Batman! Anime! A kickass vigilante and a genre of animation that goes together like yours truly and terrible food suggestions. The dark knight isn’t a stranger to the realm of Japanese animation, but it has been a hell of a long time since the caped crusader flexed any of that muscle since then however. DC and Warner Bros. solution? Hiring Kill La Kill’s Kazuki Nakashima to pen a new feudal take on the hero, with Afro Samurai’s Takashi Okazaki fleshing out the character designs. I think the end result is batastic.

It’s true! It’s damn true! A new game based on My Hero Academia (or Boku No Academia accrding to Geoff who also rubbished any claims that he might actually be a fan of anime) has been announced. Straight out of the latest issue of Weekly Jump via Gematsu, you can expect to lock horns and throw down a Detroit Smash as all of your favourite characters from the hit manga and anime series soon, in My Hero Academia: One’s Justice.

The horror genre within Japanese manga and anime is somehow easily unsettling stuff. It can veer into straight-up blood and guts, go for a psychological thrust of the thriller knife or mix the two to create something that blurs the line between gore and terror. If there is one name that has managed to rise above all others in that field, it has to be Junji Ito.

Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods would introduce Super Saiyan God mode for Son Goku, as well as the more refined and efficient Super Saiyan Blue form. Get ready for another new form then, as Goku now has another trick up his sleeve.

Batman was built for anime, and after almost a decade it looks like Warner Bros. Animation has finally realised this truth again. A New York Comic Con listing via Polygon has revealed that DC and Warner Bros. will announce a new Batman anime, that gives the dark knight a new direction that’s totally ninja.

Streaming giant Netflix revealed its plans to expand its content with 13 new anime series and films that will roll out over the next few years. Here’s the full list of what’s on the way.

Still want to explore the hyper-stylized world of Persona 5? Good news then, because a brand new original anime adaptation is in the works for 2018.