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12:46:54 <bay|AX|Kadokawa> Hi guys
12:47:15 <bay|AX|Kadokawa> Thank you all for coming out on the last day of Anime Expo
12:47:18 <bay|AX|Kadokawa> We're here today to talk about Kadokawa
12:47:51 <bay|AX|Kadokawa> First, I'll introduce myself, I'm Dallas Middaugh
13:38:31 <bay|AX|Kadokawa> I'm Kurt Hassler (and running the powerpoint is Miles)
12:48:11 <bay|AX|Kadokawa> How many people here know who Kadokawa is?
12:48:35 <bay|AX|Kadokawa> Kadokawa is one of the largest publishers in Japana
12:49:06 <bay|AX|Kadokawa> Now, what you may not realize is a bunch of shows you are watching are based on Kadokawa properties (paraphrased)
12:49:34 <bay|AX|Kadokawa> We also managed to hold a couple announcements on both the publishing and anime side for this event
12:51:25 <bay|AX|Kadokawa> (Going over the background of the relationship of Kadokawa / Crunchyroll and Kadokawa / Yen Press)
12:52:25 <bay|AX|Kadokawa> Let's get started with the fun part of the show
12:53:17 <bay|AX|Kadokawa> (PPT of Kadokawa titles)
12:53:21 <bay|AX|Kadokawa> Taboo Tatto
12:53:39 <bay|AX|Kadokawa> Manga - Two volumes available from Yen PRess, Volume 3 out in July
12:53:50 <bay|AX|Kadokawa> Anime - Streaming on Crunchyroll now
12:57:34 <bay|AX|Kadokawa> Our next title...
12:57:37 <bay|AX|Kadokawa> Big Order
12:58:30 <bay|AX|Kadokawa> Announced earlier this weekend.. you will be seeing the manga in 2017 from Yen Press
12:58:37 <bay|AX|Kadokawa> And you can watch the anime on Crunchyroll
13:01:06 <bay|AX|Kadokawa> Is it Wrong To Try to Pick up Girls in a Dungeon
13:01:16 <bay|AX|Kadokawa> Anime available now
13:01:21 <bay|AX|Kadokawa> Manga and light novel series available now
13:04:09 <bay|AX|Kadokawa> It's worth noting the original story is from SB Creative, Kadokawa was involved in the anime production
13:04:33 <bay|AX|Kadokawa> The Asterisk War
13:04:51 <bay|AX|Kadokawa> Yen press has the manga and light novel coming out this month
13:04:55 <bay|AX|Kadokawa> Second season just finished airing
13:05:39 <bay|AX|Kadokawa> Monthly Girls Nozaki-kun
13:06:23 <bay|AX|Kadokawa> Manga - three volumes available now from Yen Press, volume four coming in August
13:05:52 <bay|AX|Kadokawa> Anime - available on Crunchyroll
13:08:31 <bay|AX|Kadokawa> also worth pointing out, the manga is from square-enix, so it's another collaboration
13:08:36 <bay|AX|Kadokawa> Bungo Stray Dogs
13:12:09 <bay|AX|Kadokawa> Re:Zero -Starting Life in Another World-
13:12:19 <bay|AX|Kadokawa> Anime - Currently airing
13:13:37 <bay|AX|Kadokawa> Manga and light novel coming out at the end of this month
13:15:02 <bay|AX|Kadokawa> The Isolator (Manga)
13:15:08 <bay|AX|Kadokawa> This was just announced this weekend
13:15:40 <bay|AX|Kadokawa> The manga was just announced this weekend, the light novel series we've already been doing, latest work from Reki Kawahara
13:16:23 <bay|AX|Kadokawa> My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU
13:16:41 <bay|AX|Kadokawa> Manga and light novel
13:16:53 <bay|AX|Kadokawa> First manga volume available now
13:16:56 <bay|AX|Kadokawa> light novel coming in august
13:17:04 <bay|AX|Kadokawa> Anime - available now
13:19:08 <bay|AX|Kadokawa> Just a bit of housekeeping
13:19:22 <bay|AX|Kadokawa> we have to call out to our friends at shogakukan as the original publishers of the light novels
