Topics of discussion

Opening discussions:

– Answer #OCAPodcast questions
– OCA Podcast Patreon
– Anime Collector Patreon
– Support us Further
– Tenga

– Lawyer Nick Rekieta, Popular YouTuber, Arrested for Drug and Firearms Possession? Claims Surface
   ∟Rekieta and his wife were arrested with another woman
   ∟18 Years of Marriage – a Relationship Stream with Lady Rackets
   ∟He is representing himself
   ∟The downward spiral has been going on for years
      ∟Crumbreon sees the parallels too
   ∟Rekieta is taking it well
      ∟But he still needed some time to recover
         ∟Rekieta claims all the reporting is wrong
            ∟He doesn’t seem like he’s doing okay
               ∟But at least he isn’t suicidal
   ∟Stan Dahlin offers support
   ∟Doug TenNapel says a prayer for Nick
      ∟Everyone fails, not usually on camera

– Pickups

– Kabosu, the Shiba Inu behind the iconic “doge” meme dies at 18

– Voice Actor Hideyuki Umezu Passes Away at 68

– Gundam voice actor Toru Furuya admits to having an affair, apologizes
   ∟Sailor Moon and One Piece Star Toru Furuya Admits to Adulterous, Abusive Affair With Fan
      ∟Mobile Suit Gundam Amuro Ray Seiyuu Furuya Tooru Admits to Infidelity

Weekly Magazine Report
This time, I, Toru Furuya, have been interviewed by Shukan Bunshun. I would like to apologize and report about the serious sin I have committed.

I had an affair with a female fan for a long period of four years, from September four years ago until last year. At first, I was charmed by her who supported me unconditionally, and I started to contact her on my own initiative.

During our relationship, there was a time when we had an argument and I impulsively raised my hand against her. It was the worst behavior as an adult and as a human being.

Additionally, I committed the unforgivable act of forcing her to have an abortion. I am truly, truly sorry for deeply hurting her both mentally and physically.

I cannot apologize enough for betraying the trust of my long-time fans who have supported me, for disappointing, hurting, and tarnishing my character.

I have betrayed the trust of everyone involved, causing them great inconvenience.

I am prepared to devote the rest of my life to making sincere amends and accepting any punishment.

I am deeply sorry.

Toru Furuya

Kickstarter/Crowd Funding news:

– ‘Shoot ‘Em Up’ Director Michael Davis Working On Animated Sci-Fi Sequel Called ‘Blast ‘Em Up’
   ∟Blast ‘Em Up Kickstarter
– The First Music Album Manga – Dray X Fujimura

Convention news:

– Justin Briner cancels his appearance at FanExpo Canada
   ∟He can’t get away from Deku×Eri
   ∟Apparently he has a history of cancelling
– Chuck Huber gets vindicated over his vaccine stance
   ∟An NPC provides an obvious talking point
      ∟Chuck takes no prisoners
– I Parry Everything! Anime to Have North American Premiere at Anime Expo 2024

Live-Action Anime news:

– Black Jack Live TV Drama Announces Yuno Nagao Casting as Pinoko
– Live-Action Drops of God Season 2 Announced for Apple TV+

Streaming news:

– Blue Archive The Animation Gets English Subtitled YouTube Release in May 2024
   ∟The Tweet I accidentally opened
– Toonami Gets Nostalgic with Rewind Block Featuring Sailor Moon, Dragon Ball Z Kai and Naruto
– Streamer Johnny Somali Threatens To Sue PewDiePie
   ∟Pewdiepie calls out streamers in Japan, Johnny Somali threatens lawsuit

Theater Release news:

– Danny Devito wants to be Wario in Mario Bros. sequel
– HAIKYU!! The Dumpster Battle Anime Movie Tickets Now on Sale
– Umamusume: Pretty Derby Beginning of a New Era Anime Film Tears up the Track in T.M. Opera O Character Trailer
   ∟Umamusume: Pretty Derby Beginning of a New Era Anime Movie Trots out Collab Poster with Godzilla x Kong
– Hayao Miyazaki has secret concept for next anime, considers all animators his rivals, son says
   ∟Studio Ghibli receives honorary Palme d’Or at Cannes Film Festival

Series news:

Anime:
– Failure Frame: I Became the Strongest and Annihilated Everything with Low-Level Spells Anime Premieres on July 4
– VTuber Legend: How I Went Viral after Forgetting to Turn Off My Stream Anime Reveals New Key Visual and Cast
– Hana-Kimi Anime Adaptation Announced, Will Stream on Crunchyroll
– Wonderful Precure! Anime Crosses Over with Crayon Shin-chan for Two-Episode Event
– The Summer Hikaru Died Anime Adaptation Officially Announced
– Kakushite! Makina-san!! Anime Announced for 2025
– EGUMI LEGACY Anime Hits Japanese Airwaves in July 2024
– Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian Anime Previews Opening Theme Song in New Trailer
   ∟Tonari no Alya-san Tsundere in Another Language
– Code Geass: Rozé of the Recapture Anime Reveals New Key Visual, Trailer for Part 2
   ∟Code Geass: Rozé of the Recapture Anime Releases Catherine Character Trailer
– Kinema Citrus Announces New Original Works Goodbye, Lara and Ninja Skooler
– Award-Winning Manga The Darwin Incident Gets Anime Adaptation
– Evangelion creator says there might be more Eva anime to come
– Fan-Made Berserk Anime Episode Seeks to Do Series Justice
– Ghost in The Shell Gets New TV Anime Series in 2026 by Science Saru
– TOHO acquires anime studio Science Saru
– Sony to Strengthen & Develop Anime Business Into Next Revenue Source
– ‘Kill La Kill’ Creator Defends Fan Service In Anime: “If We Make The Work Completely Sterile, People’s Immunity Will Be Weakened And They Will All Die”
Manga:
– Gou Tanabe Launches Manga About H.P. Lovecraft’s Randolph Carter Character in June
– Keisuke Itagaki’s Baki Manga Series Surpasses 100 Million Copies in Print
   ∟My Hero Academia – All Might 1/1 Scale Bust Figure
Games:
– Helldivers 2 is still effectively banned in countries without PSN
– Ghost of Tsushima PC Version Delisted in Multiple Countries
   ∟‘Ghost Of Tsushima’ Developer Confirms PlayStation Network Linking Required To Play Multiplayer Mode For Director’s Cut On PC
      ∟Steam is honoring refunds
– Nintendo Changes Dialogue To Confirm Vivian As Transgender In ‘Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door’ Remake
   ∟Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door Changed to ‘Fit Modern Times’
      ∟What did they mean by making the trans character a ghost?
– Animal Crossing dev admits gender was removed due to LGBTQ pressure
– Zionist group ILF calls for banning Palestinian video game
– English voice actors refuse to work on Snowbreak: Containment Zone over fanservice
– #FreeStellarBlade campaign passes 90,000 signatures
   ∟The petition
   ∟Here’s a reminder of why the campaign was necessary
      ∟Blue Monsoon
      ∟Ocean Maid
         ∟Sony is the only explanation for the censorship
   ∟Shift Up Adds New Costumes Based On Original Designs Of Censored Outfits To ‘Stellar Blade’
      ∟Grummz celebrates the win
         ∟Some point out that the bikini outfit is still censored
            ∟Some think the Kunoichi outfit is censored
               ∟Grummz points out that the Kunoichi censorship is not a broken promise
   ∟Grummz rallies the troops
      ∟Vara suggests it was snuck in by Shift Up
         ∟Some suggest they are just throwing us a bone and aren’t actually interested in reverting the censorship
            ∟Grummz rejects blackpilling
      ∟Grummz puts it in perspective
   ∟Grummz notes the journalists are the comers
      ∟Pronouns in bio as expected
– Report: Shift Up Corporation Developing New Project While Also Discussing Sequel and PC Version For ‘Stellar Blade’
– Assassin’s Creed Shadows fully revealed with November release date
   ∟‘Assassin’s Creed Shadows’ Trailer Confirms Feudal Japan-Set Title To Feature Black Protagonist
      ∟Assassin’s Creed Shadows sparks Wikipedia edit war over Yasuke
         ∟He’s a master of disguise
   ∟How Japanese fans had imagined an Assassin’s Creed set in Japan would look
      ∟Confirmed by a former employee, the game didn’t always have DEI
         ∟Ninja chicks are hot
            ∟We almost had them
         ∟Former employee clarifies statements
   ∟Japanese fans are livid
      ∟Their hopes are dashed
   ∟It’s only fair that they make an asian protagonist in Africa
      ∟Or a white guy
         ∟Or Ryan Gosling
      ∟They actually made the Japanese the villains
         ∟Former employee explains how the game he worked on wasn’t like that
   ∟What do black fans think?
   ∟Senior Writer For ‘Assassin’s Creed Shadows’ Declared: “There’s More Than Enough Games Out There With White Men As The Only Playable Characters. Let’s Do Better.”
   ∟PlayStation 5 Subreddit Permanently Bans User For Being Disappointed That ‘Assassin’s Creed Shadows’ Did Not Feature Asian Male Main Character
   ∟Asmongold Balks At ‘Assassin’s Creed Shadows’ $130 Ultimate Edition Price Point That Includes Day 1 DLC
   ∟Ubisoft Stock Plummets 15% After ‘Assassin’s Creed Shadows Trailer Debut And Company Failed To Meet Forecasted Sales Figures
   ∟Every Major YouTube Upload Of ‘Assassin’s Creed Shadows’ Trailer Holds Negative Like-To-Dislike Ratio, Official Ubisoft Version At 600K Dislikes And Counting
      ∟‘Assassin’s Creed Shadows’ Makes Franchise History With Most Disliked Trailer Of All Time
   ∟Japanese Reactions to Assassin’s Creed: Shadows Surprisingly Supportive
      ∟Assassin’s Creed: Shadows Japanese Positive Sentiment Reversed
         ∟Bridging the Gap Between Gaming and History: How Assassin’s Creed Unity is Helping Rebuild Notre-Dame
   ∟CD Projekt Red Senior Lead Weapon Artist Apologizes For Noting Criticism About ‘Assassin’s Creed Shadows’ Is Valid
   ∟Ubisoft Hints At LGBT Romance Options For ‘Assassin’s Creed Shadows’, Says Yasuke And Naoe Will “Attract And Be Attracted To Different Types of People”
      ∟Ubisoft Appears To Confirm ‘Assassin’s Creed Shadows’ Protagonists Yasuke And Naoe Are LGBTQ+
         ∟Assassin’s Creed Shadows: Ubisoft Hires LGBTQ+ Activist As Consultant Who Wants To Challenge Moral Standards Around “Transgenerational Sex”
   ∟Sweet Baby Inc. involved
   ∟Ubisoft Finally Gives ‘Assassin’s Creed’ Fans The Game They’ve Always Wanted, But Is It Too Little Too Late?
   ∟Ubisoft utilizes unethical guerrilla marketing
   ∟Ubisoft can’t get away from making ugly women
   ∟The deleted portion of the Famitsu article
   ∟Women are just uglier men these days
   ∟Ubisoft claims Yasuke was a real samurai
      ∟The umbrella samurai
   ∟Ubisoft can’t afford this game flopping
   ∟Yasuke is YasuGay
      ∟Somehow that might be historically accurate
– Maimai Rhythm Game beatmap Used to Simulate Plap Session

