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Present Notes
0:00: After Helen explains why TheOASG Podcast took a small break (probably concerned hopping on an April Fools podcast episode to speak about many Trials and Tribulations), the hosts bounce proper into the information they’ve missed over the previous month, which is MyAnimeList getting offered to a Web3/AI firm.
Information
2:16: After they nonetheless held on to having their books be dealt with by Diamond, Udon has moved on to Simon & Schuster, which implies only a few manga pubs are beneath Diamond distribution.
4:16: Haigakura is again! Reminder that it needed to cease following clear high quality points all through its run within the Fall anime season, and it’ll now return in the summertime.
5:17: Rie Takahashi might want to have surgical procedure for vocal wire nodules so she’ll be out for a month; expertise company Kawadon Leisure introduced on Monday that voice actor Shiki Aoki has gone on hiatus attributable to well being causes; and Ai Fairouz has returned from her partial hiatus from PTSD, however she shall be working with a brand new company.
7:26: William Bassett, who’s extra identified for his voice within the Whataburger adverts however has had roles in numerous video video games and anime, handed away at 89; and voice actress Yoko Kawanami handed away at 67 of peritoneal metastasis.
Licenses
9:42: Yen Press introduced some extra works on the finish of March:
- I Don’t Know How you can Love
- Lilies Blooming in 100 Days
- Lycoris Recoil Official Comedian Anthology: Repeat
- My Beloved Supper
- Rock is a Woman’s Modesty
- What Do You Name This Trash?
And we even acquired some KADOKAWA bulletins for a few of their chapter half releases, together with them releasing the sunshine novel To Sir, With out Love: I’m Divorcing You in elements.
12:15: Seven Seas by some means had only one Great Wednesdays whereas this podcast was on break, the hosts can’t consider they’ve stopped:
- Hokkaido Gals Are Tremendous Lovely!
- Romelia Warfare Chronicle: The Rely’s Daughter Rallies an Military within the Wake of Mankind’s Victory
- HOOL!GAN’S
- Makina-san’s a Love Bot?!
- Audiobooks of Adachi and Shimamura (Narrated by Analise Scarpaci) & I’m the Evil Lord of an Intergalactic Empire! (Narrated by Cliff Kirk)
13:29: Kana of all publishers shall be releasing Tsukasa Hojo’s Metropolis Hunter and Cat’s Eye in print — that’s proper, this collection will lastly get a print launch from a considerably stunning writer; Just a few extra Titan manga are coming in 2025, some introduced solely on ANN, some not.
15:33: Kodansha is constant to double down on re-releases, as they’ll be placing forth a brand new deluxe version of the Gundam: The Origin manga and a black & white version of Parasyte. Helen is definite the brand new Deluxe books of Gundam can kill a person!
17:09: Captain Tsubasa is now on MANGA Plus, which has Justin go deep into the nicely of eBookOne, which he completely forgot about.
Streaming Information
18:10: The Lycoris Recoil shorts will stream on the Aniplex USA YouTube channel!…(and yesterday it was introduced it’ll additionally stream on Crunchyroll too!);
19:00: Netflix will stream the Rose of Versailles movie April 30; a couple of anime have been added to Crunchyroll, which incorporates a 2000-2001 Bones anime; and RetroCrush shall be streaming Future Boy Conan, which is an excellent get for them.
20:19: Justin has to speak about how considerably painful it’s that Umamusume: Cinderella Grey, a brand new anime for the spring season, is streaming formally (within the US at the least) on the It’s anime YouTube channel and Amazon Prime.
22:15: Although as painful as it’s Umamusume is streaming on YouTube, at the least it may be watched conveniently; for Your Forma, it’s the very reverse of handy. Helen and Justin focus on one of many greater streaming fake pas in current reminiscence, as for these within the US and Canada, you may watch this anime…on Samsung Plus. (Additionally ignore Justin mentioning it took a 12 months for Women Band Cry to be added on Crunchyroll, not even near true.)
Major Subject: Winter Anime 2025 Ultimate Ideas
28:45: Justin and Helen lastly share what they considered a typically quiet anime season for the 2 this winter. Extra reveals that continued from the Fall dominated Justin’s watchlist this season, together with Blue Field and Orb to call a couple of, whereas Helen spent a while watching Dad’s Been Reincarnated and Season 2 of Rest room-bound Hanako-kun. Justin additionally addresses the one anime that primarily (?) had a Zom 100 state of affairs occur when it comes to having to air on TV each different week (simply not as dangerous) in My Comfortable Marriage Season 2, which as of this publish nonetheless doesn’t have its final two episodes on Netflix.
Bizarre Information
1:22:03: As mentioned many instances, the AI motion is just not going away anytime quickly, and it actually reached ranges of annoyance when Ghibli works acquired picked up for the OpenAI program. Not nice!
1:25:26: As all the time, April Fools Day means anime and manga corporations making as many jokes as they probably can…and probably inspiring them to develop into actual, like what occurred when Kaleido Star’s April Fools publish acquired well-liked to the purpose that in addition they hope a brand new anime can come out for the work.
1:26:57: Kodocha has returned after 10 years…10 years! Helen and Justin wonders why it’s again; the Gundam Hollywood Dwell-Motion may simply be actual; and one leaker discovered that Japanese ego-searching may be very actual.
1:29:06: And at last, sure, if you happen to thought Demon Slayer and MLB was the one anime undertaking that was in thoughts, no, because it seems, anime and MLB shall be a factor this season!
