426 – Recommendation Round-up 2 – Single Volumes
This week we answer emails while dakazu talks about Nagata Kabi’s new manga, a Gengoroh Tagame food manga, Hunter x Hunter, and more! Then we present our suggestions for awesome single volume manga in a new edition of Recommendation Round-up!!!
Continue reading334 – Morgana’s Manga Makeup 3 – Mob Psycho 100, Phoenix, Give My Regards to Black Jack
On this episode Morgana takes a break from terrible teens of The Flowers of Evil with the Real Friends series, while Darfox and dakazu check out the live-action movie adaptation of Misu Misou! Then we get Morgana’s thoughts on Phoenix, Mob Psycho 100, and Give My Regards to Black Jack for another round of Morgana’s Manga Makeup!!!
Continue reading284 – Girls’ Last Tour part 1
On this episode Darfox rejoices in the English release of Blood on the Tracks while dakazu checks out a new manga made by an Osamu Tezuka AI called Paidon! Then we begin our retrospective on the empty world of Girls’ Last Tour by Tsukimizu and discuss it’s themes of finality.
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 reading236 – Give My Regards to Black Jack part 4
This week we reach the end of Give My Regards to Black Jack! Join us as we give our final thoughts on Shuho Sato’s medical drama that asks, “What does it mean, to be a doctor?”!!!!
Continue reading235 – Give My Regards to Black Jack part 3
On this episode we conclude the cancer patient arc, move onto the psychiatry ward, and talk a lot about The Wire as we continue our retrospective on Shuho Sato’s Give My Regards to Black Jack!
Continue reading234 – Give My Regards to Black Jack part 2
This week we continue learning about modern Japanese medicine through the lens of Shuho Sato’s Give My Regards to Black Jack!
Continue readingGive My Regards to Black Jack
A manga about a young idealistic doctor who must battle against the harsh realities of the current medical system of Japan.
I love Shuho Sato’s Tokkou no Shima and always wanted to read this one. We checked out volume 1 for a recent episode. This book really shows how much Sato has improved his artwork as this earlier work is more rough around the edges. The subject matter seems pretty standard fare for any medical based drama but I did like the main struggle of the protagonist as he clumsily tries to fight against the modern medical machine.
You can read the entire series for free in English on Sato’s website Manga on Web by clicking here. Warning, the site is only in Japanese.
~dakazu
Tokkou no Shima
A manga about Japanese soldiers during World War 2 that were assigned to man suicide torpedoes for the Kaiten squad.
A power manga about a horrible real life war story. Sato Shuho’s inking and shadowing shine to convey emotions of the main character and the tense submarine battles.
It’s a book I think that deserves to be brought over in English but probably won’t because of the subject matter.
~dakazu
217 – Triple Dip 32 – Kasane, Give My Regards to Black Jack, Higanjima
Get ready for another Triple Dip this week with Kasane, Higanjima and Give My Regards to Black Jack!
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