Manga Machinations

Welcome as we begin our newest Retrospective on Daruma Matsuura's Kasane! We're excited to dive into this dark fairy tale of Kasane Fuchi and her magical lipstick that allows her to swap her hideous f...

19 Jul 20202h 4min

This week Darfox recommends the luxurious indie comics anthology Glaeolia while dakazu shares the horrifying true story of child abuse in Uchi no Yome wa Jidougyakutai Survivor. Then we discuss the da...

12 Jul 20201h 34min

On this episode Morgana catches up on Witch Hat Atelier and SPY x FAMILY, dakazu experiences the 27 Club with Shiori Experience - Jimi na Watashi to Hen na Oji-san, and we run down all the new manga l...

5 Jul 20202h 2min

Morgana and Seamus take a break this week so Darfox and dakazu can talk about the newest story arcs of their favorite popular manga! In this episode they gush over the brilliance of Chainsaw Man, comm...

29 Jun 20201h 3min

We've reached another milestone on Manga Machinations with 300 episodes! To celebrate, we're joined by the wonderful manga letterer Sara Linsley! She's here to answers our questions about her job, tel...

21 Jun 20201h 32min

On this episode Seamus finishes rereading Vinland Saga, Morgana enjoys BL Metamorphosis, and dakazu loves creepy girls with mind powers in Meiko no Asobiba! And we've finally arrived at the end of our...

14 Jun 20202h 26min

Join us for the penultimate episode of our Yu Yu Hakusho Retrospective! We discuss Yoshihiro Togashi's deteriorating art quality, major issues with the English translation, and parallels between the e...

7 Jun 20201h 51min

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 ...

31 Mai 20201h 56min