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Present Notes
0:00: Justin and Helen FINALLY return to speaking about stuff over the web, and so they each have a lot to catch as much as! Helen sadly bought COVID-19 so the episode was delayed from final week, and to make up for it, they are going to be two podcast episodes back-to-back. Beginning with this one. And it’s all concerning the information and licenses for the reason that begin of the yr!
Information
2:00: However first, the 2 briefly focus on the Los Angeles wildfires that occurred earlier within the yr, which did have an effect on quite a few voice actors and a variety of occasions within the space that have been Japanese popular culture associated. Our ideas are with them and everybody else in LA that have been affected by the fires.
4:15: Alongside the best way, a GoFundMe marketing campaign was launched for longtime VA Mike McFarland, who did have profitable mind tumor surgical procedure however will want the cash to rent an live-in medical assistant.
5:22: The yr has began with many yikes and yeeshes throughout, however within the anime world, producer Kouichirou Itou (producer concerned with quite a few Makoto Shinkai movies) has pleaded responsible to obscene acts with 3 minors; A large scandal has gone on at Fuji TV involving a former SMAP member and TV host reaching a settlement out of courtroom with a girl following an incident of nonconsensual sexual exercise, a now former president, and lots of sponsors pulling their adverts from Fuji TV — which incorporates the legendary Sazae-san, which ran with no sponsors for the primary time in 14 years; And as anticipated as a result of his affair, Toru Furuya will now not play Toru Amano in Detective Conan as he’s now been changed by Takeshi Kusao.
12:28: VIZ had every week in two days. They ended up getting their Twitter account hacked (after a web-based struggle they didn’t beat the hacker) on Monday, then the following day a really notable title leaked on digital shops. You’ll know precisely what that’s within the licenses part (however when you’ve been following VIZ what that title is)
14:54: As mentioned a while in the past, Manga Library Z has launched a crowdfunding marketing campaign to attempt to reopen the service; Stripe has now banned Manga Planet as a result of R18 content material on the service; the 2 hosts then get into Diamond Comedian Distributors submitting for Chapter 11 chapter and the way a lot this might have an effect on the manga business.
23:17: The 2 hosts run via quite a few hiatus which have occurred for the reason that new yr, from Kai-hen Wizards to Cat Companions, for varied causes; we even have a pair sequence both resuming, like Battle Angel Alita Mars Chronicle and Berserk, and one artist whose had a notable damage making ready to return to A Vampire Dies in No Time. After which there’s CLAMP returning to work on xxxHOLiC: Rei in any case this time!
29:12: Bear in mind when it was said that Danmachi Season 5 would return in early Spring 2025? Yeah, you most likely already noticed episodes 12 and 13 already!; already Helen and Justin are dooming about Move the Monster Meat, Milady now that it’s being delayed from its April air date to now premiering in October; voice actress Azuki Shibuya was on hiatus for roughly a yr, however she’s now resuming VA actions.
33:16: Lastly, a few notable deaths occurred, beginning with voice actor Dale Wilson, the voice of Cell in Ocean Group’s model; animator Eisaku Inoue revealed on Fb on January 8 that animator Yōichi Ōnishi handed away; And music composer of quite a few works, from Cat’s Eye to Kimagure Orange Street, Hiroshi Shinkawa, handed away at 69.
Licenses
35:37: The 2 hosts speak about a non-license, however quickly sufficient Crunchyroll will apparently be licensing manga — once more! Yeah, you may guess most manga fans have been shocked that they’re getting again into the manga sport after going out unhappy some years in the past; the 2 hosts then focus on the new official manga/LN service Novelous, which usually could be a very good factor, besides Shogakugan is utilizing AI to help translation/localization for his or her works — each marvel if this can go over properly with anybody.