Release news:

– Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045 The Last Human gets Japanese Limited Edition
– Macross Plus is getting a blu-ray in the UK
– City Hunter 2 complete collection not happening
– Right Stuf

Random Merch news:

– StealthWeeb.com
– OCAPodcast.com/store
– Practical Zelda Tears of the Kingdom merch is here to be Hyrule-helpful in your daily life
– Armored Trooper VOTOMS Anime Gets a Fashionable Twist from SuperGroupies
– Naruto Crocs Collection Drops at Foot Locker on June 6

Misc news:

– Himakajima: The Japanese island with one traffic light that only turns green once a year
– Kanagawa woman arrested for calling police 1,200 times in 8 days, saying “Merry Christmas, Die!”
– Boy, 15, suffers ‘charred penis’ after electrocuting his genitals while climbing on a train for Russian social media stunt
– 4 Men Gang-Raped, Killed and Ate a Protected Monitor Lizard

Watch Club:

Topics of discussion

Opening discussions:

– Answer #OCAPodcast questions
– OCA Podcast Patreon
– Anime Collector Patreon
– Support us Further
– Tenga

– Help my sister Rachael with medical needs.

– Pickups

– Suzume Producer Kouichirou Itou Confesses to Paying Underage Girl for Sex

Kickstarter/Crowd Funding news:

– GREGORY HORROR SHOW game and animation
– Making of Wild Zero 2

Live-Action Anime news:

– Rumor: Netflix’s ‘One Piece’ To Race-Swap Nico Robin, Alleged Season Two Casting Call Seeks Latina Actress For Role Of Straw Hat Archaeologist

Streaming news:

– Netflix Reveals Terminator Zero Anime to Premiere Worldwide on August 29
   ∟Some extra screenshots
– Rumble now banned in Russia

Theater Release news:

– Ghost Cat Anzu Anime Film Reveals New Trailer, Cast and More

Series news:

Anime:
– Sword of the Demon Hunter: Kijin Gentosho Premieres on June 27
– I’ve Been Killing Slimes for 300 Years and Maxed Out My Level Season 2 Anime Adds Beelzebub to Teaser Visual
– 2.5 Dimensional Seduction TV Anime Premieres on July 5, 2024
– The Strongest Magician in the Demon Lord’s Army was a Human Anime Cleans up with Satie in New Character Trailer
– Mysterious Disappearances Anime Unveils Special Maid Day Illustration
– You Are Ms. Servant Anime Shares Special Maid Day Illustration
– Why Does Nobody Remember Me in This World? Anime Reveals Additional Cast and More
– Akira Konno’s Kujima Utaeba Ie Hororo Comedy Manga Gets Anime Adaptation
– Takako Shimura’s Yuri Manga Awajima Hyakkei Gets Anime Adaptation
– Detective Conan Author Gosho Aoyama’s Yaiba Manga Receives New Anime Adaptation
– Possibly the Greatest Alchemist of All Time Anime Announced for January 2025
– Sunrise Robot Laboratory Project Releases Experimental Movie “AURA BATTLER DUNBINE SIDE L”
– New Survey Says Anime Is No Longer for Teens
Manga:
– Turtles of Grayskull Comic Mini-Series By Dark Horse Coming Soon
– 1st Run of Shōhei Ohtani’s Picture Book Soar in Price After His Disgraced Interpreter Is Airbrushed Out
Games:
– Eiyuden Chronicle Translation Mod Fixes Unnecessary Internet Slang
– The #FreeStellarBlade campaign continues to climb
– Lara Croft is Lara Soft
   ∟A good pirate doesn’t steal
– Warner Bros. Discovery Admits To Taking $200 Million Loss On ‘Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League’
   ∟Remedy Reveals 2023 Revenue Declined By 24% In Fourth Quarter Despite ‘Alan Wake 2’ Release
      ∟Sweet Baby Inc. Influenced ‘Alan Wake 2’ Still Has Not Recouped Its Budget
   ∟Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer Admits Recent Activision Blizzard Layoffs Were Partially Undertaken Due To Falling Industry Profits
      ∟Former ‘World Of Warcraft’ Team Lead Mark Kern Says BlizzCon Cancelled Because It Loses Money
   ∟Microsoft Guts Bethesda’s Workforce, Shutters ‘Redfall’ And ‘Hi-Fi Rush’ Studios In Order “To Focus On Our Priority Games”
      ∟Xbox Studios head says they need “smaller games” immediately after shutting down small studios
         ∟Hi-Fi Rush gets reverse review bombed after Microsoft shutters Tango Gameworks
   ∟Embracer Group Sells ‘Borderlands’ Developer Gearbox Entertainment To Take-Two Interactive, But Keeps Sweet Baby Inc. Influenced ‘Hyper Light Breaker’
      ∟After Purchasing Gearbox, Take-Two Interactive Reportedly Shuts Down Two Developers
         ∟Less Than A Month After Acquiring Gearbox, Take-Two Interactive To Reportedly Fire 5% Of Its Staff And Scrap Multiple Projects
            ∟Layoffs Hit Gearbox Staff Hours After Embracer Sale
   ∟‘Grand Theft Auto’ Publisher Take-Two Announces Brutal Cost Reduction Plan, Cuts Over 500 Employees And Cancels “Several Projects In Development”
      ∟Report: ‘Immortals Of Aveum’ Developer Ascendant Studios Furloughs “Majority Of Their Staff”
         ∟Sega sells off Relic Entertainment alongside laying off 200+ staff in Europe
            ∟Relic Entertainment lay off 41 employees shortly after split from Sega
               ∟We are up to 20k job losses in AAA
– Square Enix stock price plummets after confirming 70% profit drop
   ∟Square Enix confirms layoffs in USA and EU amidst restructuring
      ∟Square Enix announces new plan to “aggressively pursue a multiplatform strategy”
         ∟Following 70% Decline In Profit, Square Enix To “Shift From Quantity To Quality” And Focus On Developing “Fun” Titles
– Xbox launches new team dedicated to game preservation and backwards compatibility
   ∟Nobody wants to play modern games
   ∟New Tool Allows N64 Games To Be Played With Ray Tracing, Uncapped Frame Rates And Ultrawide Support
– Nintendo Censors Scene Of Enemy Goombas Cat-Calling Female Party Member From ‘Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door’ Remake
   ∟GameStop exclusive slipcover
   ∟Amazon and Now Walmart Have Cancelled Preorders for Paper Mario Thousand Year Door. Walmart Will Sell In-Store Only. Print for TTYD Might Be on the Smaller Side.
      ∟Walmart should still carry it in-store
      ∟It is seemingly still available at Best Buy, GameStop, and Target
         ∟But at Walmart it is listed as ‘out of stock’
– ‘Marvel Rivals’ Developer Attempts To Explain Ban On Negative Reviews For Players With Early Access
– Sony announces two PlayStation CEOs to replace Jim Ryan
   ∟Sony is also restructuring their Marvel film

