It has come to my attention that I have to bring up some really depressing news. It’s been announced by a voice actor named Marissa Lenti that the voice actor Michael Lindsay has recently passed away. He died in August 30th, 2019 and he was only 56 years old. According to some tweets, it is said that had some poor health. Michael Lindsay is well known for voicing characters in anime. He voiced Kisuke Urahara from Bleach, Kankuro from Naruto and Joe Kido from Digimon.
Affidavit: a written statement confirmed by oath or affirmation, for use as evidence in court.
An affidavit is basically a written proof that that is used for evidence in court and it is sword by oath. These evidences are not tampered and it must be true.
It’s been crazy with Funimation. Besides the recent links of the voice actors recording inappropriate jokes with the characters, let’s not forget the whole Vic Migogna situation with Voice actor Vic and Funimation. If you don’t know, this drama occurred in the last week of January after the blockbuster success of Dragon Ball Super Broly movie. Accusations started to pop up stating that Broly voice actor Vic Migogna has sexually assaulted his coworkers and fans. Some people stated that he harassed them by kissing, hugging and aggressively pulling hair. As far I been hearing and reading, I haven’t seen actual pictures of him doing this to anyone. All these accusations have claimed tha the did this for about 10 years and no one bothered to report him. Regardless, Funimation and Rooster Teeth fired Vic and replaced his voice of his characters. Recently, Vic is suing Funimation and his coworkers for spreading lies and defamation on him and ruining his career.
Today, I found some interesting news that someone from their perspective has seen the shady stuff with Chris Sabat, Sean Schemmel, Monica Rial and Jamie Marchi. Supporting and standing up with Vic is voice actor Chuck Huber. Chuck Huber is a Funimation voice actor who recently voiced characters like Android 17 from Dragon Ball and Hiei from Yu Yu Hakusho. Chuck Huber testified and gave an affidavit regarding to Funimation and how they treated him. I will leave a video of affidavit from Hero Hiei in which he covers all the information down below.
Here are some quick synopsis points he stated:
12. Chris Sabat disparage Vic’s Christian faith and even called him gay for the clothes he wore.
17. Chris Sabat, Jamie Marchi and Monica Rial expressed negative opinions towards Vic Migogna’s success.
22. Sean Schemmel tried to persuade Chuck to participate in a derogatory video in which they make fun of VIc Migogna by calling him a pedophile. Chuck refused because he’s best friends with Vic.
39. When Sony partnered with Funimation, they stated a “no hug” policy, but regardless, everyone ignored it.
41. It’s only a rumor, but during the casting of Dragon Ball Z Kai, some of the voice actress got recasted because they didn’t want any sexual advances with the Funimation employees.
65. Jamie Marchi. Chris Sabat and Monica Rial and even himself has hugged and kissed so many fans of all ages.
75. Chuck and his wife are concerned that by siding with Vic means they would be targeted as well. Chris Sabat would target them
Here is a tweet showing the affidavit:
Halloween is coming up and you know what this means. Time to dress up as something hot, scary or both. Some people dress up as Pennywise from the movie It, some people dress up as Harley Quinn from DC comics. Some wants to be Joker. Released on Wednesday, DC and Warner Bros released the recent trailer for the upcoming solo movie Joker. Joker will be played as Joaquin Phoenix and the movie will be directed by Todd Philips. It will be playing this October. Will you be watching this movie on opening weekend?
Back in the day, jokes were pretty chill when in comes to topics like homosexuality or sexual jokes. Now we are in 2019 and now any joke can be offensive. Funimation is in hot water or thin ice in this news going on Twitter. Trending today, a leak has appeared online in the anime community showing the English voice actors from Funimation recording inappropriate jokes and dialogue. These voice actors worked in the anime Dragon Ball Z and some actors such as Sean Schemmel, Chris Sabat and Sonny Strait and many more have recorded themselves voicing the characters and performing NSFW acts. These leaks appeared in last night’s livestream from Nick Rekieta of Nick Rekieta Livestream. Nick pointed out that Funimation has broken their own rules by doing these jokes within the workplace and violating guidelines. Some of the dialogue includes protagonist Goku calling his son Gohan a slur word for homosexuality and Gohan performing incest acts with his mother Chi-Chi.
So far, Funimation and Toei Animation hasn’t responded to this news. Fans are even calling out on Funimation especially since Funimation fired voice actor Vic Migogna for accusations on harassment such as hugging and kissing and fans are targetting Funi for letting these voice actors behave like this. In short, fans care calling Funimation hypcrites for allowing veteran voice actors to say inappropriate jokes to work but fire Vic for hugging or even eating a jellybean with a voice actress name.
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Boo! Just kidding, I got some exciting news for you horror fans. During Crunchyroll Expo, Production I.G CEO Maki Terashima Furuta announced that they are going to be adapting Junjo Ito’s horror manga Uzamaki. However, this anime adaptation will be a miniseries that will be have up to four episodes. The anime director is going to be Hiroshi Nagahama who worked on anime Mushishi and Hollywood film composer Colin Stetson who worked on Heredity. Production IG has previously worked on titles like Kuroko’s Basketball and Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex.
