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Volume 377 ~ Kimi ni Todoke #1 君に届け #1 by: 椎名 軽穂 Kimi ni Todoke #1 by: Shiina Kahoru Hakusensha/Viz Media/shoujo - $8.99 - Rated 13+ You kids aren’t going to like this but I’m gonna have to tell you how to read your manga today. Why? Cause Kimi ni Todoke is here and it like few shoujo titles recently teaches readers that the foundation of every [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #376 ~ OtoMen #1 オトメン #1 by: 菅野文 OtoMen #1 by: Kanno Aya Hakusensha/Viz Media/shoujo - $8.99 - Rated 13+ So I am a little late to the game. Yeah, I have been aware of Otomen for a while now. I have actually been reading this series for months now. Furthermore, I actually recorded part of this review back in August. But as you [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume 375 ~ Blood+ 2 BLOOD+ 2 by: 桂明日香 Blood+ 2 by: Production IG with art by Katsura Asuka Kadokawa Shoten/Dark Horse/shounen-mediamix - $10.99 - Rated 16+ I remember watching Blood years ago. Heck I remember playing the “game” on the PS2 even before watching the movie or reading the novel. The property was associated with Production IG so I had to give it a [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #373 ~ ALIVE #2 ALIVE #2by: Adachitoka& Kawashima TadashiKodansha/Del Rey/shounen - $10.99 - Rated 13+Things are bad enough with global climate change, but when aliens or some extraterrestrial force suddenly decides to rain in on Earth switching humanity’s internal suicide clocks on, then I start thinking…Al Gore was not looking deep enough into the future with his projections [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #373 ~ ALIVE #2 ALIVE #2 by: Adachitoka & Kawashima Tadashi Kodansha/Del Rey/shounen - $10.99 - Rated 13+ Things are bad enough with global climate change, but when aliens or some extraterrestrial force suddenly decides to rain in on Earth switching humanity’s internal suicide clocks on, then I start thinking…Al Gore was not looking deep enough into the future with his projections [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #372 ~ Higurashi: The Cotton Drifting Arc #1 Higurashi: the Cotton Drifting Arc #1 by: Houjou Yutori & Ryukishi 09 SquareEnix/Yen Press/seinen - $10.99 - Rated 16+ I have said it before and I will continue to say it until all volumes of this property are available in English…Higuarashi is one of the most innovative properties out there period! I cannot think of another title with [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #371 ~ Oishinbo: Sushi and Sashimi Oishinbo: Sushi and Sashimi by: Kariya Tetsu & Hanasaki Akira Shogakukan/Viz Media/seinen - $12.99 - Rated 13+ Ah, Oishinbo!! In my opinion it is the prime rib of manga. Aged, flavorful, and a bit pricey it is for people who know their manga and understand the subtle differences between a Japanese comic and a Shogakukan Big Comic. And [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #369 ~ KimiKiss #1 キミキス #1by: 東雲太郎KimiKiss  #1by:Shinonome TarouHakusensha/TokyoPop/Seinen - $10.99 - Rated 16+Ahhh dating sims… You know there was a time when I used to enjoy my share of these. To me it was 40% mathematical, 40% ronely otaku syndrome, and 20% waiting for the next tactical RPG for my PSone or Saturn. But there was something about [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #368 ~ Doujin Work #1 ドージンワーク 1 by: ヒロユキ Dojin Work  #1 by: Hiroyuki Houbunsha/MediaBlasters/Seinen - $11.99 - Rated 16+ Ah the world of doujinshi…I know you all too well. The grueling schedule the artists are on to make deadlines. The crazy turnarounds for printers and deliverymen. The complications with event management for potentially huge non-profit events. And the level of perversion that the actual content [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #367 ~ EMMA #9 EMMA 9 by: 森薫 EMMA  #9 by: Mori Kaoru enterbrain!/CMX/Seinen - $9.99 - Rated 16+ The original EMMA story might have come to an end in volume 7, but the world of EMMA continues to grow in this latest volume from Mori Kaoru and CMX. We get to see William begin his lifelong rivalry and friendship with Karim. Then have morning [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | MangaScope - July 18, 2009 ~Shounen Lives~ Around the start of the year I started to hear people toss around the term “neo-shounen” to describe today’s brand of boys comics. Any way you look at it whoever came up with the term is one either only reading a small sample of shounen titles, possibly from what has become Shounen Jump (in my [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #363 ~ Samurai Harem #1 明日のよいち by: みなもと悠 Samurai Harem #1 by: Minamoto Yuu Akita Shoten/Tokyopop/Shounen - $12.99 - Rated 18+ Talk about culture clash! Samurai were so 19th Century. For the early part of that century the baddest of the bad roamed Japan with swords by their side and they really didn’t need much else. A little food, a little sport, and some time [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #358 ~ REAL #3 REAL by: 井上雄彦, REAL #3 by: Inoue Takehiko Shueisha/Viz Media/seinen - $12.99 - Rated 16+ You cannot hate the game, as the game is blind to prejudice and it leaves judgement to the participants and their followers. Hating the player is easy cause players can be complete asses. In volume 3 of REAL you have three asses who are on different [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #350 ~ He’s My Master #3 これが私の御主人様 #3 by: まっつー & 椿あす He is My Master #3 by: MATTSU and Tsubaki Asu MediaWorks/Seven Seas/MediaMix - $9.99 - Rated 16+ With the advent of new media and the 24-hour media cycle, we all know that there is nothing more dangerous than a teen with a lot of disposable money. Give Miss Hilton a Black Card and free [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #366 ~ Mr. Flower Bride 花嫁くん by: 星野リリィ Mr. Flower Bride by: Hoshino Lily Houbunsha/Yen Press/BL - $12.99 - Rated 18+ Ah Hoshino Lily I love your stuff and the boys in this title… Well they don’t make me feel awkward so that’s good I guess. But seriously this Mr Flower Bride is as much about learning to express your love as it is about [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #365 ~ Kaze no Hana #2 風ノ華 #2 by: 太田顕善 & 巳蔦汐生 Kaze no Hana #2 by: Ushio Mitza & Akiyoshi Ohta MediaWorks/Yen Press/seinen - $10.99 - Rated 13+ Click on badge to listen download the review (21min .mp3). Up Next… Zetsubou-sensei, Mr Flower Bride Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #364 ~ the Manzai Comics #1 The MANZAI COMICS #1by:あさのあつこ&イマイ ヒヅル the Manzai Comics #1 by: Asano Atsuko& Imai HizuruJIVE/Aurora/seinen - $10.99 - Rated 13+Comedy and manga should go hand in hand right… Well in the Manzai Comics they kinda do and they kinda don’t. The friendship and intense