WE’RE SEEING SPIRALS! After five long years, the highly anticipated anime adaptation of Junji Ito’s iconic horror manga Uzumaki is finally premiering on Adult Swim, and we got a chance to preview and review the first episode! With an ambitious production that spiraled out of control and was so cursed with delays that executive producer Jason DeMarco has joked that he’s “still seeing spirals,” did the show end up being just as cursed to watch, or does it break the curse of Adult Swim’s track record of making middling original anime by being as good as the manga it spiraled out of?

Join Lum and VLord on this special episode of Saturday Night Shoggy as they spin out their thoughts on the first episode of this new Shoggy anime that's actually airing on Saturday night! Listen to them encircle the show’s production, animation, adaptation, music, both the Japanese and English dub performances, and other topics whilst trying not to let their fascination with the spiral get them too sucked in and make their heads spin! 

PODCAST BREAKDOWN:

00:00 - Intro

04:27 - Discussion Start 

06:32 - Uzumaki’s Publication and Production Background

09:05 - The Art and Animation of the Anime 

18:07 - The Adaptation and Pacing 23:43 - Colin Stetson’s Soundtrack 

30:14 - Hiroshi Nagahama as a Director 

32:24 - Narrative and Adaptational Changes

35:14 - Thoughts on the Sub and Dub

40:20 - Final Thoughts

41:57 - Wrap-Up 

Enjoy the show, and follow us on twitter at @manga_mavericks, on tumblr at mangamavericks.tumblr.com, and on Youtube! You can also follow the hosts on Twitter at @VLordGTZ and @lumranmayasha. If you’d like to help support the show financially you can pledge to our Patreon and receive some awesome rewards like our Patreon-exclusive Bonus pods! If one-time donations are more your speed you can donate to LumRanmaYasha’s Ko-fi here, and if you want to support LumRanmaYasha’s art and other projects you can follow them @siddartworks on Instagram and Twitter. Don’t forget to also like and subscribe to us on Youtube and Apple Podcasts and leave us reviews to help us curate the show and create better content!

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Music Credits:

Intro - “Spiraling Shape” by They Might Be Giants, Karaoke Version provided by Karaoke Nerds 

SNS Intro – “Can’t See Your Face” by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠AmpRen⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

SNS Outro – “Curtain Call” by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠AmpRen⁠

Edited by LumRanmaYasha

On this episode of Manga Mavericks, Colton, Lum & Sakaki discuss their time at San Diego Comic Con 2024! Listen as Colton talks about going to his first ever big convention and whether he'd do it all again! Enjoy!

PODCAST BREAKDOWN:

00:00 - Intro

04:34 - San Diego Comic Con 2024

2:18:43 - End

Enjoy the show, and follow us on twitter at @manga_mavericks, on tumblr at mangamavericks.tumblr.com, and on Youtube! You can also follow the hosts on Twitter at @sniperking323 and @lumranmayasha. If you’d like to help support the show financially you can pledge to our Patreon and receive some awesome rewards like our Patreon-exclusive Bonus pods! If one-time donations are more your speed you can donate to Colton’s Ko-fi here and LumRanmaYasha’s Ko-fi here, and if you want to support LumRanmaYasha’s art and other projects you can follow them @siddartworks on Instagram and Twitter and donate to their personal Patreon. Don’t forget to also like and subscribe to us on Youtube and iTunes and leave us reviews to help us curate the show and create better content!

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On this special episode of Another Day, Another Adventure, Colton & Sakaki have a somewhat unorganized talk in order to get their feelings out about Toriyama's passing and ruminate on what his influence meant to both the world and their friendship.

On March 1st, 2024, Akira Toriyama, creator of Dragon Ball (amongst many other works), passed away at the age of 68, and the world is worse without him in it, but that won't stop us from celebrating his life and the legacy he left behind. This episode of the podcast contains the first ever discussion we ever recorded exclusively for our Patreon back in 2019. A discussion featuring our good friends, Sakaki (founder of Weekly Shogakukan Edition) and Maxy Barnard (Shonen Jump enthusiast and contributor to the Shonen Flop podcast), about That Time I Got Reincarnated as Yamcha! A manga that you would be right to assume is one that's about how lame Yamcha is and why its so funny how lame he is, but really, it is a manga for Dragon Ball fans, by a Dragon Ball fan! Enjoy!

Be sure to take our annual podcast survey by Sunday, March 17th, for a chance to win some free manga!!

