The News Broom: January 2, 2023 Edition
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Streaming Announcements
HIDIVE Adds Toka Gettan: The Moonlight Lady Returns Anime
HIDIVE to Stream Farming Life in Another World, Ippon! again Anime
The Girl From the Other Side Anime Gets English Dub
Tomo-chan is a Girl Anime Gets Same-Day English Dub on January 4
Crunchyroll Streams Fate/Grand Order Stage Play on December 31
New Anime
Tenchi Muyo! GXP Project Gets New Paradise Shidō-hen Anime
New Manga/Novel
Alice in Borderland, Zom 100’s Haro Aso Launches New Manga
TV/OVA Release Dates
Mahō Shōjo Magical Destroyers Anime’s 1st Promo Video Reveals Theme Song Artists, April 2023 Debut
Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War Anime’s Video Announces Return in July
Special Events
TATSUKI’s Hentatsu Anime Airs ‘New Year’s Eve Specialty Edition’
Director confirms no important announcement this year
Series Ending
Love of Kill Manga Ends on January 14
Hiro Mashima’s Edens Zero Manga Enters Final Arc
Sakuya Kuroda’s Rich Police Cash Manga Ends in 9th Volume
Delays
KanColle Season 2 Anime’s 6th Episode Delayed to January 19
Megaton Musashi Anime Delays Final 5 Episodes to February Due to COVID-19
Uncle From Another World Anime Delays 13th Episode Due to COVID-19
Streaming Announcements
HIDIVE Adds Toka Gettan: The Moonlight Lady Returns Anime
HIDIVE to Stream Farming Life in Another World, Ippon! again Anime
The Girl From the Other Side Anime Gets English Dub
Tomo-chan is a Girl Anime Gets Same-Day English Dub on January 4
Crunchyroll Streams Fate/Grand Order Stage Play on December 31
New Anime
Tenchi Muyo! GXP Project Gets New Paradise Shidō-hen Anime
New Manga/Novel
Alice in Borderland, Zom 100’s Haro Aso Launches New Manga
TV/OVA Release Dates
Mahō Shōjo Magical Destroyers Anime’s 1st Promo Video Reveals Theme Song Artists, April 2023 Debut
Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War Anime’s Video Announces Return in July
Special Events
TATSUKI’s Hentatsu Anime Airs ‘New Year’s Eve Specialty Edition’
Director confirms no important announcement this year
Series Ending
Love of Kill Manga Ends on January 14
Hiro Mashima’s Edens Zero Manga Enters Final Arc
Sakuya Kuroda’s Rich Police Cash Manga Ends in 9th Volume
Delays
KanColle Season 2 Anime’s 6th Episode Delayed to January 19
Megaton Musashi Anime Delays Final 5 Episodes to February Due to COVID-19
Uncle From Another World Anime Delays 13th Episode Due to COVID-19
Hunter x Hunter Manga Goes Back on Hiatus
Misc
- Studio Pierrot Founder Yūji Nunokawa Passes Away
- Online Petition to Redo Chainsaw Man Anime Gets 2,000 Signatures
- One-Punch Man Anime Twitter Account Warns of Misinformation
- Supreme Court of Texas Denies Petition to Review Vic Mignogna’s Lawsuit
Dropkick on My Devil! Anime’s Crowdfunding Campaign Reaches 200% of Goal
Cat Sh*t One Anime Launches Kickstarter Campaign to Fund Blu-ray 3D HD Release, BD/DVD Re-release
Kenji Studio Launches Kickstarter Campaigns for English Releases of Santa Company Anime Films, Manga
Seven Seas States Amazon in Europe Has Stopped Purchasing its Titles
Pokémon Company Sues Company Advertising ‘PokéWorld’ NFT Game
Pinocchio Star Finn Wolfhard, Director Guillermo del Toro Discuss Chainsaw Man Anime in Video
Kodansha’s Evening Magazine Ends Publication in February After 22 Years
Right Stuf Top 10 Best Sellers of the Week
- Bluray
- Mushoku Tensei Jobless Reincarnation Season 1 Part 2 Blu-Ray/DVD
- Attack On Titan The Final Season Part 2 Limited Edition Blu-Ray/DVD
- Crusher Joe The Movie Blu-Ray
- Dear Brother Blu-Ray
- Girls Und Panzer Das Finale Part 3 Blu-Ray
- Lupin The 3rd The Mystery Of Mamo Blu-Ray