humor that comes from stand-up seems to fuel this [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #361 ~ HitoHira #2 ひとひら #2 by: 桐原いづみ HitoHira #2 by: Kirihara Idumi Futabasha/Aurora/seinen - $10.99 - Rated 13+ Oh Mugi if you only had some confidence! You have so much potential. And there are so many cool things out there waiting for you. So you should not run away from the theater. You should embrace it. If not for the experience, then for [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #362 ~ Tsukihime #4 真月譚 月姫 #4 by: 佐々木少年 Tsukihime #4 by: SasakiShonen MediaWorks/DrMaster/shounen - $9.99 - Rated 15+ Ah the power that Tohno Shiki possesses. He’s capable of doing the impossible with his eyes and if used incorrectly he could be considered a monster. But Shiki is attempting to use his“talent” for good as he aides a real monster hunt down a [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #360 ~ We Were There #1 僕等がいた #1 by: 小畑友紀 We Were There #1 by: Obata Yuki Shogakukan/Viz Media/shoujo - $8.99 - Rated 13+ Everyone has a past and there is no escaping that baggage. So when Nanami enters high school in a new district she hopes that being a new face without baggage will score her points with this crowd whom have been together for [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #356 ~ Welcome to the NHK! #4 NHKにようこそ! #4 by: 大岩ケンヂ Welcome to the NHK #4 by: Oiwa Kendi Kadokawa/Tokyopop/Shounen - $9.99 - Rated 16+ Satou-kun– NOOO!!! Don’t take those drugs! Don’t go on that “date!” Don’t even think about seducing a married woman! Don’t back off the courses that Misaki has planned for you! You have friends! You’ve got a reason to live. So don’t step out of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #359 ~ Honey & Clover #3 ハチミツとクローバー #3 by: 羽海野 チカ Honey & Clover #3 by: Umino Chica Shueisha/Viz Media/Josei - $8.99 - Rated 16+ Do you want to lose her Takemoto? Does that mean having to take her from someone else? Do you want him to come back Hagumi? Would he have to miss out on an opportunity? When opportunities are rare, you have to take your [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #357 ~ Oishinbo a la Carte #1 美味しんぼ #1 by: 花咲 アキラ & 雁屋哲 Oishinbo a la Carte #1 ~ Washoku by: Hanasaki Akira & Kariya Tetsuya Shogakukan/Viz Media/Seinen - $12.99 - Rated 13+ While you all think I go to Japan three to four times a year for manga related purposes, I actually go for the food. It is to kill for. And when reading Oishinbo, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #353 ~ Translucent #2 TRANSLUCENT ～彼女は半透明～ #2 by: 岡本一広 Translucent #2 by: Okamoto Kazuhiro Media Factory/Dark Horse/Seinen - $9.99 - Rated 10+ Shiroyama Shizuka eight grader, aspiring actor, and partially invisible shoujo. In volume two of Translucent Shizuka appears to have accepted her disease. It doesn’t hurt her emotionally as much as it did before. Now that she has friends to support her she [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #352 ~ Venus Versus Virus #2 Venus Versus Virus #2 by: 鈴見敦 Venus Versus Virus #2 by: Suzumi Atsushi MediaWorks/Seven Seas/Shounen - $9.99 - Rated 16+ Shizuka is starting to get used to her new role within the Venus Vanguard. She helps with the boutique a bit, maybe does some chores and then fights baddies at night. She doesn’t mind the work either because not only [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume 351 ~ Suzuka #8 涼風 #8 by: 瀬尾公治Suzuka #8 by: Seo Kouji Kodansha/Del Rey/Shounen - $12.99 - Rated 18+??? Ah Yamato!! You had a good thing with Honoka but even as her boyfriend you never really gave her a chance. Inside your heart you only had eyes for one person - Suzuka. The same Suzuka who rejected youonce already. The same Suzuka [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #349 ~ Pumpkin Scissors #1 パンプキン・シザーズ #1 by: 岩永 亮太郎 Pumpkin Scissors #1 by: Iwanaga Ryoutarou Kodansha/Del Rey/Shounen - $10.99 - Rated 16+ WAR! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing!! It’s been three years since the war between the Empire and the Republic of Frost ended, but to some who fought in the trenches for so long the war continues on a small and very [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #347 ~ Make MORE Love & Peace ラブにピース　守りたいもの by: 米谷 たかね Make MORE Love and Peace by: Yonetani Takane Ohzora/Luv Luv/Ladies - $10.99 - Rated 18+ Ayame and Koichi look like a cute young couple, but the two are a bit of an odd couple. Ayame still lives with her parents. The young college student is aimlessly going through the motions hoping to one day marry Koichi. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #346 ~ Hanami #3 하나미 by: PLUS & 박성재 Hanami #3 by: PLUS & Park SungJae Seoul Cultural/Dark Horse/Shounen - $9.99 - Rated 13+ JoonHo is in a pickle. What’s wrong exactly? Well he is in the middle of a love square! Three girls are interested in him and he thinks he’s in love with the only one of the three he cannot see [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #345 ~ School Rumble #8 スクールランブル 8 by: 小林尽 School Rumble #8 by: Kobayashi Jin Kodansha/Del Rey/Shounen - $10.99 - Rated 13+ You knew it was coming. I mean every gakuen manga worth the paper it is printed on must have at least one of these. But did you ever think that a full on war with guns and guerrilla warfare would settle how Class [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #343 ~ Black Lagoon #2 ブラック・ラグーン 2 by: 広江 礼威 Black Lagoon #2 by: Hiroe Rei Shogakukan/Viz Media/Shounen - $12.99 - Rated 18+ The underworld dealing continues in the East Indian Ocean and Lagoon Trading is once again in too deep. Now that’s the norm in this industry. No trouble and someone else would have taken the job. But when a Nazi propaganda painting needs [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #344 ~ Red Blinds the Foolish 愚か者は赤を嫌う by: えすとえむ Red Blinds the Foolish by: est em Ohzora/Deux/BL - $12.99 - Rated 18+ Young torero Rafita Alonso is the hottest name in Spanish bullfighting right now. The matador in red strikes audiences as a young man looking for a world of hurt, but he puts on a show and has earned the respect of ring owners and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #342 ~ Object of Desire それだけかい by:野口 ともこ Object of Desire by: Noguchi Tomoko Ohzora/Luv Luv/ladies - $10.99 - Rated 18+ Men are pigs! Many of us look at women as objects we want to be with, play with, mate with… They’ll go through fiery hoops to have them by their sides. And when they are done with their women, there are even some men [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #341 ~ Vagabond #1 (Viz Big edition) ????? #1 by: ???? Vagabond (Viz Big Edition) #1 by: Inoue Takehiko Inoue Takehiko loves his hoops. There is no doubt about that. But there is more to the creator of