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Japan Fights Itself to Reach the Final

Ryoma Echizen and a teammate face off in New Prince of Tennis U-17 WORLD CUP Final Member Selection Match — Image courtesy of 許斐剛/集英社・NAS・新テニスの王子様プロジェクト

Rather than a straightforward run-up to the Spain match, the new arc opens with an internal 決勝メンバー決定戦 — a selection tournament held within Japan’s own squad. Players compete against each other for the right to represent Japan in the World Cup final. Roster spots, pride, and years of rivalry are all in play as Ryoma Echizen, Keigo Atobe, Seiichi Yukimura, and the rest of Japan’s assembled talent go head-to-head with everything on the line.

It’s a classic Tenipuri escalation: the first opponent is never the one on the other side of the net.

Second teaser video — via アニメ新テニスの王子様オフィシャルチャンネル on YouTube

Four New Voice Actors Join as Spain’s Team

Close-up of Ryoma Echizen in New Prince of Tennis U-17 WORLD CUP Final Member Selection Match anime — Image courtesy of 許斐剛/集英社・NAS・新テニスの王子様プロジェクト

The August 14 reveal confirmed four new voice actors joining the series to play Spain’s national team:

Tasuku Hatanaka (Kirishima in My Hero Academia) as Julio Roman
Reiji Kawashima as Mars de Colon
Ryuho Nagaoka as Silva Serra Bambieri
Megumi Han (Gon in Hunter x Hunter) as Seda

Junko Minagawa returns as Ryoma Echizen, and Junichi Suwabe is back as Keigo Atobe. The production had previously confirmed Romeo Fernandez will be voiced by Yu Shirota — a name many longtime Tenipuri fans will recognise from his years on the TeniMyu stage, now stepping into the anime booth.

Two Japan team members on court in New Prince of Tennis U-17 WORLD CUP Final Member Selection Match anime — Image courtesy of 許斐剛/集英社・NAS・新テニスの王子様プロジェクト

The Music — Opening Theme and a Character Song Ending

The opening theme, “Walls And Bridges”, is performed by 青酢 (Aozusu, FEEL MEE UNIT). The ending theme carries on the franchise’s beloved character song tradition: 金環蝕phenomenal is performed by Keigo Atobe and Yuushi Oshitari — in character. If you’ve watched any of the Dream Live concert films or followed the Tenipuri music releases over the years, you know this is as on-brand as it gets. The franchise has always taken its music seriously, and this new arc is no exception.

Opening theme card for New Prince of Tennis U-17 World Cup Final Member Selection Match — Walls And Bridges by Aozusu FEEL MEE UNIT — Image courtesy of 許斐剛/集英社・NAS・新テニスの王子様プロジェクト

Broadcast and Where to Watch from Singapore

The series begins 30 September 2026 on TV Tokyo (Wednesdays at midnight), TV Osaka (Wednesdays 25:35), and TV Aichi (Wednesdays 25:30). The official site is tenipuri.jp/u17/selection-match/ (Japanese).

International streaming for the new arc has not yet been confirmed. The previous instalment, U-17 WORLD CUP SEMIFINAL, was available on Amazon Prime Video in Singapore — that remains the most likely platform, but there has been no official announcement as of publication. Given that the manga wrapped just last week and this anime looks to be the primary vehicle carrying the story forward, an international deal feels like a matter of when rather than if. Worth keeping tabs on.

Find more upcoming anime in our anime and manga coverage.

Manga Anime

Cooking Master Boy Gets Its First TV Anime After 30 Years — Starting 5 July on TV Tokyo

July 3, 2026 Xian Skyrider

The Manga Singapore Readers Grew Up With

Cooking Master Boy anime key visual showing protagonist Jan and supporting cast — Image courtesy of NBCUniversal Anime/Music

Saijyo Shinji’s manga ran in Weekly Shonen Champion from 1995 to 2007, racking up more than 10 million copies sold across its run — a number that understates its actual footprint across Southeast Asia, where translated editions and bootleg copies passed hand-to-hand through the late 1990s and 2000s. Singapore and Malaysian readers know Jan well: the impossibly arrogant teenage chef who would cook a fire-column fried rice to humiliate rivals, and who made every dish feel like a cage match rather than a recipe.

The premise: 15-year-old Akiyama Sho — nicknamed “Jan,” the Chinese reading of his given name — is the son of a legendary Chinese grand-master chef. Raised to be ruthless, creative, and completely without sportsmanship, Jan tears through China’s most prestigious cooking academy and tournament circuit using techniques no one else would dare attempt. The cooking battles are absurd by design, the characters are wildly over-the-top, and the food somehow looks incredible despite being physically impossible. It defined the cooking-manga genre for a generation of readers across Asia.

Why Now? Nobody Knows — and That Is Part of the Appeal

Cooking Master Boy anime promotional visual 2026 — Image courtesy of NBCUniversal Anime/Music

The official site — tetsujan.com (Japanese) — acknowledges the absurdity with wry honesty: 「これまでアニメ化されなかった理由は誰にもわからない」 — roughly, “nobody knows why it was never adapted until now.” For a manga with 10 million sales and a generation of devoted fans, the absence of a TV anime has been a long-running in-joke in fandom circles for decades. 2026 is when that joke ends.

NBCUniversal Anime/Music announced the production earlier this year, and the official teaser PV dropped on their YouTube channel to immediate celebration online. The animation studio is LAPANTRUCK, and music for the series is being handled by tofubeats — the Kobe-born electronic producer known for introspective J-pop and collaborations with Kyary Pamyu Pamyu and Perfume. That is an unconventional pairing for a cooking-battle manga, and it has fans genuinely curious about the tonal direction.