43:26: VIZ ended up having quite a few bulletins over the previous couple weeks:
- Maid to Skate
- Moan: Junji Ito Story Assortment
- Kaiju No. 8: Calm down
- The Artwork of Rumiko Takahashi: Colours 1978-2024
- Kamudo
- One Piece: Regulation’s Story
- Phantom Busters
- A field set of Hell’s Paradise: Jigokuraku
- A NANA twenty fifth Anniversary Version (deluxe 2-in-1)
- Fabricant 100, Shiba Inu Rooms, Pricey Anemone, MamaYuyu, Kyokuto Necromance, Astro Child (all digital releases)
- An entire field set of Disney Twisted-Wonderland: E book of Heartslabyul
- And sure, that leaked title was Kingdom, which was certainly a shock announcement from VIZ.
53:02: Seven Seas after all has come again within the new yr recharged, refreshed, and refocused sufficient to deluge our Wednesdays with new titles, a few of various qualities, and some with names that Justin couldn’t assist however suppose, “By no means thought I’d tweet one thing like this.”:
- The Princess I Beloved in My Previous Life is Now a Center-Aged Dad
- My Girlfriend is 8 Meters Tall
- The Misdeeds of an Extraordinarily Conceited Villain Aristocrat (Airship)
- The Cuckolding Wizard’s Journey (Ghost Ship)
- God of Seduction within the Bed room
- The Good-looking Catboy Needs to be His Pet
- Hope You’re Blissful, Lemon
- No God in Eden
- Breathless Time Traveler (Airship, by the creator of Toradora))
- Cupid is Struck by Lightning
- Insurgent Hero: I Will Use My Abilities to Management the Scheming Princess’s Coronary heart and Physique
- I’m Operating for Crown Princess, however All I Need is a Regular Paycheck!
- I Can’t Stand Being Your Childhood Good friend
- Magic Maker: Learn how to Make Magic in One other World
- Sacrifice of My Manly Soul
- The Satan Princess (Airship)
- Let Me See the Actual You, Senpai!
- Ripples within the River
- Wimpy Demon King and Tsundere Hero
- Don’t Maintain Again, Lord Hades (Steamship)
- Grand Steel Organs
- I’m the Heroic Knight of an Intergalactic Empire! manga
- Our Eating Desk: Seconds, Please!
- Dysfunctional Household Concept
- The Demon King is Manner Too Overprotective!
- Afterglow
- Virgin Knight: I Grew to become the Frontier Lord in a World Dominated by Girls (LN & Manga, Ghost Ship)
- Kaiju Kamuy
57:00: Yen Press additionally had some new titles to announce earlier than the month ended:
- [Oshi No Ko] Spica of the First Star (Yen On)
- Scrumptious in Dungeon World Information: The Adventurer’s Bible, Full Version
- Lycoris Recoil Official Comedian Anthology: React
- Bocchi the Rock! Comedian Anthology
- Neighborhood Craftsmen: Tales from Kanda’s Gokura-chou
- Learn how to Eat Life (Yen On)
- Tremendous String: Marco Polo’s Journey to the Multiverse
- To Sir, With out Love: I’m Divorcing You (Yen On)
- Almark
- MONSTER TRIBE (Yen On)
- Suzuki-kun’s Aware Life
- Sword of Stallion (Yen On)
- Konosuba: Even Extra Explosions on This Great World!
- Lifeless Mount Loss of life Play Aspect Story: Phantom Solitaire’s Artwork of Disguising Oneself as a Supernatural Being
- Guillotine Bride manga
- A Misanthrope Teaches a Class for Demi-People manga
- Double the Bother, Twice as Good
- Li’l Miss Vampire Can’t Suck Proper
- Yen Press will even launch a collector’s version of Fujino Omori’s Is It Mistaken to Attempt to Choose Up Ladies in a Dungeon and launch Nagaru Tanigawa’s The Theater of Haruhi Suzumiya in print
1:00:10: After which J-Novel Membership form of joined within the licensing hubbub, however solely with reference to asserting new digital to print titles…that features one title that for positive might be shrink-wrapped!
