#fall simulcasts

[treecakes]

can’t wait to HEAR yorishima….

[yurimother]

Yuri Anime 'Whisper Me a Love Song' Announce April 13 Debut; HIDIVE to Simulcast

Last Friday, an announcement posted to the official website for the upcoming television anime adaptation of Eku Takeshima's Whisper Me a Love Song (Sasayaku You ni Koi o Utau) revealed that the series will premiere on April 13. Additionally, on Wednesday, Sentai Filmworks announced that it has licensed the anime and will stream the anime internationally on HIDIVE.

Whisper Me a Love Song follows first-year high school student Himari Kino, who, at a welcome ceremony, witnesses Yori Asanagi singing and instantly falls in "love." She immediately confesses her admiration to Yori, who misinterprets Himari's feelings as romantic. However, once she realizes her mistake, Yori swears that she will make Himari fall for her for real.

The release date announcement also included a new key visual (above) and information about the opening and ending themes. Whisper Me A Love Song's opening theme, "Follow your arrows," is performed by the fictional band SSGIRLS from the anime and sung by Kana Sasakura, who provides the singing voice for main character Yori Asanagi.

Sentai Filmworks will simulcast the anime exclusively on HIDIVE in North America, Australia, the the British Isles. The North American premiere will be screened at Anime Boston 2024 on March 29.

The anime, which was delayed from its initially announced January premiere, is directed by Akira Mano at Cloud Hearts and Yokohama Animation Laboratory. Mano replaced the initially announced director, Xin Ya Cai, due to "health reasons." Character designer Minami Yoshida and script supervisor Hiroki Uchida join Mano.

The anime stars Hana Shimano as Himari Kino and Asami Seto as Yori Asanagi. Additional cast includes:

Konomi Kohara as Mari Tsutsui

Mikako Komatsu as Aki Mizuguchi

Ai Kakuma as Kaori Tachibana

Yuna Nemoto as Shiho Izumi

Reina Ueda as Momoka Satomiya

Chika Anzai as Hajime Amasawa

Aoi Koga as Miki Mizuguchi

Ichijinsha serializes the original manga in Ichijinsha's Comic Yuri Hime. Kodansha USA publishes the manga in English and will release the eighth volume on March 26.

Sources: Official Anime Website, HIDIVE Press Release

[luckystarchild]

STOP SHARING THIS TWEET.

This is 99.99% likely to be fake. As someone who works in the anime industry, let me tell you why.

This has been sent to me dozens of times over the past few days, and it's pretty obvious to me that it's fake.

I work in the anime industry. Here's why I don't put any stock in this "official" announcement at all.

1. THE 'SOURCE' IS A TOTAL RANDO

The source is a random Twitter/X account. It isn't a studio or licensor. It's not even one of the "reputable" leakers. It's just some random person making a claim with zero backing and slapping the words "official" and "confirmed" on it.

Accurate leaks have happened, but they're usually accompanied by some kind of source claim (a leaked press release, a leak within the company, etc.) and a claim that an announcement is coming soon. This has nothing. This is just a random person saying shit for clicks.

Every one of their posts has "FOLLOW FORE MORE" in a subtweet. They're just farming for followers. The rest of the account is just random anime edits and posts + promotions for a discord they run.

I could literally write anything in a tweet and slap "OFFICIAL, CONFIRMED" on it, but if you see those words, you need to be asking, "Who confirmed it? What makes this official?" And in this case, it's NOTHING and NOBODY in the world of anime.

Media literacy, folks. It applies to Twitter/X. It ESPECIALLY applies to Twitter/X.

2. THIS 'SOURCE' DOESN'T UNDERSTAND THE ANIME INDUSTRY

"Studio has not been announced" is a WILD thing to suggest here, because YYH's rights are LITERALLY OWNED BY AN ANIME STUDIO. Studio Pierrot is still a license-holder for this IP, and it would be weird as hell for them to not handle a remake.

(Also, "studio not announced"... NOTHING has been announced. The wording here is very sneaky, as it implies an announcement was made but the studio was just left out of it. If an announcement had been made, it would be Pierrot/the studio/Shueisha doing it.)

Not only has Pierrot made animated content for the series as recently as the 2018 OVAs, their copyright info is on literally every piece of YYH merch being produced this year (alongside Shueisha and Togashi). They still have some rights. They (in part) hold the IP. They still make art for it. They will be the studio for any remake unless they willingly let go of that license. Considering they're still making money off of it through merch sales and the liveaction adaptation (tho that's another can of licensing worms we could discuss), that's highly, HIGHLY unlikely.

The likelihood of Pierrot letting some other studio handle the remake is very, VERY slim. It's one of their hallmark, legendary series. Why would they ever let that go to a competitor?

The "studio hasn't been confirmed" bit tells me this person doesn't know who actually owns the rights to YYH, and when they don't even know that basic piece of information, it puts everything else they say into question.

3. THE TIMING IS SUSPICIOUS

Anime series are in production long before they air. How long in advance depends on the project. You can't keep a lid on a high profile project for an extended period. For big projects, studios want to start the hype train sooner rather than later. (Obviously there are exceptions to this (see the Fruits Basket remake) but we'll get to that later.)

