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Show Notes
0:00: Justin and Helen talk a bit about what they’ve been up to, ranging from watching an anime from the Fall season to that Death Note one-shot to preparing for Katsucon.
News
9:29: Yes, it’s official: The One Piece Hollywood adaptation is happening!…And it’ll be on Netflix. The two hosts wonder how this is gonna go.
11:50: Yes, there’s gonna be another Love Live! anime series! Justin can only wonder how we’re gonna get two of these in the next couple years.
13:14: Funimation announced they’re co-producing MARS RED, which is adapting a dramatic stage reading production. Helen is curious about this, though in a different way.
14:41: Demon Slayer is popular…but it’s popular, even by Oricon’s standards!
18:32: The last bit of news involves just about everything involving My Hero Academia and the name of a villain that was revealed this week, from the apology to anything involving the series getting removed or downvoted in China to a second apology with further explanations. Helen and Justin both try to discuss the situation, which is messy all around.
Licenses
27:18: Funimation has rescued Paranoia Agent, which is streaming on their service now and will be released in BD later this year.
29:46: Yen Press licensed the manga adaptation of a light novel series, Fiancee of the Wizard. Helen however, thought Justin said something else.
31:40: Kodansha Comics will add the following digital titles to their service in March:
- Megumi Morino’s A Condition Called Love
- Cota Tomimura & Moriko Mori’s My Roomie is a Dino
- Koji Kumeta’s Kakushigoto: My Dad’s Secret Ambition
- JUNKO’s Star⇄Crossed!!
- Suu Morishita’s A Sign of Affection
36:15: Finally, futekiya announced they’ll be adding 21 new BL titles to their service, one that’s getting a new edition and another with a really long title. The new edition makes Helen think about what’s gonna happen to A Cornered Mouse Dreams of Cheese, which is getting re-edited…
Streaming News
39:30: The Kabaneri compilation films are now on Crunchyroll! What a long journey it’s been for Kabaneri.
40:48: The Hana Yori Dango anime is also going to be added to Crunchyroll! Helen just wonders, based on the description, why it’s so popular.
41:55: The Future Avengers anime is going to be added to Disney+! Still likely not enough for Justin to get a subscription though.
Weird News
43:21: The basic, simple summary is Interspecies Reviewers is an anime based on a manga where there are a couple people who review sex workers in a fantasy world. Funimation licensed this, and for the first three weeks everything was all well and good.
…And then they mysteriously dropped it. One person reached out to customer support to find out what happened, and they said they removed it. This ended up being one of the craziest couple of weeks with this anime in general, from a content standpoint to how rare it is for a simulcast to be dropped after a couple of episodes, and yeah, the internet definitely took the news as expected.
Soon enough, a couple services had to drop it, though some are still streaming it now. In Japan, Tokyo MX had to drop it (and then replace it with a boat show).
The two hosts had to dissect every detail and information about how this happened since the level of weirdness is off the charts…so much so that Justin put out a challenge because of this.