373 – Manga in Motion 50 – Netflix Cowboy Bebop
Join us this week as we examine Netflix’s live-action adaptation of Cowboy Bebop! We breakdown everything from the stellar casting to the questionable story structure! We also finally get around to a spoiler-filled discussion on BEASTARS volume 15!!!
Continue reading372 – Triple Dip 58 – F, Tsukiko and the Satellite and other stories, Rabbit Game
We have another small manga publisher Triple Dip this week, this time with Glacier Bay Books! We check out Tsukiko and the Satellite and other stories, Rabbit Game, and F! Also Morgana reads Moto Hagio’s cute cat manga Lil’ Leo and dakazu loves the comedy memoir of a Dominatrix manga artist and her masochist slave husband in Teishu Genki de Mazo ga Ii!!!!
Continue reading371 – Triple Dip 57 – Vasilisa! The Wise Princess and Other Classic Folktales, Young, Alive, in Love, The Town You Live in
It’s time to take a look at releases from Star Fruit Books! We’ve assembled Vasilisa! The Wise Princess and Other Classic Folktales, Young, Alive, in Love, and The Town You Live in for this week’s Triple Dip! Also Morgana loves Creepy Cat and dakazu talks about Blade Runner: Black Lotus!!!
Continue reading370 – Twiple Dip 2 – My Dress-up Darling, Blue Giant, Oishinbo
Seamus is out this week so the other hosts take advantage by looking at the second volume of previously visited series for a Twiple Dip! This time they check out My Dress-up Darling, Blue Giant, and Oishinbo! The hosts also give their first impressions of the live-action Cowboy Bebop show on Netflix!!!
Continue reading369 – New Chapter Check-in 8 – The Hunters Guild: Red Hood
dakazu is back from his trip and very sleep deprived! He joins Darfox and Ryan aka RUSH to talk full spoilers about popular manga for a New Chapter Check-in! They discuss the recently canceled The Hunters Guild: Red Hood! Darfox pops for Black Clover while Ryan pops for Dr. STONE! Ryan also has a rant on Platinum End!!!
Continue reading368 – One Shot 46 – Cats of the Louvre
Our main host dakazu is out on a mission this week. So it leaves the rest of the cast of Manga Mac to hold the reigns of this show. Listen to them talk about Taiyo Matsumoto’s Cats of the Louvre.
Continue reading367 – One Shot 45 – Sensor
Halloween comes early with Night 5 of October Extravaganza! For our final night we examine the newest Junji Ito release, Sensor! Morgana is reading I’m the Villainess, So I’m Taming the Final Boss and dakazu discusses his thoughts on Chimamire Sukeban Chainsaw: reflesh!!!
Continue readingFrankenstein: Junji Ito Story Collection
Junji Ito‘s manga adaptation of Mary Shelley‘s Frankenstein.
We’ve discussed this on an older episode.
I personally really enjoyed this book. Junji Ito is such a master of horrific visuals they work so well with the classic Frankenstein story. There are some amazing pages that show how disgusting Victor Frankenstein’s grave robbing was. This even gave birth to the classic Frankenstein fairy meme!
I will say that since I am not that familiar with the Shelley’s original novel I wasn’t effected by many of the artistic changes Ito did for his version. Seamus was not pleased during our Retrospective on this manga and ultimately felt Ito did a disservice to the original book. So if you’re a big fan of the novel you may not enjoy this manga as much as I did.
~dakazu
Siren Rebirth
A manga adaptation of the Siren video game.
We’ve discussed this on a recent episode.
It book is pretty mediocre by horror manga standards. I’ve played a bit of the Siren videogames and unfortunately Yukai Asada fails to capture the creepiness of the ‘shitibto’ living corpses. But what I didn’t know was that this manga is a reboot of an original Siren manga adaptation called Siren – Akai Umi no Yobigoe. That series went on indefinite hiatus when its manga artist Wataru Kamio became ill.
Siren Rebirth is literally a rebirth of the original manga adaptation that was supervised by the game developers of the Siren game. I’m happy that they got to finish this project almost 15 years after the original game. It’s just a shame I didn’t enjoy it.
~dakazu
Cthulhu no Yobigoe
A manga adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft‘s Call of Cthulhu.
It was interesting to read an adaptation of Lovecraft that isn’t done by Gou Tanabe. While Kousuke Miyazaki‘s character art is a simpler style than Tanabe’s art, they are still able to effectively convey the cosmic horror you would expect from the Lovecraft universe. Miyazaki did a particularly great job with the monstrous look of Cthulhu from “The Madness from the Sea” chapter. I also like how in between chapters there were essays by Cthulhu mythos scholar Ryo Morise that introduced Lovecraft and other writers who were influential to the cosmic horror genre.
~dakazu