STEVES
A manga about Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak meeting, creating the first Apple home computer, leading up all the way to the release of the Macintosh. Somehow this is not the only manga adaptation about Steve Jobs I’ve read! I love how Steve Jobs’ famous ‘Reality Distortion Field’ is drawn as a power aura straight out of Dragon Ball Z.
~dakazu
RAFNAS
New manga from creator of WOMBS about an alien planet where many organisms, including humans, have anti-gravitational powers! I’m convinced Yumiko Shirai is a genius based on her intricate ability at world building.
~dakazu
144 – One Shot 5 – My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness with Jocelyne Allen
This week we interview Jocelyne Allen of Brain Vs. Book who translated My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness! She talks to us about the process of pitching projects to publishers, the lack of transparency for translators, the problem with scanlations, and the difficulty of translating Japanese puns! Then she continues to answer our questions as we share our thoughts on My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness!!!
Continue readingTengoku Nyobo
Absolutely heartbreaking autobiographical manga from Hiroyuki Sugahara that covers the final moments of his wife who died from a brain tumor. He’s currently drawing the manga to fulfill her dying wish of wanting to live on in his work. I can’t stop crying!
~dakazu
Umareta Toki Kara Hetakuso
Autobiographical manga by Abe Yarō of Shinya Shokudō. Focuses on his childhood and is a nice tribute to his father and mother.
~dakazu
Papa to Oyaji no Uchi Gohan
I love food manga and this one is great. 2 single fathers become roommates and work together to make meals for their kids. Great artwork and stories that tug at your heartstrings!
~dakazu
Candy & Cigarettes
Check this out because it’s by Tomonori Inoue who did Coppelion. Retired bodyguard gramps joins up with a 11 year old girl who’s a hitman. Seems similar to the comic Kickass. Seems pretty generic but I liked Coppelion so I think I’ll keep checking this out for now.
~dakazu
143 – I am a Hero part 2
On this episode we answer an email about Platinum End, darfox gets into tanuki lore for The Eccentric Family, Seamus watches the anime film Red Turtle, dakazu find a violent manga version of the Lion King with Jasmin, and we report on news about the Pluto and Yuri!!! on Ice! Then we get back to our retrospective of I am a Hero!!! We’ll be discussing the translations for the message boards, the plot twist with Hiromi, and the tense Gotemba Outlet Mall arc!(covers chapters 47-81)
Continue readingShojo Fight!
I’ve always loved Yoko Nihonbashi’s manga but her current series Shojo Fight is easily my favorite. It’s so refreshing to find a female sports manga that doesn’t overly sexualize the girls or have them not openly discuss their problems!
~dakazu
Shinya Shokudō
Love the simple art style of this seinen manga. You can also watch the live action adaptation MIDNIGHT DINER:Tokyo Stories currently on Netflix!!
~dakazu