This week the team digs into a classic sports manga, Cross Game by Mitsuru Adachi! This story has huge twist/reveal in the first volume and the crew SPOILS IT, A LOT. But it’s not a spoiler to say that this (baseball!?) manga is EXCELLENT, so if you don’t want to know the big, important plot twist in this volume before you get a chance to read it, you can fast-forward to 1:10:15 and listen to the our latest Manga Blind Date, with To Strip The Flesh by Oto Toda from VIZ Media! It’s a jam-packed episode, so don’t miss it!
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IN THIS EPISODE
00:00 Cross Game vol. 1 – SPOILERS! Skip to 1:10:00 for Manga Blind Date: To Strip the Flesh if you don’t want this book spoiled.
01:10:15 The Break!
1:11:00 Manga Blind Date: To Strip the Flesh
1:31:00 Shout outs! TV shows! Lots of anime that hit you in the feels or have a lot of hitting (ok, boxing)
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