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Present Notes
0:00: With a LOT of Winter anime exhibits to debate, Justin and Helen delve proper into the information of the previous few weeks, beginning with…one thing bizarre! But in addition one thing very dangerous, as a manga primarily based off a light-weight novel collection has been suspended as a result of the artist determined to plagiarize, and it was egregious sufficient that the editorial division needed to put out a press release about it.
2:32: Aniplex and Crunchyroll’s new anime manufacturing enterprise, HAYATE Inc, has acquired studio Lay-duce; Kageki Shojo!! creator Kumiko Saiki was injured at a music competition she went to some weeks in the past, and we’re all hoping she’s okay, because the accidents might be critical (recognized with a sprained neck, getting a CT scan to test if her mind is bleeding)
7:09: George Morikawa can be on break attributable to his hospitalization just a few weeks in the past, so no Hajime no Ippo for some time; Tawawa on Monday can be on a two-month break and see a return to Kodansha’s Weekly Younger Journal Might 25.
7:51: The 2 hosts talk about the passing of manga creator Rakko attributable to coronary heart failure, and the circumstances as nicely.
Licenses
9:51: Yen Press has launched a brand new imprint: Avocado Home! (Each hosts marvel how they got here up with it). Seems they’ll be having strictly worldwide novels for this imprint (to provide them choices + have a transparent delineation from Yen On), they usually’ve launched with the next works:
- Keigo Higashino’s Laplace’s Witch
- Yūki Shasendō’s Illness unto Love
- Gyatei Murasaki’s 1,000 Phrases Left to Reside
- Aya Saitō’s The Curse Known as Mom, the Jail Known as Daughter
- Haeyeon Jeong’s The Place of the Flamingo
Yen Press additionally had some bulletins at their Sakuracon panel:
- Ryoko Kui’s The Dragon Faculty Is Atop the Mountain
- Natsuki Takaya’s In Such a Small World
- Neruko Nichinichi’s Non and Akari
- Futa Kimura’s Destiny Rewinder: All Nice Feats Require Time
- Hikaru Sakurai, Tsuta Suzuki, & TYPE-MOON’s Destiny/Prototype: Fragments of Sky Silver
- 21g & Tegekiken’s Elden Ring: Change into Lord
- Mio Tatsumoto’s Meiji-Period Grasp-and-Servant Tungsten
- Pieta’s Hold a Human
14:18: After their April Fools’ Great Wednesday occasion, Seven Seas made official bulletins this time:
- Yoichi Sayonaka & Ryuta Yanagi’s Gear × Magic: Reincarnated as an Engineer, I’ll Save the Villainous Princess (Airship)
- Ryūto & Heiro’s The Faceless Mercenary Needs to Settle Down: Homestead on the Fringe of the Galaxy (Airship, digital solely)
- Yū Omiya, Yōhei Kazawa, & Ale’s My Girlfriend Cheated on Me, and Now My Flirty Underclassman Received’t Depart Me Alone manga
- Indosō, Yasuumi’s Constructing a Monster Woman Harem with Forbidden Science (Ghost Ship)
- Yog Akase’s Nono’s Phantom Store
15:34: Darkish Horse took the time to have a manga licensing occasion themselves, and right here’s what they’ll be releasing this 12 months:
- Rin Suzukawa’s Asobi Asobase
- Kenji Tsuruta’s Neglect-me-not
- Kouji Mori’s Suicide Island
- Hiromasa Okujima’s Babanba Banban Vampire
17:00: A couple of extra Manga Mavericks titles can be arriving this 12 months; Alien Books may also have a pair titles coming this Fall season; We’ll have an audiobook model of The Apothecary Diaries someday this 12 months, however will it contain the English voice of Maomao? We will quickly see!
21:31: And eventually, whereas not fairly licenses, the 2 hosts discuss concerning the now up to date Bookwalker service, which each (particularly Helen) examined as this episode was recording. She discovered some considerations. Justin additionally had considerations, however he had them earlier than the podcast episode although!
Streaming Information
29:03: Not a bunch of streaming information this time, however the hosts needed to observe how awkward this streaming enterprise may be see — see Ichijōma Mankitsu Gurashi!, which may be seen in a pair locations…that additionally consists of Rakuten VIKI. Rakuten VIKI? The drama service?
Most important Matter: Winter 2026 Ultimate Impressions
31:54: Justin and Helen spend a bunch of time speaking about what was in the end a really sturdy Winter anime season. There have been nonetheless lowlights (Roll Over and Die! [43:00] being one which wanted a significantly better destiny), however general there was tons to be impressed by (Destiny/Unusual Faux, You and I Are Polar Opposites S1, Sentenced to be a Hero, Tamon’s B-Aspect to call just a few).
…Butttttt Journal with Witch (32:04) was clearly the perfect anime of the winter season. Did the hosts (particularly Justin) do their greatest to make it seem to be it wasn’t (1:42:12)? You may guess the reply is not any!
Bizarre Information
1:58:20: There may be pleasure in seeing a piece you want get animated after which be both a large success or reasonably profitable sufficient to get a number of sequels. However we reside in a world the place pleasure may be fleeting. And for Ascendance of a Bookworm and generative A.I. to be in the identical sentence is just not a destiny you’d need to want for many issues!
2:05:58: Good ole’ mistranslation strikes once more, as in some way a collaboration announcement involving Destiny/Grand Order and Witch of the Holy Evening…includes Madoka Magica? Thanks Grok!
2:07:07: Justin and Helen talk about Netflix, after repeated memes and coordinated assaults on all of their socials by JoJo followers, lastly revealed a schedule for Metal Ball Run, which ought to sluggish issues down…(most likely not!); it was truly mentioned within the Winter Ultimate impressions part, however Justin needed to additionally shout it right here — for those who name your self a last season, meaning last! Not an additional arc introduced because it principally means it’s not a last season!
2:10:16: Typically talking, for a franchise to get their work concluded in anime type could be very particular, so congratulations to the Date A Reside franchise because it looks as if the subsequent anime undertaking will presumably wrap the collection up. Nevertheless it’s now going to go onto its fifth studio in Fugaku, which is quite a lot of effort to get this collection accomplished in anime type!
2:12:15: There’s a plan the Japanese Ministry of Financial system, Commerce and Trade has involving anime, manga, and video games and the way the abroad market will play a task in it — each hosts say good luck; a shocking error occurred on the Japanese digital facet that said DANDADAN would go on break for a month, however the editor introduced it was a misprint.
2:13:55: Cute issues are occurring, they usually concerned Sailor Moon! First with Artemis II (sure, the one which simply went into house) and Sailor Moon’s Artemis being noticed on the CAPCOM desk in Mission Management, after which with Hunter x Hunter creator Yoshihiro Togashi and Naoko Takeuchi combining for a drawing, which additionally has Artemis and in addition Kurapika and Sailor Mars in a single picture.
