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Show Notes
0:00: Justin and Helen begin the podcast with the tragedy involving Kyoto Animation July 18. (As mentioned a few weeks ago, Episode 81 was recorded before this happened, hence why we talked about it now). We both hope the families, friends, and those affected by this can heal. There have been a couple ways to support them, and Krystallina rounded up ways you can do so now.
7:55: The two hosts get into what they’ve been up to over the past few weeks. Justin ended up watching Vinland Saga and finished Part 5 of JoJo, and briefly played Fire Emblem: Three Houses (has since this recording played a lot more, when work and doing stuff for the site aren’t affecting his ability to play it). Helen well,…she went to Otakon. Helen had a time at Otakon, and even live-tweeted a very interesting panel involving director Hiroshi Nagahama.
News
27:04: Akiko Higashimura and Junji Ito got some nice hardware over at SDCC. Something involving the Eisners…
Licensing News
29:26: You’re not gonna believe it, but Udon’s finally gonna release Rose of Versailles. It’s finally got a date!
31:40: Kodansha’s releasing more digital manga! Vampire Dormitory, Atsumori-kun’s Bride-to-be, Smile Down the Runway, and Queen Bee are the next couple titles.
33:36: TOKYOPOP is still around in case you didn’t know: from Parham Itan to RePlay, they’re gonna attempt to get your money next year.
34:32: Seven Seas is releasing Kase-san and Yamada. No more “Kase-san and…” anymore, Yamada is now included in the name.
36:05: Cross Infinite World licensed the LN to a popular visual novel series, Root Double. They’ll be releasing √After and √Before LNs, starting with √After in September.
37:40: Drawn & Quarterly will release Tsurita Kuniko’s The Sky is Blue With a Single Cloud, which definitely fits D&Q’s general profile of publishing these types of manga. And that can only be a good thing.
38:40: In really surprising news, Maiden Japan announced they’ll be releasing Joshikaru. Justin honestly couldn’t believe it.
39:25: Discotek had some announcements at their Otakon panel: Symphogear S1, Tezuka’s CLEOPATRA, dub-only SD-BD collection of Medabots season 1, all-new Blu-Ray of Takeo Nakamura’s Nutcracker Fantasy, releasing the rest of Kyo Kara Ma-oh on Blu-Ray, NG Knights Lamune &40 on SD-BD, The Great Passage and Battery are coming to subtitled-only Blu-Ray, and the Space Adventure Cobra movie is coming to 4K UHD– the first anime release in the west in that format!
42:45: In OtaBrew news, Denpa announced they’ve licensed Katsuya Terada’s Rakuda Laughs! and Shuzo Oshimi’s Shino Can’t Say Her Name.
Weird News
43:53: You know what happens when you manage to have your Airdrop settings open to people sending you stuff. You get this happening in your panel!
45:02: Not in a vacuum weird news, but considering how long the live-action Akira’s been delayed, yeah, it getting delayed again is what puts it in this spot.