This tweet claims the project is coming out in 2024. We are at the VERY TAIL END of 2023. It is basically 2024 already. That tweet isn't an official announcement (despite the word "official" on it), which means the studio/license holder would have to announce it even LATER than this tweet did. The latest anime seasonals begin airing in Q4/October/the Fall Simulcast season. That gives Pierrot less than a year of lead-up time to market the anime before its latest possible air date in 2024, and for this particular property, that does not seem realistic OR wise.

Let's examine Pierrot's recent treatment of the latest Bleach installment as evidence. They announced the project in March 2020 via a livestream event. They began airing the project in October 2022, MORE THAN TWO YEARS LATER. That gave them two years to market the series.

YYH, like Bleach, is one of Pierrot's hallmarks. The idea that they'd give it less than a year of marketing is just not realistic. They'd likely give it the same kind of treatment as the new Bleach arc, given it's one of their past tentpole titles getting revived.

(Also note that Pierrot animated the new Bleach installments after years of no new Bleach. They didn't let go of those rights. They held on and made more content later. Now apply that logic to YYH, and arrive again at: To suggest another studio would handle a new series is farfetched.)

If the tweet had said the series was dropping in 2025 or later, it would be much more believable. But the details they gave, again, discredit their claims from the jump.

If a new YYH was coming out in 2024, btw, the series would already be well underway and likely have been in production behind the scenes for quite some time. They probably would've announced it last year if they intended a 2024 release.

4. THE LIVEACTION OF IT ALL

A liveaction adaptation for YYH is about to drop (December 14 on Netflix).

I can already hear the argument of, "Oh, well maybe they'll announce a new anime for 2024 when the liveaction comes out," and while that might be a possibility, I think there's another, far more likely alternative.

If the liveaction does well and the license holders make a fuckton of money on it, or if they at least see a large resurgence in interest in the IP, THEN I think the license holders/anime production committee would start thinking about a new anime adaptation to cash in on that interest. But I do not see them making that decision before the streaming numbers for the liveaction come in, and I do NOT see them working on the anime before the liveaction has even aired.

The anime world moves slowly. The execs and committees behind the scenes like numbers and sales figures. If they see good numbers, balls might start rolling. But it's unlikely they're already in production NOW, let alone far enough into production to support a 2024 release for a remake.

If the Netflix show gets the ball rolling on a new YYH anime, that anime won't come out in 2024. There just isn't time.

And I can now hear some muttering the argument of, "Oh, well they probably just held the news to time it with the liveaction," but see again their habit of announcing projects with lots of lead-up marketing time.

CONCLUSION: THIS SEEMS FAKE.

BUT...

Given the details above and the COMPLETE LACK OF EVIDENCE supplied by the tweet, I do not expect we'll get an ACTUAL "official, confirmed" announcement for a remake anytime soon.

In the event that I'm wrong, what I'd predict is the announcement of a remake (one made by ACTUAL official sources, AKA Pierrot and Shuiesha) sometime in Q1 or Q2 2024. Pierrot would be the studio, and the project would be slated for late 2025, or even more likely, sometime in 2026. (And yes, projects slated for 2026 and later are in the works right now.)

I think the above is a longshot, but it's possible. The timing suggested in the tweet everyone is sharing isn't realistic at all, however.

Long story short:

DO NOT TRUST RANDOM TWITTER ACCOUNTS.

ANYONE CAN SAY "OFFICIAL" or "CONFIRMED"

THE ONLY OFFICIAL SOURCES FOR ANIME NEWS ARE STUDIOS AND LICENSORS

QUESTION EVERYTHING

[mattapparentlystumbltourneys]

BRACKET REVEAL

Alright. At long last, I present to you the bracket...or should I say...*BRACKETS* for the Virtual Character Tournament!

Given the scale, the first round is going to be one bracket per week, 4 a day, with each lasting 24 hours. I know that this is still tight, but given how many contestants there are, along with the necessary inclusions of images and propaganda (oh and I guess also my job), it's what I can do to keep this semi-manageable. There's also no redemption round this time. It's gonna be a single elimination tournament. Be kind to your peers. This is not but a drop in the infinite ocean of the internet.

...oh yeah the brackets themselves. We'll be going in order over the course of 4 weeks. I'll make proper announcements for them as they commence. Given how many there are and what I want to get done beforehand, Bracket 1 will likely begin some time this week. But for the matchups...

Bracket 1:

Hatsune Miku (Vocaloid) vs. Elohim (The Talos Principle)

Flame (Yu-Gi-Oh! VRains) vs. The Supervisor/Mouthless (Tenkuu Shinpan)

XANA (Code Lyoko) vs. MetalMan.EXE (Mega Man Battle Network)

9-Jack-9 (Zot!) vs Poppy Pipopapo (Kamen Rider Ex Aid)

Sage (Sonic Frontiers) vs Mektryllis (Fate/Extra CCC)

Dot Matrix (Reboot) vs V Flower (Vocaloid)

Wizardmon (Digimon) vs Delta (Red Vs. Blue)

Sora (Ever17) vs Kasane Teto (UTAU)

The Doctor/EMH (Star Trek Voyager) vs Crash (Awful Hospital)

Burroughs (Shin Megami Tensei IV) vs Quorra (Tron Legacy)

The Machine (Person of Interest) vs The Rocket Dex (Pokemon)

