Mangasplaining

It's another double-header this week as the crew dives into one of the bestselling manga of 2020, My Hero Academia by Kohei Horikoshi, and then travels back in time to enjoy the seinen manga classic Battle Angel Alita by Yukito Kishiro! Two great manga that grow and change significantly in the telling, with lots to explore this week on Mangasplaining!

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This week the Mangasplaining Crew finally gets to one of David and Deb's fav fighting manga, Hiroki Endo's All-Rounder Meguru! In this unique episode, the team reads the first volume of the MMA manga, then skips to volume 7 to read a volume based on female fighters! Make sure not to tap-out of this one! Read the show notes and more at Mangasplaining.com and check out our publishing effort at MangasplainingExtra.com.

This week the team takes a decidedly NSFW dive into the surprising world of gay manga, with the MASSIVE Anthology! How does it compare to BL? How does it compare to their 'regular' reads? How will they do the show notes for this one? Find out inside! Plus, in a bonus segment, the team dives into Koike & Kojima's epic samurai manga, Long Wolf & Cub! All this plus Q&A too! It's a MASSIVE episode in more ways than one!

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Deb continues to recommend her favorite shojo manga to the Mangasplainers, this week cheering-on Mika Yamamori's 'In The Clear Moonlit Dusk.' But will the arrow of this shojo manga's love pierce Chip's cold, cruel heart? Listen on to find out!

This week the team digs into a classic manga, Cross Game, by Mitsuru Adachi! This story has huge twist/reveal and they SPOIL IT, A LOT. It's not a spoiler to say that this (baseball!?) manga is EXCELLENT, so if you don't want it spoiled before you get a chance to read it, you can fast-forward to 1:10:15 and listen to the team's newest Blind Date, with To Strip The Flesh by Oto Toda! It's a jam-packed episode! Read along with the show-notes at mangasplaining.com, and don't miss our publishing endeavour at mangasplainingextra.com.

Darkness! No Parents! Continued Darkness! The Opposite of Light! Black Hole! All of these things await you... and much more... in Dorohedoro creator Q Hayashida's new manga Dai Dark Volume 1. But it turns out to be very different than some of the Mangasplainers expected, and the team ends up laughing their way through one of the funniest episodes yet.

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This week the team dives into their very first music manga, the Jazz odyssey Blue Giant, by Shinichi Ishizuka! They're also reading their first ever series where they don't start from the first volume, instead jumping up to volume five! Does it work, does any of it work? Listen on to find out in this episode of many firsts on Mangasplaining. Follow along with our show notes at mangasplaining.com or check out our publishing endeavor at mangasplainingextra.com.

This week, we dive back into a josei title, and it's by a noted boys love manga creator! It's all coming together in this week's All My Darling Daughters by Fumi Yoshinaga! But does this manga from the dark days of 2003 hold up to the rigors of life in 2022? Will Chip and the gang 'vibe' with what Yoshinaga is 'laying down'? Only one way to find out groovy people: get hip to this episode of Mangasplaining. Read the show notes and more at Mangasplaining.com, and check out our newsletter at MangasplainingExtra.com.

After the spicy romance of the last few weeks, we veer back into something a bit sweeter and funnier with My Love Mix-Up! But is this shojo manga romantic comedy with a hint of boys love be something that even Chip can enjoy? Then we have a special Mangasplaining: Listen to Me! chat with Samuel Sattin, the co-creator of Unico: Awakening with Japanese artistic team Gurihiru! It's a great big episode, and the show notes at Mangasplaining.com are pretty awesome too!

Are you ready to try your luck on Kakegurui? All it could cost you is millions of yen... or your fingernails? David guides the team through this smash-seinen manga pitting trust-fund-teens against one another in battles that cause embarrassment and ecstasy, skirting the line between schadenfreude and sadism! Place your bets on what Chip will think...! Follow along with the show notes and more at mangasplaining.com.