June 13 2020

Anime Roundtable

Mike opens up with some thoughts on the current anti-racist protests (1:45). Then we actually start on the regular talk going back to the digest three weeks back (12:15), with the memorial service for Zac Bertschy (13:28), and the Japanese fallout from death of Hana Kimura and the price of fame in the reality television and social media age (19:56). Kevin then returns to give his thoughts on the first segment (42:20), and then the bullets (49:22)

- Cloud Matsuri, the UK’s noteworthy shot at the virtual con. And the announcements coming from it (49:44)

- Tokyo Keizai article about Anime Industry’s reservations about Netflix (1:05:00)

- Studio Ghibli streaming, HBO Max and Canada (1:11:16)

- Julian Lai Hung hired by Crunchyroll after working for Netflix (1:25:25)

- Shaman King anime reboot (1:28:37)

- The unveiling of the PS5. And the change of strategy in the initial hardware release (1:34:33)

- Kota Fukihara passes away (1:41:26)

- Shintaro Tsuji steps down as head of Sanrio at age 92 (1:44:35)

*laid out in actual bullets

And we’ll end off with what’s on our queue’s as the pandemic finally sees some light at the end of the tunnel (1:48:39). Count how many mic cut offs happen throughout the episode…and who got cut off

Mike Nicolas, James Austin, Mohamed Sharmarke, Kevin Ng

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