499 – Manga in Motion 62 – Blue Giant

499 – Manga in Motion 62 – Blue Giant

It’s time to tear our guts out this episode! dakazu won’t shut up about how amazing the Blue Giant movie is, while Darfox says the CG animation is unforgivable! We also discuss Artemisa, the new volume of My Love Story!!, and more!!!

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460 – Fire Punch part 3

460 – Fire Punch part 3

This week we finish our Retrospective on Tatsuki Fujimoto‘s debut series Fire Punch! We also discuss Tenchu, My Love Story!!, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, MANGA Plus, and more!!!

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449 – Twiple Dip 7 – Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou 2, Dai Dark 4, Chainsaw Man 14

449 – Twiple Dip 7 – Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou 2, Dai Dark 4, Chainsaw Man 14

On this episode we return to read the next volumes of Yokohama Kaidashi KikouDai Dark, and Chainsaw Man for our next Twiple Dip! We also discuss the Prison School and Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure anime and the live action dramas of The Full-Time Wife Escapist and What Did You Eat Yesterday!!!

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My Love Story!!

My Love Story!!

A manga about a giant high school boy, who has no luck with women, suddenly finding himself is a romance with a beautiful girl.

A wonderful heartwarming romance manga. I love Aruko’s art work and the way draws Takeo as the most manliest of men. The story is filled with great characters and their earnest feelings for each other.

While to focus is on Takeo and his girlfriend Rinko, I think the best relationship in this series is the friendship between Takeo and his good looking friend Suna. Suna cares about Takeo more than even himself and there’s a really touching moment where Takeo supports Suna during a family crisis.

Suna/Takeo forever!

~dakazu

213 – Guest Gaiden 2 – Representation with Amelia Cook

213 – Guest Gaiden 2 – Representation with Amelia Cook

This week we launch our first special guest themed Gaiden series with Amelia Cook, creator of the Anime Feminist website! Get ready for a mega-sized episode as we interview Amelia about her manga/anime origins and how she started Anime Feminist. Then she joins us for a in-depth discussion about representation in manga/anime as we analyze our own positive and negative examples of female characters in shonen battle manga!

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106 – Triple Dip 17 – WOMBS, Yu Yu Hakusho, Historie

106 – Triple Dip 17 – WOMBS, Yu Yu Hakusho, Historie

On this episode Darfox rates Mob Psycho 100 higher than One Punch Man while dakazu finishes My Love Story!! and Inside Mari(Boku wa Mari no Naka) while checking out a remake of Takao Saito’s Survival and a manga adaptation of The Garden of Words that we covered on Manga in Motion 4(episode 64). Then we check out the starting chapters of Yu Yu Hakusho, Historie and WOMBS for our Triple Dip section!!!

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054 – Manga in Motion 2 – Memories

054 – Manga in Motion 2 – Memories

It’s all anime this week on Manga Machinations! We discuss the decline of bookstores, do a 2015 spring/summer anime wrap-up, and get deep into Katsuhiro Otomo’s 1995 anime film Memories for our Manga in Motion section!!!

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034 – Nausicaä part 6

034 – Nausicaä part 6

This week dakazu hates animorphs & internet memes in Killing Bites, Seamus learns the moral lesson of Yurikuma Arashi, darfox doesn’t like the generic story bits of My Love Story!!(Ore Monogatari!!), and in our read through of Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind we witness Nausicaä become Jesus!!!(covers vol. 6)

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031 – Nausicaä part 3

031 – 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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023 – Slam Dunk part 8

023 – Slam Dunk part 8

This week darfox explores muscle suited teenagers who hunt ancient technology in Spriggan, dakazu shares a shoujo manga that stars a guy in My Love Story!!, and we discuss Shohoku’s 1st match of the Interhigh against Toyotama in part 8 of our Slam Dunk discussion!!(covers chapters 186-215)

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