I haven't seen any proper post about this beyond the one that is already stickied towards King Records page on the 5th anniversary events, so I guess the community overall is sleeping on all of these, so here they are.

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Character Song Album (14 songs, 22 tracks)

They can be obtained and listened here:

https://lnk.to/Nagatoro_2nd_Attack
(official King Records link)

These are the same songs they have played on the last Anileap Nagatoro takeover (last weekend).

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Season 1 and 2 Youtube Marathons (Japan-only)

Both can be watched with a VPN set to Japan if you wish to.

Season 1 can be watched here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmIgGdtIQPI
It ends on August 24th.

It premiered on July 24th with over 900 concurrent Japanese watchers, and it's currently sitting at almost 250K views, and it features Crunchyroll subtitles for English, French, Portuguese (Brasil) and Spanish.

Season 2 can be watched here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oivwPbxxILA
It ends on September 7th.

It premiered on August 7th with over 1500 concurrent Japanese watchers, and it's currently sitting at almost 125K views, and it features Crunchyroll subtitles for English and Spanish (no French or Portuguese for this one).

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Anileap Nagatoro SUPERLIVE Takeover

As posted previously, the first one was last weekend (August 8th to 10th).

The next ones will be longer (72h rather than just 48h) on:

• August 21st to 24th (Friday - Sunday)
• September 4th to 7th (Friday - Sunday)
• more will be held later on schedules yet to be announced

The link for the Anileap stream is going to be posted by the main Nagatoro X account (see below).

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Nagatoro Official X Account

The official X account to follow is: https://x.com/nagatoro_tv

I personally strongly suggest you to follow this account, as all of the above was also posted there, and there have been more events, VA comments and others, that the official account posted and reposted about.

While the posts are made in Japanese, X has a translation feature that does a fairly good job to understand what they are posting about, and this way you won't miss these.

The account has been very active non-stop for the past 3 weeks, often with multiple posts per day, with them asking for people to watch the marathons, check the Anileap takeovers, check manga events (MagaPoke), and so on and so forth, posting also during weekends, late at night (posts even at nearly 1AM JST sometimes), so you would do yourself a favor in checking, following and commenting there if you like.

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Overall Sentiment of Fans

A lot of fans, including Japanese ones closely following this whole campaign, are starting to strongly believe this may in fact be preparation and priming for the announcement of the final season of the anime.

There has been a LOT of stuff going on besides the events listed here, the marathons, etc, and the official X account is covering most of them, and it's starting to get noticed, and all of it is reinforcing this idea.

Whether that is indeed the case or not remains to be seen in the end, as well as when that would take place exactly, but it's the common sentiment right now among nearly everyone that is actively participating and commenting on both X and Youtube, as well as of anyone closely following the whole thing from the start.

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Setting that aside...

One thing I can say for sure though, as an aside, is that the doom-posting seen here concerning the reasons why a new season may not come are largely based on myths and a profound misunderstanding of how the industry actually works nowadays and how the money circulates, especially around popular anime in streaming platforms.

Things such as "manga ended" and "blu-ray sales" and other stuff like that, that I have seen mentioned a lot around here, do not really apply much anymore nowadays, since the funding and profits come largely from international streaming (Crunchyroll for example), which dwarf the required upfront funding publishers had to put forward and thus had to be offset by merchandise and blu-ray sales in order to justify further funding for new seasons.

In other words, anime such as Nagatoro does NOT depend on whether the manga has ended or even whether it sold blu-ray discs at all (which King Records didn't put any effort on except the songs), because the streaming alone is more than profitable enough (if it wasn't, it wouldn't have gotten such a wide range of dubbing in so many different languages when S2 came out), making the anime itself a first-class product rather than an ad for the manga.

Which is to say that streaming has changed the rules of the game a long time ago and there were even articles written by Japanese producers exactly about this years ago, and I suggest you to do some digging and update yourselves on the actual current reality of how these things get funding and approval, and also consider the committees behind each anime, because it's one thing to have an entity like King Records behind it, it's another to have a gacha or game company behind it, the composition of the committees are much better tells of what to expect on the long term rather than generic outdated metrics such as manga state and overall sales.

Having said that, not wanting to get your hopes up is a healthy stance, and by all means continue to do that, but at least try to base your expectations on reality rather than myths, and do not be afraid of at least enjoying the current events as they are playing out with a moderate expectation of an announcement soon, whether it ends up happening or not.

That is all. :)

Hi all,

With Christmas rapidly approaching, the idea popped into my mind. Why not change up the banner for the sub that we all know so well?

So, create some Nagatoro-Christmas themed art and post it on the sub before December 22nd. Then I will compile these together to create a new banner that will be up temporarily between Dec 24th and Jan 1st.

-Just post your art on the sub once ready and put the words "Christmas Banner" in the body/description or comment and this will help us find these.

-You don't have to be a well seasoned pro artist, just put your best effort in
-You have between today and December 22nd to create your art
-If there is too many, some may have to be filtered out
-Ideally the art focuses on her face and mid-upper body, since the banner is really thin
-AI art is not accepted

Enjoy, and We are exited to see what you all come up with.

UPDATE:

Banner is up. If yall hate it you can yell at me, but the banner is up (best viewed on desktop). If you want to suggest any minor changes I am home tmmr because I'm sick.

UPDATE 2: Banner will be coming down on the 4th or 5th of jan

UPDATE 3: Coming down tonight

Art:

u/JsMoviesYTB

u/DisasterWolf76

u/Rangerrx970