Slam Dunk than buzzer beating shots and killer cross-overs… The man is also behind one of the best titles to come out of Japan in the last 10 [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #340 ~ Suzumiya Haruhi #1 ???????? #1 ???, ????? (??????) the Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya #1 by: Nagaru Tanigawa, Gaku Tsugano (with designs by Noizi Ito) Kadokawa/Yen Press/shounen - $10.99 - Rated 16+ Earth is lame! That’s right, I said Earth and the reality that its citizens have to endure sucks majorly. Knowing that I have decided to live through manga and my life has [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #339 ~ Sunshine Sketch #2 ???????? by: ???? Sunshine Sketch by: Aoki Ume Houbunsha/Yen Press/4-koma - $10.99 - Rated 13+ High school… Wait, that was 13 years ago!?! DAMN! Ahem– High school, I can hardly remember it anymore. What I can remember though are some of my most vivid memories. The adventures with friends laid out a foundation for the many relationships I’ve had since. The [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #338 ~ Solanin ???? by: ????? Solanin by: Asano Inio Shogakukan/Viz Media/Slice of Life - $17.99 - Rated 16+ Sometimes life gives you apples. And sometimes you make apple juice with those apples and the apple juice is pretty good. After a while though you might get tired of the apple juice. Maybe some of the apple vendors are aren’t treating you well; [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #337 ~ Ghost Talker�s Daydream #2 ???DAYDREAM #2 by: ???? & ???? Ghosttalker’s DAYDREAM by: Okuse Saki & Meguro Sankichi Kadokawa/Dark Horse/Eros-Mystery - $10.99 - Rated 18+ No one ever said being a dominatrix was an easy job. Sure working within the Japanese fuzoku system might not be as dangerous as similar jobs found in other countries, but who takes care of the S&M Queens when [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #336 ~ Higurashi #1 ????????? - ???? by: >???07 & ?????? Higuarashi ~Abducted by Demons Arc~ #1 by: Ryukishi 07 and Suzuragi Karin SquareEnix/Yen Press/Media Mix - $10.99 - Rated 16+ Based on the hit doujin soft visual novel by the same name, Yen Press’ Higuarshi captures the mood of the PC game without the load times. Keiichi just moved from the big city where [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #335 ~ Aqua Bless AQUA BLESS by: ??? Aqua Bless by: Yamatogawa AkaneShinsha/Icarus/Ero - $19.99 - Rated 18+ Eight of the tastiest, most titillating best looking ero stories ever translated all collected in a slick well produced GN by North America’s premier eromanga publisher…. Sentai teams! Snowy 0nsen scenes! Cross dressing role reversal on trains! Two outdoor scenes in the streets of Tokyo! Banging on [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #334 ~ Red Colored Elegy ?????? by: ??? Red Colored Elegy by: Hayashi Seiichi Seirindo/Drawn & Quarterly/Alternative - $24.99 Ichiro and Sachiko are not one of the many youth in the early 70’s that were involved in student protests across Japan. No, these two were struggling with other things. Their work was a constant struggle. Their family lives were a struggle. Their relationship and romance [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #323 - Kuro and Metro Survive ???????1 by: ??????? Shoulder a Coffin -KURO- 1 by: Kiyuduki Satoko Houbunsha/Yen Press/4-koma/Fantasy-Comedy - Rated 7+ - $10.99 If you traveled from town to town carrying a coffin on your back you’d possibly garner some bad attention.� If you also wore nothing but black and had a Vampire Hunter D cap, you’d possibly be asking for trouble. And if you [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #326 ~ Minima, Zombie Loan and Fairy Tail After too long a hiatus, Jack returns with what could only be described as a power surge. (sorry for the baseball reference…) Three big titles covering the gambit, shounen, shoujo and josei and the results… Well they are 100% Jack Tse, but you wouldn’t have it any other way would you! FAIRY TAIL 1 by: ???? Fairy Tail [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Side Dish #42 ~ Talking Characters with Netsu Maika I got to hand it to Broccoli Books. Every year when they show up at Fanime they seem to be there with a special guest and every year I tend to walk away impressed not only by the talent of the artists they work with but by the people they work with. This year’s special guest [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Side Dish #41 ~ Trilingual Manga Chat with K�sen Not sure if you all noticed but PW’s Comics Week recently ran an interview I conducted with mangaka duo Studio K�sen. I got to meet the Spanish mangaka while they were in Tokyo. Aurora and Diana made the long trip to hit Japan’s hot-spots and share their work with manga makers/shakers. Somehow I was lucky [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume 325 ~ Dororo & Apollo�s Song Two from Vertical and two from Tezuka… And strangely enough I am not going with popular opinion with these two. ????? by: ?? ?? Apollo’s Song by: Tezuka Osamu Shonen Gahosha/Vertical/Shounen/Sex Ed - Romance - Rated 18+ - $19.99 The 70’s were a troubled time in Japan as they were across the globe. It was a time of revolution. Whether it [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume 322 ~ High School Girls 9 and Gunslinger Girls 6 We are talking about shoujo! But we are not reading shoujo… Manga about girls! Oh and if anyone has news on ADV’s manga plans let us know. I haven’t seen a listing for Gunslinger Girls 7 or an actual volume Yotsuba 6 yet. Are they still in business? Did they began working on PiQ and drop [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Side Dish #40 ~ that Con in Tokyo That isn�t About Comics Tokyo International Anime Fair 2008 Dates: 03/27-03/30/2008?10:00 - 18:00 Venue: Ariake Big Sight, Tokyo So what is the difference between an American anime fest and a Japanese one? I got to sit down and talk to reps of America’s largest ani-cons and they broke it down for me in ways that even a manga fan could understand. