks, will be making a stop in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Studio Trigger's latest series is Delicious in Dungeon (known as Dungeon Meshi in Japanese).  We briefly touched about it in our Trigger panel review and this particular article will be focused solely on the anime, whose first episode had its world premiere at this year's Anime Expo.

Throughout the weekend of July 4, HIDIVE premiered a number of new anime series.  One of those is The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen: From Villainness to Savior (I'm going to shorten it to Last Boss Queen due to the full title being quite a mouthful).  

Last Boss Queen is part of what you can call the "villainess" genre, which has been growing in popularity.  The story focuses on Pride Royal Ivy (voiced by Fairouz Ai), or more accurately, a girl who has reincarnated as Pride from the fictitious game Our Ray of Light.  That's a fairly common theme in the villain genre, where a person from the modern era dies or is transported to another world and becomes another character.  I'm going to give an introduction and a run down of the first two episodes, and my thoughts overall.

Another of HIDIVE's series premieres at Anime Expo was the anime Dark Gathering. I have been reading Dark Gathering since its inception and when I saw it on the schedule, I quickly slotted it into my list of things to see.

The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen:

HIDIVE is one of the many streaming options for anime fans in English and they'll be present at the biggest anime convention on the west coast, Anime Expo.

Pompo the Cinephile was released mid-last year. You might have even seen it in theaters. And if you didn't? Why not see it as part of Anime Expo alongside its director, Takayuki Hirao?

The latest animated feature of Type Moon's Fate series, Fate/strange Fake -Whispers of Dawn-, will have a special screening at Anime Expo! In fact, it's going to be the English world premiere, presented specially by Aniplex.

Anime Expo and Atlus recently announced their first musical act for this year's convention: Shin Megami Tensei: Band of Shadows.

I briefly touched upon lotteries and concerts in the recent Walkure post.  If you're a Hatsune Miku fan, this one is for you. The 2023 edition of Magical Mirai is currently open to all for ticket applications! Tickets are sadly not guaranteed, but you do have a decent shot between twelve different performances split between Osaka and Tokyo.