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Show Notes
0:00: Helen went to Small Press Expo and had a good time. Justin talked about the Lycoris Recoil BD release and finishing Part 4 of Bookworm. Needless to say, [Redacted] became a popular word for Justin!
12:34: Tokyo Laboratory in JP will be shutting down in November, which is getting lots of people talking since they have a lot of material.
15:36: COO Brady McCollum is leaving Crunchyroll after 15 years, and Justin talks a bit about this news.
18:25: Our Last Crusade or the Rise of a New World Season 2 has been pushed to 2024. Makes sense, considering Silver Link is likely producing it since they did Season 1, and they’ve had a few other shows delayed over the past year.
20:20: Hiromu Arakawa’s getting admitted to the hospital after a mysterious result in one of her past medical checkups, which means The Heroic Legend of Arslan is going on a 1-issue break.
21:15: Yep, Netflix One Piece getting a Season 2 is not weird news at all! With the numbers it’s pulling, definitely not in any way unusual.
25:22: The creator of Space Adventure Cobra, Buichi Terasawa, passed away at 68 due to a heart attack September 8 — the two hosts discuss his impact on WSJ and the industry at large.
Licenses
26:41: J-Novel Club made 17 announcements during their recent Twitch stream event, and they sure were a lot:
- Kotoko & Esora Amaichi’s Fake It to Break it! I Faked Amnesia to Break Off My Engagement and Now He’s All Lovey-Dovey? (J-Novel Heart)
- Almond, Yona Etou, & Yoshiro Ambe’s The Oblivious Saint Can’t Contain Her Power: Disgraced No Longer, I’m Finding Happiness with the Prince! (J-Novel Heart)
- Fuurou & Kinta’s The Frontier Lord Begins with Zero Subjects light novel
- Shigeru Sagazaki & Tetsuhiro Nabeshima’s From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman: My Hotshot Disciples Are All Grown Up Now, and They Won’t Leave Me Alone
- Akinosuke Nishiyama & Yusuke Miauchi’s The Retired Demon of the Maxed-Out Village manga
- SkyFarm & Riku Natsume’s 8th Loop for the Win! With Seven Lives’ Worth of XP and the Third Princess’s Appraisal Skill, My Behemoth and I Are Unstoppable! manga
- Izumi Sawano & Uri Sugata’s I Want to Escape from Princess Lessons manga (J-Novel Heart)
- Kotobuki Yasukiyo & JohnDee’s The Diary of a Middle-Aged Sage’s Carefree Life in Another World
- Akito Narusawa & KeG’s Finding Avalon: The Quest of a Chaosbringer – After Being Reincarnated as an Overweight Villain, I’m Determined to Shed the Pounds and Get My New Game as an Unsung Hero
- Takuma Sakai & Asagi Tohsaka’s Butareba -The Story of a Man Turned into a Pig-
- Makiko Nagaoka & magako’s You Were Experienced, I Was Not: Our Dating Story
- Sakaku Hishikawa, Daburyu, & Ten Junoichi’s The Brilliant Healer’s New Life in the Shadows light novel and manga
- Kono Tsuranori & Miya Taira ‘s D-Genesis: Three Years after the Dungeons Appeared manga
- Nora Kohigashi & Wasabi’s I Could Never Be a Succubus!
- Hiro Oda & Tasuke Sakura’s Forget Being the Villainess, I Want to Be an Adventurer! manga (J-Novel Heart, already pubbing the LN)
- Chatsufusa & Sabaneko’s The Invincible Little Lady (manga, already pubbing the LN)
34:10: Seven Seas will produce another audiobook, this time of Inori’s I’m in Love with the Villainess, narrated by Courtney Shaw.
34:31: Not a new license, but a digital license of something VIZ has had in print for a good while…and it’s an Urasawa manga??! Pluto is finally going to see a digital release.
Streaming News
37:33: HIDIVE announced they’ll be streaming The Vexations of a Shut-In Vampire Princess this season.
37:56: Magic Knight Rayearth (both seasons), Sherlock Hound, Little Nemo – Adventures in Slumberland, Rose of Versailles, & Space Adventure Cobra have all been added to Retrocrush.
38:28: Crunchyroll will be streaming the Sasaki & Miyano Graduation film September 28.
38:36: And to celebrate it’s 10th Anniversary, Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods will have a theatrical run October 17-18 — this is an extended edition that’s getting released.
Weird News
39:49: Apparently Serial Experiments Lain and AI is now a thing, and both hosts are certain the Lain fans are happy to hear this news. (The fans are probably not.)
41:40: Apparently according to ChatGPT, Heybot the anime doesn’t exist. Oops!
42:39: Justin messed this up, but it’s nice to note the studio who Hayao Miyazaki called out for creating something that “was an insult to life” created something following that experience!
45:00: Speaking of Miyazaki, he has failed to retire for a fourth time! It appears he does not know what that means.
46:18: One Piece, Fortnite, and NFL players all doing what? Of course they’d want to do this!
48:00: Finally, manga artist Hiroyuki has been buying a bunch of expensive wristwatches and appears to be in debt. How does he get out of it? By selling an semi auto-biographical manga about it. Even admitted he’s using the money he makes from its sales to get out of the debt. Just the Weirdest News of All Time. Legendary.