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume 321 ~ Fairy Tail & Gun Blaze West GUN BLAZE WEST #1 by: ?? ?? Gun Blaze West #1 by: Watsuki Nobuhiro Shueisha/Viz Media/Shounen/western adventure - Rated 16+ - $7.99 I am sure that at one point or another every red blooded American male wanted to be a cowboy. They wanted their own gun and bandaliers, and more importantly they wanted to someday go off on an [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume 319 ~ Battle Club and DOMINION   ??????? #3 by: ????? Battle Club #3 by: Shiozaki Yuuji Shonen Gahosha/TOKYOPOP/Seinen/wrestling comedy - Rated 18+ - $9.99 In the world of sports manga there is only one true path to strength. Rivalry, training, friendship, and finally defeating your personal demons. In Battle Club, all of that happens in and out of the wrestling ring. In fact, most of it [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #318 ~ dragon head & Brave Story Two from TP. Two under the radar and two reasons to SEINEN UP! ??????? #1+2 by: ????? dragon head #2 by: Mochizuki Minetaro Kodansha/TOKYOPOP/Seinen/thriller - Rated 16+ - $9.99 So we had mechanics in a subway in Metro Survive. Let’s check out what teenagers trapped in a bullet train tunnel will do with no light, limited food and water and no [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume 317 ~ minima! & Metro Survive minima! #1 by: ????? minima! #1 by: Sakurai Machiko Kodansha/Del Rey/Josei/comedy - Rated 13+ - $10.99 The world of toys… Man sends chills down my spine as it brings back memories of the old FAO Schwartz in SF. “Welcome to My World/Welcome to My World/ Welcome to Our World of Toys!!” Well the world of toys seems to be a [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume 316 ~ With the Light� & Andromeda Stories Family…Everyone has one. Sometimes they bring you joy; sometimes they bring the end of mankind… You cannot escape their influence! Pick your poison with Volume 316. ?????� #1 by: ????? With the Light… #1 by: Tobe Keiko Akita Shoten /Yen Press/Josei/drama - Rated 13+ - $14.99 No one ever said raising a child was easy. They need to be fed. Diapers [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Morning Report #13 ~ Looking at 07 (finally) Only took us two months (plus) but we finally got our picks for 2007. Last year had its share of great titles. From the artsy seinen of Town of Evening Calm to the yuri sweetness of the Last Uniform it almost seemed impossible to settle on a few. Fortunately Jack Tse didn’t just settle on [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #315 ~ Yozakura Quartet & NANA Please be patient with me, I am struggling with bronchitis and am praying I don’t get pneumonia. Luckily I recorded this podcast two weeks ago… Yeah, I have been sick since the start of the month (edited out the coughs from the last two recordings, you know so I don’t contaminate you all through your [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #314 ~ Alice on Deadlines & Galaxy Angel II As I am sure many of you are aware, making good manga is not easy. Yeah anyone can draw a comic and yeah what is “good” is to me could be “chopped liver” to the next person, but I think anyone would agree a good comic not only has at the very least adequate art [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #313 ~ Hell Girl and Blood Relatives Once again feeling a little shoujo. And with valentines day only hours away why not celebrate it with a little taste of the OCCULT!!! Two shoujo titles that will make you scream. Or they made me scream… ???? #1 by: ?? ? Hell Girl #1 by: Eto Miyuki Kodansha/Del Rey/Shoujo/horror - Rated 16+ - $10.99 It’s a sad sad world out [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #312 ~ Black Dog and Gunslinger Girls Now seinen manga is pretty diverse. Fantasy, romance, drama, educational, sports… Today though I take a look at an old favorite…stereotypical action manga. At least the leads are female. SEINEN UP! ?? #2 by: ??? & ??? Black God #2 by: Lim DallYoung & Park SungWoo SquareEnix/Yen Press/Seinen/action - Rated 16+ - $10.99 I possibly shouldn’t go on a tangent like this [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #311 ~ the Last Uniform & Kyoukaku DOG�s It’s Feb so love is in the air. In this volume I look at high school love in an all girls school. And then I close out with the love shared between a high school girl and her “dog”… ?????DOG’s #1 by: ??? Kyouhaku DOG’S #1 by: Shaa MediaWorks/Infinity Studios/Seinen/romance-comedy - Rated 13+ - $10.99 Sendai is known as the “mad [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume 310 - Unbalance 2X and Guin Saga Back on track and back to what makes this place run…Seinen. Seinen romances - I grew up on the stuff. Seinen fantasy - I think many anime otaku saw their share back in the mid-90’s. SEINEN UP! ????x2 #2 by: ???/??? Unbalance X2 #2 by: Lim DallYoung/Lee SooHyon Daiwon IC/Infinity Studios/Seinen/romance-comedy - Rated 13+ - $10.99 Jin-ho is earnest…but darn is [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #307 ~ Gunsmith Cats & Hikaru no Go Out of order… Sadly, that sign is often sitting around my desk. Never got around to unpack the lappy after the Japan trip so this episode has been on the shelf for a while. Shame too because these titles are definitely worth a look. ????? ???? by: ?? ?? Gunsmith Cats BURST #1 by: Sonoda Kenichi Kodansha/Dark Horse/Seinen/bounty hunting action [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #309 ~ Appleseed and Nodame Cantabile Mature manga…Got to love it. Two titles for sophisticated readers this evening. You’ve got to SEINEN UP! Seinen up, BABY!! (JOSEI UP too if you can!) ??????? by: ?? ?? Appleseed #1 by: Shiro Masamune Seishinsha/Dark Horse/Seinen/cyberpunk - Rated NA - $14.99 WWIII is over and what is left of mankind is struggling to survive. But there is life on this [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #308 ~ Witchblade Takeru and Dorothy of Oz Woohoo first volume of the year! Only a month after the last one… Luckily I recorded another one tonight so expect more audio in the near future. WITCHBLADE?? by????? & ?????? Witchblade TAKERU by: Kobayashi Yasuko and Sumita Kazasa Top Cow and Akita Shoten/Bandai Ent/Shounen/action - Rated 16+ - $9.99 You know the story. You possibly have seen the anime and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Side Dish #39 ~ Comic Marble More magazine talk… This time I take a look at a seinen romance comedy mag from mahjong manga kings Takeshobo. I should mention that Comic Marble is an off-shoot of Kindai Mahjong magazine. I liken it to an omake edition for when regular gamblers lose their money and need to focus their attention on other [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Side Dish #38 ~ Weekly Manga Sunday Don’t let anyone say gekiga is dead. It’s still kicking but really this genre was never a big seller. Even the great Tatsumi was never really appreciated as much as say Aduma Hideo was (in their respective primes). Koilke has his Gekiga King line and Comic Ran; LEED has their own gekiga lines that Saitou [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #306 - Vampire Hunter D (manga) and SunDome It’s been a while since I did a worst of podcast. Two bad bad titles this evening. Don’t know what you should do with these but I know I want my time and brain cells refunded. Vampire Hunter D #1 by: Takaki Saiki DMP Books/seinen/fantasy-action - Rated 16+ - $12.99 You know the story. You possibly have seen the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | This Week in Manga #02 I will not use the holidays as an excuse for the lack of podcasts on the site this month. Truth is that the MangaCast has been all over the place. I was in New York… TWICE!! Jack was partying in Vegas. I can’t even talk about what Eva has been up to with the Eisners. