Welcome to our special year end episode! This year returning guest Morgana "Manga Maven" Santilli joins us to pick our favorite manga & anime from 2018!

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Time Stamps

• 00:00:00 - Intro Song: "More One Night" by Chito & Yuuri from Girls' Last Tour, Opening, Introductions
• 00:03:59 - Reviewing News of 2018: BEASTARS licensed in Spanish this year along with English/French for 2019 and won numerous awards
• 00:07:08 - Shonen Jump will launch a digital platform with new chapters being released for free day & date with Japan and a subscription based back library
• 00:14:12 - we ponder if the drastic changes to Shonen Jump will have an effect on piracy *NOTE*we taped prior to the 12/17/18 release)
• 00:18:22 - The various anti-manga-piracy campaigns from Japanese publishers this year
• 00:20:16 - Nobuhiro Watsuki's arrest over child pornography and the messy aftermath
• 00:28:30 - Rumiko Takahashi was finally inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Awards Hall of Fame
• 00:31:03 - Seamus reviews the stage play for Naoki Urasawa's Pluto from it's international run
• 00:34:52 - A discussion about manga adaptations to other media
• 00:37:50 - The wild saga of manga retailer Mandarake auctioning off manuscript pages of Ai to Makoto that were stolen over 40 years ago
• 00:42:01 - In memoriam of Momoko Sakura of Chibi Maruko-chan, Takahiro Satou of Samejima, Saigo no Juugonichi, Isao Takahata of Studio Ghibli
• 00:44:48 - Manga of 2018: Transition Song: "Katachi" by Shugo Tokumaru, The giant 2019 British Museum Manga Exhibition
• 00:46:22 - Best & worst manga of 2018
• 00:47:11 - Dead Dead Demon's Dededede Destruction by Inio Asano
• 00:49:02 - Princess Jellyfish by Akiko Higashimura
• 00:50:29 - My Solo Exchange Diary by Kabi Nagata
• 00:55:07 - Satoko and Nada by Yupechika
• 01:02:58 - Juza no Ulna by Toru Izu
• 01:04:57 - Ningen Karimenchu by Taeko Uzuki
• 01:10:03 - Scum's Wish by Mengo Yokoyari
• 01:13:50 - Red Colored Elegy by Seiichi Hayashi
• 01:19:56 - Claudine by Riyoko Ikeda
• 01:27:08 - Tokyo Tarareba Girls by Akiko Higashimura
• 01:35:42 - Manga picks from our listeners
• 01:41:34 - Pet Shop of Horrors by Matsuri Akino, The Wallflower by Tomoko Hayakawa
• 01:42:54 - Girls' Last Tour by Tsukumizu
• 01:43:07 - Jitsuroku: Naku made Bokorarete Hajimete Koi ni Ochimashita. by Poppy Pesuyama
• 01:48:20 - BEASTARS by Paru Itagaki
• 01:57:37 - Black Clover by Yuki Tabata
• 01:56:37 - Garden by Yuichi Yokoyama
• 01:58:50 - Ultra-Gash Inferno by Suehiro Maruo, A Pantyhose like World by Shun Umezawa
• 02:00:07 - Dead Tube by Mikoto Yamaguchi & Touta Kitakawa, Satsukare by Daisuke + Asahi
• 02:01:19 - My Boy by Hitomi Takano, Bunny Drop by Yumi Unita
• 02:06:51 - Anime of 2018: Transition Song: "Merigo" by Robert Yoshino ft. Sky-Hi from Gurazeni, Best & worst anime of 2018
• 02:07:28 - A Place Further than the Universe
• 02:08:32 - Violet Evergarden
• 02:09:42 - Serial Experiments Lain
• 02:10:18 - Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo
• 02:12:37 - Devilman Crybaby
• 02:16:40 - Mr. Tonegawa: Middle Management Blues
• 02:18:48 - Kaiji
• 02:21:18 - DOUBLE DECKER! DOUG & KIRILL
• 02:22:21 - Lupin III PART 5
• 02:23:20 - Skull-face Bookseller Honda-san
• 02:26:44 - The Night Is Short, Walk On Girl
• 02:28:56 - Ushio and Tora
• 02:32:10 - Banana Fish
• 02:33:44 - Golden Kamuy
• 02:36:14 - Hi Score Girl
• 02:38:53 - Run with the Wind
• 02:40:16 - Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku
• 02:41:01 - Megalo Box
• 02:42:16 - The Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These
• 02:43:51 - Happy Sugar Life
• 02:45:57 - Pop Team Epic
• 02:48:57 - Anime picks from our listeners
• 02:49:34 - Dragon Ball Super
• 02:52:06 - Oniisama e…,
• 02:52:57 - Liz and the Blue Bird
• 02:54:35 - Darfox rants about spinning limousines from Yowamushi Pedal: Glory Line
• 02:57:43 - Darling in the FranXX
• 03:00:39 - Junji Ito Collection
• 03:04:25 - Thanking all our guests and listeners from this year
• 03:06:30 - Next Episode Preview and Rundown: Triple Dip where we read the first volume of three different manga, including: The Full-Time Wife Escapist by Tsunami Umino, Rainbow: Nisha Rokubō no Shichinin by George Abe, and Bokutachi ga Yarimashita by Muneyuki Kaneshiro & Hikaru Akari
• 03:07:19 - House Keeping, Social Media Rundown, Sign Off Song: "Auld Lang Syne" by Home Free