November 17 2023: As The Crunchy Rolls

After looking back on the Space Heater Chat and some purchases in the latest Indigo Books sale. We focus on Crunchyroll on a few fronts this time around

00:09:45 - The retail side of CR with the end of Right Stuf. James gives his experience ordering from the revamped retail site

00:37:03 - New mobile games to Crunchyroll services, and manga service winds down. And James puts up an arguement as to why that’s not a totally good thing

00:51:07 - So what about the Crunchyroll’s current anime season?

And then on to other things

01:04:14 - AnimeNYC will have its 2024 edition on August 23-25th, the same weekend as FanExpo Canada. Aside from other news coming from this year’s edition

01:10:20 - Japan Foundation has a discussion on video games and trauma recovery

01:13:50 - James and Kevin go fanboy on Daigo

01:23:30 - Kevin talks a little more about his time watching V-tubers

This Week’s Drinking Game: Take a shot of Espresso when you realize Mike really wants to go to sleep soon

Mike Nicolas, James Austin, Kevin Ng

Opening Theme: “FUBUKI - Snowstorm” performed by Pico Masaki