Manga in Your Ears

Podcasts are a good way, during this time of stay-at-home orders and global pandemics, to have real human interaction with real other humans, and not just coworkers over IM or email or gritting through your teeth at the other folks in line at the grocery store, praying they don't cough. Anyway, stay safe everyone, and wash your hands.

This episode, we're talking about Shinobu Ohtaka's Magi published by Viz and Asumiko Nakamura's Classmates published by Seven Seas.

The song you heard on this episode is "The Bravery" by supercell from the Magi anime.

As always, you can find me on Twitter @ImpassionateK, and my co-hosts Helen (@WanderinDreamr) and Apryll (@manjiorin) on Twitter at those places in the parenthesis. You can find both of their writing at The Organization of Anti-Social Geniuses, more of Helen's writing at Narrative Investigations, and my writing at the Fandom Post.

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Show notes:

0:34 - We talk about Magi!

14:50 - We talk about Classmates!

Next time is Ristorante Paradiso and Downfall!

I, as my Manga In Your Ears co-hosts, have been working from home for the past few days in an attempt not to spread a pandemic. Sports has stopped in the US and Canada, so I can't even talk about my newfound fandom of the Vancouver Canucks (not that I know anything about hockey still). On the plus side, the air quality in LA is GREAT. Ban cars.

This episode, we're talking about Riyoko Ikeda's Rose of Versailles published by Udon and Taiyo Matsumoto's Cats of the Louvre published by Viz.

The songs you can hear in the episode are "Bara wa Utsukushiku Chiru" and "Ai no Hikari to Kage," both by Hiroko Suzuki from the Rose of Versailles anime.

As always, you can find me on Twitter @ImpassionateK, and my co-hosts Helen (@WanderinDreamr) and Apryll (@manjiorin) on Twitter at those places in the parenthesis. You can find both of their writing at The Organization of Anti-Social Geniuses, more of Helen's writing at Narrative Investigations, and my writing at the Fandom Post.

Also check out Helen's reviews on Cats of the Louvre and Rose of Versailles. And this great piece by Jocelyne Allen on Cats of the Louvre, which is where I got all of the information I said on the podcast.

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Show notes:

0:39 - We talk about Rose of Versailles!

14:47 - We talk about Cats of the Louvre!

Next time is Magi and Classmates!

Mookie Betts was traded to the Dodgers! Except maybe not because of medical particulars surrounding Brusdar Graterol, the greatest name in baseball, but also a fireballing probably reliever when the Red Sox wanted a starter. I sure hope this trade still goes through, because I will be a very sad Dodger fan if it does not. If they can keep Kenta Maeda, though, that'd be cool.

This episode, we're talking about Keiko Tobe's With the Light and Afro's Laid Back Camp, both published by Yen Press.

The song you heard at the top of the episode was "SHINY DAYS" by Asaka from the Laid Back Camp anime.

As always, you can find me on Twitter @ImpassionateK, and my co-hosts Helen (@WanderinDreamr) and Apryll (@manjiorin) on Twitter at those places in the parenthesis. You can find both of their writing at The Organization of Anti-Social Geniuses, more of Helen's writing at Narrative Investigations, and my writing at the Fandom Post.

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Show notes:

0:55 - We talk about With the Light!

15:21 - We talk about Laid Back Camp!

Next time is Rose of Versailles and Cats of the Louvre!

We're back from holiday break! The Astros cheated to win the World Series and get to another one, and also in the season in between. The players should be much more punished than they are, but labor negotiations maybe?!?!

This episode, we're talking about Yuki Midorikawa's Natsume's Book of Friends published by Viz and Akiko Higashimura's Blank Canvas: My So-Called Artist's Journey published by Seven Seas.

The music you heard at the top of the episode was "Issei no Sei" by Shūhei Kita, the opening from the Natsume's Book of Friends anime.

As always, you can find me on Twitter @ImpassionateK, and my co-hosts Helen (@WanderinDreamr) and Apryll (@manjiorin) on Twitter at those places in the parenthesis. You can find both of their writing at The Organization of Anti-Social Geniuses, more of Helen's writing at Narrative Investigations, and my writing at the Fandom Post.

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Show notes:

0:54 - We talk about Natsume's Book of Friends!

10:29 - We talk about Blank Canvas: My So-Called Artist's Journey!

Next time is With the Light and Laid Back Camp!

I think I mentioned somewhere in these ramblings that I became a Clippers fan the moment Kawhi signed and Paul George was traded there, and with that has apparently come a passing interest in shoes. So RIP me for an added random fandom.

Also my audio is still weird and wonky and not great, so apologies for that. Hopefully I have fixed it for the next podcast...we'll see.

This episode, we're just counting down three (each) of our favorite manga we read in 2019!

The song you heard at the top of the episode was "Juice" by Lizzo, and the song at the end was "Old Town Road" by Lil Nas X.

As always, you can find me on Twitter @ImpassionateK, and my co-hosts Helen (@WanderinDreamr) and Apryll (@manjiorin) on Twitter at those places in the parenthesis. You can find both of their writing at The Organization of Anti-Social Geniuses, more of Helen's writing at Narrative Investigations, and my writing at the Fandom Post.

Listen to Helen on Shadow Particles talking about His Dark Materials.

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Show notes:

0:38 - Number threes!

4:47 - Number twos!

10:25 - Number ones!

15:48 - Also rans!

Next time is Natsume's Book of Friends and Blank Canvas: My So-Called Artist's Journey!

Whoops, it's been two week and I completely forgot to edit this episode, so here's what's about to be two episodes in quick succession! Hope you don't mind.

Also I got a new motherboard and reinstalled windows, so my audio may be of very questionable quality. Apologies in advance.

