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Omonomono Newsletter, 2022-04-12
Director Shinkai has released the teaser for his new film, scheduled for November this year. Maybe this is ticketed for SLA and ANYC? I don’t want to watch any movie inside Javitz. Pompo has made me resolute when it comes to the cinematic format, and frankly I can wait. BTW Pompo is in theaters later this month here. Oh, there’s even more Shinkai news.
These Past Weeks
Boy, I am tired. But nothing is tiring about a new season of anime, or the ton of footage from AnimeJapan that I have yet to digest. Or how I felt after watching CG 10th Final. It’s something, to count against not sleeping much all month+ long for work and personal reasons. Certainly many cans of Uma ZONE helped. Yeah, I bought those. It’s a foolish use of money, but did you look at the exchange rate lately?
But first, Mahoyo’s console remake is going to come with EN and CH translation. This presumably the text part of the game, not the dub. Insta-buy for me. Comes out in December. Too bad this didn’t happen with Tsukihime Remake…
This Friday… Spy x Family dub stream on Twitch? Is this new? Blame Anime Boston and Sakuracon for hauling into May I guess.
Sony streams old anime on Youtube. Kurozuka…
More D4DJ TV anime in Winter 2023.
First there was ransomware, but now also a dub debacle. Toei’s Dai no Daibouken… I just want to watch it already lol.
Kana Hanazawa, Nanami Yamashita, Yu Serizawa, Ryusei Nakao and others hit with COVID-19.
On the note of 81 Produce, there’s this year’s public audition final rounders. Seiyuu oh tama-goooo.
Not typically covered in this letter but Mori going major is cool. She’s basically the only Holo EN whose music I can actually listen to.
Cygames donate to cat health research.
April Fools came and went. My favorite had to be the Princess Connect battle chess game. That is a game…proper, not just a joke. It was an open beta basically.
This anime’s trailer looks great. SHINE POST is an unfortunate name though.
More Laid-back Camp film materials.
“Shoujo Anime Genre has Strong Potential” is a refrain I’ve heard for decades. Guess what? Boy idols sell way better if you want to target female viewers. All CR/FUNi want is Yet Another Fruits Basket and I think this is not the right way to go. The OG series had very broad appeal, as boys and girls all loved it. Look at the NG Furuba. This ain’t where it’s at, although I can agree that the specific demo may have an itch to scratch. It’s time to use a different back scratcher.
In more industry news post-AJ, this makes a lot of sense. Yes, more than half of households with Netflix watched some anime in 2021.
And yes, 2021 made more money than 2020, just like almost every other sector.
FUNi dies to CR, CR locks down on free streams – it’s going full tilt on Netflix mode.
Good by Minorin, hello Minorin. Long Live Minorin. Freelance now, she’s on Youtube.
Muvluv NFTs. Avex. GONZO.
CRX branded event to launch in Melbourne, Sept. 17-18.
Not really tracking this drama, but it exists. (TW: child porn)
Not really tracking this drama either, but it also exists. (TW: sexual assault accusations)
Jujutsu Kaisen film keeps on raking.
Is Prima Doll any good? I should find out.
MJS anime. Youtube and elsewhere I guess.
LiSA gets a documentary this Fall.
Jazz character media mix project with a cafe? Featuring a lot of Horipros.
Clearly we’re not over with idols yet. Idol Bu Show film to screen later this year. Also an unfortunate name.
Personal Note
It’s Baseball time. I bought that exact case for the “collectors” factor and the cool cover. Yes, Trout is jelly.
I need something to dull my mald for not able to go to SUNRICH COLORFUL because Japan probably won’t be open yet.
CG10th Final was great.
I took a quick look at the new season. Ya Boy Kongming is whack. This Edechan’s nasal sound reminds me so much of Naobou too. The healer anime featuring Agupon is pretty whack too, but it feels like the perfect show for Yuri Komagata. I hope she is in it at some point.
Spy x Family is the big time show people expect. I enjoyed Niji season 1 a lot so 2 has been pretty good. I hope they explain why the one HKer speaks mainland speak when she drops Chinese casually. That’s going to piss off some actual HKers lol. Birdie Wing and Healer Girls are for sure keepers too. OTOH, I’m confused by that Kunoichi anime.
Aharen is great. Not too fond of Inosuke here but she does a good job. Kaguya-sama feels just like the previous season, which isn’t my cup of tea per se but it’s a solid watch. I’m waiting on Netflix on Komi S2. RPG Real Estate is pretty much what I expect. Aoashi and Dance Dance Danseur are better than what I expected. Not sure what to make of Estab Life, but this feels like a mid 00s Gonzo anime, and not in a bad way. I watched 2 eps of Shemune and it wasn’t bad, but I think I mentioned this back when it first streamed so I have not moved on.
The skeleton anime that opens with a rape scene? None of that had any traction on my smooth brain matter, but that kz wrote a banger EDM for Dialogue+ to open for that show is entirely an engineered thing that other people on the same wavelength would pick up.
There are more shows on my list that I have yet to check out. Next newsletter! It’s about 2am here…really need to go to bed now.
Upcoming Events
LOL, January’s Sony Music Online show is all on CR now. I’m assuming this is the Veeps version.
Upcoming this week:
IRL event for NYC, film screening at the Japan Society. 4/15 is GITS, 5/27 is Animatrix 35mm (woo), 6/17 is The Night Is Short, Walk on Girl, and 7/22 is Princess Mononoke 35mm.
I should TS this D4DJ Peaky P-key x Lynx Eyes show.
Nano.ripe stream?
Next week:
Maaya Uchida’s 2/20 show is being streamed on 4/20. Blaze it.
SideM 6th Hokkaido all weekend
Week of 4/23 – ?
Trysail Tour 2021 is being streamed.
Shiny Color 4th live, which will have a stream on Asobi.
Nico Chokaigi is happening starting this weekend and for a while. More details here.
Week of 4/30 – ?
Merc Storia orchestral?
NBCUniversal ANIME x MUSIC 30th. Time to get your Tenchi Muyo on.
Long Reads
After Cygames released that long Umamusume video, Shiny Colors’s two long-form, lead-up-to-4th-live videos thus far is pretty neat. More to come.
Not sure what this is, but two influencer types collab to cover anisong….musically. Not just karaoke. Produced by Japanese companies? Hironobu Kageyama is in a couple of these.
Similarly? Nippon Broadcasting System is launching a podcast called Anime Roomy. It recruits 4 marketers/translators for PonyCan USA to talk anime stuff. It’s actually not bad 2 episodes in, but it does have parts that make me cringe. In a 1990s sort of way. So in short, part for the course for youtubers about anime meta.
Explainer on Union Dubs. I don’t have any position on this topic, but it’s good to know how it works.
Love of Kill cast and staff interview from CR … social media? It’s an interesting format but a bit obnoxious to view. Linking it in here for its format as reference.
I don’t link to this type of writing often, but this one is interesting. Spoiler for Attack on Titan.
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