A new piracy bill has been backed by Netflix, Disney, and Sony, the Japan Fair Trade Commission to investigate anime studio abuse, and rock band the pillows disbands! Also, Kyoto Animation – 京都アニメーション arsonist withdraws appeal, Anime Tourism Association releases 2025 list of sites that fans should visit, and BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment opens first US interactive store! Meanwhile in Japan, Osaka to ban smoking on its streets and the newest maid cafe has an age limit for its maids, 65?!
Derpycon 2024: A Satisfying Con Season Finale
Cinnaknight wraps up the 2024 anime con season with a review of Derpycon 2024!


Shenanicon 2024: A Fiery Fusion Dance of Old and New!
Shenanicon, had its inaugural 21+ anime convention in Parsippany, New Jersey– a brand new event for adults with a nostalgic spin!


Kogaracon 2024: Short and Sweet!
Kogaracon is a New Jersey Anime Convention which offers an Asian Food Fest and good quality panels. Cinnaknight talks about this short yet sweet day!



Episode 662: It Was Already like This When I Got Here


Crunchyroll confirms limited credentials posted, but no breach was discovered, an anime producer becomes new Fuji Television president, and BAND-MAID to release music video for a song used in a new anime opening! Also, TOKYOPOP contributes to voice actors lost homes in LA wildfires, Cells at Work live-action grosses over 5 billion yen, Square Enix Tokyo cafe to shut down, and an anime studio merger leads to one being dissolved! Meanwhile in Japan, a 71-year-old robs 63 houses and treats strangers to sushi just to look cool, and a woman causes 8 separate traffic accidents in 35 minutes!

#661: In 2025, the Country Resembles Shoto Todoroki.


Happy 2025! The staff is back from their well-deserved break and they’re ready to go! On this week’s show… It’s the end of an era, AnimeNEXT is on indefinite hiatus, and the AJS staff is tea-ready! Also, crowdfunding was launched for Mike McFarland’s brain surgery, and Crunchyroll dropped a new manga app! Plus, Japan sets its inaugural music awards event, BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment to release a Gundam tabletop miniature game, and the Godzilla card game will be simultaneously released in Japanese and English! Meanwhile in Japan, a bear breaks into a home to spend winter as a human, a monkey grabs a jogger and gives chase for hundreds of meters, a man is fired for going to the gym, and a collaboration of the glasses-wearing boys!

Derpycon 2024: A Satisfying Con Season Finale


Derpycon returned to the Hyatt Regency New Brunswick this year and I arrived Friday afternoon via taxi. Cosplayers and fashionable attendees already walked around with their con badges clipped onto shirts or dangling on lanyards.
I went into this weekend feeling tired but ready! Anime Jam Session went to Another Anime Con the week prior. I made a point to have extra espresso that morning. For me, cons truly start with friends and…caffeine. I already had the coffee but friends would soon follow.

#660: See You In 2-3 Weeks, It’s the 2025 Christmas Show!


Join DJ Ranma S, Mako-chan, BerryMelon, WildSpice, and Koibug for their yearly get-together of good times and merry cheer! Then we look through the articles and share some interesting stories such as a man who has eaten at the same restaurant for over 1800 days in a row, a city painting its streets yellow to discourage prostitution, not paying for a date may be seen as domestic violence by the government, Ghibli Park puts up Christmas trees and decorations, and invites fans to “come search for Christmas”, and Pokémon to get the Claymation treatment via Wallace and Gromit‘s home studio! Plus Ask the Anime Jam Session Staff!