This episode, we're talking about Akimi Yoshida's Banana Fish published by Viz and Kaori Ozaki's The Golden Sheep published by Kodansha.

The song you heard at the top of the episode was "found & lost" by Survive Said The Prophet from the Banana Fish anime.

As always, you can find me on Twitter @ImpassionateK, and my co-hosts Helen (@WanderinDreamr) and Apryll (@manjiorin) on Twitter at those places in the parenthesis. You can find both of their writing at The Organization of Anti-Social Geniuses, more of Helen's writing at Narrative Investigations, and my writing at the Fandom Post.

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Show notes:

0:50 - We talk about Banana Fish!

15:20 - We talk about The Golden Sheep!

Next time is our favorite manga in 2019! (not of)

Per Helen...The Washington Nationals are World Series champions! I personally couldn't root for them during the NLCS, having defeated the Dodgers in a full NLDS, but they put the Cardinals to rest in a short four games and then faced the biggest villains of them all, toxic masculinity—I mean the Houston Astros. And they were defeated, thus finally given them their just dues. Between the NHL Capitals, the WNBA Mystics, and now the MLB Nationals, beltway sports is a bunch of success and also the football racists still.

This episode, we're talking about CLAMP's Wish published by Dark Horse (formerly Tokyopop) and Yuki Suetsugu's Chihayafuru published digitally by Kodansha.

The songs you heard in the episode were "Colorful" and "Youthful" both by 99RadioService and both from the Chihayafuru anime.

As always, you can find me on Twitter @ImpassionateK, and my co-hosts Helen (@WanderinDreamr) and Apryll (@manjiorin) on Twitter at those places in the parenthesis. You can find both of their writing at The Organization of Anti-Social Geniuses, more of Helen's writing at Narrative Investigations, and my writing at the Fandom Post.

You can listen to Taiiku Podcast's Chihayafuru episodes here (but please don't, the audio quality is very bad), here, and here.

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Show notes:

0:55 - We talk about Wish!

12:25 - We talk about Chihayafuru!

Next time is Banana Fish and The Golden Sheep!

It's playoff time for a lot of things! LAFC has the first round bye in MLS, the Chicago Red Stars just won their semifinal match in NWSL, and nothing is good about baseball. Also basketball is about to start again, and I'm looking forward to jumping onto the Clippers x Kawhi bandwagon.

Also, and I can't believe we're already here, but this is our 50th episode! I want to thank everyone for listening to us through this point, and thanks to Helen and Apyrll for joining me on this journey through manga. I've read or reread a lot of great manga, and I'm glad to be able to do this with friends.

This, our 50th, episode we're talking about Haruko Kumota's Descending Stories: Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju published by Kodansha and Tatsuya Endo's Spy x Family published by Viz.

The songs you heard in the episode were "Imawa no Shinigami" by Megumi Hayashibara and "Kawa, Taredoki" by Kana Shibue, both from the Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju anime.

As always, you can find me on Twitter @ImpassionateK, and my co-hosts Helen (@WanderinDreamr) and Apryll (@manjiorin) on Twitter at those places in the parenthesis. You can find both of their writing at The Organization of Anti-Social Geniuses, more of Helen's writing at Narrative Investigations, and my writing at the Fandom Post.

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Show notes:

0:35 - We talk about Descending Stories: Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju!

19:37 - We talk about Spy x Family!

Next time is Wish and Chihayafuru!

Playoff baseball is here, and I couldn't be more pleased. I can finally watch Dodger baseball without going to Dodger Stadium! Sports blackout rules are dumb.

This episode, we're talking about CLAMP's Legal Drug published by Dark Horse and Mari Okada (writer) and Nao Emoto's (illustrator) O Maidens in Your Savage Season published by Kodansha.

The song you heard at the beginning of the episode was "Otome-domo yo" by CHiCO with Honeyworks.

As always, you can find me on Twitter @ImpassionateK, and my co-hosts Helen (@WanderinDreamr) and Apryll (@manjiorin) on Twitter at those places in the parenthesis. You can find both of their writing at The Organization of Anti-Social Geniuses, more of Helen's writing at Narrative Investigations, and my writing at the Fandom Post.

Read Helen's interview with the Promare people!

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Show notes:

0:40 - We talk about Legal Drug!

12:30 - We talk about O Maidens in Your Savage Season!

Next time is Wish and Descending Stories: Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju!

Forgot to write a whole thing until I was already done, so just here to say the Bears squeaked by in a game they should have lost and the White Sox season means NOTHING. Also looking forward to following the Clippers for the first time ever.

This episode, we get closer and closer to the New World, first finishing off Thriller Bark, then arriving on the Sabaody Archipelago, and finally landing on Amazon Lily.

That song you heard at the start of the episode was "Share the World" by TVXQ from the One Piece anime.

As always, you can find me on Twitter @ImpassionateK, and my co-hosts Helen (@WanderinDreamr) and Apryll (@manjiorin) on Twitter at those places in the parenthesis. You can find both of their writing at The Organization of Anti-Social Geniuses, more of Helen's writing at Narrative Investigations, and my writing at the Fandom Post.

You can find Patz on Twitter @PatzPrime and hear him talking about robots @CockpitPod, and you can find Grant on Twitter @grantthethief and hear Grant talk about various things at Blade Licking Thieves and The Super Sentai Podcast.

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Show notes:

I say we talk about Thriller Bark to Amazon Lily, but we do delve some into Paramount War and New World, but none of it is spoiler-y. If you're especially averse and haven't read yet though, just be warned.

0:48 - We start the show and talk about Thriller Bark!

11:10 - We talk about Sabaody! Which is apparently pronounced sha-bon-di.

28:12 - We talk about Amazon Lily!

38:47 - We answer questions from you, our listeners!

Next time is Legal Drug and O Maidens in Your Savage Season!