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Show Notes
0:00: Justin and Helen talk about what they’ve been up over the past few weeks, which may involve reading a manga not named Astra Lost in Space for Justin, and Helen walking out of a theater because the anime film she watched was mediocre.
Also, we briefly talk about X-Men as a…manga…?
News
8:12: GKIDS is showing Promare again! Once again!…Justin just wishes, despite the reported experience, it was in 4DX.
9:24: Kodansha Comics has to be pleased that I’m Standing on a Million Lives is getting an anime. They also have to be wondering why it took so long.
Licensing news
10:44: Yen Press ended up announcing some new titles on Twitter a few weeks ago:
- Makoto Shinkai’s Garden of Words novel
- Sakurai Ato’s Majo Raba Majo Reba
- Tarō Hitsuji, Yuzuriha & Kiyotaka Haimura’s Last Round Arthurs manga
- Yoshino Satsuki’s Yoshi no Zuikara: The Frog in the Well Does Not Know the Ocean
- Natsume Ono’s ACCA: 13-Territory Inspection Department P.S.
- Natsume Akatsuki & Kasumi Morino’s An Explosion on This Wonderful World! Bonus Story: We are the Megumin Bandits! LN
- Will release Omnibus Edition of Puella Magi Madoka Magica by Magica Quartet & Hanokage
14:23: Kodansha Comics, meanwhile, ended up not…using any of their social channels to announce their April digital licenses, but here they are:
- Shinobu Ohtaka’s Orient (4/7)
- Shiroichi Amaui & Konekoneko’s The Hero Life of a (Self-Proclaimed) “Mediocre” Demon! (4/14)
- Yukiaki Kurando & Yusuke Nomura’s Dolly Kill Kill (4/21, formerly a MangaBox title!)
Helen starts admiring Shinobu Ohtaka’s run on all the major manga magazines, while Justin keeps wondering just what’s up with Kodansha’s digital marketing strategy, since they never did announce it formally.
19:14: Sentai Filmworks licensed After the Rain, so at some point we’ll see it on HIDIVE, and thus, yet another Amazon Prime title is now on another service.
Streaming News
22:32: Funimation continues raiding the Aniplex catalog, as they now have some Monogatari anime series on their service.
24:09: And Crunchyroll ended up adding the ACCA-13 OVA to their service.
Main Topic: Coronavirus (COVID-19)
24:52: Two weeks ago a number of events were being postponed or cancelled in the anime world (Like A3, Infinite Dendrogram to name a few) due to COVID-19, but due to the number of news in Episode 94 that was pushed back. Though since then, a lot ended up happening, from major events (like ECCC & SXSW) being postponed or cancelled. Justin and Helen talk about the entire situation based on the information they knew when they recorded this episode this past Sunday, and the potential effects this will have on the world (and specifically anime/manga)
Of course, it has completely escalated since then, so bear that in mind during this topic.
Weird News
37:57: Haru Futaba, creator of The Girls School manga, ended up discussing the not-so-pleasant behind the scenes of working with Shueisha:
- Claims editor’s mismanagement (From losing manuscripts, being late to meetings or cancelling them at the last minute regularly) was what caused the manga to be cancelled (only two volumes)
- When Futaba demanded to speak to the editor-in-chief, the editor refused to organize a meeting and instead offered Futaba 300,000 yen ($2,848.60) to stay silent. Futaba spoke to the editor-in-chief anyway and spent the rest of the serialization working without an editor. They wrote that the experience left them very demoralized, even after the editor-in-chief came to apologize to them personally.
- Haru’s currently in communication with Shueisha through a lawyer, but Shueisha’s side refuses to acknowledge Futaba’s version of events, and so the artist has decided to post about it publicly. According to them, the editor they worked with is still employed at Shueisha
- Concluded their thread by stating that they will report back when they next hear from Shueisha
Justin and Helen can only wonder how this is gonna go…
41:37: Hideo Kojima was encouraged by his staff to check out the Made in Abyss anime, and after he thought it was ok, he was “encouraged” to read the manga.
43:47: Finally, just when everything seemed down for Interspecies Reviewers…they finally got some news! Two stations in Japan ended up picking it up. Justin and Helen obviously have to discuss this breaking news in the weird news section.