450 – Left to Right 1 – Pretty Deadly, Ursula, East of West
Welcome to a new kind of episode this week! We’re adapting our Triple Dip formula to Western comics with Left to Right! We review Pretty Deadly, Ursula, and East of West for our inaugural episode! We also talk about House of Five Leaves, Tamon’s B-Side, Shojo Fight, and more!!!
Continue reading448 – Triple Dip 73 – Orochi, House of Five Leaves, Saturn Apartments
Get ready for tangents galore this week as we keep veering away from a Triple Dip on manga from the new VIZ Manga subscription service! While reviewing Orochi, House of Five Leaves, and Saturn Apartments we also go off on review scores, wrestling, Star Trek, long running fandoms, and more!!!
Continue reading421 – Shojo Showdown 4 – MARS, Midnight Secretary, Ouran High School Host Club
On this episode Morgana leads the charge for another Shojo Showdown! We examine the first volumes of MARS, Midnight Secretary, and Ouran High School Host Club! We also discuss Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War, SPY X FAMILY, Tongari Boushi no Kitchen, The Gamestars, and more!!!
Continue reading385 – Manga in Motion 52 – Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Dark Side of Dimensions
Your move! On this episode we prepare to duel by watching Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Dark Side of Dimensions! Also, Morgana reads the vampire BL Fangs, dakazu drops Gente but loves Bye-Bye Atashi no Oniichan and Zashiki Musume to Ryourinin, and Dead Dead Demon’s Dededede Destruction ended!!!
Continue reading384 – One Shot 49 – Danza
This week Darfox finally finishes Ride Your Wave while dakazu reads the end of Fire Force and does extra reading with Ristorante Paradiso, ACCA 13-Territory Inspection Department P.S, and Coppers! Then we review Natsume Ono’s short story collection Danza!!!
Continue reading306 – Fantasy Magazine 2 – Science Fiction
Seamus is out this week so Morgana, Darfox, and dakazu submit their top science fiction manga picks they’d like to license for another edition of Fantasy Magazine! We also discuss Monster #8, Chainsaw Man, I Had That Same Dream Again: The Complete Manga Collection, Lv1 Maou to One Room Yuusha, Mieruko-chan, and more!!!
Continue readingHave a Great Sunday
A manga about an old writer living between Japan and New York who’s visited by his son and son-in-law every Sunday.
Absolutely wonderful series and peak Natsume Ono in my opinion. I love the dynamic of a the old writer and his doting son along with the more passive observer son-in-law. It’s a great combination of Japanese and American slice of life. They even throw Ono’s favorite Italians in the mix as the son-in-law is Japanese Italian.
A warm story about family. It’s fantastic.
~dakazu
258 – State of Shonen 1 – We Never Learn
When Seamus is away, shonen will save the day! Morgana is back as an official member of the hosts this episode so we discuss the current arcs and happenings of our favorite shonen manga series, such as We Never Learn, Black Clover, Fire Force, and more!!!
Continue reading252 – Tokyo Tarareba Girls part 3
On this episode we celebrate with Morgana “Manga Maven” Santilli about Tokyo Tarareba Girls winning the Will Eisner Comic Industry Award for Best U.S. Edition of International Material-Asia before we continue with our Retrospective review into volumes 6 & 7!!!
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246 – Triple Dip 36 – In/Spectre, Yona of the Dawn, Hibiki: Shousetsuka ni Naru Houhou
On this episode we check out the yōkai mystery of In/Spectre, surmise the Asian influences from Yona of the Dawn, and analyze a blunt genius in Hibiki: Shousetsuka ni Naru Houhou for another round of Triple Dip!
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