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Show Notes

0:00: In this combined episode of TheOASG Podcast, Justin and Helen get right into the news of the past couple weeks, which does include why this is a double episode and includes the two discussing anime leaks after Aniplex and TOHO successfully filed for an information disclosure order in US courts for the identities of alleged leak accounts.

4:12: As mentioned a few months ago once Square Enix themselves commented on it but now confirmed by the manga artist Nekokurage, The Apothecary Diaries manga will continue — both hosts discuss what should wrap this tax business up for the foreseeable future.

5:11: Ryota Suzuki will replace Toru Furuya as Yamcha in the upcoming Dragon Ball Daima anime, which should now close the book on what is an inglorious end to what was a distinguished career.

6:35: Small Press Expo awarded Nazuna Saito’s Offshore Lightning the prize for Outstanding Collection in its 2024 Ignatz Awards, so someone will be getting a brick sent to them soon; Glacier Bay Books’ Kickstarter campaign for a few Arata Imai works have been successful.

8:48: It’s likely only those in Japan who will be saddened by Nobuhiro Watsuki still being on hiatus for the newest Kenshin manga due to poor health; Dance Dance Danseur has resumed following George Asakura’s surgery; And Saika Fushimi, who has been battling cancer, is aiming to return resuming the manga adaptation of The Magician Who Rose From Failure as she continues to recuperate.

11:11: Production issues will force I See Your Face, Turned Away to go on hiatus; The Days of Diamond manga series will have its hiatus extended, but for an interesting reason; and due to Yuto Suzuki’s health the Sakamoto Days manga will be on break until the next issue of Shonen Jump; voice actor Toshiyuki Manabe sadly passed away at 32 due to heart failure.

13:37: Helen touches on the sudden passing of Nicholas Dupree, who wrote for ANN and someone she knew for a good while online.

16:35: Justin and Helen then discuss the death of voice actress Emi Shinohara, who was undergoing medical treatment for an unspecified illness, but the treatment did not prove effective. Many said their condolences online and in various statements, which showcases the impact she had in the anime world.

Licenses

18:54: Seven Seas and Wonderful Wednesdays are back! Which means more new things are coming in 2025:

Koume Fujichika’s I’m in Love with the Older Girl Next Door
USUI KATSURA & CARMILLA’s The Trapped Former Villainess Wants to Escape from the Sadistic Prince
Yuho Okita’s PUNKS TRIANGLE
Parari’s Cat Man
Mita Ori’s Lion Hearts
Machi Suehiro’s Fake Fact Lips & sequel Fake Fact Lips BREAK
Karin Anzai’s It Takes More Than a Pretty Face to Fall in Love
Hiroshi Hiroyama & TYPE-MOON’s Fate/Kaleid Liner Prisma Illya
TATSUWAIPU’s Tamamori’s Fantasies Never Stop! (Ghost Ship)
Keiko Iwashita’s Choking on Love
Fuyutsuki Koki, Masami, & Mago Ayakita’s The Too-Perfect Saint: Tossed Aside by My Fiancé and Sold To Another Kingdom (LN & Manga)
Kyu Takahata & Yuwji Kaba’s Now That We Draw
Arata Asanae’s You Are My Alpha
Moridam’s 12 Dirty Deeds to Unite the Princess and Her Heroine (Ghost Ship)
Also announced audiobook production of Shinobumaru’s The Haunted Bookstore – Gateway to a Parallel Universe novel, Reia’s Accomplishments of the Duke’s Daughter, & Motoo Nakanishi’s Sword of the Demon Hunter: Kijin Gentōshō.

23:22: VIZ had their usual licensing announcements event on their socials:

JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Part 7–Steel Ball Run
The Bugle Call: Song of War
Girl Crush
Cosmos
Tsumiki Ogami’s Not-So-Ordinary Life
Rai Rai Rai
Snow Angel
Astro Royale
JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Globetrotter Guidebook
Dr. STONE Volume 27
Tokyo Fears Rhapsody
Ponyo Film Comic (All-in-One Edition)
Disney Twisted-Wonderland: The Manga – Book of Octavinelle
The Demon Prince of Momochi House: Succession
Ultraman: Along Came a Spider-Man
Spider-Man: Kizuna
The Art of the Boy and the Heron
Kill Blue (Print, previously digital only)
Nue’s Exorcist (Print, previously digital only)[These are all slated for Summer 2025]
Tenmaku Cinema
Super Psychic Policeman Chojo
Jiangshi X
Ice-Head Gill
Martial Master Asumi [These are all digital, slated for Spring 2025]