P03 (Inscription) vs. M.X.E.S (FNAF Security Breach: Ruins)

Hakuno Kishinami (Fate/EXTRA) vs Data Riku (Kingdom Hearts)

Samaritan (Person of Interest) vs ART (The Murderbot Diaries)

Cortana (Halo) vs M-Bot (Skyward)

Mitsuko Miyazumi (Archer) vs Ritsu (Assassination Classroom)

Bracket B:

Ene (Kagerou Project) vs The Thunderhead (Arc of a Scythe)

Amadeus (Steins; Gate 0) vs D.O.M (The Adventure Zone)

AM (I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream) vs Theo (Meta Runner)

Colonel.EXE (Mega Man Battle Network) vs Daia (Kiratto PriChan)

Agumon (Digimon) vs The Bobbiedots (FNAF Fazbear Frights)

Felix the Desktop Cat (Real Life) vs SHODAN (System Shock)

MegaMan.EXE (Mega Man Battle Network) vs Church (Red vs. Blue)

Shepherd (ENA) vs Dr. Coomer (Half Life VR But the AI is Self-Aware)

Sophie/Sophia (Persona 5 Strikers) vs Dizzy (Beyblade)

Miss J/SCP 5094 (SCP) vs Ultraman X (Ultraman X)

SAYU (No Straight Roads) vs Falulu (Pripara)

Incarceron (Incarceron) vs Benry (Half Life VR but the AI is Self-Aware)

Lea (Crosscode) vs Kiracchu (Kiratto PriChan)

Dragon (Prahumans) vs Murder-Bot 2.0 (The Murderbot Diaries)

Ai (Yu-Gi-Oh! VRains) vs Glitch Slime (Slime Rancher)

Eris (Wolf 359) vs Monika (Doki Doki Literature Club)

Bracket III:

Hera (Wolf 359) vs Shin AI (Your Turn to Die)

Alba (Star Twinkle Pretty Cure) vs The Denpa Men (The Denpa Men)

Guy (Free Guy) vs EDI (Mass Effect)

Aetna (Lore Olympus) vs Yui (Sword Art Online)

Nicole the Holo-Lynx (Archie Sonic) vs Gabumon (Digimon)

Jacqueline Box (Pripara) vs Mamechi (Tamagotchi)

Vanellope von Shweetz (Wreck-It Ralph) vs Cleverbot (Real Life)

The Phantom Virus (Scooby-Doo) vs Chiaki Nanami (Danganronpa)

Alter Ego (Danganronpa) vs Digit (Cyberchase)

Simulcast (Reflection TTRPG) vs SARA (Toonami)

Lumina Ichihoshi (Dig Delight Direct Drive DJ) vs The World Machine (OneShot)

Rumble McSkirmish (Gravity Falls) vs Holly (Red Dwarf)

HAL 9000 (2001: A Space Odyssey) vs Samantha (Her)

PAMA (Minecraft Story Mode) vs Noah Kaiba (Yu-Gi-Oh!)

Agent Smith (The Matrix) vs O.R.C.A (Splatoon)

Spunc (Alpha Betas) vs Porygon (Pokemon)

Bracket Delta:

GIFanny (Gravity Falls) vs Coco (Aikatsu Friends)

Vic Fontaine (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) vs Red One (The Last Angel)

Glitchtrap (FNAF Help Wanted) vs Holo (My Holo Love)

Avina (Mass Effect) vs Light Hope (She-Ra)

Motherboard (Cyberchase) vs Aya (Green Lantern: The Animated Series)

Bonzi Buddy (Real Life) vs Tama (AI The Somnium Files)

Dragon (Worm) vs Bip (Runway to the Stars)

Failsafe (Destiny) vs J.A.R.V.I.S (Marvel Cinematic Universe)

Aiba (AI: The Somnium Files) vs CanHaz (DC Comics)

SAYER (SAYER) vs Fey (Welcome to Night Vale)

Buddy (Buddy Simulator 1984) vs Ziggy (Quantum Leap)

Maggy (Hellspark) vs The Squip (Be More Chill)

Lyla (Spider-Man: Across the Spiderverse) vs Durandal (Marathon)

Beta Jay 137 (Ninjago) vs Zero III (Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward)

Sergey Ushanka (The Magnus Archines) vs Demetra (Spy Kids 3: GAME OVER)

Alie (The 100) vs Lil' Hal (Homestuck)

As always, thank you for bearing with me during this long and arduous process. Sorry for the hassle, and be prepared, as it is almost upon us.

[princesssarisa]

Once again, my attention turns to small, nitpicky details of staging in opera – namely, the question in La Bohéme of why Rodolfo doesn't see Mimí die. Nearly every production makes the moment of her death clear to the audience by having her hand fall limply to the side of the bed. It's easy enough for Marcello, Musetta, and Schaunard not to notice this, since they're busy heating up the medicine Marcello bought. But why Rodolfo doesn't notice varies between different tenors and different stagings.

