Get ready for the witchiest month of them all, AUGUST, as we begin three weeks of Very Different books about witches! We kick things off with the darling of the witchy world (and one of the bestselling manga series in North America), Kamome Shirahama’s Witch Hat Atelier! Deb hosts and...
This week the team ‘reads’ its first UNTRANSLATED manga, jumping into Season 3 of MOONLIGHT MILE by Yasuo Otagaki. Self-serialized by the author on PIXIV, this sci-fi action manga set on the moon creates a unique experience for the Mangasplainers, but will Chip dig it even though he has to turn his...
It’s another double-header this week as the crew dives into one of the bestselling manga of 2021, My Hero Academia by Kohei Horikoshi, followed by a blast back to the past with seinen manga classic Battle Angel Alita by Yukito Kishiro! Two great manga that grow and change significantly in the telling gives us...
This week, the Mangasplaining Crew finally get to one of David and Deb’s fave fighting manga, Hiroki Endo’s All-Rounder Meguru! In this unique episode, the team reads the first volume of the MMA manga, then skips to volume 7 to read a volume based on female fighters! Make sure not to...
This week the team takes a decidedly NSFW dive into the surprising world of gay manga, with the MASSIVE Anthology! How does it compare to BL? How does it compare to their ‘regular’ reads? How will they do the show notes for this one? Find out inside! Plus, in a...
Deb continues to recommend her favorite shojo manga to the Mangasplainers, this week cheering-on Mika Yamamori’s In The Clear Moonlit Dusk. But will the arrow of this shojo manga’s love pierce Chip’s cold, cruel heart? Listen on and find out! Powered by RedCircle
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...
Darkness! No Parents! Continued Darkness! The Opposite of Light! Black Hole! All of these things await you… and much more… in Dorohedoro creator Q Hayashida’s new manga, Dai Dark Volume 1. But it turns out to be very different than some of the Mangasplainers expected, and the team ends up...
This week the team dives into their very first music manga, the jazz odyssey that is Blue Giant, by Shinichi Ishizuka! They’re also reading their first-ever series where they don’t start from the first volume, instead they’re diving straight into volume five! Does it work? Does any of it work?...
If you’re new to Blue Giant and maybe you don’t have time or the inclination to read volumes 1-4 before we post our next episode, here’s what I’m-a gonna do for you: I’m sharing the pre-read summary of the main events of the first 1/3 of the series that I...
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August 2 - Witch Hat Atelier vol. 1 by Kamome Shirahama
August 9 - Witchcraft Works vol. 1 by Ryu Mizunagi
August 16 - Witches by Daisuke Igarashi
August 23 - 4 First Chapters Special!
• Food Wars – Shokugeki no Soma [LINK]
• Kokkoku: Moment by Moment [LINK]
• Sweetness & Lightning [LINK]
• How Are You? [LINK]
August 30 - Chi's Sweet Home vol. 1 (omnibus) by Konami Kanata
September 6 - Mob Psycho 100 vol 1 by ONE
September 13 - Our Colors by Gengoroh Tagame
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