452 – Manga in Motion 58 – What Did You Eat Yesterday
Welcome to week 2 of our Pride and Panels month! Darfox and dakazu are here to talk about the live-action What Did You Eat Yesterday? drama! Will they be able figure out what that black thing on the fridge is!? They also discuss Blood on the Tracks, Gaic to no France Gurashi, and more!
Continue reading426 – Recommendation Round-up 2 – Single Volumes
This week we answer emails while dakazu talks about Nagata Kabi’s new manga, a Gengoroh Tagame food manga, Hunter x Hunter, and more! Then we present our suggestions for awesome single volume manga in a new edition of Recommendation Round-up!!!
Continue reading416 – Prose Picks 2 – Earthlings
With Darfox and Morgana away at New York Comic Con, Seamus and dakazu have decided to revisit Prose Picks and read a novel! They check out Sayaka Murata’s tale of a woman trying to escape societal expectations in Earthlings! They also discuss Ooku: The Inner Chambers and Fire Punch!!!
Continue reading324 – Creator Cross Section 7 – Shigeru Tsuchiyama
On this episode Seamus discusses the penultimate volume of Ôoku: The Inner Chambers and dakazu learns about Miki Yakata’s breast cancer recovery in 27-sai no Nyugan Diary! Then we learn about the appeal of manga artist Shigeru Tsuchiyama through his mastery of drawing food and using simple storylines for a new Creator Cross Section!
Continue reading310 – Saikyo Selections 13 – Fushigi Yûgi
The wonderful manga letterer Sara Linsley is back to help lead this Saikyo Selection on Fushigi Yûgi! We dive into Yuu Watase’s beloved shoujo series along with the newest Fushigi Yûgi: Byakko Senki which Sara lettered! We praise Watase’s amazing art, appreciate the 90′s pretty boys aesthetics, discuss the often dark drama, and explore the criticisms of certain cross-dressing characters!!!
Continue reading298 – Yu Yu Hakusho part 5
Join us for the penultimate episode of our Yu Yu Hakusho Retrospective! We discuss Yoshihiro Togashi’s deteriorating art quality, major issues with the English translation, and parallels between the events of Chapter Black and current events! Also Seamus talks about Ooku: The Inner Chambers, dakazu follows up on last week’s INVESTOR-Z and I Want to Hold Aono-kun So Badly I Could Die, and we discuss the manga nominees for the 2020 Eisner Awards!!!
Continue reading275 – 2019 Year End News & Manga Review
Welcome to the final episode of Manga Machinations for 2019! Seamus is back, which means all the hosts are ready to discuss all the news stories from this year before sharing their personal top 3 manga, honorable mentions, and worst manga of the year!!!
Continue reading270 – One Shot 25 – The Ghost and the Lady
On this episode Morgana loves the wholesome Nicola Traveling Around the Demons’ World while dakazu reads Nagata Kabi’s newest book and absolutely hates the illogical Kunihachibu. We also discuss updates to piracy litigation and Japanese censorship laws. Finally, we dive into Kazuhiro Fujita’s historical ghost story about the Man in Grey and Florence Nightingale in The Ghost and the Lady!!!
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A collection of BL stories by Fumi Yoshinaga.
I love Fumi Yoshinaga but these stories weren’t great. They’re overly dramatic and don’t get away from the classic yaoi relationships that are basically sexual assault.
The longest multi part story is about a music teacher who sleeps with his student. I will say that I am really sick of stories involving romantic relationships between teachers and students. I’m a teacher myself and I think it’s one of the most overused plots that personally infuriate me. The music teacher is the one to come onto the student so that’s awful. The student is characterized as being somewhat dimwitted which makes it worse. And the happy ending to the story seems to justify that everything that happened was OK. It’s terrible.
Also you don’t say a student isn’t understanding solfege when you’re playing a random note on the piano. You’re mixing sight-singing with notating a melody!
~dakazu
263 – One Shot 23 – All My Darling Daughters
Our regular host dakazu is away this week so it’s up to darfox8, Seamus, and Morgana to do a One Shot on Fumi Yoshinaga’s All My Darling Daughters!
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