And we start it with a story about Neil and one of his favourite subjects…hentai. And the others give their 20 year reflections of the Roundtable and the Toronto fan community

00:33:10 - We give the latest update to the Pokemon Centre stabbing murder. Along with an overview of shops based on specific IPs

01:06:20 - We finally weigh in on the Shogakukan cover up controversy and wonder about the past competence of its editorial department

01:28:00 - And the nominees for the Crunchyroll Anime Awards are…

And the Queues

Is It My Fault That I Got Bullied?

One Piece Live Action

Hagenai

Geppy-X

The Darwin Incident

Oshi Uplink

Tim Horton's Korea and Anne of Green Gables

This Week’s Drinking Game - Pour one out to the victims of the stories we talked about this week

Mike Nicolas, James Austin, Kevin Ng, Mohamed Sharmarke, Amy-Lynn Greig

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

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Mike and James do a space heater for the first time with the wireless mics…and you can hear it. And we start by looking back on 20 years of the Roundtable, and what has changed in terms of how we keep up with any of this (hint: social media and life). And then we look ahead to episode 100

This Week’s Drinking game: Take a shot when you hear Mike taking a TUMS, or use the word “efficency”

Mike Nicolas and James Austin

What was mentioned

Gachiakuta

Kaho Shibuya becomes a Twitch ambassador

Afroman Lawsuit

The Shogakukan controversy

Seven Seas Publishing is purchased by Media Do

Right Stuf warehouse is for sale

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We start the Valentines episode by recapping Mike’s space heater review of Scarlet

00:15:22 - We look at the latest crackdown in manga piracy and try and make some sense out of it

00:49:38 - Kodansha expands their Print on Demand program. Of which Crunchyroll is part of?

00:56:00 - We crack the whip on the obligatory Crunchyroll stuff. Let’s start with the store…

01:13:30 - Then the streaming subscription prices…going up

01:32:00 - Fandom kept the receipts from Viz. And a quick history of limbo titles from them

01:53:35 - What’s on our queues?

James - Lupin III: The Immortal Bloodline

Moh - Scarlet (maybe)

Kevin - Stray Kids: The DominATE Experience

Mike - Falling For Her Secret Side (LN), Otonari Asobi (LN)

02:11:55 - The community calendar, Fruits Basket Prelude, Oshi Uplink V-Tuber Convention

This Week’s Drinking Game: Take a shot when Mike goes on his rant

Mike Nicolas, James Austin, Mohamed Sharmarke, Kevin Ng (eventually)

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

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Mike and Moh were talking on the phone the day after the former went out to see Scarlet in IMAX. So the former hit the record button so everyone can know if it's worth seeing in IMAX...

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Kevin lives to tell about his experience working retail the day after Christmas (one of the busiest shopping days of the year). Kevin lives to tell about his trip to Asia (which did include Japan). Kevin gives us his takes on the last few Space Heaters (because he was living). Then Kevin wonders what our reading and watching lists say about him and Mike (and tries to survive telling that)

It's the final podcast recording of 2025. Hope you like it

*more links to be added*

Mike Nicolas and Kevin Ng

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Mike and Mohamed go on and off topic wondering what was the bigger garbage fire this week. Was it the FIFA World Cup Draw, or Amazon's anime AI Dub attempt? And then we went on and off topic one more time with Netflix/WB and Crunchyroll ending winding down their ad tier.

And then we end with our usual "What are we watching and reading" segment. Here's one of Mike's hints: Happy Birthday Mahiru Shiina!!

This Week's Drinking Game: Take a shot for Mike when he realizes Moh got disconnected...

Mike Nicolas and Mohamed Sharmarke

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TLDR: It was better than the microphones for this taping…and you can hear it

Mike and James give their review on the first Anime Revoution Toronto the previous weekend, and in particular the Japanese guests. With a few thoughts on the Toronto Game Expo which was also the same weekend. With a longer conversation about the convention scene for Toronto. And a throw away thought on Amazon’s AI Dubbing attempt

Remind Mike to do a mic check next time

Mike Nicolas and James Austin

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