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:
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
AC’s Funhouse
AC’s Funhouse
– The Nazis adored it; the Japanese commercialised it – now we’re all trapped in the cult of cute
– 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
– Paqui’s One Chip Challenge Pulled From Stores After Teen’s Death
– Dick Amnesia Is a Real Thing
– Does Guile’s Street Fighter video game crouching block work in real life?
– Mr. Sato appears in a French photo album without his consent, goes mad with desire for vengeance
– Netflix being sued for $2 billion by Egyptians for ‘distorting the image’ of Cleopatra in new doc
– Tokyo capsule toy machine gives you real samurai-era antique coins, but are they worth anything?
– Hot spring offers people of all ages chance to participate in Japanese school-style sports day
– “Get them drunk then chop off their heads.” Samurai’s assassination plot against U.S. envoys found
– “Android” arrested for rice ball theft in Japan, Android Woman denies involvement
– Why do people spend so long in jail without going to trial in Japan?
– Little Kuriboh accused of pedophilia by proxy
∟I was approached to talk about this during the Daman Mills coverage
∟Ex-Girlfriend
∟Ex-Girlfriend’s Friend
∟Kirbopher’s Apology Post