Mangasplaining

The Mangasplaining gang reads their very first BL Manga, Our Dining Table, by Mita Ori! Will it live up to the BL Hype!? Plus a Sponsored VIZ Blind Date with Deadpool: Samurai, Reader Q&A, and Shout outs! It's a great big episode! Read the show notes and more at mangasplaining.com. 

This week on Mangasplaining, Deb leads the crew through a book that sort of sums up some of the themes of Season 2, with an autobiographically-informed piece of art about art, and a story that's very similar to another title we talked about in a previous episode. Tsubasa Yamaguchi's hit manga Blue Period gives the team a lot to talk about! Plus, we launched a publisher! Full details at Mangasplaining.com!

This week on Mangasplaining David leads the group into our first small-press short-story, Minami Q-Ta’s The Blood Red Boy. We take a deep, deep dive into this story, and while we’d love it if you read ALL the books we cover on the podcast, since this one is just $2 (or less!) you’ll probably wanna give this one a read before listening to this spoiler-filled episode. Plus: A Q&A special, where we answer questions from you, the listeners!

ALSO: Please consider checking out our new publishing endeavour, Mangasplaining Extra! Details at http://www.mangasplainingextra.com.  

The Mangasplaining crew wrap up their "Classic Manga" arc, by going back to the most influential Japanese superhero comic of all time, Kamen Rider, by Shotaro Ishinomori! Straight from 1971, this manga adapted from a tv series adapted from a manga has echoed through generations, but how does this original manga hold up in the cold, hard light of 2022? Listen and find out! Plus: A special Manga Blind Date, with the over-the-top battle manga Record of Ragnarok vol. 1 & 2! Sponsored by VIZ Media! Check out all the details at mangasplaining.com.

This Episode:

00:00: Kamen Rider Classic Collection, by Shotaro Ishinomori

1:10:50: Manga Blind Date! Record of Ragnarok, by Takumi Fukumi, Azychika, and Shinya Umemura

1:22:45: Shout-Outs: Lost In Space, Righteous Gemstones, Generous Bosom, Blue Giant

This week the gang talks about Studio Ghibli big-boss Hayao Miyazaki, and his classic 1982 manga Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind! A bonafide among bonafides, but does this manga meet Chip & the gang's strict desires for classic manga? And is it really even manga at all? Find out this episode! PLUS: Will there be a NorthAmericanComicsplaining? And have you checked out the extensive show notes at Mangasplaining.com?!

Keeping up with your new year's resolutions? Akira resolved to save all of humanity by combining with the power of the Devil to become DEVILMAN, in one of the wildest manga the Mangasplainers have ever read. Something to shoot for, for next year's resolution, eh? Plus a reader Q&A about 'indy' manga! Find out much more at mangasplaining.com. 

A very special episode as the Mangasplaining team splits up to cover more ground, with Chip and Christopher interviewing manga translator Jocelyne Allen, live and in person at a bar in Toronto, and Deb and David get exclusive info on Vinland Saga from Manga Editor Ben Applegate. It’s an all-new, all-different episode! Welcome to 2022! Show notes and more at mangasplaining.com.

Get ready for a rollicking deep dive into the Gundam universe with Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin. It's often described as "Japan's answer to Star Wars," but as the Mangasplaining Gang learns this episode, it's so much more, too! Includes an interview with comic maker Emma Rios about Gundam! Don't miss the extended show notes at mangasplaining.com either!

This week the Mangasplainers challenge the very notion that Love is Hard for an Otaku, by reading a book on that very subject! Fujita's 'Wotakoi: Love is Hard for an Otaku' is a treatise on modern dating, but will DECIDEDLY NOT AN OTAKU Chip Zdarsky be able to relate? Find out in this episode! More at mangasplaining.com

INDEX:

00:00: Wotakoi Vol 1

1:10:48: The Break!

1:12:00: Picking new books! Indy, Shonen, and... BL?!

Get ready to get rugged, as the Mangasplaining team heads north... and back in time!... to the colonization of Hokkaido, Japan at the end of the 1800s with GOLDEN KAMUY! It's Satoru Noda's historical, informational, action-filled, occasionally homoerotic, EPIC manga, and we dive in this week! More at Mangasplaining.com

In this Episode:

00:00: Golden Kamuy

52:30: The Break

53:00: Reader Q&A: What is our opinion on translating Japanese honorifics?

1:02:40: Shout-outs