Episode 191 – Fire Drill (Anime Expo 2025)

Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful trip - that started from this tropic port aboard this tiny ship. Xander was a mighty sailin' man, and Andrew brave and sure. Jet and Joe set sail that day for a three hour tour, a three hour tour.

Anime Expo happened and that means our adventure to all that happened in Los Angeles that weekend, of which there was plenty of good and even a bit of smoke going off early - don't worry, everyone's fine, it's just one of those mechanical issues that tend to come up. And from this year's AX, we'll be talking about plenty of interesting manga license pickups, some cool new show announcements aside from the BIG news of Cyberpunk Edgerunners 2 which... WILD, and Gigguk is doing a thing too. Cool. But there was other cool things that happened before and after AX that deserve to be talked about, like the new dub initiative for Detective Conan, a really fun world record tying into one character's speech going LUDICROUS SPEED, the return of Rie Matsumoto in the director's chair, a surprise theatrical run for... Tokyo Ghoul... okay... and one more trip to France with a few cool things happening at Japan Expo - and yes, this show IS a three hour tour, once again. Enjoy the fun shenanigans all around.

PRODUCER'S NOTE: This show was a PAIN to put together, from sync issues to trying to cut out a lot of background noise to trying to make this show not be longer than 3 hours, but the biggest issue happened late in the show where Jet's microphone got disconnected while we were talking about the new Fist of the North Star series being announced. The entire segment had to be cut, we'll make up for it next time.

intro - the NEW Panty & Stocking dub situation is crazy 11:52 - pre-AX/post-AX news announcements (Detective Conan new dub, 100 Girlfriends world record, Rie Matsumoto returns, Tokyo Ghoul back in theaters… for some reason) 49:29 - Japan Expo 2025 (Anime Limited, Junji Ito, Moyoco Anno/Khara) 57:44 - Anime Expo Day 1 (Gigguk anime, GATE blockchain thing, Yen Press) 1:38:53 - AX Day 2 (Cyberpunk Edgerunners 2, Kodansha, Titan Manga, N LITE, Manga Mavericks) 2:20:26 - AX Day 3 (Viz, Netflix, Square Enix, Crunchyroll) 2:57:25 - wrap-up

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