MyDearest is collaborating with the Oculus Store and Virtual Gate to release the virtual-reality light novel FullDive novel: Innocent Forest in mid-July. The VR novel will debut at the Anime Expo convention's "Nihon Chara VR Matsuri ~Japan Character VR~" event this week. MyDearest began streaming a trailer for the VR novel on Thursday.

The VR novel is planned as the first in a series of "FullDive novels." The VR novel's official website includes English text that reads, "It is the story of the girl to collect the memories in the birdcages. In the forest of forgetting, you will lose the memories. The bird carries the memories to the forest." The website also describes the experience in English:

Do not just read this novel but Experience!
You are the protagonist in a forest of memories
In this forest, people lose one of their memories...
Visiting on a rumor, he encounters a girl at a forest mansion.
Memories turn themselves into birds
...and take off from the cages of people's hearts.

Why does he want to forget? Why does he want to remember?
This is a story revolving around the memories of a girl and various visitors.

Rina Hidaka (Sword Art Online's Silica, Accel World's Yuniko Kōzuki) is voicing Rukurei, Yūsuke Kobayashi (The Heroic Legend of Arslan's Arslan, Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World-'s Subaru Natsuki) is voicing Kei, and Mayu Yoshioka (Wake Up, Girls!'s Mayu Shimada, Hundred's Sakura Kirishima) is voicing Passe in the experience. (Note: Character name spellings aren't official.)

The VR light novel will launch through the Oculus Store for Gear VR and through the VR platform Virtual Gate on FOVE devices at internet cafes in Japan in mid-July. A release for Daydream is also planned. The experience will be available in Japanese and English, and a Chinese release is planned.
In addition to debuting at Anime Expo, the experience will appear at a pre-release event for the VR event room cluster. on July 16. The event will feature an Anime Expo report and special guests will talk at panels about VR and characters.
Anime Expo will take place at the Los Angeles Convention Center and will run from July 1 to July 4 this year. In addition, the convention will formally include a preview night a day before on June 30.

The official website for the television anime adaptation of Marvelous, Kadokawa, and Idea Factory's Otomate otome game brand's Sengoku Night Blood smartphone game revealed on Friday that the anime premiere in October. The anime will air on Tokyo MX, Sun TV, TV Aichi, and BS11.
 The companies also began streaming the opening video for the original smartphone game on Friday.

The iOS and Android game launched in Japan on May 30. The game centers around different warlords from Japan's Warring States (Sengoku) period, who are all involved with the player character. The game is described as a "Warring States romance fantasy." Each of the six factions in the game feature a different Otomate artist.
The original game features the following cast:
Vampires/Oda Army

• Masakazu Morita as Katsuie Shibata
• Nobunaga Shimazaki as Mitsuhide Akechi
• Toshiyuki Morikawa as Nobunaga Oda
• Yūsuke Kobayashi as Ranmaru Mori
• Tomoaki Maeno as Nagahide Niwa

Vampires/Toyotomi Army

• Ryota Ohsaka as Hanbee Takenaka
• Yoshihide Sasaki as Mitsunari Ishida
• Natsuki Hanae as Hideyoshi Toyotomi
• Shunsuke Takeuchi as Kanbee Kuroda
• Ikkei Yamamoto as Toshiie Maeda

Werewolves/Uesugi Army

• Yoshihiko Aramaki as Kagekatsu Uesugi
• Kazuyuki Okitsu as Kageie Kakizaki
• Kousuke Toriumi as Kenshin Uesugi
• Hikaru Midorikawa as Kagemochi Arakasu
• Tetsuya Kakihara as Kanetsugu Naoe

Werewolves/Takeda Army

• Kōtarō Nishiyama as Masatoyo Naitou
• Yoshiki Nakajima as Masakage Yamagata
• Katsuyuki Konishi as Shingen Takeda
• Ryohei Kimura as Masanobu Kousaka
• Hiroki Yasumoto as Nobuhara Baba

Werewolves/Sanada Army

• Taku Yashiro as Kamanosuke Yuri
• Ayumu Murase as Sasuke Sarutobi
• Daiki Yamashita as Yukimura Sanada
• Showtaro Morikubo as Nobuyuki Sanada
• Ryō Kitamura as Saizou Kirigakure

Werewolves/Date Army

• Nobuhiko Okamoto as Shigezane Date
• Yuichiro Umehara as Masamune Date
• Takuya Satō as Kojuro Katakura

Toshiyuki Morikawa, Natsuki Hanae, Kousuke Toriumi, Katsuyuki Konishi, Daiki Yamashita, and Yuichiro Umehara are so far confirmed to reprise their roles for the anime.
Original character designers for the game include: Usaba Kagero (Wand of Fortune) for the Oda Army, Mai Hanamura (Amnesia) for the Toyotomi Army, Shikisakigumi (Hakuōki) for the Uesugi Army, miko (Code:Realize) for the Takeda Army, Kuroyuki (Period:Cube) for the Sanada Army, and Teita (Norn9) for the Date Army.

