427 – Manga Machinations Awards 2022
We’ve got an amazing gift just in time for Christmas! Get ready for another year end celebration with the Manga Machination Awards! Seamus, Morgana, Darfox8, and dakazu are ready to present their awards and top manga lists for 2022!!!
Continue reading419 – Chainsaw Man part 1
October Extravaganza comes to a bloody end with the start of our Chainsaw Man Retrospective. But not before our special guest schools us on some of the current anime airing this season. Dawn from the Anime Nostalgia Podcast talks to us about Urusei Yatsura, Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury, and more!
Continue reading413 – Dorohedoro part 6
On this episode Darfox catches up on The Fable and dakazu checks out Keito Gaku’s new series Aoba no Basuke! Then we rack our brains trying to solve the mysteries of Q Hayashida’s Dorohedoro!!!
Continue reading392 – Morgana’s Manga Makeup 4 – The Fable, Crocodile Baron, Gambling Apocalypse Kaiji
This week dakazu and his wife have been watching SPY X FAMILY, Komi Can’t Communicate, and Black Clover! He also finds a contender for best manga of the year with Kujima Utaeba Ie Hororo! Then launch into a very Darfox-centric edition of Morgana’s Manga Makeup by revisiting The Fable, Crocodile Baron, and Gambling Apocalypse Kaiji!!!
Continue readingThe Fable
A manga about a legendary hitman known as ‘The Fable’ who is ordered by his boss to live quietly as a normal person for one year.
We’ve discussed this on an older episode.
Love this series. Katsuhisa Minami has a very particular art style that mixes realistic body proportions with expressive faces. It works perfectly as we follow this elite killer awkwardly assumes the role of an average joe. It’s hilarious to see him interact with his boss and coworkers at his part-time job while finding joy watching the third-rate comedian Jackal. Minami does a great job transitioning seamlessly into action scenes and some serious drama. It allows our assassin to use his ridiculously overpowered skills to protect people around him without them even noticing.
This series ended part 1 in 2019 and part 2 is set to start later this year. I’ll definitely be checking that out.
~dakazu
216 – Triple Dip 31 – Starving Anonymous, Scum’s Wish, The Fable
On this episode we check out 3 more manga for another Triple Dip! Seamus picks the ultimate unrequited love story of Scum’s Wish, darfox with the crime drama about a legendary hitman in The Fable, and dakazu brings the grotesque horror of Starving Anonymous!
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