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Show Notes
0:00: Justin and Helen again talk over the internet about what they’re up to. Well for Justin it’s just reading Bookworm Part 2, Volume 1 and confusing Helen over how it’s named because only he can. As for Helen, let’s just say she’s revived an old blog to go over what she’s been doing.
Pandemic News
7:23: So here we have more anime delays: Ikebukuro West Gate Park (July to October) 2020 Anpanman film (June 26 to Summer 2021) 1st Fate/Grand Order film (August 15 to TBA), Log Horizon Season 3 (From October to January 2021) ‘So I’m a Spider, So What? (Planned for 2020, will now be January 2021) 1st Sailor Moon Eternal film (From September 11 to January 8, 2021) and the 2nd Sailor Moon Eternal film (Date announced for February 11, 2021)
Life-Lessons of Uramichi Oniisan & Mushoku Tensei have been moved to 2021, but it’s not known if it was COVID-19 related (Uramichi Oniisan cited production issues).
9:30: But also returns: One Piece, Digimon Adventure 2020 & Healin’ Good Precure are all back; Boruto (July 5), Kiratto Pri☆Chan S3 (July 5), Black Clover (July 7), Gundam Build Divers Re:RISE Season 2, No Guns Life‘s 2nd Half (July 9) The Millionaire Detective (restarts July 16, new episodes start July 30) Heaven’s Feel film (August 15), and the Violet Evergarden film (September 18) have new dates; for manga, Kinnikuman’s back & Golgo 13 (July 10) will soon return.
11:09: One significant news item based on the responses from multiple industry members and just because of how much the pandemic has affected everyone: long-time graphic novel buyer at B&N, James Killen, has been laid off from the company.
News
14:18: We’ve talked about Blue Flag and Act-Age on this podcast a couple times, and now we can finally say they’re both now in the Shonen Jump vault! Justin can only exhibit patience as Helen demands more of each.
Licenses
15:25: GKIDS licensed Kenji Iwaisawa’s On-Gaku: Our Sound and Masaaki Yuasa’s Inu-Oh, which means more GKIDS bringing over some interesting stuff!
16:16: BookWalker is teaming up with Kodansha USA to release Soborou’s Why The Hell Are You Here, Teacher!? and Kimitake Yoshioka’s TenPuru…not temple. This manages to remind Helen of a couple manga Yen Press was supposed to bring over and never did.
19:12: Mangamo is gonna launch a manga version of that Japan Sinks anime that’ll be airing on Netflix. This, however, was not a normal announcement.
21:03: Finally, Kodansha Comics and Vertical held a licensing event on YouTube, and here’s their announcements:
- Kodansha: Hazuki Takeoka & Fly’s Chasing After Aoi Koshiba
- Furuya Nagisa’s The Summer of You
- Will release Junko’s Star⇄Crossed!! & Akane Shizumu & Yasuhiro Fukuda’s Cells at Work: Baby! in print
- Vertical: Mizuki Tsujimura & Naoshi Arakawa’s A School Frozen in Time
- Asuka Konishi’s Haru’s Curse
Streaming News
23:47: So, big streaming news this time: Healin’ Good Pretty Cure is now streaming officially on Crunchyroll…which makes it the first time a series from that franchise is being simulcasted. Helen and Justin go over the significance of that news.
26:39: Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters is gonna be added to Netflix, which only leads to the two hosts talking about the weirdness of Season 0.
28:10: Tubi TV made a deal with TMS and will eventually stream 6 Anpanman films in English and Spanish.
29:02: Funimation added a couple more Aniplex titles to their service:
- Nisekoi
- Star Driver
- Blend S
- Mushi-Shi The Next Passage & The Next Chapter
- Samurai Flamenco
- Oreimo
- Oreimo 2
- Classroom Crisis
- Gunslinger Stratos
Main Topic: Spring Anime 2020 Season
30:03: The two hosts talk about what ultimately was a strange anime season (as we all know), which is reflected in the amount of new shows they’ve watched…though My Next Life as a Villainess and Bookworm S2 definitely stood out to Justin and Helen this year.
Weird News
1:01:30: So a musician, Teruki Goto, cosplayed as Lelouch while also campaigning in the 2020 Tokyo Governor elections. What seemed like something amusing…ended up leading to a lot more!