Anime Expo and San Diego Comic Con happened as per the annual July tradition, and with them comes a ton of news we need to talk about. From major licensing acquisitions to remarkable industry achievements, this episode runs the gamut of every monumental piece of news to come out of this month. With the sheer quantity of things to talk about, we’re lucky this episode didn’t run four hours long like our previous news-focused episode did!


PODCAST BREAKDOWN:


00:22 - Intro & LumRanmaYasha’s Brief AX Report


04:00 - June 2018 Bookscan list

9:10 - Dr. Stone popularity poll

18:45 - Comico cancels Recovery of an MMO Junkie due to author’s health

19:55 - Sweetness and Lightning ends

21:07 - Dorohedoro ends in September

22:42 - Kengen Ashura ends in August

24:07 - Citrus ends in August

25:10 - Atsuo Ueda launches Fairy Tail sequel

26:28 - Comixology offers first American comic to be simulpublished in Japan

28:57 - Comixology debuts BECK and Seven Shakespeares manga from Harold Sakuishi

31:05 - Fantagraphics licenses Moto Hagio’s The Poe Clan

32:32 - Media Do licenses Baki

38:33 - Drawn & Quarterly to publish collected works of Yoshiharu Tsuge

41:45 - Udon Licenses FLCL art book & Mega Man X manga

43:23 - Dark Horse licenses Elfen Lied

46:31 - Crunchyroll Manga AX licenses

48:31 - J-Novel Club’s AX licenses & Announcements

57:50 - Kodansha USA AX licenses

1:06:50 - Seven Seas AX Licenses

1:14:26 - Yen Press AX Licenses

1:27:55 - Viz Media AX & SDCC Announcements

1:42:42 - Rumiko Takahashi inducted into the Eisner Hall of Fame

1:45:40 - My Brother’s Husband wins an Eisner

1:47:30 - Otakon to host Shoji Kawamori

1:49:10 - Studio Trigger launches Patreon

1:51:28 - Kill la Kill: IF game news

1:53:05 - Ichigo, Rukia, & Aizen join Jump Force

1:55:10 - New Anime Song Streaming Service AniUta!

1:56:40 - Sunrise is making a live-action Gundam film

1:57:45 - Children of the Sea gets a movie

1:59:45 - Final Evangelion film finally has a release date

2:00:57 - Dragon Ball Super film is about BROLY, will debut in U.S. theatres in January

2:04:22 - MHA movie opens in the US in September

2:05:41 - I Want to Eat Your Pancreas will get theatrical screenings in the US

2:06:46 - 2nd Heaven’s Feel film screens in the US in 2019

2:07:26 - Fireworks grosses over 500,000 dollars in U.S. theatrical run

2:08:56 - Attack on Titan’s theatrical screening earnings

2:10:56 - Attack on Titan Season 3 premieres on Toonami on August 18th

2:11:15 - Bungo Stray Dogs gets season 3

2:12:42 - Crunchyroll Expo to premiere Rising of the Shield Hero anime

2:14:08 - Anime Fest @ NYCC

2:16:48 - Wrap-Up

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On our next episode we’ll be discussing the classic Shonen Jump manga Shaman King by Hiroyuki Takei, celebrating its 20th anniversary! We’ll be joined once again by Maxy Barnard, who considers Takei’s magnum opus one of his all-time favorite manga! If you have any Shaman King-related comments, questions, or discussion topics you’d like us to talk about, please send them our way either in the comments below, in our Discord server, commenting in the Manga Mavericks thread on Animation Revelation, tweeting them to us, or by sending an e-mail to mangamavericks@gmail.com! And as always, thanks for listening!