It’s conflicted opinion time! DOWNLOAD HERE What is Friendship! Effort! Victory!? – It’s a podcast about the manga and inner workings of Weekly Shonen Jump, with an eye towards accessibility and soothing camp tones. What is this episode about? – It’s about Sakaki Kenji’s Enigma (ǝnígmǝ if you’re pretentious), a title that was incredibly popular right up until it […]

This one’s late because it turns out comics are complicated sometimes! DOWNLOAD HERE What is Friendship! Effort! Victory!? – It’s a podcast about the manga and inner workings of Weekly Shonen Jump, with an eye towards accessibility and soothing camp tones. What is this episode about? – Naoshi Komi’s short-lived cult fantasy title Double Arts, and how it was […]

My microphone may be broken, but we soldier on through part three of Valentine’s month! DOWNLOAD HERE What is Friendship! Effort! Victory!? – It’s a podcast about the manga and inner workings of Weekly Shonen Jump, with an eye towards accessibility and soothing camp tones. What is this episode about? – It’s about Naoshi Komi’s Nisekoi, the popular romantic […]

It’s a bit late and has some sound issues, but it’s time for Valentine’s Month part 1! DOWNLOAD HERE What is Friendship! Effort! Victory!? – It’s a podcast about the manga and inner workings of Weekly Shonen Jump, with an eye towards accessibility and soothing camp tones. What is this episode about? – It’s about Takeshi Konomi’s massively successful […]

Takehiko Inoue. Face-changing via explosions. Relative failure. DOWNLOAD HERE What is Friendship! Effort! Victory!? – It’s a podcast about the manga and inner workings of Weekly Shonen Jump, with an eye towards accessibility and soothing camp tones. What is this episode about? – It’s about Takehiko Inoue’s debut work Chameleon Jail, the tale of a strangely named guy who […]

Ancient Board Games. Ancient Ghosts. Modern Teens. DOWNLOAD HERE What is Friendship! Effort! Victory!? – It’s a podcast about the manga and inner workings of Weekly Shonen Jump, with an eye towards accessibility and soothing camp tones. What is this episode about? – It’s about Yumi Hotta and Takeshi Obata’s Hikaru no Go, the smash hit series about an […]

AAA-AAAH!! AAA-AAAAAH!! You know, like Tarzan. DOWNLOAD HERE What is Friendship! Effort! Victory!? – It’s a podcast about the manga and inner workings of Weekly Shonen Jump, with an eye towards accessibility and soothing camp tones. What is this episode about? – It’s about Masaya Fukuhiro’s Gag manga oddity Jungle King Ta-chan, a series detailing the post-marriage […]

Giant robots. Go Nagai. A character who’s half man, half woman. DOWNLOAD HERE What is Friendship! Effort! Victory!? – It’s a podcast about the manga and inner workings of Weekly Shonen Jump, with an eye towards accessibility and soothing camp tones. What is this episode about? – It’s about Go Nagai’s revolutionary mecha series Mazinger Z, with an eye […]

Witches. Torture. Me getting Belmondo’s name wrong. DOWNLOAD HERE What is Friendship! Effort! Victory!? – It’s a podcast about the manga and inner workings of Weekly Shonen Jump, with an eye towards accessibility and soothing camp tones. What is this episode about? – It’s about Shouei Ishioka’s Belmonde le Visiteur, a 2007 manga about a professional torturer […]

X-mas. A Jolly Fat Man. Nothing to do with either of those. DOWNLOAD HERE What is Friendship! Effort! Victory!? – It’s a podcast about the manga and inner workings of Weekly Shonen Jump, with an eye towards accessibility and soothing camp tones. What is a minisode? – It’s a smaller episode, that discards all the inner workings […]