Anime Roundtable

James returns to the table and chats with Mike as they update the Bayonetta voice controversy. Plus James gives a few thoughts on Bleach and Disney+ from a business standpoint

Mike Nicolas and James Austin

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Amy returns and sparks a discussion about her grade nine students being fans of a show that came out before any of them were born, and similar benchmarks in recent fandom history, and the key things that facilitated those benchmarks

16:58 - Disney gets the streaming rights for Bleach for Disney+ and Hulu, and Urusei Yatsura on HiDive

26:25 - What have we been watching lately

39:29 - We revist the Kyle McCarley story and get Amy’s take on it with some follow up details

1:23:33 - The Bullets. Some Hunter x Hunter and Card Captor manga news. Tokyo Olympics bribary scandal

1:26:44 - Hey someone put out a list of “Starter Anime”

1:54:05 - A final kind word for the late Kazuki Takahashi, the creator of Yu-Gi-Oh

This Week’s Drinking Game: Take a shot when you realize that the word Mike was looking for was “acrimony”, or confused both Bleach and Naruto

Mike Nicolas, Amy-Lynn Greig, Kevin Ng, Mohamed Sharmarke

Opening Theme: “FUBUKI - Snowstorm” performed by Pico Masaki

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Moh returns to the table and we start with his thoughts from last episode. Especially on upselling out of print, hard to find manga, Japanese guests at FanExpo, Moh’s movie watching, and Kevin, James, and Shin Megami Tensei

39:52 - We talk at length about the Kyle McCarley situation concerning losing his role in Mob Psycho 100 and try to read between the lines with Crunchyroll’s movements in it

In the bullets segment

1:11:55 - What caught our attention from Aniplex Fest. Mainly Urusei Yatsura’s North American streaming rights going to Sentai and HiDive, Chainsaw Man, and the Rurouni Kenshin anime

1:24:09 - Netflix…TaDummmmm. And how Cyberpunk Edgerunner gives a new angle to the industry’s media mix

1:32:00 - Is there any Nippon TV stuff on Disney+ in Canada? Mike wants to get that return on his $2 investment (or about $1.50 US)

1:37:10 - What’s Kevin reading in a new segment we will call, “Kevin’s Culture Corner”. And finally what’s in all our queues

This Week’s Drinking Game: Take a sip whenever we hint Wu Tang CREAM, then a shot when we do

Mike Nicolas, James Austin, Kevin Ng, Mohamed Sharmarke

Opening Theme: “FUBUKI - Snowstorm” performed by Pico Masaki

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We begin the 70th episode of version two off topic with thoughts on the 21st anniversary of 9/11 and the death of Queen Elizabeth

10:10 - We look back on last week’s Space Heater Chat. With a long thought on anime programming in FanExpo and further IFF and AN comparisons,“culture”, live Overwatch League in Toronto, and the Nintendo Switch in mid-life

39:25 - We weigh in on the current Shojo Beat reprinting discussions and a general discussion about reprinting out of print translated manga titles

And in brief

1:32:50 - Netflix and NTV come to an agreement on older anime titles. And then compare it with NTV’s agreement with Disney+

1:42:55 - On the topic of Nintendo, Switch games being the most profitable physical media in the UK (Long Live the Queen). So what about traditional physical media for moving pictures?

This Week’s Drinking Game: Take a shot when Mike has “tip of the tongue” moments

Mike Nicolas, James Austin, Kevin Ng

Opening Theme: “FUBUKI - Snowstorm” performed by Pico Masaki

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Kevin helps Mike fill the first part of his September quota since he missed out on filling out the August one. We look back on Kevin’s mature game last episode. Then look back on the actual festivals around the Toronto area missed in August (Japan Festival Toronto, CNE, FanExpo). A look ahead to things going on in Toronto in September (Overwatch League Summer Showdown). What’s on our queues, how you get hooked into buying mulitple editions of the same thing (manga edition), and a few headlines we might talk about in the next episode

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Our first in person episode at the Six Points Studio in more than two years!!

We begin by getting everyone elses thoughts on the recent past conventions and the announcements that came out of them. With Mike reposing his Yes/No question from last week’s Space Heater, Kevin’s true thoughts on Manga Up, and the issues of putting EVERYTHING into English

47:40 - We have to take on the Crunchyroll purchase of Right Stuf from different angles. Most notably the adult one (Kevin en fuego here)

1:35:04 - In the spirit of both the fall out of the purchase and of episode 69…Kevin plays a cultured game of know your…well...Anime North Game Shows, what do you think? And how’s Kevin’s pronounciation?

2:07:38 - Looking ahead to events on the community calendar

This weeks drinking game: Take a shot when you hear a ramune bottle marble

Mike Nicolas, James Austin, Kevin Ng, Mohamed Sharmarke, Amy Lynn Greig

Opening Theme: “FUBUKI - Snowstorm” performed by Pico Masaki

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James visits the studio for the first time in over two years to help Mike test out the new mics. In it he gives his view on Anime North despite not being able to attend it, then we talk about the three anime conventions happening this weekend (neither of us are attending those either). But then we talk about the further frustrations of being a Canadian consumer, some manga industry news, and a discussion on actual things...

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We begin by following up on the big headline this weekend, the lineups

9:00 - We follow up on Thursday’s On My Mind and fully introduce Amy

Then we look at our own Anime Norths so far

15:15 - The Nominoichi

21:10 - Amy talks seeing Katsura Sunshine talking the Decending Stories anime

26:00 - Then Amy talks the YTV panel hosted by Martin Hsu

39:29 - Mike talks a little bit about his morning panel

41:26 - We talk about the aftermath of the drowning death of Yu-Gi-Oh creator Kazuki Takahashi

53:17 - Ken Akamatsu gets elected to the Upper House of the Japanese Diet

1:01:04 - And clear the deck, Anime North lead Norm McEvoy makes his regular appearance during the AN episodes. He does look back at some of the history of Anime Fandom in Toronto, including where AN did begin

1:11:28 - Mike brings back his game of “Yes or No” to unpack and play with the others

1:33:24 - The wrap up (Mike tries to summarize the panel)

This Week’s Drinking Game - an either/or as well

Either, take a shot everytime you hear someone breathing on the mics…

Or, take one everytime Mike is on the verge of saying “Anime Roundtable” instead of “Anime North”, and visa versa

Mike Nicolas, Kevin Ng, Amy-Lynn Greig, with guest Norm McEvoy

Opening Theme: “FUBUKI - Snowstorm” performed by Pico Masaki

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Mike goes flying without his usual wingmen. But in the process hears again from regular con-goer Lawrence and AN’s social media head Chris. We look back on the ups and downs of day one with Lawrence’s shopping spree and others just hoping for that chance. Then Mike looks ahead to day two, and looks forward to telling his story in the morning to help celebrate the 25th anniversary. And then Mike ends it off by looking back on Amy’s On My Mind from the day before

On the eve of Anime North (and the afterglow of PRIDE), one of the regulars has a very important message for the Roundtable listeners and hopefully Anime North attendees too