Release news:

– Trigun and Trigun Maximum to Receive Deluxe Edition Hardcovers from Dark Horse
   ∟EXCLUSIVE: Dark Horse to Release Trigun Manga in Deluxe Hardcover Edition
– Right Stuf
   ∟The preferred cover for the Berserk Memorial Edition
– Hell’s Paradise – Season 1 – BD/DVD – LE (Amazon Exclusive)

Random Merch news:

– StealthWeeb.com
– OCAPodcast.com/store
– Foreign shoppers in Akihabara tip us off to an awesome souvenir idea: DIY Paper Theater kit
– Yes, our new smartphone looks like at least two Studio Ghibli anime characters, Sharp says
– Life-size vibrating Legend of Zelda Master Sword for sale from Nintendo
– Fried Pokémon: Tokyo restaurant serves up an unusual dish
– Bread loaves recalled in Japan after ‘rat remains’ were found
   ∟Poor mouse stuck in a piece of Pasta
– Japan now has a convenience store that can be towed by a car
– Map of Mexican restaurants across Japan created by Mexican embassy
   ∟The most appealing and unappealing tacos in Japan
– McDonald’s Uses Polymerization on Yu-Gi-Oh!/Hello Kitty for Happy Meals
– Japanese burger chain Mos Burger starting record label for musician fast food workers

Misc news:

– Vietnamese Arrested for Crashing Konbini With Forklift, Stealing 100k Yen
– Brazilian woman brings dead man in wheelchair to bank to sign loan, arrested
– ‘Eunuch maker’ who broadcast mutilations of men jailed for life

Watch Club:

Topics of discussion

Opening discussions:

– Answer #OCAPodcast questions
– OCA Podcast Patreon
– Anime Collector Patreon
– Support us Further
– Tenga

– Osaka governor suggests lowering voting age to 0 to curb population decline
   ∟Everyone in Japan will be Mr. or Mrs. Sato by 2531, according to study

– Pickups

– Stellar Blade Launch Trailer Shows Off EVE’s Many Looks
   ∟Stellar Blade Uncensored Across All Regions
      ∟Stellar Blade “Hard R Shop” imagery will be removed by Sony
         ∟Stellar Blade Patch Removes ‘Hard R’ Graffiti Due to Unintentional Racism
            ∟IGN And Kotaku Accused Of Coordinating Censorship Campaign Against ‘Stellar Blade’ By Accusing It Of Racism
               ∟Right on schedule, people shill for Sweet Baby Inc.-style company involvement
         ∟Did Sephiroth do this?
   ∟Vara’s channel was attacked over streaming Stellar Blade
   ∟Stellar Blade Censors Costume & Blood Splash, But There May Be Hope
      ∟‘Stellar Blade’ Director Responds After Patch Censors Holiday Rabbit Outfit, Claims Updated Design Was Always Intended As Final Version
         ∟Update: “Censored” Stellar Blade costume may be a hoax
            ∟Is it possible that the outfit was always censored?
               ∟No, the censorship was just also on the reviewer version
      ∟A closer look at the gore censorship
   ∟After ‘Stellar Blade’ Censors Various Outfits And Gore, Mark Kern Lays Out 8 Step Plan To “Restore The Original Game”
      ∟Free Stellar Blade
      ∟Gamers Begin Cancelling PlayStation Network Subscriptions To Free ‘Stellar Blade’ From Censorship
         ∟GameSpot Editor Jessica Cogswell Describes Petition & Plan To Uncensor ‘Stellar Blade’ As “The Most Unhinged Behavior I’ve Seen In Quite Some Time”
            ∟Evil Individual Places $20,000 Bounty On Grummz AKA Mark Kern For Beginning Campaign To Uncensor ‘Stellar Blade’
   ∟Sony Offering Refunds for Stellar Blade for ‘False Advertisement’
      ∟No, they aren’t. It’s fake.
         ∟But maybe there is an explanation
            ∟If you played the demo and carried over the save, you will be rejected
               ∟Here are some examples

Kickstarter/Crowd Funding news:

– GREGORY HORROR SHOW game and animation

Convention news:

– LGBT Event ‘Tokyo Rainbow Pride’ Criticized for Public Indecency at Yoyogi Park

Live-Action Anime news:

– Live-Action, R-Rated ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ Movie in the Works From Producer Walter Hamada

Streaming news:

– Completion Of Funimation-Crunchyroll Merger Results In Over 100 Anime Titles Being Made Digitally Unavailable To Western Audiences Including ‘Astro Boy’, ‘Slayers’, And ‘Mobile Suit Gundam SEED’
– Kids Online Safety Act receives bipartisan support despite censorship concerns

Theater Release news:

–

Series news:

Anime:
– Garouden: The Way of the Lone Wolf Novels Get Anime Adaptation in May 2024
– The Most Notorious “Talker” Runs the World’s Greatest Clan TV Anime Adaptation Announced
– Failure Frame: I Became the Strongest and Annihilated Everything with Low-Level Spells Anime Debuts in July 2024
– The Quintessential Quintuplets Anime Continues With Honeymoon Arc
– Elves are taking over anime according to latest data
– ‘Naruto’ And ‘Bleach’ Anime Studio President Rejects Idea That Anime Should Conform To Western Standards: “If You Make Animation With That In Mind, It Will Become Increasingly Boring”
Manga:
– Historical figures get manga makeovers from artists of Spy x Family, My Hero Academia and more
Games:
– Tomb Raider I-III Remastered undoes “inadvertent” censorship
   ∟Aspyr Media Addresses Lara Croft Pinups Being Removed From ‘Tomb Raider I-III Remastered’
– Suikoden & Eiyuden Chronicle Creator Detailed Sequel Plans Before Death
   ∟‘Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes’ localization…
– Hunter x Hunter: Nen Impact Showing Bare Minimum Quality
– Stories from Sol: The Gun-Dog launches this winter
– Square Enix to report extraordinary 22.1 billion yen loss, canceling games in more selective pipeline
– Nintendo Continues Anti-Consumer Warpath With Garry’s Mod Takedowns
– SNK’s Royal Saudi Arabian Owner Aims To Have ‘The King Of Fighters’ Developer Retain Its Japanese Identity: “I Want It To Once Again Be As Bright And Soaring Around The World As It Was In The 1990s”
– Nintendo Censors Scene Of Enemy Goombas Cat-Calling Female Party Member From ‘Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door’ Remake

Release news:

– Right Stuf

Random Merch news:

– StealthWeeb.com
– OCAPodcast.com/store
– Mimics Chow Down as Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End Inspired Pouches and Pass Cases
– JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure Anime Collabs with REEBOK for Stardust Crusaders-Inspired Sneakers
– Hatsune Miku comes to Magic: The Gathering with official crossover cards
– In Japan, you can buy a rice ball rolled in a girl’s armpit
– FUK COFFEE?!? Japanese cafe has a perfectly innocent reason for its startling-looking name

