526 – Triple Dip 86 – Love and Heart, My Love Story with Yamada-kun at Lv999, Wotakoi
We’re still on Mars with our special Martian cast. Today’s episode is a Triple Dip! Featuring Love and Heart, My Love Story with Yamada-Kun at Lv999, and Wotakoi.
On this episode we talk about Sailor Moon translations, Something New, Gokurakugai, Demon Slayer – To the Swordsmith Village, and more! Then we start our long awaited Retrospective on Makoto Yukimura’s Planetes! We discuss the near-future story about space debris collectors and what puts the “hard” in hard science fiction!!!
268 – Guest Gaiden 5 – Sailor Moon Translations & Taisho Era Feminists with Anne Lee
We’re joined by a very special guest this week! Anne Lee from Shojo Power! is here to talk about her love of Sailor Moon, geek out about Takarazuka Revue, ask us about translating onomatopoeias, and tell us about feminists of Taisho Era Japan!!!
Seamus is away this week so we’ve taken the opportunity to do another Darfox Dabbles! We’re revisiting Weekly Shonen Sunday and Weekly Shonen Magazine to check out some of their newer series!!!
200 – Guest Gaiden 1 – The Bride was a Boy with Morgana Santilli
Join us for the 200th episode of Manga Machinations! We celebrate with special guest Morgana Santilli aka “Manga Maven” from the Comicopia Comics Store! She’s here to answer our questions about selling manga and to share some of her current favorite LGBTQ+ and Josei manga!
It’s once again that time of the year for our anime expert Miki’s Stopwatch to join us and review the last season of anime. We pick our favorites and also give quick takes on some of the new summer anime as well!
130 – Saikyo Selections 6 – Sailor Moon with Dawn “Usamimi”
This week Dawn “Usamimi” from the Anime Nostalgia Podcast is back to talk about one of her favorite series, Sailor Moon! We examine everything from the differences of the manga vs. the anime to the recently aired Sailor Moon Crystal! Also on this episode, Dawn’s been reading Goodnight Punpun and recommends Naoki Urasawa’s Manben for a look behind the scenes of creating manga, darfox checks out Reiraku and likes the unique art of BEASTARS, we celebrate the English release of My Brother’s Husband and Ichi-F, we discuss the difficulty of translating and the slippery slope of fan-translations, and we’re hyped for devilman crybaby by Masaaki Yuasa but not so much for Eureka Seven Hi-Evolution!!!