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Present Notes
0:00: Justin and Helen for yet one more week chat about all of the issues they’ve been as much as, which entails Helen explaining that she’s gotten her mother to look at Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuu (and questioning how Justin would know this earlier than the podcast), whereas Justin’s caught as much as all of the Fall anime exhibits, which incorporates the Gintama spinoff, Mr. Ginpachi’s Zany Class.
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6:43: The 2 hosts then get into Netflix getting into an settlement to buy Warner Bros, HBO & HBO Max. The excellent news is the deliberate deal would take till Q3 2026 to really shut. That’s solely good as a result of each hosts (Justin particularly) aren’t even positive how huge the ramifications of this deal will probably be, who or what it’ll have an effect on (except for the buyer, who it doesn’t matter what will lose), and what this may imply for the Leisure trade at giant.
…After all, not even a day after the 2 talked about this, a hostile bid from Paramount was introduced, which suggests the hosts will attempt to discuss that subsequent episode!
15:08: Justin and Helen try to determine what Amazon was really considering after they selected to AI dub a few anime, to a lot derision, after which pull it off their service. It does get the hosts to assume a bit darker, and why regardless of this being over, it’s not really over with regards to AI dubbing.
27:34: Yuki Ikeda’s Thunder 3 is slated to resume serialization February 6, which suggests Ikeda is wholesome sufficient to renew the manga; Terraformars can also be slated to renew subsequent week, after it did see an preliminary delay in the course of the summer time and fall.
28:53: Shinsuke Takahashi’s household shared particulars of what has occurred to the artist just a few weeks in the past, and the small print aren’t excellent. The hosts can solely hope for the very best for Takahashi transferring ahead.
Licenses
34:04: Following them taking off for Thanksgiving, Seven Seas resumed their Fantastic Wednesdays occasion and introduced they’ve licensed the next:
- HEKIRU HIKAWA’s Hanaori-san Nonetheless Needs to Battle within the Subsequent Life
- AKI YUKURA’s Crow Hill: Don’t Be Shy!! – The Full BL Manga Assortment
- IKUHITO & OHANACHAN’s Document of Lustful Warriors: The Rod Grasp’s Unstoppable Conquest in One other World (Ghost Ship)
- Tsuki Aimi’s Lazy Woman Momogusa
- Coolkyousinnjya & Cometubu’s Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid: Ilulu Doesn’t Perceive Love
- Mitsu Hashimoto’s The Prince’s Physique Pillow
35:19: Darkish Horse introduced completely on ANN that they’ll launch a three-book Deluxe Version manga collection of the next Masamune Shirow works:
- Appleseed Deluxe Version (The Deluxe Version hardcover contains books one to 4 of the collection and has 848 pages, slated for August 2026)
- Appleseed Companion Deluxe Version
- Shirow Masamune Anthology Deluxe Version
36:49: Noir Caesar is partnering with TOKYOPOP to launch Mitsuhiro Mizuno and artist Ryōsuke Tobimatsu’s Deep3 basketball manga in 2026; Hiroyuki’s Girlfriend, Girlfriend manga is now a part of the Kodansha Print Membership line, and it’s obtainable on choose retailers…at the moment!
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40:08: 4K Kiki’s Supply Service? 4K Kiki’s Supply Service!!!…Effectively, no less than Justin thinks so. With GKIDS partnering with IMAX to deliver 4K restorations of Studio Ghibli movies to North American theaters in 2026, then which means Kiki in 4K ought to occur! (perhaps simply not subsequent 12 months, however we’ll need to see the speed of releases although); GKIDS will probably be bringing the newest Lupin the third movie to North America in January; and The 100 Meters movie will probably be on Netflix earlier than the 12 months’s ends, which makes one host glad and one host much less !
44:54: We’re getting one other anime (for Netflix) simply introduced out of nowhere for the Winter season, and it pairs Boys Over Flowers creator Yoko Kamio with the Wit Studio crew; Chainsaw Man followers who needed to look at the Reze Arc movie however was not keen or capable of go a theater to see it will probably now buy it digitally…at the moment; And we’ve a pair anime that will probably be streaming on Crunchyroll, both for the Winter season (Tamon’s B-Facet) or someday in 2026 (The Drops of God)
47:15: Ever heard of Whale Sensible TVs? Effectively now Crunchyroll is on the service; Ever heard of VIZIO’s WatchFree+? Effectively now you will get REMOW’s Its Anime service on that app!
Bizarre Information
49:56: Bizarre fish discovery and Tremendous Saiyan in a single sentence? We are able to solely thank the The College of the Ryukyus for locating the goby fish and making the connection to a Saiyan.
51:47: Each Justin and Helen are inquisitive about Korean webtoon and internet novel platform RIDI suspending gross sales of BL novel Loopy Canine Hunts the Tiger solely a day after its launch just a few weeks in the past, following accusations it intently mirrors very notable professional gamer Faker. This in some way will get Helen to cook dinner up a completely insane situation (56:22) on this part.
57:51: The mix of Silent Möbius and The Avengers could be much less bizarre many years in the past, however in 2025? Each hosts have…questions…even when there may be some curiosity about it!
1:00:08: And eventually, simply what Hideaki Anno wanted…a determine of himself as Ultraman!
