Anime Roundtable

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

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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

Kevin visits Mike to dust off the old microphones and to check their Anime North worthiness. In the process they talk about going into Mike’s vault to find things that might be Nominoichi worthy, and immediate thoughts as Anime Expo begins to wrap up

This might have been taped last week, but for sure there’s more to come this week

We start by getting Canadian political as we do every so often from Bill C-11 and Canadian Content to the Ontario General Election (which does have an Anime North link)

9:35 - We talk about the Toronto Comic Arts Festival and the controversy surrounding the invite given to, and then taken away from Pink Cat creator Saba Moeel

46:31 - A year after Kentaro Miura’s death, Beserk’s fate has been determined, and will continue with the help of Miura’s assistants and close friend Kouji Mori in charge 

And briefly…

1:11:30 - It’s old news, but what about the latest on the One Piece live action, the Robotech live action, and the new Urusei Yatsura anime

1:19:38 - So what is our plan going into Anime North a month from now?

And just when we were about to finish up..

1:32:06 - Some video game stuff. James and Kevin are trying to get Xenoblade 3 digitally on the Switch store, Mike looking at the Playstation Days of Play sale, and some esports thoughts

1:34:37 - And an update on the union push at Seven Seas

This week’s Drinking Game: Take a shot for when you can spot every technical issue that happened this week…just pace yourself

Mike Nicolas, James Austin, Kevin Ng, Mohamed Sharmarke, Geoff Greig

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

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We settle back into our first recording of any sort in about a month

7:08 - James and Geoff give their take on the Netflix issues and the current streaming landscape. With a longer discussion about the past and present way of consuming content (both anime and mainstream). Netflix hasn’t been all bad has it? Well…

36:22 - Worker in the North American dub industry is looking to do what a lot of other industries these days, put a union label on it. Netflix hasn’t been all bad has it?

Then headlines in brief (can’t call them the Bullets anymore can we?)

1:01:55 - Hunter x Hunter about to come out of hiatus. And what has changed during the hiatus

1:10:13 - The Iron Chef reboot coming to Netflix is more based on the American version than the original Japanese version. So we talk about the significance of Fuji transfering the license from Food Network to Netflix

1:20:20 - Collider’s “Seven Greatest Anime Films Worth Watching Twice”

1:26:51 - Should we really be surprised as to who has picked up Shinkai’s latest movie? So can Sony do it justice with its promotion? The likely answer is probably better than Disney and Miyazaki

1:30:40 - The latest Anime North news just before the online Virtual Preshow happens this weekend with an announcement for the Podcast this year

This week’s Drinking Game: Take a sip of water whenever there is even a remote reference to any

Mike Nicolas, James Austin, Kevin Ng, Mohamed Sharmarke, Geoff Greig

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