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Two Michigan shoppers represented by Hagens Berman sued Lululemon in Washington federal court, seeking a nationwide class over tariff-driven price rises and a share of its IEEPA refunds.

Anthropic releases Claude Sonnet 5, its most agentic Sonnet, which comes close to Opus 4.8 on coding and computer use at $2 per million input tokens and becomes the default model for Free and Pro users.

7-Eleven sued Nike in federal court in Dallas on 1 July 2026, claiming the orange, green and red stripes on an Air Max 95 Big Bubble due on 11 July, 7-Eleven Day, copy its Tri-Color Mark.

Hana-Kimi Season 2 begins release, continuing the romantic comedy about Mizuki Ashiya, who disguises herself as a boy to attend an all-boys high school and room with the athlete she admires.

Tesla filed its opening brief in the Eleventh Circuit, with former Solicitor General Paul Clement arguing that Florida law bars the $200 million punitive award over the fatal 2019 Key Largo crash; the victims have hired another former Solicitor General, Elizabeth Prelogar.

Draw This, Then Die! (Kore Kaite Shine) follows first-year high schooler Ai Yasumi on Izu Oshima island as she discovers a love of manga-making and pushes to turn her stories into a career, animated by Shin-Ei Animation.

GoHands adapts Nekoko's isekai light novel as a two-cour series about a disowned heir who uses his past life's VR-game expertise to turn the derided Heavy Knight class into a powerhouse.

100studio adapts Tsuyoshi Takaki's cult shonen manga BLACK TORCH, nearly a decade after its Jump Square run ended.

Animated by Lay-duce, this 24-episode family comedy-drama follows high schooler Ito Hazui as her mother's sudden remarriage hands her four step-brothers to adjust to overnight. Most of the show's tension comes from her relationship with the eldest, Gen, whose standoffish manner keeps cracking to reveal quieter moments of care.

The second season of Magilumiere Magical Girls Inc., animated by J.C.Staff, continues its corporate-workplace spin on the mahou shoujo genre: magical girls here are salaried employees, and protagonists Kana Sakuragi and Hitomi Koshigaya spend as much time on internal politics and product rollout for the company's Alice System as they do fighting. This season pits them against industry factions pushing to deregulate magic use for profit, raising the stakes beyond the first season's day-to-day office drama.

EXCEEDS: Gun Blaze Vengeance is Seven Arcs’ newest entry in the long-running Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha franchise, but it's a fresh original story rather than a continuation of Nanoha's own arc: thirty years after mysterious "invasive alien species" nearly destroyed the world, a UN agency called EXCEEDS fights to contain the ongoing fallout. It centers on Shina Hisase, a young extermination hunter on the remote island nation of Mizuho, trying to protect her younger sister Setsuna as the agency pulls her deeper into its operations.

Kinema Citrus's Goodbye, Lara premieres, a TV anime in which a mermaid princess who traded her voice for a chance at human love wakes at Lake Biwa two centuries later for one final chance to break the witch's curse.

Vuori unveiled Breathe, a perforated, lightweight line for high-intensity gym training led by the Kore Breathe Short, with Chicago Bears tight end Colston Loveland in its "Breathe Through It" campaign.