473 – One Shot 66 – Until I Love Myself

473 – One Shot 66 – Until I Love Myself

This week dakazu returns as Seamus leaves for Ireland! We discuss the end of Attack on Titan, Sexy Tanaka-san, Akuma-kun and more! Then we dive into Poppy Pesuyama‘s Until I Love Myself for a tough but ultimately positive autobiographical journey about workplace harassment and trauma!!!

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472 – One Shot 65 – Witches: The Complete Collection

472 – One Shot 65 – Witches: The Complete Collection

Darfox is reunited with ALMOST all the crew. dakazu is still gone but Morgana and Seamus help Dar record a fun tangent filled podcast. With a great conversation about Daisuke Igarashi’s Witches: The Complete Collection in the main segment.

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471 – Triple Dip 77 – #Killstagram, Scroll if You Dare, WEBTOON at Midnight

471 – Triple Dip 77 – #Killstagram, Scroll if You Dare, WEBTOON at Midnight

Everyone is gone! It’s up Darfox and Special Guest ARGBombshell to host the finale of the October Extravaganza for 2023. They are reading three WEBTOON series: #Killstagram, Scroll if You Dare, and WEBTOONS at Midnight!!!

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465 – One Shot 61 – Tatsuki Fujimoto Before Chainsaw Man

465 – One Shot 61 – Tatsuki Fujimoto Before Chainsaw Man

On this episode we discuss wrasslin, antipork bias, Cowboy Bebop: The MovieMaster Keaton RemasterQuantum BreakBlood on the TracksWelcome Back, Alice, and more! Then we examine the collection of Tatsuki Fujimoto’s one shot works with Tatsuki Fujimoto Before Chainsaw Man!!!

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464 – 9 Year Anniversary Retrospective Redux 4 – Pluto with Aidan Clarke

464 – 9 Year Anniversary Retrospective Redux 4 – Pluto with Aidan Clarke

We’re celebrating 9 years of Manga Machinations by revisiting Pluto! We’re joined by manga letterer Aidan Clarke to talk about all things Naoki Urasawa! We discuss Monster, Yawara!, Master Keaton, 20th Century Boys, and especially Billy Bat!!!

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435 – One Shot 55 – The Girl That Can’t Get a Girlfriend

435 – One Shot 55 – The Girl That Can’t Get a Girlfriend

On this episode we talk about Nighttime for Just Us TwoBlissful LandThe 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!!!

Support Mieri Hiranishi by following her on Twitter, Subscribing to her YouTube, buying something from her store, or becoming a Patreon!

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245 – Guest Gaiden 4 – Blue Flag with John from Manga Log Podcast

245 – Guest Gaiden 4 – Blue Flag with John from Manga Log Podcast

We’re happy to have the host of Manga Log join us this week! John is here to tell us about his fandom origins, why he decided to launch his own manga podcast, and discuss his favorite digital series, Blue Flag!!!

Listen to the Manga Log Podcast and follow John on twitter.

You can read Blue Flag for free on MANGA Plus.

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222 – 2018 Year End Review with Morgana Santilli

222 – 2018 Year End Review with Morgana Santilli

Welcome to our special year end episode! This year returning guest Morgana “Manga Maven” Santilli joins us to pick our favorite manga & anime from 2018!

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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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177 – Princess Jellyfish part 5

177 – Princess Jellyfish part 5

This week Seamus reports back from seeing a theatrical adaptation of Naoki Urasawa’s Pluto and we continue with our retrospective review of Princess Jellyfish!

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