The OASG Podcast

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 Carteuntil 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.