The official website for the Sailor Moon franchise revealed on Friday that the fourth season of the Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Crystal anime series will be a two-part theatrical anime project. The films will cover the "Dead Moon" arc of Naoko Takeuchi's original manga. Chiaki Kon is returning from the anime's third season to direct the two films.
The staff of the anime originally made the announcement at the "25th Anniversary Usagi Birthday Event" in Tokyo on Friday. The event is also being held on Saturday and Sunday.
The official website for the 25th anniversary of the franchise revealed in January that Sailor Moon Crystal was getting a sequel.
The third Sailor Moon Crystal season, which featured a new staff and focused on the Death Busters arc (also called the Infinity arc), premiered in April 2016. Crunchyroll, Niconico, and Hulu streamed the season. The three services and others streamed the first two Sailor Moon Crystal seasons overseas as they debuted online in Japan.
Viz Media licensed all three seasons for release in North America. The company released the first season of Sailor Moon Crystal on DVD and DVD/Blu-ray Disc combo pack last August, and released the second season on February 28.

Comico's official website revealed on Friday that Kakeru Utsugi's How to keep a mummy (Miira no Kaikata) manga is getting a television anime adaptation. The anime will air on TBS and BS-TBS.
Kaori (Yuyushiki, Bottom Biting Bug 2nd season) is directing the anime at studio 8-Bit. Deko Akao (Flying Witch, Noragami, Frame Arms Girl) is handling the series composition, and Takahiro Kishida (Welcome to the Ballroom, Madoka Magica, Durarara!!) is the character designer. Atsushi Nasuda is producing the anime.
Crunchyroll is releasing the manga digitally in English, and it describes the story:

When high school student Sora Kashiwagi finds himself staring down a mysterious oversized package sent to him by his self-proclaimed "adventurer" father, the last thing he expects is for it to be opened from the inside... by a little mummy so small it can fit in the palm of his hand!

Utsugi launched the manga on the Comico app in 2014, and the first compiled book volume shipped in Japan in February 2016. Futabasha released the manga's fourth compiled volume on May 12.

DLE's Henkei Shōjo anime shorts are "unique" to say the least. The project focuses on girls that transform into machines and thus far feature Rin (a jetplane) and Haru (a sports car). Each episode is only about a minute long, but has garnered plenty of attention on social media for its wacky premise. So much attention, in fact, that the shorts are going to air on TV and big outdoor screens. Tokyo MX will air the shorts starting on July 1. Prior to the airing, the Rin short will play on Street Vision screens in Akihabara, Harajuku and Yūrakuchō once per hour on June 29. Viewers can snap a shot of the video and post it on Twitter with the hashtag "#変形少女えなこキャンペーン" (Henkei Shōjo Enako Campaign) to win a Polaroid photo signed by Rin voice actress, cosplayer, and idol Enako.

Amazon announced on Friday that it will begin exclusively streaming anime titles that air in the Animeism programming block of MBS, TBS, and BS-TBS to over 200 countries around the world through its Amazon Prime Video service. The titles include this summer's Shōkoku no Altair (Altair: A Record of Battles) anime. The service will also continue streaming the Rage of Bahamut: Virgin Soul anime, which is now airing the Animeism block and is continuing its run this summer.
Amazon also revealed more titles for its summer streaming, including Lights of the Clione (Clione no Akari) and Hell Girl 4 (Jigoku Shōjo: Yoi no Togi).
The Animeism block began in 2006 with Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion. It has aired such anime as Darker than Black, Macross Frontier, Black Butler, Penguindrum, Kill la Kill, Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Yuki Yuna Is a Hero, and Knights of Sidonia. During the spring season, aside from Rage of Bahamut: Virgin Soul, the block aired the second season of Berserk.
Amazon and Fuji TV signed a deal in March 2016 for Amazon to exclusively stream titles from its Noitamina programming block. Since then, Amazon launched its Anime Strike channel for North America. Sentai Filmworks also streams licensed simulcast titles through the service in North America.
Amazon will stream the first episode of the Welcome to the Ballroom anime on the Twitch livestreaming website worldwide on July 6 at 9:30 p.m. EDT, with a special pre-show at 9:00 p.m. EDT. Anime Strike subscribers will also receive a free download of the first volume of Tomo Takeuchi's original Welcome to the Ballroom manga.

The official website for the television anime of Sakuya Amano's Konohana Kitan manga revealed the anime's cast and visual on Friday. The cast, including the previously revealed Yuko Ōno, includes:

• Yuko Ōno as Yuzu
• Sawako Hata as Satsuki
• Ayaka Suwa as Natsume
• Risa Kubota as Ren
• Ai Kakuma as Sakura
• Manami Numakura as Kiri

 

The manga originates from Amano's earlier Konohana-tei Kitan manga, which launched in Ichijinsha's Comic Yuri Hime S magazine in 2009. Amano put the manga on hiatus in 2010. Four years later, Amano relaunched the manga with the new Konohana Kitan title in Gentosha's Comic Birz. Gentosha published the manga's fifth volume on March 24.

Amano also drew the manga adaptation of Kazuki Sakuraba's Gosick light novel series, which debuted in Kadokawa's Monthly Dragon Age magazine in 2008, and ended in 2012 with eight volumes. Amano launched the Doubt! manga in Kadokawa's Dengeki Daioh magazine in 2012, and ended it in 2014 with four volumes.