Manga Mavericks

On this episode of Manga Mavericks, its time for another round of new simulpubbed manga, as Lum & Colton discuss not just the newest series from Shonen Jump with rakugo manga, Akane-Banashi, and sci-fi romance manga, Earthchild, but as well the newest Kodansha title from Yuuki Kodama with The World of Summoning, and some new titles available on Comikey! 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-193-march-2022-simulpubs-roundup/ PODCAST BREAKDOWN: 00:00 - Intro/Patron Shout Outs! 07:55 - Takopi’s Original Sin coming to an end 12:10 - Boichi to draw chapter 411 of One Piece, “Nami vs. Kalifla” 13:55 - Digimon Adventure getting dub featuring new cast 15:53 - GKids acquires bulk of Makoto Shinkai’s filmography 17:19 - Pompo the Cinephile coming to North American theaters starting April 27th 18:26 - Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero Updates 23:48 - Eleven Arts licenses Ryoma! The Pr

On this episode of Manga Mavericks, we go over more news from the past month, including some big series ending such as Dr. Stone & Fire Force, a ton of big yearly North American manga sales updates, a whole lot of new licenses and even the merging of Funimation & Crunchyroll as a single brand! 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-192-march-2022-news-roundup/ PODCAST BREAKDOWN: 00:00 - RIP Manabu Ohashi & Kirk Bailey  03:36 - Intro/Patron Shout Outs! 07:37 - NYT List for March 2022 10:05 - Top 10 Manga Franchises of 2021 20:25 - Top 10 "Most Efficient Manga Franchises" of 2021 26:13 - Top Selling Manga Volumes of 2021 30:56 - Hajime Komoto retracts statement that Mashle is half-way over 34:39 - New Haikyu 10th anniversary one-shot coming soon 36:23 - Heart Gear to resume from hiatus soon 37:07 - Blue Exorcist’s return from hiatus delayed from April to M

Man oh Manga! 2021 was an incredible year for the manga industry, seeing record sales with books of all stripes flying off the shelves both in Japan and abroad! There sure was a lot of great manga published in 2021, a lotta of which we had the great fortune of reading and keeping up with throughout the year! So, as per our annual tradition, the time has come once again to do our yearly spotlight on the best manga of the previous year - our Best of Manga 2021 podcast! From our favorite news stories to new manga licenses, from published volumes to simulpubs, what were our Mavericks’s favorite series to read last year, and how much crossover will their lists have? Join us as we run down our favorite art, characters, moments, jokes, chapters, series, and more in another jam-packed Best of Manga retrospective celebrating all the comics we love and adore! 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-maveric

One of these days our convention report podcasts won’t take months after the con is over to come out. Today is not that day. But hey, Anime NYC kept us waiting too! After a pandemic-imposed hiatus, Anime NYC returned in 2021 with its highest-ever attendance… and longest lines. Was the wait worth it… or was it just more waiting? Has Anime NYC grown too big for the Javits Center to handle? Was it even a good idea to congregate fifty thousand anime nerds together during a global pandemic? Was Anime NYC a super event… or just a superspreader event? Lum and VLord are joined by their usual gang of friends - Sakaki, Jecka, and Marion - to answer the call to all these questions and discuss the highs and lows of Anime NYC 2021! For the 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-190-anime-nyc-2021/ PODCAST BREAKDOWN: 00:00 - Ukraine Aid Resources & Links 06:53 - Texas Trans Support Resources &am

On this episode of Manga Mavericks, after Colton & Lum cover a little news, its time for more new simulpubbed manga! As we once again talk about the latest chapter of Shokugeki no Sanji, along with the newest series that have debuted on Manga Plus with Magilumiere Co. Ltd & The Kaijiki Chef! Plus we discuss the first chapter of Susumu Higa's Sword of Sand as part of the Okinawa collection soon to be published by the hosts of the Mangasplaining podcast, as well as discuss some more new series provided to us by the wonderful people over at Mangamo! Including Robustness - Road to Olympia, Dungeon Battle Royale, Ultra-Fem Shishihara-kun and Ghost Story Loop! If you listen to this episode and are interested in any of the series we talked about, be sure to check them out!! 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-189-february-2022-simulpubs-roundup/ PODCAST BREAKDOWN: 00:00 - Intro News 03:25

On this episode of Manga Mavericks, its time once again to go over the latest news from the past month as we discuss the latest serialization, licensing and anime news! Plus we finally get to some Shonen Jump popularity polls we haven't had the time to go over! Other topics of discussion include our thoughts on Blood Blockade Battlefront, Kodansha finally making GTO available digitally, and how we feel about Manga Plus's new reading campaign and whether its a ploy just to compete with Viz's Shonen Jump app. Be sure to take our annual podcast survey by Sunday, February 13th, 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-188-february-2022-news-roundup/ PODCAST BREAKDOWN: 00:00 - RIP Shinji Mizushima  03:36 - Intro/Manga Mavericks Survey 08:46 - NYT List for January 2022 10:24 - Bookscan list for December 2021 20:45 - UQ Holder

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 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! Urusei Yatsura’s getting a new anime!!! The Urusei Yatsura All-Stars reboot was announced on New Year’s Eve to bring in the year of the tiger with electrifying excitement! All us Urusei Yatsura fans went out of our minds with this out of the world announcement, and we couldn’t wait to talk about it on the show. Which is why right at the stroke of midnight (central US time), we recorded a special podcast covering everything we know about the upcoming anime and what to expect from it! That’s right, we recorded our first new podcast of the year literally right when the year began! I wish I could’ve released this episode as timely as we released

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