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume 305 ~ Hikaru no Go & My Dearest Devil Princess Wanted to post this first thing in the morning but I didn’t realize how much time these took to get together. Either I am getting old or podcasting is a slow process. Hikaru would possibly say I am too old for this. Though if I had a devil in a box I’d wish for faster [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #304 ~ Hanami and Yagyu Ninja Scrolls You cannot spell MangaCast without MM4MM. So after a short break with josei, shounen and shoujo, we go back to our roots and dig into the seinen. Ninjas, samurai and taekwondo… Ah yeah its good to be manly!! ??? #1 by: ??????? Yagyu Ninja Scrolls #1 by: Segawa Masaki Kodansha/Del Rey/seinen/action - Rated 18+ - $13.99 As I told my sempai [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #303 ~ Walkin� Butterfly and 10, 20, 30 Josei manga is slowly creeping into the manga conscious. So I thought it was about time to devote another podcast to manga for women. Let the MM4MM fans feast on leftovers for another day or two, we are talking ladies manga from Korea and Japan this volume! 10?20???30 by: ??? 10, 20, and 30 #1 by: Kang MoRim NETCOMICS/josei/slice of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Yaoi Press @ YaoiCon 2007 (Audio UP!) Mornings at YaoiCon… No offense but for an 18+ event I wonder why the publisher programming starts so early. With auctions, contests and parties going on late into the evening some people can’t get up by noon let alone 10:00am! I’d like to have a few of these around 5:00 or 6:00p on Saturday and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #302 ~ Love Com and Yotsuba&! I cannot remember the last time we had three review podcasts in one week. Feels like the good old days. And after reading these two great comedies I feel like wrapping up at least two more by the end of the week (sorry Erin). In all seriousness, these are two strong comedies and they are [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #301 ~ Presents and Coyote Ragtime Show plus a Preview of Slam Dunk and the Origin of Naruto Jack took the MangaCast to our next century of audio and I will try to guide you through most of it. The next 100 start off with some horror and some space pirate action. Not sure which is more frightening (especially since my review of Coyote Ragtime Show wasn’t very positive). I’ll let you be [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Takanaga Hinako @ YaoiCon 07 I have noticed one difference between niche and mainstream is name recognition. In mainstream manga people know titles and artists are not quite as relevant. Among the niche artists are recognized more.� Getting the attention of that base of fans is more important when selling certain genres. Takanaga Hinako is a mangaka who has earned [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | WHOOOHOO!!! Episode #300 ~ Yagyu Ninja Scrolls, EMMA and the Last Uniform When the MangaCast launched back in 2005 I didn’t really imagine that it would have survived long enough to reach 300 episodes. Truth be told there have been almost 400 podcasts on this blog over the last 28 months but the original MC, manga reviews, where Jack, Jarred and I have regularly put our [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | My Fellow Otaku, I Give You: I, Otaku Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | This Week in Manga with Jack Tse #1 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #298 ~ Kurohime & Undertown I don't know if you have noticed this but I don't review shounen much here. Outside of the occasional IWJ! and Kekkaishi review, I tend to almost specialize in seinen. Sorry about that... Today we look at two shounen titles. And they come from two sides of the Pacific ocean. One is a western and one is a fantasy-adventure. Guess which is from Japan and which is from North America... ?????? by: ???????? Kurohime #1 by: Katakura Masanori Rated: 16+ Price: $7.99 Viz/Shueisha/Shounen/act ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #297 ~ Banya and King of Cards Another Korean title tonight and a shoujo trading card game manga from a BL mangaka... Enough said listen to the podcast. I will be in the corner crying after my Bears lost! T-T (There goes the New Orleans trip... I am still praying for Roses though) ????? ????#2 by: ??? Banya the Explosive Delivery Man #2 by: Kim YoungOh Rated: 16+ Price: $12.99 Dark Horse/Haskan Pub/Shounen/action Fast, Precise, and Secure! The delivery man's motto should be everyone's motto. To Banya it is his livel ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #296 ~ Black God & Tanpenshu We have our first of three Yen Press reviews tonight and this one is a good one. Black God is shaping to be a solid title, particularly for shounen action fans (not smart enough for the seinen readers that SquEn marketed this to but I am sure that doesn't matter to most readers). Tanpenshu on the other hand is straight from the SEINEN UP file. A handful of tightly written and cleanly drawn short manga from a manga genius. To me this is the best short series of 2007. Nothing else comes clo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #295 ~ MPD Psycho #1 and MAIL #3 As I go through the Side Dishes I recorded in Osaka and Tokyo, I found a mangacast I recorded while in Nippon. Yeah, I completely forgot about this Dark Horse cast. Maybe it was the heat. Maybe it was the thriller/horror themes the two titles are associated with. Either way something wanted me to suppress all memories of... ????????? (?) by: ?? ?? & ?? ?? MPD Psycho #1 by: Tajima Shou & Otsuka Eiji Rated: 18+ Price: $10.99 Kadokawa/Dark Horse/Shounen/mystery Professional profiler Ko ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Side Dish #36 ~ Futomaki: Comic Valkyrie The world of eromanga has changed quite a bit in the last 4-5 years or so. There was a time when most of these pubs specialized in eromanga, adult magazines for men and tabloid mags. Very few of them really tried to expand outside of that adult male market. And the ones that did might have had come from a more mainstream business in the past. Now eromanga is in a strange state. Pubs are shutting down. Magazines are discontinued. Or that is what you see mentioned on blogs. What you don't h ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Maki Side Dish #35 ~ CoreMagazine's BangaIchi (18+) More ero Side Dishes to