Manga Mavericks

Hi yo, Yolo! Hey there folks in tv land! Don’t touch that dial, and don’t change the channel, you’re tuned into the right podcast station - welcome back to Manga Mavericks On TV! It’s been a long time since our previous episode covering the first season of Central Park, but we’re finally back with another special episode because we got a special opportunity to both cover the premiere episodes of the newest season of adult swim’s aussiest animated series, Yolo: Silver Destiny, as well as interview its creator, the incredible Michael Cusack and  the show’s lead actors Sarah Bishop and Todor Manojlovic! As you’ll hear in the interview and review, I really enjoyed the show and getting a chance to preview the new season before it premiered, and had a lot to discuss with Michael, Sarah, and Tod about their thoughts on the show’s dip into serialization, how the show’s look has been refined without losing the charm of its animation, the series’ focus on female friendship and toxic relationships, and where th

On this episode of Manga Mavericks, Colton & Lum start the new year a little later than normal as they have so many leftover Xmas gifts to unwrap (and by gifts we mean news)! Including the usual new series and licenses, as well as a lot of lists to catch up on and tons of new anime news that came out over the holiday season! Enjoy!! Be sure to take our annual podcast survey by Sunday, February 15th, for a chance to win some free manga!! For a complete list of links, time codes and Community Shout-Outs mentioned in this episode, visit this podcast's webpage at: http://all-comic.com/2023/manga-mavericks-ep-222-january-2022-news-roundup/ PODCAST BREAKDOWN: 00:00  - In Memoriam 14:19 - Intro/Latest Podcasts and Survey 28:15 - List News 49:25 - Serialization News 1:24:24 - Licensing News 1:46:16 - Anime News 2:01:53 - Industry News 2:06:04 - Community Shout-outs! 2:08:27 - Wrap up Enjoy the show, and follow us on twitter at @manga_mavericks, on tumblr at mangamavericks.tumblr.com, and on Youtube! You

While we take a bit of extra time to put out our next episode of Manga Mavericks, enjoy an episode of Another Day, Another Adventure! A podcast hosted by Colton & Sakaki (founder of Weekly Shogakukan Edition) where they attempt to watch through and discuss all of the Dragon Ball anime franchise! On this episode, both them and Lum talk about their experience seeing Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero in theaters and discuss their thoughts on the film and how it stacks up to the last few from the franchise! Links: Subscribe to us wherever you listen to podcasts! Listen to the 5 newest episodes of the podcast early exclusively on Patreon!! Follow us on Twitter! Email us at [email protected] Album art provided by @taysamey Follow Lum on Twitter! Listen to #Lum Squad Follow Colton & Sakaki on Twitter Check out Colton’s other podcasts Follow Sakaki’s Shogakukan Blog & Twitter Listen to Sakaki on the Demon Slayer Podcast, Shaman King Podcast 

On this episode of Manga Mavericks, Colton & Lum end 2022 with one more podcast discussing the latest simulpubs! The first one being available on Azuki with Natsume & Natsume by Shunsuke Sorato, followed by the newest title on Manga Plus with Me and My Gangster Neighbour by Momose Wataru, where our Mavericks unfortunately have to discuss the comic's poor localization quality more then the actual comic. Afterwards, they discuss the 4 newest Shonen Jump series with The Ichinose Family's Deadly Sins from Taizan5, Cipher Academy by Nisioisin and Yuji Iwasaki, Ichigoki’s Under Control!! by Seiji Hayashi and Fabricant 100 by Daisuke Enoshima! Thanks to everyone who has listened to show for the past year and we'll see you all in the next one!! For a complete list of links, time codes and Community Shout-Outs mentioned in this episode, visit this podcast's webpage at: http://all-comic.com/2022/manga-mavericks-ep-221-december-2022-simulpubs-roundup/ PODCAST BREAKDOWN: 00:00 - RIP Grant James 03:09  -

Hello everybody and welcome back to Manga Mavericks @ Movies, the show where we don’t talk smack about movies, we celebrate them, except for the rare occasions we do talk smack about movies, but that wouldn’t be very Christmasy of us would it? Yes, it’s been a while, but we’re back to throw another log on the @ Movies fire just in time for Yule as a Christmas gift to our dear listeners, presenting our first ever special Manga Mavericks @ Movies interview with Casper Kelly, the creator of many [adult swim] classics like Stroker & Hoop, Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell, Too Many Cooks, Final Deployment 4, and his newest special and first ever feature film, Adult Swim’s Yule Log (aka The Fireplace)! Yule Log was the wonderful wintertime gift we didn’t know we wanted when it premiered after the Rick & Morty season finale last Sunday night, it’s the kind of special surprise and creative novelty that I absolutely love [adult swim] for and why they’re still the best network around, because no other netw