Misc news:

– Japanese government’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry finally stops using floppy disks
– Japanese city loses residents’ personal data, which was on paper being transported on a windy day
– Man, 27, fractures his penis in two places and hears horrifying ‘snap’ after rolling on his erect member while sleeping

Watch Club:

Topics of discussion

Opening discussions:

– Answer #OCAPodcast questions
– OCA Podcast Patreon
– Anime Collector Patreon
– Support us Further
– Tenga

– Blue Archive Artist Apologizes After Being Accused of Using AI
   ∟Rent-a-Girlfriend creator plays with AI art, fans conflicted
      ∟Kaijuu No. 8 & Spice and Wolf Single Covers Accused of AI Usage
      ∟PESTILENCE Changes Their AI Album Artwork After Backlash
         ∟Todd McFarlane Under Fire From Comic Book Creators and Fans For AI-generated Entry Winning Spawn Art Contest
         ∟Pink Floyd awards cash prize for AI art
   ∟Hospitals using AI to diagnose prostate cancer
      ∟App That Claims to Detect STDs With Pics Diagnosed a Penis Cake
– World’s first beauty pageant for AI women is announced: ‘Miss AI’ contest will see computer-generated ladies face off in tests of beauty, technology and social-media clout – with a $20,000 prize at stake
   ∟Ai women are women
      ∟OnlyFans is a real job
         ∟That real job is called being a prostitute

– Pickups

– Death Row Inmates File Lawsuit for ‘Undignified’ Executions

– New definition of “Japanese whiskey” goes into effect to prevent fakes from fooling overseas buyers

Kickstarter/Crowd Funding news:

– GREGORY HORROR SHOW game and animation

Live-Action Anime news:

– Keanu Reeves Fighting for Revenge as Shadow in Sonic 3 Movie
– Sony’s Live-Action ‘One-Punch Man’ Film Reportedly Receiving Rewrite From ‘Rick & Morty’ Co-Creator Dan Harmon And Exec Producer Heather Anne Campbell

Theater Release news:

– Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence Anime Film Returns to North American Cinemas with 4K Restoration
– MAPPA Cancels Yuri on Ice: Ice Adolescence After 7 Year Wait

Series news:

Anime:
– Dead Dead Demon’s Dededede Destruction Anime Film Beams Down Part 2 Main Trailer
– Boys Idol Anime UniteUp! -Uni:Birth- Announced for January 2025
– No Longer Allowed in Another World Anime Adds Aoi Yuki and Mai Nakahara to Cast
– EGUMI LEGACY Card Game Gets Anime Adaptation
– The Magical Girl and the Evil Lieutenant Used to Be Archenemies Reveals New Trailer
– Plus-Sized Elf Anime Plumps Up in New Trailer
Games:
– Square Enix Director Considering Chrono Trigger Remake Possibilities
– Yuji Naka accuses Dragon Quest producer Yu Miyake of lying in court
– Respawn Confirms It Will Export Its Disordered Sexual Behavior Propaganda To Saudi Arabia With ‘Apex Legends’
   ∟Apex Legends won’t restrict LGBT+ cosmetics at Saudi Arabia event
– Stellar Blade Uncensored Across All Regions
– ‘Tomb Raider I-III Remastered’ Hit With Post-Release Censorship As New Update Removes Lara Croft Pin-Ups From ‘Tomb Raider III: The Lost Artefact’
   ∟Former Twitch Program Manager Brandii Hooker Claims The Yetis In ‘Tomb Raider I-III Remastered’ Are An Example Of “Associating Blackness With Monstrosity”
– Pokemon Let’s Go Eevee Approved For Import in China, But Not Let’s Go Pikachu
– Fan-Made Nintendo Network Replacement ‘Pretendo’ No Longer Requires Hacked Wii U
– Gamers seek legal win that would stop developers from rendering online games unplayable: ‘It is an assault on both consumer rights and preservation of media’
– Deck Nine devs accuse former CCO of ‘love bombing’, misconduct
– Pokemon GO Removes Genders, Adds Androgynous Avatar Options
   ∟They did this to placate non-binary people
      ∟Nikocado Avocado is the ideal beauty standard
         ∟Dawn becomes the Wall-E version of Dawn
            ∟Conspiracy Theorists proved right again
   ∟People are pissed
      ∟Circumgender
         ∟‘Pokémon GO’ Players Demand Niantic Reverse Newly Rolled Out Avatar Changes: “Why Y’all Make Everybody Ugly”
            ∟Women don’t need ugly avatars to feel included, men pretending to be women do
   ∟Sweet Baby Inc. Style Consultancy Firm GaymerX Consulted With Niantic Before Radical Gender & Avatar Changes Made In ‘Pokémon GO’

Release news:

– Right Stuf
– AnimEigo Town Hall happening tomorrow

Random Merch news:

– StealthWeeb.com
– OCAPodcast.com/store
– Studio Ghibli releases new action figures featuring Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind characters

Misc news:

– Real Estate Company Apologizes for Sexualized Ads
– Mississippi police officer accused of forcing prisoner to drink his own urine
– Urine Trouble: Lawsuit Claims Florida Hospital Served Urine Instead of Soup
– Hospital gives update after doctors carried out abortion on wrong woman

Watch Club:

Topics of discussion

Opening discussions:

– Answer #OCAPodcast questions
– OCA Podcast Patreon
– Anime Collector Patreon
– Support us Further
– Tenga

– Shohei Ohtani Found Innocent While Interpreter Pleads Guilty

– Japanese Population Drops by Another 595,000 People in Last Year
   ∟More Than Half Unmarried Men & Women 18 to 29 ‘Don’t Want Children’
      ∟68% of Japanese Feel That the Country Is in Decline
– Japanese Yen Hits 34-Year Low: ‘Cheaper Than the Philippines!’
   ∟The Bank of Japan ends negative interest rates
– BlackRock Is Big On Japan
– Japan is becoming more diverse. Will its government?
– Turkish groups are taking over Japan
   ∟Meanwhile, the national diet refuses to recognize them as a terrorist organization
      ∟Masamune Wada claims anti PPK tweets are propaganda
– Japan is also rejecting joining the WHO Pandemic Gloabl Health Accord
   ∟Japanese media won’t report on the 20,000+ people who marched against the pandemic pact
      ∟It is seemingly only the Sansei Party
– Japan high courts rule same-sex marriage ban unconstitutional
   ∟Head of transgender organization arrested for sexually assaulting woman
      ∟Meanwhile, Russia adds the LGBTQ movement to it’s terror watchlist
         ∟Injustice: How the Sex Offender Registry Destroys LGBT Rights
            ∟Tweet of shame

– Ontario resident who wants both a vagina and penis wins public funding for unique surgery
   ∟Court approves gender change for nonsterilized trans man in Japan
      ∟Japan planning to remove gender from My Number Cards

– Pickups

– IGN Tweeted about Isekai using an image of Fieren
   ∟People called them out
      ∟Isekai, the Popular Manga and Anime Genre, Is Now in the Oxford English Dictionary

Convention news:

– Fans angry as Crunchyroll trades Miku Expo hologram for flatscreen TV
   ∟Coachella fans crowded together to watch a hologram sing. It never showed up.
      ∟A virtual pop star appeared at her live concerts in just 2D — and fans are throwing fits
         ∟Gorillaz Hologram MTV Awards – Created by Musion Eyeliner

Live-Action Anime news:

– Live-Action Thus Spoke Rohan Kishibe Series Gets New Episode This May
– City Hunter Live-Action Film Releases Action-Packed Main Trailer

Streaming news:

