252 – Tokyo Tarareba Girls part 3

252 – Tokyo Tarareba Girls part 3

On this episode we celebrate with Morgana “Manga Maven” Santilli about Tokyo Tarareba Girls winning the Will Eisner Comic Industry Award for Best U.S. Edition of International Material-Asia before we continue with our Retrospective review into volumes 6 & 7!!!

Make sure to follow Morgana on Twitter and check out her website!

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251 – Tokyo Tarareba Girls part 2

251 – Tokyo Tarareba Girls part 2

This week we continue our Retrospective on Akiko Higashimura’s Tokyo Tarareba Girls with Morgana “Manga Maven” Santilli! We also talk about bugs and critters for a long time!!!

Make sure to follow Morgana on Twitter and check out her website!

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029 – Nausicaä part 1

029 – Nausicaä part 1

We start off by delving into non-fiction manga with Ichi-F: A Worker’s Graphic Memoir of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant. Then darfox gives an update on Jisatsutou, Seamus is back to his yuri ways in Sweet Blue Flowers, and Nana to Kaoru leads dakazu to explain censorship laws? Finally, we begin our next retrospective of Hayao Miazaki’s acclaimed manga Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind!!!(covers vol. 1)

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