058 - Blame! part 4

This week Morgana picked out manga for a new Shojo Showdown! We read Drowning Love, Say I Love You., and Descending Stories: Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju! We also answer listener emails and dakazu talks about Daruma Matsuura’s current manga Taiyo to Tsuki no Hagane!!! Send us emails! mangamachinations@gmail.com  Follow us on Twitter! @mangamacpodcast Check out our website! https://mangamachinations.com Check out our YouTube channel! https://www.youtube.com/mangamactv Check out our tumblr! http://mangamachinations.tumblr.com Join our Discord! https://discord.me/mangamac Buy us a Ko-fi! https://ko-fi.com/mangamac Timestamps: 00:00:00 - Intro Song: “Are You Ready For Me Baby” by Funky Giraffe, Opening, Introductions, Pull quote from Holmboy 00:01:49 - Listener Mail: Recommendation for deluxe print editions of Fist of the North Star 00:10:29 - Old school vs. New school Delinquent fashion 00:17:29 - Which manga should get canceled, brought back, or promoted? 00:29:56 - Whatchu Been Reading: Transition Song: “Funkymania” by The Original Orchestra, dakazu used Azuki to reread Shojo Fight  00:34:17 - Daruma Matsuura’s new manga Taiyo to Tsuki no Hagane is a mix between a classic folktale and supernatural abilities  00:38:36 - Next Episode Preview and Rundown: Manga Machinations Awards 2021, we’ll be looking back on the year 2021 with our top manga picks along with our individual awards and favorite podcast moments 00:39:32 - Main Segment Shojo Shodown: Descending Stories: Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju/Say I Love You./Drowning Love, Transition Song: “It’s Over” by Generation Lost, We read the beginning of each shojo/josei manga for discussion and to see if we’d continue reading it before picking our favorite of the three, Including: 00:40:47 - Descending Stories: Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju by Haruko Kumota 00:57:09 - Say I Love You. by Kanae Hazuki 01:31:21 - Drowning Love by George Asakura 01:48:35 - We picks our favorite out of the three manga 01:52:38 - Next Week’s Topic: Manga Machinations Awards 2021, Social Media Rundown, Sign Off Song: “Crazy for Your Love” by Orkas

19 Dec 20211h 54min

Join us this week as we examine Netflix’s live-action adaptation of Cowboy Bebop! We breakdown everything from the stellar casting to the questionable story structure! We also finally get around to a spoiler-filled discussion on BEASTARS volume 15!!! Send us emails! mangamachinations@gmail.com  Follow us on Twitter! @mangamacpodcast Check out our website! https://mangamachinations.com Check out our YouTube channel! https://www.youtube.com/mangamactv Check out our tumblr! http://mangamachinations.tumblr.com Join our Discord! https://discord.me/mangamac Buy us a Ko-fi! https://ko-fi.com/mangamac Timestamps: 00:00:00 - Intro Song: “Are You Ready For Me Baby” by Funky Giraffe, Opening, Introductions, Morgana guesting on Manga Mavericks 00:04:06 - Whatchu Been Reading: Transition Song: “Funkymania” by The Original Orchestra, *SPOILERS* We discuss the contents of BEASTARS volume 15 00:36:36 - Next Episode Preview and Rundown: Shojo Showdown, We will read the beginning of three different shojo manga to see if we’d keep reading them and also pick our favorite, including: Drowning Love by George Asakura, Say I Love You. by Kanae Hazuki, and Descending Stories: Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinji by Haruko Kumota 00:39:46 - Main Segment Manga in Motion: Netflix Cowboy Bebop, Transition Song: “It’s Over” by Generation Lost, We review and discuss the live action adaptation of Shinichiro Watanabe’s neo-noir anime Cowboy Bebop 01:54:44 - Next Week’s Topic: Drowning Love/Say I Love You./Descending Stories: Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinji, Social Media Rundown, Sign Off Song: “Crazy for Your Love” by Orkas

