As we get older and experience ourselves that we aren't perfect or pure (and nor is the world), your classic evil-for-the-sake-of-being-evil antagonists start to get really bland. The "bad guys" need to become more complex the more we learn that pure good and evil don't exist. Since animanga fans are spoiled rotten with its huge selection of multi-faceted, well-executed villains, we had an obligation to count down our top 10 antagonists in the medium! 

The release of its 364 chapter marks the end of Berserk as we know it. Now, whether the series will be finished by its author Kentaro Miura's assistants or not is only one of many questions. Is it a waste of Miura's efforts and planning not to continue Berserk after he seemingly trained people to finish it in case he wasn't able to? Is it possible for fans just to ignore Berserk past chapter 364 if the continuation isn't to their liking? We explore these and many more questions regarding the future of arguably to greatest work in Manga history in this episode of The Manga Kaiwa Podcast. 

Edgy to kind, naive optimist to depressed nihilist, hesitant to confident... almost every story must display changes in it's characters to create a sense of progress from start to finish. Of course, only the best mangaka and animators succeed at writing characters that develop in a believable and captivating way. Here are our top 10 best character developments in anime and manga. 

We've been fans long enough to witness a lot of drastic changes in the community since we first started consuming anime and manga. In this episode, we comment on everything from our early experiences of few consumers of anime and manga among few, to the current era of Animanga in the mainstream.

We ended up revisiting the "time capsule" from the very first episode a lot sooner than expected! Since recording Episode 1, both of us have experienced incredible series good enough to change up our top series significantly. And just to give you all an idea of what series we think are some the best but don't quite breach our top 10, we present our current top 15 animanga series, THE MANGA KAIWA SEASON 2 PREMIER. 

To celebrate our friendship as we move on to different parts of the world to continue along our journeys, we discuss our favorite duos in animanga. Whether it be in battle, through strife and trauma, or in the happiest of times, the way creators are able to use the narrative to develop two characters' relationship to one another has resulted in one of the most important factors that makes anime and manga the unique art forms they are. 

Just as protagonists must collaborate to defeat threats, antagonists band together to accomplish their own goals or their objective as a group. While the Espada from Bleach demonstrate a strong unity under a powerful leader, the Akatsuki from Naruto show how antagonists various ambitions create a less tight-knit group. This time, we look at these two very different antagonistic organizations and how they advance their respective narratives. 

What qualifies something as a weapon? The medium of animanga challenges our understanding of weapons and what they are to characters with various philosophies. Today, we discuss the weapons we feel best encapsulate their place in the narrative. 

Two raging warriors without the slightest regard for their own safety, with only the defeat of their opponent in mind! In this week's episode, we explore how a fight between Guts from Berserk and Gon from HxH, two characters notorious for their rage and relentlessness, would play out.

What would you do if you were suddenly given an ability that could achieve your wildest ambitions? This is a question explored in both the character of Light in Death Note and Lelouch in Code Geass. In this episode, we share or interpretations of how these protagonists answer that question in both similar and very different ways.