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Show Notes
0:00: Justin and Helen speak to each other again over the internet and say what they’ve been up to. The problem for Justin is aside from the large list of anime he’s watching this season he’s now very obsessed with the Ascendance of a Bookworm series for some reason. Meanwhile Helen did find time to do something different, like finish The Great Pretender. Along the way the two hosts talk about ordering or avoid ordering out of stock titles for various reasons.
Pandemic News
12:15: There will be a bit more discussion on COVID-19 impacting events next episode (since news emerged regarding SDCC and AX this past week) but the two hosts talked about what’s been going on in Japan, and when the final Evangelion movie is going to air over there.
News
14:14: Major Demon Slayer news occurred in the past two weeks:
- Demon Slayer passed Spirited Away as the #1 Japanese box office film worldwide…and there’s still places where it hasn’t aired.
- Koyoharu Gotouge became the first manga artist to be put on the Time 100 list, which means yeah, this manga has been historic.
16:25: Anime of course has been booming for a while, but despite some of its success, the issue of animators and their pay continue to be a question mark, and the NYT covered that.
20:56: Remember the Sentai/Christopher Ayres/Krystal LaPorte situation? Now that Log Horizon S3 is on Funimation and now has a dub, we are starting to get clarification on the situation, and the two hosts…are still pretty baffled!
24:35: The last bit of news is localization, and specifically, what Seven Seas has now opened themselves up to as reddit threads and Twitter users noted a good amount of text cut for Classroom of the Elite and some major adjustments to moments involving Rudeus and Paul, among a few other things, in Mushoku Tensei compared to the Japanese version. The two hosts discuss how now for a good while, Seven Seas will have people questioning their translators and translations because of this (and how they responded to it).
Licenses
30:44: LeSean Thomas’ Cannon Busters, which is on Netflix, is getting a home video release.
31:22: For whatever reason, just about every company decided to announce new titles between the 19th and the 22nd of February. The two hosts start with Kodansha, who announced their digital titles for April:
- Hiroyuki’s Girlfriend, Girlfriend (Which Justin had already called they’d license a while ago)
- RIKACHI’s Nina the Starry Bride
- Toma Fuyuori’s The Honey-blood Beauty & Her Vampire
- Kujira Anan’s And Yet, You Are So Sweet
33:07: Seven Seas continued their month of love in announcing new titles:
- Hirukuma’s The NPCs in this Village Sim Game Must Be Real! (LN and manga)
- Jaki’s The Most Notorious “Talker” Runs the World’s Greatest Clan (LN and manga)
- Cotton Valent’s Creepy Cat
- Miya Kinojo & Akine Itomachi’s Chillin’ in Another World with Level 2 Super Cheat Powers
- Toudai & Jiro Heian’s I Got Caught Up In a Hero Summons, but the Other World was at Peace!
- PEYO’s Boy Meets Maria
- Correction: in the podcast it was mentioned the author passed away at 20, but the author passed away at 23
- Goro Aizome’s Do You Like Big Girls? (Ghost Ship)
- Yasunori Mitsunaga’s Time Stop Hero
- Toufu’s Level 1 Demon Lord and One Room Hero
- Muramitsu & Benigashira’s Headhunted to Another World: From Salaryman to Heavenly King!
- Maka Mochida’s Daily Report About My Witch Senpai
- Meguru Ueno’s Does a Hot Elf Live Next Door to You? (Ghost Ship)
- Aki Hagiu & Renji Kuriyama’s CALL TO ADVENTURE! Defeating Dungeons with a Skill Board
- Tarisa Warinai & Keisuke Sato’s DUNGEON DIVE: Aim for the Deepest Level
- Toshiya Wakabayashi’s Happy Kanako’s Killer Life
- Mariko Kikuchi’s A Life Turned Upside Down: My Dad’s An Alcoholic
- Ko Hiratori & J-Ta Yamada’s JK Haru is a Sex Worker in Another World
- Eri Ejima’s Tai Ari Deshita: Ojō-sama wa Kakutō Game Nante Shinai
As a heads up, the two hosts will talk about the last title Seven Seas announced (as this podcast was recorded before it), but did actually go out on a bang at least.
