TheOASG Podcast Episode 81: Let’s Recap Anime Expo and Talk Summer Anime!

Show Notes Editor’s Note: This episode was recorded before the horrific fire at Kyoto Animation, hence why you don’t hear us talking about it. -Helen 0:00: Justin and Helen briefly discuss what they’ve managed to do over the past couple weeks, and it involves a Spider…man. Brief news 8:17: The two lead off with a […]

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Show Notes

Editor’s Note: This episode was recorded before the horrific fire at Kyoto Animation, hence why you don’t hear us talking about it. -Helen

0:00: Justin and Helen briefly discuss what they’ve managed to do over the past couple weeks, and it involves a Spider…man.

Brief news

8:17: The two lead off with a pretty big story: the alleged manager of a pirate site getting arrested in the Philippines.

11:39: After some interesting marketing tactics, Boys Love service futekiya has officially launched.

13:40: More Masaaki Yuasa works are coming to North America thanks to GKIDS. More!

The AX Special News Notes

14:36: A lot was announced at Anime Expo, so here’s a recap:

Dark Horse: Isle of Dogs
Vertical: A Trail of Blood, The Daily Lives of High School Boys
Sol Press: How to Treat a Lady Knight Right, The Ride-On King, Busy Wizard: This Warlock Just Wants to Provide for His Wives
Denpa: Guyabano Holiday, The Girl With Sanpaku Eyes

VIZ

Prince FreyaLove Me, Love Me NotInio Asano’s DownfallKirby: Art & Style CollectionThe Art of Junji Ito: Twisted VisionsKaito’s Blue FlagTransformers the MangaHell’s Paradise: JigokurakuAn upscaled omnibus version of Hidenori Kusaka & Mato and Satoshi Yamamoto’s Pokemon Adventures in a collector’s edition

Yen Press

Breasts Are My Favorite Things in the World!Afterschool BitchcraftRaW HeroI Don’t Know How to Give Birth!The Hero is Overpowered, I’ve Been Killing SlimesToilet-Bound Hanako-kun/IM in printI’m a “Behemoth” an S-Ranked Monster, but Mistaken for a Cat, I Live as an Elf Girl’s Pet manga and LNInterspecies Reviewers  Wandering Witch: The Journey of Elaina LNThe Penetrated Battlefield Should Disappear There: Bullet Witchcraft & Ghost Program Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai LNThey did license Persona 5 Mementos Mission/Persona 5 a la Carte…until they didn’t.

Square Enix

Suppose a Kid from the Last Dungeon Boonies Moved to a Starter TownMarked for Failure, The World’s Strongest Sage Reincarnates for a Do-Over!Wandering Witch – The Journey of ElainaCherry Magic! Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard?!My Dress-Up DarlingThe Misfit of Demon King Academy: History’s Strongest Demon King Reincarnates and Goes to School with His Descendants

Seven Seas

GIGANTMy Status as an Assassin Obviously Exceeds the Hero’sPrimitive BoyfriendConditions of ParadiseMy Androgynous BoyfriendThe King of Fighters: A New BeginningMetamorphose no EngawaCitrus+Bloom Into You – On Sayaka Saeki LNAt Night, I Become a Monster novel

Kodansha Comics

Beyond the CloudsKnights of the IceRent-A-GirlfriendSue and Tai-chanSweat and SoapSomething’s Wrong With UsYuzu the Pet VetWill re-release Saiyuki as a hardcover and with new translations; added Chobits and Clover to their Kodansha Classics lineLicensed The Great Cleric, The Slime Diaries: That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime, Goodbye, I’m Being Reincarnated! & The Knight Cartoonist and her Orc Editor for digitalWill release Saint Young Men, Perfect World, Living-Room Matsunaga-san and Farewell, My Dear Cramer in printWill release all of Katsuhiro Otomo’s worksSpeaking of Otomo, he will release a new film with Sunrise called Orbital EraAnd Akira’s getting a 4K Remaster and new anime

J-Novel Club

Onna dakara, to Party wo Tsuihōsareta no de Densetsu no Majo to Saikyō Tag wo Kumimashita There was no Secret Evil-Fighting Organization (srsly?!), So I Made One MYSELF!Seinaru Kishi no AnkokudōDemon Lord, Retry! (LN and Manga) Otherside PicnicAltina the Sword PrincessSorcerous Stabber Orphen: Reckless Journey, & Cooking with Wild Game mangaWill release The Combat Baker and Automaton WaitressPartner with Tokyo Otaku Mode to release BeatlessWill launch a Kickstarter campaign to print the first 31 vols of Invaders of the Rokujouma!?

Other news

Funimation & Rightstuf is partnering upHarmony Gold is at it once again it seems

Summer Anime season thoughts

46:19: Justin and Helen discuss what they’re watching so far this season. The following is mentioned in this section: Astra Lost in Space, Cop Craft, The Demon Girl Next Door, Given, Grandbelm, Kochoki, Lord El-Melloi II, Symphogear XV, To the Abandoned Sacred Beasts, Vinland Saga, Magical Sempai, Are You Lost?, Dr. Stone.

Weird News

1:11:00: Yes, Justin caught one news story that happened that for sure he had to discuss…and involves Arina Tanemura and a manga that apparently was never supposed to be published to begin with.

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