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Show Notes
Editor’s Note: This episode was recorded before the horrific fire at Kyoto Animation, hence why you don’t hear us talking about it. -Helen
0:00: Justin and Helen briefly discuss what they’ve managed to do over the past couple weeks, and it involves a Spider…man.
Brief news
8:17: The two lead off with a pretty big story: the alleged manager of a pirate site getting arrested in the Philippines.
11:39: After some interesting marketing tactics, Boys Love service futekiya has officially launched.
13:40: More Masaaki Yuasa works are coming to North America thanks to GKIDS. More!
The AX Special News Notes
14:36: A lot was announced at Anime Expo, so here’s a recap:
Dark Horse: Isle of Dogs
Vertical: A Trail of Blood, The Daily Lives of High School Boys
Sol Press: How to Treat a Lady Knight Right, The Ride-On King, Busy Wizard: This Warlock Just Wants to Provide for His Wives
Denpa: Guyabano Holiday, The Girl With Sanpaku Eyes
VIZ
- Prince Freya
- Love Me, Love Me Not
- Inio Asano’s Downfall
- Kirby: Art & Style Collection
- The Art of Junji Ito: Twisted Visions
- Kaito’s Blue Flag
- Transformers the Manga
- Hell’s Paradise: Jigokuraku
- An upscaled omnibus version of Hidenori Kusaka & Mato and Satoshi Yamamoto’s Pokemon Adventures in a collector’s edition
Yen Press
- Breasts Are My Favorite Things in the World!
- Afterschool Bitchcraft
- RaW Hero
- I Don’t Know How to Give Birth!
- The Hero is Overpowered, I’ve Been Killing Slimes
- Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun/IM in print
- I’m a “Behemoth” an S-Ranked Monster, but Mistaken for a Cat, I Live as an Elf Girl’s Pet manga and LN
- Interspecies Reviewers
- Wandering Witch: The Journey of Elaina LN
- The Penetrated Battlefield Should Disappear There: Bullet Witchcraft & Ghost Program
- Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai LN
- They did license Persona 5 Mementos Mission/Persona 5 a la Carte…until they didn’t.
Square Enix
- Suppose a Kid from the Last Dungeon Boonies Moved to a Starter Town
- Marked for Failure, The World’s Strongest Sage Reincarnates for a Do-Over!
- Wandering Witch – The Journey of Elaina
- Cherry Magic! Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard?!
- My Dress-Up Darling
- The Misfit of Demon King Academy: History’s Strongest Demon King Reincarnates and Goes to School with His Descendants
Seven Seas
- GIGANT
- My Status as an Assassin Obviously Exceeds the Hero’s
- Primitive Boyfriend
- Conditions of Paradise
- My Androgynous Boyfriend
- The King of Fighters: A New Beginning
- Metamorphose no Engawa
- Citrus+
- Bloom Into You – On Sayaka Saeki LN
- At Night, I Become a Monster novel
Kodansha Comics
- Beyond the Clouds
- Knights of the Ice
- Rent-A-Girlfriend
- Sue and Tai-chan
- Sweat and Soap
- Something’s Wrong With Us
- Yuzu the Pet Vet
- Will re-release Saiyuki as a hardcover and with new translations; added Chobits and Clover to their Kodansha Classics line
- Licensed The Great Cleric, The Slime Diaries: That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime, Goodbye, I’m Being Reincarnated! & The Knight Cartoonist and her Orc Editor for digital
- Will release Saint Young Men, Perfect World, Living-Room Matsunaga-san and Farewell, My Dear Cramer in print
- Will release all of Katsuhiro Otomo’s works
- Speaking of Otomo, he will release a new film with Sunrise called Orbital Era
- And Akira’s getting a 4K Remaster and new anime
J-Novel Club
- Onna dakara, to Party wo Tsuihōsareta no de Densetsu no Majo to Saikyō Tag wo Kumimashita
- There was no Secret Evil-Fighting Organization (srsly?!), So I Made One MYSELF!
- Seinaru Kishi no Ankokudō
- Demon Lord, Retry! (LN and Manga)
- Otherside Picnic
- Altina the Sword Princess
- Sorcerous Stabber Orphen: Reckless Journey, & Cooking with Wild Game manga
- Will release The Combat Baker and Automaton Waitress
- Partner with Tokyo Otaku Mode to release Beatless
- Will launch a Kickstarter campaign to print the first 31 vols of Invaders of the Rokujouma!?
Other news
- Funimation & Rightstuf is partnering up
- Harmony Gold is at it once again it seems
Summer Anime season thoughts
46:19: Justin and Helen discuss what they’re watching so far this season. The following is mentioned in this section: Astra Lost in Space, Cop Craft, The Demon Girl Next Door, Given, Grandbelm, Kochoki, Lord El-Melloi II, Symphogear XV, To the Abandoned Sacred Beasts, Vinland Saga, Magical Sempai, Are You Lost?, Dr. Stone.
Weird News
1:11:00: Yes, Justin caught one news story that happened that for sure he had to discuss…and involves Arina Tanemura and a manga that apparently was never supposed to be published to begin with.