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Anime/Manga/Game Industry Celebrates April Fool's Day 2019 - Part III

It's that time of the year again: the cherry blossoms fall, and the April Fool's pranks fly. Japan's anime, manga and video game industries are fun-loving enough to participate in this tradition every year. Here are 2019's best anime-related April Fool's pranks.

Bakumatsu Crisis

The Shinsengumi opened a host club. Fans can also chat with them via LINE. [Link]

Bungo Stray Dogs Mayoi Inu Kaikitan

The game's home page is now a kindergarten and all the characters are also pint-sized. [Link]

Is the order a rabbit?

The official Twitter account and website retitled itself as "Clockwork Rabbit." The coffee house is now "HOT-BAKERY" in Tokyo and staffed by personal floating rabbit-shaped computers. The "Special" page can be unlocked if you manage to find the password hidden on the site. [Link]

Key

As a nod to Macross: Do You Remember Love?, Key announces that its planetarian visual novel with get a film titled "Super Dimension Battleship planetarian Constellation: Do You Remember?" in a galaxy-wide theatrical opening on April 1, 2049. Visiting the official page gives you the options to select either "I am an islander", "I like idols", or "I like fried rice." The "I'm an islander" option opens a video for cross-over card game. The "idol" option leads to placeholder page for the aforementioned planetarian movie. The "fried rice" option opens a page with a link to a quiz to find out how many plates of Umi's fried rice you can eat and a promotional video for the game "Chao Fan Rhapsody." [Link]

Kuroko's Basketball

It looks like the team has taken up a delinquent style. [Link]

One Piece Treasure Cruise

Usopp has taken over the game.

Precure/Butt Detective

It's like the header says, Toei announced that Precure Miracle Universe will collaborate with the Butt Detective anime. The detective will head to space to solve a mystery where he encounters the PreCures. The anime film will be released on April 1, 2020. Comedians Hikari Ōta and Yūji Tanaka will both voice characters in the film. [Link]

Rascal Does Not Dream of Dreaming Girl the Movie

Character Mai Sakurajima stars in the film "Haru no Mirai." [Link]

Sgt. Frog

Sgt. Frog's Geroro get his own "Gerorin" bath bucket.

Stand My Heroes

The film gets a Hollywood adaptation.

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STARMYU

The story is reimagined to pit 5-star hotel employees against one another in a competition. There's even a mini-story to read. [Link]

Yakuza

A supposedly "leaked" video shows that the latest Yakuza game is a command RPG.

Yatogame-chan Kansatsu Nikki

A newscaster dressed as main character Monaka Yatogame delivered the Nagoya area news for TV Aichi.

YU-NO: A girl who chants love at the bound of this world.

The video-game based anime goes retro, built during the era of Sega Saturn, Windows 95, and Netscape Navigator. (The website is loading especially slow) [Link]