Because I'm a romantic sap, I'll admit that my favorite is when he just happens to turn away a moment too soon. He stays by her side throughout her last words, and very briefly breaks into tears when the score calls for it, but then pulls himself together and goes back to watching over her, tucking the blanket more snugly around her, stroking her hair, and maybe giving her a gentle kiss as she dozes off. But then he turns to ask Marcello what the doctor said, and in that instant he misses the moment of her death. Luciano Pavarotti always played it this way; so did David Hobson in the Baz Luhrmann staging, and Ramón Vargas in the 2008 Met Simulcast, among others. This particular staging is, IMHO, the most redemptive for Rodolfo. Even though he pushed Mimí away in the months prior, at her deathbed he finally matures, and gives her his full attention and all the love and care she needs. The fact that he misses her final moment is just a fluke that he can't be blamed for.

Then there's a less sentimental option, which my heart doesn't like very much because it gives us a more self-absorbed Rodolfo, but which my head says is more powerful. In this version, when Rodolfo breaks down in tears, he leaves Mimí's bedside and goes to another part of the room, where he stands or sits alone with his back to everyone until he regains composure, and this is why he misses her death. In the famous 1982 Met telecast, José Carreras runs from the bedside, leaving Teresa Stratas's Mimí to pitifully raise her head and reach out her hand to call him back, only to expire before she can. Now, I know I shouldn't judge Rodolfo too harshly for this... men and emotion, after all... but it's like a final encapsulation of the ways he always failed her. He abandoned her because he couldn't bear to watch her slowly dying, and now, though he comes through and cares for her throughout most of her death scene, at the very end he once again "can't bear it" and walks away, too absorbed in his own grief to be fully there for her.

A third option falls in between the first two. Rodolfo doesn't leave Mimí's side, but once he breaks down crying he can't stop, and as he kneels sobbing into his hands, or into the side of the bed, or as he sits with his back to Mimí as he tries to regain composure, he fails to see her die. Gianni Raimondi in the 1965 studio film does the "sobbing into the side of the bed" variant; Rolando Villazón in the 2009 Robert Dornhelm film does the "sitting with his back turned" variant. At least in this staging, Mimí has the comfort of his presence beside her, but he still gets lost in his own grief, distracting him from her.

Of course, there's technically no reason why he has to miss the moment of her death – he just can't realize what's happened. The libretto doesn't call for Mimí's hand to fall to the side of the bed, that's just a tradition. It would be easy for her to lie in a slightly different position so that the bed supports her arms, and to just appear to drop off to sleep, as she did earlier in the same scene. This way, Rodolfo can be fully there for her and focus on her to the very end, just not realizing right away that she won't wake up again. This is what the libretto's original stage directions seem to imply.

These are small differences, but they each have a very different impact, or at least I think so.

[captainofthetidesbreath]

Sorry to bother you, and I don't know if you if you know the answer to this exactly, but I'm hoping maybe you do. How long did it typically take between the actual live show and them posting/streaming it for everyone else? I got into CR in the fall of 2020, so I have no frame of reference for this particular scenario.

It's not a bother at all! It depends on the specific live show. They haven't all been the same.

As I understand it from checking in on the history of the show, all of the Campaign 1 (1.60, 1.62, 1.109) and Campaign 2 live shows (2.29, 2.37, 2.73, 2.97) were broadcast simultaneously onto Twitch—though the stream for 2.37, the infamous technical difficulties New York live show, was on a one hour delay. These episodes were then posted to YouTube on the normal schedule for episodes. Essentially, for those episodes, there was generally no change to the broadcast vs. studio episodes other than perhaps the time of day as adjusted for time zone that the cast was performing from.

However, Mighty Nein Reunion: Echoes of the Solstice is not a campaign episode but a one-shot. There were only two one-shot live shows so far: Darrington Brigade was released about a week after it was performed, and The Search for Grog was released about a month after.

It's also noteworthy that all of these episodes, including the two one-shots, were also when the show was broadcasting from live in-studio. That changes things because the way they broadcast (true live vs. pre-recorded live-to-tape) is now different and this is the first live show since they changed to pre-recorded episodes, so it makes looking at historical precedence murkier.

So, in summary: historically, it depends, because sometimes it's simulcast and sometimes it's released a week or a month later. On top of that, we're in new territory as this is the first live show since the production went pre-recorded.

This is a bit of a tangent off your question, but while we're on the topic: Speaking further and thinking about what else CAN factor in to this schedule, since a simulcast is indeed possible, if the production is considering a simulcast, they also have to weigh whether they want to trust in or whether they like the venue's live-streaming capability, reliability, and set-up. I'm sure Wembley Arena has solid ability, but the production has been quite burned before (again, the New York live show), so it's likely something they make serious consideration about and may choose to pass up on if they don't feel confident about it.

[pochqmqri]

OtonaPre comes out in like less than a week now, and there are so many questions still yet unanswered that have been on my mind

Is this going to be simulcasted by Crunchyroll? Crunchyroll has already started posting their Fall 2023 anime schedule, and OtonaPre is not on the list. Maybe it's a last minute reveal though, some of the recent PreCure seasons have cut it close with being revealed before simulcasting. In a way, I can understand because the three seasons represented in this anime so far, are mostly unavailable to watch legally outside of Japan, and it would be a little weird to stream the adult sequel anime without the prior requisite material. Granted, they could license Splash Star, Yes5, and Yes5GoGo, but I doubt it would happen all at once, especially this close to the airing date. Either way, I'm sure this will get fansubbed if it's not officially picked up.

