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 […]
Posts Tagged ‘animenext’

#621: “Weird Al” Wasn’t Referring to the Snow


AnimeNext 2024 was canceled, the Funimation app shut down as the Crunchyroll app took over, and the loss of digital “purchases”. Also, a man was sentenced to a year in prison over threats against a voice actor, the Knuckles live-action series spinoff gets a trailer and streaming date, and Trigun manga delayed until fall?! Meanwhile […]

#594: Many Pizza Slices Were Had.


DJ Ranma S summarizes the AnimeNEXT chaos, so you don’t want to miss that! Also, PGSM veteran Keiko Kitagawa cast as Sailor Cosmos in the new Sailor Moon Cosmos film, a voice actor claims Crunchyroll blocked auditions to reprise anime role in a video game, and a man hired to steal 1500 Pokémon cards was arrested. Plus, the live-action One Piece trailer […]

#540: Freaking Tuesday Man…


Our Zenkaikon episode is delayed, many apologies to our fans… And given how today has been in NYC, we’re gonna keep it chill… So we’re discuss the AnimeNEXT debacle, Sailor Moon on ice, Funimation‘s YouTube rebranding, Sonic The Hedgehog 2 movie hits high numbers, and updates on The Dirty Pair Kickstarter! Meanwhile in Japan, the return of Takeshi’s Castle, a man is attacked while feeding […]

Episode 408 : Semi-Delayed Observance.


On tonight’s show… Listen to our thoughts on CloverCon and Nezumi Con 2019! Then we discuss the latest fallout from AnimeNEXT, the delay of Sonic The Hedgehog live action film, thoughts on Dragon Ball: Evolution from a former Dragon Ball editor… Funimation sued over a patent infringement, a winner in Uniqlo‘s contest disqualified, and blessed be, season 2 of Aggretsuko! Meanwhile in Japan, man claims he […]