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Show Notes
0:00: Justin mostly goes over his surprising catch-up to spring anime shows and some backlog manga and light novels being read while Helen laments being too busy to check out nerd stuff.
Pandemic News
8:17: Tomori Kusunoki was diagnosed with COVID-19 a few weeks ago, but has now recovered from it.
News
9:05: AI has been a very hot topic over the past few months, negatively due to just how it’s being incorporated into certain fields, and with this also creeping in within the manga industry, it appears to the two hosts this won’t be the last time they’ll be touching on this.
21:40: World’s End Harem: Fantasia will go on break — the creators just need one.
22:20: And remember the dude who translated Jujutsu Kaisen for VIZ but got arrested due to possession of child pornography? He finally got his sentence.
Licenses
26:00: J-Novel Club announced they’ve licensed the following titles on their Twitch stream:
- Hamita’s La Ragazza: Living with Francesca
- Kota Nozomi & Giuniu’s You Like Me, Not My Daughter?!
- Gamei Hitsuji & Saika Fushimi’s The Magician Who Rose From Failure manga
- Usber & Ichizen’s Only I Know That This World Is a Game (manga)
- Harayasu’s Thompson (Manga)
- Fukada Sametarou & Sakura Miwabe’s I’m Giving the Disgraced Noble Lady I Rescued a Crash Course in Naughtiness: I’ll Spoil Her with Delicacies and Style to Make Her the Happiest Woman in the World!
- Hana Amano & Usber’s I’m Not the Hero!
- Ichi Sayo’s Monster and Parent
- KAYA & Naru’s Taking My Reincarnation One Step at a Time: No One Told Me There Would Be Monsters!
- Ito Iino & Kinokohime’s The Troubles of Miss Nicola the Exorcist (J-Novel Heart)
- Sora Hinokage & Tsukasa Kiryu’s Stuck in a Time Loop: When All Else Fails, Be a Villainess (J-Novel Heart)
- Hisaya Amagishi & Esora Amaichi’s Lucia and the Loom: Weaving Her Way to Happiness
- Will partner with Podium Audio to release Tamamaru’s My Quiet Blacksmith Life in Another World & Shouji Gatou’s Full Metal Panic! as audiobooks.
31:12: Dark Horse finally announced they’re reprinting Trigun and Trigun Maximum, but these will return as deluxe hardcover editions. Same with Drifters, but as paperback omnibus editions.
32:21: Seven Seas and their Wonderful Wednesdays are back! Here’s what they announced last Wednesday:
- Tamako Tamagoyama’s My Cat is Such a Weirdo (Full-Color manga)
- Kyu Azagishi and Ako’s Healer for the Shadow Hero (Steamship)
- Hinaki’s Becoming a Princess Knight and Working at a Yuri Brothel (Ghost Ship)
- 945/gusao’s The Dangerous Convenience Store (Manhwa)
33:29: MANGA Plus has added a couple of titles over the past few weeks:
- Shunsuke Iino’s My Girlfriend Gives Me Goosebumps!
- Yu Chiba’s Kindergarten WARS
- Astra Ashima’s Handsome Must Die
Streaming News
33:42: Crunchyroll will stream The Great Cleric, Am I Actually the Strongest?, Rent-a-Girlfriend S3, Horimiya: The Missing Pieces this summer, I’m in Love with the Villainess, MF Ghost, & I Shall Survive Using Potions! at some point in 2023; Crunchyroll is also now streaming Backflip!! The Movie, Hula Fulla Dance, & The Legend of Hei.
34:25: You will see sub and dub versions of Lonely Castle in the Mirror will air in theaters June 21-22; Psycho Pass: Providence will air in North American theaters in July — Helen, however, isn’t exactly enthused about it…
Main Topic: VIZ out here dropping a new service out of nowhere!
35:31: One day before Kodansha would launch K MANGA, VIZ out here giving everyone a reminder that it might be best to have a vague release date instead of an official release date. Among other things! The two hosts react to VIZ’s new service and gives thoughts on K MANGA now that they could check out the app. Justin even reveals the one title he did read and finish on VIZ Manga…
Weird News
49:29: Konami’s out here trying to get Uma Musume money or something, as now they’re suing Cygames over the Uma Musume Pretty Derby game.
51:28: Normally a manga getting another volume or it’s continuing in some format after it supposedly ended years ago isn’t always weird, and more Horimiya is probably welcome — but as you see the cover for Horimiya Volume 16 say final but there will be another volume of the series just makes Justin think back to the time someone in the industry told him years ago on why JP companies sometimes tell them not to have final on the cover! (EDITOR NOTE: You’ll hear Justin say Kodansha, you can guess he meant to say Yen Press.)
53:38: After 2 years, the One-Punch Man web manga finally got a new chapter! OPM fans are probably pleased.
53:50: Keiichi Arawi recently did an interview with a German manga news site, and during said interview he gave his reason on why Nichijou resumed after it supposedly ended, and then gave a very amusing response on if the series will continue.
54:45: Chibi Maruko is a very popular series in Japan, so there needs to be careful consideration on how you handle the characters in the series — one artist found this out the hard way.
55:53: You’d think the Chargers social media wouldn’t go back-to-back with releasing their schedule in anime format…they basically said, think again!
58:45: bigolas dickolas woIfwood became a legend after talking about This Is How You Lose the Time War in a very creative way. This led to the book selling…and also led to even the Trigun: Stampede producer buying it too! And then of course, this definitely led Trigun to finally announce the re-release of the Trigun series (ok, this is not actually true), and now everyone, especially Trigun fans, will remember the contributions bigolas dickolas woIfwood made to the fandom and the internet at large.