– Roku Patent Explores Way to Show Console Players Ads When Games Are Paused
   ∟Is Virtual Product Placement TV’s Latest Disruptor?
– Marvel Animation’s Brad Winderbaum Rejects Claim ‘X-Men ’97’ Showrunner Beau DeMayo Was Fired
   ∟X-Men ’97 Morph Voice Actor Confirms He’s A Radical Queer Activist And Admits Show Is Trying To Normalize Disordered Sexuality
      ∟‘X-Men ’97’ Voice Actor Says Series Never Explicitly Refers To Morph As ‘Nonbinary’: “It’s Not That It Didn’t Exist; It Was Just In No Way A Mainstream Term”
         ∟Giant Freakin Robot begs people to get over themselves
            ∟Trans person identifies that if X-Men existed the left would hate them
               ∟Stop trying to colonize fandom and take it away from people you hate
            ∟Hollywood Director Argues ‘X-Men ’97’ Chose To Adapt ‘The Trial Of Magneto’ In Order To Take A Swing At “The MAGA Crowd”
            ∟They seriously lose their mind over fictional characters not being on their side
   ∟Also, they destroyed Rogue’s ass
      ∟And retconned her established powers for some recent bullshit
   ∟Rumor: Marvel Studios Wants To Follow ‘X-Men ’97’ With ‘Spider-Man: The Animated Series’ Revival
– Multiple Profiles Feature Coming to Crunchyroll Later This Month
– Twitch targets butt streamers with new policy banning “intimate body parts”
   ∟Of course they will at most get a 2 day suspension
      ∟This is okay on Twitch
   ∟Researchers uncover ‘pornification’ trend among female streamers on Twitch
– Johnny Somali Attacked & Arrested in Israel for Disrespecting Female Officer
   ∟Johnny Somali arrested and released after allegedly harassing woman in Israel

Theater Release news:

– Crunchyroll to Bring OVERLORD: The Sacred Kingdom Anime Film to Theaters in North America, Select International Regions

Series news:

Anime:
– Anime Brand Azuki and Dentsu Partner on 3-Part Anthology with Goro Taniguchi Producing
– Yuru Camp Season 3 Takes Away Aoi Inuyama Sex Appeal
– Jellyfish Can’t Swim in the Night Anime Reveals 6 Cast Additions
– Viral Hit Anime Streams Creditless Opening Video Ahead of April 10 Premiere
– Family BL Anime Tadaima, Okaeri Reveals Combined Key Visual
– Blue Archive The Animation Reveals New Trailer and Character Settings
   ∟Blue Archive The Animation Reveals Sensei’s Appearance
      ∟Sensei is LGBTphobic and Proud!
         ∟Is this account trustworthy?
            ∟Vladimir Putin is LGBTphobic and proud!
            ∟Sonichu is LGBTphobic and proud
   ∟Blue Archive Artist Apologizes After Being Accused of Using AI
– Rent-a-Girlfriend creator plays with AI art, fans conflicted
– Guinness World Records Names JUJUTSU KAISEN Most Popular Anime
Manga:
– Manga publisher TO Books will begin releasing AI translated manga
Games:
– BAFTA Poll Bizarrely Names ‘Tomb Raider’ Protagonist Lara Croft As The “Most Iconic Video Game Character Of All Time”
– ‘Tomb Raider: Shadows Of The Truth’ TTRPG Guidebook Confirms Crystal Dynamics Working To Apologize For Franchise’s “Colonialist” Origins
   ∟They are looking to escape the colonial past
      ∟But the thing is, the franchise is called “Tomb Raider”
   ∟Apparently all TTRPG’s are catering to disabled people
   ∟Melonie Mac decries the destruction of the franchise
– Rumor: Dead Space 2 remake canceled, EA denies it ever existed
– Compulsion Games Community Manager Katie Robinson Claims “I Hate Gamers” After Previously Claiming “White Male Gamers Were A Mistake”
   ∟More racist shit she said
      ∟More details about the train wreck SBI caused
         ∟Ginger Genocide Collage
– Putin orders Russian government to make their own video game console

Release news:

– Right Stuf
– $35,000 Anime Collection Demolished by Nine-Year-Old Child

Random Merch news:

– StealthWeeb.com
– OCAPodcast.com/store
– Legendary Pokémon Rayquaza evolves into a nagashi somen noodle delivery system
– Pokemon Yo-Yo Ice Cream Maker Announced for Japan
– Restore Your Mana with Delicious in Dungeon Anime-Inspired Craft Mandra Cola
– Golden Kamuy’s Koito Family Fly as Carp Streamers for Children’s Day in Japan
– Nagasaki Locals on Gandhi Statue Gifted From India: ‘But Why?’
– Man pleads guilty to theft of £4.8m gold toilet from Blenheim Palace
– Billionaire has own £160m race track built into side of mountain

Misc news:

– Male Worker Sent to HR for Sexual Harassment for Using ‘Heart Reacts’
– Old Man Uninjured After Being Stabbed Repeatedly in Back & Stomach
– Kochi Prefecture Panty Photographer: ‘I Wanted to Test Out My New Phone’
– Mugshot of woman who squeezed man’s balls ‘until they bled’ has horny blokes jealous

Watch Club:

Topics of discussion

Opening discussions:

– Could DEI actually stand for “Didn’t Earn It”?
   ∟Like clockwork people gaslight the term
      ∟They are a victim of their media
   ∟Why the Champions of Affirmative Action Had to Leave Asian Americans Behind
   ∟Boeing paid Alaska Airlines $160M in compensation after door plug incident, airline says
      ∟Flames erupt from United Airlines engine seconds after takeoff, terrifying video shows
         ∟‘Mayday, mayday’: Boeing plane catches fire after takeoff, makes emergency landing in Miami
   ∟Titanic tour CEO didn’t hire ‘50-year-old white guys’ because they weren’t ‘inspirational’
   ∟The Companies That Hate Their Customers
      ∟‘The Force is Female’ is not about Star Wars
         ∟Kathleen Kennedy planned this with Nike

– Answer #OCAPodcast questions
– OCA Podcast Patreon
– Anime Collector Patreon
– Support us Further
– Tenga

– Cyael’s incredible song
   ∟XBOX DEMANDS UGLY Women & SBIs Defenders Target Asmongold

– Vic Mignogna has partnered with Davidson & Co Talent Agency
   ∟Vic appears to have tagged the wrong Talent Agency
   ∟I found the correct agency
      ∟It’s run by this guy
         ∟And it is cringe

– Pickups
   ∟MarzGurl’s husband suggests how to make useless Marvel films useful

Kickstarter/Crowd Funding news:

– Godshard Chronicles: A Retro-Meets-Modern Action RPG
– Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes is charging shipping after the fact
– Mecha-Ude Anime Set for October 2024 Premiere in New Trailer

Convention news:

– Nintendo Event Threat Maker Caught in Ibaraki Prefecture
– Welcome To ErotikaLand, The Sex Theme Park With Penis-Shaped Bumper Cars

Live-Action Anime news:

– Sonic the Hedgehog 3 movie has wrapped up filming
   ∟There may be two new characters showing up
– Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo is getting a stage play!

Streaming news:

– Big West Announces Macross Franchise To Land Exclusively On Disney Plus, Hulu
   ∟Bandai Namco Confirms ‘Code Geass: Rozé of the Recapture’ For Global Release On Disney Plus
– Funimation is dead
   ∟They were the best and worst company
– Episodes of Anime from Crunchyroll’s Spring Season Leak Online Ahead of Official Premiere
– ‘Mobile Suit Gundam: Requiem for Vengeance’ Is Coming to Netflix
   ∟Antifa women character designs
      ∟They have the haircut
         ∟How they market it in Japan versus the West

Theater Release news:

– My Hero Academia You’re Next Film’s 2nd Teaser Video Introduces ‘Dark Might’ Villain
– ‘Ghostbusters’ Star Ernie Hudson Rejects Idea That Being Black Led To His Reduced Role In First Film, Says “It’s Very Tempting, Sometimes, To Blame Anything That Doesn’t Work In Your Life On Racism” But “It’s Not Quite That Simple”
   ∟Dwanye Johnson Admits Endorsing Joe Biden “Caused An Incredible Amount Of Division” In America, Says He Will Not Support Any Candidates This Upcoming Presidential Election

Series news:

