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– Pickups
∟Sherlock Holmes: Book Nook
– Told “Nope” For The Eighth Time, Paramount Sues Warner Bros. Discovery As Theaters Brace For the Netflix Era
∟Warner Bros. Discovery Calls Paramount Skydance’s Lawsuit “Meritless” as David Ellison Keeps Pushing $30/Share Bid
∟Netflix Switches To All-Cash Bid For Warner Bros.
∟Warner Bros. Board Considers Reopening Talks with Paramount — Is The Netflix Deal in Danger?
∟Paramount Sweetens Hostile Takeover Bid for Warner Bros. Discovery — WBD Board Agrees to Review Offer
∟Warner Bros reopens takeover talks with Paramount after receiving waiver from Netflix
∟Paramount Expected To Raise Offer to $32 Per Share As Paramount WBD Battle Intensifies, Netflix Signals It May Walk Away
∟BREAKING: Netflix Concedes Warner Bros. Battle as Paramount Bid Emerges as Front-Runner
∟Paramount just leapfrogged the competition
Kickstarter/Crowd Funding news:
Live-Action Anime news:
– ‘God of War’ Series First Look Draws Mixed Reaction as Fans Debate Prime Video’s Live-Action Vision
∟If only…
Streaming news:
– Gintama Creator Hideaki Sorachi’s Debut Manga Dandelion Gets Anime Adaptation
– Crunchyroll’s quality control is somehow getting worse
∟Shows without Japanese, shows in English with only Japanese
Theater Release news:
– Japan Box Office: Gintama: Yoshiwara in Flames Anime Film Moves to No.3 in 2nd Weekend
– Witch on the Holy Night anime movie premieres in 2026
– Puella Magi Madoka Magica -Walpurgisnacht Rising- Anime Film Announces August 28, 2026 Release Date
– Ghibli’s Kiki’s Delivery Service returns to theaters with first-ever IMAX screenings and remaster
– That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime the Movie: Tears of the Azure Sea Movie Global Release Dates Announced
– Cinema Listing Reveals Unannounced ‘The Super Mario Galaxy Movie’ Character
∟People think they see Fox McCloud
∟But it is probably just Toad’s backpack
∟Why fans think Star Fox will appear in Super Mario Galaxy
∟FOX McCLOUD in the Super Mario Galaxy Trailer?! | Nintendo Cinematic Universe Trailer Rumours!
Series news:
Anime:
– TMS Entertainment Absorbs Telecom Animation Film
– MAPPA to Absorb Anime Production Company Contrail
– More details have emerged about the Asuka short
∟The short showed a vision of a future where Asuka and Shinji are married
∟The short also appears to have featured Asuka Langley Soryu with Asuka Shikinami
∟Studio Khara Warns Fans About Sharing New Evangelion Short
– New Evangelion Anime Series Announced With Yoko Taro Writing Script at CloverWorks
∟New Evangelion Anime Teaser PV Shows Very Little
– Goodbye, Lara Anime Announces July Premiere in New Trailer
– I Made Friends with the Second Prettiest Girl in My Class Anime Reveals April 7 Premiere Date in New Trailer
– Scenes from Awajima Anime Reveals April 9 Premiere Date in New Trailer
– The Drops of God Anime Pours Out New Trailer, Visual, Cast and April 10 Premiere Date
– Ookii Onnanoko wa Suki Desu ka? Anime Looking to Conquer Tall Women
– The Sado Life of Rosé the Witch TV Anime Adaptation Announced
– Toaru Anbu no ITEM Anime Reveals 2026 Broadcast, Teaser Visual and Main Staff
– Zeikin de Katta Hon Manga Gets TV Anime and Drama Adaptations
– BanG Dream! It’s MyGO!!!!! / Ave Mujica – The Die is Cast – Sequel Anime Shares New Teaser Confirming January 2027 Premiere
– GATE 2: Tides of Conflict Anime Teaser Trailer Announces 2027 Premiere
– Golden Kamuy Final Season Anime Enters Tokyo Love Story Arc with New Key Visual
– Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You Anime Announces Suzuki Casting
– Sentai Filmworks Localizers Inserts Cancel Culture Into ‘Oshi No Ko’ Anime Localization
– Anime’s U.S. Popularity Driven by Hardcore Fans, Not “Mainstream Dominance”
– You Can’t Be In a Rom-Com with Your Childhood Friends! Opening Song Anime Music Video Streamed
∟This shot was a prime candidate for a pantyshot
∟Even AI haters recognize the gooning potential
∟To be fair, it wasn’t in the manga
∟At least the degenerate foot gooners got something
∟Leave your panty degeneracy at the door
∟Bare feet are the new pantyshot
∟Crazy that these weirdos have such a superiority complex
∟There have been other staples, but a pantyshot here was too much to ask?
