Simuldub Saints Episode 85 - The Best Simuldubs of Spring 2026

**Laserkid** (0:00)
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Hello, and welcome to Simuldub Saints, your guide to seasonal anime dubs. I'm your host, Laser Kid, and with me as well is my trusty co-host.

**Archangel** (0:52)
Hello, I am Archangel, lover of Catgirls.

**Laserkid** (0:56)
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**Archangel** (1:04)
And in this episode, we are shouting out Bellular News. More about them at the end.

**Laserkid** (1:11)
Talk about that on Playsite Check Weekly.
Well, we're back. We were down for a little bit. Totally my fault. Sorry about that, guys. As we record this, two episodes ago just came out, and we had the season preview in the cam, but this is us getting back in the seat as Orr. And because of that and the fact that the season preview did not have any news, I am going to briefly go over a couple of pieces of news before we get into the awards, just so we can give you guys some information. But the awards are coming up, so don't you worry. Well, we've always got to shout out our buddies over at Manga Mavericks whenever they make the news. I'm so proud of our buddies V-Lord and Lum Ramayasha over there at Manga Mavericks doing their awesome work. They've licensed Insignificant Justice and they are forming an Independent Manga Alliance between Independent Manga Publishers. The fact that that made Crunchyroll News makes me so happy and I'm so excited for them.
So, that's us covering our buddies. Exciting me to ridiculous amounts of hype. There's a brand new Galaxy Express 3.9 theatrical movie coming out. It's been announced and apparently it's based on a story concept from film director of the previous movies, Rintaro. You're going to take me on a journey to the stars.
Speaking on journey to the stars, we have a new Gundam announced. Mobile Suit Gundam RG Xarx Zero. It appears to be an alternate universe Gundam, which is more common than Universal Century. I'm not sure if they're doing time travel or if they're doing like, let's fix the mess in front of us. But the tagline is rewrite the future.

**Archangel** (3:22)
Are they competing to see which Gundam series can have the least pronounceable and comprehensible title or what?

**Laserkid** (3:30)
I mean, this one's considerably better than GQuarks. I can pronounce RG Xarx is not that hard.

**Archangel** (3:38)
It sounds like Cobbledygook.

**Laserkid** (3:41)
I mean, sure, but compared to GQuarks, which I can only pronounce because of the show?

**Archangel** (3:49)
There's one half a dozen of the other, I'd say. Anyway.

**Laserkid** (3:55)
Moving on, the One Piece Elbaph Arc English Dub has been set to stream on Crunchyroll in Fall 2026, which, wow. I thought that was going to be a lot sooner, but hey, we'll get it when we get it, I suppose.

**Archangel** (4:13)
Indeed.

**Laserkid** (4:17)
And our last piece of news. The idiots are coming back. KonoSuba Season 4, which was previously announced as coming, is now confirmed for 2027, and we even got a nice little poster for it, which is pretty fricking cool.

**Archangel** (4:33)
Ow, my sanity.

**Laserkid** (4:37)
Fair enough. Well, that's our news, and it's time for us to go into that fun award season that we do.
And we're not doing the Why Is This Dubbed Award, because I'm going to be honest, we're definitely going to have to do that for summer, because I'm watching a number of subtitle shows in summer. But for spring, I didn't really watch much other than the shows we were watching dubbed also.

**Archangel** (5:06)
I have one big Why Isn't This Dubbed, but it's for this season that started.

**Laserkid** (5:11)
The summer season, yeah. Well, I've got several of those. We'll deal with that when we do summer awards. So the award is on reprieve for this season.
And so we're going to start, as we always do, with the best character arcs. So, Arc, why don't you tell us your number three best character arc?

**Archangel** (5:30)
Well, my number three, and I should emphasize that this isn't done yet, but a Got from Witch Hat Atelier.

**Laserkid** (5:39)
Excellent choice. I wish I had thought of that, honestly.

**Archangel** (5:43)
Yeah, so she is in the middle of a rather dramatic character arc. And it'll be interesting to see where she winds up.

**Laserkid** (5:54)
Fair enough. My number three goes to Will Surfart from Wistoria Wand and Sword Season 2