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Show Notes
0:00: After a good month without saying what they’ve been up to, Justin and Helen finally explain what they’ve read or watched aside from Summer and Fall season anime. One of them finally checked out Biscuit Hammer…the anime. The other saw Oh! Edo Rocket…and some Fall season anime!
News
20:00: Japanese police arrested 35-year-old game and anime composer Hidekazu Tanaka in Tokyo on the charge of attempted forcible indecency.
21:22: As Helen pointed out, there was news involving voice actor Takahiro Sakurai who had been engaged in an extramarital affair for at least 10 years with a writer from his radio show. Not great!
23:07: And just when you thought the voice acting and unions story could take any different turn, let’s just say the Bayonetta 3 situation seemed to add to the situation…and took a major turn thanks to the former VA!
29:10: AI art suddenly went viral after something emerged in Japan, and many places are looking to curb submissions from AI art.
30:25: The Demon Girl Next Door manga will go on hiatus until next year due to Izumi Ito’s health.
Licenses
31:21: Seven Seas announced they’ve licensed the following titles last week:
- Tama Mizuki’s Delinquent Daddy and Tender Teacher
- Monkey Punch’s Lupin III (Lupin the 3rd): Thick as Thieves – The Classic Manga Collection
- Omu the Rice’s What He Who Doesn’t Believe in Fate Says
- Ichi Yukishiro’s The Skull Dragon’s Precious Daughter (Print)
33:13: TOKYOPOP confirmed to ANN they’ve licensed the following manga:
- Koala Omugi’s Cut-Over Criteria
- Kichi Uekawa’s A Complicated Omega’s Second Love
- Ebino Bisque’s My Dear Agent
- Koikawa’s Ogi’s Summer Break
- SHOOWA’s Iberico Pork: Love & Camellia
- Mor Ichigaya’s Platinum Blood
- Auri Hirao’s If My Favorite Pop Idol Made it to the Budokan, I Would Die
- Yuta Yagi’s Why I Adopted My Husband: The true story of a gay couple seeking legal recognition in Japan
- Sou Arai’s At 30, I Realized I Had No Gender: Life Lessons From a 50-Year-Old After Two Decades of Self-Discovery
- Teku Rin’s Delivery for You!
- Kyuugou’s Acid Town
- Yoshiki Tonogai’s Dead Company
- Mafuyu Fukita’s We Can’t Do Just Plain Love: She’s Got a Fetish, Her Boss Has Low Self-Esteem
- Ichika Yuno’s Lullaby of the Dawn
39:07: Discotek had their Twitch stream and announced they’ve licensed the following anime:
- Aim for the Ace!
- The King of Braves: GaoGaiGar
- King of Braves GaoGaiGar Final
- Ultimate Muscle/Kinnikuman II
- the English-subtitled release of Digimon Adventure
- the English-subtitled release of Sonic X
- Saint Tail
- Ghost Stories
- Fist of the North Star: Legend of the True Savior – Legend of Roah: Chapter of Death in Love
- Mononoke
- Tetsujin 28-go FX
- Treasure Island
- Live-action version of Another, Sion Sono’s live-action Suicide Club film, and the 1973 live-action Golgo 13 film
- Kamen Rider BLACK
Streaming News
43:40: Laid-Back Camp the Movie will screen at Anime NYC! The movie will also be added to Crunchyroll at some point, Justin wonders if it’ll be up before the year’s up; Crunchyroll will release the Quintessential Quintuplets film in theaters (sub and dub) across a number of regions this year and 2023.
44:51: Play it Cool, Guys did not have a streaming service announced to start the season — it then finally got announced by CR; HIDIVE will stream Lupin Zero at Anime NYC first, then on its service in December; and finally, the Eva 3.0+1.01 film will be shown in select IMAX theaters November 30.
Weird News
45:58: Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill is getting an anime by MAPPA…this January! But in one fell swoop, MAPPA ended up pulling a P.A. Works by adapting this work. This is the first time they’ve done an isekai…and a LN.
48:55: BL anime Ten Count is getting an anime film. This after it was announced back in 2018, was then revealed to be a TV anime and that it would air in 2020. None of that happened since the staff had to reconsider the format!
50:00: If you thought the Olympic Bribery Scandal was over…it won’t end for the foreseeable future!
51:54: Yep, the final bit of weird news involves the Simpsons parodying Death Note with the Death Tome! Yeah, it surprisingly looked good too!