063 – dakazu diversions 1 – Shonen Jump
Seamus and darfox are both out this week so dakazu solo-casts this episode, talking about all the current series he reads(or doesn’t) in Weekly Shonen Jump!!!
Continue reading062 – Triple Dip 10 – Ooku: The Inner Chambers, Ushio to Tora, Video Girl Ai
This week Seamus deals with cheesy storylines in Vinland Saga and dakazu can’t stop praising the Sci-Fi epic Imuri! Then, it’s time for more Triple Dip! We discuss gratuitous panty shots of Video Girl Ai, horror design in Ushio to Tora, and gush over male harems in feudal Japan from Ooku: The Inner Chambers!!!
Continue reading061 – Manga in Motion 3 – Angel’s Egg
On this episode Seamus finishes Planetes, dakazu talks about the JSDF in Rising Sun and kids playing golf in Rising Impact. Then we get into a lengthy discussion about manga spin-offs of other manga and look at Mamoru Oshii’s anime art film Angel’s Egg(Tenshi no Tamago)!!!
Continue reading060 – Triple Dip 9 – Berserk, Hajime no Ippo, A Silent Voice
Kenzo joins us this week to tell us about dropping Bleach, lamenting the end of Gintama, and his guilty pleasures of My Girlfriend is a T-Rex(T-Rex na Kanojo) and Boku Girl! Then it’s time for another Triple Dip! We look at the 1st volumes of Hajime no Ippo, Berserk, and A Silent Voice!!!
Continue reading059 – Blame! part 5
On this episode we welcome the return of the mangaka in Billy Bat, then we reach the ends of the Megastructure and Killy’s journey as we finish our Blame! retrospective and we give our final thoughts on the series and the cyber dungeon.(covers chapters 51-65)
Continue reading058 – Blame! part 4
Get ready for tales of a 40 year old slacker dad in I’ll Give It My All… Tomorrow, mysterious dream sequences in new chapters of Billy Bat, and the biggest appearance of characters with actual names in our penultimate discussion of Blame!!!!(covers chapters 38-50)
Continue reading057 – Blame! part 3
On this episode Seamus finds more teenage drama in orange, dakazu finds another cooking manga with single fathers in Papa to Oyaji to Uchi Gohan and then rants about the horror of Shiritsu Hakanai Gakuen(Hakanai Private High School; No Pants, No Problem). Then it’s another epic discussion of Blame! as we wrap up the Toha Heavy Industries arc and discuss the possible connection between Killy and Seu!!!(covers chapters 25-37)
Continue reading056 – Blame! part 2
This week we start off with a Billy Bat update hour, Seamus continues with Planetes, darfox and dakazu discuss the ending of the Blood Blockade Battlefront(Kekkai Sensen) anime, we talk about the One Punch Man anime, and end with a long recap of the next set of Blame! chapters in our Retrospective!!!(covers chapters 12-24)
Continue reading055 – Blame! part 1
On this episode Seamus talks about the space garbage men of Planetes, darfox goes deep into Prison School, and dakazu follows teenage serial killers in Kamisama, Kisama wo Koroshitai.(God, I want to kill you)! Then we discuss the mystery and lore of the world of Blame! and determine that protagonist Killy is a wizard!!!(covers chapters 1-11)
Continue reading054 – Manga in Motion 2 – Memories
It’s all anime this week on Manga Machinations! We discuss the decline of bookstores, do a 2015 spring/summer anime wrap-up, and get deep into Katsuhiro Otomo’s 1995 anime film Memories for our Manga in Motion section!!!
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