295 – Yu Yu Hakusho part 3
This week Morgana teases more BEASTARS, Seamus can’t process what’s happening in Land of the Lustrous, and dakazu read a manga adaptation of Nobel Prize winning The Unwomanly Face of War! We also discuss Shueisha’s JUMP Manga School before getting back to our Yu Yu Hakusho Retrospective where we examine the Dark Tournament and find it exactly like wrestling booking!!!
Continue reading288 – Manga in Motion 42 – BEASTARS
It finally time for Manga Machinations to review the BEASTARS anime! We have A LOT to say about the choices made adapting Paru Itagaki’s phenomenal manga and we’re not pulling any punches when it comes to this beloved series!!!
Continue reading277 – Manga in Motion 41 – Mary and the Witch’s Flower
On this episode dakazu checks out more volumes of Maiden Railways, Darfox experiences his first Kazuo Umezu manga with The Drifting Classroom, and Morgana wasn’t expecting the dark turns in BEASTARS. Then we compare Studio Ponoc’s debut movie, Mary and the Witch’s Flower, to Ghibli films for Manga in Motion!!!
Continue reading275 – 2019 Year End News & Manga Review
Welcome to the final episode of Manga Machinations for 2019! Seamus is back, which means all the hosts are ready to discuss all the news stories from this year before sharing their personal top 3 manga, honorable mentions, and worst manga of the year!!!
Continue readingManga Machinations on the Manga Mavericks BEASTARS podcast
We were asked by Manga Mavericks to come talk about one of our favorite series, BEASTARS! Lots of discussion about everything we love about BEASTARS, from the epic world building to the unique art style Paru Itagaki utilizes.
Download it here or go to the Manga Mavericks website!
Beast Complex
The precursor to BEASTARS. Each chapter focuses on the relationship between a different carnivore and herbivore pair.
Reading this you can really tell that Paru Itagaki had everything figured out before she started BEASTARS. There’s so much thought put into this world she’s created. You can almost tell through these little vignettes that Itagaki just wants to share this complex animal society and the interesting stories she can craft here. I love it.
~dakazu
264 – dakazu diversions 4 – dakazu’s Trip to Japan
On this episode a very jet-lagged and lethargic dakazu has returned to talk about his vacation to Japan! dakazu rambles on about disposable manga magazines, Japanese bathrooms, going to the Shonen Jump bar, and the aggressive animals at the famous Nara deer park by the Great Buddha Hall!!!
Continue reading261 – Manga in Motion 40 – A Letter to Momo
This week Darfox explains why he didn’t finish the graphic novel Lighter Than My Shadow, Seamus catches up on more To Your Eternity, and dakazu enjoyed the colorful web manga Mousou Telepathy! Then our hosts discuss themes of rural romanticism with the anime film A Letter to Momo!!!
Continue readingBEASTARS
In a world of anthropomorphized animals who live in a society where carnivores are forbidden to eat herbivores, a young grey wolf falls in love with a dwarf bunny.
If you’ve listened to any of our episodes you know that we are HUGE fans of BEASTARS here at Manga Machinations. Our co-host darfox even wrote an excellent essay about it.
We’re overjoyed to hear that VIZ will be publishing this amazing manga next summer so people can finally read it legally.
~dakazu
