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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:

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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

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