Anime:
– ‘Re:Zero’ Anime Character Designer Confirms Liliana And Capella Censored In Season 3 Due To International Standards: “The Field Is Doing Its Best To Deliver The Best Possible Product Under The Many Restrictions”
   ∟The excuse seems flimsy at best
   ∟Other shows are putting out similar designs with no problem
   ∟They’re compensating with big titty Emilia
– Delicious in Dungeon Anime Reveals New Trailer and Visual
– Baki-Dou Arc Gets Anime Adaptation from TMS Entertainment
– MAPPA Minister Leaves to Create New Subculture Company Blue Rights
– Jujutsu Kaisen 0 Chief Animation Director: “Anime Bankruptcies Are Coming”
– Warner Bros. Japan to Produce Over 10 Anime Titles Per Year
   ∟Western companies are quick to jump on things and make them terrible
Manga:
– Attack on Titan’s Hajime Isayama, Voice Actor Yūki Kaji Create Manga 1-Shot
– Captain Tsubasa Manga’s Story to Continue in Storyboard Form
– LGBT Activists Threatening Publishers & Bookstores Over ‘Anti-Trans Book’
– Japanese Communist Party encourages members to report fanservice manga to the UN
   ∟UN picks Saudi Arabia to lead women’s rights forum despite ‘abysmal’ record
   ∟Vice News “documentary” that slandered anime/manga industry wins Emmy
   ∟Mother’s Basement applaud’s Ken Akamatsu
      ∟Oshii is problematic
         ∟Why is Oshii problematic?
            ∟Because he is BASED
Games:
– Arknights removes hand gesture associated with anti-LGBT feminist movement
   ∟Are the Nazis in the room right now?
– Microsoft Publishes New Inclusion Guide For Video Game Devs, Recommends Against Creating Female Characters With “Exaggerated Body Proportions”
   ∟Melody Preth – Don’t Touch Me There, This is My No-No Square
      ∟Stop, don’t touch me there.
   ∟Microsoft Recommends Game Developers Question If Female Characters Wear Proper Clothing And If Games Are “Reinforcing Any Negative Gender Stereotypes”
   ∟Bigs Smallson
   ∟How it started versus how it’s going
      ∟The Fable 4 Hero is a dude!!
      ∟Cortana over the years
         ∟Modern Halo They/Them
            ∟UN Approved Characters
   ∟Microsoft cautions developers to avoid making money
      ∟Pokémon Go takes the advice
         ∟They literally made the female model a dude
   ∟Modern Woman Lara Croft
   ∟Curvy Men Still Okay
– Kabrutus asks “Which way, Western man?”
   ∟IGN France Scrambles To Backpedal After Writing Off ‘Stellar Blade’ Protagonist Eve As “A Doll Sexualized By Someone Who Has Never Seen A Woman”
      ∟Walk cycle comparison
         ∟Journalists now claim Eve isn’t sexy enough
            ∟They now retroactively praise Bayonetta and Nier
               ∟They lost their shit when she was shown to be straight
            ∟Remember, it’s okay when we force it into She Hulk
            ∟They claim Lady Dimitrscu is sexier than Eve
               ∟This is an example of “Safe Horny”
                  ∟You can only be attracted to women who challenge gender norm
         ∟Yoko Taro’s reasoning for 2B being sexy was just “I like girls”
      ∟Shin Jae-eun was photoscanned
      ∟Shift-Up CEO is married to the concept artist
      ∟IGN France edited the website
         ∟The author’s clarification of the statement
      ∟IGN Apologizes To ‘Stellar Blade’ Developer Shift Up Corporation For Describing Game’s Protagonist Eve As “A Doll Sexualized By Someone You Would Think Has Never Seen A Woman”
         ∟IGN France Editor-in-Chief Erwan Lafleuriel Implies Eve’s Design In ‘Stellar Blade’ Is Killing Women And Accuses Gamers Of Becoming “Too Fragile Due To Being Fed The Patriarchy”
   ∟Which of the Following Has a Realistic Body Shape?_ MAXIM NEWS
      ∟Mexican Weather Girls Cosplay as Asuka
   ∟Stellar Blade Demo Gameplay Shows More Sexy Skin Suit Action
      ∟Engaging the skin suit disengages the shield
         ∟Technically it is skin-colored fabric
            ∟Hard mode activated
      ∟They know exactly what they’re doing
      ∟Stellar Blade gets playable demo in March
         ∟What are you waiting for?
      ∟Stellar Blade is the most downloaded demo in Playstation history
         ∟It’s also the most pre-ordered game in 30 countries
            ∟Stellar Blade is this year’s Hogwarts Legacy
         ∟‘Stellar Blade’ Director Rejects Microtransactions, Promises Game “Will Not Require Players To Spend Any Additional Money Beyond What They Paid For The Package”
            ∟New Game+ and free skin updates
– Government Broadcaster Radio-Canada Accuses ‘Sweet Baby Inc. Detected’ Steam Curator Group Creator Kabrutus Of Leading A “Cyberharassment Campaign”
   ∟BBC Gaming Presenter Jules Hardy Calls For Current Sweet Baby Inc. Discourse To End With A “Final Purge” Of Ideological Opponents From The Medium
      ∟The blonde-haired blue-eyed presenter calls for the final solution
         ∟Gamers really are the most oppressed group in the world
      ∟Children’s BBC Host Jules Hardy Calls For “Final Purge” Of Gamers After Boycott List Created For Consultants Black Girl Gamers
         ∟Grummz prevents her backpedaling
      ∟This is why we need to gatekeep our hobbies
– ‘Forspoken’ Consultant Black Girl Gamers Threatens Legal Action Against That Park Place And Claims They Are Committed “To Diversity And Inclusion, Including Our Non-Discriminatory Hiring Practices”
   ∟People started mocking their threat
   ∟YouTube cut Stuttering Craig’s stream while they were discussing BGG
      ∟A former member was kicked out for refusing to hate white people
         ∟They mobilized their community against Gothix and sent a cease & desist to That Park Place
            ∟The cease & desist
               ∟That Park Place’s response
   ∟Naturally, members of the cult can’t perceive criticism as anything but racism
      ∟The mask slips and people advocate for segregation
         ∟You don’t get to have it both ways
            ∟If white people can’t do it, black people can’t do it
               ∟When white people do it it’s racist
                  ∟It’s called the KKK
                  ∟The KKK being racist is the point
   ∟Black Girl Gamers destroyed Luminous Studios
      ∟Warner Brothers and Square Enix should be the ones suing
   ∟‘Forspoken’ Consultant Black Girl Gamers Appears To Discriminate In Their Hiring Practices While Claiming They Are Being Harassed
– Let’s talk about Irena Pereira and her experience at GDC
   ∟Seems she is right at home when this is what they discuss at GDC
   ∟She can’t help but virtue signal her hatred of white men
      ∟She and her company go protected
         ∟Let’s take a quick look at her website
            ∟Weird, nearly the whole company is white males
– Now let’s look at this not at all hostile tweet from the head of Marketing for XBox
   ∟Elon decries the statement as racist to white guys
      ∟Savvy asks a very important question
         ∟Non-white gamers are offended at the virtue signal
      ∟Niche Gamer felt the need to explain why they wouldn’t write an article about Elon’s tweet
         ∟Grummz offers sympathy
         ∟Vara offers NONE
         ∟Jeremy points out the tactical error
            ∟Niche Gamer claims they aren’t bending the knee
– Nintendo Treehouse Job Listing Asks for DEI Awareness
   ∟More things DEI could stand for
   ∟DEI Hiring is Racist
– How to make a Media Narrative

Release news:

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– Digimon Disc Error
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– Media OCD’s store is live
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– StealthWeeb.com
– OCAPodcast.com/store
– Digivices Updated With Color Screens for Digimon’s 25th Anniversary
– We try the free muscle bread distributed by macho dudes at a one-day, pop-up event in Tokyo
– Samurai armour bandage underpants let you channel the soul of a Sengoku warlord
– Chun-Li Statue Unveiled in Capcom Founder’s Hometown

Misc news:

– Bride feels ‘lied to’ after finding out her husband has a micropenis on their honeymoon
– Shocked doctor discovers 30-YEAR build-up of smegma under the foreskin of married man who was suffering agonising pain in his penis
– Naked driver crashes car after dropping acid with friend during ‘Kung Fu Panda’: Mayfield Heights Police Blotter

Watch Club:

Topics of discussion

Opening discussions:

– Answer #OCAPodcast questions
– OCA Podcast Patreon
– Anime Collector Patreon
– Support us Further
– Tenga

– Shohei Ohtani Interpreter Fired After Allegedly Stealing Millions for Illegal Gambling
   ∟Shohei Ohtani’s personal interpreter fired, accused of “massive theft” to pay off gambling debts
      ∟One of Shohei Ohtani’s endorsement deals looks pretty awkward right now

– Japanese government to make first change to romanization spelling rules since the 1950s

– Pickups
   ∟Ocarina of Time is based
      ∟The Temple of Time remains untouched by Ganon’s evil
         ∟Link is canonically Christian

– While Japan Begins To Reject ESG Investments, The Pokémon Company International Posts Job Listing For Director Of DEI & Social Responsibility

Kickstarter/Crowd Funding news:

– Godshard Chronicles: A Retro-Meets-Modern Action RPG

Convention news:

