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Back before there was a print edition, the Mangasplainers read the weekly chapters of Golden Kamuy creator Satoru Noda’s new hockey manga, DOGSRED! Christopher hosts for a series he was excited to read, Deb already loved, and David was unsure of… And what about Chip, who “hates hockey?” Is there anything here for HIM?...
A Japanese take on superheroes? A henshin series? A kaiju/giant monsters manga? A workplace drama? The new-ish Shonen Jump series Kaiju No. 8 is all of these and more! But will the Mangasplainers dig this multifaceted action series? Or is it merely… Competent!!!? Come for Kaiju No. 8, but stick around for wide-ranging discussions of...
Welcome back to Mangasplaining, the podcast for people who are curious about manga but don’t know where to start! This week we choose a work from one of our favorite authors with potentially broad appeal—Jiro Taniguchi’s Guardians of the Louvre. But will this title live up to the love we have...
Hello Mangasplaining fans, have we got a treat for you! Thanks to our friends at Kodansha who sponsored this episode, we were given an advance peek at the forthcoming hardcover omnibus Ashita no Joe: Fighting for Tomorrow Volume 1. This classic boxing manga (and so much more!) has been one...
Mangasplaining Extra is the Publishing-oriented sister-company of the Mangasplaining Podcast. We serialize unique, interesting, and little-seen manga, particularly from genres that are underrepresented in the mainstream. This project remains subscription-based and reader-supported, of course, but we are also able to work with creators to release free-to-read stories, and preview chapters...
Welcome to our very first episode of… Comicsplaining?! That’s right, this week we’re covering a “mainstream, superhero” book, Daredevil: Born Again by Frank Miller and David Mazzuchelli. Chip calls it his “Nausicaa,” and everything THAT means. But wait, why are covering a non-manga title? What does this have to do with Mangasplaining?...
Welcome to Season 5 of Mangasplaining! We’re jumping right in on our new bi-weekly schedule with both our longest episode AND our first prose book: Manga! Manga! The World of Japanese Comics, by Frederik Schodt. It’s literally THE book on Manga for North America, or at least it was when...
Hi everyone, Christopher here. This post is about the fact that SEARCH AND DESTROY VOLUME 1, by Atsushi Kaneko, based on the manga Dororo by Osamu Tezuka, and published by Fantagraphics and Mangasplaining Extra, is getting released tomorrow, July 23rd! It’ll be in better stores everywhere and there’ll be copies at Comic-Con, too....
Did you know that comics, graphic novels, and manga can (usually) be found at your local library? We talk to American Library Association’s Graphic Novel and Comics Roundtable President Robin Brenner about her history promoting manga in libraries and how you can save a few bucks and enjoy your tax...
What a season it’s been! Lasting basically the entirety of 2023, we covered a ton of great manga, from the popular anime-fueled hits of the day to the obscure and wonderful titles hiding on shelves across the world. So what were our faves? What are the manga for YOU, the...
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