Manga in Your Ears

The Professional Women's Hockey League season starts today! November 21, 2025, Toronto-Minnesota and Seattle-Vancouver. I am very much looking forward to the season. Let's go Torrent.

This episode, we're talking about Waka Hirako's My Broken Mariko and Somato's Shadows House, both published by Yen Press.

My Broken Mariko credits:

Shadows House credits:

As always, you can find me on bsky @nidokorn, and my co-hosts Helen (@WanderinDreamr) and Apryll (@manjiorin) and the podcast on bsky 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 and Awko Tako.

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Show notes:

Content warning for the My Broken Mariko discussion: suicide, parental / familial abuse, rape, self harm

0:44 - My Broken Mariko

14:34 - Shadows House

Next time is top manga! Send us your favorite manga you read in 2025 on bsky!

My beloved Seattle Mariners have been eliminated by the Toronto Blue Jays, who are currently playing the Los Angeles Dodgers as I type this (well it's technically commercial as I type this). Go Dodgers.

This episode, we’re talking about Kintetsu Yamada’s Home Office Romance published by Yen Press. Then Sakae Saito’s Touring After the Apocalypse also published by Yen Press.

Home Office Romance credits:

Touring After the Apocalypse credits:

As always, you can find me on bsky @nidokorn, and my co-hosts Helen (@WanderinDreamr) and Apryll (@manjiorin) on bsky 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 and Awko Tako.

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Show notes:

1:09 - We talk about Home Office Romance

22:24 - We talk about Touring After the Apocalypse

Next time is TBD

The Major League Baseball playoffs are here and it is the Wild Card round! I am very nervous for the Division Series.

This episode, we're talking about CLAMP's Tokyo Babylon published by Yen Press. Then Zero Akabane's Magical Girl Incident also published by Yen Press.

Tokyo Babylon credits:

Magical Girl Incident credits:

As always, you can find me on bsky @nidokorn, and my co-hosts Helen (@WanderinDreamr) and Apryll (@manjiorin) on bsky 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 and Awko Tako.

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0:42 - We talk about Tokyo Babylon

27:29 - We talk about Magical Girl Incident

Next time is Home Office Romance and Touring After the Apocalypse

The Seattle Mariners are 1.5 games back of the Astros in the AL West and 1 game ahead of the Rangers for the last Wild Card spot. Cal Raleigh is having a historic season. I'm ready to be hurt, or fall in love.

This episode, we're talking about Moto Hagio's They Were Eleven published by Denpa and Chika Mizube's Pass the Monster Meat, Milady! (with story by Kanata Hoshi and character design by Pepperon) published by Kodansha.

They Were Eleven credits:

As always, you can find me on bsky @nidokorn, and my co-hosts Helen (@WanderinDreamr) and Apryll (@manjiorin) on bsky 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 and Awko Tako.

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Show notes:

1:07 - We talk about They Were Eleven

29:17 - We talk about Pass the Monster Meat, Milady!

Next time is Tokyo Babylon and Magical Girl Incident

The Seattle Mariners and San Diego Padres shared first place in their respective divisions today, as baseball gets ever more interesting.

This episode, we're talking about murata's Catch These Hands! and Sai Naekawa's This Monster Wants to Eat Me, both published by Yen Press.

Catch These Hands! credits:

This Monster Wants to Eat Me credits:

As always, you can find me on bsky @nidokorn, and my co-hosts Helen (@WanderinDreamr) and Apryll (@manjiorin) on bsky 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 and Awko Tako.

Read Helen's review of Catch These Hands! on The OASG.

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Show notes:

1:12 - We talk about Catch These Hands!

18:50 - We talk about This Monster Wants to Eat Me

Content warning: There is ideation of suicide in This Monster Wants to Eat Me and its discussion.

Next time is They Were Eleven and Pass the Monster Meat, Milady!

The last time I brought up the PWHL, I said go Frost. And I'm here to say, I lied, go PWHL Seattle.

This episode, we're talking about Yama Wayama's Let's Go Karaoke! and Mokumokuren's The Summer Hikaru Died, both published by Yen Press.