- Yu Yu Hakusho 30th Anniversary Box Set Blu-Ray
- Lupin The 3rd Part I Blu-Ray
- Guilty Crown Complete Series Essentials Blu-Ray
- Qwaser Of Stigmata Complete Series Blu-Ray
- Manga
- I Cannot Reach You Manga Volume 5
- Beastars Manga Volume 20
- Chainsaw Man Manga Volume 4
- Chainsaw Man Manga Volume 3
- Kaiju No. 8 Manga Volume 5
- Jujutsu Kaisen Manga Volume 18
- Beastars Manga Volume 21
- One Piece Manga Box Set 1
- Prince Freya Manga Volume 1
- Kubo Won’t Let Me Be Invisible Manga Volume 1
- DVD
- Shuffle Complete Series DVD SAVE Edition
- Golden Boy DVD
- Ghost Stories Complete Collection DVD
- Ghost Hound Collection 1 DVD
- Welcome To Pia Carrot! 2 DX DVD
- CLAMP Double Feature DVD SAVE Edition
- Rurouni Kenshin New Kyoto Arc DVD
- One Piece Collection 2 DVD
- Gatchaman Collector’s Edition Box 2 DVD
- DNA Squared Complete Collection (TV + OVA) DVD
Top Stories of 2022
January
- 10 years since Bandai Entertainment shut down
- Akira Film Easter Egg Hints at Artist’s Exasperation With the Workload
- Rumiko Takahashi’s Urusei Yatsura Manga Gets New TV Anime in 2022
- AMC Networks Acquires Sentai Holdings, Sentai Filmworks, HIDIVE
- Cinedigm to Acquire AsianCrush, RetroCrush’s Owner Digital Media Rights
- Adult Swim, Cartoon Network’s Viewership Falls Over 25% in 2021
- Viz Media, Manga Plus Also Do Not Publish 75th Chapter of Ayakashi Triangle Manga
- Viz Teases “Exciting” Shonen Jump Announcement, Then Clarifies It’s Not NFTs
- Final Fantasy VII Tifa Pornography Interrupts Italian Senate Meeting
- Jujutsu Kaisen 0 Anime Film Opens in U.S., Canada on March 18
- Niigata Government Blames ‘Girl Running With Toast’ Anime Trope For Decline in Rice Consumption
- YouTuber SuedeBlade received court complaint from ShoPro (Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions) for like $700 because of their Pokemon “reviews.”
- Final Fantasy VII 25th Anniversary
February
- Mangasplaining Podcast Launches Newsletter With English Releases of Okinawa, ‘These Days’ Manga
- Otakon 2022 Event to Require COVID-19 Vaccination, Masks
- Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG Finally Surpasses Magic: The Gathering’s Search Term Popularity in U.S.
- Netflix’s Live-Action One Piece Series Begins Filming
- Eiichiro Oda Requested One Piece Film Red To Give “Important Role to a Female Character”
- Monica Rial, Jamie Marchi Launch Podcast About Vic Mignogna Defamation Case
- Chihayafuru Manga Ends with 49th Volume
- EarthBound/EarthBound Beginnings Games Are Now Available on Switch Online Service
- Live a Live RPG Gets Switch ‘HD-2D’ Remake on July 22
- Attack on Titan “Do you think genocide is cool?” poll
- Paramount Plans 3rd Sonic the Hedgehog Film, Live-Action Series About Knuckles
- BookWalker Global to Remove Series from Sol Press/Panty Press on February 21
- Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero Anime Film to Open in N. America This Summer
- CDC Study on COVID-19: ‘Evidence of Widespread Transmission Was Not Identified’ at Anime NYC
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Capcom Announces Street Fighter 6 Game (Ryu’s dick) - Yaoi Paddle Kickstarter Aims to Revitalize Anime Fandom History
March
- Grand Jury Advances 8 Felony Charges Against Former Jujutsu Kaisen Manga Translator Stefan Koza, Trial Set for June
- EVO 2022 Tournament Will Not Include Super Smash Bros. Game
- ICv2 Report: U.S. Manga Sales More than Doubled in 2021
- Anime Studio White Fox Apologizes For Alleged Gender Discriminatory Hiring Practices
- MangaPlaza Digital Service Launches, Offers Free Trial to U.S. Audience
- Funimation’s Anime Content Heads to Crunchyroll
- Azuki Has Raised $500K from Y Combinator!
