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In this episode, Deb brings back the BL and we end up with possibly the best title for a manga we’ve covered on this podcast: Cherry Magic! Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard!? Despite reservations, a very fun time is had. Plus: The Return of the reader...
Diving into the world of Gekiga this week, with the recently released Nejishiki by Yoshiharu Tsuge! Featuring one of the most well-known and important works of Tsuge, ‘Screw Style’, this reprint series has been long-awaited by art comix and manga fans and collectors. But how will the Mangasplainers react to...
The Mangasplainers return to one of their fav artists, Kamome Shirahama of Witch Hat Atelier fame to take a look at her earlier and steamier work, the angel and devil buddy comedy Eniale & Dewiela. Will the angels and devils in this manga provide a chaste reading experiences? Or are the sultry demons...
This week, the Mangasplainers go back for a TRIPLE Chip-Dip into the oeuvre of one Mr. Tatsuki Fujimoto, creator of Chainsaw Man and Look Back. Have we pushed Chip too far this episode, making him read a third title by the same person? Does liking those first two titles automatically...
Is this manga meets X-Men: Inferno? That’s how David pitched Blood Blockade Battlefront by Trigun creator Yasuhiro Nightow to good ‘ole Chip, but will this over the top spectral superhero series live up to that moniker? Only one way to find out…! Powered by RedCircle Listen and Subscribe to the...
Chip did it, he called our bluff! So in this episode, we’re discussing the funny orange comic book cat phenomenon, centering on Japan’s entry into that particular sweepstakes, Makoto Kobayashi’s What’s Michael? But don’t worry, we also talk about those other orange tabbies, Jim Davis’ Garfield and George Gately’s Heathcliff, too. Plus,...
After our episode on The Blood Red Boy introduced us to Minami Q-ta, the Mangasplaining gang take a deeper dive into their oeuvre with Not All Girls Are Stupid, a brand-new and blistering look at the difficulties of being a woman in your late teens and early 20s. A great...
David takes us into the world of pro wrestling by way of a basketball manga? Yep, get ready for Real vol. 13 by Takehiko Inoue.
It’s the 100th episode, and the team are doing something special! This week David and Chip take over, interviewing translator Jocelyne Allen and Editor Andrew Woodrow-Butcher on the new manga Okinawa, by Susumu Higa! Produced by MSX: Mangasplaining Extra and published by Fantagraphics, this gripping historical manga is now available...
This week on Mangasplaining Extra, we debut Susumu Higa’s complete graphic novella “Body Tree,” never before published. Created in 2013, almost two decades after the stories that comprise Higa’s Okinawa, this wordless comic is a harsh reaction to natural and manmade disaster, and a harrowing reflection on our place in...
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