[Overseas] Anime Expo 2018 / 4th-8th July 2018 / News & Announcements

  • My Girlfriend is ShoBitch gettin dub what !!!
  • Some new announcements:​

    Sentai Filmworks
    The following titles coming this Summer season:
    • 100 Sleeping Princes and the Kingdom of Dreams
    • Mr. Tonegawa Middle Management Blues
    • Revue Starlight
    • The Thousand Musketeers
    [*]The following titles getting the English Dubcast treatment:
    • Mr. Tonegawa Middle Management Blues
    • Real Girl
    • Tada Never Falls in Love
    [*]Home video titles getting the English dub:
    • My Girlfriend is ShoBitch
    • Takunomi
    • UQ Holder
    [*]Other Notes:
    • K-On! Limited Edition will be up for pre-order today
    • Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! the Movie: Take on Me will be up for pre-order soon
    • No Game No Life Zero Limited Edition is 75% sold out
    [*]
 
Some new announcements:​

Crunchyroll
The following titles coming this Summer season:
  • Music Girls ~ also streaming on AsianCrush for US/CA
The following titles coming this Autumn season:
  • Double Decker ~ Tiger & Bunny new series
  • Radiant ~ Based on a French comic book
  • RErideD ~ Also a Crunchyroll co-production title
  • The Rising of the Shield Hero ~ Re-confirmation from last year's AX reveal
  • That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime
 
Some new announcements:

Maiden Japan
Maiden Japan have acquired the following anime series:
  • Armed Trooper Votoms:
    • TV Series
    • Armored Trooper Votoms Stories
    • Highlights
    • OVA Series
    • OVA - Pailsen Files, Genei (Phantom), Case ; Irvine, Votoms Finder, Chirico's Return
  • Basquash
  • Hataraki Man
  • Human Crossing
  • Maria Watches Over Us:
    • Season 1
    • Season 2: Printemps
    • Season 3: OVA Series
    • Season 4
  • Yumeiro Patissiere
Viz Media
Viz Media have acquired the following anime:
  • MEGALO BOX
Viz Media have acquired the following books:
  • Smashed: Junji Ito Collection manga
 
Very pleased that Maiden Japan have all of Votoms. I just hope these shows along with Xabungle and Ideon eventually find their way out on home video also.

I'd be so sad and frustrated if they fell into streaming only like Urashiman has. I still find that painful as I would love to watch that series in good quality.
 
I hear that it’s been confirmed that they have physical media rights to Ideon, Xabungle and Votoms though no format has been confirmed. I’m only really dying to get my hands on a Blu-Ray release of Ideon; I’d love to see Anime Limited put it out over here. There might be more chance of it happening if there was multi-territory cooperation
 
Some new announcements:

Netflix
Netflix have revealed some new stuff surprisingly:
  • Aggretsuko will have a second season, coming 2019.
  • Cannon Busters will be launching on 1st March 2019.
  • Castlevania Season 2, the anime-inspired series, will be launching on 26th October 2018.
  • Dragon Pilot: Hisone and Masotan will be launching on 21st September 2018.
Spike Chunsoft
The video game publisher have announced some news:
  • 428: Shibuya Scramble will launch on PlayStation 4 and PC on 4th September 2018.
  • AI: The Somnium Files is the next mystery visual novel project from Kotaro Uchikoshi (Zero Escape & Punch Line). Yusuke Kozaki will also be the character designer for the game. It will be heading to PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch and PC.
  • Steins;Gate ELITE has been delayed to Early 2019. The visual novel will be heading to PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch and PC. The PS4 version will include the Steins;Gate: Linear Bounded Phenogram visual novel and Switch version will include Steins;Gate 8-bit.
  • YU-NO: A Girl Who Chants Love at the Bound of this World remake will be heading to PlayStation 4 & Steam in 2019.
 
Dragon Pilot: Hisone and Masotan will be launching on 21st September 2018.
Whoop.
If they reeeeeally loved Anime they could try a bit harder to follow either the Devilman Crybaby model (all episodes in a worldwide realease at the same time - they've actually done this a few times already) or the Violet Evergarden model (simulcast, they could let the Yanks in next time 😉) instead of keeping them captive.
 
If Netflix would rather put them all out at once, surely they could just release them all when the final episode airs? Why wait 3 months after it's already finished? Ridiculous.

I've already watched most of HisoMaso and it's great. Don't feel guilty either.
 
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