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Present Notes
0:00: Justin and Helen as soon as once more discover a while to share what they’ve been as much as…okay, solely Justin has a title he favored rather a lot, and it’s revealed by TOKYOPOP!
Information
5:53: The hosts then get into focus on Crunchyroll’s newest troubles, starting from layoffs to a doable safety breach that additionally will get Justin to debate reporting within the huge 2026.
21:02: A pair episodes in the past the hosts mentioned one reside occasion being cancelled in Japan as a consequence of threats — now we’ve gotten one other one, this time involving Love Dwell! and Japan Airways.
23:02: The Offender Hanzawa manga goes on hiatus for an unspecified time; in the meantime Kōji Kumeta suffered a finger damage, so he’ll be on hiatus till that heals up. Let’s simply say his clarification on how he suffered the lower is certainly hilarious.
24:55: Saint Seiya Episode.G: Requiem is again on Akita Shoten’s Champion Cross web site following a 3-month hiatus; Naoki Urasawa’s Asadora is now additionally again from its hiatus, returning to Shogakukan’s Weekly Large Comedian Spirits; and we’ve one other manga journal in Japan ending publication — Kadokawa’s Comedian Alunna.
26:23: The choice rock band the pillows introduced that the band’s drummer, Shinichiro Sato, died on March 23 as a consequence of esophageal most cancers; The editorial employees of Kodansha’s Weekly Shōnen Journal introduced a number of weeks in the past that manga creator Majuro Kaname died in February; and writer Chikuma Shobo introduced that manga creator, Yoshiharu Tsuge, died of aspiration pneumonia on the age of 88.
Licenses
30:16: For no matter purpose, Titan Manga determined it was lastly time to announce what they’re as much as for this 12 months:
- FLIPFLOPs’s Darwin’s Recreation
- Arata Yamaji’s Egnaro the Star-Consuming Killer
- Shin Kazuki’s Even After Doronjo-sama Was Reincarnated She Remained a Villainess
- kamatama’s Nova, Little Woman within the Monster Forest
- Zino’s Resident Evil: Dying Island
- Touko Amekawa, Kuroyuki, & Nae Serizawa’s The Legendary Witch is Reborn as an Oppressed Princess manga
- Togawa Yonan’s Black Witch Mirror
- Tatsuya Tobitaka’s Ifrit of the Sea Sand
- Yasuo Isanami’s The Obsession of Crimson Driving Hood
32:29: Seven Seas’ Fantastic Wednesdays is again! Submit Media-Do acquisition, which suggests the next collection will probably be beneath scrutiny (until talked about in any other case) on the way it’ll be dealt with:
- NEMUI ASADA’s I SAY
- Kazumi Takayama & tae’s Trapezium (Airship)
- Suzusuke, Shibanobancha, Yu Yagami, & Sumihei’s The One-Eyed, One-Armed, One-Legged Sorcerer
- Betty Tamamori’s Your Meteor, Hidden in Flowers
- Atsushi Suga’s A Quirky Woman is Inviting Me to Mattress (Ghost Ship)
- TATAL & Masuda Mikio’s Legend of the Unintentional Sword Saint: Taking part in the Mentor from the Sidelines (Airship, digital)
- A Siren audiobook launch of Haka Tokura’s Magical Buffs: The Assist Caster is Stronger Than He Realized!, narrated by Josh Hurley
34:32: (New manga) writer Mahjong Execs seems to lastly be establishing itself this 12 months, as they introduced they’ve licensed the next titles:
- Hideki Ohwara’s Reform with No Wasted Attracts: The Legend of Koizumi
- Yoshiki Suda & Mio Junta’s Crybaby Mermaid: Illustrated Memoir of Yuumi Uotani
- Bingo Morihashi & Drill Jill’s Getter Robo Excessive
- Ayato Sasakura’s Vermilion Stella: Illustrated Memoir of Arisa Date
36:55: Yen Press had a good quantity of bulletins forward of their yearly Sakuracon look:
- Shōichi Taguchi & Sugaru Miaki’s Three Days of Happiness manga (YP already pubbed the novel)
- Mitsubachi Miyuki’s I’m Simply in a Fake BL
- Suzuka Morino’s Servant Beast
- Watomura’s I’m Dwelling, Pardoning the Intrusion
- Ayune Araragi’s Ms. Isshiki Desires to Know About Love
- Kazune Yamamoto’s What Six Survivors Advised……
- Gen Momoji’s Let’s Go Nirvana!