enjoy. This time I take a look at CoreMagazine's BangaIchi. This mag is slick. Amazing art from start to finish. Maybe thats why it is called "Ban ga Ichi"? But looking at this mag a little closer it might be called "banger ichi" because most of the girls in this mag are in the bishojo age range. Kinda funny how HiyoHiyo's covers don't really express that but then again CoreMagazine is one of the more respected ero-pubs out there. I mean they have a BL line and pub ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #294 ~ Spirit of Capitalism (18+) Geh... My college football related impulses basically ruined my weekend and eros week. I apologize to the three of you old enough to read adult manga. So for those of you who are here for the ero-mangacasts set your calendars to Sept 27 and go run out to buy a copy of the Tuna Empire's latest. This is must buy ero!! ??????? by: ????? the Spirit of Capitalism by: Tuna Empire Rated: 18+ Price: $19.99 Akaneshinsha/Icarus/ero-manga/OL If manga and anime have taught me anything it has to ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #291 ~ Venus Versus Virus, Samurai Commando Posting from an Akihabara manga-kissa and I have to agree with most people`s opinions about these... I could in theory live in one of these. The rent is a little high but then again I don`t have to pay utilities and most soft drinks are free. Hmmm. My little cubicle even has a safe. I could keep a change of clothes there or in a locker by the subway station. As I debate whether to move the office to Soto-Kanda or not, Jack is preparing for the worst by ramping up his review output. This t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Maki Side Dish #33 ~ Young Comic Magazine (18+) Ero Manga doesn't get the love it deserves in the States. In Japan even major pubs release the stuff. The peeps who bring you Pilgrim Jager, Hellsing and Trigun also release ero manga. And they have some of the best artists in the business drawing for them - Ero manga and mainstream alike. Sadly I don't know why american pubs haven't released their eros before. I imagine there is some secret code or something that is maintaining people's images or something. But I would love to see Hatsuki ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Maki Side Dish #32 ~ Comic Gumbo Manga magazines are not selling as well as they used to. Peeps can get their manga and novel mags online or on their cells, so printed phonebooks are no longer convenient. New publisher Digima is trying to give people cheap... err actually free manga in exchange for convenience. And they are getting attention. Their titles can now be read for free online (like Flex Comix... actually both are on the Yahoo Comics site). And more and more established artists are joining the fold. What I di ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #289 ~ Alive and le Chevalier d'Eon So Jack kinda thought the transvestite angle was a little too much in his review of d'Eon. Will I be critical of the wig, goth attire and sudden boobage or will I enjoy the strange twist on Rococco poetry. And Alive is my vote for the best new shounen title of the year. Strong start and great pick up for Del Rey. ?????? (1) by: ?? ? & ?? ??? le Chevalier d'Eon #1 by: Ubokata Tou/Yumeji Kiriko Rated: 16+ Price: $10.99 Kodansha/Shounen/action Back in the days of Louis XV France had its p ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | MangaBlogCast #41 Countdown Countdown to Otakon... Countdown to SDCC... Countdown to the Kodansha version of MegaTokyo... Countdown to the next Tezuka Awards... There was a lot of counting over at the MangaBlog lately. With so many events happening over the course of the summer keeping track of them all is not very easy but Brigid has been keeping track of most of the press releases and previews blogs like this one have been posting over the last week or so. One thing I am counting on is the release of Me ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | MangaCast Vol #288 ~ Kitchen Princess, Le Chevalier d'Eon and My Heavenly Hockey Club Reviews return and Jack is going to start us off with the first of two days of Del Rey. Funny thing here is that we will also be looking at that second title... CROSSFIRE review style!?!? Maybe, maybe not. But I have to say, Jarred was right transvestites make good manga characters. ?????? (1) by: ?? ? & ?? ??? le Chevalier d'Eon #1 by: Ubokata Tou/Yumeji Kiriko Rated: 16+ Price: $10.99 Kodansha/Shounen/action Back in the days of Louis XV France had its problems. There were wars in Eu ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | MangaBlogCast #40 After the AX AX was only 10 days ago and news from the event is still trickling through the mangasphere. Gantz, .hack//XXXX, Naruto Novel 2... were just three of the many titles announced at the SoCal anime party. But along with all the new title news came some controversy and commentary. Dark Horse announced 9 new licenses at the con but also revealed that they have cancelled a title, put another on hiatus and delays for manga from prime time artists Fujishima Kousuke and Masamune Shirow ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | MangaBlogCast #38 Revenge of the Wotaku You don't need the MangaBlog to tell you that Japanese readership of Weekly Shounen Jump magazine is split almost 50/50 between women and teenage boys. Take a look at a Princess Side ranking and there will usually be at least a couple REBORN! parodies, some Bleach! parodies and the occasional Death Note title tossed in their for angst reasons. Women seem to gobble up manga with cute righteous young men and they have ever since Sakuragi Hanamichi (Slam Dunk) and Seiya ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | MangaBlogCast #37 To celebrate their first year anniversary the MBC took the last week off but they return with the latest rumblings and ramblings from the MangaSphere. Manga on your PC has been coming for what seems like years now. I cannot count how many panels I have seen dedicated to this. And yet there really is so little of it out there in the west. NETCOMICS has been doing this since day one and now they have teamed up with Yaoi Press to give American Fujoshi more ways to read BL. ConSeason is here. