Morgana and Darfox are out this week so Seamus leads the charge into the uncharted territory of light novels this week! We’ll be reviewing Gengen Kusano’s award winning Last and First Idol to see how dakazu handles reading a book without pictures!!!
This week we check out the 2019 Alita: Battle Angel: a live-action adaptation of Yukito Kishiro’s Sci-Fi seinen series! Have dakazu and Darfox finally found a good manga movie adaptation?!
We apologize in advance that due to scheduling issues with darfox we have canceled our original plans of reviewing A Silent Voice movie this week. Instead, Seamus will be giving his impressions on current running manga in Shonen Jump!!
This week Seamus is keeping up with BEASTARS, darfox talks about the end of Fairy Tale, we discuss the Hollywood TV adaptations of One Piece and Cowboy Bebop, we praise the casting of Willem Defoe as Ryuk in Netflix’s Death Note, dakazu loves Ono Natsume’s new manga Lady and Oldman but doesn’t like the reboot of Osamu Tezuka’s The Three Eyed One called Mitsume Mokushiroku: Akuma Ouji Sharaku(Three Eyed Apocalypse), and dakazu rants about accepting commissions for scanlations. Then we continue our long retrospective review of I am a Hero and discuss major events that take place during the Hakone Hot Springs arc!!!(covers chapters 156-191)
On this episode we have a lengthy discussion about Zach Davisson’s article Confessions of a Manga Translator involving what the role of a translator should be and the difference between translating manga compared to other mediums. Then we look at the super popular One Piece for Saikyo Selections! We examine the Arlong Park arc(covers chapters 69-95) to examine the major themes in Eiichiro Oda’s blockbuster mega-hit manga!!!
Seamus and darfox are both out this week so dakazu solo-casts this episode, talking about all the current series he reads(or doesn’t) in Weekly Shonen Jump!!!