Get ready to get rugged, as the Mangasplaining team heads north… and back in time!… to the colonization of Hokkaido, Japan at the end of the 1800s. It’s Satoru Noda’s historical, informational, action-filled, occasionally homoerotic, EPIC manga Golden Kamuy! Powered by RedCircle In this Episode:00:00 Golden Kamuy vol. 152:30 The...
VIKINGS! Renowned for their pillaging, conquest, and… really great art? Deb leads the team through the one-and-only Viking manga being published today, and it’s not quite what anyone expected… in a good way! This week on Mangasplaining, we start the Vinland Saga… come along for the journey! Powered by RedCircle...
This week we take a dip back into the Shonen Jump mines with one of its newest and most unexpected hit series’, Spy X Family by Tatsuya Endo. We all read the same book this week, so that’s better than last time. But did we all read it… the same way?
As we wrap up Season 1 of Mangasplaining, we return to where we started, with the second volume of Katsuhiro Otomo’s epic manga creation, AKIRA. AKIRA Vol. 2 is a great manga that acts as a jumping-off point for a wide ranging talk on printing and publishing, assistants, and art...
The international smash-sensation, Hiromu Arakawa’s FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST, is the subject this week on Mangasplaining! How can a universally beloved series be anything but universally beloved? Well you’re about to find out… Powered by RedCircle
Perhaps our most anticipated episode, TekkonKinkreet is a manga that’s had a powerful effect on many readers and comic creators, including this week’s host Christopher. Will Chip Zdarsky like the book? Will him disliking it form a rift that tears the podcast asunder? Probably not, but Deb, David, Christopher and...
It’s the first episode of Mangasplaining, the podcast where we make Chip Zdarsky Read Great Manga to see what he thinks! Featuring Chip, Deb Aoki, David Brothers, and this episode’s host Christopher Butcher. So what did Chip think of the legendary manga classic Akira? Listen to find out!
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Here's what's coming up on the podcast:
Jan 18: Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind Vol 1, by Hayao Miyazaki. (VIZ Media)
Jan 25: Kamen Rider Classic Collection, by Shotaro Ishinomori. (Seven Seas)
Feb 1: The Blood Red Boy, by Minami Q-ta. (Starfruit Books)
Feb 8: Blue Period Vol. 1, by Tsubasa Yamaguchi. (Kodansha)
Feb 15: Our Dining Table, by Mira Ota. (Seven Seas)
Feb 22: AKIRA Volume 3, by Katsuhiro Otomo. (Kodansha)
Find these books at your local comic/manga specialty shop or independent bookstore or maybe even your local library!
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