Official teaser PV for 鉄鍋のジャン！ — via NBCUniversal Anime/Music on YouTube

A Voice Cast That Signals Serious Intent

For a cult manga getting its first-ever adaptation, the cast punches well above its weight:

Akiyama Sho (Jan): Toya Kikunosuke (戸谷菊之介)
Kirico: Hasegawa Ikumi (長谷川育美) — widely known for Bocchi the Rock’s Nijika Ijichi
Kei Sawa: Sakurai Takahiro (櫻井孝宏) — whose roles span Shanks in One Piece, Kirito in Sword Art Online, and Itachi in Naruto
Ryuji Bito: Sugita Tomokazu (杉田智和) — Gintoki Sakata, Joseph Joestar
Narrator: Tsuda Kenjiro (津田健次郎) — Aizen Sosuke in Bleach, Reinhard in Legend of the Galactic Heroes

Cooking Master Boy anime 2026 cast promotional visual — Image courtesy of NBCUniversal Anime/Music

These names do not appear in nostalgia cash-grabs. The combination of Sakurai Takahiro, Sugita Tomokazu, and Tsuda Kenjiro in a single production is a statement of ambition — and it means even fans unfamiliar with the source material have a cast reason to tune in.

Can Singapore Fans Watch It?

Here is the honest answer for now: Tetsunabe no Jan! currently has no confirmed international streaming partner. The platforms listed — ABEMA, U-NEXT, AnimeTimez, and アニメ放題 — are all Japan-domestic services. There is no Crunchyroll, Netflix, or Prime Video deal announced for international territories at the time of writing.

ABEMA occasionally opens streams without region locks for select simulcasts, and platforms sometimes add overseas access post-launch. We will update this post if an international stream is confirmed. For now, Singapore fans will need to follow this one through Japan-region services.

For those who have never read the manga: the original Weekly Shonen Champion run is worth tracking down to understand why a 30-year-old property getting its first TV anime is genuinely exciting news. 鉄鍋のジャン！ premieres 5 July 2026 on TV Tokyo and affiliates at 17:30 JST. Official site: tetsujan.com (Japanese). More anime premieres this summer on GameTrader.SG.

Manga Anime, News

Strange: Junji Ito’s Live-Action Horror Series Premieres Tonight With IVE’s ‘Jigsaw’

July 3, 2026 Nova Solaris

Thirteen Manga Stories, One Anthology

Strange adapts thirteen of Ito’s short horror manga across its run. Confirmed titles include Lovesickness, The Mansion of Phantom Pain, The Rib Woman, The Bully, Face Thief, A Father’s Love, Memory, In Old Records, Penpal, Further Tales of Oshikiri, Earthbound, and Tomio: Red Turtleneck — each adapted as its own self-contained episode with a new cast. The format suits Ito’s output perfectly: short stories built for maximum dread per page, no need for continuity across episodes.

Three directors share duties across the series — Atsuhiro Yamada, Yūta Shimotsu, and Ryōta Kondō — with scripts by Daisuke Hosaka (Sadako 3D 2) and Tatsurō Inamoto (Trigun Stampede, Pluto). The cast includes Nijirō Murakami in the premiere episode The Mansion of Phantom Pain, Kanata Hosoda across the multi-part Lovesickness (spanning episodes 2, 8 and 10), Yōko Maki in The Bully, and Wan Marui in Earthbound. An episode-order reshuffle announced on 28 June means the TV broadcast sequence now differs slightly from the original line-up.

Grid of all 13 Junji Ito manga stories adapted in Strange — Image courtesy of Junji Ito / Asahi Shimbun Publishing

IVE’s ‘Jigsaw’ and 10cm’s Ending Theme

The opening theme is “Jigsaw” by IVE — the K-pop group behind “After LIKE”, “I AM” and “Baddie”, and one of the most-streamed acts across Singapore right now. Pairing a K-pop vocal act with J-horror body-dread imagery is an unexpected call, but it tracks with the series’ co-production ambitions: this is clearly aimed at audiences beyond Japan’s domestic drama viewers. The ending theme, “The Darkest Night”, is by 10cm (Kwon Jeong-yeol), the South Korean singer-songwriter, bringing a quieter, more melancholic close to each episode.

World Premiere at Anime Expo 2026 — Tonight in LA

Before the TV broadcast airs in Japan, Strange gets its world premiere at Anime Expo 2026 in Los Angeles — the international premiere of Episode 1 and the world premiere of Episode 2, screening tonight (3 July) at 6:45 PM PDT at the 411 Theatre. The AX panel brings together Douglas Montgomery (Executive Producer, Global Stage Hollywood), Mayu Nobe (Producer, TV Tokyo), Kwok-Wai Hanson (CEO, Anime Trending), and director Rei. The fact that the series world-premieres in LA before its Japan TV slot signals a deliberate push for international attention rather than the usual “Japan first, rest of world eventually” model.

Strange: Junji Ito’s Tales for Sleepless Nights | Official Trailer | Anime Expo 2026 — via GlobalStageHollywood on YouTube

No Singapore Stream Confirmed Yet

For Singapore fans: no streaming deal for the region has been announced. The TV Tokyo broadcast airs tonight (3 July) at 11:12 PM SGT, with a second airing on BS TV Tokyo on 12 July. Given IVE’s involvement as opening theme artists, the US co-production structure, and the AX world premiere, an international streaming announcement feels like a matter of when, not if — but nothing is confirmed as of now. Keep an eye on our manga and anime coverage for any streaming updates as they drop. In the meantime, the official trailer above is the best taste of what’s coming.