- Satori Kōnosu’s Thus Spoke the Rabbit
- Kazuaki Kurihara & Akane Terai’s The Succubus Meets Her Match
- Yukari Amatsu’s Mage of Reda
- Takemachi, SeuKaname, & tomari’s Spy Classroom 4th Interval: Blazing Fireplace
- Numa Egaki’s Find out how to Deal with My Sassy Large Sis
- Ballad Kitaguni, Genshō Yasuda, & Nyum’s Ayakashi à la Mode (Yen On)
- Itsuki Yomukae, Scottie, & Barikios’s Why Run? My Summoned Beast Is Cute! (Yen On)
- An omnibus version of Yoshiki Tonogai’s JUDGE
38:43: Often Justin or manga fans retailers catch TOKYOPOP licensing numerous issues with out them saying something for like months — however it lastly looks as if TOKYOPOP’s getting round to saying what they’ve on time:
- Lemon Fujikura’s My One-Sided Love
- Hinako Yugumo’s If I Might Write My Love Into You
- Kisa Inami’s Blue Spring in Your Eyes
- Jiro Ōnishi’s Find out how to Befriend a Demon
- Kana’s Our Fortunate Future Collectively
- Hana Ikuta’s The Shadow and the Flower
- Toworu Miyata’s Aoharu As soon as Extra
- Kouji Setsu’s Enomoto Is No Angel
- Toto Tsurui’s Spicy Milk Sweet/Toto Tsurui’s Good Hair & Dangerous Habits
- Seno Yanase’s The Lion Dances With a Cherished One
- Joe Aruku’s Caught in Your Net
39:58: Crossed Hearts has licensed Mei Fujimatsu & Satsuki Haru’s Afternoon Tea for Two for his or her Glam Beat! yuri imprint; Abrams Kana introduced they’ve licensed Makiburo, Nazuna Shiraume, & Mai Murasaki’s Inside The Villainess manga; MANGA Plus has added Maki Kanemaki’s The Hero’s Bereaved Household to their service; and extra Discotek titles have been added to the MediaOCD Discotek Deep Dives record.
Streaming Information
42:23: Through the Akane-banashi YouTube reside stream, international streaming platforms and particulars have been revealed for the anime, which premieres later this week. This bought Justin to go down an unlikely rabbit gap as one other Weekly Shonen Leap title doesn’t go to Crunchyroll for some purpose (and as a substitute, it’ll stream for North American customers on YouTube, with Netflix streaming the anime starting in Might).
49:36: Helen will get to speak concerning the different weird streaming state of affairs this Spring in Jojo’s Weird Journey: Metal Ball Run, which had its first episode (1st STAGE) go up on Netflix, and nothing else. The 2nd STAGE has been introduced to air in 2026. When in 2026? Solely the execs at Netflix know apparently! And this positive has led to a LOT of dialogue relating to how this collection has been dealt with since Netflix made the take care of david manufacturing years in the past.
1:00:15: The most recent anime streaming service in North America, Amasian TV, simply added Mugen Practice and that may be watched totally free; The Crave streaming platform in Canada added 14 anime movies, from Dragon Ball Tremendous: Tremendous Hero to In This Nook of the World; Lupin the IIIrd The Film: The Immortal Bloodline has been launched digitally for rental or buy by GKIDS, with a BD launch (collaboration with Shout! Studios) coming in July; and due to GKIDS, Gundam followers will get to see the second movie of the Cell Swimsuit Gundam Hathaway anime mission in US theaters Might 15.
Bizarre Information
1:02:29: You say it’s over…it’s by no means over apparently! For Shadow Ability, which ended 12 years in the past, clearly it getting a sequel reveals you’ll be able to return it doesn’t matter what; and as rumored, From Far Away is getting an anime adaptation — the shoujo manga began in 1991!
1:08:04: You recognize, there’s not too many circumstances the place an anime character is added to a online game, and definitely not a preventing recreation, so we needed to observe Kenshiro getting added to the newest Deadly Fury recreation; and positive, bringing again a 4KIDS voice actor could be type of attention-grabbing however usually not terribly bizarre, however for this explicit run of One Piece, there’s ranges to having Erica Schroeder return to the One Piece franchise as Joyboy.
