562 – 11 Year Anniversary Retrospective Redux 5 – Girls’ Last Tour

562 – 11 Year Anniversary Retrospective Redux 5 – Girls’ Last Tour

Join us as we celebrate 11 years of Manga Machinations! We revisit Tsukumizu’s Girls’ Last Tour to reevaluate it! We also discuss The Glassworker, Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle, and much more!!!

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327 – Manga Machinations Awards 2020

327 – Manga Machinations Awards 2020

Welcome to the final episode of 2020! We’re doing things a bit differently this year by launching the Manga Machinations Awards! Darfox8, dakazu, Morgana, and Seamus have all created unique awards to go with their top manga picks from 2020! Enjoy our picks and have yourself a safe and happy holidays from all of us here at Manga Machinations! See you next year!!!

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285 – Girls’ Last Tour part 2

285 – Girls’ Last Tour part 2

This week we finish our retrospective on Tsukimizu’s Girls’ Last Tour! Join us as our discussion takes us through everything from existentialism to Buddhism to flashbacks!!!

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284 – Girls’ Last Tour part 1

284 – Girls’ Last Tour part 1

On this episode Darfox rejoices in the English release of Blood on the Tracks while dakazu checks out a new manga made by an Osamu Tezuka AI called Paidon! Then we begin our retrospective on the empty world of Girls’ Last Tour by Tsukimizu and discuss it’s themes of finality.

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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!

Check out Morgana’s website and follow her on twitter!

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186 – Triple Dip 26 -Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou, Helter Skelter, Hanako and the Terror of Allegory

186 – Triple Dip 26 -Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou, Helter Skelter, Hanako and the Terror of Allegory

On this episode we check out Yokohama KaidashiKikou, Hanako and the Terror of Allegory, and Helter Skelter for another round of Triple Dip! Apologies in advance for some technical problems toward the end of the podcast.

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173 – Manga in Motion 25 – Devilman Crybaby

173 – Manga in Motion 25 – Devilman Crybaby

This week we look at Masaaki Yuasa’s Netflix hit Devilman Crybaby! We’ll be doing heavy spoiler talk about all 10 episodes and it’s differences from the original Go Nagai manga!

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162 – Seamus on Shonen 1 – Shonen Jump

162 – Seamus on Shonen 1 – Shonen Jump

We apologize in advance that due to scheduling issues with darfox we have canceled our original plans of reviewing A Silent Voice movie this week. Instead, Seamus will be giving his impressions on current running manga in Shonen Jump!!

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153 – Manga in Motion 20 – Death Note 2017

153 – Manga in Motion 20 – Death Note 2017

This week dakazu’s been reading a lot! He’s amazed that Mizuki Shigeru was writing Watashi no Hibi when he was 91, checks out a decent rugby manga called Full Drum, sick of edgelord gore manga like Pygmalion, and finds a similar loser protagonist in Boys on the Run. Also, Seamus checks out volume 2 of Girl’s Last Tour, we check in with our weekly BEASTARS update, and dakazu has been deceived by the false advertising of GAMERS. Then we examine Netflix’s version of Death Note! We recap the original source material and weigh in on whether this movie is a good adaptation or not!

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