Welcome to a special edition of Manga Machinations! We're celebrating our 1 year mark by discussing the newest Billy Bat chapters, the 1988 anime movie Akira, and our top 3 favorite manga of the past year! Thanks for listening and enjoy!!!

Get ready for a mega sized 50th episode! We have big discussions about new chapters of Billy Bat and the conclusion of the modern SF classic, Akira!!!(covers volume 6)

This week Seamus dives into some non-fiction with Showa: A History of Japan, dakazu gives love to the well designed main character from Tensai Yanagisawa Kyouju no Seikatsu(The Ingenious Life of Professor Yanagisawa), and we discuss the downfall of Tetsuo in our Akira retrospective!!!(covers volume 5)

On this episode dakazu talks about Gundam cosplay gone wrong with special guest star Wolverine in Iron Acguy before we dive into the post-apocalyptic section of Akira and try to explain it's meta-physical pseudo-science!!!(covers volume 4)

This week we talk about natto on rice, the end of What a Wonderful World!(Subarashii Sekkai) taking a dark turn, and how the anime of Monster Musume: Everyday Life with Monster Girls(Monster Musume no Iru Nichijou) is porn. Then we have an extra long, in-depth analysis on our current series Akira!!!(covers volume 3)

On this episode dakazu revisits O-Parts Hunter(666 Satan)(done by the younger twin brother of Naruto manga artist), darfox feels the forced Naru x Hina in The Last - Naruto the Movie, Seamus continues consuming more Inio Asano manga with What a Wonderful World!(Subarashii Sekai), we discuss anime adaptations of manga done right, and how Metal Gear Solid rips off Akira!!!.(covers volume 2)

This week we discuss American comics vs. Japanese manga, dakazu loves the 90's gag manga Sexy Commando: Sugoi yo!! Masaru-san and we catch up on a new Billy Bat chapter!! Then we start our retrospective on Katsuhiro Otomo's classic Akira and gush over the speedlines!!!(covers volume 1)

This week Seamus revisits the gender-fluid kids of Wandering Son(Hyourou Musuko) while dakazu admits that volume 10 of Blood Blockade Battlefront(Kekkai Sensen) is really good and also loves the main character's gaudy expressions in Heroine Shikkaku. Then it's some more Triple Dip with Nobunaga no Chef, BioMeat: Nectar, and Dorohedoro!!!

Time for another Triple Dip! This week we check out Goodnight Punpun(Oyasumi Punpun), Prison School, and BECK! Seamus also reads about A Drifting Life from a book on Drawn & Quarterly Publishers and dakazu loves the anime shorts of Wakakozake. Enjoy!!!

Tune into our final retrospective of Naoki Urasawa's Pluto!! We'll cover the final 2 volumes of the series and compare it with Osamu Tezuka's original storyline!(covers chapters 48-65) We also discuss Solanin, Naruto: The Seventh Hokage and the Scarlet Spring(Naruto Gaiden), and get ready for the summer anime season!