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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...
The manga you’ve been waiting for Mangasplaining to cover has finally arrived! The Mangang dives into PLUTO volume 1, Naoki Urasawa’s epic reimagining of Osamu Tezuka’s Astro Boy story ‘The World’s Strongest Robot!’ But will this first volume live up to the hype? Is it the Watchmen of manga, or...
Oh no! You died in the real world and woke up inside a video game world! Except you’re not the heroine of this dating-simulation, you’re the villainess who tries to take her down! You’ve got a bad end coming because the hero(ine) always wins… so what are you going to...
So close and yet so far, the gorgeous idol singer Midori-kun lives next door to our hero, Melon-chan. But Melon is an adult video actress, and if Midori and Melon are seen together it could be disastrous for Midori’s career! As the two grow closer, will Midori-kun remain… Untouchable? Deb...
We’re excited today to announce that MSX: Mangasplaining Extra (the newsletter and publishing sister company of the podcast) have announced our next FOUR manga licenses. Two of these projects will be serialized in the newsletter, available to read for paid subscribers, and the other two projects will go straight to...
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