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!
“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...
Hello, and Welcome to Mangasplaining! The newsletter where we talk about manga, and also… publish manga?! It’s true! Some of the folks behind the Mangasplaining Podcast are starting a brand new publishing endeavour under the Mangasplaining banner, the very first manga Substack! We will publish the episode show-notes you already...
It’s a surprisingly spooky episode to kick off October, as Deb brings the Mangang into the twisted world of Shuzo Oshimi with Blood on the Tracks, volumes 1 and 2. Plus a special ‘Mangasplaining: Listen To Me’ segment with Ed Chavez of Denpa Inc., the English language publisher of many...
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...
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December 7 - AKIRA vol. 4 by Katsuhiro Otomo
December 14 - Season 3 Retrospective
December 21 - Interview Episode!
December 28 - Interview Episode!
January 4 - Season 4 Begins
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OH and am really looking forward to the discussion on PunPun! Wow.
Nice to have you back! I've actually been avoiding Chainsaw Man, maybe because I'm an anti-shonen (especially Shonen Jump) snob.…
Chip's comments about not having time to read for pleasure are always kinda heartbreaking. He should pick stuff for the…
As a decidedly-not-into-action-shonen person, Chainsaw Man is one of the only Jump titles where I've read more than a volume…
[…] then brings up another recent read, RaW Hero, which features a protagonist that desperately needs to make money for…