Ep. 84: The Best Manga Of Mangasplaining Season 3! With Awards!
The Mangasplainers pick their favorite books from Season 3, making recommendations for the best manga… for people who don’t read much manga!
The Mangasplainers pick their favorite books from Season 3, making recommendations for the best manga… for people who don’t read much manga!
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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December 7 - AKIRA vol. 4 by Katsuhiro Otomo
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