39:13: J-Novel Club announced one new title: Miri Mikawa & Kasumi Nagi’s Culinary Chronicles of the Court Flower for their J-Novel Heart imprint. The majority of their news? Bookworm Fanbook and more of their catalog in print!:
- Kanata Yanagino & Mutsumi Okubashi’s The Faraway Paladin manga (Omnibus editions)
- Ameko Kaeruda & Shio Sakura’s A Lily Blooms in Another World
- 616th Special Information Battalion & Eiri Iwamoto’s Her Majesty’s Swarm
- Yu Okano’s The Unwanted Undead Adventurer (Both LN and manga)
- Kureha & Yamigo’s The White Cat’s Revenge as Plotted from the Dragon King’s Lap
- Nozomu Mochitsuki & Gilse’s Tearmoon Empire
- Miya Kazuki, You Shiina, & Suzuka’s Ascendance of a Bookworm: Fanbook (digital first, print later)
- mikawaghost & tomari’s My Friend’s Little Sister Has It In for Me!
46:59: Yen Press chose to announce their new licenses just out of nowhere, and most of them were for their Yen On line:
- Iori Miyazawa, Toichiro Kawashima, & Adventure Planning Service’s Meikyuu: Labyrinth Kingdom, A Tactical Fantasy World Survival Guide
- Kazuma Kamachi & Mahaya’s Magistealth Bad Trip
- Mizuki Nomura & Miho Takeoka’s Bond and Book: The Only Way of the Operating Room
- Sakuma Sasaki & Eishi Hayama’s The Undead King’s Reign of Peace
- Kafka Asagiri, Sango Harukawa & Shiwasu Hoshikawa’s Bungo Stray Dogs Beast manga
- Will also release a print edition of Megumi Hayashibara’s memoir The Characters Taught Me Everything: Living Life One Episode at a Time in August
49:03: VIZ at least gave a heads up on their license announcements, and it was a lot:
- Deserter: Junji Ito Story Collection
- Naoya Matsumoto’s Kaiju No. 8
- Wataru Hinekura & Aruko’s My Love Mix-Up!
- Rumiko Takahashi’s Mao
- Tsukasa Abe & Kanehito Yamada’s Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End
- Kachiru Ishizue’s Rosen Blood
- Tite Kubo’s Burn the Witch
- Santa Harukaze’s Pokémon Pocket Comics: Sun & Moon
- Machito Gomi’s Pokémon Journeys
- Coconas Roomba’s Animal Crossing: New Horizons-Deserted Island Diary
- Hiromu Arakawa & Makoto Inoue’s FMA: A New Beginning LN
- Akira Toriyama’s Manga Theater (Will be 3 volumes in a hardcover edition)
- Sanji & Nami Iijima’s One Piece Pirate Recipes
- Kohei Horikoshi’s My Hero Academia: Ultra Analysis: The Official Character Guide
- Box Set 4 (Volumes 71-90) of Eiichiro Oda’s One Piece
- A Complete Box Set of Koyoharu Gotouge’s Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba
53:10: Nakaba Suzuki’s Four Knights of the Apocalypse: The Seven Deadly Sins‘ is now being simulpubbed by Kodansha.
54:30: Tentai Books has announced they’ve licensed Kakeru Takamine & Ichigo Kagawa’s How to Melt the Ice Queen’s Heart; futekiya announced they’ve licensed 32 Boys Love titles; Ablaze licensed Tsukasa Saimura & Kozo Takahashi’s Crueler Than Dead manga, which is slated for a September 28 release.
Streaming News
55:46: Helen talks about all of the Discotek titles that are going on Crunchyroll, and there is a lot!
58:30: Justin talks about all of the City Hunter Discotek titles that are going on Retrocrush, and there is a lot!
1:00:02: Toei will be streaming a couple of titles on Tubi TV, and the question is which Kitaro are they streaming? What version of Dr. Slump do they have? Many questions, but they will have a lot of One Piece on the service.
Weird News
1:01:27: The only weird news this time around is that Netflix is working with Production I.G. to create a Terminator anime, and here’s yet another property turning into anime!