On this episode of Manga Mavericks, Colton & Lum attempt to go through all of their Thanksgiving leftovers before Christmas (and by that I mean cover the last month's worth of news)! Join us as we talk about things like the newest upcoming arc of Dragon Ball Super, new licenses such as Innocent from Shinichi Sakamoto, and the newest Detective Conan film coming next year! For a complete list of links, time codes and Community Shout-Outs mentioned in this episode, visit this podcast's webpage at: http://all-comic.com/2022/manga-mavericks-ep-220-december-2022-news-roundup/ 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 LumR

On this episode of Manga Mavericks, Colton & Lum have a lot to talk about as always, as they cover the last month's worth of news! Including a lot of new series starting up, our most anticipated new manga licenses, as well as a ton of cool stuff to look forward to at this year's Anime NYC! Plus we talk about the return of Hunter x Hunter, some interesting statistics from Manga Plus, and some unfortunate updates concerning the recent death of Yu-Gi-Oh creator, Kazuki Takahashi. For a complete list of links, time codes and Community Shout-Outs mentioned in this episode, visit this podcast's webpage at: http://all-comic.com/2022/manga-mavericks-ep-219-november-2022-news-roundup/ 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-e

On this episode of Manga Mavericks, Colton & Lum are joined by both Maxy Barnard of Friendship Effort Victory and Shonen Flop, as well as Doctor from the SSAA Podcast, to discuss yet another Jump Stop manga with Tomohiro Yagi's Red Sprite! A series centered around protagonist, Tatsu Frampt, who after having his orphan friends taken away to be used as human batteries by a definitely-not-fascist government, crashes their country's dictator's highly televised rally and commandeers an airship in order to find his friends and start up their own independent nation! The nation of Manga Mavericks however is a little split this time around, as some of its citizens find this series to be sort of an enjoyable, breezy read, despite it clearly not living up to its potential. While other citizens find this series so frustratingly barren of any kind of set up and payoff for anything it wants to explore, that they might just consider it one of the worst Jump Stop manga ever covered on the show! What side do you fall on?

On this episode of Manga Mavericks, Colton & Lum once finally get around to covering all the newest series that have debuted over the past month or so! First up, we cover the two newest titles from Azuki with My Dear Detective: Mitsuko's Case Files and Turning the Tables on the Seatmate Killer! Followed by the two newest series from Shonen Jump with Tokyo Demon Bride Story and Ginka & Gluna! And last but not least, a slew of new titles over on Manga Plus with Skeleton Double, Ghostbuster Osamu, Dark Doctor Ikuru, Tokyo Underworld and The Game Devil! You may be surprised (or not) by which series our Mavericks enjoyed the most! Enjoy!! For a complete list of links and Community Shout-Outs mentioned in this episode, visit this podcast's webpage at: http://all-comic.com/2022/manga-mavericks-ep-217-october-2022-simulpubs-roundup/ PODCAST BREAKDOWN: 00:00  - Intro Simulpubs: 01:50 - My Dear Detective: Mitsuko’s Case Files 13:40 - Turning the Tables on the Seatmate Killer 31:42 - Tokyo Demon Bride Story

On this episode of Manga Mavericks, Colton & Lum once again cover the last month's worth of news, including the latest new series, licenses and anime news! Including unauthorized novelty One Piece all-in-one collections, updates on highly anticipated anime such as Bleach: Thousand Year Blood War, and unfortunately Crunchyroll continually practicing transparently shady business moves.  For a complete list of links and Community Shout-Outs mentioned in this episode, visit this podcast's webpage at: http://all-comic.com/2022/manga-mavericks-ep-216-october-2022-news-roundup/ PODCAST BREAKDOWN:  00:00  - RIP Shichiro Kobayashi  04:10 - Intro  07:31 - NYT Graphic Books & Manga List for September 2022  10:50 - Bookscan List for August 2022  21:47 - Killer in Love ends  23:17 - Asobi Asobase ending soon  24:18 - New manga from Sanshiro Kasama & Hikaru Uesugi  25:21 - Naoshi Arakawa  26:20 - Izumi Miyazono  27:19 - Yasuko Kobayashi  29:18 - T

