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...
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...
Are you ready to try your luck on Kakegurui? All it could cost you is millions of yen… or your fingernails? David guides the team through this smash hit seinen manga that pits trust-fund-teens against one another in battles that cause embarrassment and ecstasy, skirting the line between schadenfreude and...
“They’re reading a manga… about Ping Pong? But why? How good could it possibly be? Wait, did Chip say it might be his favourite new manga of all time? Chip said that, not Christopher, who’s deeply biased towards liking Matsumoto’s work? Wow. Wow. Maybe I gotta listen to that episode...
This week, the Mangasplainers challenge the very notion that love is hard for peeps who have geeky hobbies, by reading a book on that very subject! Fujita’s Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku is a treatise on modern dating, but will decidedly NOT an otaku Chip Zdarsky be able to...
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Here's what's coming up on the podcast:
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
September 21 - Kowloon Generic Romance vol 1 by Jun Mayuzuki
September 28 - Division Chief Kosaku Shima vol. 1 (bilingual edition) by Kenshi HIrokane
October 5 - Space Brothers vol. 1 by Chuya Koyama
October 12 - AKIRA vol. 4 by Katsuhiro Otomo
October 19 - Season 3 Retrospective
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