222 – 2018 Year End Review with Morgana Santilli

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
  • 00:03:59Reviewing News of 2018: BEASTARS licensed in Spanish this year along with English/French for 2019 and won numerous awards
  • 00:07:08Shonen 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
  • 00:20:16Nobuhiro Watsuki’s arrest over child pornography and the messy aftermath
  • 00:28:30Rumiko 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
  • 00:44:48Manga of 2018: Transition Song: “Katachi” by Shugo Tokumaru, The giant 2019 British Museum Manga Exhibition
  • 00:46:22 – Best & worst manga of 2018
  • 00:47:11Dead Dead Demon’s Dededede Destruction by Inio Asano
  • 00:49:02Princess Jellyfish by Akiko Higashimura
  • 00:50:29My Solo Exchange Diary by Kabi Nagata
  • 00:55:07Satoko and Nada by Yupechika
  • 01:02:58Juza no Ulna by Toru Izu
  • 01:04:57 Ningen Karimenchu by Taeko Uzuki
  • 01:10:03Scum’s Wish by Mengo Yokoyari
  • 01:13:50Red Colored Elegy by Seiichi Hayashi
  • 01:19:56 Claudine by Riyoko Ikeda
  • 01:27:08Tokyo Tarareba Girls by Akiko Higashimura
  • 01:35:42 – Manga picks from our listeners
  • 01:41:34Pet Shop of Horrors by Matsuri Akino, The Wallflower by Tomoko Hayakawa
  • 01:42:54Girls’ Last Tour by Tsukumizu
  • 01:43:07Jitsuroku: Naku made Bokorarete Hajimete Koi ni Ochimashita. by Poppy Pesuyama
  • 01:48:20BEASTARS by Paru Itagaki
  • 01:57:37Black Clover by Yuki Tabata
  • 01:56:37Garden by Yuichi Yokoyama
  • 01:58:50Ultra-Gash Inferno by Suehiro Maruo, A Pantyhose like World by Shun Umezawa
  • 02:00:07Dead Tube by Mikoto Yamaguchi & Touta Kitakawa, Satsukare by Daisuke + Asahi
  • 02:01:19My Boy by Hitomi Takano, Bunny Drop by Yumi Unita
  • 02:06:51Anime of 2018: Transition Song: “Merigo” by Robert Yoshino ft. Sky-Hi from Gurazeni, Best & worst anime of 2018
  • 02:07:28A Place Further than the Universe
  • 02:08:32Violet Evergarden
  • 02:09:42 Serial Experiments Lain
  • 02:10:18Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo
  • 02:12:37Devilman Crybaby
  • 02:16:40 Mr. Tonegawa: Middle Management Blues
  • 02:18:48 Kaiji
  • 02:21:18DOUBLE DECKER! DOUG & KIRILL
  • 02:22:21Lupin III PART 5
  • 02:23:20Skull-face Bookseller Honda-san
  • 02:26:44The Night Is Short, Walk On Girl
  • 02:28:56Ushio and Tora
  • 02:32:10Banana Fish
  • 02:33:44Golden Kamuy
  • 02:36:14Hi Score Girl
  • 02:38:53 Run with the Wind
  • 02:40:16 Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku
  • 02:41:01Megalo Box
  • 02:42:16The Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These
  • 02:43:51Happy Sugar Life
  • 02:45:57 Pop Team Epic
  • 02:48:57 – Anime picks from our listeners
  • 02:49:34Dragon Ball Super
  • 02:52:06Oniisama e…,
  • 02:52:57Liz and the Blue Bird
  • 02:54:35 – Darfox rants about spinning limousines from Yowamushi Pedal: Glory Line
  • 02:57:43Darling 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