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

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065 - Triple Dip 11 - My Brother’s Husband, Golden Kamuy, Sakuranbo Syndrome

065 - Triple Dip 11 - My Brother’s Husband, Golden Kamuy, Sakuranbo Syndrome

On this episode dakazu examines post World War 2 Japan and Japanese occupied China in the sobering Areyo Hoshikuzu. Then we revisit recently translated Golden Kamuy and My Brother’s Husband from dakazu’s Whatcha-Been-Reading, along with listener suggested Sakuranbo Syndrome for our Triple Dip!!!

21 Dec 201542min

064 - Manga in Motion 4 - The Garden of Words

064 - Manga in Motion 4 - The Garden of Words

Seamus is back to talk about popular shoujo manga; including AKB49 - Renai Kinshi Jourei, Whispered Words(Sasameki Koto), Tenbin wa Hana to Asobu, and Kimi ga Suki!! Then dakazu explains the comedy of the long running Afro Tanaka series and we talk about teacher/student romances done right in The Garden of Words for Manga in Motion!!!

14 Dec 201542min

063 - dakazu diversions 1 - Shonen Jump

063 - dakazu diversions 1 - Shonen Jump

Seamus and darfox are both out this week so dakazu solo-casts this episode, talking about all the current series he reads(or doesn’t) in Weekly Shonen Jump!!!

7 Dec 201536min

062 - Triple Dip 10 - Ooku: The Inner Chambers, Ushio to Tora, Video Girl Ai

062 - Triple Dip 10 - Ooku: The Inner Chambers, Ushio to Tora, Video Girl Ai

This week Seamus deals with cheesy storylines in Vinland Saga and dakazu can’t stop praising the Sci-Fi epic Imuri! Then, it’s time for more Triple Dip! We discuss gratuitous panty shots of Video Girl Ai, horror design in Ushio to Tora, and gush over male harems in feudal Japan from Ooku: The Inner Chambers!!!

30 Nov 20151h 3min

061 - Manga in Motion 3 - Angel's Egg

061 - Manga in Motion 3 - Angel's Egg

On this episode Seamus finishes Planetes, dakazu talks about the JSDF in Rising Sun and kids playing golf in Rising Impact. Then we get into a lengthy discussion about manga spin-offs of other manga and look at Mamoru Oshii’s anime art film Angel's Egg(Tenshi no Tamago)!!!

23 Nov 201555min

060 - Triple Dip 9 - Berserk, Hajime no Ippo, A Silent Voice

060 - Triple Dip 9 - Berserk, Hajime no Ippo, A Silent Voice

Kenzo joins us this week to tell us about dropping Bleach, lamenting the end of Gintama, and his guilty pleasures of My Girlfriend is a T-Rex(T-Rex na Kanojo) and Boku Girl! Then it’s time for another Triple Dip! We look at the 1st volumes of Hajime no Ippo, Berserk, and A Silent Voice!!!

16 Nov 20151h 9min

059 - Blame! part 5

059 - Blame! part 5

On this episode we welcome the return of the mangaka in Billy Bat, then we reach the ends of the Megastructure and Killy’s journey as we finish our Blame! retrospective and we give our final thoughts on the series and the cyber dungeon.(covers chapters 51-65)

9 Nov 20151h 41min

058 - Blame! part 4

058 - Blame! part 4

Get ready for tales of a 40 year old slacker dad in I’ll Give It My All… Tomorrow, mysterious dream sequences in new chapters of Billy Bat, and the biggest appearance of characters with actual names in our penultimate discussion of Blame!!!!(covers chapters 38-50)

2 Nov 20151h 21min

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