∟And the series has pantyshots in other places
∟But the argument is that animators aren’t inserting them
∟Here’s one of the pantyshots
∟It is a problem across the entire medium these days
∟Shows are going out of their way to tone down the creator’s vision
∟Hiding the midriff
∟And shapely bodies
∟Flattening even modest chests
∟Hiding the thighs
∟Framing shots to hide bodies
∟Changing angles to hide bodies
∟Even posture is flattened
∟They made it bland AF
∟Marvel is censoring their own artbooks
∟Because they don’t fit their current standards
∟Twitch’s VTuber (and live) model guidelines
∟But what’s a Butt Fang?
∟The cheeks visible behind the thighs
– Seedance 2.0 Fixes Legendarily Erroneous Anime Imouto Ja Nai
– Anime-Styled AI Generation Reaches New Level With Kanojo Okarishimasu
Manga:
– Kazuaki Kurita arrested for abusing underage student
∟Shogakukan Suspends Distribution of Manga “Joujin Kamen” Over Author Vetting Failures, Issues Official Apology
– MangaDex to Remove Manga Featuring Minors to Comply With Legal Concerns
∟MangaDex is now a company: What changes for readers?
∟They are now under the management of NamiComi
Games:
– New Microsoft Gaming CEO Faces Early Online Scrutiny From Xbox Fans
∟Xbox’s New CEO Profile Scrutinized as “Suspicious”
∟IGN thought she was faking it
∟She assured us that she was definitely not doing that
∟Xbox Co-Creator Seamus Blackley Walks Back Comments Comparing New Boss to “Palliative Care”
– Microsoft Japan Raided by Antitrust Watchdog Over Suspected Unfair Trade Practices
– NieR:Automata Game Celebrates 10 Million Copies Sold with ‘To Be Continued’ Tease
– Ex-Resident Evil Director Says Requiem Leakers “Deserve Ten Thousand Deaths”
∟What playing Requiem has been like so far
– Lollipop Chainsaw RePOP Switch 2 Edition Delayed Indefinitely
∟Lollipop Chainsaw RePOP Switch 2 Edition Reveals New Release Date
– Pragmata Reddit Community Splits Over Character Content Rules Ahead of Launch
– Former Capcom Producer Says He Spends Over $500,000 on His Own Gacha Games
– Pokemon Winds and Waves announced
– Nintendo Switch Online adds Pokemon XD: Gale of Darkness
– Pokemon Fire Red & Leaf Green Nintendo Switch Remasters Censor “Bad Names”
Release news:
– The Right Stuf warehouse is for sale
∟Seems the recent warehouse sales are to liquidate stock
∟This is after they started the slow sellers policy
∟They’re going to only sell top sellers
– Right Stuf
– Hideaki Hatta died
Random Merch news:
– StealthWeeb.com
– OCAPodcast.com/store
– Hang Your Clothes on Yujiro Hanma’s Epic Split
– Game Boy-style Pokemon Music Collection jukebox announced
– Japanese potato chip Rubik’s Cubes coming soon
– Japan’s Capsule Toy Market Explodes to Record ¥196 Billion
– Ultra-Rare Tsukihime Trial Disc Destroyed by US Customs
∟US Customs are the enemy of collectors
Misc news:
– Man arrested in Japan after leaving car in coin parking lot for six years, racking up three-million-yen bill
– Japanese Crossdresser Entering Into Women’s Bathroom Sparks Safety Concerns
– “That’s So Scary”: Women Terrified By “Tight Men” Dressed In Female Bodysuits, Taking Their Photos
∟Suddenly it’s bad to let men dressed as women into women’s spaces
– Florida man caught in ‘sexual performance’ with vacuum, deputies say