Topics of discussion
Opening discussions:
– Answer #OCAPodcast questions
– OCA Podcast Patreon
– Anime Collector Patreon
– Support us Further
– Tenga
– Pickups
– Photoshop Terms of Service grants Adobe access to user projects for ‘content moderation’
∟Adobe owns your entire business
∟They can sell your work
∟Meanwhile, this is what happens when company’s have a backdoor into your data
– Microsoft announces AI app that remembers everything you see and do
– Akihabara Otaku Culture Slowly Fading Away
– This six-year-old Japanese girl is school’s one and only first-grader as lack-of-kids shutdown ends
– Eiko Masuyama the voice of Fujiko, Cutie Honey, dies at 89
– Japanese mayor suddenly speaks fluent English with AI video that surprises even him
Kickstarter/Crowd Funding news:
– The First Music Album Manga – Dray X Fujimura
– Blast ‘Em Up Kickstarter
Convention news:
– Vic is going to a signing event at Little Lions Collectibles
∟The usual suspects are already trying to cancel the venue
∟MVP Collects
∟Little Lions Collectibles
– Meanwhile, Daman Mills is a guest of (dis)honor at Anime Expo
∟His accuser had this to say recently (completely unrelated… probably)
– Re:Zero Anime’s 3rd Season Unveils More Cast, Theme Song Artists, 90-Minute 1st Episode With Theatrical Run
∟Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 3 Anime Reveals New Trailer, Visual and Cast
Live-Action Anime news:
– Sexy Tanaka-san Investigation Reveals Lack of Trust
– Live action Voltes V getting compilation film in October
– Amazon Green-Lights Live-Action ‘Yakuza’ Series ‘Like A Dragon’, Taps ‘Kamen Rider Drive’ Star To Play Kiryu Kazuma
Theater Release news:
– ‘Ghost In The Shell’ Celebrates 35th Anniversary With New Anime Project, Updated 4K Restoration Of ‘Ghost In The Shell 2: Innocence’
– GKIDS Acquires Theatrical, Home Video Rights to DAN DA DAN Anime
Series news:
Anime:
– Original Anime Film A Few Moments of Cheers Shares Second Video, Audience Gifts
– Why Does Nobody Remember Me in This World? Anime Debuts on July 13
– VTuber Legend: How I Went Viral after Forgetting to Turn Off My Stream Anime Debuts on July 7
– Plus-Sized Elf Anime Rounds Out the Cast with New Key Visual
– Original Anime MAYONAKA PUNCH Premieres July 8
– Ubel Blatt Anime Adds Voice Actor Yuya Hirose as Main Character Koinzell
– Code Geass: Rozé of the Recapture Anime Reveals New Key Visual, Trailer for Part 3
– The Girl Downstairs Donghua Japanese Dub Reveals Premiere Date, Visual and Trailer
– Spy×Family Anime Gets 3rd Season
– My Wife Has No Emotion Anime Brings the Love in Wedding Illustration
– The Elusive Samurai Anime Hits Japanese Airwaves on July 6
– Theatre of Darkness: Yamishibai Season 13 Anime Begins on July 14
– Hazure Skill “Kinomi Master” Light Novel Series Gets Anime Adaptation
– Anime Studio Orange to Adapt Scott Westerfeld’s Leviathan Novels
– Voice Actor-Helmed TV Show Modern Mistranslation Begins Broadcasting July 6
– Anime Studio Gainax Files for Bankruptcy
∟Studio Khara is transferring rights
∟AnimEigo is re-releasing Otaku no Video
Manga:
– Prosecutors drop charges against man who assaulted co-worker over Oshi no Ko spoilers
– Kadokawa Launches Masterpiece Comics Label to Adapt Classic Literature
– Japan Association of Translators condemns A.I. manga translation
– Manga publisher is remaking classic series Eiken with AI
– Voice Actor Yūki Kaji Counters Unauthorized AI Cover Songs by Offering Official Voice Synthesis Software
Games:
– Xbox Game Pass adds The Callisto Protocol, Octopath Traveler 2, more
– The First Descendant launches in July
– Also check out Blades of Time
– Mobile Suit Gundam Teams Up with Call of Duty for New Collaboration
∟Call of Duty’s Gundam crossover looks really weird (if you can read Japanese)
– Activision Blizzard Releases Free Pride Month Weapon Skin Bundle For ‘Call Of Duty’, New Cosmetics Include Transgender Flag Cover For Bullets
∟Now you can coordinate your mass shooter outfit
– Ikea will pay 10 Roblox players to roleplay as employees in its virtual store
– Princess Maker 2 Regeneration on PS5 & PS4 Delayed Due to ‘Content Changes’
– Eiyuu Densetsu: Sen no Kiseki Northern War English Translation Flubbed
– Fans upgraded the PC version of Silent Hill 2
∟Comparisons
– Alan Wake II got a physical release
– FBI, DHS Partner with Gaming Companies to Fight “Extremist Gamers”
Release news:
– Imaizumi Brings All the Gals to His House Manga and More Join Seven Seas Lineup
– Voltes V gets an HD remaster
– Discotek is color grading Macross II
∟Nostalgia filter engaged
∟David is not amused
– Right Stuf
Random Merch news:
– StealthWeeb.com
– OCAPodcast.com/store
– SPY x FAMILY Anime Inspires Cozy Outfits Modeled on the Forger Family
– Japan unveils world’s first chu-hai with fresh lemon slice in can so every drink tastes different
– Japanese spoon puts electrical field in your mouth to trick you into tasting salt, now on sale
– Gunpla Scalper: ‘You Should Thank Us, Actually!’
– ‘We Got Ripped Off’: Bluey Day Event Ends in Disaster With Disappointing Meet and Greet
Misc news:
– Man stabbed with Legend of Zelda Master Sword in serious condition
– Loaded Rocket Launcher Found on Fukuoka Riverbed
– Police robot told woman to go away after she tried to report crime – then sang a song
– 18-year-old charged with overturning port-a-potty, trapping a mom and her daughter inside
– Man who went THREE months without a bowel movement had hardened waste stuck in his colon
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
– 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