Manga Mavericks

Take the Manga Mavericks 2021 Podcast Survey and get entered into our FREE MANGA giveaway! Click the link to take the survey and listen to the show for details! - https://s.surveyplanet.com/1m409qcf We all know manga is translated from japanese to english, but do you ever think about how the actual text is placed on the page, and who places it there? It doesn’t magically appear out of thin air - manga letterers are the folks responsible for putting the words you read on the page, which is not always an easy task, as lettering is more than just fitting words into a balloon, which is hard enough in of itself, but requires creativity and ingenuity to replicate the feel of the original text with creative solutions and hand-drawn effects, and even cleaning, touching up, and redrawing the original art! We’ve had several manga Letterers on the show to discuss their work before, but today is an especially red-letter day, because we’ve brought on a dream team, some of the best in the business, to spell out what a

On this episode of Manga Mavericks, its time for the first news roundup of the year as we catch up on a whole lotta news from the past month! Including some rather interesting items such as how Viz has been handling their release of Ayakashi Triangle lately and mangaka of Love Hina, Ken Akumatsu, getting into politics, as well as some big news items like Naoki Urasawa making all of his works accessible digitally and the announcement of a new Urusei Yatsura anime coming later this year, along with a ton of other cool anime as well! Content Warning for some news stories during the show that involve child porn and general sexual assault. Time codes below. It's time for our annual podcast survey! Be sure to take it before Sunday, February 6th, for a chance to win some free manga!! - https://s.surveyplanet.com/1m409qcf For a complete list of links and Shout-Outs included in this episode, check out this podcast's webpage at: http://all-comic.com/2022/manga-mavericks-ep-185-december-2021-simulpubs-roundup/ PODC

On this episode of Manga Mavericks, it may be a new year, but Colton & Lum still have a ton of new simulpubbed manga from over the past few months that need to be discussed from places such as Shonen Jump, Azuki, Yen Press, and especially Mangamo! We'd like to thank Mangamo for reaching out and giving us a sneak peek at some of their newest titles before they were even added onto their app! We even got to read ahead of what's currently available at the time we're recording and releasing this episode, so be sure to watch out for spoiler warnings during the latter half of the episode pertaining to anything that may not even be available to read yet!! It's time for our annual podcast survey! Be sure to take it before Sunday, February 6th, for a chance to win some free manga!! - https://s.surveyplanet.com/1m409qcf And check out our 2021 Shonen Jump Retrospective (featuring our good friend, Maxy Barnard) over at our Patreon for just $1!! For a complete list of links and Shout-Outs included in this episode,

Hello darlings! Welcome back to #LumSquad, a podcast hosted by @LumRanmaYasha and @ProdTally devoted to the wonderful and wacky world of Rumiko Takahashi’s Urusei Yatsura! It’s time for I, I, You, and I to review the Urusei Yatsura: Only You! We’re so excited to finally have the films streaming on Crunchyroll and coming to blu-ray courtesy of Discotek, and so we’ll be periodically interrupting our coverage of the manga to review each movie! What better occasion to start than on our 10th episode AND just ahead of the upcoming blu-ray release of Only You coming later this month! We’re starting off with the series’s first movie, Only You, a much-beloved crowd-pleaser that director Mamoru Oshii was loath to make! While clearly a love-letter to the series, do we agree with Oshii that it’s more of an extended episode than a “real film?” We discuss the fascinatingly fraught production history of Only You, analyze Elle as a parallel to both Lum and Ataru, describe the multitude of references and callbacks to the s

On this episode of Manga Mavericks, Colton & Lum cover the news from the past month, including the yearly Oricon list of the top selling manga and light novel series, and you won't believe what the highest selling manga of the year was (no, it wasn't Demon Slayer again). We also discuss our most anticipated licenses from the past month, as well as a lot of exciting anime news, including some from Netflix! Enjoy! For a complete list of links and Shout-Outs included in this episode, check out this podcast's webpage at: http://all-comic.com/2021/manga-mavericks-ep-184-december-2021-news-roundup/ PODCAST BREAKDOWN: 00:00 - RIP Yoshiko Ohta 02:09 - Intro/Patreon News 05:37 - NYT Graphic Books & Manga List for November 07:49 - Bookscan List for October 13:38 - Oricon Top Selling Manga of 2021 26:09 - Oricon Top Selling Light Novels of 2021 30:42 - Red Hood & Neru end 36:59 - Interviews with Monster Girls ends with 11th volume 37:38 - Dead Dead Demon’s Dedededestruction ending soon 38:29 - Hi

