Trust

Editorial Standards

One desk, one rule: report what is known, label what is not, and write every word here.

Primary sources first

Wherever possible, an announcement is traced to its primary source — the studio, publisher, licensor or official channel that actually made it — before it is reported as fact. If the primary source cannot be checked, the article says so instead of presenting second-hand reporting as certainty. A story is never upgraded from rumor to news because it is widely repeated; repetition is not confirmation.

Confirmed, rumor, unknown

Every news story carries one of three labels:

• Confirmed — the announcement comes from a primary source, or from evidence strong enough to treat it as settled.
• Rumor — the claim is circulating but has not been confirmed by a primary source. Rumors are reported as rumors, with what is actually known kept separate from what is speculated.
• Unknown — the facts are not yet established, and the article says what is missing rather than filling the gap.

Labels are updated when the facts change. A story that was a rumor and is later confirmed is re-labelled, and the change is noted on the article.

Original wording, always

Every article is written in original wording by this desk. We do not copy, paste or lightly rewrite wire copy or other sites' articles, and we do not use other sites' content, links or images. Short quotations from an announcement are kept short and attributed to their source in the text. All links on this site are internal.

Fact-checking before publication

Before an article is published, the desk checks the facts that readers will rely on: series and episode titles, dates and airtimes, season placement, and names and roles. Schedule times are converted to the reader's timezone, and where a time is provisional it is labelled as such rather than stated as final. If a fact cannot be verified, it is left out or marked unknown — it is not guessed.

Where news comes from: X, news channels, leaks and creator profiles

The desk watches a private list of official accounts on X — the streamers, publishers and newsrooms first, leak accounts only as tips — plus official YouTube and streamer channels and the Japanese press. The full watchlists are kept in the site's source files (x-sources.md and news-channels.md). Every item from any of these is a lead, never a fact, until the official announcement behind it is confirmed.

Leaks are published only in the dedicatedLeaks section, always labelled LEAK — UNVERIFIED, with what is reported, what is confirmed, and what to wait for kept separate. A leak is never presented as fact, and an unverified claim is never mixed into News.

Before publishing, the desk checks the official creator or studio profile for the series — the list is on theCreator Profiles / Official Sourcespage. If the creator or studio has not said it, the story says so.

Desk reports and headline briefs

A desk report is a fully written article with context, sourcing and explanation. A headline brief is a short news item for stories that do not yet support a full article. Briefs are not padded into articles: a one-line announcement stays a brief until there is enough verified fact to write more.

Images

Every image on this site is made for the blog itself — AI-generated original-character illustrations in the blog's house style. No official promotional art, no stock photos, no episode stills, no character art copied from any series, and no rival assets are used, so no image credit to anyone else is needed. Blog-made illustrations are never passed off as official art.

Corrections

When an error is found after publication, it is corrected on the article itself and marked with the date and what changed. The full process, including how to report an error, is on theCorrections page.

AI use

Drafts may be AI-assisted, but every article is fact-checked and edited by a human before publication. See AI Use for the full disclosure.