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The Witch's Bakery coming to Crunchyroll Game Vault for Android and iOS. It will also release on PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, Switch 2, PC, and Xbox Series X|S. Published: October 8, 2026 Sunny Lab and Silver Lining Interactive have announced that it will release The Witch's Bakery on iOS and Android via the Crunchyroll Game Vault. These versions will release at a later date, but in the meantime, the game will launch on PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, Switch 2, PC via Steam, and Xbox Series X|S on October 14. The Crunchyroll Game Vault version is "coming soon" and will be available exclusively for Crunchyroll Mega and Ultimate Fan members. The mobile version will not have any ads or in-app purchases. Check out the trailer confirming the release of The Witch's Bakery for the Crunchyroll Game Vault below: On October 16, a physical version will release on PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, and Switch 2, which features a bonus Digital Cookbook. The Steam page describes The Witch's Bakery as follows: The Witch's Bakery is a cozy narrative Adventure RPG about a joyful witch who opens her bakery in modern Paris. She has one special power: she can see into people's heart and heal their emotions through magic! You play as Lunne, who has just arrived in the city! Each day is split into three phases: * * Daytime, where Lunne works in the bakery and helps customers through their troubles with a little magic. * Evening, where Lunne explores Paris, builds relationships, discovers the city's secrets and goes inside her friends' troubled hearts. * Night, where Lunne rests, improves her magic, decorates her bakery and spends time in her cosy atelier. The story progresses through the days as you earn experience, money, and fame, meet new friends and heal their heart. A colorful Paris in A joyful Adventure! Once your work day is done, you can visit several districts of Paris to meet with main characters, engage in activities to get to know them, buy books for new recipes, etc. The above example is "Le Quai des Bouquinistes" located in the 6th arrondissement of Paris! This place is known for its book sellers and its collectors of various entertainment goods, like vinyls, posters, old magazines... But also, of course, for the beautiful Notre-Dame. Each district has its own characters, activities and shops! A story about emotions and vulnerability. For some people, their emotion is locked away so strongly than Lunne needs to go inside their heart to help them. She enters their "Heart Palace", a magical space where emotions and thoughts take shape. Lunne needs to guide the personified Emotion back to the Heart's Cradle. Inside the Heart Palace, Lunne discovers the person's deepest struggles and finds the key ingredient she needs to make a bread that will heal them!

Magic in your pocket: The Witch's Bakery teams up with Crunchyroll for mobile launch. Watch The New Trailer For A Fresh Look At Heart Palaces And Giant Emotional Kaiju Battles!. Macclesfield, 8 October 2026 The magic of French pastries is going mobile! Ahead of its highly anticipated release on PC and Consoles on October 14th, Sunny Lab and Silver Lining Interactive are thrilled to announce that the cozy narrative RPG The Witch's Bakery is officially heading to iOS and Android exclusively via Crunchyroll Game Vault! Mobile players and anime fans will soon be able to take Lunne's heart-healing adventure anywhere in their pocket, with mobile launch date to be confirmed. Can't wait to jump into Lunne's adventure? Wishlist The Witch's Bakery on PC (Steam), PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, and Nintendo Switch 2! Try New Games New Heart Palace Look & Giant Kaiju Read Manga To celebrate this collaboration with Crunchyroll and the upcoming launch, the team has released a brand-new trailer giving fans a deeper look at the game's later chapters and unique levels. While players will spend their days hanging out in the bakery and exploring the hand-drawn streets of Paris, the new trailer reveals what happens when deep-rooted woes get out of hand. Using her special powers, Lunne can enter Heart Palaces - hidden realms where emotions take physical shape. Who knows what awaits when repressed emotions go awry? From mysterious mazes to inner turmoil, players will need to navigate all kinds of unexpected trials... perhaps even encounter massive, emotional Kaiju! Launch Schedule & Physical Editions You won't have to wait long to jump into Paris across your favorite platforms! * Digital Launch (14th October 2026): Releasing across PC (Steam), PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, and Nintendo Switch 2. * Physical Release (16th October 2026): Boxed editions for PS5 and Nintendo platforms hit retail shelves, featuring a bonus Digital Cookbook so you can bring a taste of Lunne's magic straight into your actual kitchen! * Mobile Release: Date to be confirmed. Coming soon exclusively to Crunchyroll Mega and Ultimate Fan members with zero ads and zero in-app purchases.

