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Show Notes
0:00: Justin and Helen once again gather over the internet to talk about Fall anime season!…Ok, Justin will be talking about the rest of the Fall anime he wanted to try out — Helen’s stuck with manga, manhwa and J-Novel Club catchups, to name a few things — which includes accidentally watching Season 3 of Re:Zero, the long first episode and more instead of taking that break. Whoops!
News
26:34: The two hosts get into quite possibly one of the strangest, weirdest news stories to emerge in the last 5 years in the anime industry — Crunchyroll allegedly committing mail fraud? ADR Director and VA David Wald learned this was happening to him since 2019 (so basically at the Texas office in Funimation), and now we got an investigation going and many theories being made, which is mostly the two hosts wondering if this has happened to anyone else.
35:29: Tetsuya Chiba was honored with the Order of Culture award by the Japanese government, making him the first manga artist to receive the award; following the last podcast episode where the two hosts talked about voice actors in Japan speaking out against unauthorized generative AI, a new set of voice actors had a discussion about its use and what this means for the industry in general.
41:12: Since the World Series happened with Shohei Ohtani in it, a number of shows were affected in Japan in the last few weeks. This included One Piece, which is hilarious considering they did just announce the main series would be on hiatus, so them taking a week off was a little funny.
43:58: Bibliophile Princess went on hiatus for a bit, but now it’s slated to return this month; Yamada-kun at Lv999 is back, but it’ll be on an irregular schedule while Mashiro’s health continues to improve; and the shounen version of Hana to Yume has ended, it is no more.
46:50: The two hosts talk about two recent deaths in the anime industry — singer Noboru Kimura and background artist and art director Ryou Kouno — and what this means overall.
Licenses
51:11: Seven Seas announced more titles on Wonderful Wednesdays, including two audiobooks that came out the following day:
- Sensei’s Mail-Order Food: The Complete BL Manga Collection
- Wolf’s Daughter: A Werewolf’s Tale
- My Younger Knight Takes Care of Me in Another World
- Seduced by the Demon King: A Sensual Rebirth (Steamship)
- Yomu Mishima’s Trapped in a Dating Sim: The World of Otome Games is Tough for Mobs (Narrated by Yung-I Chang)
- Chohokiteki Kaeru’s Witch and Mercenary (Narrated by David Shih)
55:23: Fantagraphics is back with a new Shintaro Kago title; Living the Line will be bringing over Taro Bonten’s Face Meat manga for its horror imprint Smudge; and Harpercollins is bringing over fantasy and romance manga digitally, though both hosts will wonder what version of Pet Shop of Horrors this publisher is gonna release.
1:00:16: BASTARD!! -Heavy Metal, Dark Fantasy- will be getting a home video release from Sentai, which means we have another title leaving Netflix jail.
1:02:32: These two items aren’t licenses, but K Manga finally expanding their regions and J-Novel Club launching their new BL imprint will be placed here regardless, especially since new titles will go to these in the near future.
Streaming News
1:05:49: For a limited time only, Tomorrow’s Joe is streaming on TMS’s official YouTube channel.
1:06:08: Crunchyroll added Haikyu!! The Dumpster Battle film to their service, finally added Gridman Universe to its service (with SSSS.DYNAZENON Grand Episode coming later), and will finally add Girls Band Cry to its service November 6; and if you’re a YouTube Primetime user, Crunchyroll will launch on that service before this year is over.
1:08:12: VIZ is releasing Uzumaki digitally; Look Back will stream on Amazon Prime video November 7th; and My Happy Marriage will have an OVA release on Netflix November 22 — timely for Japan since it’s Good Couple Day over there!
1:09:37: The Pokémon fast channel has finally launched on Pluto TV, which means a number of people with the service can watch a lot of different Pokémon anime on there.
Weird News
1:10:44: It can be understood that sometimes things might take a while to get handled, but 6 years of back pay being owed to the Million Doll creator? Justin could not help but be incredulous about it!
1:13:25: The payment issues continue! Virginia Nitouhei did not draw a cover or provide bonus features for volume 19 of the Otherwordly Izakaya “Nobu” manga, which will be released in Japan in December, because they did not get their royalties. This then leads the two hosts to discuss what’s going on in the manga industry in general.
1:16:39: Cloud Hearts is apparently no more. If this name does not ring a bell, then they were part of the studio alongside Yokohama Animation Lab that was working on Whisper Me a Love Song. This is probably one of the many reasons the BDs got delayed to next year (though who knows when those last two episodes will air).
1:20:32: Apparently for one manga series, it got a bit too serious to pass one particular commentary as a real thing, which led to the author and Kodansha to apologize about it.
1:23:29: Let’s just say Oda’s having a bit too much fun now that there’s a One Piece app that can change some photos into Oda’s art style; The Gundam live-action film finally has a writer after 6 years; and one of the Kinnikuman creators lamented the lack of popularity for the recent anime series on MyAnimeList, but Justin is here to say it’s not the only anime tracking service it ranks low at; Helen talks about the rules that had to be implemented for Precure stage events in Japan, which also includes no cosplay by adults.
1:30:10: Finally, the last two weird news involves religion. Specifically, Saint Seiya and a wedding in Mexico and the Catholic Church creating an anime-themed mascot. This episode would end like this huh?