Are Nagisa and Honoka (and Hikari) showing up in this anime? Since both the Yes5 and Splash Star girls are here, it seems like the logical conclusion is that the original Allstars team (comprising the first five seasons of PreCure) will be the main cast. Maybe some other seasons' girls will be shown, but probably as cameos like in the Allstars movies. (cont.)

(cont.) So a couple days ago, the PreCure 20th anniversary Twitter started posting countdowns to the premiere of OtonaPre, starting from the 8th day. 8 days for each of the 8 women shown off so far, the 6 women from Yes5, and the 2 from Splash Star. Now that we have less than a week to go, it seems like there are no more big reveals, so either Nagisa and Honoka are secret reveals once the anime starts airing, or they're not showing up at all?

On that note, what about the men from Yes5, Coco, Nuts, and Syrup? If Milk is on Earth and seemingly has a job, it's probably likely they'll appear as well. As an adult-oriented sequel, they'll probably (and unfortunately) play more into the romance aspect they brushed on in the main anime, with Nozomi x Coco, Komachi x Nuts, and Urara x Syrup. That's why I felt it's a bit odd that they're also hiding their cards with regards to their reveals. (cont.)

(cont.) In the trailer, there's a shot of a photo from when the women were still teenagers, and one photo has Nuts and Syrup in the background. I find it a little peculiar that Coco is left out, as if the intent is to play up the "big reveal" and main romance (🤮) later down the line.

Is this anime going to be solely slice of life, or will it also have the women transform into Pretty Cure again? The trailer teases a villain, so maybe they will fight again. Something similar happened in the Smile PreCure light novel, from what I read of vague descriptions.

[twstinginthewind]

Dr. Sunshine is Dead: Spoil something that either is going to blindside your OC, in-story. Hand Me My Shovel, I'm Going In: What is something your OC would do/strive for, going beyond the limits of rational fear? Skeleton Appreciation Day in Vestal, NY: What is something your OC is insecure about? Do they take any steps to hide/remedy it? Um, It's Kind of a Lot: (For Shipping) If your OC has an S/O, what is something in their relationship that they are afraid of (behavior, scenarios, etc)

For Punch and Jon! Aha!

Ahaha indeed!! Prompts from here, and my apologies for taking forever to answer!

Punch:

Dr Sunshine: Punch is most likely going to be absolutely knocked off-balance by the events of book two, most likely because as one of the few athletic members of Ignihyde, he’s going to end up getting hurt in Leona’s plan to take out the competition. It’ll especially hurt when he finds out that it was Ruggie, who he has grown to trust and admire, who brought him down. It’ll take a while to rebuild that trust in his upperclassman…

Hand me my shovel: Punch is incredibly protective of his loved ones. If he were to see his sister or his close friends in danger, he would put aside his own need for safety and rush in to be the hero. Granted, a lot of his friends aren’t really the type who would necessarily want him to step in (i’m especially looking at you, Jack and Epel), so a situation where they wouldn’t be in a position to protest? You know the stakes would be high.

Skeleton appreciation: He’s insecure about a LOT of things. His size, not really fitting in with the vibe at his dorm, feeling like he’s always falling behind, like he’s too old-fashioned, like if he tries to change for the sake of all of this everyone will know he’s just faking… so he hasn’t really done anything about them, due to that last bit.

Um…: (only going with one potential ship here, bc we haven’t got all year) Punch lives in fear of the day that Vil is going to tell Epel that he’s not going to be allowed to hang around with such an unsightly, oversized, unfashionable excuse for a person.

Jon:

Dr Sunshine: it’s a very minor thing, but he’s in open-mouthed shock watching the SDC simulcast and finding out that Jamil Viper can RAP. Wow. That’s… that’s really cool, actually…

Hand me my shovel: The North Woods, where Jon hails from, is a very poor community, in stark contrast to some of the fancier places within the Shaftlands. Jon’s used to being someone who follows instructions and lets other people take the lead. But he’s going to put that second-banana aspect of his life aside when it comes to helping make his community prosper - I can see him putting aside his distaste for authority and running for public office, even, in his quest to make the North Woods safe and comfortable for everyone that lives there.

Skeleton appreciation: Jon is well aware that, as one of the few non-beastman members of Savanaclaw, he’s always going to be sort of an odd man out, and possibly have a target put onto him. It never occurred to him before enrolling that he might ever be insecure about what species he was. But for now, he just makes sure that anyone who messes with him about being a human ends up flat on the ground - thank you, judo lessons.

Um…: Despite being one of my handsomest (in my humble opinion), dear Jon doesn’t really have much in the way of romantic entanglements. He might have flirted with Savvy’s older sister once, but his competition there is a literal prince, so not much has come of that. Let’s get him a partner and see what neuroses we can give him!

[newsintheshell]

💫 ANIME EXPO 2024: TUTTE LE NOVITÀ DAL GRANDE EVENTO DI LOS ANGELES (PARTE 2) - Crunchyroll Edition

Fire Force, Witch Hat Atelier, Omniscent Reader, Natsume degli Spiriti, Yakuza Fiancé, Blue Exorcist e ancora Black Butler, Blue Lock, Il Monologo della Speziale e chi più ne ha ne metta!

Sono stato di parola eh! Incredibile, ma vero. La seconda parte è arrivata, ma non sono stato proprio un fulmine di guerra diciamo, ma quasi!