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Side Dish #31 ~ Touring Tezuka Back on the 31st of last month, Jack and I got an opportunity to join the "real media" in a walk-through of the Marvel of Manga exhibit at the San Francisco Asian Art Museum. The small exhibit of works from the father of manga tries to present two sides of Tezuka Osamu - his accessible side consisting of mainly shounen titles which were at some point animated and his mature side where gekiga titles like Vertical's Buddha, Kirihito and MW were on display. The tour was lead by the exhibit's ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | MangaBlogCast #36 Stop the Presses First I want to apologize for not posting this sooner. Lost in transit is my excuse but the truth is... I was on a tour of the NorthEast, MidWest and upon returning to my time zone of origin I essentially took a nap for two days. Julie and the crew have kept the place in order but you haven't had a podcast in more than a week. GOMEN! A few good ones are coming so stay tuned... Now to business... Is it me but does the mangasphere only seem to really wake up when there is s ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Maki Side Dish #30 ~ A Manga Party with Inui Sekihiko Back from San Jose in one piece but I will admit there were some dicey moments at that long 4.5 day long con. Eleven years of Fanime and there was no doubt in my mind that Fanime is clearly the biggest anime con in Northern California. The reasons were clear from the moment I got there - experienced organizers, good location, great guests, great range of programming and lots of ravenous glomp crazy fans!! Yeah the there are drawbacks to a fan event run by fans (even Comiket has its moments) ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Maki Side Dish #29 ~ Jason Thompson and his Manga About to embark on a long long bike ride to a con in San Jose in a bit. Couldn't be helped really as I don't drive. Should be interesting. Got an interview set for later today and there will be panels to record over the weekend. Stay tuned for that. Jason Thompson took a trip recently. Actually the freelance editor and man behind Manga: the Complete Guide I believe is still in North Africa taking in the sights after working on his huge manga encyclopedia. I got to sit down with Jason a fe ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #285 ~ Galaxy Angel II & Disgaea 2 Focusing on the pubs that will be present at Fanime this weekend. So we will kick this week off with two new books from BroBooks... Oh and expect GA II 2 to be available in San Jose this weekend! ???????????3rd (2) by: ??? Galaxy Angel II # by: Kanan Rated: 13+ Price: $9.99 Flex Comics/Shounen/sci-fi comedy More Rune Angels come into the fold. However they are not all met with open arms. One of them is very apprehensive about this ordeal. She does not trust the Angels. And then there's ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | MangaBlogCast #35 Throw the Book at'em Jack and the MangaBlog crew have debated issues like scanlations in the past. So how do they feel about people scanning manga before its even published in a magazine? And where would they rate Shojo Beat amongst the most etchi kids manga magazines (or is SB too mature for kids to read)? This week Brigid and Jack throw the book at them all. ShoComi showing to much T&A... Best be improving sales or else! Scanners giving the manga industry a hit... The cops are on thei ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #284 ~ Shakugan no Shana & Crimson Hero More manga from Viz to review... Hey, they release a lot of manga! Today we look at some SAMA in the form of volleyball manga and then there is a bishojo title from MediaWorks. Either way fanservice for me... Moe?? ?????? (1) by: ???? & ????? Shakugan no Shana #1 by: Sasakura Ayato & Takahashi Yashichiro Rated: 16+ Price: $9.99 MediaWorks/Seinen/action Long hair, sailor suit, fiery red eyes and a big big sword... That's Shana in a nutshell. As you might imagine she is also a girl that ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | MangaBlogCast #34 The Next Tezuka?? Don't know why but everyone is talking Tezuka now. Pretty sure its some scheme thought up by Vertical or Kodansha but everywhere I go while surfing the mangasphere I see "Osamu this" and "Tezuka that." Out here in my part of the world, art from Godfather of Manga will be on display at the San Francisco Asian Art Museum. Called the Marvel of Manga the exhibition curated by Philip Brophy features more than 200 works from the manga master. Themes covered in the exhibit repre ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #283 ~ Apothecarius Argentum & Oyayubihime Infinity For a MM4MM site like the MangaCast you would think reviewing CMX properties would be a chore for us. Contrary to popular belief even if a majority of CMX titles might be categorized as shoujo in Japan, they really have some decent cross-over appeal. So yeah, the Manly Men of the MangaCast do read shoujo, we just tend to go looking for a specific kind of shoujo is all. ??????? (1) by: ???? Apothecarius Argentum #1 by: Yamashita Tomomi Rated: 13+ Price: $9.99 Akita Shoten/Shoujo/fanats ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Side Dish #28 ~ Manga Action There was a time when a publisher like Futabasha could have made a huge impact on the US market. Back when manga was mainly seinen and shounen, the salaryman dramas and ero tinged action titles of this magazine would have been goobled up by comic readers looking for something in the vein of Lupin III or Crayon Shinchan. Over the last 20+ years, a handful of Futabasha titles have made it over; each of them proudly representing the adult nature of that publisher's magazines and the quirky hum ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | MangaBlogCast #33 Something to Cheer About In a week where Viz news was practically a daily affair, the MangaBlogCast was able to rustle up a handful of non-Naruto info to share with you. Lucky you, because if it were up to me, I would have would have possibly turned this episode into a tribute show for two MangaCast influences who celebrated this past weekend - Willie Mays and Satsuki Yamashita. Plenty to celebrate though, especially with the return of Parasyte. Migi's new translation and right to left ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #282 ~ Golgo 13 & Neon Genesis Evangelion I didn't realize this until I was in the middle of this podcast but I accidentally made a CG Horn episode with two of his Viz titles. G13 might be the manliest title CG Horn has worked on and the other might be his most mainstream. Each is excellent and are good examples of the quality of Viz title outside of their SJ and SB imprints. ???13 (8) by: ???????? Golgo 13 #8 by: Saito Takawo Rated: 18+ Price: $9.99 LEED/Seinen/action What sets Golgo, aka Duke Togo, apart from every other hitm ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | MangaCurrynoMaki #12 ~ Instant Manga Curry Edition Manga Curry no MakiVolume #11 - March 31, 2007Instant Curry Edition</tr>Track (Starts):**Note: This was recorded in a pair of sessions over the last few weeks. So some of the topics covered might be a little dated. Oh and this is also Part One of this recording. Expect Part Dos this time next week. **Intro: (0:35) (music