Manga Machinations

This week Seamus finishes Onward Towards our Noble Deaths, dakazu gets into naginatas with Asahinagu, and darfox is caught up on Nana to Kaoru. Then get ready for some more Triple Dip with Hi Score Girl, Jisatsutou(Suicide Island), and What Did You Eat Yesterday?(Kinou Nani Tabeta?)!!!

On this episode Seamus jumps into World War II with Onward Towards our Noble Deaths, we have a quick Billy Bat update, and dakazu loves crazy shogi battles in 81 Diver. Then we dive into another Triple Dip with Devil Ecstasy, Rurouni Kenshin, and Holyland!!

This week is another rendition of Triple Dip! We look at the 1st volumes of No.5, Master Keaton, and Gambling Apocalypse Kaiji!! Seamus has also been reading solanin and we all get into a big discussion of Gundam!

On this episode Seamus finds the manga version of Skins in A Girl by the Sea, darfox eagerly awaits new chapters of Jisatsutou(Suicide Island), and dakazu is interested in a new manga from the creator of Rideback called Supekoro. Then join us for our final Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind retrospective where we wrap up our thoughts on Hayao Miyazaki's manga and compare it to the movie version.(covers vol. 7)

This week dakazu hates animorphs & internet memes in Killing Bites, Seamus learns the moral lesson of Yurikuma Arashi, darfox doesn't like the generic story bits of My Love Story!!(Ore Monogatari!!), and in our read through of Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind we witness Nausicaä become Jesus!!!(covers vol. 6)

We start with a long awaited Billy Bat update! Then prepare yourself for rants against underage hentai dubbing in Koe de Oshigoto! and more of the same stuff in the new Naruto: The Seventh Hokage and the Scarlet Spring(Naruto Gaiden). Finally we get existential with insects and mutant mold in our Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind retrospective!!(covers vol. 5)

After we ponder a communal hikikomori lifestyle, Seamus learns about shogi in March comes in like a lion(3-gatsu no Lion), dakazu finds an adult spin on roommate comedy 2DK, and darfox prepares more destiny in Boruto: Naurto the Movie! Afterwords we dig into a huge info dump in the next part of our Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind retrospective!!(covers vol. 4)

Spring anime is here! Both darfox and dakazu are enjoying Blood Blockade Battlefront(Kekkai Sensen), Rin-ne(Kyoukai no Rinne), and My Love Story!!(Ore Monogatari!!) but not Ultimate Otaku Teacher(Denpa Kyoushi) or The Disappearance of Nagato Yuki-chan(Nagato Yuki-chan no Shoushitsu). Meanwhile Seamus discusses wives of the Caspian Sea in A Bride's Story(Otoyomegatari). Then we continue our Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind retrospective as Nausicaä goes to war!(covers vol. 3) Also some bonus talk about the Hayao Miyazaki documentary The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness!!

This week dakazu talks about another cooking manga What Did You Eat Yesterday?Kinou Nanitabeta? that's about a gay male couple, along with a Magical Girl parody manga Magical Girl Ore(Mahou Shoujo Ore)! Then we jump into Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind and compare the events of both film and manga to each other!(covers vol. 2)

We start off by delving into non-fiction manga with Ichi-F: A Worker's Graphic Memoir of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant. Then darfox gives an update on Jisatsutou, Seamus is back to his yuri ways in Sweet Blue Flowers, and Nana to Kaoru leads dakazu to explain censorship laws? Finally, we begin our next retrospective of Hayao Miazaki's acclaimed manga Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind!!!(covers vol. 1)

This week dakazu learns about Ainu eating habits in Golden Kamuy before have one final rant about Bunny Drop. Afterwords we have our newly named Triple Dip section! This time we take a look at 1 volume each of Wandering Son, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, and Buddha!