Hello, darlings! Welcome back to #LumSquad, a podcast hosted by @LumRanmaYasha and @ProdTally devoted to the wonderful and wacky world of Rumiko Takahashi’s Urusei Yatsura! Our discussion on Urusei Yatsura Volume 10 was so long we had to split it up across multiple recordings for different parts! This discussion is an interesting mix of different recordings in of itself, because we had originally discussed the first two chapters in this episode, the “Love Letter Trouble” two-parter, at the tail end of our previous recording that you heard in our last episode, and our discussion of the remaining chapters in the volume was split down the middle into two different recordings because of an audio mishap on AC’s end that froze his Audacity during our discussion of the “Lover Thief” two-parter. All this to say that this episode is still kind of a weird frankenstein of different recordings, which is why you may hear some differences in the audio during different parts of it. That said, I think the sum of these part

On this episode of Manga Mavericks, Colton & Lum are joined by Yen Press Sales & Marketing Assistant and co-host of the Manga Machinations podcast, Morgana Santilli, as well as former host of the Manga Corner podcast, JD Banks, to talk more about Hitoshi Iwaaki's Parasyte with the Neo Parasyte m and Neo Parasyte f anthologies! A collection of stories written and illustrated by various manga creators such as Hiro Mashima, Moto Hagio, Asumiko Nakamura and so many more! Listen and find out how we feel about the sheer variety of these different stories and how they explore and pay tribute to the classic original manga we all know and love! For a complete list of links and Shout-Outs included in this episode, check out this podcast's webpage at: http://all-comic.com/2021/manga-mavericks-ep-183-neo-parasyte-m-f/ PODCAST BREAKDOWN: 00:00 - Intro 02:19 - Neo Parasyte m & f Discussion 1:08:19 - Listener Questions 1:21:26 - Guest Plugs 1:27:10 - Community Shout-outs! 1:44:30 - Wrap up Enjoy the sho

Hello, darlings! Welcome back to #LumSquad, a podcast hosted by @LumRanmaYasha and @ProdTally devoted to the wonderful and wacky world of Rumiko Takahashi’s Urusei Yatsura! We’ve entered the double-digits of Urusei Yatsura’s omnibus volumes, and to mark the occasion we’re mixing up our format for covering the manga from here on out. Our past couple of volume discussions have run so long that from here on out we’ll be splitting our discussions of the omnibuses into two separate episodes as opposed to one big long one, which we hope will help us edit and release episodes more reliably and regularly! We’re starting off our coverage of the 10th omnibus today with a collection of stories that deal with summertime and memories! Tune in as we explore some fishy stories involving a love triangle between a pool ghoul, blowfish, and a shark, a jellyfish in a can jam, and learning to swim like your life depends on it! Plus we take a stroll down memory lane while reliving Sakura’s childhood by playing with monsters, R

On this episode of Manga Mavericks, Colton & Lum are joined by Dawn from the Anime Nostalgia Podcast, as well past manga editor and game creator, Jason Thompson, to discuss Hitoshi Iwaaki's classic manga, Parasyte! A sci-fi, horror, action story about a teenager named Shinichi, who's body is almost taken over by a parasitic creature, but stops it just before it reaches his brain causing it to only take over his left hand. Shinichi and his new parasite companion, Migi, figure out how to coexist together as they attempt to hide Migi's existence from other people while also coming in contact with other parasites! We discuss this horrifying but silly series, as we touch on how Iwaaki explores things like grief, trauma and even environmentalism?! We also discuss what we think of the 2014 anime from Madhouse, as well as just how far the manga's availability has come in the US since the first time it was licensed by Tokyopop! If you liked this discussion, join us next week when cover both Parasyte anthology coll

Hello, darlings! Welcome back to #LumSquad, a podcast hosted by @LumRanmaYasha and @ProdTally devoted to the wonderful and wacky world of Rumiko Takahashi’s Urusei Yatsura! We've officially hit the halfway point of the Urusei Yatsura manga! The series' ninth omnibus is a fantastic collection of stories, a real showcase of the manga in its prime! Perhaps no storyline best demonstrates this than the series' longest and most ambitious story arc to date - The Miss Tomobiki Contest! A mini-tournament arc featuring the badass beauties of the series facing off against each other and wild animals, this storyline is an awesome and hilarious mix of character gags and action-comedy, and another step towards the style of storytelling Takahashi would employ later in Ranma 1/2! But while The Miss Tomobiki Contest is definitely the main event, this volume is also jam-packed with a ton of other great and memorable stories, including the origins of Mendo's claustrophobia, the revenge of Galactic Teacher CAO-2, the identity