- Voice Actor, ADR Director Daman Mills Accused of Sexual Misconduct
- Man Who Used U.S. COVID Relief Loan To Buy Pokémon Card Sentenced To Prison
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The New Best-Selling TV Anime (Uma Musume 2) - Tokyo Mew Mew Artist Mia Ikumi Passes Away Due to Hemorrhage
- Gainax’s Wings of Honneamise Film Gets 4K Remaster With Theatrical Screenings
- Adult Swim to Produce 2 New FLCL Seasons, Housing Complex C Anime
- Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero Film Delayed Due to Toei Animation Hack
- Sol Press: Company ‘Can No Longer Provide Refunds’
- Inio Asano’s Dead Dead Demon’s Dededededestruction Manga Gets Anime
- Baki Hanma Anime Gets 2nd Season
- Crunchyroll to Remove Food Wars!, Akame Ga Kill, BanG Dream!, Girls und Panzer, No Game No Life, More Anime
- Crunchyroll to Halt Ad-Supported Streaming Starting With Spring 2022 Season
April
- Gundam: The Witch From Mercury Anime Reveals Franchise’s 1st ‘Female Hero’ in Main Series
- Court Hands Suspended Sentence to Please Tell Me! Galko-chan Creator Kenya Suzuki
- Netflix: More Than Half of Members Globally Watched ‘Anime’ Last Year
- New Jersey’s AnimeNEXT Cancels 2022 Event Due to Issues with Convention Center
- E3 Game Show Cancels 2022 Event
- BookLive Suspends Ranking of Kings Manga’s English Release for Retranslation
- The Prince of Tennis II: U-17 World Cup Anime Casts Tomokazu Seki as Entire Greek Team
- Crunchyroll pushes towards ending remote recording
- Dark Horse to Publish 1st Berserk Manga Volume Since Kentarou Miura’s Passing in November
- ‘SPY X FAMILY CANCELLED’ TRENDS WORLDWIDE AS ANIME FANS DISPUTE VIRAL TIKTOK
- Squidward Recommendation Helps Erotic Manga Dick Fight Island Trend on Twitter
- Netflix Considers Low-Cost Streaming Tier With Ads, After 1st Drop in Subscribers in a Decade
May
- Crunchyroll Launches 1st Italian Dubs With The Rising of the Shield Hero, My Dress-Up Darling, Ranking of Kings Anime
- Jujutsu Kaisen 0 Film Becomes 15th Highest-Earning Film Ever in Japan
- Rica Matsumoto Says She Earned No Royalties From Iconic Japanese Pokémon Theme Song
- Anime Central 2022 Reverses Mask Policy, No Longer Requires COVID-19 Vaccination or Negative Test
- Anime Central 2022 to Require Masks in Certain Areas, Events
- Yoshihiro Togashi Teases Hunter x Hunter Manga’s Return (Updated)
- Digital Manga Service Azuki Licenses Mai Matsuda’s Hikaru in the Light! Manga
- Manga Publisher Seven Seas’ Workers Form Union
June
- Anime Expo 2022 Reinstates Proof of COVID-19 Vaccination or Negative Test Requirement
- Chainsaw Man Manga’s 2nd Part Launches on Shonen Jump+ on July 13
July
- Uzumaki Anime Gets Another Delay
- Macross Frontier, Macross Delta Anime Offered on Home Video Outside Japan
- Macross Plus, Macross II Anime Offered Overseas on Blu-ray Disc
- Right Stuf, Nozomi Ent. to Release Macross 7 on Home Video in N. America for 1st Time
- Yu-Gi-Oh Manga Creator Kazuki Takahashi Passes Away at 60
- French Politician Misidentifies PM Shinzo Abe’s Alleged Assassin as Game Creator Hideo Kojima
- Manga Creator Ken Akamatsu Wins Seat in Japan’s House of Councillors
