Recommending great manga to folks who haven't read much manga before!
Hello Mangasplaining fans, have we got a treat for you! Thanks to our friends at Kodansha who sponsored this episode, we were given an advance peek at the forthcoming hardcover omnibus Ashita no Joe: Fighting for Tomorrow Volume 1. This classic boxing manga (and so much more!) has been one...
Hi everyone, Christopher here. This post is about the fact that SEARCH AND DESTROY VOLUME 1, by Atsushi Kaneko, based on the manga Dororo by Osamu Tezuka, and published by Fantagraphics and Mangasplaining Extra, is getting released tomorrow, July 23rd! It’ll be in better stores everywhere and there’ll be copies at Comic-Con, too....
Season 4 is nearing its conclusion, and it’s time for David’s last pick: Heavenly Delusion, by Masakazu Ishiguro! This sci-fi (comedy?) manga has a huge fan-following already thanks to its great art and story AND a hit anime series too! But will that be enough to meet the high standards...
Is this manga meets X-Men: Inferno? That’s how David pitched Blood Blockade Battlefront by Trigun creator Yasuhiro Nightow to good ‘ole Chip, but will this over the top spectral superhero series live up to that moniker? Only one way to find out…! Powered by RedCircle Listen and Subscribe to the...
It’s the 100th episode, and the team are doing something special! This week David and Chip take over, interviewing translator Jocelyne Allen and Editor Andrew Woodrow-Butcher on the new manga Okinawa, by Susumu Higa! Produced by MSX: Mangasplaining Extra and published by Fantagraphics, this gripping historical manga is now available...
The manga you’ve been waiting for Mangasplaining to cover has finally arrived! The Mangang dives into PLUTO volume 1, Naoki Urasawa’s epic reimagining of Osamu Tezuka’s Astro Boy story ‘The World’s Strongest Robot!’ But will this first volume live up to the hype? Is it the Watchmen of manga, or...
Oh no! You died in the real world and woke up inside a video game world! Except you’re not the heroine of this dating-simulation, you’re the villainess who tries to take her down! You’ve got a bad end coming because the hero(ine) always wins… so what are you going to...
We’re excited today to announce that MSX: Mangasplaining Extra (the newsletter and publishing sister company of the podcast) have announced our next FOUR manga licenses. Two of these projects will be serialized in the newsletter, available to read for paid subscribers, and the other two projects will go straight to...
The Mangasplainers pick their favorite books from Season 3, making recommendations for the best manga… for people who don’t read much manga!
It’s Business Time! We’re back with a new episode and a “new” manga, the dramatic day-in-the-life Division Chief Kosaku Chief. Only published in Japan in a bilingual edition designed to teach and reinforce English language learning among Japanese readers, we got our hands on this Japanese import and deep-dive into...
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