On this episode of Manga Mavericks, Colton & Lum once again report on and discuss the latest in manga news with new series, what new manga licenses they're looking forward to, as well new anime films coming to the US! Particular topics include our thoughts on what's been happening in Fire Force recently, a beloved(?) Fist of the North Star character getting their own isekai manga, and our thoughts on the first chapter of Nio Nakatani's newest manga, God Bless the Mistaken, the newest simulpub from Yen Press! Note from Colton: So the day after this episode of the podcast was fully edited, it was announced that both Zero's Tea Time and The Culprit Hanzawa (Hannin no Hanzawa) had been picked up by Netflix! So I'm just making note of that here since I didn't have time to mention it in the episode after the fact. For a complete list of links and Shout-Outs included in this episode, check out this podcast's webpage at: http://all-comic.com/2021/manga-mavericks-ep-181-november-2021-news-simulpub-roundups/ POD

On this episode of Manga Mavericks, Colton & Lum are joined by Eisner award winning comics artist, Joey Weiser, Twitter extraordinaire and horror enthusiast, Casey "MinovskyArticle", as well as translator and yokai expert, Zack Davisson, to discuss Shigeru Mizuki's GeGeGe no Kitaro manga! We discuss not only our thoughts on the comic in general, but as well as the life of Shigeru Mizuki and how his works have truly influenced Japanese culture as a whole! Disclaimer: A gosh darn audio yokai came in while we were recording and messed up some of Zack's audio, which means that some of it was so inaudible that parts of our conversation had to be cut, but we hope you enjoy the episode anyway! For a complete list of links and Shout-Outs included in this episode, check out this podcast's webpage at: http://all-comic.com/2021/manga-mavericks-ep-180-gegege-no-kitaro/ PODCAST BREAKDOWN: 00:00 - Disclaimer 03:06 - Intro/Patron Shout Out 08:29 - Kitaro Discussion 1:58:44 - Fan Questions 2:32:34 - Guest Plugs

Hello darlings! Welcome back to #LumSquad, a podcast hosted by @LumRanmaYasha and @ProdTally devoted to the wonderful and wacky world of Rumiko Takahashi’s Urusei Yatsura! Rising up like a tidal wave and roaring like a dragon, Ryuunosuke Fujinami has finally arrived! At long last, english manga fans finally get to meet the last and arguably most important member of Urusei Yatsura's main cast - a manly girl who yearns to be feminine whose character and stories bear no small resemblance to Rumiko Takahashi's later work, Ranma 1/2! We discuss Ryuunosuke's significance as an early gender non-conforming female character in Rumiko Takahashi's work, as well as the trans-feminine and queer subtext in her characterization and storylines. We debate both the positive and negatives of Ryuunosuke as queer representation and how she fares against queer rep and subtext in Takahashi's later works. We also dig into what makes her a compelling character and why Takahashi seemed particularly fond of her, to the point she ov

On this episode of Manga Mavericks, Colton & Lum are joined by John from the MercuryFalcon Youtube channel, as well as Karleen & Malia from Coherent Cats, to discuss Osamu Tezuka's original Dororo manga! A story about a wandering samurai named Hyakkimaru and his rambunctious thief sidekick, Dororo, as they hunt down and slay all kinds of evil spirits and yokai in order for Hyakkimaru to regain all 48 of his missing body parts (and also hunt for treasure, I guess...). We're excited to finally cover our first Tezuka manga as we discuss how feel about Dororo compared to some of his other works, as well as how we feel about Tezuka's handling of Hyakkimaru's physical disabilities and Dororo's gender identity. For a complete list of links and Shout-Outs included in this episode, check out this podcast's webpage at: http://all-comic.com/2021/manga-mavericks-ep-179-dororo/ PODCAST BREAKDOWN: 00:00 - Intro 05:09 - Dororo Discussion 1:56:37 - Fan Questions 2:18:48 - Guest Plugs 2:23:19 - Community Shout-

On this episode of Manga Mavericks, Colton & Lum finally catch up on about two months worth of new one shots and simulpubs! Including not just everything from Shonen Jump, but also titles from Manga Plus, Star Fruit Books, Yen Press, Kadokawa and even our first look at Comikey! Is Dandadan as good as everyone says it is? What is up with PPPPPP? And is Colton into dragon girls now? Listen to the show to find out all of this and more!! For a complete list of links and Shout-Outs included in this episode, check out this podcast's webpage at: http://all-comic.com/2021/manga-mavericks-ep-178-october-2021-simulpubs-roundup/ PODCAST BREAKDOWN: 00:00 - RIP Takao Saito 02:51 - Intro News 03:51 - My Hero Academia: World Heroes Mission moviegoers to receive special manga booklet on opening day 06:14 - Nozomi's Dirty Pair Kickstarter 08:19 - Mission: Yozakura Family Popularity Poll has begun One Shots 12:07 - Toki by Tatsuya Ihara 23:25 - New Bleach One Shot from Tite Kubo 31:44 - My Hero Academia: Endeav