13:20:13 <bay|AX|Kadokawa> Durarara
13:20:56 <bay|AX|Kadokawa> Manga and Light novel available
13:21:38 <bay|AX|Kadokawa> Anime seasons streaming
13:22:19 <bay|AX|Kadokawa> Yowamushi Pedal
13:24:23 <bay|AX|Kadokawa> Sword Art Online
13:26:07 <bay|AX|Kadokawa> Testament of Sister New Devil
13:28:13 <bay|AX|Kadokawa> Smokin' Parade (Manga)
13:28:03 <bay|AX|Kadokawa> announcement we made earlier this weekend... creators of deadman wonderland are back
13:28:06 <bay|AX|Kadokawa> this is their new series
13:28:31 <bay|AX|Kadokawa> First volume of the manga coming in January
13:28:46 <bay|AX|Kadokawa> Announcements
13:29:02 <bay|AX|Kadokawa> New series airing on Crunchyroll
13:29:10 <bay|AX|Kadokawa> Ange Vierge
13:31:21 <bay|AX|Kadokawa> ERASED (Manga)
13:31:15 <bay|AX|Kadokawa> by Kei Sanbe
13:31:34 <bay|AX|Kadokawa> because this is a special book
13:31:42 <bay|AX|Kadokawa> once in a while we do special editions, something outside the norm
13:31:54 <bay|AX|Kadokawa> because this is so near and dear to our hearts, we're going to release this as hardcover 2 volume onmibus
13:32:07 <bay|AX|Kadokawa> spring 2017
13:32:23 <bay|AX|Kadokawa> Next crunchyroll announcement
13:32:26 <bay|AX|Kadokawa> Prisma Illya Season 3
13:33:11 <bay|AX|Kadokawa> Next Yen press announcement
13:33:59 <bay|AX|Kadokawa> Bungou Stray Dogs
13:34:15 <bay|AX|Kadokawa> the manga edition, will be starting our releases in december of this year
13:34:36 <bay|AX|Kadokawa> Written by Kafka Asagiri, illustrated by Sango Harukawa
13:34:47 <bay|AX|Kadokawa> the manga version
13:35:04 <bay|AX|Kadokawa> those are our 4 announcements for the panel
13:37:45 <bay|AX|Kadokawa> Other two Kadokawa series airing this season: Masou Gakuen HxH, New Game
13:40:01 <bay|AX|Kadokawa> And that is the ppt, we'd like to take questions now...
13:40:49 <bay|AX|Kadokawa> Q: Since light novels are getting more popular, but not yet, how fierce is thebattle to get light novels?
13:40:58 <bay|AX|Kadokawa> A: I'm going to take issue with your premise and say light novels are very popular right now
13:41:05 <bay|AX|Kadokawa> we have instances where the light novels outsell the manga
13:41:14 <bay|AX|Kadokawa> this is industry common widom that novels don't do well
13:41:26 <bay|AX|Kadokawa> we established a light novel brand called yen on, it's a huge % of our overall business
13:41:34 <bay|AX|Kadokawa> we dominate the market place cause nobody else is there right now
13:41:39 <bay|AX|Kadokawa> but we're also kadokawa and we own that market
13:42:05 <bay|AX|Kadokawa> Q: How much of the content of Yen Press will be digital? (guessing baed on answer?)
13:42:11 <bay|AX|Kadokawa> A: We get epub rights whenever we can
13:42:16 <bay|AX|Kadokawa> we want 100% available
13:42:25 <bay|AX|Kadokawa> we're still acquring additional digital rights
13:43:33 <bay|AX|Kadokawa> Q: Old licnses by kadokawa... (a title) was brought over by viz in 97... and was put on hiatus in 99... could that be brought over? do they have the rights?
13:43:48 <bay|AX|Kadokawa> A: I'd imagine the rights have lapsed, but I don't know the specific status
13:44:06 <bay|AX|Kadokawa> I'd put that in the wait and see but don't hold your breath
13:44:43 <bay|AX|Kadokawa> Q: What are the specifics of our (@Dallas) deal with Kadoakwa?
13:44:35 <bay|AX|Kadokawa> A: We're currently streaming every show they do for 2016