Topics of discussion
Opening discussions:
– Answer #OCAPodcast questions
– OCA Podcast Patreon
– Anime Collector Patreon
– Support us Further
– Tenga
– Russia Fines Google $2.5 Decillion Over YouTube Bans
– Bluesky grew by over 3 million people
∟Meanwhile, the amount of child porn getting reported has also skyrocketed
∟Make sure to report anything you see
∟They literally have to hire more team members to deal with it all
– Square Enix stopped calling them male and female but the rules remain
– Pickups
∟Lunar Remastered Collection launches on PS5 and PS4 Spring 2025
– Disney Refuses to Release Marvel Episode with Controversial Message… Rogue Vigilante Uploads It to YouTube Anyway
∟They realized after the election that they aren’t in the majority and suddenly noticed how cringe this is
∟This should stay lost media
∟They claim to not want to make their being trans other people’s problem
∟Participate in my fetish or I’ll kill myself
∟Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur – The Gatekeeper (‘Banned’ Episode)
Kickstarter/Crowd Funding news:
– The Electronic Gaming Monthly Compendium
– Manga Artist Hiroshi Kanatani Will Make Godshard Chronicles Comic
– Haruhi Suzumiya Franchise’s Crowdfunding Reaches Both Goals on Day 1
Convention news:
– Kevin Eastman is coming to Huntsville Expo
Live-Action Anime news:
– My Tiny Senpai Live-Action TV Drama Slated for January 2025
Streaming news:
– Former Marvel Showrunner Beau DeMayo Claims Disney Told Him To Make ‘X-Men ’97’ Characters “Less Gay”
– Nintendo sues EveryGameGuru for streaming pirated games
– Tomorrow’s Joe Anime Season 1 and 2 to Stream on Crunchyroll
– Crunchyroll appears to be censoring feet
Theater Release news:
– Japan Box Office: Attack on Titan: THE LAST ATTACK Compilation Film Makes No.1 Debut
∟Attack on Titan Finale Compilation Film Features New ‘School Castes’ Footage
∟Yes, they made Mikasa a goth
– Disney’s ‘Snow White’ Star Rachel Zegler Offers Public Apology After Calling For Donald Trump And His Supporters To “Never Know Peace”, Says She “Let My Emotions Get The Best Of Me”
– Bob Iger Surrenders on Disney’s Anti-Elon Musk Campaign: TWDC Returns to X Platform Advertising
Series news:
Anime:
– Backstabbed in a Backwater Dungeon Anime Announced
– From Bureaucrat to Villainess: Dad’s Been Reincarnated! Anime Courts January 9 Premiere
– I Have a Crush at Work Anime Premieres on January 6, 2025
– The Catcher in the Ballpark! Anime Adaptation Announced for 2025
– The Moon on a Rainy Night Gets TV Anime Adaptation
– I Left My A-Rank Party to Help My Students Reach the Dungeon Depths Anime Premieres on January 11, 2025
– WIND BREAKER Anime Reveals Tasuku Tsubakino Birthday Illustration
∟Tranny confirmed
∟We can say Faggot for 4 more years
– The Daily Life of a Middle-Aged Online Shopper in Another World Anime Debuts in January
– Rock is a Lady’s Modesty Anime Debuts 1st Trailer and Visual
– Please Put Them On, Takamine-san Anime Reveals April 2025 Debut in Teaser Trailers
∟Haite Kudasai Takamine-san Threatens With a Good Time
Manga:
– One-Punch Man Creator ONE’s Manga Bug Ego Moves to Weekly Shonen Jump
– Voice Actress Momo Asakura Launches Don’t Make Me Like Itsuki-kun Manga
– Assassination Classroom Manga Banned in South Carolina School District
Games:
– Stellar Blade PC port coming in 2025
∟The reason they invented the 5090
∟Korea versus Ubisoft
∟Accurate
– Finally, an excuse to dump all this stuff about First Descendant
∟Nuance is involved
∟Time for Hailey Supremacy
∟The best of both worlds
∟The face that killed Destiny and Concord
∟They even do black people better
∟Would you rather dress in a bikini or an asparagus?