Let's Go Karaoke! credits:

The Summer Hikaru Died credits:

As always, you can find me on bsky @nidokorn, and my co-hosts Helen (@WanderinDreamr) and Apryll (@manjiorin) on bsky 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 and Awko Tako.

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1:17 - We talk about Let's Go Karaoke!

16:53 - We talk about The Summer Hikaru Died

Next time is Catch These Hands! and This Monster Wants to Eat Me

This week, baseball nerds across the internet (there are ones of us!!) are participating in a fan exchange, just to see how the other side lives. As a die hard and lifelong fan of the White Sox, Mariners, Padres, Dodgers, Brewers, Giants fan, I am too, but just by switching who's number one. Go Brewers. Love Salvatore.

This episode, we're talking about Kurano's I Cross-Dressed for the IRL Meetup published by Kodansha and Sumiko Arai's The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn't a Guy at All published by Yen Press.

I Cross-Dressed for the IRL Meetup credits

The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn't a Guy at All credits

As always, you can find me on bsky @nidokorn, and my co-hosts Helen (@WanderinDreamr) and Apryll (@manjiorin) on bsky 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 and Awko Tako.

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Forgot to mention this on the podcast, but The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn't a Guy at All has an official playlist on Spotify.

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Show notes:

0:58 - We talk about I Cross-Dressed for the IRL Meetup

13:36 - We talk about The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn't a Guy at All

Next time is Let's Go Karaoke! and The Summer Hikaru Died

Congrats to Son Heungmin and Son Heungmin only.

This episode, we're talking about Ai Yazawa's Neighborhood Story published by Viz and Jun Mayuzuki's Kowloon Generic Romance published by Yen Press.

Neighborhood Story credits:

Kowloon Generic Romance credits:

As always, you can find me on bsky @nidokorn, and my co-hosts Helen (@WanderinDreamr) and Apryll (@manjiorin) on bsky 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 and Awko Tako.

Listen to our previous Ai Yazawa and Jun Mayuzaki podcast episodes: After the Rain, Last Quarter, Paradise Kiss

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Show notes:

1:37 - We talk about Neighborhood Story

0 - We talk about Kowloon Generic Romance

Next time is

The White Sox are already running into random wins that didn't seem to happen in 2024, so we're well on our way to a normal extremely bad season instead of historically extremely bad season.

This episode, we're talking about CLAMP's Legend of Chun Hyang published by Tokyopop and Spica Aoki's Kaiju Girl Caramelise published by Yen Press.

Legend of Chun Hyang credits:

Kaiju Girl Caramelise credits:

As always, you can find me on bsky @nidokorn, and my co-hosts Helen (@WanderinDreamr) and Apryll (@manjiorin) on bsky 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 and Awko Tako.

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Show notes:

1:01 - We talk about Legend of Chun Hyang

12:11 - We talk about Kaiju Girl Caramelise

Next time is Neighborhood Story and Kowloon Generic Romance

Helen here folks, I know Kory normally starts off the episode notes with something sports related so uhhh…. I saw that the 2025 “City Connect” designs were unveiled recently, and the DC ones look pretty; I might need to buy one of the hats to add to my collection of “cherry blossom themed hats for DC sports teams” (especially since I lost my Caps hat in that vein last year, noooo).

Now that that’s out of the way, no Kory or Apryll this time but I am joined by Justin (@kami_nomi) of The OASG, who is my cohost on the other podcast I, uh, cohost, “It’s Not My Fault The OASG Podcast Is Not Popular!” We’re talking about the J-Novel Club (Heart imprint) release of Trials and Tribulations of My Next Life as a Noblewoman, which is a big and plot heavy series so we have both a spoiler-free section and then a spoiler-filled section about why the nickname “josei Game of Thrones” is VERY accurate for this series!

As always, you can find me on bsky @nidokorn, and my co-hosts Helen (@WanderinDreamr) and Apryll (@manjiorin) on bsky 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 and Awko Tako.

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Read Helen's review of volume 1 at The OASG.

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Show notes:

0:45 - Spoiler free discussion

34:05 - Spoiler-full discussion

Next time is The Legend of Chun Hyang and Kaiju Girl Caramelize