1:04:06: Dwelling the Line’s made a take care of the Marina Shirakawa property, so anticipate quite a few manga from Shirakawa to be launched from them over the following couple years; Darkish Horse did certainly have a whale of a (few?) weeks, which incorporates bringing again Blood Blockade Battlefront and Planetes in up to date editions, extra Gou Tanabe’s H.P Lovecraft manga, and eventually one thing new for a change; Inori, the creator of I’m in Love with the Villainess, has a brand new work might be coming quickly in English however in an uncommon approach; Kodansha licensed Satoshi Morie’s Killing Line manga, which is now out digitally.
1:07:16: And yeah, Discotek has finished it once more. Justin and Helen can solely respect their sport as they as soon as once more announce titles that’s both so obscure, or so legendary, or one way or the other a mix of each that they went into large element on the work on it. Or if it’s only a legendary title you may’ve heard of that they’ve went into large element on the work on it (Instance: Urotsukidoji):
- Urotsukidoji: Legend of the Overfiend (uncut, a model new 2K scan and restoration utilizing considered one of two final identified current 35mm print of the uncut model, which originates from a personal assortment; took 9 months to revive utilizing AstroRes upscaling expertise; launch consists of the uncut three episode OVA model in subtitle-only normal definition, the 1989 compilation movie model, and different options)
- Cyborg 009 Vs. Devilman
- Angel Coronary heart
- Osomatsu-Kun
- Flame of Recca
- House Journey Cobra – The Film
- 2014 live-action Lupin III film
- ViVid Strike! (Discotek then defined why this would be the final they might get of this franchise for a very good whereas)
- Higurashi: When They Cry
- DearS (AstroRes)
- 2011 Tomorrow’s Joe live-action movie
- NANA and NANA 2 live-action movies
- Hana Yori Dango Closing live-action movie
1:12:25: And in ultimate licensing information, Media Blasters might be releasing a title that each the hosts needed to marvel how a lot ecchi is an excessive amount of ecchi…?
Streaming Information
1:14:08: GKIDS has been working fairly onerous over the previous few months, and so they positive bought a slate of titles to share with everybody — from Cell Go well with Gundam GQuuuuuuX -Starting- and that anime’s a number of screenings to bringing Hideaki Anno’s LOVE & POP stay motion movie to North America and to buying the rights to Witch Watch!
1:18:41: Netflix will once more be including just a few extra anime to their service, however they will even once more be elevating their costs; Crunchyroll confirmed there was login credentials posted on-line, nevertheless it didn’t imply their service was compromised; Crunchyroll has once more added extra Precure to their service; and Tubi TV added After Struggle Gundam X to its service, which prompted Helen mid-podcasting to ship Justin the precise photos from the present that has been memed within the anime neighborhood; and one Fall anime 2024 present is FINALLY formally streaming due to Pony Canyon.
1:23:22: And after so lengthy, a bunch of Macross anime have been added to the US on Hulu. From Macross Dynamite 7’s launch it did reduce one character’s drug and sexual assault scene, which did generate some dialogue.
Bizarre Information
1:25:49: Each hosts marvel simply it’s doable to crowdfund one thing so shortly following Katana Maidens’ success; Each hosts are confused about Bleach being tied right into a New Zealand homicide case one way or the other.
1:29:28: Identify adjustments are a factor when creating one thing, and it’s at all times doable for any sequels to be renamed as properly, would simply have the unique title as a subheading. You hardly ever get title adjustments throughout its run, so for Boys Gilding the Lily Shall Die!?, we might be questioning simply how TOKYOPOP will now localize the longer term volumes of this sequence now that it’s referred to as Kiss Yori mo Kimi no Neiro de Me ga Sameru in Japanese.
1:31:37: It has been mild of bizarre information to kick off the yr, however we’d naturally get a narrative about two conventions combating one another over supposed secrets and techniques, and a narrative about Genshin Impression cosplay showing in a Coldplay music video for no matter motive (Helen explains why!)