Queer manga should be read and celebrated all year round, and thanks to the growing efforts of publishers to bring more great LGBTQ titles over west, it’s easier than ever to find works that speak to you! We’ve taken pride in covering many great LGBTQ manga on our show over the years, and for the longest time I’ve wanted to do a broader topic discussion centered around queer manga. So I decided to take our exploration through the world of queer manga in steps and start from a personal place; what queer manga means to us as queer readers, and our evolving histories with them. Joining me for this discussion are some wonderful guests who’ve specialized in exploring media through a queer lens, examing representation in media and spotlighting queer media in their work - Trevor & Alex from the Queering the Guilotine podcast and Karleen from the blog CoherentCats! We discuss the works that we feel helped us discover ourselves, best represent the queer community, and are promising signs of progress in the ways

On this episode of Manga Mavericks, Colton & Lum cover and discuss a SCARY amount of news (oh wait, that's just every month), including a A LOT of serialization news, our licensing highlights for the month, and some updates on some cool anime we're looking forward to, such as updates on the upcoming next seasons of Demon Slayer and Lupin the Third! For a complete list of links and Shout-Outs included in this episode, check out this podcast's webpage at: http://all-comic.com/2021/manga-mavericks-ep-176-october-2021-news-roundup/ PODCAST BREAKDOWN: 00:00 - RIP Eiichi Yamamoto 02:57 - Intro 06:18 - NYT Graphic Books & Manga List for September 08:04 - August Bookscan List 19:21 - Candy Flurry ends 22:32 - Dr. Stone begins final arc 26:50 - No Guns Life ends 27:58 - Tokyo Tarareba Girls Returns ends 29:07 - Delicious in Dungeon nears climax 30:22 - Berserk & Studio Gaga updates 33:02 - Several new manga to run in Big Comic magazine 36:21 - Square Enix’s new Gangan Bliss BL label 38:11 -

On this episode of Manga Mavericks, we invite on Kendra from the My Hero Academia Podcast, as well as Luke from Hero Notes and the Weird Science Manga & Anime Podcast to discuss My Hero Academia: SMASH!! A 4 panel gag comedy spin off of My Hero Academia where almost anything can happen! Like Shigaraki and the League of Villains kidnaping Bakugo to play board games, or Iida playing Gacha games in order to teach his fellow classmates the horrors of gambling addiction, or even introducing a character with a quirk called Isekai that causes the world to stay stuck in time forever (yes, that actually happens). We discuss this mixed bag of gags and goofs and how its a good avenue to give some characters more screen time, but also how some strips and jokes just absolutely do not land or are just plain gross. Is this the worst thing we've ever read on Manga Mavericks!? Tune in and find out! For a complete list of links and Shout-Outs included in this episode, check out this podcast's webpage at: http://all-comic.

On this episode of Manga Mavericks, we invite on Chris & Nik from Weekly Manga Recap for our next Jump Stop podcast where we discuss Kohei Horikoshi's second ever Weekly Shonen Jump manga, Barrage (or Sensei no Baruji)! A sci-fi adventure take on the classic Prince and the Pauper type of story about an orphan boy named Barrage, who works for whatever little food he can give to his family, until one night where he runs into and witnesses the death of the prince of the kingdom and ends up being mistaken for said prince, which leads him into taking on his responsibilities as peacemaker going from village to village to protect those who need it most! We discuss how we feel about the series in particular as a transitionary point in Horikohi's career and what he improves on from Oumagadoki Zoo, but also what aspects he will later eventually execute better with My Hero Academia afterwards. For a complete list of links and Shout-Outs included in this episode, check out this podcast's webpage at: http://all-comic

On this episode of Manga Mavericks, not only do we have another Jump Stop series to talk about, but we also kick off the start of our Kohei Horikoshi month by talking about his first series to run in Weekly Shonen Jump, Oumagadoki Zoo! A story about clumsy high school girl, Aoi Hana, and her attempt to better herself by applying for a part time job as a zookeeper, but she ends up biting more then she can chew as the zoo turns out to be run by a crazy, magical rabbit man cursed with the task of turning his zoo into the most popular one in the world in order to become human again. We once again have returning guests such as cancelled Shonen Jump comic expert, Maxy Barnard, and manga letterer, Ace Christman, as well as new guest and artist extraordinaire, Sai, to discuss why Oumagadoki Zoo is a fun read despite how Horikoshi still has a long way to go as a mangaka until his eventual rise to success with My Hero Academia! Enjoy! For a complete list of links and Shout-Outs included in this episode, check out this