Tagged: Kyoko Okazaki

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Ep. 109: River’s Edge, by Kyoko Okazaki

Happy New Year! For the first episode of 2024, we’re starting off with a fascinating, complex 1-shot manga, Kyoko Okazaki’s River’s Edge. In this mature-rated episode, we dig into the startling secret lives of teens in the 1990s, through the unique lens of the incredible josei manga creator Kyoko Okazaki....

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Ep. 99: Pluto: Urasawa x Tezuka Vol. 1, by Naoki Urasawa

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...

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Ep. 91 – Mangasplaining x Pure Tokyoscope: Podcast Gattai!

This week, Mangasplaining has its first official crossover episode with ANOTHER podcast, as Deb and Christopher interview the hosts of Pure Tokyoscope, Patrick Macias and Matt Alt! These esteemed gentlemen have long histories in North America’s manga and anime industries and boy, do they have stories to share. Besides talking...

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Episode 4: Helter Skelter

Look out! We’re talking about our first Josei manga title with Helter Skelter by Kyoko Okazaki, published by Vertical Inc./Kodansha. A few notes before starting this episode! CW: Sexual assault, suicide. This is a pretty intense, crazy, adult manga. Because of that, this will be the first episode marked explicit/adult....