To make this more exciting news, fans of Toonami will be able to watch this on TV on Toonami in 2020! According to the Toonami Faithful, Toonami will help produce this anime and broadcast it on TV just like how they worked on the FLCL anime.
The manga is licensed by Viz Manga. Here is the synopsis:
Kurozu-cho, a small fog-bound town on the coast of Japan, is cursed. According to Shuichi Saito, the withdrawn boyfriend of teenager Kirie Goshima, their town is haunted not by a person or being but by a pattern: uzumaki, the spiral, the hypnotic secret shape of the world.
It manifests itself in everything from seashells and whirlpools in water to the spiral marks on people’s bodies, the insane obsessions of Shuichi’s father and the voice from the cochlea in our inner ear. As the madness spreads, the inhabitants of Kurozu-cho are pulled ever deeper into a whirlpool from which there is no return!
Please be sure to follow their official Uzamaki Twitter page.
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Thank God it’s Friday! Welcome back for another funny episode of Friday Funny! I am Matthew and I am here to be your guide today. Today is the last Friday of August. It’s been a blast and now that we are heading towards September, get ready for a seasonal change. Get ready for Fall movies like Joker and It Chapter 2. Get ready for upcoming Fall anime like My Hero Academia season 4 and Sword Art Online Alicization Part 2. In other news, if you been reading on the D23 news, you might get tempted to sign up for Disney+ (Disney Plus). It’s been confirmed we’re getting some MCU TV shows like Moon Knight, She-Hulk and Miss Marvel but so there is no release date yet. We are getting a Star Wars TV series called The Mandalorian. Speaking of Star Wars, get for December because the final movie of the Skywalker Saga is coming to the end for Star Wars. Star Wars Episode IX: Rise of the Skywalker is going to be released on December 20th and this will be an epic finale. Also brewing with Disney, it looks like Disney is trying to come up with a new deal with Sony in order to keep Spider-Man in the MCU. So far things are still in talks and not even Tom Holland is supposed to be talking about it to the public. Fingers Crossed! Last but not least, if you prefer DC comics, get ready for Joker. Joker is coming out on October 4th this year and the character Joker is going to be played by Joaquin Phoenix and the story is going to be realistic as possible with no green screens.
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16 Then the soldiers led Him away into the hall called Praetorium, and they called together the whole garrison. 17 And they clothed Him with purple; and they twisted a crown of thorns, put it on His head, 18 and began to salute Him, “Hail, King of the Jews!” 19 Then they struck Him on the head with a reed and spat on Him; and bowing the knee, they worshiped Him. 20 And when they had mocked Him, they took the purple off Him, put His own clothes on Him, and led Him out to crucify Him.
Think back when you were you were little and you used to play classic licensed games like Disney games on your SNES or Sega Genesis. Here you are an adult and what if I told you that you can play these games again in your modern consoles. It’s been announced yesterday that Disney is planning to release a game collection in which it will have three different game versions of Aladdin and The Lion King including a never before played demo of an Aladdin game; the total games in this collection is seven. This game collection is called Disney Classic Games: Aladdin and The Lion King. According to IGN, here is what we’re getting:
Based on the trailer, players will be able to play the game with enhance graphics and the ability to jump into any moment in the game. You will also be able to rewind time in order to correct yourself if you make a mistake while playing. Unfortunately this game, as far as I know, will not have the SNES version of Aladdin. My guess is that this game was once licensed by Capcom and now Capcom doesn’t have the rights for the game anymore. It’s pretty common for Capcom because they usually lose the rights to a game. This happened before with the Ducktales Remastered and Marvel vs Capcom Origins. The SNES Aladdin game was designed by Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami.
This game will be released for a price of $29.99 for Nintendo Switch, PS4, Xbox One and PC. It set to be released in the Fall 2019.
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Greetings Spider-Man fans! I got some exciting news for you if love Spider-Man. If you haven’t gotten the chance to play 2018 Marvel Spider-Man for the PS4, today is your lucky day! It’s been announced by the Playstation Blog that Insomniac Games is re-releasing this PS4 best selling game with all the DLC in it in the lowest price. This version is called Marvel Spider-Man: Game of the Year Edition. This game will be coming out digital and in physical format for a price of $39.99. This includes the standard game with the DLC story “The City That Never Sleeps.” This DLC includes many costumes and challenges and it focuses on characters such as Black Cat Silver Sable and Hammerhead. If you haven’t got this game and you’re interested in playing as Spider-Man in a immersive world, get this game in a moderate price.
D23 is already over but I got some news leftover for you. We may be far from December, but if you are ready for the Christmas season, prepare to get excited. Disney unveiled a movie poster for the upcoming last movie of the new Star Wars trilogy.
The movie is called Star Wars Episode IX: Rise of the Skywalker and it’s going to be the last movie of the Skywalker Saga. The movie is coming out on December 20th of 2019. Disney also released a trailer for the movie with some unexpected plot twist moments. Are you ready to see the dark side of the force lose or rise up against good?
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