On this episode of Manga Mavericks, Colton & Lum are joined by David from the Shonen Flop podcast for what is possibly the biggest trial of the century! As they will have to argue why Gakkyu Hotei (aka School Judgment) is one of, if not the worst manga they have ever covered on the show!! Gakkyu Hotei being a series written by Nobuaki Enoki and illustrated by Takeshi Obata (also known as the artist of both Death Note & Bakuman), centered in a world where Japanese grade schools are corrupted to the point where the government creates the School Judgment System! Where elementary school students can take their grievances and discuss them during Classroom Arbitration sessions! Trials for children by children! With the series' protagonist and defense attorney, Abaku Inugami, solving all kinds of cases ranging from who dismembered the classroom pet to figuring out the identity of local snack (NOT DRUG) dealers, all while getting closer to finding out who murdered his old classmates on that fateful day known

On this episode of Manga Mavericks, Colton & Lum discuss the last months worth of news, with a lot less new licenses to talk about for once! But that's okay, because we have new manga series to report on, as well as worrying big company merger shenanigans and highly anticipated new anime announcements for series we all know and love! Including Kaiju No. 8, Undead Unluck, Delicious in Dungeon and more!! Enjoy!! For a complete list of links and Community Shout-Outs mentioned in this episode, visit this podcast's webpage at: http://all-comic.com/2022/manga-mavericks-ep-214-september-2022-news-roundup/ PODCAST BREAKDOWN: 00:00 - RIP Motomu Kiyokawa 02:52 - Intro 4:02 - NYT Graphic Books & Manga List for September 2022 5:38 - Bookscan List for August 2022 10:58 - Children of the Whales ends volume 23 11:54 - Doron Dororon & Earthchild have ended 14:19 - New series starting in Weekly Shonen Jump & Jump Plus 22:53 - One-Punch Man manga to enter new arc after hiatus 26:24 - Saint Seiya spin

On this episode of Manga Mavericks, Colton & Lum are joined by video essayist Shannon Strucci, as well as Doctor and Foxy from the SSAA Network, to talk about Monkey Punch's original Lupin the Third manga, specifically in the form of the first Greatest Heists collection brought over by Seven Seas! Join us as we discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the manga and whether this collection is good sampler for people who may be new to Lupin! We also discuss how this new release compares to the original Tokyopop run of the manga from back in the day and which entries on the anime side of the franchise are or aren't worth checking out! Enjoy! For a complete list of links and Community Shout-Outs mentioned in this episode, visit this podcast's webpage at: http://all-comic.com/2022/manga-mavericks-ep-213-lupin-the-third/ PODCAST BREAKDOWN: 00:00 - Intro/Email from Griffin 09:14 - Our Lupin the Third Discussion 1:19:23 - What other decade would have been a good time to produce the Part 4 anime? 1:21:45 - Ou

Is Otakon a con you oughta go to? We once again attended Otakon with our good friends from Weekly Shogakukan Edition, Sakaki and Jecka, and we’ve got a lOTA KONversation on this year’s event, because boy was this Otakon eventful! This was THE most attended Otakon ever, and there was good reason for this to be such a big Otakon, because there were some big guests and features at the con this year! With guests including famous voice actors like Toshio Furukawa and Shino Kakinuma, production staff like the Studio Trigger team and Studio Orange’s Yoshihiro Watanabe, great fan-run panels from our MangaTwitter peers, big industry panels from companies like Denpa and Discotek, and premiere showings of the dubs of Cyberpunk Edgerunner, Kaiji, and Gunbuster! In addition to attending panels and hanging around the con, we also conducted interviews with Mariya Ise, Furkuawa & Kakinuma, Yoshihiro Watanabe, and Studio Trigger! I’m including the audio of my interview with Mariya Ise before the main discussion of this

On this episode of Manga Mavericks, Colton & Lum catch up on the latest simulpubs on some of the usual apps! Including some various one shots on Shonen Jump, plus the return of Chainsaw Man! As well as some new fantastic series on Manga Plus with You and I Are Polar Opposites, Make the Exorcist Fall in Love, Stage S and Moebana! And lastly, despite terrible app its on, we discuss the newest series from Hiromu Arakawa, creator of Fullmetal Alchemist and Silver Spoon, with Daemons of the Shadow Realm! For a complete list of links and Community Shout-Outs mentioned in this episode, please visit this podcast's webpage at: http://all-comic.com/2022/manga-mavericks-ep-211-august-2022-simulpubs-roundup/ PODCAST BREAKDOWN: 00:00 - RIP Kiyoshi Kobayashi (voice of Daisuke Jigen) 06:14 - Intro 07:18 - Chainsaw Man Part 2 16:03 - Just Listen to the Song 22:31 - Dr. Stone special one shot 30:50 - Shokugeki no Sanji 6 43:35 - Captain Velvet Meteor one shot 52:22 - You and I Are Polar Opposites 1:08:25 - Make