PODCAST BREAKDOWN:

00:00 - Intro

15:13 - That Time I Got Reincarnated as Yamcha discussion

Enjoy the show, and follow us on twitter at @manga_mavericks, on tumblr at mangamavericks.tumblr.com, and on Youtube! You can also follow the hosts on Twitter at @sniperking323 and @lumranmayasha. If you’d like to help support the show financially you can pledge to our Patreon and receive some awesome rewards like our Patreon-exclusive Bonus pods! If one-time donations are more your speed you can donate to Colton’s Ko-fi here and LumRanmaYasha’s Ko-fi here, and if you want to support LumRanmaYasha’s art and other projects you can follow them @siddartworks on Instagram and Twitter and donate to their personal Patreon. Don’t forget to also like and subscribe to us on Youtube and iTunes and leave us reviews to help us curate the show and create better content!

On this (late) episode of Manga Mavericks, Colton & Lum discuss the highest selling manga in Japan according to the latest Oricon list! You won't BELIEVE what number 1 was!! Afterwards, they discuss some more simulpubs! This time mostly from both Kodansha and Jump. First we have two titles from KManga with All My Neighbors Are Convinced the Female Knight From My Rice Field is My Wife and Versus, along with two English first manga titles with Blood Blade and The Spellbook Library! And then we have Satoru Noda's second attempt at an ice hockey manga with Dogsred, along with the newest batch of title from Shonen Jump with Green Green Greens and Shadow Eliminator! Enjoy!

Be sure to take our annual podcast survey by Sunday, March 17th, for a chance to win some free manga!!

PODCAST BREAKDOWN:

00:00 - Intro

00:58 - Oricon Top Selling Manga of 2023

36:11 - Survey Time!!

Simulpubs

41:02 - All My Neighbors Are Convinced the Female Knight From My Rice Field is My Wife

51:13 - Versus

1:06:21 - Blood Blade

1:17:26 - The Spellbook Library

1:30:56 - Status Royale

1:48:52 - Dogsred

2:05:47 - Green Green Greens

2:22:09 - Shadow Eliminators

02:38:06 - Wrap up

PODCAST BREAKDOWN:

00:00 - Intro/Patron Shout Out!

04:23 - Drawn & Quarterly forms workers union

07:44 - Crunchyroll discontinues digital manga service

12:05 - Comixology app merges with Kindle

14:56 - Kadokawa aims to establish more wholly owned anime studios

18:21 - Shogakukan buys out all outstanding shares of Tokyo Otaku Mode

20:51 - KKR buys Simon & Schuster

24:56 - Manga Plus Stats

31:32 - Circana Graphic Novel Sales report

41:37 - September & October Bookscan Lists

58:28 - October & November NYT Lists

1:00:17 - NY Public libraries Best Books for Teens 2023

1:02:39 - Alabaster Kickstarter cancelled

1:04:23 - Ablaze launches new Saint Seiya comic

1:05:11 - Vertical’s license to the Weathering with You manga expires

1:05:59 - JNC Nina

1:07:51 - Living the Line’s horror manga imprint: Smudge

1:10:03 - Alien Books 

1:16:43 - Drawn & Quarterly licenses Legend of Kamuy

1:20:28 - Colton's Licensing Highlights

1:31:20 - Lum's Licensing Highlights

1:50:39 - Wrap up

Enjoy the show, and follow us on twitter at @manga_mavericks, on tumblr at mangamavericks.tumblr.com, and on Youtube! You can also follow the hosts on Twitter at @sniperking323 and @lumranmayasha. If you’d like to help support the show financially you can pledge to our Patreon and receive some awesome rewards like our Patreon-exclusive Bonus pods! If one-time donations are more your speed you can donate to Colton’s Ko-fi here and LumRanmaYasha’s Ko-fi here, and if you want to support LumRanmaYasha’s art and other projects you can follow them @siddartworks on Instagram and Twitter and donate to their personal Patreon. Don’t forget to also like and subscribe to us on Youtube and iTunes and leave us reviews to help us curate the show and create better content!

00:00 - Intro

02:06 - Hajime no Ippo now available on KManga

07:18 - Manga Plus/Media Do outsourcing manga lettering to an AI services company

22:55 - Manga Plus launches subscription service

Simulpubs

30:36 - Super String

49:26 - Reto the Protector

1:03:33 - Goinda's Naughty Secret

1:12:25 - Tune In to the Midnight Heart

1:30:04 - The Healer Ditches the Boonies to Become an S-Class Adventurer

1:55:59 - MamaYuyu

2:08:01 - Kagurabachi

2:15:06 - Two on Ice

02:23:35 - Wrap up

Enjoy the show, and follow us on twitter at @manga_mavericks, on tumblr at mangamavericks.tumblr.com, and on Youtube! You can also follow the hosts on Twitter at @sniperking323 and @lumranmayasha. If you’d like to help support the show financially you can pledge to our Patreon and receive some awesome rewards like our Patreon-exclusive Bonus pods! If one-time donations are more your speed you can donate to Colton’s Ko-fi here and LumRanmaYasha’s Ko-fi here, and if you want to support LumRanmaYasha’s art and other projects you can follow them @siddartworks on Instagram and Twitter and donate to their personal Patreon. Don’t forget to also like and subscribe to us on Youtube and iTunes and leave us reviews to help us curate the show and create better content!