On this episode Seamus catches up on Vinland Saga, dakazu hungers for grilled Basilisk in Delicious in Dungeon, and then gives an update on Magical Girl Apocalypse. After that we delve into our new section Triple Dip, where we read 1 volume of 3 different manga! This week we take a look at One Punch Man, Bunny Drop, and BLAME!.

Time for another anime interlude with special guest kenzo! But first dakazu's obsession with food leads him to the Vegetarian focused Nigakute Amai, while kenzo enjoys laughing at Boku Girl.Then we get our anime on with Parasyte, Z Gundam, Assassination Classroom, Eccentric Family, Yurikuma Arashi, Yatterman Night, Aldnoah.Zero, Maria the Virgin Witch, Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, Death Parade, our most anticipated new anime, and an epic kenzo rant about Noitamina!!

Tune in as darfox delves into Newtypes with Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin before we embark on our final discussion of Slam Dunk!! We'll cover the final chapters along with our favorite matches and moments from this classic manga series.(covers chapters 243-276)

On this episode Seamus2389 finishes Girl Friends and we tangent to the grossness of Bunny Drop, dakazu talks about Mob Psycho 100 by the author of One Punch Man, and we dive into the penultimate part of our Slam Dunk retrospective where Shohoku faces off against the National champions Sannou!!(covers chapters 216-242)

This week darfox explores muscle suited teenagers who hunt ancient technology in Spriggan, dakazu shares a shoujo manga that stars a guy in My Love Story!!, and we discuss Shohoku's 1st match of the Interhigh against Toyotama in part 8 of our Slam Dunk discussion!!(covers chapters 186-215)

Despite some technical issues, this week Seamus gets his yuri on with Girl Friends, dakazu rants about nonsensical panel layouts in Blood Blockade Battlefront, and we delve into part 7 of our Slam Dunk discussion with the Shohoku vs Ryonan rematch!!(covers chapters 149-185)

Get ready for the crazy train as dakazu tells us about Zero, Hotel Californina, and SXMCN, while darfox8 appreciates the details of the hunt in Jisatsutou. Then in part 6 of our Slam Dunk discussion, we have a surprising amount of discussion in the fanfic-like match between Ryonan and Kainan!!!(covers chapters 134-148)

This week dakazu explores fetish fuel in the harem manga Actually, I am..., sheds tears over tragic death and rescue in Gaku, and Seamus finds factual errors in Vinland Saga. And we delve deep into the Shohoku vs Kainan match in part 5 of our Slam Dunk retrospective!!(covers chapters 99-133)

After discussing the finer points of international coke, this week Seamus gets into Vikings with Vinland Saga and dakazu talks about primitive tribes living on terraformed Venus in Gyoseiki. Then we delve deep into Slam Dunk by discussing the Shohoku vs Shoyo match!!(covers chapters 79-98)

Prepare yourselves as we start up with a Billy Bat update, darfox finishes The Flowers of Evil to find inner peace and worms, dakazu loves the simple art and adult tales of Shinya Shokudo, and we ponder how our Sports manga turned into a high school gang manga in part 3 of our retrospective of Slam Dunk!(covers chapters 49-78)

We took a week off for the holidays but now we're back! On this episode darfox continues to find his inner worm with The Flowers of Evil, Seamus becomes our official Shoujo(girl) manga specialist by reading Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun, and we discuss the Ryonan practice match arc of our main series Slam Dunk!!(covers chapters 26-48)

After last week's anime talk, Seamus was inspired to start watching Kill la Kill but also found the time to read about preteen romance in Love at Fourteen. dakazu talks about Survival by the author of Golgo 13 and giant high school girl soldiers in the sci-fi manga Joshi kouhei. Then we begin discussing our new series Slam Dunk and the origins of the Naruto vs Sasuke rivalry with Hanamichi vs Rukawa!(covers chapters 1-25)

This week darfox learns about survival in Jisatsutou and dakazu thinks manga Wozniak is cute in Steve Jobs. Then we're joined by our anime expert kenzo to talk about all the anime we're watching: including Broken Blade, From the New World, Gundam: Reconguista in G, Psycho-Pass, Yowamushi Pedal, World Trigger, SHIROBAKO, Parasyte, Rage of the Bahamut: Genesis, The Seven Deadly Sins, and much more!

