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Show Notes
0:00: Justin and Helen finally share what they’ve been up to over the past few weeks, though most of Helen’s thoughts revolve around Otakon this year. Justin, on the other hand, got to talk about re-watching a Japanese drama classic…and its revival!
News
26:44: Satomi U is going on maternity leave until mid-October, so her Heisei Haizan-hei ☆ Sumire-chan manga will be on a break until then; afro needs a bit of time to work on both mono and Laid-Back Camp, so they’ll be on break until further notice.
29:08: Composer Shiro Sagisu shared that his uncle and anime producer Masayasu Sagisu passed away at 93; The Twitter account for guitarist Mei Nekozuki announced from her family that she passed away.
Licenses
30:57: With it being 801 Day, we had Boys Love announcements from SuBLime and Seven Seas:
- Fumi Tsuyuhisa’s Robin at the Break of Dawn
- Ogeretsu Tanaka’s Cake Dog Caramelized
- Yodaka Kuroi’s Welcome to the Tiger Detective Agency
- rasu’s A Paradise Reached Through Love
- AKI YUKURA’s We, Pitiful Yet Beloved
- Micro Noici’s DOGS OF TOSCA
- Sugar Satoh’s Kitayama and Minamiya: Our First Year of Dating
32:46: Titan Manga announced exclusively on ANN that they’ve licensed Yoshikazu Kuwajima & Takahiro Seguchi’s LastBoss LoveDeath; Cross Infinite World will be bringing over 4 light novels:
- Aoi Miyamae & Hatori Kyouka’s Assassin Empress Bellreuge
- Saki Ichibu & Yukako Fujimura’s From Bumbling Prodigy to Villainess: Will the Duke’s Love Go Unnoticed?
- Minato Minato & Tsukito’s From Corporate Drone to Mincemaster! One Order of Dragon Coming Right Up!
- Len Kagizaki & Akira Shigaraki’s The Villainess’ Journal: Newlywed Life of an Obsessive Researcher
33:55: A Sonic manga is now available to be read thanks to IDW; K MANGA has added Yū Taguchi’s Dazzling Spring Days, meanwhile Manga UP! has added a few works this past week; The Banana Fish turnaround continues as Anime Limited will release the anime on home media next year.
36:54: Justin and Helen cover the many announcements at SDCC and Otakon combined, and yes, after discussing Marvel’s new partnership with KADOKAWA and Akira Toriyama being inducted into the Eisner’s HOF, it was a good amount from an assortment of pubs:
Yen Press: (38:55) Taiga Hattori & Rin Kawachi’s Let’s Begin, a Battle Without the Hero (Yen On), yononaka’s The Weakling Who Died a Million Times (Yen On), Nanaki Ichinose, Sango Sansan, & Noco Sugimachi’s The Dragon Prince’s Ill-Mated Betrothal, Mamoru Hosoda’s Wolf Children: Ame & Yuki (Yen Audio), Uesu & Minori Chigusa’s Watching the Angel Sleep, Drowning in Bed Together (Yen On), Teruya’s Sharkmaid of the Shore, Akinoko’s The Deskmate Cat and the Love Novice, Yatsuki Wakatsu, Nina Akabane, & Taku Haruno’s The Villainesses Are Unwavering, Tomato Tri’s Disenchantment Camera, Zoukoujo’s Don’t Talk to Me, Sōichirō Yamamoto’s Mane Mane Nichi Nichi: Baseball Manager Everyday, Katsuwo’s #ImLookingForZombies: The Complete Omnibus, Haru Yuuki’s My First Love With You Again, Tachibana Higuchi’s Champignon Witch
Kodansha: (42:34) Hamuhamu’s The Cat and Dog’s Nine-Tailed Lives, Izu & Hagane’s Kraken Mare, Kenji Tsurubuchi & Konata’s Meaheim, yoruhashi’s Rega in the Sleeping Forest, Shizuku Torii’s I Love You, Please Dump Me, toreta’s I Loved Him First!, Shuichi Shigeno’s Subaru and Subaru; Box Set of Saka Mikami’s The Fragrant Flower Blooms with Dignity; re-announced Gamon Sakurai’s The POOL (first announced at SDCC 2024)
UDON & Manga Mavericks Books: (44:36) Hiromi Matsuo’s Department Store Waltz and Rondo: The Ladies’ Graphic Magazine (both all-color manga and illustration book), Belles Ruelles (anthology manga series); Rin Kawano’s Our Insignificant Justice, launch of the Independent Manga Alliance
Mahjong Pros & Drawn and Quarterly: (48:30) Hiromi Aoyama &, Kazutoshi Yamane’s Bird: Mahjong’s Deadliest vs The Master Illusionist, Yume Yamaguchi & Yadokugaeru’s Akayoroshi: Hanafuda Shadow Games; Shigeo Ito’s Marmalade Princess, Sakaguchi Ango & Kondō Yōko’s One Woman and the War, Hinako Sugiura’s Lady Hokusai
Omoi & Manga Mavericks Books at Otakon: (51:35) 54 Kodansha titles will be added to their service in the coming weeks as volume purchases; Shinji Wada’s Delinquent Detective: Sukeban Deka; Zenzo’s “Oni King” one-shot manga & Roid manga, Ippan Nakamura’s Town Walking With Ghost Dog
AnimEigo & Discotek: (56:15) Antique Bakery, Dog of Flanders: The Movie, ReLIFE, Ruin Explorers: Fam & Ihrie, Welcome to Irabu’s Office; Digimon Frontier, Pani Poni Dash!, Lupin III: Part II & Lupin III: Zenigata and the 2 Lupins, Outlanders, Samurai Pizza Cats, Toradora!, The Big O, Argento Soma, Tales of the Abyss, Infinite Ryvius, Memories, Patlabor TV & the Patlabor movies, Penguindrum, Digimon Movies Collection 3
Streaming News
1:01:14: That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime: Tears of the Azure Sea, Assassination Classroom the Movie: Our Time, & Kamisama Kiss OADs have been added to Crunchyroll; but while CR added some anime, they’ve also taken away some anime too.
1:05:20: Netflix will stream the latest Gintama movie later this month; the remaining FBI Intervention episodes of Detective Conan are now on Netflix and Crunchyroll.
1:06:01: Oceanveil has added and will add more anime that are not 18+ to their service, with Level E being one title on their platform now. Helen then brings up something about DRAMAtical Murder that makes Justin freeze for all eternity.
1:07:44: Clockwork Girl will be made available for digital purchase by Aniplex in September; Neon Genesis Evangelion, Evangelion: Death (True)², & The End of Evangelion will be available on the Criterion Channel the first day of September; and Though Am I an Inept Villainess premiered with its English dub July 26…let’s just say it took some turns here and there before it came out!