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Show Notes
0:00: Justin and Helen talk about all the things they’ve been up to over the past two weeks, which might involve someone watching the same show again (but English dubbed!) and one reading the source material of a show they happened to watch this past winter.
News
17:07: A few hiatuses and breaks popped up over the past few weeks — starting with The Case Study on Vanitas; Sleepy Princess going on a break until June; Frieren is on another hiatus after they just came back essentially; and The Apothecary Diaries manga going on hiatus!…The other version, not the one Square Enix is publishing.
20:41: Kia Asamiya had eye cataract surgeries, and he recently announced they were successful, which is good to hear.
21:17: For Pokémon fans, you likely have heard of Rachael Lillis, who voiced Misty and Jessie. Unfortunately, it was revealed she has breast cancer, and with it reaching difficult levels, her family started a GoFundMe campaign to help fund a home care nurse.
22:24: If you thought Penguin Random House was done collecting manga companies, well now they’ll be distributing TOKYOPOP titles next year!
Licenses
28:34: Justin and Helen get into the news of Orange Inc. preparing to launch their AI localization program in the coming months, which only brings back one of their first attempts to localizing manga, and it was not a great effort.
36:01: Seven Seas’ Wonderful Wednesdays is back in full force, and they’ve acquired the following titles:
- Noriaki Kotoba’s The Barbarian’s Bride
- Natsumi Ito’s My Dear Detective: Mitsuko’s Case Files (Print)
- Mizuki Hoshino’s Tiger and Dragon
- Sachiko Orihara’s Nakamura-san, the Uninvited Gyaru
- Anji Matono’s 100 Ghost Stories That Will Lead to My Death
- Migiri Miki’s My Kitten is a Picky Eater
- Yofune Shibue’s The Second Alpha
- Touya & chibi’s A Tale of the Secret Saint ZERO (Airship)
- Tabireco’s The Hungry Succubus Wants to Consume Him (Ghost Ship)
40:00: Justin and Helen get into a Kickstarter being launched for Kouji Shinasaka and Akihiro Kumeta’s Monkey Peak manga by Antarctic Press, and if this makes sense to do this.
42:34: After it feels like years, we finally have a company that has the rights to Mamoru Oshii’s Angel’s Egg, so we’ll be hearing from this officially in theaters in the coming months (or year).
Streaming News
45:18: Until April 28, 2025, you can watch a documentary on anime industry legend Masao Maruyama on NHK World’s site.
47:07: Terminator Zero will stream on Netflix at the end of August; Blue Archive the Animation will supposedly air in North America in the near future according to their official Twitter account. Both hosts wonder how far into that future though.
47:40: Hisaya Nakajo’s Hana-Kimi is getting an anime and when it’s all ready to go it will stream on Crunchyroll. Both hosts talk about this getting an anime after essentially 20 years (manga ended in 2004) and sort of wonder what type of changes will happen for the anime.
Weird News
50:43: If you thought Narou light novels were already derivative, we have an AI developer that’s scrapped over 700,000 works on the site. Just exactly what we needed (not!). This does kick off another discussion on the use of this and why it won’t be going away anytime soon, at least compared to crypto or NFTs.
56:59: Justin and Helen are flabbergasted at Moyoco Anno getting a fifth volume of Hataraki Man…since its fourth volume was released in 2007! What happened in that time period?
59:20: With the Bocchi the Rock! compilation films upcoming in Japan, it’s time for marketing campaigns to begin, so if you see ‘Bocchilla’ vs. Godzilla anywhere in Japan, you now know why!
1:01:15: We have a crossover of two franchises that don’t even seem in the same universe, but in Japan they’re major works: Precure and Crayon Shin-chan. And in this case, the Wonderful Precure! protagonists and Shin-chan cameoed in each other’s episodes this past weekend.
1:03:19: And well, in final weird news of this episode, Justin recalls first seeing the Aniplex of America tweet in one of those apology like formats and thinking, “dang, what mistake or problem just happened?” and was stunned to find out it was them apologizing about giving Kyoko Sakura a birthday on May 9. She does not have an official birthday noted in any of Madoka Magica media. Helen decides May 9 will just be her unofficial official birthday now!