375 – Manga Machinations Awards 2021

375 – Manga Machinations Awards 2021

Please enjoy a present from Manga Machinations with this final episode for 2021! It’s time again for Darfox8, dakazu, Morgana, and Seamus to create unique awards to go with their top manga picks for this year’s Manga Machinations Awards! Tune into our picks and we hope you all have yourselves a wonderful and safe holidays!!!

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374 – Shojo Showdown 2 – Drowning Love, Say I Love You., Descending Stories: Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju

374 – Shojo Showdown 2 – Drowning Love, Say I Love You., Descending Stories: Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju

This week Morgana picked out manga for a new Shojo Showdown! We read Drowning LoveSay I Love You., and Descending Stories: Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju! We also answer listener emails and dakazu talks about Daruma Matsuura’s current manga Taiyo to Tsuki no Hagane!!!

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373 – Manga in Motion 50 – Netflix Cowboy Bebop

373 – Manga in Motion 50 – Netflix Cowboy Bebop

Join us this week as we examine Netflix’s live-action adaptation of Cowboy Bebop! We breakdown everything from the stellar casting to the questionable story structure! We also finally get around to a spoiler-filled discussion on BEASTARS volume 15!!!

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372 – Triple Dip 58 – F, Tsukiko and the Satellite and other stories, Rabbit Game

372 – Triple Dip 58 – F, Tsukiko and the Satellite and other stories, Rabbit Game

We have another small manga publisher Triple Dip this week, this time with Glacier Bay Books! We check out Tsukiko and the Satellite and other storiesRabbit Game, and F! Also Morgana reads Moto Hagio’s cute cat manga Lil’ Leo and dakazu loves the comedy memoir of a Dominatrix manga artist and her masochist slave husband in Teishu Genki de Mazo ga Ii!!!!

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371 – Triple Dip 57 – Vasilisa! The Wise Princess and Other Classic Folktales, Young, Alive, in Love, The Town You Live in

371 – Triple Dip 57 – Vasilisa! The Wise Princess and Other Classic Folktales, Young, Alive, in Love, The Town You Live in

It’s time to take a look at releases from Star Fruit Books! We’ve assembled Vasilisa! The Wise Princess and Other Classic FolktalesYoung, Alive, in Love, and The Town You Live in for this week’s Triple Dip! Also Morgana loves Creepy Cat and dakazu talks about Blade Runner: Black Lotus!!!

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370 – Twiple Dip 2 – My Dress-up Darling, Blue Giant, Oishinbo

370 – Twiple Dip 2 – My Dress-up Darling, Blue Giant, Oishinbo

Seamus is out this week so the other hosts take advantage by looking at the second volume of previously visited series for a Twiple Dip! This time they check out My Dress-up Darling, Blue Giant, and Oishinbo! The hosts also give their first impressions of the live-action Cowboy Bebop show on Netflix!!!

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369 – New Chapter Check-in 8 – The Hunters Guild: Red Hood

369 – New Chapter Check-in 8 – The Hunters Guild: Red Hood

dakazu is back from his trip and very sleep deprived! He joins Darfox and Ryan aka RUSH to talk full spoilers about popular manga for a New Chapter Check-in! They discuss the recently canceled The Hunters Guild: Red Hood! Darfox pops for Black Clover while Ryan pops for Dr. STONE! Ryan also has a rant on Platinum End!!!

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368 – One Shot 46 – Cats of the Louvre

368 – One Shot 46 – Cats of the Louvre

Our main host dakazu is out on a mission this week. So it leaves the rest of the cast of Manga Mac to hold the reigns of this show. Listen to them talk about Taiyo Matsumoto’s Cats of the Louvre.

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367 – One Shot 45 – Sensor

367 – One Shot 45 – Sensor

Halloween comes early with Night 5 of October Extravaganza! For our final night we examine the newest Junji Ito release, Sensor! Morgana is reading I’m the Villainess, So I’m Taming the Final Boss and dakazu discusses his thoughts on Chimamire Sukeban Chainsaw: reflesh!!!

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366 – Triple Dip 56 – Mermaid Saga, PTSD Radio, The Silver Demon

366 – Triple Dip 56 – Mermaid Saga, PTSD Radio, The Silver Demon

Night 4 of October Extravaganza brings us to another Triple Dip! We’re checking out Mermaid SagaPTSD Radio, and The Silver Demon! dakazu also read Siren Rebirth, a reboot of a manga adaptation of the horror video game series Siren!!!

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