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Show Notes
0:00: Justin and Helen once again hope their internet’s working (especially Justin) so they can discuss everything they’ve been up to over the past few weeks…though for Helen, it’s still very few things. Meanwhile Justin finished that summer anime that Netflix decided needed to air in Fall (Fragrant Flower) while continuing to catch up to the Fall anime season — hear all about his Samsung TV Plus experience with Cinderella Gray Part 2 after discovering he could not catch up to it online!
25:45: After a couple years, it has been determined that Cloudflare is liable for damages in a copyright lawsuit filed by Japan’s top manga publishers, which means the nature of scanlations and piracy is again a hot topic. Justin and Helen get into the details of the case and express their thoughts on what this means.
35:04: Young Magazine’s US contest is over, which means we have our winners from their contest that started over the summer; meanwhile the digital manga platform formerly known as Azuki has now changed its name to Omoi, which both hosts lament because of the main reason why.
38:45: MF Bunko J Natsu no Gakuensai 2025 was set to take place in person a few weeks ago, but due to credible violent threats that part was cancelled so it then became an online-only event; Kai-hen Wizards is set to return this week as Yellow Tanabe is ready to get back to creating; And manga creator Risa Motoyama revealed on Instagram that her brother Kazuki Motoyama — real name Masumi Motoyama, known for Nintendo’s Super Mario manga series — unfortunately passed away.
Licenses
41:49: TOKYOPOP decided this was the time to reveal what they’ve licensed to the world, so here they are:
- Nayuta Nago’s A Nightingale Awaits the Blooming Love of Spring
- Yoriko’s I Want to See Me in Your Eyes
- ikugao’s Waiting for You at the End of the Runway
- Unohana’s Shinjuku 69 Heaven
- Nojiko Hayakawa’s Strobe in the Dark
- Enaga Shima’s A Boring Man and an Extraordinary Man
- Hiro Murasaki’s Hit Me Hard With Desire
- Rion Nomiya’s How My Cute Girlfriend and I Started a Love Story
- Kiriha Suzumiya’s Knight-Type Girlfriend
- Kaiko Fuyumushi’s There, Beneath the Water
- Ponkichi’s The Encyclopedia of Vegetable Fairies
44:05: Seven Seas had to close off their Wonderful Wednesdays in November with the following announcements in the last two weeks:
- Shibanekozamurai & Miyuki Ruria’s Liar’s Journey: Reborn as a False Hero – I’ll Save the Tragic Heroine from Every Death Route! (Airship, Digital)
- Bashoka Bashozoku & Tōzai’s Predator Witches (Airship, Digital)
- Kaisei Kikuchi, Dōma Oda, & Rein Kuwashima’s Reborn as an Aristocratic Scoundrel, I Broke the Game and Mastered Magic Beyond Limits! (Manga & LN, LN digital)
- Michi Ichiho & Lala Takemiya’s When It Rains, It Pours (Airship)
- ZURIKISHI’s Me and the Prez, Drinking Under the Stars
- Nakaya Onsen’s Phenomenon X: Paranormal Crime Files
- Ataru Sonoguchi’s Raul and His Vampire Prince
- Bonjin Hirameki’s Doing Secret Things with the Holy Maidens (Ghost Ship)
- PANDA’s Love is Money
- Akashiro Aoi, Kouji Moromi, Murata Shinya, & Yanai Nobuhiko’s The Death Defying Princess Creates a Yuri Harem to Survive
- Tanishi Kawano’s Fire in his Fingertips: A Flirty Fireman Ravishes Me with his Smoldering Gaze (Digital)
- ITKZ’s The Titan’s Bride (Digital)
- Audiobooks for their Siren imprint: Reina Soratani’s I Swear I Won’t Bother You Again! (narrated by Phoebe Strole), Touko Amekawa’s 7th Time Loop: The Villainess Enjoys a Carefree Life Married to Her Worst Enemy! audiobook (narrated by Sarah Gage)
48:33: Crunchyroll announced they’ve partnered with Titan Manga, and now their catalog is on Crunchyroll’s service — well, so far 26 titles, but Justin believes this is a good thing that Crunchyroll has this partnership now; And Justin’s stalling on Project A-Ko has paid off, as a 4K Project A-Ko Collection is coming from Discotek.
Streaming News
52:30: Remember the FUUTO Pi anime a couple years ago? It did get a film that came out last year in Japan but there was no word on when Crunchyroll would actually stream it — until now.
Weird News
53:50: Last episode, both hosts wondered what was up with Noumi-senpai after Seven Seas mysteriously deleted anything about it like a day or two later. They finally did say something about it after it did not get mentioned during their Wonderful Wednesdays event, and while it didn’t quite turn out to be like Persona 5, them not getting approval from neither the creator nor Japanese publisher (It’s Kobunsha, not Honbunsha, apologies for the error) regarding the English name is pretty bad!
56:19: Drops of God sure had a long, long journey in English, from getting published by Vertical, to then having to skip the rest of the series and publish the sequel to Drops of God, to ultimately the series getting cancelled…and now some years later, a live action is now out, it came back digitally and now it’s back in print, to now getting an anime…apparently this wine manga aged better over time; K-Pop Demon Hunters is in the news, one for having a presence in the Thanksgiving Day Parade to it being denied at particular religious schools in the UK for…some bizarre season.
1:00:21: And finally, Justin didn’t actually want to talk about it, but as Helen remembered to put it in the script, he (and also Helen) discuss an AHL team going all out with combining their players with Evangelion, and results are glorious.