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Show Notes
0:00: Justin and Helen once again convene over an application to talk about what they’ve been up to — and it may involve Fire Emblem for one of these these oh never mind you already know Justin. Meanwhile Helen’s watched a lot of Precure! recently while also finally checking out The Executioner and Her Way of Life.
Pandemic News
17:30: Anime Expo attempted to change their original COVID-19 policies. The change did not go well. But with two conventions recently trying to change their original rules, Justin and Helen wonder what’s the reason for all this.
20:28: The stage musical of Furumi Soryo’s Cesare manga will return in 2023 after it was cancelled in April 2020.
News
21:08: Berserk will be returning! Justin and Helen discuss this major news, where after over a year away, there’s a couple people willing to continue Kentaro Miura’s work.
25:03: A couple series won’t be running for a while, but one indefinitely; One Piece will be on break for a month as Oda prepares for final arc, but Ghost Reaper Girl will be on indefinite hiatus as Saike’s health has worsened.
26:48: Seven Seas recently released I Think I Turned My Childhood Friend Into a Girl, and one blog review pointed out a major issue, and it got to the point where the company had to respond to it. The two hosts talk about the issues they continue to have with their releases.
34:55: Apparently Aniplex, CloverWorks, Wit Studio, and Shueisha have formed a new anime company called JOEN. Join a company that hopefully pays everyone properly? We will all find out!
37:07: Unfortunately, two deaths occurred in the past week that were just announced: Billy Kametz passed away at 35 due to colon cancer; Jim White passed away at 73 due to lung cancer.
Licenses
38:48: Eleven Arts announced at their A-Kon panel that they’ve licensed The House of the Lost on the Cape & Deemo Memorial Keys films.
40:20: Kodansha did their usual digital announcements at their Kodansha Live stream:
- Yae Utsumi’s The Shadows of Who We Once Were
- Etsuko’s Joy
- Seita Horio’s Golden Gold
- Hal Osaka’s Such a Treacherous Piano Sonata
- Nao Shikita’s A Nico-Colored Canvas
- Tochika Nekome’s A Serenade for Pretend Lovers
- Moyashi Fujisawa’s Burn the House Down
42:50: Yen Press licensed Tomohiko Morimi’s short story collection Fox Tales; futekiya has announced they’ve licensed sakura sawa’s Momo and Manji volume 4 and Momo to Manji Official Doujinshi “GENPARO Momo and Manji in Reiwa”.
Streaming News
43:56: Fruits Basket -prelude- will be in theaters starting this June, which gets the two hosts all excited.
45:16: Captain Tsubasa 2018 is now available in Japanese, English, and Spanish on Roku; Season 2 of 1978 Godzilla is now streaming on YouTube.
Weird News
46:14: Remember AniUta? Well, the Japanese service is now going to end in July. The two hosts ended up thinking about a few more failed services thanks to this news.