On this episode of Manga Mavericks, Colton & Lum once again go over the last months worth of news! We start off with a few depressing items such as the passing of Dubu, the artist behind Solo Leveling, as well as some updates on a few series that are currently on hiatus due to a variety of health issues caused by the general harsh workload of the manga industry. Despite that, there's also a lot to look forward to, such as a ton of new manga licenses like always, some new upcoming anime films coming to theaters in the US and even new takes on Death Note coming up from both the creators of Stranger Things and also...The Simpsons!? All this more on this episode of the podcast! Enjoy!! For a complete list of links and Community Shout-Outs mentioned in this episode, please visit this podcast's webpage at: http://all-comic.com/2022/manga-mavericks-ep-210-august-2022-news-roundup/ PODCAST BREAKDOWN: 00:00 - RIP Dubu, artist of Solo Leveling 02:36 - Intro/Lum's time at Otakon and their latest podcast guest sp

On this episode of Manga Mavericks, Colton & Lum discuss Gengoroh Tagame's Our Colors with translator of the book, Anne Ishii! Our Colors is Tagame's newest all ages comic about a high schooler named Sora Itoda, who struggles with being himself around most of his family and friends because he hasn't worked up the courage to come out yet. That is, until he meets, Mr. Amamiya, the owner of a hidden local café and the first real gay person Sora becomes friends with who inspires him little by little to start living as his true self (but little does Sora know, he may end up doing the same for Mr. Amamiya as well). The Mavericks discuss with Anne about her time translating the series, as well as why it may be even better then Tagame's previous all ages work, My Brother's Husband! Enjoy! For a complete list of links and Community Shout-Outs mentioned in this episode, please visit this podcast's webpage at: http://all-comic.com/2022/manga-mavericks-ep-209-our-colors/ PODCAST BREAKDOWN: 00:00 - Intro 05:33 - L

On this episode of Manga Mavericks, we're releasing a compilation of our thoughts over the years on Gengoroh Tagame's My Brother's Husband! A story about a single father who has to face his internalized prejudices in order to accept certain members of his family for who they are. The first discussion comes from Episode 35 of the podcast when we went over our first impressions of the series with Pantheon's release of the first volume back in 2017, with the second discussion being the bonus podcast we released on our Patreon covering the rest of the series three years later in 2020! Our good friend, Maxy Barnard of Friendship Effort Victory and Shonen Flop joined us for both podcasts! We three, along with the podcast, may have changed a lot in the past five years altogether, but our love for My Brother's Husband certainly has not! Join us next week as we review Gengoroh Tagame's Our Colors with special guest and translator of the series, Anne Ishi!! For a complete list of links and Community Shout-Outs mention

On this episode of Manga Mavericks, Colton & Lum discuss Keito Gaku's trans coming of age manga, Boys Run the Riot, with none other then the localization team behind the series' English release from Kodansha USA! Including editor TJ Ferentini, letterer Ashley Caswell, as well as translator/returning guest, Leo McDonagh! We discuss some of the localization that went into the series, as well as how its themes and messages about finding the courage to be your true self no matter what people say or think (or having no shame in your game) can hopefully inspire current and future generations of LGBTQ+ readers to do the same! Also, Lum is going to San Diego Comic Con later in the month to be a panelist on Deb Aoki's Best and Worst Manga panel on Friday, July 22nd at 6pm! So if you happen to be going to the convention, stop by and check out the panel to see what their manga picks will be! For a complete list of links and Community Shout-Outs mentioned in this episode, please visit this podcast's webpage at: htt

On this episode of Manga Mavericks, Colton & Lum once again catch up on some news, especially a lot of sales news, as they finally get back to covering both the New York Times Graphic Books & Manga and Bookscan lists to see where North American manga sales have gone in the past three months. They also discuss the yearly overall NPD Bookscan to see just how well manga has been selling in general (and spoiler alert: Manga has been selling EVEN BETTER then last year)! This along with some serialization and licensing news, as well as a ton of anime news, including the announcement of a new Trigun anime coming from Studio Orange! Enjoy! For a complete list of links and Community Shout-Outs mentioned in this episode, please visit this podcast's webpage at: http://all-comic.com/2022/manga-mavericks-ep-206-july-2022-news-roundup/ PODCAST BREAKDOWN: 00:00 - Intro/Update on our email from Eric! 04:56 - My Hero Academia surpasses 10 million copies in print in the US 10:22 - NYT Graphic Books & Manga lis