First, a quick Raptors thought (and a little schattenfreude towards the Clippers and Bucks). Then we continue our Zoom-tastic journey with thoughts of Crunchyroll Expo (7:09) and Discotek (30:19) with thoughts on the following:
8:52 – Crunchyroll’s various partnerships
13:05 – Media Blasters showing some life
15:13 – What about Critical Mass?
20:58 – Titles that defined the North American companies that licensed them
26:15 – Follow up on Bartender, Planetes, and Violette Evergarden
32:15 – Discotek’s acquisitions in light of the digest
35:45 – Memories of seeing many of the titles mentioned the first time
In the second segment, Moh talks a little bit TIFF@Home and seeing “Under the Open Sky” (54:54), and more specifically the odd experience of watching it at home and how it was handled as opposed to the in person experience both emotionally and logistically (58:42), and the movie world going forward (1:07:20). Then we talk some video games (1:12:09)
1:12:23 – End of the Nintendo 3DS
1:26:24 – PS5 Showcase
1:42:05 – Yakuza Isshin in English?
At the end, we give a recommendation to watch the Anime Sway panel put on by the Japan-America Society of Dallas and Fort Worth (1:43:56)
Mike Nicolas, James Austin, Kevin Ng, Mohamed Sharmarke
Links of Interest
My Heart Sutra: A World in 260 Characters (Fred Schodt’s New Book)
Robyn Doolittle is a Sailor Moon Fan
Anime Roundtable 
I absolutely agree with Mike on the Pioneer/Geneon Tenchi link. I’ve never seen any Tenchi series but every obscure Geneon DVD I bought or watched in the mid-2000s aggressively advertised Tenchi whenever it could.