12 Dec 20211h 56min

We have another small manga publisher Triple Dip this week, this time with Glacier Bay Books! We check out Tsukiko and the Satellite and other stories, Rabbit Game, and F! Also Morgana reads Moto Hagio’s cute cat manga Lil’ Leo and dakazu loves the comedy memoir of a Dominatrix manga artist and her masochist slave husband in Teishu Genki de Mazo ga Ii!!!! Buy manga from Glacier Bay Books! Send us emails! mangamachinations@gmail.com  Follow us on Twitter! @mangamacpodcast Check out our website! https://mangamachinations.com Check out our YouTube channel! https://www.youtube.com/mangamactv Check out our tumblr! http://mangamachinations.tumblr.com Join our Discord! https://discord.me/mangamac Buy us a Ko-fi! https://ko-fi.com/mangamac Timestamps: 00:00:00 - Intro Song: “Are You Ready For Me Baby” by Funky Giraffe, Opening, Introductions 00:01:13 - Clarification on the lettering in Vasilisa! The Wise Princess and Other Classic Folktales, Keishi Kuraibe’s thank you illustration 00:03:53 - Whatchu Been Reading: Transition Song: “Funkymania” by The Original Orchestra, Darfox has finally upgraded his potato into an actual computer 00:08:50 - Morgana checked out Moto Hagio’s Lil’ Leo which features a cute cat who talks and attends school 00:15:10 - Former dominatrix manga artist Ryo Rokutan made manga about her masochistic husband called Teishu Genki de Mazo ga Ii! and Jyoou Returns! ~Bondage wo mou ichido!~ but changed her pen name to Yagi Saotome to make Aida ni Hatachi and Boku Tachi wa Hanshoku wo Yameta 00:25:41 - Next Episode Preview and Rundown: Manga in Motion on the Netflix Cowboy Bebop, we will review and discuss season 1 of the live action adaptation of Shinichiro Watanabe’s neo-noir anime Cowboy Bebop 00:27:10 - Main Segment Glacier Bay Books Triple Dip: Tsukiko and the Satellite and other stories/Rabbit Game/F, Transition Song: “It’s Over” by Generation Lost, We review three books from Glacier Bay Books for discussion before picking our favorite of the three, Including: 00:28:25 - Tsukiko and the Satellite and other stories by Mississippi 00:44:35 - Rabbit Game by Miyoshi 01:02:14 - *CONTENT WARNING* (Islamic State propaganda, Executions videos, Torture) F by Imai Arata 01:40:03 - We picks our favorite out of the three manga 01:44:25 - Next Week’s Topic: Netflix Cowboy Bebop, Social Media Rundown, Sign Off Song: “Crazy for Your Love” by Orkas

5 Dec 20211h 46min

It’s time to take a look at releases from Star Fruit Books! We’ve assembled Vasilisa! The Wise Princess and Other Classic Folktales, Young, Alive, in Love, and The Town You Live in for this week’s Triple Dip! Also Morgana loves Creepy Cat and dakazu talks about Blade Runner: Black Lotus!!! Buy manga from Star Fruit Books! Send us emails! mangamachinations@gmail.com  Follow us on Twitter! @mangamacpodcast Check out our website! https://mangamachinations.com Check out our YouTube channel! https://www.youtube.com/mangamactv Check out our tumblr! http://mangamachinations.tumblr.com Join our Discord! https://discord.me/mangamac Buy us a Ko-fi! https://ko-fi.com/mangamac Timestamps: 00:00:00 - Intro Song: “Are You Ready For Me Baby” by Funky Giraffe, Opening, Introductions, Avoiding arguments during Thanksgiving 00:01:42 - Whatchu Been Reading: Transition Song: “Funkymania” by The Original Orchestra, Morgana is excited that Creepy Cat finally got an English release 00:08:12 - Morgana and Darfox got their manga packages from dakazu 00:13:33 - Watching Blade Runner: Black Lotus and Blade Runner 2049 made dakazu realize how influential Blade Runner was on science fiction 00:28:47 - Next Episode Preview and Rundown: Glacier Bay Books Triple Dip, We will read the beginning of three different manga from Glacier Bay Books to pick our favorite, including: F by Imai Arata, Rabbit Game by Miyoshi, and Tsukiko and the Satellite and other stories by MISSISSIPPI 00:30:22 - Main Segment Star Fruit Books Triple Dip: The Town You Live in/Young, Alive, in Love/Vasilisa! The Wise Princess and Other Classic Folktales, Transition Song: “It’s Over” by Generation Lost, We review three books from Star Fruit Books for discussion and to see if we’d continue reading it before picking our favorite of the three, Including: 00:31:46 - The Town You Live in by uminoji 00:44:07 - Young, Alive, in Love by Daisuke Nishijima 00:57:03 - Vasilisa! The Wise Princess and Other Classic Folktales by Keishi Kuraibe 01:11:26 - We picks our favorite out of the three manga 01:13:03 - Next Week’s Topic: F/Rabbit Game/Tsukiko and the Satellite and other stories, Social Media Rundown, Sign Off Song: “Crazy for Your Love” by Orkas

