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Show Notes
0:00: Justin and Helen return after their longest podcast recording last time and discuss what they’ve been up to. For Justin, that’s reading a lot of J-Novel Club stuff, with Part 2, Volume 4 of Ascendance of a Bookworm still on his mind; meanwhile Helen gives her thoughts on a winter anime show that’s on the noitaminA block…not the Promised Neverland!
Pandemic News
14:55: More conventions are getting cancelled in the US; meanwhile, Kingdom Season 3’s April release date has been set, after it has been delayed since April of last year.
News
20:40: Justin and Helen discuss Funimation’s shop after it’s been reported they’re being sued for their site’s lack of accessibility for those who are blind.
23:50: So while announcing that they’ve surpassed four million subscribers, Crunchyroll also announced they are partnering with Idris and Sabrina Elba to create Dantai (temporary title)
25:36: Shojo Beat is going to release a limited edition of the final volume of Takane & Hana in November, and the two hosts discuss the significance of that.
Licenses
27:01: Sentai announced they’ve licensed Karakuri Circus, which gets Helen to recall the experience of that show.
28:38: For some reason Seven Seas is announcing a title (or titles) a day, and here’s what they’ve announced by the time the hosts recorded this podcast:
- Shoji Goji & booota’s Loner Life in Another World (Airship)
- Asumiko Nakamura’s Sora and Hara (Classmates Volume 4) & O.B. (Classmates Volume 5; will be in omnibus format)
- Akira Hizuki’s Desire Pandora (Ghost Ship)
- Hitsuzi Yamada’s The Masterful Cat Is Depressed Again Today
- Yazin & Takahito Kobayashi’s Karate Survivor in Another World
- Ryuto & Shunichi Matsui’s Reborn as a Space Mercenary: I Woke Up Piloting the Strongest Starship! (manga)
- Matsuri Akai & Tozai’s My Status as an Assassin Obviously Exceeds the Hero’s (Airship)
- Misaki Takamatsu’s Skip and Loafer
- Tourou’s Monster Guild: The Dark Lord’s (No-Good) Comeback!
- Kazuki Funatsu’s Sundome!! Milky Way (Ghost Ship)
- Shige & Nagayori’s Slow Life In Another World (I Wish!)
- Inori & Aonoshimo’s I’m in Love with the Villainess manga
33:00: TOKYOPOP is slated to release the following boys love manga this year:
- Billy Balibally’s FANGS
- Okoge Mochino’s Chéri, My Destiny!
- Eiko Ariki’s Glass Syndrome
34:31: Star Fruit Books announced they will be releasing the following titles:
- Okaya Izumi’s Drunks
- Kako Mizuyama’s From far, far away
- Yoiyu’s When Pink Rain Falls; Yoiyu is the pen name of Kako Mizuyama, and this will be a digital and SFB’s first print release
35:36: Manga Planet has added (or is adding) the following romance manga soon:
- Mitiko Kisaka & Asako Mukae’s Konya, Joushi to Koi Shimasu
- Nanako Naruse & Hiroko Ishimaru’s Karei naru Gisou Kekkon
- Mamu Sakano & Rito Kouzuki’s Gouin Joushi to Otaku Joshi
- Natsume Natsuyuki & Toriko Kouno’s Gouin Doctor no Dekiai Shohousen
- Haru Sakuragawa & Nana Ikechi’s Fukigen de katsu Sweet na Kara
- Mami Haruna & Esumisumi’s Kimi wa Iinazuke
37:49: There’s a couple simulpubs that have been announced: Shigure Tokita’s Don’t Blush, Sekime-san! has been added to MANGA Plus; Yasumi Yoshizawa’s The Gutsy Frog has been added to Mangamo; Yen Press confirmed to TheOASG that they are now simulpubbing Okina Baba & Asahiro Kakashi’s So I’m a Spider, So What? manga; they later announced they are also releasing it as a digital-first title.
Streaming News
40:03: Scum’s Wish is now streaming on HIDIVE; Crunchyroll is the company streaming VLADLOVE; now Cells at Work!! & Cells at Work: CODE BLACK is now streaming on CR; they also just added Idol Time Pripara to their service; and CR also added a Donghua series to their service: Psychic Princess (Tong Ling Fei).
Weird News
45:34: Mushoku Tensei has basically been the controversial anime this season, and it’s a big problem in China, as a number of companies are cutting ties with Bilibili for a number of reasons (and it started with a popular Chinese streamer)
49:58: Evangelion Lyricist Neko Oikawa went on a show in Japan…and told a wild story involving how much money she’s been scammed out of her Eva royalty money. The hosts attempt to give the cliffnotes version of it, but you should probably read the article.
52:51: We have a Kodansha/Shueisha collaboration! Aka Akasaka and Mengo Yokoyari’s Oshi no Ko and Miki Yoshikawa’s A Couple of Cuckoos revolve around similar themes, and that eventually meant they had to do a project together.
56:49: A couple of anime are now banned from streaming on certain sites in Russia, and there’s still more to review! One of them is Aki Sora…
58:29: Matthew Emblidge got a certificate from The Guinness World Records that shows he holds the most Cardcaptor Sakura merch, and Helen and Justin have two completely different takes on this news, mainly because of how ANN reported this!
1:00:20: Demon Slayer will be discussed for a good while as it’s a behemoth of a franchise, and even more so since it’s an opportunity for politicians to use it incorrectly! And thus, this forces companies to make statements, like Shueisha had to because of this.
1:01:48: Finally, this is the section where you get to hear Helen laugh in real time as she sees what a Malaysian magazine had to possibly do to Attack on Titan in order for it to meet local guidelines.
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