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Show Notes
Pandemic News:
0:00: The final two episodes of BOFURI Season 2 will air April 12 and April 19 respectively, which will complete a pretty rough production schedule for a show where Maple gets up to weird stuff; meanwhile Ayakashi Triangle, which was halted after its fifth episode, will return to TV in July.
News
2:58: Shueisha’s The Margaret, which has been in publication for 41 years, will end its run this summer.
4:00: So somehow, some way, it might be possible for a company to be worse than Sol Press…Local Manga, how can you be worse than them? By not paying your workers and running away!
Licenses
8:02: Yen Press announced 23 titles at their Sakuracon panel:
- The Deer King (Novel/Manga)
- Bocchi the Rock!
- Days with My Stepsister
- Glitch
- Sasaki and Miyano Official Comic Anthology
- CLAMP Premium Collection Tokyo Babylon
- AidaIro Illustrations: Toilet-bound Hanako-kun Artbook 2
- Yana Toboso Artworks Black Butler 3
- One More Step, Come Stand by My Side
- Monthly in the Garden with My Landlord
- Cheerful Amnesia
- Stray Cat & Wolf
- The Shiunji Family Children
- The Red Thread
- I May Be a Guild Receptionist, But I’ll Solo Any Boss to Clock Out on Time
- Only I Know the Ghoul Saved the World
- The Ephemeral Scenes of Setsuna’s Journey (Manga)
- When I Became a Commoner, They Broke Off Our Engagement!
- Maiden of the Needle (Manga)
- Minato’s Laundromat
- Honey Trap Shared House
- The Lawyer in Shizuku-ishi Sleeps with a Wolf
During the panel they announced 5 titles for Ize Press:
- Lina Im’s Unholy Blood
- Eun Hyeong & JUDER’s Jungle Juice
- Saenal, Team Argo & Monohumbug(REDICE STUDIO)’s Overgeared
- Lee Hye’s See You in My 19th Life
- Hyeona Cho’s Your Letter
14:47: J-Novel Club announced they’ve licensed for their J-Novel Heart imprint Fuyu Aoki & Minori Aritani’s Safe & Sound in the Arms of an Elite Knight.
15:27: Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! is finally going to get a home video release, this one from Sentai! And it’ll be dubbed!
Streaming News
17:33: HIDIVE announced at Anime Boston will stream the Feast of Amrita film and Level 1 Demon Lord and One Room Hero.
18:42: Not at all surprising news: VRV is finally merging with Crunchyroll, which means it’s finally time to say bye to it.
Main Topic: Winter Anime 2023 Final Impressions
21:36: The two hosts talk about the Winter Anime 2023 season in general, which ranged from solid to it being a weird season, with some memorable works to others that were merely ok. A few anime discussed in this section: Trigun Stampede, Tokyo Revengers S2, MagiRevo, Ippon Again!, Tsurune Season 2, Buddy Daddies.
Weird News
1:13:29: Good Smile Company apparently invested in 4chan, which is not quite what you’d expect them to do, but they did.
1:17:10: Crunchyroll acquiring EDENS ZERO Season 2 is not weird news. The circumstances, which involves Netflix licensing Season 1, and then a French company called Mediatoon getting Season 2 worldwide streaming rights, makes it super strange. Then just add the fact that supposedly Kodansha struck a deal to stream Kodansha titles on Disney+ and yet this didn’t wind up on either platform in the US makes this weird as heck.
1:19:00: Kuso Miso Technique is getting an anime!…April Fools! This was announced on April 1, so good joke guys.
…Wait…this IS a joke right…?
1:22:42: Junji Ito’s Bloodsucking Darkness and the Street Fighter franchise are going to be involved in Hollywood shenanigans, and Justin just can’t believe these people are doing this to their fans.
1:23:18: Well, at least we know why Stu’s stepping back from TOKYOPOP — he’s working with a company in Saudi Arabia to produce anime!