28 Nov 20211h 14min

Seamus is out this week so the other hosts take advantage by looking at the second volume of previously visited series for a Twiple Dip! This time they check out My Dress-up Darling, Blue Giant, and Oishinbo! The hosts also give their first impressions of the live-action Cowboy Bebop show on Netflix!!! Send us emails! mangamachinations@gmail.com  Follow us on Twitter! @mangamacpodcast Check out our website! https://mangamachinations.com Check out our YouTube channel! https://www.youtube.com/mangamactv Check out our tumblr! http://mangamachinations.tumblr.com Join our Discord! https://discord.me/mangamac Buy us a Ko-fi! https://ko-fi.com/mangamac Timestamps: 00:00:00 - Intro Song: “Are You Ready For Me Baby” by Funky Giraffe, Opening, Introductions, Jet lag and time differences 00:02:35 - Listener Mail: What was our first manga from Big Comics? 00:07:37 - Whatchu Been Reading: Transition Song: “Funkymania” by The Original Orchestra, Reading Cheeky Brat and I'm the Villainess, So I'm Taming the Final Boss reminded Morgana of her first time reading shojo manga 00:10:44 - The hosts give their first impressions on Netflix’s live-action Cowboy Bebop 00:31:03 - Morgana’s love of Vincent Valentine, Various video games her husband James is playing 00:33:40 - dakazu recalls his experiences at Mandarake, BOOK OFF, and other bookstores he visited in Japan 00:45:43 - dakazu checked out a Hideshi Hino book called Reishoujo Mako 00:48:34 - News: FAKKU licenses Ryuta Amazume’s Nana & Kaoru for print release through DENPA 00:55:02 - Next Episode Preview and Rundown: Star Fruit Books Triple Dip, We will read the beginning of three different manga from Star Fruit Books to see if we’d keep reading and also pick our favorite, including: The Town You Live in by Uminoji, Vasilisa! The Wise Princess and Other Classic Folktales by Keishi Kuraibe, and Young, Alive, in Love by Daisuke Nishijima 00:56:21 - Main Segment Twiple Dip: Oishinbo/My Dress-up Darling/Blue Giant, Transition Song: “It’s Over” by Generation Lost, We revisit a previous Triple Dip selection and read the next volume for discussion and to see if we’d continue reading it before picking our favorite of the three, Including: 00:57:30 - Oishinbo: Ramen and Gyoza Vol. 3 by Tetsu Kariya & Akira Hanasaki 01:24:34 - My Dress-up Darling by Shinichi Fukuda 01:37:48 - Blue Giant by Shinichi Ishizuka 01:55:23 - We picks our favorite out of the three manga 01:57:41 - Next Week’s Topic: The Town You Live in/Vasilisa! The Wise Princess and Other Classic Folktales/Young, Alive, in Love, Social Media Rundown, Sign Off Song: “Crazy for Your Love” by Orkas

21 Nov 20211h 59min

dakazu is back from his trip and very sleep deprived! He joins Darfox and Ryan aka RUSH to talk full spoilers about popular manga for a New Chapter Check-in! They discuss the recently canceled The Hunters Guild: Red Hood! Darfox pops for Black Clover while Ryan pops for Dr. STONE! Ryan also has a rant on Platinum End!!! Send us emails! mangamachinations@gmail.com  Follow us on Twitter! @mangamacpodcast Check out our website! https://mangamachinations.com Check out our YouTube channel! https://www.youtube.com/mangamactv Check out our tumblr! http://mangamachinations.tumblr.com Join our Discord! https://discord.me/mangamac Buy us a Ko-fi! https://ko-fi.com/mangamac Timestamps: 00:00:00 - Intro Song: “Are You Ready For Me Baby” by Funky Giraffe, Opening, Introductions, Japanese, dakazu’s trip to Japan 00:02:24 - Next Episode Preview and Rundown: Twiple Dip, We will revisit three Triple Dip picks and read their second volumes, Including: My Dress-up Darling by Shinichi Fukuda, Blue Giant by Shinichi Ishizuka, and Oishinbo: Ramen and Gyoza by Tetsu Kariya & Akira Hanasaki 00:03:23 - Main Segment New Chapter Check-in, We will be doing *FULL SPOILER* discussions on the newest story arcs of popular manga, Including: 00:04:08 - The Hunters Guild: Red Hood by Yuki Kawaguchi 00:17:13 - Black Clover by Yuki Tabata 00:22:09 - One Piece by Eiichiro Oda 00:26:58 - Dr. STONE by Riichiro Inagaki & Boichi 00:33:27 - My Hero Academia by Kohei Horikoshi 00:37:21 - PPPPPP by Mapollo 3 00:39:51 - Even If You Slit My Mouth by Akari Kajimoto 00:45:34 - Platinum End by Tsugumi Ohba & Takeshi Obata 00:58:55 - All You Need is Kill by Hiroshi Sakurazaka & Takeshi Obata 01:01:11 - Next Week’s Topic: My Dress-up Darling/Blue Giant/Oishinbo: Ramen and Gyoza, Social Media Rundown, Sign Off Song: “Crazy for Your Love” by Orkas