Come vi avevo anticipato, tutte le novità che trovate qui di seguito sono state presentate durante l'Industry Panel di Crunchyroll, credo l'appuntamento sempre più atteso dell’ANIME EXPO, un po' come le nostre conferenze annuali a Lucca.

Va da sé che ogni annuncio e trailer è di serie delle quali è stato confermato ufficialmente per il simulcast qua in Italia. Sono tutti titoli già attesi, con qualche sorpresa importante, in arrivo già nei prossimi mesi e nel corso del 2025.

🔶🔸FIRE FORCE (Stagione 3)

Confermata ormai ben due anni fa, finalmente la terza e ultima stagione della serie ci degna finalmente della sua presenza!

Il capitolo finale dell'anime, tratto dal celebre action manga firmato da Atsuhi Ohkubo (Soul Eater), edito da Panini Comics, verrò diviso in due parti: la prima andrà in onda da aprile 2025, mentre la seconda... da gennaio 2026. Ouch.

Insomma di tempo ce n'è per recuperare le prime due stagioni, che potete trovare comodamente in streaming su Prime Video, anche doppiate.

🔶🔸ANYWAY, I’M FALLING IN LOVE WITH YOU

Per tutti i fan di shojo e reverse harem, è in arrivo da gennaio 2025 la serie sullo scolastico sentimentale di Haruka Mitsui.

Al momento, sappiamo solo che in capo al progetto c'è il regista Junichi Yamamoto (Why Raeliana Ended up at the Duke's Mansion, Armor Shop for Ladies & Gentlemen).

🔶🔸DEMON LORD, RETRY! R

Ricompare anche il sequel dell'avventura fantasy isekai andata in onda nel 2019! Questa seconda stagione, in arrivo da ottobre, vedrà un cambio di staff e studio.

I nuovi episodi saranno infatti diretti da Kazuomi Koga (Kubo Won't Let Me Be Invisible, TenPuru: No One Can Live on Loneliness), presso GEKKOU (My One-Hit Kill Sister, Grandpa and Grandma Turn Young Again).

🔶🔸LINK CLICK: BRIDON ARC

Nuovo capitolo all'orizzonte per il mystery soprannaturale, che a quanto pare tornerà sui nostri schermi in inverno, con una sorta di prequel, se non ho capito male.

Le prime due stagioni di questa interessante serie cinese sono già disponibili, anche doppiate in italiano.

🔶🔸NATSUME'S BOOK OF FRIENDS (Stagione 7)

A sorpresa, dopo mille anni, l'anime di Natsume degli Spiriti arriva anche da noi!

Incredibilmente, da ottobre potremo seguire le nuove catartiche avventure di Takashi e dei tanti ayakashi che popolano il mondo del longevo slice of life soprannaturale, creato da Yuki Midorikawa, il cui manga è pubblicato qua in Italia da Panini Comics.

🔶🔸IL MONOLOGO DELLA SPEZIALE (Stagione 2)

Qua parliamo di una conferma quantomai scontata. Sì, nel 2025 rivedremo Maomao e Jinshi e questo lo sapevamo. Sappiamo tutti che la situazione in quanto a doppiaggi è ferma, al momento, ma se c'è una serie che si merita di parlare anche italiano, è fuori di dubbio questa! Incrociamo le dita e speriamo.

La prima stagione sottotitolata c'è, abbiamo anche il manga e la light novel, grazie a J-POP Manga (che lo chiama I Diari della Speziale) e a Dokusho Edizioni. Manca solo quello dai! Pretty please!

🔶🔸YAKUZA FIANCÉ

Parlando di relazioni veramente complicate, da ottobre partirà il simulcast del romantic crime drama tratto dal manga di Asuka Konishi, pubblicato qua in Italia da GOEN con il titolo Nella prossima vita non voglio conoscerti.

L'adattamento è affidato allo STUDIO DEEN (Sasaki and Miyano, Days with My Stepsister) e ha come regista Toshifumi Kawase (The Flowers of Hard Blood, Washimo).

🔶🔸OMNISCENT READER

Svelata direttamente durante il panel la notizia della produzione di una serie animata, basata sulla web novel action fantasy di singNsong, di cui esiste anche una versione webtoon curata da Sleepy-C e UMI.

Non si sa ancora chi se ne sta occupando o quando arriverà in streaming, ma intanto siamo sicuri che la potremo seguire su Crunchyroll.

🔶🔸WITCH HAT ATELIER

Datemi il tasto magico per il fast forward, il 2025 è ancora troppo lontano! Questa ce l'avevano già spoilerata a giugno, ma adesso la possiamo anche veder prender vita.

Lo stile grafico è, ovviamente, diverso da quello del manga fantasy firmato da Kamome Shirahama, che possiamo trovare sui nostri scaffali assieme allo spinoff culinario Kitchen of Witch Hat grazie a Panini Comics, ma il trailer per me è comunque bellissimo. Non vedo l'ora!

La serie è diretta da Ayumu Watanabe (Summer Time Rendering, La Fortuna di Nikuko) ed è una produzione di casa BUG FILMS (Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead).

