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Oddspark Co., Ltd. will open Oddspark! BAR in Matsudo at Matsudo Keirin on Saturday, August 22 and Sunday, August 23, 2026, during the Matsudo Keirin 76th Anniversary Masamitsu Takizawa Cup G3, featuring guest appearances by Misaki Nohara, Nami Seto, and Tsukasa Wachi, a prize drawing, and a livestream via Oddspark Live.
AttendMe has opened pre-orders for Oshi-Kan, a canned Danish bread featuring original labels illustrated by 27 VTubers, designed to keep your favorite by your side even in an emergency while doubling as disaster food stock.
KADOKAWA launches a new online lottery on Kujibikido featuring original Scrap Building-themed illustrations from TV anime Playing Death Games to Put Food on the Table, including acrylic stands, tapestries, and can badges, starting August 20, 2026.
Prime 1 Studio has released a 1/3 scale Real Elite Masterline statue of Dek and Thia from Predator: Badlands, with pre-orders opening August 13 and release scheduled for January to April 2028.
ラグナロク：アドベンチャーズ, a new auto-battle RPG in the long-running Ragnarok Online series, is heading to Japan with one-handed portrait-mode play and a casual idle-growth system.
Six new items featuring REBORN! characters recreated in the deformed "yurukoma" style are now available to order at AMNIBUS, an online shop for original anime and manga merchandise, including acrylic stands, a mini art frame, acrylic cards, can badges, and an aurora card sticker.
SABUROMARU Distillery in Toyama Prefecture has picked up three Double Gold awards and one Gold award at Asia World Spirits Competition 2026, an international blind-tasting competition for the Asian market. Three bottlings from its SAB. series took the top Double Gold honor, while a limited single cask release earned Gold.
A refreshing mango and yogurt dessert layered with warabimochi joins Seven-Eleven's mix-and-stir "Mazemaze Sweets" lineup, arriving at stores nationwide from August 11.
The keyboard customization app Simeji has teamed up with the time-reversal RPG Reverse: 1999 to celebrate the game's 3rd anniversary, offering a compatibility quiz that matches players with an Arcanist and rewards results shared on X with exclusive collaboration keyboard skins.
System Service is bringing a new lineup of TV anime Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You prize merchandise to amusement facilities, with deformed plushies debuting in August 2026 and a big plush following in September.
An online lottery celebrating the first anniversary of The Summer Hikaru Died TV anime goes on sale on Kujibikido starting August 20, 2026, featuring newly drawn illustrations and prizes including an acrylic diorama stand, tapestries, acrylic stand figures, and mini shikishi.
The light novel and manga series The Strongest Adventurer Called the Thunder Emperor Enters the Magic Academy and Becomes a Warrior Without Any Reservations has passed a combined 300,000 print and digital copies. Publisher Hifumi Shobo is also running a summer ebook discount campaign from August 10 to 16.