– Dragon Ball theme park, bigger than Tokyo Disneyland, announced, but not for Japan

Live-Action Anime news:

– Parasyte: The Grey Live-Action Series Shares Main Trailer, Key Visual

Streaming news:

– Disney+ to Stream Nearly All Macross Anime Worldwide in 2024
– Two Long-Lost ‘Astro Boy’ Episodes Have Been Restored And Are Airing In Japan

Theater Release news:

– GKIDS To Bring Quartet Of Mamoru Hosoda Films To U.S. Theaters After Acquiring The Director’s Full Studio Chizu Catalog
– Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy and the Heron Jumps 15 Places on Japanese All-Time Box Office After Oscar Win
– Gundam creator Yoshiyuki Tomino: Young animators must “crush” Hayao Miyazaki

Series news:

Anime:
– Dead Dead Demon’s Dededede Destruction Anime Film 2nd Part Pushed Back to May 24
– Sentenced to Be a Hero TV Anime Reveals Teaser Visual and Video
– Grisaia: Phantom Trigger TV Anime Scheduled to Premiere in 2024
– I’m a Behemoth Light Novels Get TV Anime
   ∟I’m a Behemoth, an S-Ranked Monster, but Mistaken for a Cat, I Live as an Elf Girl’s Pet TV Anime Announced
– You Are Ms. Servant TV Anime Premieres in October 2024
– Why Does Nobody Remember Me in This World? Anime Debuts in July 2024
– The Unwanted Undead Adventurer Anime Unveils New Visual Ahead of Episode 12
– Ishura Anime Announces Season 2 in Production
– Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World Season 3 Set for October 2024
   ∟Capella is censored
      ∟It’s the holocaust all over again
         ∟Emilia’s tits are huge now too
– ZENSHU. is MAPPA’s Next Original TV Anime
   ∟MAPPA Animator-Focused Original Show Zenshuu Quite Ironic
– KENGAN ASHURA Anime Season 2 Part 2 Reveals August 2024 Release, Teaser Trailer, Visual
– Baki Hanma vs Kengan Ashura
– Chinese State Broadcaster Airs Country’s First AI-Developed Animated Series
Manga:
– Dragon Ball Super enters indefinite hiatus
– Eiichiro Oda to Take Three-Week Break From One Piece Manga Chapter Releases in April

Games:
– China Man Arrested for Illegally Copying Game Music at Arcade Center
– Dragon’s Dogma 2 Players Are Planning an NPC Murder Spree to Boost the Frame Rate
   ∟Dragon’s Dogma 2 in Flames for Performance, DLC & DRM Issues
      ∟Make travel fun by paying for it!
      ∟There is no new game option
         ∟If you delete save it is bricked
      ∟The micro transactions are out of control
         ∟They may be hidden, but still unacceptable
      ∟The character creator is still pretty legit
         ∟Play as Mr. Satan
            ∟The King of Pop has come to free his people
               ∟Play as a crack whore
                  ∟Play as late-stage FDDNM
                     ∟You can even give them love handles
– PlayStation Laying Off 900 Across Insomniac, Naughty Dog, Guerrilla, And More, Closing London Studio
   ∟Sony shuts down Deviation Games before first game is released
      ∟Former PlayStation Boss Responds To Mass Layoffs In Gaming, Says Things Will Be “Fine”
– At the Game Developers Conference, the Games Industry Really Needed a Good Scream
   ∟The collective scream heard… just in that garden
      ∟“We’re in control!” screams game dev who is no longer in control
         ∟In reality, only 50 or so devs showed up to scream
      ∟Fealty to the cult must be sworn loudly and publicly
      ∟This all started because one person thought customers should know what they’re buying
   ∟Government-Owned Canadian Broadcasting Company Joins Sweet Baby Inc. Misinformation Campaign
   ∟Kotaku EIC Resigns Over New Editorial Edict
      ∟We Are Now Entering The “Animal Crossing Buttplug” Stage Of 2020
      ∟Contributors would rather quit than write guides
         ∟Good luck inserting politics into guides
            ∟The strategy is to ask for the impossible
               ∟If everyone quits, no severance pay!
      ∟Is this the article that did them in?
         ∟In reality, it is this bullshit
            ∟Of course Alyssa is convinced she’s the victim
               ∟I hope she can learn to code
                  ∟Nope, just gonna suck dick
      ∟Kotaku Owners G/O Media Reportedly Back Down From Fully Shifting Site From News To Guides After Editor-in-Chief Resigns, Staff Push Back
         ∟Alyssa has planned a revenge piece on Melanie Mac
            ∟And appears to have been given the greenlight to write the hit piece
               ∟Get ready for a lawsuit
   ∟EA’s ‘Marvel’s Black Panther’ Narrative Designer Responds After Video Resurfaces Of Her Bragging That Previous Title ‘ValiDate’ Had “No White People” On Dev Team: “I Had Fears Of Certain Treatment Towards My Marginalized Workers”
      ∟Curiously, she just deleted several Tweets
         ∟Associate Narrative Designer Working On ‘Marvel’s Black Panther’ Admits To Being A Racist While Accusing Gamers Of Racism And Saying You Can’t Be Racist To White People
            ∟She is doing a terrible job hiding who she is
   ∟Reflector Entertainment And Bandai Namco’s ‘Unknown 9: Awakening’ Added To Sweet Baby Inc. Detected List
   ∟Let’s revisit Flintlock
      ∟Report: Sweet Baby Inc. Ruined A44 Games’ ‘Flintlock: The Siege Of Dawn’ Race-Swapped Main Character And Made Other Significant DEI Changes
         ∟Put a chick in it and make her lame and gay
         ∟The ops manager for the studio had a meltdown
            ∟Of course she claimed harassment
               ∟She can’t spell preservation
               ∟She deleted her account
   ∟Video Game Developers Reportedly Make Characters Androgynous To Cater To Transgenderism
      ∟Naughty Dog made female characters less feminine to be trans friendly
      ∟Here is a wall of hideous characters
         ∟Game Developer Admits The Game Industry Is Making Games To Cater To LGBTQ+ Agenda
   ∟Why can’t you just ignore the super subtle woke shit?
      ∟Kind of hard when it is EVERYWHERE
         ∟Play as a deaf girl
            ∟Only attractive women are lesbians
               ∟The devs who claim their effort is for realism and authentic lived experiences can’t even get a flag right
   ∟Brianna Wu will decry female game characters for looking like hookers
      ∟Except when it comes to her own game of course
         ∟Remember, these are the people who clamor for real women representation in media

Release news:

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– Tokyo police arrest two men for theft of 4.98 million-yen Yu-Gi-Oh! card
– K-Pop Idol Apologizes for Enjoying Coca-Cola

Misc news:

– Woman Swindled Out of 900,000 Yen by Fake Astronaut
   ∟Women are so easy to manipulate
– Teen Brit gets USB cable stuck inside penis in bizarre ‘sexual experimentation’
– Man with one-inch penis opens up about life with a micropenis
– Adam Manikis: Man breaks his penis and blogs his way back to health: ‘It blew up like a Coke can’

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Topics of discussion

Opening discussions:

– Answer #OCAPodcast questions
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– Anime Collector Patreon
– Support us Further
– Tenga

– Austin St. John is monetizing Hitler
   ∟Original Red Power Ranger announces clothing line featuring quotes from famous ‘warriors’ including Hitler
      ∟Actor Who Played the Red Power Ranger Is Launching a Line of T-Shirts with Hitler Quotes?

