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Show Notes
0:00: Another podcast that has a big main topic means Justin and Helen have to dive right into the news…and it begins with the return of Kenya Suzuki to Galko-chan…after being arrested for possessing child sexual abuse material in December 2021!
4:35: Assassination Classroom has had a time with school libraries in the past year, and Pen America confirms this to be the case for real, since the manga’s banned from public school libraries at least 54 times; Kodansha’s opening up a global manga academy, which should mean many interesting stories will be created from a host of different people.
11:13: Jaku Amano’s A-DO manga will go on hiatus due to the author’s poor physical health; Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun‘s going on indefinite hiatus following the creator’s treatment of an unspecified illness; and Frieren has been taking a number of breaks this past year, and now after the newest chapter, the creators are both going to go on hiatus as they take stock of their health.
14:48: And in a bit of quirky news, last episode both hosts mentioned Masahito Soda and Kuro Tomiyama going on hiatus with Firefighter Daigo: Rescuer in Orange for an unknown reason. We might’ve figured out the reason!
Licenses
16:34: VIZ once again took to the internet and not any convention to announce the next couple works they’ll be bringing over next year:
- Haro Aso’s Alice in Borderland Retry
- Io Sakisaka’s Daydream Darling
- Boichi’s The Marshal King
- Shoichi Usui’s Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi
- Omusuke Kobayashi’s Psych House
- Machiko Kyō’s cocoon
- Renka Misaki & Yūto Suzuki’s Sakamoto Days: Assassin’s Method novel
- Ippon Takegushi & Santa Mitarashi’s Shinobi Undercover
- Genki Ono’s Hima-Ten!
- reguje’s Assassin’s Creed Shadows: Tales of Iga
- Eiichi Shimizu & Tomohiro Shimoguchi’s Star Wars: Visions: Tsukumo
- Paru Itagaki’s Taika’s Reason
- Yoiko Fujimi’s Half Is More
- Ai Yazawa’s I’m No Angel
- Hirohiko Araki’s Manga in Theory and Practice: How to Create Villains book
- Castle in the Sky Film Comic: All-in-One Edition book
21:54: Meanwhile, Seven Seas continues to consistently announce their new titles during their Wonderful Wednesdays event:
- Mei Hachimoku & KUKKA’s The Neverending Winter, the Land of Broken Dreams (Airship)
- Crane & Sekimori’s The Obsessed Mage and His Beloved Statue Bride: She Cannot Resist His Seductive Voice (Steamship)
- okiuta & sinsora’s Reborn as an Assassin’s Apprentice (Airship)
- Rabi’s The Oblivious Girl and the Maidenly Man
- Touko Amekawa, Hinoki Kino, & Wan☆Hachipisu’s 7th Time Loop: The Villainess Enjoys a Carefree Life Married to Her Worst Enemy! Short Story Collection (Airship)
- Minoru TOYODA’s Draw This, Then Die!
- Ao TAJIMA’s Hotel Inhumans
- FLIPFLOPs’ The Lord-Magear’s Apprentice
- Yukiha Kuroyuki, Micro, & Uodenim’s The Misdeeds of an Extremely Arrogant Villain Aristocrat manga
- Seven Seas will also have some more audiobooks for their Siren imprint: The Too-Perfect Saint: Tossed Aside by My Fiancé and Sold to Another Kingdom, narrated by Mirai; The Obsessed Mage and His Beloved Statue Bride: She Cannot Resist His Seductive Voice, narrated by Natalie Blackthorne; and Breathless Time Traveler, narrated by Phoebe Strole.
24:00: Yen Press didn’t announce too many things, but they did have some announcements — Himari Hino & Oriko Sakura’s Four Child Life for their JY for Kids imprint, and three more audiobooks for their Yen Audio line:
- Wataru Watari’s My Youth Romantic Comedy Is Wrong, As I Expected
- Zappon’s Banished from the Hero’s Party, I Decided to Live a Quiet Life in the Countryside
- Ghost Mikawa’s Monsterholic
25:00: Fantagraphics confirmed with ANN that they’ve licensed Marina Lisa Komiya’s On Their Frontlines: The Lives of Japanese War Brides; Abrams ComicArts is listing Minetarō Mochizuki’s Chiisakobee manga for release next year for their Kana imprint; and it felt like it has been a while since there was a new Gengoroh Tagame work published in English, but no need to wait anymore thanks to Pantheon!
26:40: We got some new manga available on simulpub sites! MANGA Plus now has Kazuya Konomoto and Ryō Yamasaki’s Kami Kill and
Hakuri’s WITCHRIV on their platform, while K MANGA added Tetsuya Okuyama’s K-9: Public Security Bureau, Division 9 – Special Abilities Countermeasure and A Mangaka’s Road to Japan, created by Spanish artist Juan Albarrán, to their service.
Streaming News
27:52: The hosts have talked about Disney+/Hulu raising their prices at some point every year…well, HBO MAX will also raise their prices too!…But who knows when they’ll raise it a fourth time, based on their pattern.
30:28: And Oceanveil just added a bunch of classic anime to their service, in partnership with Softgarage:
- I’m Not Going Back Now
- Boku no Sekuhara
- Little Bunny Cue!!
- Ren the Fairy Princess
- Iczer Girl Iczelion
- Moekko Company
- _summer (Underbar summer)
- Hourglass of Summer
Main Topic: Fall Anime 2025 First Impressions
31:51: Justin and Helen go from watching a bunch of Summer Anime shows to…not watching as many this Fall? It’s early, but let’s say it’s a season so far! Both hosts do talk about the Villainess punching anime (33:27) and then explain other anime they’re keeping an eye on, from the latest seasons of Spy x Family and Campfire Cooking in Another World to new works such as Pass The Monster Meat, Milady and The Dark History of the Reincarnated Villainess.
Weird News
1:17:33: The Crunchyroll anime on your plane ride is going to happen soon. Real soon!
1:20:20: Meanwhile, little did Eiichiro Oda know when creating One Piece and the iconic Jolly Roger flag decades ago that it would be popular enough to be used in protests around the world in 2025!
1:24:23: Sometimes you can go back — and for the creator of NichiBros, you go back by…showcasing how high school girls are also silly; and someone out there in Japan has a gigantic Game Boy in their home or storage, and Helen has to wonder why!