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Show Notes
Zac Bertschy
0:00: Justin and Helen begin the podcast by sharing their thoughts on Zac Bertschy, who passed away May 21, and his impact on the industry.
Pandemic news
4:14: In Japan the state of emergency has been lifted so we’ll soon see how much can resume over there. The affects of this have been extremely significant, as JP voice actors and actors are not expecting to receive anything close to their usual salary for May based on a survey.
8:09: Last podcast there wasn’t too many delays. Since then, a number of delays have occurred:
Was airing this Spring:
Zoids: Wild Zero has been delayed (began airing in October last year)
- Reincarnated as a Slime S2 (Delayed to January 2021, with second half airing July 2021) & spinoff Slime Diaries (from January 2021 to April 2021)
- Haikyu!! To The Top 2nd Half (Delayed from July, new date TBA)
- Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? Season III (Delayed from July to October or later)
- New Higurashi: When They Cry (Delayed from July, new date TBA)
- Maesetsu! (Delayed from July to October)
- Assault Lily Bouquet (Delayed from summer to October)
- Warlords of Sigrdrifa (Delayed from July to October),
- Hypnosis Mic -Division Rap Battle- TV (Delayed from July to October)
- Monster Strike The Movie (Delayed from July to November)
- EX-ARM (Delayed from Fall 2020 or later)
- Rurouni Kenshin Final Chapter films (Delayed from summer to Spring 2021)
- Seven Deadly Sins: Anger’s Judgment (Delayed from October to unknown)
- Kyoshin to Hyouka no Shiro (not airing this month, new date TBA)
Anime with return dates:
- Food Wars Season 5 (July 3)
- Pokemon: Twilight Wings (June 7)
13:50: Justin and Helen go over how the manga and light novel industry has been affected by the pandemic, based on what they know, what’s happened so far and this Publishers Weekly article where a number of industry members share how it’s impacted them. They also go over how virtual cons are becoming more of a thing with Anime Lite and Aniplex doing one in July.
News
26:25: Since the hosts didn’t explain them properly, Honeyfeed is a webnovel community that will be releasing 3 titles that were considered the best out of qdopp’s World Novel Project Competition:
- Big Bear and Tierla’s Burned Out Heroes
- Gaia & MACOZI’s It’s My First Time Working Late Nights at a Convenience Store, and If I Keep Getting Demon Lords, Kappa and Other Oddballs as Customers, I’m Giving My Two-Weeks’ Notice
- Akiraizun & Tsuiru’s I’m Taking Revenge for My Murdered Classmates Using Weapons Made from Their Souls
Justin challenged Helen to come up with a shortname for the title that’s bolded. You will have to let us know if the title for this podcast is an acceptable shortname for that web novel.
29:37: At the halfway point of the manga and LN sales charts in Japan this year, not surprisingly Demon Slayer is at the top of the list. Justin, however, is stunned at just how much it’s just selling compared to everything else.
33:49: After 10 months, the KyoAni arson suspect has finally been arrested. To point out why he hasn’t been arrested, he got himself hurt in the fire and laws in Japan state that a suspect must be medically able to stand trial.
Licenses
35:30: Yen Press announced some licenses:
- Reki Kawahara, Shiomi Miyoshi & Abec’s Sword Art Online: Progressive – Transient Barcarolle
- Salt Seno’s Heterogenia Linguistico
- Waka Hirako’s My Broken Mariko
36:59: Denpa Books will release Shuzo Oshimi’s Miss Kusakabe digitally in July.
38:08: Kaiten Books announced they’ve licensed Wataru Akashingo’s My Dad’s the Queen of All VTubers?! & Kanko Nakamura’s Uzamaid: Our Maid is Way Too Annoying!
40:47: Manga Planet announced a title a few Sundays ago called Missile Bird. They then went to Cloud Matsuri this past Sunday and announced they’re gonna be releasing a couple Nobuyuki Fukumoto titles to their service this month:
- The Legend of the Strongest, Kurosawa!
- Gambling Apocalypse Kaiji
- Gambling Apocalypse Legend Zero
Futekiya was also at Cloud Matsuri and they announced they will add Volume 2 of Tamekou’s You’re My Sex Star & Maki Marukido’s Zoku Pornographer Playback to their service, and they have licensed Harada’s One Room Angel and Sawa Sakura’s Momo to Manji.
45:06: B the Beginning is coming as an Ultimate Edition to the US!…From Anime Limited, a UK company. Justin and Helen wonder what this means, since A) this is a Netflix title and B) it’s rare to get these types of releases.
Streaming News
49:08: Retrocrush is expected to add a ton of titles to their service this month:
- Astro Boy (1980)
- Black Jack (1993 OVA, including Black Jack Final)
- Ambassador Magma (1993 OVA)
- A Time Slip of 10000 Years: Prime Rose
- Undersea Super Train: Marine Express
- One Million-Year Trip: Bander Book
- Dear Brother
- Jungle Emperor – The Brave Changes the Future
- Moby Dick – Great Whale in Space
- The Story of Saiunkoku
- True Tears
- Mazinger Edition Z: The Impact!
- Miss Machiko
Helen explains why she’s super hyped about The Story Of Saiunkoku being available officially.
Weird News
52:00: Daisuke Ashihara will release the latest chapter of World Trigger where part of it is a rough draft. Justin understands that he and Jump SQ talked about it and he’s recovering…but it really would’ve been fine to wait another month.
53:50: Despite everything seemingly working against it, the Sonic the Hedgehog film is getting a sequel. The only thing we can say at TheOASG is congratulations, and Justin was extremely wrong.
55:04: Dude that created Eva celebrated his 60th birthday in the most dude that created Eva fashion: with an Ultraman pose…that took multiple retakes.
56:05: Redraw Reigen has been a thing…now we have Redraw Sailor Moon!
57:15: Before getting into the story, you have to see how sad these counterfeit Pokémon are:
…So yes, US Customs seized over 86,000 of these abominations.