– Cristina Vee accused of being a Zionist
   ∟People can’t believe it
      ∟Half the cast is allegedly Zionist
   ∟Don’t accuse people on flimsy evidence
      ∟What happened?
         ∟People harassed her on flimsy evidence
   ∟She deleted her Twitter over the allegations

– Pickups

– Investors in Japan Drain $4.5 Billion as They Exit ESG Funds
– Former Team Lead For World Of Warcraft Mark Kern Explains How ESG Influences Video Game Developers And How It Will Kill Them

Kickstarter/Crowd Funding news:

– Godshard Chronicles: A Retro-Meets-Modern Action RPG
– Original ‘G.I. Joe’ Animated Series Creator And ‘Transformers: The Movie’ Writer Ron Friedman Launches Emergency GoFundMe To Pay For Cancer Treatments, Living Expenses

Convention news:

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Live-Action Anime news:

– Live-Action City Hunter Film Releases Teaser Trailer Featuring Ending Theme by TM NETWORK

Streaming news:

– Cat’s Eye is on YouTube
   ∟Seems they missed episode 56
– ‘X-Men ’97’ Showrunner Beau DeMayo Gets The Boot From Marvel Studios Just Days Before Series’ Premiere, Deletes Social Media Accounts In Response
   ∟‘X-Men: The Animated Series’ Creators Defend Decision To Make Morph Nonbinary In ‘X-Men ’97’: “The Word ‘Nonbinary’ Is The Same As The Word ‘Shapeshifter’”
– ‘Shōgun’ Isn’t Likely to Get a Second Season
   ∟Where Are The Black People in ‘Shogun’?
      ∟In Harlem of course
         ∟This is what they want to see
            ∟Japan was 95% black before the nuke
               ∟Sideways katana
            ∟It’s AI generated
               ∟Lack of culture must be filled with someone else’s
            ∟This is the ‘cultural appropriation’ crowd
               ∟It’s absolutely hopeless
            ∟This is what I want to see

Theater Release news:

– Gina Carano on Getting Sacked From Star Wars and Her Grudge Match With Disney
   ∟All you had to do was bend over backwards and suck the girl cock
      ∟The devil makes the easy way out appetizing

Series news:

Anime:
– Space Battleship Yamato 2205 2-Part Film Project Gets TV Version in May
– My Deer Friend Nokotan Anime Adaptation by WIT Studio Announced for July 2024
– Studio Colorido Announces Original Anime Film My Oni Girl for May 2024 Release
– Plus-Sized Elf Anime Round Out the Cast With Three New Roles Revealed
– Welcome to Japan, Ms. Elf! TV Anime Says Hi to Main Cast in First Teaser Trailer, Visual
– Black Butler -Public School Arc- TV Anime Unveils New Key Visual
– Viral Hit Anime Punches in April 10 Premiere, New Visual and Trailer
– Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest Anime’s Teaser Reveals Cast, Staff, July Debut
– A Journey Through Another World: Raising Kids While Adventuring TV Anime Reveals 1st Trailer, July 2024 Debut
– I May Be a Guild Receptionist, but I’ll Solo Any Boss to Clock Out on Time Anime Reveals 2024 Premiere, Main Staff
– DAN DA DAN Anime Goes UFO Hunting in New Trailer, Key Visual
– The Strongest Magician in the Demon Lord’s Army was a Human TV Anime Reveals New Trailer and More
Manga:
– Psycho-Pass Anime Writers Makoto Fukami, Ryō Yoshigami Launch New Manga with Psycho-Pass Manga Artist Natsuo Sai on March 26
Games:
– Japanese Gamers Prefer Realistic Environments, Says Sega
– LGBTQ+ Activists Accuse ‘Helldivers 2’ Developers Of Silencing Them After They Attempted To Push Propaganda Into Game
   ∟It would be like an American flag in Hyrule
– ‘Dead By Daylight’ Voice Actor Demands Reparations And Accuses Developer Behavior Interactive Of Tricking Him Into “Voicing A Stereotype”
   ∟People are perpetuating the lie
   ∟Take a look at the animations
   ∟Looks like the monster
   ∟Ricky Berwick got in on the discourse
      ∟Ricky was the model’s inspiration
– Regulate toxic online video games the same as social media
   ∟Let’s look at Pancaked Brick’s breakdown
      ∟Let’s start by looking at the author
         ∟Their gravest concern is that someone other than them is involved in community organizing
            ∟They claim gaming culture is toxic
               ∟Most of all, they despise your freedom of speech and privacy
                  ∟Video games cause violence
                     ∟Roblox birthed the new Hitler
                        ∟Letting people have autonomy is too dangerous
                        ∟Abolish privacy
                           ∟Save the children
                              ∟Governments are starting to get involved
                                 ∟6 eighth graders face criminal charges over ‘hateful and racist’ online chat: DA
         ∟The root of the problem is right there
                                 ∟Let’s boycott the oganizations who want to suppress freedom of speech
   ∟DHS and FBI Aim To Target Gamers in Misguided Fight Against Domestic Terrorism
      ∟This will lead to a renaissance of single player games
         ∟Note that gamers are more dangerous than military-aged men flooding the border
   ∟US Government-Funded Non-Profit ‘Take This’ Responds To Sweet Baby Inc. Backlash By Calling On Video Game Industry “To Clearly And Unequivocally Denounce Gamergate”
      ∟They are going after “lore developers” to ensure they don’t radicalize
         ∟DHS to Spend Almost $700,000 Investigating ‘Radicalization in Gaming’
      ∟Why are Valve and Discord permitting harassment against Sweet Baby Inc.?
         ∟If they can’t cancel you, they will put pressure on those who could cancel you
            ∟Mark Kern holds a mirror up to that behavior
   ∟Vara recaps the timeline for GamerGate 1 becoming GamerGate 2
      ∟Someone simplified it
         ∟The ADL tries to pressure congress
            ∟Israel is desperate to control narratives
               ∟They have a real problem
   ∟Kabrutus noticed the government connections are starting to get scrubbed
      ∟Extremism and Gaming Members page completely yeeted
         ∟They are trying to hide the common thread of people across these funding groups
      ∟They have also altered their mission statement (Mandate)
      ∟Let’s look at some of these connections
   ∟Elon Musk Describes Sweet Baby Inc. As “An Evil Blight On The Gaming Industry” After Employee Attempts To Cancel Asmongold
      ∟SBI should build their own games instead of hijacking established brands
         ∟Of course they can’t which is why they don’t
      ∟All attempts have failed
         ∟But they still only fail upwards
            ∟Dani Lalonders won’t hire white people
               ∟Mark Kern points out there are illegal hiring practices going on all over the industry
                  ∟She also worked for Sweet Baby Inc. for 8 months
                     ∟Confirmed by her LinkedIn
         ∟Someone claims GamerGaters have just advertised ValiDate
            ∟Only 3 peak players though…
         ∟Ex-Sweet Baby Inc. Employee And Current EA’s ‘Marvel’s Black Panther’ Narrative Designer Seen Proudly Bragging That Previous Title ‘ValiDate’ Had “No White People” On Dev Team
            ∟Hilariously, the white character they put in is the most popular character
               ∟They disavow people giving attention to the white character
                  ∟You only like white characters because of bias
                     ∟Both the white guy AND his mom are the biggest thirst traps
                        ∟Players blame the devs for even adding white characters
                           ∟They can’t handle that people like the white characters
                              ∟Many people of color are important
   ∟The pitfall of modern advertising
      ∟Indie games will overtake AAA
   ∟‘Forspoken’ Consultant Black Girl Gamers Appears To Discriminate In Their Hiring Practices While Claiming They Are Being Harassed
   ∟Richie de Wit promises to destroy employees that call out DEI policies
      ∟He founded a company to consult for inclusivity
         ∟They are admitting to what we are accusing them of doing
            ∟Game Developer Consultant Richie de Wit Promises To Destroy Careers Of Video Game Company Employees If They Call Out DEI Policies
               ∟And they are sinking money and resources into nonsense
   ∟The return of Gamer gate is smaller and sadder
      ∟So why do they need to send the entire fleet?
         ∟We have only grown since GamerGate 1.0
            ∟Sweet Baby Inc Detected has reacheed 300,000 people
      ∟The author avoided including a timeline becuase it would prove Kabrutus right
   ∟Kabrutus has continued adding additional games
   ∟GDC is going on this week
      ∟I’m sure the agenda will be no different from 2017
         ∟15% of GDC is scheduled for DEI
– Stellar Blade Eve Practically Naked in Sexy Skintight Costume
   ∟Who knew ladders could be sexy?
   ∟Korea is singlehandedly undoing GamerGate
      ∟Vindictus: Defying Fate brings the physics
      ∟The First Descendant brings the diversity we want
         ∟The planet is healing
            ∟Doing God’s work
      ∟They are gorgeous
         ∟Single player games are the way
– PlayStation gamers reportedly losing access to purchased games via serious bug

Release news:

– Exclusive: Kodansha Reveals Cover for ‘Ashita no Joe: Fighting for Tomorrow’
– Right Stuf

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– StealthWeeb.com
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– Rogue Figure
– Where’d those amazing Godzilla shoes seen at the Academy Awards come from, and can you buy them?

Misc news:

– Man rushed to hospital after squeezing himself into 11 penis rings

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