Manga Mavericks EP. 192: March 2022 News Roundup!

On this episode of Manga Mavericks, we go over more news from the past month, including some big series ending such as Dr. Stone & Fire Force, a ton of big yearly North American manga sales updates, a whole lot of new licenses and even the merging of Funimation & Crunchyroll as a single brand! Enjoy!

For a complete list of links and Community Shout-Outs mentioned in this episode, please visit this podcast's webpage at: http://all-comic.com/2022/manga-mavericks-ep-192-march-2022-news-roundup/

PODCAST BREAKDOWN:

00:00 - RIP Manabu Ohashi & Kirk Bailey 

03:36 - Intro/Patron Shout Outs!

07:37 - NYT List for March 2022

10:05 - Top 10 Manga Franchises of 2021

20:25 - Top 10 "Most Efficient Manga Franchises" of 2021

26:13 - Top Selling Manga Volumes of 2021

30:56 - Hajime Komoto retracts statement that Mashle is half-way over

34:39 - New Haikyu 10th anniversary one-shot coming soon

36:23 - Heart Gear to resume from hiatus soon

37:07 - Blue Exorcist’s return from hiatus delayed from April to May

37:43 - Seraph of the End heads towards climax

39:43 - Dr. Stone ends

43:06 - Dead Dead Demon’s Dedededestruction ends

43:51 - Yasuo Ohtsuka’s Gundam Thunderbolt manga enters final stage

45:04 - Lockdown Zone Level X to end with 3rd volume

46:05 - Blend-S ends

47:20 - Chihayafuru ends with 49th volume

48:42 - Fire Force ends

53:55 - Hikaru Suegi recruiting for his next manga

54:34 - Keito Gaku to start new manga

54:58 - Kazuhiro Fujita starts third Black Museum arc

56:02 - Makoto Raiku starts sequel to Zatch Bell

1:02:10 - Mangaplaza launches

1:04:21 - Bookwalker removes Sol Press titles

1:05:50 - Star Fruit Books to launch new manga magazine

1:06:37 - Colton's Licensing Highlights

1:23:40 - Lum's Licensing Highlights

1:43:42 - US Manga Sales doubled in 2021

1:52:40 - More Manga Piracy in 2021 than manga sales in 2020

1:57:12 - Stefan Koza charged with 7 Felony charges with trial to be held this June

2:01:23 - White Fox apologizes for gender discriminatory hiring practices

2:03:55 - Mappa establishes CGI studio in Osaka

2:04:53 - Funimation merges with Crunchyroll with Funimation brand to be phased out

2:10:23 - Jump Festa 2021 videos to stream globally

2:11:32 - Yoshiharu Tsuge & Tetsuya Chiba inducted into the Japan Art Academy

2:16:18 - Community Shout-outs!

2:37:03 - Wrap up

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