On this episode of Manga Mavericks, Colton & Lum are joined by new official website owner, Vlord, as they talk about some upcoming changes to the site, including being the home of a bunch of new podcasts that we have highlighted on the show over the years that are now apart of the Manga Mavericks podcast network! Afterwards, they discuss some big shake ups in the industry with Rightstuf officially being phased out and merged with Crunchyroll's online store, as well some new manga licenses, Vlord's thoughts on the recent of ending of Shuzo Oshimi's Blood on the Tracks, and our thoughts on the finally released live action One Piece show now on Netflix! Enjoy!!

PODCAST BREAKDOWN:

00:00 - Intro/Website Updates

22:04 - Manga Archive Organization

24:14 - Lianne Sentar appointed as Seven Seas publisher

26:13 - Brady McCollum leaves Crunchyroll

27:35 - Rightstuf phased out and merged into the Crunchyroll store

40:33 - Nippon TV acquires Studio Ghibli

47:15 - Sept NYT List + Both July & August Bookscan List

1:12:11 - Colton's Licensing Highlights

1:26:15 - Lum's Licensing Highlights

1:44:12 - Shuzo Oshimi ends Welcome Back Alice and Blood on the Tracks, plans new manga

1:49:10 - Reception of the Netflix live action One Piece show

2:04:36 - Wrap up

Enjoy the show, and follow us on twitter at @manga_mavericks, on tumblr at mangamavericks.tumblr.com, and on Youtube! You can also follow the hosts on Twitter at @sniperking323 and @lumranmayasha. If you’d like to help support the show financially you can pledge to our Patreon and receive some awesome rewards like our Patreon-exclusive Bonus pods! If one-time donations are more your speed you can donate to Colton’s Ko-fi here and LumRanmaYasha’s Ko-fi here, and if you want to support LumRanmaYasha’s art and other projects you can follow them @siddartworks on Instagram and Twitter and donate to their personal Patreon. Don’t forget to also like and subscribe to us on Youtube and iTunes and leave us reviews to help us curate the show and create better content!

On this episode of Manga Mavericks, Colton & Lum discuss another batch of simulpubs! Including the manga version of Mecha-Ude from Azuki, as well as Ugly Duckling of the Entertainment District from Mangamo! Along with two of the newest Shonen Jump series, Martial Master Asumi and Ice-Head Gil, and so much more!

PODCAST BREAKDOWN:

00:00 - Intro

02:40 - Mecha-Ude

16:55 - Ugly Duckling of the Entertainment District

29:15 - Firefly Wedding

43:13 - STAR: Strike It Rich

56:55 - Martial Master Asumi

1:10:56 - Ice-Head Gil

1:27:22 - Wild Strawberry

1:42:10 - Shojo Null

1:57:37 - Mikane and the Sea Woman

2:10:26 - False Child

Enjoy the show, and follow us on twitter at @manga_mavericks, on tumblr at mangamavericks.tumblr.com, and on Youtube! You can also follow the hosts on Twitter at @sniperking323 and @lumranmayasha. If you’d like to help support the show financially you can pledge to our Patreon and receive some awesome rewards like our Patreon-exclusive Bonus pods! If one-time donations are more your speed you can donate to Colton’s Ko-fi here and LumRanmaYasha’s Ko-fi here, and if you want to support LumRanmaYasha’s art and other projects you can follow them @siddartworks on Instagram and Twitter and donate to their personal Patreon. Don’t forget to also like and subscribe to us on Youtube and iTunes and leave us reviews to help us curate the show and create better content!

On this episode of Manga Mavericks, Colton & Lum once again attempt to cover whatever news they can in a much more truncated length of time than normal! Including the usual North American manga sales lists from both the New York Times and Circana, some new licenses, and finally some serialization news! 

PODCAST BREAKDOWN:

00:00 - RIP Ippei Kuri

03:35 - Intro

07:30 - List News

26:51 - Licensing News

1:05:39 - Serialization News

1:38:27 - Wrap up

Enjoy the show, and follow us on twitter at @manga_mavericks, on tumblr at mangamavericks.tumblr.com, and on Youtube! You can also follow the hosts on Twitter at @sniperking323 and @lumranmayasha. If you’d like to help support the show financially you can pledge to our Patreon and receive some awesome rewards like our Patreon-exclusive Bonus pods! If one-time donations are more your speed you can donate to Colton’s Ko-fi here and LumRanmaYasha’s Ko-fi here, and if you want to support LumRanmaYasha’s art and other projects you can follow them @siddartworks on Instagram and Twitter and donate to their personal Patreon. Don’t forget to also like and subscribe to us on Youtube and iTunes and leave us reviews to help us curate the show and create better content!