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And Yet The Town Moves Manga Artist Says No Anime On the Horizon (Ironically, Heavenly Delusion did get an anime a few months later) - Resident Evil Netflix Series Name Drops Deca-Dence Anime, Nyaa Torrent Site
- Booty Royale’s Rui Takatō Retires From Manga Industry
- Moto Hagio Inducted into Eisner Hall of Fame
- Mike Reynolds passed away
- Anime Matsuri Creates A New Dubbing Studio With Vic Mignogna
- Tatami Time Machine Blues Anime Launches on Disney+ in Japan on September 14
August
- Discotek Licenses Classic Urusei Yatsura Anime, City Hunter Films, More
- One Piece Manga Sets Guinness World Record With Over 500 Million Published
- Crunchyroll Purchases Anime Retailer Right Stuf
- French Dub Voice Actress on Classroom of the Elite Let Go Due to Fandub Connections
- 90s American Live-Action Sailor Moon Pilot Has Finally Gone Public
- Anime DVD/BD Market in Japan Shrank in 2022
September
-
Netflix to Add 13 Anime Titles in Nippon TV Deal (Berserk) - GONZO Launches Crowdfunding Campaign For Studio’s 30th Anniversary
- River City Ransom Game Creator Mitsuhiro Yoshida Passes Away
- Toby Fox Reacts To Sans Undertale’s Win Against Reigen As Ultimate Tumblr Sexyman
- Rose of Versailles Manga Gets New Anime Film
- Kyle McCarley May Not Star in Mob Psycho 100 III Anime Due to Disagreement with Crunchyroll about Union Dubs (Updated)
- Tubi TV Streams B’t X Anime, B’t X Neo OVA
October
- Golden Kamuy Penis Sizes Officially Ranked By Manga’s Creator
- Adult Swim Stops Streaming Blade Runner: Black Lotus, Shenmue, Fena Anime
- Viral One-Punch Man Mobile Game Ad Delivers Fistful of Cringe
- My Dress-Up Darling Manga Tops 7.5 Million in Circulation
- PLAION PICTURES’ Acquisition of Anime Limited is Confirmed (Updated)
- Gaming, Technology TV Channel G4 Shuts Down
November
-
Kaguya-sama Creator Aka Akasaka Retires from Drawing Manga to Focus on Writing - KADOKAWA Announces Acquisition of Anime News Network’s Media Business
- The Simpson’s Death Note Parody Episodes Garners 3.7 Million Viewers
- Bayonetta Voice Actress Hellena Taylor Disputes Claims in New Statement
- Crunchyroll Reveals Hime’s Quest Game Boy Color Adventure Game
- Voice Actor William Frederick Knight Passes Away
- Man Arrested For Selling Bootleg Copy of Dragon Ball Manga’s Debut Issue
December
- Locke the Superman Manga Creator Yuki Hijiri Passes Away at 72
- Local Manga Localization Company Struggles to Settle Debts By December 31 Deadline
- Viz Media Raises Shonen Jump Service’s Subscription Price to US$2.99
- Singer Ichiro Mizuki Passes Away at 74
- Penguin Random House CEO Resigns Following Unsuccessful Attempted Acquisition of Simon & Schuster
- HIDIVE: Some Temporarily Unavailable Series Expected to Return to HIDIVE in Early 2023
- Right Stuf President, Co-Founder Shawne Klecker Leaves Right Stuf/Crunchyroll
- Hideaki Anno’s Legendary Gundam Doujinshi Gets Reprint at Comiket 101
- Vendor Hospitalized After Anime NYC Accident, GoFundMe Campaign Underway
- Crunchyroll: Some Home Video Releases May Be Unavailable While SKUs Refresh