522 – Triple Dip 84 – The Horrors of Noroi Michiru, Phantom Tales of the Night, Parasyte Reversi

522 – Triple Dip 84 – The Horrors of Noroi Michiru, Phantom Tales of the Night, Parasyte Reversi

Join us for the start of this year’s October Extravaganza! We’re starting things off with a horror themed Triple Dip on The Horrors of Noroi Michiru, Phantom Tales of the Night, and Parasyte Reversi! We also discuss My Hero Academia: You’re Next, Dragon Ball Daima Paru Itagaki‘s Ushimitsu Gao, and more!!!

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469 – One Shot 64 – Betwixt

469 – One Shot 64 – Betwixt

This week we talk about The Poe Clan, Land of the Lustrous, Blue Giant, new anime, Hotel Metsäpeura e Youkoso, and more! Then we examine Betwixt for week 2 of our October Extravaganza!!!

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435 – One Shot 55 – The Girl That Can’t Get a Girlfriend

435 – One Shot 55 – The Girl That Can’t Get a Girlfriend

On this episode we talk about Nighttime for Just Us TwoBlissful LandThe JOJOLands, and more! Then we excitedly dive into Mieri Hiranishi’s hilarious autobiographical manga about an androgynous girl looking for the love of another androgynous girl!!!

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426 – Recommendation Round-up 2 – Single Volumes

426 – 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!!!

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378 – Twiple Dip 3 – Dai Dark, Even Though We’re Adults, The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service

378 – Twiple Dip 3 – Dai Dark, Even Though We’re Adults, The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service

We’ve got a special Seamus selection Twiple Dip this week! We’re reading the second volumes of Dai DarkEven Though We’re Adults, and The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service! Also Darfox talks about the new Mamoru Hosoda film Belle, Morgana reads Akiko Higashimura’s webtoon A Fake Affair, and dakazu loves learning about manga artists in Mangaka Sainyumon!!!

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377 – One Shot 47 – Robo Sapiens: Tales of Tomorrow

377 – One Shot 47 – Robo Sapiens: Tales of Tomorrow

This week Morgana checks out the webtoons of Morgana and Oz and Boyfriends while dakazu reads Yuichi Yokoyama’s Outdoors and the 1600′s historical travel log Dampier no Oishii Bouken! Then we review Toranosuke Shimada’s award-winning sci-fi saga of cyber-persons thriving in a world where humanity is dying with Robo Sapiens: Tales of Tomorrow!!!

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367 – One Shot 45 – Sensor

367 – 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!!!

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Frankenstein: Junji Ito Story Collection

Frankenstein: 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

350 – One Shot 41 – Our Dreams at Dusk: Shimanami Tasogare

350 – One Shot 41 – Our Dreams at Dusk: Shimanami Tasogare

Welcome to the start of our Pride Month Spectacular! We’re kicking things off with a One Shot on the excellent Our Dreams at Dusk: Shimanami Tasogare by Yuhki Kamatani! We also discuss *SPOILERS* for BEASTARS volume 12!!!

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330 – One Shot 34 – Remina

330 – One Shot 34 – Remina

On this episode dakazu is pleasantly surprised with the uplifting Kyou mo Shinemasen deshita and is fascinated with the unique techniques used to create Michi Jigen. Then we rave about Junji Ito’s entertaining sci-fi horror story Remina for our latest One Shot review!

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