∟Bikinis are a limited time option but still somehow longer than Concord
∟Even the NPCs are hot
∟Fans Cheer As ‘The First Descendant’ Reveals New Ultimate Freyna Skin, Proving ‘Concord’ Critics Right
∟Sex sells
∟Correction, straight sex sells
∟Nexon Answers ‘The First Descendant’ Fan Demand, Adds Tails-Free Option To Twisted Worship Skin
∟Jiggle Physics Are Coming To The First Descendant, Promises Nexon
– Remedy Says Max Payne Remakes Progressing Well In Production
– Activist Organization That Encouraged Game Developers To Denounce Gamers Is Now Begging For $80,000 In Order To Remain Open
– After Sales Were Over 50% Worse Than ‘Marvel’s Spider-Man,’ Insomniac Reveals ‘Spider-Man 2’s’ PC Release Has “No Additional Story Content Planned”
– ‘Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League’ Still Trying To Cling To Life, Launches New Zoe Lawton DLC To Less Than 300 Players
∟Rocksteady’s Newest Race-Swapped Character For ‘Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League’ Is An “Ethical Thief” And Communist
∟She heavily exudes anti-vaxxer rhetoric
∟Rocksteady And Warner Bros. Rumored To Remake ‘Batman: Arkham Asylum’ After ‘Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League’s’ Financial Disaster
– Sweet Baby Inc. Infected ‘Alan Wake 2’ Has Still Not Recouped Its Development And Marketing Costs
∟‘Gone Home’ And ‘Stray’ Developer Annapurna Interactive Suffers Mass Resignation Following Failed Spin-Off Talks: “One Of The Hardest Decisions”
∟Sega sells off Amplitude Studios to members of internal staff
∟Merge Games shutting down after 15 years
∟‘Overwatch 2’ Dev Activision Blizzard Officially Axes Nearly 400 Employees As Part Of Previously Announced Microsoft Layoffs
∟Shinji Mikami thought Tango Gameworks was safe after Microsoft acquisition
∟Microsoft reportedly laying off another 650 staff from gaming branch
∟Hi-Rez Studios Lays Off Numerous Employees In Order To “Concentrate Our Efforts Entirely On ‘SMITE 2′”
∟Netflix AAA Studio ‘Team Blue’ Shut Down After Two Years
∟‘Diablo IV’ And ‘WWE2K’ Support Studio Lost Boys Interactive Announces “Mass Layoffs”, Cuts Most Of Its Workforce In Response To “Shifting Marketing Conditions”
∟PlayStation Closes Firewalk Studios After Shutting Down ‘Concord’ Video Game
∟‘Tales Of Kenzera: ZAU’ Developer Lays Off Entire Team And Puts Entire Games Division On Hiatus After Previously Claiming Game’s Sales Were Fine
∟Prince Of Persia: The Lost Crown Dev Team Disbanded By Ubisoft
∟‘Dustborn’ Director Refuses To Admit Game Was A Flop, Rejects Criticism Regarding Story’s Writing: “We Don’t Feel We’ve Made A Game That’s Primarily About Politics”
∟Actress Anya Chalotra Struggles To Describe ‘Unknown 9: Awakening’ But Eventually Claims She’s Never Seen A Game As Diverse As It
∟Sweet Baby Inc. Infected ‘Unknown 9: Awakening’ Performs Worse Than ‘Concord,’ Only Manages 169 Peak Concurrent Players
∟Sweet Baby Inc. Developed ‘Unknown 9: Awakening’ Sees Peak Player Counts Decline By Over 40% In First Week
∟Ex-Sony President says “Let them eat cake”
∟The full quote is even worse
∟Former Sony Executive Chris Deering Says Video Game Industry Layoffs Not The Result Of Corporate Greed And Suggests Laid Off Employees Drive An Uber Or Go To The Beach
∟After ‘MultiVersus’ Spearheads “$100 Million Plus” Loss, Warner Bros. Discovery Admits Video Game Division Is “Substantially Underperforming”
– ‘Marvel Rivals’ Developer NetEase Charges Nine Employees With Bribery And Money Laundering Following Anti-Corruption Investigation
– Webfishing adds Straight title for $9,999 fishbucks
– ‘No Rest For The Wicked’ Developer Predicts AAA Video Game Developers Will Continue To Struggle And Explains Why
∟Mark Kern believes they will double down into extinction
∟Elon Musk Explains Why DEI And The Woke Mind Virus Kills The Art Of Video Games
∟‘Halo’ Composer Marty O’Donnell Says If Elon Musk Starts A Video Game Studio He Will Come Out Of Retirement
– Alyssa Mercante Bounces from Kotaku as Gaming Website She Led Is Decimated with Layoffs
∟Adi Shankar wants to buy Kotaku
– Sweet Baby Inc. Fired Chris Kindred Who Attempted To Cancel Brazilian Gamer KabrutusRambo
∟Former Sweet Baby Inc. Client Square Enix Takes a $350 Million Hit in Value as Stock Plummets
– Sweet Baby Inc. Partners With The Powell Group To Push Its Woke Agenda
∟They’ve been establishing this partnership for a long time
∟The Powell Group Deletes Its Associations With Sweet Baby Inc. From LinkedIn And Its Website
– Former Sweet Baby Inc. Employee Confirms Company Is Doubling Down On Woke Agenda: “They’re Not Gonna Stop Us”
∟‘Indiana Jones And The Great Circle’ To Feature Disclaimer Clarifying That Developer MachineGames’ Decision To Use Nazis As Enemies “Should Not Be In Anyway Construed To Condone, Glorify, Or Endorse” Their Ideology – Bounding Into Comics
– Sweet Baby Inc. CEO & Co-Founder Admits Physical Attraction To Nintendo’s Bowser In Shocking Unearthed Interview
Release news:
– Analogue 3D Brings Nintendo 64 Nostalgia To 4K, Will Be “100% Compatible With Every Original N64 Game Ever Made”
– Right Stuf
– JUJUTSU KAISEN – Hidden Inventory/Premature Death Blu-ray Leads Crunchyroll February 2025 Slate
– All NIS America titles are now out of print
Random Merch news:
– StealthWeeb.com
– OCAPodcast.com/store
– Ghibli’s Princess Mononoke teams up with Foxfire for outdoor apparel collaboration
– Mickey Mouse in now a transforming robot created by the designer of Gundam
∟Gundam Designer Creates Robot-Transforming Mickey Mouse
– Turn clear files into works of art with cleverly designed Japanese scroll
– Luxury hotel chain offering karaoke in a large tub floating on the ocean
– Would you pay 450 dollar for a unique picnic dangling 295 feet over a thundering waterfall?
– Subway’s flying restaurant will serve sandwiches 1,000 feet in the air: How to book your free ride
– Taupo McDonald’s Airplane
– Flying dango: Unique tourist site where Japanese sweets are flown to you over a gorge
– Crazy Japanese hot-air balloon
∟More photos
– Japanese job-quitting service contacted by other job-quitting service because employee wants to quit
Misc news:
– Man dies after surgeons remove wrong body part — Alarming trend of surgery errors skyrocketing
– I spent £1,200 getting my penis tattooed — now I can’t have sex
– Doctors warn against all-night sex sessions as man suffers life-threatening penis injury