477 – Triple Dip 78 – Innocent, Orb: On the Movements of the Earth, Under Ninja
All the hosts are back to talk about Ireland riots, collapsing stairs, The Boy and the Heron, and more! Then we rally ourselves for the final Triple Dip of the 2023! We review Innocent, Orb: On the Movements of the Earth, and Under Ninja!!!
Continue reading464 – 9 Year Anniversary Retrospective Redux 4 – Pluto with Aidan Clarke
We’re celebrating 9 years of Manga Machinations by revisiting Pluto! We’re joined by manga letterer Aidan Clarke to talk about all things Naoki Urasawa! We discuss Monster, Yawara!, Master Keaton, 20th Century Boys, and especially Billy Bat!!!
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Continue reading338 – One Shot 36 – Mermaid in the Bottle & Leaper & Mine-kun is Asexual
On this episode we answer lots of emails and dakazu reads about the devastation on the Sanriku Railway during the 2011 Tohoku tsunami in Santetsu! Then we review Isaki Uta’s Mine-kun is Asexual, Mermaid in the Bottle, and Leaper! All three doujinshi are available from Irodori Comics!
Continue reading277 – Manga in Motion 41 – Mary and the Witch’s Flower
On this episode dakazu checks out more volumes of Maiden Railways, Darfox experiences his first Kazuo Umezu manga with The Drifting Classroom, and Morgana wasn’t expecting the dark turns in BEASTARS. Then we compare Studio Ponoc’s debut movie, Mary and the Witch’s Flower, to Ghibli films for Manga in Motion!!!
Continue readingNausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
A manga taking place on a post-apocalyptic Earth where giant mutated insects live in a poisonous forest that threatens to engulf the remnants of humanity. The princess Nausicaä must fight to defend her home and bring peace between the warring kingdoms.
Hayao Miyazaki’s manga opus. It’s crazy to think that when he started this series he was told it would not be adapted into a film, only for it to become the critically acclaimed movie that helped cement his career as an animator.
The manga is far more richer in content than it’s film counterpart. Nausicaä ends up seeing the destruction of war first-hand as she makes her way through the vastly different kingdoms. In the end she learns the truth behind the world and helps shape the future of humanity. It’s an epic story with strong environmental themes that Miyazaki is known for.
This series is a must for any Studio Ghibli fan.
We did a Retrospective on this.
~dakazu
220 – Scum’s Wish part 3
Our final episode reviewing Scum’s Wish along with the epilogue volume of Scum’s Wish décor!
Continue reading203 – One Shot 14 – Manga Poverty with Deb Aoki
We’re joined by lovely manga journalist Deb Aoki this week to talk about the changes in the Western manga industry, compare them to the problems in Japanese publishing that are addressed in Shuho Sato’s memoir Manga Poverty, and rejoice over the plethora of recent manga licensing news!
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100 – Manga in Motion 9 – The Castle of Cagliostro and 2 year Anniversary Special with Ryan Higgins
Welcome to our 100th episode and 2 year anniversary!!! We’re joined by special guest Ryan Higgins from the Comic Conspiracy podcast to talk about the history of manga published in America, our secret origins for manga, the end of Bleach, Gundam anime, and Hayao Miyazaki’s take on Lupin the 3rd in The Castle of Cagliostro!!!
Continue reading032 – Nausicaä part 4
After we ponder a communal hikikomori lifestyle, Seamus learns about shogi in March comes in like a lion(3-gatsu no Lion), dakazu finds an adult spin on roommate comedy 2DK, and darfox prepares more destiny in Boruto: Naurto the Movie! Afterwords we dig into a huge info dump in the next part of our Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind retrospective!!(covers vol. 4)
Continue reading031 – Nausicaä part 3
Spring anime is here! Both darfox and dakazu are enjoying Blood Blockade Battlefront(Kekkai Sensen), Rin-ne(Kyoukai no Rinne), and My Love Story!!(Ore Monogatari!!) but not Ultimate Otaku Teacher(Denpa Kyoushi) or The Disappearance of Nagato Yuki-chan(Nagato Yuki-chan no Shoushitsu). Meanwhile Seamus discusses wives of the Caspian Sea in A Bride’s Story(Otoyomegatari). Then we continue our Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind retrospective as Nausicaä goes to war!(covers vol. 3) Also some bonus talk about the Hayao Miyazaki documentary The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness!!
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