Anime Jam Session – Details, episodes & analysis

The anime world offers condolences after the passing of Seiyuu, Emi Shinohara, the dub cast for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice dressed in costume during the dubbing of the film, and Creamy Mami goes old school with cassette tape and player! Also, the world's biggest adult manga pirate site gets sued, Cowboy Bebop gets an unofficial unauthorized 600+ page book, and Fiat teams with Lupin the 3rd for car collaboration! Meanwhile in Japan, the 3000-year-old tree in the forest that inspired Princess Mononoke snaps in two, and a pizza chain starts pizza delivery for dogs?!

DJ Ranma S gives us his thoughts on Anime NYC! Also, the first American Manga Awards winners announced, LINE WEBTOON cracks down on piracy, Fushigi Yugi gets 35th-anniversary exhibition, and the English dub confirmed for Rascal Does Not Dream series! Meanwhile in Japan... Bruno Mars creates a Don Quijote - English commercial, Premier love doll maker closing shop, and a tourist is arrested for having sex on shrine grounds?!

Updates on the Kadokawa cyber attack, the massive debt totals for Gainax bankruptcy, and Studio 3Hz transfers anime production to A1 pictures. Also, Optimus Prime was arrested for vehicular theft, and Sony bought out Alamo Drafthouse Cinema chain with plans for Crunchyroll and VA unit iRis to release a documentary film. Meanwhile in Japan, a drink that helps manage your hunger turns from liquid to solid in your stomach, and a man arrested for impersonating police to rob a woman while working?!

We get a new joint anime company from 4 major ones, Yoshitaka Amano pens Batman variant cover for DC Comics, and JJ Abrams leads new Speed Racer series for Apple TV! Also, My Hero Academia teams up with Sanrio, and a new international animation festival picks Mamoru Oshii as it's head judge! Meanwhile in Japan, a security guard is arrested for abandoning urine, and yet another update on the missing COVID money given to one guy in a Japanese town...

The whole gang is back as they talk discuss CloverCon at Somerset County 4-H! Also, what's up with Anime Central's mask mandate? And a classic anime Urusei Yatsura is back with a new series! Plus, former Power Ranger Austin St. John brought up on federal charges, and Seven Seas Entertainment workers form a union. Meanwhile in Japan, a mysterious man disappears with a town's COVID fund, is then found... A fire chief starts a forest fire over a wasp... And a teenage girl calls the cops on a man she thinks is holding a knife, but it was something else?!

KISS bassist Gene Simmons is okay with "fictosexual" otaku, Love Live Sunshine teams up with Hatsune Miku, and dubs of 蜡笔小新 Crayon Shin Chan on Prime Video! Also, add the power of Evangelion to your PC, Rica Matsumoto discusses Pokémon royalties, and a photographer busted taking upskirt photos! Meanwhile in Japan, a punk rock candy store in Tokyo, Aichi police looking for stolen toilet handle, and a Japanese woman gets Kobe beef croquettes... Nine years later.

DJ Ranma S gives us a brief Castle Point Anime Convention rundown, then it's Sailor Moon news! New movies and a museum! New Chip & Dale's Rescue Rangers movie with anime and video game cameos, and a GoFundMe for Billy Kametz for his cancer fight! Also, My Neighbor Totoro stage play, Ukrainian blacksmiths helping the war effort, and voice actress Shoko nakagawa failed what? Meanwhile in Japan, guests pay for damages from boiling crab in hotel room and a Tokyo rapper for tagging subway line while drunk...

Shaman King reboot gets a sequel series, Amazon Studios in the lead for live action Voltron film, and Sailor Moon gets a retrospective for it's 30th anniversary. Also, One Piece get a rollercoaster at ユニバーサル・スタジオ・ジャパン / Universal Studios Japan (USJ), the second Sonic The Hedgehog Movie is still going strong with a spinoff series for Knuckles, and Black Clover manga goes on hiatus to prepare for the final saga. Meanwhile in Japan, schoolgirl threatens death over a locked bathroom, wet potato chips are the new trend, and trash cans disappearing on the railways?

We're talking Zenkaikon 2022! Yes, we mean it this time! Join DJ Ranma S, WildSpice, and Ari Rockefeller as they discuss the entire con of what they liked and did not like!

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 a stray cat, and Japan's supply of Zima is near completion?!