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Show Notes
0:00: Justin basically explains how life took over his life the past few weeks. Same for Helen, but she did check out She-Ra.
News
4:09: The two discuss a bit about Mari Okada and Nao Emoto’s O Maidens in Your Savage Season getting an anime.
5:33: A Silent Voice will be re-screened in theaters this January.
7:32: Yeah anime is great and all, but to work nearly 60 hours in 4 days doesn’t sound great…
10:00: Girlish Number was going to get a spin-off, and that got cancelled.
11:07: YouTube might have to give up personal information of an account after a court ruling in Japan regarding spoilers in the manga Ushijima the Loan Shark.
13:50: The two discuss a big problem for creators in China, as one female artist was sentenced to 10 years in jail for creating BL and making decent amount of money selling it.
16:45: The largest illegal manga website in Korea? It’s been shut down!
17:55: There’s a group and two production companies developing technology that will color cells faster, but at the moment, it’s still in the early stages.
19:56: The Code Geass film will be screened by FUNimation Films, which means it’ll also be in theaters. Both hosts continue to remain skeptical of this movie.
22:03: Studio Xebec is no longer an independent operation — it’s now been transferred to Sunrise.
23:41: And finally, Fruits Basket is getting an anime adaptation…yes, a new one! This totally excites Helen. Meanwhile, Justin reveals something he’s learned throughout this process.
Licenses
31:11: A Kickstarter is live for Keiichi Matsunaga and UME’s STEVES manga. Volume 1 is free to read until December 18. Volumes 2-6 can be obtained if the Kickstarter is successful. However, the story about Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak doesn’t look like it’ll make it.
34:21: J-Novel Club has announced they’re getting into manga! Well, they said that a while ago, but for now they’ve pushed out 5 new manga. They might be familiar for some…
Main Topic
37:03: Justin and Helen pretty much go over what Netflix has announced over the past few weeks. It’s been big — from 7SEEDS to Ultraman, to streaming Neon Genesis Evangelion, to even a live-action Cowboy Bebop — and the two discuss what the streaming service is up to, and how serious they are with this medium.