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!!!
Continue reading435 – One Shot 55 – The Girl That Can’t Get a Girlfriend
On this episode we talk about Nighttime for Just Us Two, Blissful Land, The 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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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 reading378 – 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 Dark, Even 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!!!
Continue reading377 – 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!!!
Continue reading367 – 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!!!
Continue readingFrankenstein: 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
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!!!
Continue reading330 – 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!
Continue reading326 – Manga in Motion 45 – Promare
We’re a year late to the zeitgeist but this episode the hosts review the 2019 hit anime film Promare! Also Morgana also talks about Junji Ito’s Remina and dakazu gushes about Ousama Ranking!!!
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