Following up on the ‘end’ of Season 2 last week, we’re taking a week off to rest and recharge! Fear not though, because over on the MSX Newsletter, we’ve got a new article by friend-of-the-podcast Erica Friedman, The Manga of Takako Shimura, author of Even Though We’re Adults, a past...
It’s the Season 2 Wrap-up episode! We reflect on the second 25 weeks of Mangasplaining, from A Drunken Dream to Wotakoi, and everything in between! No reading to catch up with, no spoilers (er, mostly), just a good chat with the crew. Enjoy! Powered by RedCircle
This week, we’re back to where it all began, as the gang luxuriates in the visual feast that is Katsuhiro Otomo’s AKIRA Volume 3. We’re gonna spoil you up front this week: Chip calls it his favourite volume of comics of all time. FOR REALS. Find out why by listening...
After two episodes talking about boys love manga, the gang finally reads an actual BL manga together! We start off with the short and sweet Our Dining Table by Mita Ori, but will it be ‘smexy’ enough to satisfy these very adult readers? This episode gets a little spicy, so...
This week on Mangasplaining, Deb leads the crew through a book that sort of sums up some of the themes of Season 2, with an autobiographically-informed piece of art about art, and a story that’s very similar to another title we talked about in a previous episode. Tsubasa Yamaguchi’s hit...
This week on Mangasplaining David leads the group into our first small-press short-story, Minami Q-Ta’s The Blood Red Boy. We take a deep, deep dive into this story, and while we’d love it if you read ALL the books we cover on the podcast, since this one is just $2...
Hello, and Welcome to Mangasplaining! The newsletter where we talk about manga, and also… publish manga?! It’s true! Some of the folks behind the Mangasplaining Podcast are starting a brand new publishing endeavour under the Mangasplaining banner, the very first manga Substack! We will publish the episode show-notes you already...
The Mangasplaining crew wrap up their “Classic Manga” arc, by going back to the most influential Japanese superhero comic of all time, Kamen Rider, by Shotaro Ishinomori! Straight from 1971, this manga adapted from a TV series adapted from a manga has echoed through generations, but how does this original...
This week the gang talks about Studio Ghibli big-boss Hayao Miyazaki, and his classic 1982 manga Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind! A bonafide among bonafides, but does this manga meet Chip and the gang’s strict desires for classic manga? And is it really even manga at all? Find...
Keeping up with your new year’s resolutions? Akira resolved to save all of humanity by combining with the power of the Devil to become DEVILMAN, in one of the wildest manga the Mangasplainers have ever read. Something to shoot for, for next year’s resolution, eh? Plus a reader Q&A about...
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