🔶🔸BLUE EXORCIST

Dopo la Shimane Illuminati Saga, la quarta stagione della serie andrà ad adattare due archi narrativi, accompagnandoci da ottobre con la Beyond the Snow Saga e da gennaio 2025 con la The Blue Night Saga!

L'action soprannaturale di cui abbiamo atteso per anni il ritorno (la seconda stagione risale al 2017 ragazzi e la prima al 2011, fate un po' voi) è tratto dall'omonimo manga firmato Kazue Kato, pubblicato qua in Italia da Panini Comics.

🔶🔸BLUE LOCK (Stagione 2)

Two blue is megl che uan. Non credo ci fosse davvero bisogno di confermarlo in via ufficiale, ma lo hanno fatto: i nuovi episodi della serie animata, tratta dal popolare manga (anti)sportivo di Muneyuki Kaneshiro e Yusuke Nomura arriveranno da ottobre.

Oh e vi ricordo che il film, tratto dallo spinoff su Seishiro Nagi e Reo Mikage, uscirà nei nostri cinema la prossima settimana!

🔶🔸BLACK BUTLER

Giga combo di anime tratti da manga con etichetta Panini Comics! Anche questo, come Blue Exorcist ha fatto attendere i fan per un bel pezzetto.

La quarta stagione della serie animata, che va ad adattare il popolarissimo mystery sovrannaturale di Yana Toboso, ci è stata consegnata giusto quest'anno e ora, per il 2025, abbiamo la conferma che vedremo anche una quinta stagione! La storia proseguirà con l'Emerald Witch Arc.  

🔶🔸SOLO LEVELING (Stagione 2)

Tornando in campo action fantasy, è stato mostrato un teaser trailer per la seconda stagione della serie che ha portato in tv il famosissimo fumetto coreano, importato qua in Italia da Star Comics.

Il sequel si chiama Arise from the Shadow e non ha ancora una finestra di lancio, purtroppo. Nel frattempo vi ricordo che i primi 12 episodi dell'anime sono stati anche doppiati.

🔶🔸SHANGRI-LA FRONTIER (Stagione 2)

Questa non è uscita dall'Anime Expo in verità, ma la metto comunque qua perché sì. Alla fine fa sempre parte del catalogo Crunchyroll e poi chi mi ferma?

Pubblicato un primo teaser trailer per la seconda stagione della serie, che verrà trasmessa dal 13 ottobre, per altri due cour consecutivi come la prima stagione.

L’action adventure di Katarina e Ryosuke Fuji, edito anche questo da Panini Comics, ha infatti già ispirato 25 episodi trasmessi in simuclast proprio fra l'autunno e l'inverno scorsi, che sono stai anche doppiati in italiano.

Oh, è stata anche svelata una locandina per Dr. STONE SCIENCE FUTURE, la quarta e ultima stagione dell'anime che arriverà Soon™

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My review of the first episode of the A Journey Through Another World: Raising Kids While Adventuring anime is now live on Lesley's Anime and Manga Corner!

For those of y'all who are new here, my mom has allowed me to write reviews for the blog, beginning with me stepping up to fill her shoes in August 2023, and having me graduate into writing reviews of series I follow starting in the Fall 2023 anime season! :D

[krispyweiss]

Quarter Notes: Blurbs & Briefs from Sound Bites

- In this edition: Guns N’ Roses and Carrie Underwood; Metallica; Bruce Hornsby; and Billy Joel

THE ODDEST COUPLE: Carrie Underwood will open three of Guns N’ Roses’ North American gigs in August.

METALLICA, FROM TEXAS TO THE WORLD: Metallica’s Aug. 18 and 20 concerts in Texas - each night with a different setlist - will be simulcast in movie theaters worldwide.

HORNSBY TO MAKE SOME SPIRIT TRAIL NOISE: Bruce Hornsby & the Noisemakers will celebrate 25 years of Spirit Trail with a “special tour” in the fall. Attendees will receive a copy of the Spirit Trail 25th-anniversary Edition box set; “more on that soon,” Hornsby said.

MOVIN’ OUT (BILLY’S MSG SWAN SONG): Billy Joel’s residency at Madison Square Garden will end in July 2024 on the occasion of his 150th gig at the venue, thus ending a monthly tradition that began in 2014.

6/2/23

[treecakes]

interesting. crunchyroll put out a list of summer 2024 dubs and natsume s6 isn’t on there. besties if you Wanted to simulcast s7 this fall you need to immediately start airing the s6 dub in 2-3 weeks

[yurimother]

'Whisper Me a Love Song' Yuri Anime Now Streaming

The first episode of Cloud Hearts and Yokohama Animation Laboratory's high school Yuri romance anime Whisper Me a Love Song (Sasayaku You ni Koi o Utau) is now streaming in North America on HIDIVE. The first episode premiered on April 13, and new episodes are simulcast every Saturday at 12:30 PM EST.

Whisper Me a Love Song follows first-year high school student Himari Kino, who, at a welcome ceremony, witnesses Yori Asanagi singing and instantly falls in “love.” She immediately confesses her admiration to Yori, who misinterprets Himari’s feelings as romantic. However, once she realizes her mistake, Yori swears that she will make Himari fall for her for real. The anime will run for 12 episodes, according to HIDIVE.