After missing a week due to technical issues(Ireland internet), we're back! Darfox shares tales of creepy teens in The Flowers of Evil(Aku no Hana) and then we wrap up our Parasyte read through of the final chapters and review the series as a whole!(covers chapters 49-64)

This week we have a quick Billy Bat update with new chapters 126-127, dakazu gets hungry over Nobunaga no Chef(Nobunaga's Chef), and we finish off the Tamiya Ryoko arc of Parasyte!!(covers chapters 32-48)

This week we have a long discussion/rant about the end of Naruto. We also extend our Parasyte discussion because darfox can't get enough tentacle action!(covers chapters 17-31)

This week we discuss the creepy live-action Nana to Kaoru movie, dakazu tries to explain what Ikigami is, and we catch up on current Naruto & Bleach. Then we jump into our Parasyte read-through by discussing the Mom arc(covers chapters 9-16)

On this episode darfox reads Nana to Kaoru to learn about doms and subjects(?), dakazu rants about the downfall of Bleach, and we start our read through of Parasyte and learn to love tentacle gore!(covers chapters 1-8)

We've finally done it this week! In our final episode of Billy Bat discussion, we catch to all current chapters released, hypothesize about where the story will go next, and solve the mystery behind the Black & White Billy Bats!!!(covers chapters 118-125)

This week we continue to give Junji Ito love with discussion about his Uzumaki: Spiral into Horror horror series and take a look at his comedy Ito Junji no Neko Nikki: Yon & Mu(Cat Diary)! Afterwords, we carefully dissect the wealth of new information in Billy Bat given to us by the Kurusu Moon arc!(covers chapters 106-117)

This week darfox rants about the ending of Claymore, we lament over lackluster manga endings, and dakazu recommends Jisatsutou. Then we dive deep into the true protagonist of Billy Bat with the Golden Bat arc! Also included: rants about factual errors of New Jersey!(covers chapters 93-105)

Even though we say 5 in the intro, this is indeed episode 6! This week dakazu rants about Naruto(AGAIN!) and we dive deep into speculation over the mysteries of Billy Bat while finishing the Bat Village arc!(covers chapters 78-93)

This week we darfox continues to rave about Junji Ito, dakazu discovers the most amazing webcomic ever by Ishida Sui of Tokyo Ghoul fame, and we rant about the cutthroat business of Popularity polls in manga serialization magazines. We also continue our Billy Bat analysis as we begin the Devivie/Bat Village arc!(chapters 63-77)

Sit down for a megaton of an episode! Seamus raves about farts after finishing Gyo: The Death-Stench Creeps, darfox gives Uzumaki: Spiral into Horror some love, and dakazu is squeamish over the hyper violence of Magical Girl Apocalypse(Magical Girl of the End). Then the hosts dive deep into Billy Bat and spend over an hour discussing minutia in the conclusion of the JFK assassination arc!(covers chapters 42-62)

This week we get into mecha sharks running on gas with Junji Ito's Gyo: The Death-Stench Creeps, complain about how we can't remember who's who in Claymore, and we continue our Billy Bat analysis with the JFK assassination arc while fact checking Wikipedia against the new main character Lee Harvey Oswald!(chapters 28-41)

This week Seamus gets spiritual with Budda, dakazu gets real angry about Naruto, and we try to work our way through the dreaded 'Ninja arc' of Billy Bat(chapters 16-27)

Welcome to the inaugural episode of Manga Machinations! This episode we talk about our manga origins, various Naoki Urasawa works, and our in depth discussion of Billy Bat!(chapters 1-15)