Crunchyroll reveals Beyond the Spider-Verse footage, anime division. October 9, 2026 Crunchyroll announced several company expansions, including a brand new division and partnerships with PlayStation and manga publishers during the inaugural Anime Future Forum. The event, which featured appearances by James Gunn and Samuel L. Jackson - who replaced previously announced guest Guillermo del Toro - alongside new footage from and details about the production of Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse, was part of the first-ever thought leadership event held at the Javits Center in New York. There, chairman and CEO of Sony Pictures Entertainment Ravi Ahuja took the stage to announce Storyworks, which will combine the powers of Crunchyroll, Aniplex, Japan's creative community, and Sony Pictures to develop global stories into anime as well as Japanese anime into live-action. Reporting to Crunchyroll's chief content officer Asa Suehira, 25-year Sony veteran Tohru Iokibe will lead the division, which will tap Japanese creators to preserve and center the original creative visions of various high-quality, greenlight-ready projects for Crunchyroll's joint venture with Aniplex, HAYATE. "Anime has become a global cultural force because it has been shaped over decades by the creators, studios and publishers who have nurtured and developed its distinctive storytelling and unforgettable characters," said Ahuja. "As anime grows, we have a responsibility to protect and amplify what makes it special while always keeping creators' visions at the center. That's the goal of Storyworks." Along with the division announcement, Crunchyroll revealed that, starting Wednesday, it's expanding its digital manga presence in English-speaking international markets through the premium add-on Crunchyroll Manga. Fans in places like the U.K., Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, India, Nepal and Pakistan will now be able to access localized English versions of more than 250 titles from leading publishers. J-Novel Club, Square Enix, and Yen Press are among the first partners, with additional titles and publishers to come, including action IP from VIZ Media. Sony Interactive Entertainment president and CEO Hideaki Nishino also used the event to announce that beginning next spring, anime will have a new dedicated space within the PlayStation5 home experience centered on anime and anime-inspired games, while also providing access to Crunchyroll. The news comes as Crunchyroll and PlayStation partner on the upcoming Ghost of Tsushima: Legends anime series. "Anime fans and gamers have always shared similar interests, and this new anime addition is designed to make it easier for the PlayStation community to discover more anime content they enjoy," added Nishino. "PlayStation is committed to delivering an anime experience to our community." As part of the event's final company announcement, president of Crunchyroll Rahul Purini celebrated the theatrical success of Demon Slayer last year - a recurring theme of some panels - before touting a new report, produced with partner NRG. "Last year, I was in Mexico City for the premiere of Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle. Fans started lining up at 6 in the morning for a midday premiere. We filled more than 10 screens," Purini told the room. Released Wednesday, and featuring the voices of fans in 11 different markets on four continents, the Global State of Anime Fandom 2026 study found that "outside Japan, two out of three fans are watching more anime than they were three years ago," and that "more than three out of four fans have introduced anime to someone who had never watched it," Purini said. As part of the company's effort to make data around anime viewership more accessible, Crunchyroll Compass, the data and insights platform for licensors and partners, has also added new features to help track how titles are performing on the platform. Data on performance by country, digital manga reporting, and, for the first time, data from MyAnimeList - the world's largest online anime and manga database - will be available. "What fans watch, and what the community is saying, in one place. And there is more to come," Purini teased. "Creators start the story. Fans carry it forward. Crunchyroll is here to serve them both." Throughout the rest of the day, a mix of business, trend and consumer panels spanning anime film and TV, influencer-creators, manga publishing, gaming and more explored how the industry ecosystem is exploding, connecting creators and audiences as it "crosses languages, cultures and borders," said Purini. Among the day's biggest conversations was a closed-door morning panel featuring James Gunn and Otsuka-san, with Iwakami-san, who discussed franchise-building, and an evening panel featuring Samuel L. Jackson, who spoke about his own path into anime, including work on the 2007 Afro Samurai adaptation as well as how he picks his projects and his relationship to major franchises like Star Wars and the MCU. Another of the day's bigger panels featured Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse co-director Bob Persichetti, who was among a guest list that also included rapper Big Sean, Olympic gold medalist figure skater Amber Glenn, content creator Jordan Howlett and Roy Lee, producer and founder of Vertigo Entertainment. Appearing on a panel moderated by Kristine Belson, president of Sony Pictures Animation, Persichietti unpacked what the animation and anime industries can learn from the Spider-Verse's production and box-office success, as well as what the franchise's creatives learned while working on the films. "We learned in making the first two movies, and now the third, which we're deep in, the traditional pipeline for CG animation was very siloed off and segmented in its creative phases. The magic of film, live-action or even photography, is capturing spontaneity," Persichetti told the crowd of industry members. "The production process of animation is the least spontaneous thing on earth." This partly fueled the Spider-Verse team's decision to go beyond the CG animation pipeline. But as the Spider-Verse team pushed back against the homogenization of their work through CG - in a process Persichetti noted goes "off script all the time" - their own challenge to the industry standard became "chaotic" and "disruptive." "Over the course of the first movies and now the third, which we're deep in, we were being kind of chaotic in the way we did our work. We would send things into production, and then we would yank them back out of production and change them back. It was disruptive, obviously, to production. We've got to make the movie and by the release date," he told the crowd of industry leaders. "It was also a little bit limiting for us creatively because we were always fighting this wave of most of the movie is done. We can't go back. And yet we were thinking about things in a way that took time to cook." These experiences, said Persichetti, have led to the design of a new "Story" system used on the third film, a collaboration with Sony Pictures Animation, Imageworks and Unreal. New processes like StoryCamera, StoryPerformance and StoryLighting have been created and were utilized in the several minutes of work-in-progress footage the panel showcased. That material teased Beyond's continuation of Across the Spider-Verse's ending. Specifically, the introduction between Miles Morales and the Earth-42 "villain" version of himself known as The Prowler, the name Earth-1610's now-deceased Uncle Aaron Davis donned in Into the Spider-Verse. The process of creating these sequences, the director said, moved some aspects of the animation pipeline that were once tackled or managed later in production into the pre-production process with their newly created system. "If we put the word story in front of everything, people will not think we aren't in production, and it will free us," the filmmaker said. "All of these things kind of smash on the left side of production. And [when] we did all this work, what we realized is we're bringing more of our artists into the process; people [are] having more creative input; we're seeing more creative choices; we're able to think about the movie holistically, creatively, much earlier."