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Present Notes
0:00: Justin and Helen clarify what they’ve been as much as for the previous two weeks, although Justin brings up an anime he watched after trying out the GTO stay motion sequence — the primary Demon Slayer: Infinity Citadel movie. In the meantime Helen talks about one thing present (The World is Dancing)
Information
20:20: Shogakukan just lately introduced their findings from their Third-party investigation into writer’s Manga ONE editorial division and involvement with manga creator Shōichi Yamamoto that occurred earlier this yr, which is lengthy and pretty detailed, so Justin and Helen do their finest to summarize a reasonably distressing scenario and what this in the end means.
28:18: A 6.8 magnitude earthquake struck Kumamoto Prefecture in Japan, which triggered quite a few harm and lack of life to the folks within the space — this prompted organizations and folks, resembling The Pokémon Firm and YOSHIKI to donate funds to assist as a lot as they will; Uncommon for a manga to be cancelled within the method that Yang Can’t Dwell Alone did, the place its creator sooncha revealed that because of a breakdown of their relationship with Manga UP!, it’s now ended, and dealing on acquiring the rights for it to be continued sooner or later; the creator of Gantz and Inuyashiki, Hiroya Oku, revealed in an interview with Courrier Japon printed on Tuesday that he plans to retire after he finishes his newest manga.
37:03: Ryuta Amazume introduced they’ve been identified with most cancers, so no work on manga serialization whereas present process therapy for a while; The Boruto manga will probably be on a 1-month break and return within the subsequent V-Soar challenge; Darkish Gathering can even go on 1-month break and return in Soar SQ’s subsequent challenge.
38:39: The Cranium Dragon’s Valuable Daughter is happening a really prolonged break, with an anticipated return in Spring 2027, as creator Ichi Yukishiro overcomes their stress scenario; Miyakokasiwa’s well being has worsened to the place Battle in 5 Seconds should go on indefinite hiatus; Masamichi Sato shared that they have been hospitalized for a hernia, so whereas specializing in recovering, the High quality Assurance in One other World manga will go on an prolonged hiatus.
40:40: The current digital challenge of SAG-AFTRA’s quarterly journal shared that Canadian voice actor Michael Donovan (Ryoga Hibiki within the unique Ranma ½ anime, Cye Mouri in Ronin Warriors, Grasp Roshi in an older dub of Dragon Ball) handed away again in March; Katsushi Murakami, who was concerned in quite a few anime (from Shin Tetsujin 28 to House Journey Cobra) and media franchises (Kamen Rider) as a mechanical and toy designer, handed away a number of weeks in the past at 83.
43:00: The editors for Sq. Enix’s Month-to-month Shonen Gangan journal introduced that manga artist Yōko Umezu died July 7 because of cerebral infarction — the manga she was engaged on with Kōta Amana, Vermeil in Gold, will finish with its newest chapter.
Licenses
45:49: Shueisha launched international digital manga platform MANGA MILLION final week, which is at present internet hosting a million pages of translated manga from 400 titles — very bold effort, however as Justin and Helen focus on, how these works have been introduced over regardless of Shueisha’s insistence that no AI was used has come into query.
55:15: Nakama Press introduced solely on ANN that they’ll launch Yūji Terajima’s Ace of the Diamond in a 3-in-1 omnibus format, however each hosts marvel concerning the unique a part of issues when Quantity 1 of the sequence has been up on retailers for months; On-line comedian store Sendai Books has introduced they’ve licensed Natsuko Ishitsuyo’s Amazoness Kiss and Xian Ozn’s By no means Thoughts Come Collectively as their first manga releases.
59:14: KADOKAWA introduced the worldwide launch of Ryou Mizuno & STUDIO WHITE’s webtoon File of Lodoss Struggle: The Necromancer Queen (Queen of Dying), which might be learn on WEBTOON for many locations; the Ocean Waves novel has now been licensed by HarperCollins, which implies Justin will learn the way totally different it’s from the movie subsequent yr.
1:00:40: You Midorikawa’s Transmigrated to the Northern Frontier and Majisawa’s Feed a Delinquent Boy has been added to Manga UP!; Yuno Yozakura and Ryōsuke Sano’s Camp Grasp Extraordinaire has been added to Ok MANGA; and we’ve two new simulpub additions to MANGA Plus: Sango Honda’s Discovering the Invisible Star and Shintaro Tengan’s MikotoHako.
Streaming Information
1:01:40: Crunchyroll (and by extension Sony Photos) would be the fundamental residence/distributor for Makoto Shinkai’s unannounced movie around the globe (excluding most of Asia); Cellular Go well with Gundam Hathaway: The Sorcery of Nymph Circe will be on Netflix on the finish of August sub and dub; and Oceanveil is now streaming Miru Tights on their platform.
Bizarre Information
1:03:01: The bizarre information can also be disturbing this episode — beginning with a person in Houston being charged with third-degree felony after allegedly leaving a profanity-ridden voicemail to the Governor’s Workplace associated to anime (this weirdly although leads the hosts to study a web site that’s really not official, which then leads Helen to elucidate what occurred when she introduced it up on Bluesky!)
1:07:28: A girl is suing The Pokémon Firm Worldwide with claims that their former engineering director allegedly hid cameras in varied public loos, together with one within the firm’s U.S. workplace in Bellevue — this engineer was let go following his cost of first-degree voyeurism in January. In different phrases, the hosts can solely be disgusted at what this man has accomplished, and marvel how the lawyer feels about this case in the event that they’re being sincere.
1:11:00: The manufacturing committee for the just lately introduced Mii-chan and Miss Yamada anime issued a press release concerning criticism over the anime’s announcement and the way it would possibly have an effect on folks with mental and developmental disabilities — there was a stunning quantity of backlash in Japan and that had led to inquiries to these unaware (like the 2 hosts) on what this manga’s actually all about.
1:15:56: What’s going to McDonald consider subsequent to power a collaboration with (says Justin, as they paired One Piece and SpongeBob collectively, they’ve doing Howdy Kitty & Godzilla, so what combo will they consider subsequent?)
