Behind The Manga

Join us as Vampy and WinterVenom ask MangaAlerts about his experience at this year's Anime Boston.

From attending Kodansha's panel to interviewing rock band Queen Bee, Alerts discusses what it was like going back for a second time!

"Behind the Manga theme" - Boneyard Records (Website: https://boneyardrecords.com/)

In this episode Alerts, Winter, and Vampy got the chance to sit down and interview Edward Hong, a manga editor for Square Enix Manga & Books!

We talk about how he became a manga editor, his work process as a manga editor, working on both a simulpub and a volume release, and more!!

Edward Hong's Twitter handle: @edomonogatari

"Behind the Manga theme" - Boneyard Records (Website: https://boneyardrecords.com/)

Join us today where we talk about Look Back's casting news, a bunch of anime from the Winter season getting second seasons, and ReZero information!

Join the Behind the Manga crew as they discuss Japanese publisher TOBook rolling out an English manga reading service that uses AI, Shueisha using AI for a manga recommendation services, and more!

On today's episode, the group discusses Akira Toriyama's passing and how his works have impacted the group.

They also talk about Viz Media's and Star Fruit Books' recent licenses, and more.

Recently Shueisha and the police cracked down on the leaking of Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine.

Today's episode has Winter, Alerts, and Vampy cover that information, the impact it has to the manga community as a whole, and their thoughts on the matter!

In Part 2: Alerts, Winter, and Vampy continue to chat with Brandon Bovia on his Gundam hot takes, his love of Beyblade, decisions he makes when lettering manga, and more!

Brandon has lettered various manga series such as Dragon Ball Super, Kaiju No 8, and Heavenly Delusion.

"Behind the Manga theme" - Boneyard Records (Website: https://boneyardrecords.com/)

In Part 1: Alerts, Winter, and Vampy sit down and talk with manga letterer Brandon Bovia!

Brandon has lettered various manga series such as Dragon Ball Super, Kaiju No 8, and Heavenly Delusion.

We talk about how he got into lettering, his process, and more!!!

In part 2 of this episode: Vampy, WinterVenom, and Alerts talk with Sakaki on his thoughts on Jump and Shueisha as a whole, the changes to the Shogakukan Awards, and whether Shogakukan will create their own version of MangaPlus for English audience!

Weekly Shogakukan Edition Twitter Handle: @Wsstalkback

In part 1 of this episode: Vampy, WinterVenom, and Alerts talk with Sakaki, founder of the account WSSTB (Weekly Shogakukan Talk Back), on how he got started, what made him interested in Shogakukan, his thoughts on translations (both official and fan), and more!