208 - 4 More Years - 4 year Anniversary Special with Ryan Higgins

208 - 4 More Years - 4 year Anniversary Special with Ryan Higgins

Please join us for our special 4 year anniversary of Manga Machinations! We’ve asked our friend Ryan Higgins from the Comic Conspiracy store and podcast to join us as we talk about the comics industry through a retail store and learn how manga is sold!

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Timestamps:

  • 00:00:00 - Intro Song: “New Stranger” by sora tob sakana from Hi Score Girl, Opening, Introductions, tropical storms
  • 00:04:34 - Update on our podcast feed and re-uploaded episodes
  • 00:05:42 - Listener Emails: Announcing our next Retrospective review
  • 00:09:05 - dakazu read the end of Dorohedoro, we discuss other ongoing decade-long comics and manga projects
  • 00:13:13 - We talk about our preference for physical or digital media, comparing web manga sites to their Western equivalents
  • 00:23:23 - Main Segment Comics & Manga sales: Transition Song: “Don’t Make Me Wild Like You” by Etsuko Nishio from Ranma ½, Ryan recaps his history that lead him to be the owner of Comics Conspiracy, Ryan talks about the single issue sales of Ranma ½
  • 00:27:56 - We discuss what we think caused the recent resurgence of the manga market
  • 00:33:10 - Round table discussion about manga/anime piracy linked to early days of fan translations compared to modern options
  • 00:38:52 - Ryan tells us why he only carries the 1st volume of most manga, he explains the importance of pre-ordering for retail stores
  • 00:49:45 - Banpresto figures sell really well, Ryan looks at newsletters and forums for his manga suggestions
  • 00:54:13 - darfox wants to know why Ryan stocked My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness, Dragon Ball is the best selling manga franchise for Ryan
  • 00:59:46 - we love it when more unknown manga find success
  • 01:02:56 - darfox wonders if the Western success of One Punch Man and My Hero Academia is linked to their superhero themes
  • 01:08:39 - Ryan weighs in the rise of digital comics/manga releases and what it means for physical retailers like him
  • 01:13:49 - Listener Questions: Ryan recommends some independent comics and horror comics
  • 01:18:59 - A quick synopsis of the Comics Conspiracy podcast
  • 01:22:58 - Ryan want to know why light novel titles are so damn long
  • 01:33:36 - darfox asks Ryan about Tom King’s The Vision
  • 01:40:28 - Next Week’s Topic: Seamus on Seinen, Social Media Rundown, Sign Off Song: “wish men” by sunbrain from Beet the Vandel Buster

Episoder(568)

016 - Slam Dunk part 1

016 - Slam Dunk part 1

After last week’s anime talk, Seamus was inspired to start watching Kill la Kill but also found the time to read about preteen romance in Love at Fourteen. dakazu talks about Survival by the author of Golgo 13 and giant high school girl soldiers in the sci-fi manga Joshi kouhei. Then we begin discussing our new series Slam Dunk and the origins of the Naruto vs Sasuke rivalry with Hanamichi vs Rukawa!(covers chapters 1-25)

22 Des 201444min

015 - Anime Interlude 1 - Parasyte -the maxim-

015 - Anime Interlude 1 - Parasyte -the maxim-

This week darfox learns about survival in Jisatsutou and dakazu thinks manga Wozniak is cute in Steve Jobs. Then we’re joined by our anime expert kenzo to talk about all the anime we’re watching: including Broken Blade, From the New World, Gundam: Reconguista in G, Psycho-Pass, Yowamushi Pedal, World Trigger, SHIROBAKO, Parasyte, Rage of the Bahamut: Genesis, The Seven Deadly Sins, and much more!

16 Des 20141h 4min

014 - Parasyte part 5

014 - Parasyte part 5

After missing a week due to technical issues(Ireland internet), we’re back! Darfox shares tales of creepy teens in The Flowers of Evil(Aku no Hana) and then we wrap up our Parasyte read through of the final chapters and review the series as a whole!(covers chapters 49-64)

8 Des 20141h 23min

013 - Parasyte part 4

013 - Parasyte part 4

This week we have a quick Billy Bat update with new chapters 126-127, dakazu gets hungry over Nobunaga no Chef(Nobunaga’s Chef), and we finish off the Tamiya Ryoko arc of Parasyte!!(covers chapters 32-48)

24 Nov 20141h 15min

012 - Parasyte part 3

012 - Parasyte part 3

This week we have a long discussion/rant about the end of Naruto. We also extend our Parasyte discussion because darfox can’t get enough tentacle action!(covers chapters 17-31)

17 Nov 20141h 7min

011 - Parasyte part 2

011 - Parasyte part 2

This week we discuss the creepy live-action Nana to Kaoru movie, dakazu tries to explain what Ikigami is, and we catch up on current Naruto & Bleach. Then we jump into our Parasyte read-through by discussing the Mom arc(covers chapters 9-16)

10 Nov 201446min

010 - Parasyte part 1

010 - Parasyte part 1

On this episode darfox reads Nana to Kaoru to learn about doms and subjects(?), dakazu rants about the downfall of Bleach, and we start our read through of Parasyte and learn to love tentacle gore!(covers chapters 1-8)

3 Nov 20141h

009 - Billy Bat part 9

009 - Billy Bat part 9

We’ve finally done it this week! In our final episode of Billy Bat discussion, we catch to all current chapters released, hypothesize about where the story will go next, and solve the mystery behind the Black & White Billy Bats!!!(covers chapters 118-125)

27 Okt 20141h 35min

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