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This week at MSX: Mangasplaining Extra, we’re proud to present mangaka Akino Kondoh’s long-running manga memoir series Noodling in New York in its English-language debut! A selection of stories from across Kondoh’s series about being a Japanese immigrant living in New York City has been selected by Kondoh herself, in...
Wait, is this episode MANHWAsplaining? It’s true! Deb leads the team through their first-ever Korean webtoon pick, JH’s The Boxer from IZE Press / Yen Press. What fascinating differences and similarities will the Mangang discern between this title and the previous 100+ manga they’ve read? And how does a unique vertical-scroll digital...
Out of the darkest corners of the internet crawls Popuko and Pipimi, the stars of the internet-based comedy manga sensation, turned nearly-inexplicable anime, POP TEAM EPIC. Will the jokes in this VERY 2014 brand of Japanese internet humour land with the Mangasplaining crew? Will Chip FINALLY like an anime? Or...
One of the ‘big three’ from the most recent “Golden Age” of Weekly Shonen Jump Magazine, Bleach by Tite Kubo has been a longtime favorite with North American manga fans… But how will it hold up 20 years after its debut, and after the Mangasplaining crew have read many other...
The Mangasplainers dig into a “Missed Connection” from a prior episode, as Deb hosts a rollicking discussion of My Love Story!! By Kazune Kawahara and Aruko! This shoujo manga turns a lot of the conventions of the genre on its head, but will that mean the crew enjoys it more…...
This week, Mangasplaining has its first official crossover episode with ANOTHER podcast, as Deb and Christopher interview the hosts of Pure Tokyoscope, Patrick Macias and Matt Alt! These esteemed gentlemen have long histories in North America’s manga and anime industries and boy, do they have stories to share. Besides talking...
David hosts this week, continuing his “Violence Hell!” series of manga picks for season 4 with BAKI, by Keisuke Itagaki! Will this hyper-violent treatise on masculinity be a big hit with the crew, or is it going to be “Too Las Vegas?” What does ANY of that mean!? Listen and...
Hi all. We had a forced WordPress update that may have affected some of the formatting on older posts. If things look a little wonky, well, our apologies, but it should all still be readable at the very least. We’ll work backwards through the archives at some point and make...
With a hero that looks like a bird, Goodnight PunPun by Inio Asano is a coming-of-age story that’s sometimes funny, sometimes very weird and not always very heartwarming. But what did Chip think of it?
Slipping into your apartment to drink your precious hidden bottle of booze, the low-rent “Under Ninja” Kudo has his sights set hilariously low. That might just be enough for the Mangasplaining crew to have a Very Good Time with this manga coming alllll the way out of left field. OR NOT!...
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