14 Nov 20211h 3min

Our main host dakazu is out on a mission this week. So it leaves the rest of the cast of Manga Mac to hold the reigns of this show. Listen to them talk about Taiyo Matsumoto's Cats of the Louvre. Send us emails! mangamachinations@gmail.com  Follow us on Twitter! @mangamacpodcast Check out our website! https://mangamachinations.com Check out our YouTube channel! https://www.youtube.com/mangamactv Check out our tumblr! http://mangamachinations.tumblr.com Join our Discord! https://discord.me/mangamac Buy us a Ko-fi! https://ko-fi.com/mangamac Timestamps: 00:00:00 - Intro Song: “Are You Ready For Me Baby” by Funky Giraffe, Opening, Introductions 00:02:50 - Darfox talks about My Hero Academia: World Heroes' Mission and the review video he made for the YouTube channel 00:09:23 - The group talk about Denis Villeneuve's new adaptation of DUNE. *Warning: FULL SPOILERS FOR ALL THE DUNE BOOKS* 00:27:07 - Next Episode Preview and Rundown: New Chapter Check-in, Next week Darfox8 and RUSH(AKA Ryan) will talk about the currently running manga they're reading 00:28:09 - Main Segment One Shot: Cat's of the Louvre, by Taiyo Matsumoto, Transition Song: “It’s Over” by Generation Lost, The group talks about the super cute kitties that aren't always super cut when we see them anthropomorphized 01:08:34 - Next Week's Topic: New Chapter Check-in, Social Media Rundown, Sign Off Song: “Crazy for Your Love” by Orkas

7 Nov 20211h 10min

Halloween comes early with Night 5 of October Extravaganza! For our final night we examine the newest Junji Ito release, Sensor! Morgana is reading I'm the Villainess, So I'm Taming the Final Boss and dakazu discusses his thoughts on Chimamire Sukeban Chainsaw: reflesh!!! Send us emails! mangamachinations@gmail.com  Follow us on Twitter! @mangamacpodcast Check out our website! https://mangamachinations.com Check out our YouTube channel! https://www.youtube.com/mangamactv Check out our tumblr! http://mangamachinations.tumblr.com Join our Discord! https://discord.me/mangamac Buy us a Ko-fi! https://ko-fi.com/mangamac Timestamps: 00:00:00 - Intro Song: “The One Eyed Captain” by Ian Post, Opening, Introductions, Halloween, Movie theaters 00:02:55 - Listener Mail: Reading the manga because of the anime  00:09:31 - Whatchu Been Reading: Transition Song: “Can’t Look Down” by Ty Simon, Morgana’s very first light novel is I'm the Villainess, So I'm Taming the Final Boss 00:10:57 - Unfortunately Chimamire Sukeban Chainsaw: reflesh was not the series ending dakazu was hoping for 00:25:15 - Next Episode Preview and Rundown: One Shot on Cats of the Louvre, We’ll be reviewing Taiyo Matsumoto’s Eisner award winning book about magical cats reside in the attic of the Louvre museum 00:27:42 - Main Segment One Shot: Sensor, Transition Song: “K.I.T.T. Vs. K.A.R.R” by Ian Post, We review Junji Ito’s latest book about terrifying events involving cosmic horror that occur around Mount Sengoku 00:59:50 - Next Week’s Topic: Cats of the Louvre, Social Media Rundown, Sign Off Song: “Ghost Waltz” by Ziv Moran

30 Okt 20211h 1min