Anime Jam Session

A Ranma ½ prize lottery! Also, a Love Live seiyuu sings Attack On Titan for a crossover project, Eiichiro Oda gives an update on One Piece live-action series, and unaired Pokémon scripts surface! Plus, DJ Ranma S and Mako-chan discuss Kogaracon! Meanwhile in Japan, The Legend of Zelda flavored fried chicken, an idol singer unit hosts "Whack-an-Otaku", and 10 million yen found in the trash?!

A famous voice actor changes his rules on autographs, and it's a good thing! Anime cover art plagiarized for textbooks, the Kyoto Animation - 京都アニメーション case goes to pre-trial, and the original Saint Seiya hits Crunchyroll with a remastered dub! And Netflix starts new password rules in the 2nd quarter, and Uniqlo's new anime shirts are a trip into anime's past... Meanwhile in Japan, nightmares are taking over Hello Kitty's theme park this summer, a man is arrested for failing to steal from a Shinto shrine, and KFC Japan adds hash browns burgers to their menu!

Live-action One Piece is sunk in a test viewing... Or was it? Rumors abound! Kodansha pulls a game book due to inaccuracies, and Assassination Classroom is pulled from certain libraries in the country! Also, subcontracting studio Takuranke files for bankruptcy while a newer sister company continues, Happinet bids for the takeover of Broccoli, and the classic anime 冒险少女娜汀亚 Nadia the Secret of Blue Water is to be streamed on Retrocrush! Meanwhile in Japan, merchandising for a pregnant Japanese voice actress, a new capsule toy is a kitty litter snow globe, and a young Japanese girl pushes for women's sumo as a major sport!

An ecchi anime's live broadcast upsets voice actor from the series, we finally get Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: The Anime, and Monster Energy goes after the games Pocket Monsters (Pokémon) and Monster Hunter... Ten animes turning 50 this year, and legendary mangaka Rumiko Takahashi is knighted by France! Meanwhile in Japan, local card shop demands you use deodorant or leave, an elegant game of kickball at the Imperial Palace, and a junior high school on remote Japan island holds graduation ceremony for it's only student, and a convenience store worker outsmarts the dumbest robber ever!

We get a 24/7 anisong stream! Live action Cells at Work, mangaka legend Rumiko Takahashi draws a one-shot manga, new Pokémon anime gets a manga, composer Hidekazu Tanaka admits to obscenity charges, and Soul Eater celebrates 15 years! Meanwhile in Japan... Own a giant 3D cat from Shinjuku and the newest capsule toy that doesn't open?!

A journalist thinks maid cafes are misogynistic, but we ask our local meido, BerryMelon, their thoughts! Also, an AI Keke Tang chatbot from Love Live Superstar, Shinjuku train station taken over to celebrate Pokémon, Plex Pro adds 24/7 HIDIVE channel, and the trailer for the live-action SAINT SEIYA is out, along with theme song by P!nk! Meanwhile in Japan, first arrests made for "sushi terrorism" prank videos, people getting lewd with anime figures in Ghibli Park, a laundromat owner clings to car of panty thief, and a Coca-Cola canned cocktail?

Fans outraged with the Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Swordsmith Village movie, was it really a glorified flashback? Toei Animation brings us a new Precure all-stars movie with all 77 precures! That's a lot! One Piece on Ice this coming summer, along with a Chibi Godzilla anime! Crunchyroll to add music videos and concerts, and Takahashi Rie tells fans to bathe... Meanwhile in Japan, a Yakuza boss arrested for signing up for a discount supermarket point card, and a rude message to customers spark controversy...

We discuss Katsucon with BerryMelon and her adventures in working the fashion show! Plus, Ari Rockefeller brings us Pokémon news, cool Spy x Family merch with My Fair Lady, Sailor Moon: Prism on Ice is canceled, and the new Urusei Yatsura anime has a whopping 93 track soundtrack! Meanwhile in Japan, a vending machine that meows at you, a candy company apologizes for it's price hike, and an anime girl body pillow that does ASMR?!