297 - Triple Dip 42 - I Want to Hold Aono-kun So Badly I Could Die, Crown of Love, INVESTOR-Z

This week Morgana looks forward to reading more Blue Flag and BEASTARS while dakazu shares some of his favorite manga artists active on Twitter! Than the crew are ready to tear apart one of the three manga they read for Triple Dip! Will it be I Want to Hold Aono-kun So Badly I Could Die, Crown of Love, or INVESTOR-Z!!!

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Timestamps:

• 00:00:00 - Intro Song: "Massara" by KANA-BOON from Sarazanmai, Opening, Introductions, Upcoming 300th episode with manga letterer Sara Linsley
• 00:01:31 - Manga Machinations 300th episode manga giveaway contest
• 00:06:22 - Whatchu Been Reading: Transition Song: Dragon Ball Z OST "Prologue", Morgana's read volume 3 of Blue Flag
• 00:09:57 - *SPOILERS* We discuss plot bombs in the newly released BEASTARS volume 6
• 00:20:54 - Episodic stories of assassination targets having their last meal in Last Order -Saigo no Sentaku- comes off as psychotic
• 00:29:47 - Ryoichi Yokoyama is using Twitter to put out manga where characters change a little with every update
• 00:35:20 - Ichiro Inoue currently lives and works in his car and uses Twitter to post manga updates about his fascinating lifestyle
• 00:39:55 - AHOSUTA posts about everything from raising kids to her unrequited love for Trowa Barton from Mobile Suit Gundam Wing
• 00:45:02 - News: Upcoming digital releases of Lychee Light Club, Utsubora: The Story of a Novelist, Dissolving Classroom, and Velveteen & Mandala from Vertical
• 00:47:17 - New World Trigger chapter will release unfinished due to Daisuke Ashihara's health problems
• 01:02:28 - Next Episode Preview and Rundown: Retrospective on Yu Yu Hakusho, a comprehensive look at Yoshihiro Togashi's popular manga about a teenage delinquent turned spirit detective(covers volumes 14-16)
• 01:03:16 - Main Segment Triple Dip: INVESTOR-Z/Crown of Love/I Want to Hold Aono-kun So Badly I Could Die, Transition Song: "Fiction" by sumiko from Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku, we read the beginning of each manga for discussion and to see if we'd continue reading it before picking our favorite of the three
• 01:04:05 - INVESTOR-Z by Norifusa Mita
• 01:26:44 - Crown of Love by Yun Kouga
• 01:37:17 - I Want to Hold Aono-kun So Badly I Could Die by Umi Shiina
• 01:53:37 - We pick our favorite out of the three manga
• 01:54:37 - Next Week's Topic: Yu Yu Hakusho, Social Media Rundown, Sign Off Song: "wish men" by sunbrain from Beet the Vandel Buster