What’s Good?

We watched the new Death Note movie so you don't have to! Or you can if you want. It's your life, babe; we just live in it.

News

Food Wars Season 3 is set to release on October 3rd.

A Silent Voice is set to release in the US on October 21st.

March Comes in Like a Lion season 2 starts October 14th.

Hiroshi Kitadani, the singer of One Punch Man’s OP, has been diagnosed with sudden deafness.

Netflix Death Note

Director: Adam Wingard (V/H/S, The Guest, Blair Witch)

Light: Nat Wolff

L: Lakeith Stanfield

Mia: Margaret Qualley

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What’s Good?

This week we discuss anime that was hyped up for us. Was it worth it? Did it suck? Here's a few of our stories.

News

No Game No Life Zero will release in theaters October 5th subbed, and October 8th dubbed.

Studio Shaft’s anime adaptation of Shunji Iwai’s Fireworks has grossed 170 million yen in one day and is set to release in 110 countries.

A trailer was released for I Want To Eat Your Pancreas, the anime drama about a girl with terminal cancer.

Netflix’s Death Note comes out August 25th.

Our Personal Highly Anticipated Anime

Lupin the 3rd- Telecom Animation Film (Orange, All Out!!), TMS Entertainment (ReLIFE, Sweetness and Lightning)

One Punch Man- Madhouse (Death Parade, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time)

Mob Psycho 100- Bones (My Hero Academia, Eureka Seven, Bungo Stray Dogs)

Cowboy Bebop- Madhouse

Little Witch Academia- Trigger (Kill la Kill, Space Patrol Luluco, Kiznaiver)

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What’s Good?

Juan got a secret job, and Trip didn't, so the boys talk about anime to break the tension.

News

The production department of Studio Ghibli re-opened to begin work on Miyazaki’s new film.

A Silent Voice will premiere in the US on October 20th.

Owarimonogatari Season 2 released exclusively to Crunchyroll on Saturday, August 12th.

Kimi no Suizou Tabetai, an anime about terminal cancer is going to air in 2018.

No Game No Life movie premieres this fall in the US.

Your Name will go on sale for pre-order on Funimation, giving away a free signed Shikishi as of August 15th.

Sword Art Online teases new announcements in October.

Attack on Titan will bundle 3 new OVAs with the new manga volumes #24-26.

Homework

Dagashi Kashi- feel. (Tsuki ga Kire, My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU TOO!)

Paranoia Agent- Madhouse (Death Note, No Game No Life, One Punch Man)

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What’s Good?

They boys crossed through space and time for this one!

With the recent release of Valerian and the City of 1000 Planets, we discovered an anime was made based off of the comics the movie was based off of!

News

Studio Bones has announced they will be continuing Mob Psycho 100.

Dagashi Kashi gets a 2nd season.

Netflix is remaking Knights of Zodiac (Saint Seiya).

Daisuki.net is shutting down.

Violet Evergarden is coming to Japan’s Netflix, and it will release worldwide in 2018.

Netflix released a trailer for an original anime titled A.I.C.O.

Valerian

Time Jam: Valerian & Laureline-

Shared: Production Coordination

France: Directing, Script Writing, Music, Original Character Designs

Japan: Assistant Directing, Animation Direction, Character Designs, Mecha Designs

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets

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What’s Good?

Juan went into the wild, and Trip watched anime and played video games.

News

A new Konosuba project has been announced.

Persona 5 Animation has been announced for 2018

Steins;Gate 0 anime is in development, and a visual teaser has been released.

Sony Pictures TV Networks has bought 95% of Funimation.

Toonami adds one hour to programming.

Crunchyroll and twitch streamed more than 15 full seasons of anime.

The second half of Little Witch Academia will be released on Netflix on August 15.

Your Name was inspired by an ad Makoto Shinkai did for a cram school.

Your Name is now on Amazon Video.

Satoshi Kon

Kon made his manga debut in 1984 while in college, with Toriko. He wrote the script for a live action film, World Apartment Horror, and worked as a layout artist for Roujin Z, in 1991. Kon continued to work in manga and anime, eventually working on Magnetic Rose in the film Memories as a layout artist, script-writer and art director. He made his anime film debut with Perfect Blue in 1997. Despite all his work and influences Kon claimed to be largely unfamiliar with Japanese film.

Perfect Blue (1997)

Based on Yoshikazu Takeushi’s novel of the same name, Kon was permitted to make any changed he wanted with the film as long as he kept the themes of “pop idol”, “horror”, and “stalker”.

Millennium Actress (2001)

This was the first film Susumu Hirasawa composed for Kon.

Tokyo Godfathers (2003)

Paprika (2006)

Kon had considered adapting Paprika, Yasutaka Tsutsui’s novel, into a film after Perfect Blue’s release. Due to Rex Entertainment, Perfect Blue’s distribution company, going bankrupt, plans for Paprika were halted.

Kon teamed up with Mamoru Oshii and Makoto Shinkai to create the 2007 NHK television production Ani*Kuri15,for which Kon created the short Ohayō.

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