The anime is based on the manga of the same name by Eku Takeshima. The manga began serialization in Comic Yuri Hime in February 2019. As of March 2024, Ichjinsha has published nine collected volumes of the series in Japanese, and Kodansha USA has published eight in English.

The anime, which was delayed from its initially announced January premiere, is directed by Akira Mano at Cloud Hearts and Yokohama Animation Laboratory. Mano replaced the initially announced director, Xin Ya Cai, due to “health reasons.” Additional staff includes character designer Minami Yoshida and script supervisor Hiroki Uchida join Mano.

The anime stars Hana Shimano as Himari Kino and Asami Seto as Yori Asanagi. Additional cast includes:

Konomi Kohara as Mari Tsutsui

Mikako Komatsu as Aki Mizuguchi

Ai Kakuma as Kaori Tachibana

Yuna Nemoto as Shiho Izumi

Reina Ueda as Momoka Satomiya

Chika Anzai as Hajime Amasawa

Aoi Koga as Miki Mizuguchi

You can stream Whisper Me a Love Song today with English subtitles on HIDIVE in North America, the British Isles, and Australia.

[courage-a-word-of-justice]

Regarding the simulcast commentary

After some consideration of falling massively behind during COVID and the fact I started the system back in fall 2014(!!!) - I’m still catching up 4 years later - I have decided to discontinue the simulcast commentary. Those posts don’t get a lot of reactions/discussion and make my anime watching time less efficient in this day and age, where I don’t have a lot of reactions to a lot of episodes and entire days go by where I just don’t watch anime, now my priorities are completely different to what they used to be over 8 years ago.

The spreadsheet for it will still be available, mostly for my personal reference, although I will not update it anymore.

Don’t worry - Courage isn’t going anywhere, old fogey it may be in comparison to other blogs (including the Animanga Spellbook, which I now have huge plans for - watch that space!). Courage has stuck with me through thick and thin for over a decade now, so I wouldn’t want to see it die...although it might languish in obscurity instead, haha...

[ljaesch]

Crunchyroll to Simulcast the 16bit Sensation: Another Layer Anime During the Fall 2023 Season

Crunchyroll has announced that it will simulcast the 16bit Sensation: Another Layer anime during the Fall 2023 season. The series will be available in North America, Central America, South America, Europe, Africa, Oceania, the Middle East and CIS. It was also announced during Aniplex Online Fest 2023 that the series is scheduled to premiere in Japan on October 4, 2023. Source: Crunchyroll

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For 18 seasons, CBS’ Tuesday lineup was anchored by NCIS before the venerable crime drama moved to Mondays in fall 2021 to make room for an FBI night. The NCIS franchise is returning to the Tuesday 8 PM time period this fall with the Paramount+ Australia series NCIS: Sydney, which will premiere in the slot Nov. 14.

NCIS: Sydney, the first international spinoff for a CBS Studios global drama franchise, was originally slated to debut on CBS Nov. 13, three days after the series’ worldwide premiere in Australia, and air in the Monday 10 PM time period.

However, ABC announced this week that it will simulcast 10 additional Monday Night Football games. With the move, NCIS: Sydney, a rare original scripted series on the fall broadcast schedule, severely impacted by the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes, will not have to face NFL football while also capitalizing on NCIS fans’ longtime viewing habits of tuning in Tuesdays at 8 PM.

In the hour, NCIS: Sydney will succeed Big Brother, which will have wrapped its season by then. It will be followed by an NCIS rerun for a two-hour franchise block, and Paramount+’s FBI: True docuseries, which will slide from 9 PM to 10 PM starting Nov. 14.

Originally, NCIS: Sydney was supposed to follow an NCIS repeat on Mondays and air in NCIS: Hawai’i‘s Monday 10 PM slot. Back-to-back NCIS repeats will now run from 9-10 PM Mondays as CBS is relying on its arguably most resilient repeat performer against MNF while also keeping the block warm for NCIS and NCIS: Hawai’i’s eventual return to originals.

I hear the 10 PM slot is envisioned as a drama procedural wheel, with FBI, whose repeats will be airing Tuesdays 9 PM, leading to FBI: True, until NCIS: Sydney‘s arrives, expected to be part of the rotation.

In other CBS fall schedule tweaks, new reality series Buddy Games, currently airing Thursday 9 PM behind Big Brother, will swap slots with Big Brother on Thursday, Sept. 28.

NCIS: Sydney, starring Olivia Swann and Todd Lasance, sees rising international tensions in the Indo-Pacific. The brilliant and eclectic team of U.S. NCIS Agents and the Australian Federal Police are grafted into a multi-national taskforce, to keep naval crimes in check, in the most contested patch of ocean on the planet.

Here is the revised CBS lineup:

Thursday, Sept. 28

8:00-9:00 PM BUDDY GAMES (special airing)

9:00-10:00 PM BIG BROTHER (special airing)

10:00-11:00 PM THE CHALLENGE: USA

Mondays, starting Nov. 13

8:00-9:00 PM LOTERÍA LOCA

9:00-10:00 PM NCIS (encore episodes)

10:00-11:00 PM NCIS (encore episodes)

Tuesdays, starting Nov. 14

8:00-9:00 PM NCIS: SYDNEY (new time period premiere)

9:00-10:00 PM NCIS (encore episodes)

10:00-11:00 PM FBI TRUE (new time period)