222 – 2018 Year End Review with Morgana Santilli
Welcome to our special year end episode! This year returning guest Morgana “Manga Maven” Santilli joins us to pick our favorite manga & anime from 2018!
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Time Stamps
- 00:00:00 – Intro Song: “More One Night” by Chito & Yuuri from Girls’ Last Tour, Opening, Introductions
- 00:03:59 – Reviewing News of 2018: BEASTARS licensed in Spanish this year along with English/French for 2019 and won numerous awards
- 00:07:08 – Shonen Jump will launch a digital platform with new chapters being released for free day & date with Japan and a subscription based back library
- 00:14:12 – we ponder if the drastic changes to Shonen Jump will have an effect on piracy *NOTE*we taped prior to the 12/17/18 release)
- 00:18:22 – The various anti-manga-piracy campaigns from Japanese publishers this year
- 00:20:16 – Nobuhiro Watsuki’s arrest over child pornography and the messy aftermath
- 00:28:30 – Rumiko Takahashi was finally inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Awards Hall of Fame
- 00:31:03 – Seamus reviews the stage play for Naoki Urasawa’s Pluto from it’s international run
- 00:34:52 – A discussion about manga adaptations to other media
- 00:37:50 – The wild saga of manga retailer Mandarake auctioning off manuscript pages of Ai to Makoto that were stolen over 40 years ago
- 00:42:01 – In memoriam of Momoko Sakura of Chibi Maruko-chan, Takahiro Satou of Samejima, Saigo no Juugonichi, Isao Takahata of Studio Ghibli
- 00:44:48 – Manga of 2018: Transition Song: “Katachi” by Shugo Tokumaru, The giant 2019 British Museum Manga Exhibition
- 00:46:22 – Best & worst manga of 2018
- 00:47:11 – Dead Dead Demon’s Dededede Destruction by Inio Asano
- 00:49:02 – Princess Jellyfish by Akiko Higashimura
- 00:50:29 – My Solo Exchange Diary by Kabi Nagata
- 00:55:07 – Satoko and Nada by Yupechika
- 01:02:58 – Juza no Ulna by Toru Izu
- 01:04:57 – Ningen Karimenchu by Taeko Uzuki
- 01:10:03 – Scum’s Wish by Mengo Yokoyari
- 01:13:50 – Red Colored Elegy by Seiichi Hayashi
- 01:19:56 – Claudine by Riyoko Ikeda
- 01:27:08 – Tokyo Tarareba Girls by Akiko Higashimura
- 01:35:42 – Manga picks from our listeners
- 01:41:34 – Pet Shop of Horrors by Matsuri Akino, The Wallflower by Tomoko Hayakawa
- 01:42:54 – Girls’ Last Tour by Tsukumizu
- 01:43:07 – Jitsuroku: Naku made Bokorarete Hajimete Koi ni Ochimashita. by Poppy Pesuyama
- 01:48:20 – BEASTARS by Paru Itagaki
- 01:57:37 – Black Clover by Yuki Tabata
- 01:56:37 – Garden by Yuichi Yokoyama
- 01:58:50 – Ultra-Gash Inferno by Suehiro Maruo, A Pantyhose like World by Shun Umezawa
- 02:00:07 – Dead Tube by Mikoto Yamaguchi & Touta Kitakawa, Satsukare by Daisuke + Asahi
- 02:01:19 – My Boy by Hitomi Takano, Bunny Drop by Yumi Unita
- 02:06:51 – Anime of 2018: Transition Song: “Merigo” by Robert Yoshino ft. Sky-Hi from Gurazeni, Best & worst anime of 2018
- 02:07:28 – A Place Further than the Universe
- 02:08:32 – Violet Evergarden
- 02:09:42 – Serial Experiments Lain
- 02:10:18 – Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo
- 02:12:37 – Devilman Crybaby
- 02:16:40 – Mr. Tonegawa: Middle Management Blues
- 02:18:48 – Kaiji
- 02:21:18 – DOUBLE DECKER! DOUG & KIRILL
- 02:22:21 – Lupin III PART 5
- 02:23:20 – Skull-face Bookseller Honda-san
- 02:26:44 – The Night Is Short, Walk On Girl
- 02:28:56 – Ushio and Tora
- 02:32:10 – Banana Fish
- 02:33:44 – Golden Kamuy
- 02:36:14 – Hi Score Girl
- 02:38:53 – Run with the Wind
- 02:40:16 – Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku
- 02:41:01 – Megalo Box
- 02:42:16 – The Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These
- 02:43:51 – Happy Sugar Life
- 02:45:57 – Pop Team Epic
- 02:48:57 – Anime picks from our listeners
- 02:49:34 – Dragon Ball Super
- 02:52:06 – Oniisama e…,
- 02:52:57 – Liz and the Blue Bird
- 02:54:35 – Darfox rants about spinning limousines from Yowamushi Pedal: Glory Line
- 02:57:43 – Darling in the FranXX
- 03:00:39 – Junji Ito Collection
- 03:04:25 – Thanking all our guests and listeners from this year
- 03:06:30 – Next Episode Preview and Rundown: Triple Dip where we read the first volume of three different manga, including: The Full-Time Wife Escapist by Tsunami Umino, Rainbow: Nisha Rokubō no Shichinin by George Abe, and Bokutachi ga Yarimashita by Muneyuki Kaneshiro & Hikaru Akari
- 03:07:19 – House Keeping, Social Media Rundown, Sign Off Song: “Auld Lang Syne” by Home Free