from the Live action version of With the Light - Mangekyo no KiraKira by RYTHEM)Libre-BiBLOS (05:00)Welcome Again to Aurora Pub (18:00)Walking with and Talking to t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #281 ~ Make 5 Wishes, Free Collars Kingdom, GachaGacha: Next Revolution Jack returns with a handful of new Del Rey manga reviews. And this time he has a special treat for you MangaCast readers... Yes readers! Included with this podcast is a written review of Avril Lavigne's Make 5 Wishes with exclusive photo from Jack's photo shoot with the superstar! (Oh and mp3 version of the podcast will be up later tonight after I screen Paprika at the SFIFF50) Make 5 Wishes by: Camilla D'Errico and Joshua Dysart Rated: 13+ Price: $13.99 Shoujo/horror I have a problem wi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Manga Draft: KING of EDITORS The Manga Draft returns with our first audio draft. Funny thing this was recorded a week or so before the first ManDora so the content might be in a slightly different format from Jarred set up in his written Drafts. This installment takes a look at a series that title that might be completely new to the majority of manga readers. To manga editors and publishers however, this is a manga that is near and dear to their hearts. Actually you could say this should be considered a manga editor' ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | MangaBlogCast #31 With a Slimy Vengeance After taking a well deserved week off, the MangaBlogCast returns demanding your attention! Yeah, I think you will agree that last week was a slow manga news week, so this episode is light on topics but still filled with value and relevance. Didn't get enough Eisner nominee commentary? Jack can tell you why he was disappointed with the peeps from the SDCC. Fed up with CLAMP's cutesy shoujo/shounen styles and what something edgy? Mr. Tse gives CLAMP some much needed ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #280 ~ Category: Freaks&JUNK We had some PR from DrM announcing the future for this pub; today, I share with you some reviews covering their present. Two decent action titles from DrMaster. Each one drawn beautifully with heavy inks and very clean characters designs.One is a mashup of horror, fanservice and mystery, while the other is a Japanese take on a superhero comic... Sometimes I feel only mid-range pubs like DrM or CMX can pull off releasing titles like this.????:????? (3)by: ?????Category: Freaks #3by: Gokuraku ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #279 ~ Paintings of You & Only Words How do we follow up an all eromanga podcast here at the MangaCast? How about an all OEL BL podcast? Mens Love, Global Boys Love, whatever you want to call it? Iris' first two graphic novels (they have released some prose and an anthology collection) show off how different boys love books can be. Obvious differences in art style, but there is some range to subject matter and how they approach those manly relationships. Paintings of You by: Chris Delk & Mia Palluzi Rated: 13+ Price: $12. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #278 ~ Taboo District & Pink Sniper Took 278 volumes of the ManCasu but we have finally done it.. An all eromanga episode. Two 18+ titles from two western eromanga publishers and guess what the are both good. Hope this isn't the first and last. Keep them coming Simon and Toren, we need more of this stuff. PINKSNIPER by: ????? Pink Sniper by: Yonekura Kengo Rated: 18+ Price: $18.99 Eros Comix/eromanga/sci-fi comedy Dr. Sakurai's office is the last place you want be in if you at attend a certain high school. Not beca ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | MangaBlogCast #30 Mature Manga for a Maturing Readership The MangaCast is all about the MM4MM. Seinen, eromanga, BL we love the manly manga. Knowing that mature manga for mature women is coming has got us excited (even if some of the staff will not be reading much of it). But last week news was not exclusive to josei and BL. All in One's are coming, plenty more Claymore to enjoy (in the States and abroad) and soon there will be some MM4MM movies to be enjoyed on the big screen!! The MangaBlog has matured a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #277 ~ Galaxy Angel II & Murder Princess Pretty easy for me to review BroBooks titles because well... I have long been a fan of Broccoli properties. That said this set of books posed some challenges. I might have hit my lifetime GA quota (not enough Forte can do that) and Murder Princess is not a Bro original so I had no clue what to expect in terms of fanservice and comedy... ??????????? 3rd (1) by: ??? Galaxy Angel II #1 by: Kanan Rated: 13+ Price: $9.99 BroBooks/shounen/sci-fi comedy The Angel Troupe has disbanded and a n ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | MangaBlogCast #25 All about the GN, baby!MangaBlog took a break last week, but the crew was not in the Bahamas or the Mexican Riviera. Brigid was out in the NYC getting the scoop on the latest developments in the manga business from ground-zero. When Brigid was not hitting the various panels with lappy and pen, she was interviewing editors and artists on the floor.Strangely enough much of the news in this week's MBC actually did not come from NYCC at all. While there is some insight about the ICv2 panel and ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOKYOPOP @ NYCC (audio up) TP got lots of love at NYCC. If you listened to the audio from the ICv2 panel, the company was basically praised as the reason why graphic novels have turned into the only growing sector of the publishing market. What TP did back when the revolution launched changed publishing and literally made NYCC what it is today. You want to argue with me over that... bring it I have to say TP is getting some love from me now also. I thought 2006 was pretty low-key for the Revolution. Some experiments ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Viz Media @ NYCC 07 (audio now up) Finally we move on to the industry panels. Easy to start with Viz because well the Big V is king of la manga. Naruto alone makes up for high single digit market share in 2006. You cannot say that about any other GN property out there. Viz is more than just the source of all SJ and SB, but they have a few other titles in their catalog you ought to take note of. That said, Viz looked back at their classics and repackaged them in their newest imprint for some reason. Yet during the Q&A segme ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ICv2 @ NYCC 07 ~ Buyers Panel If there were $360,000,000 worth of GNs sold in 2006 then there must have been a ton... no a TONNE of buyers out there. Match the names with the voices as ICv2 sits down with buyers from Diamond, Scholastic, B&N and Baker & Taylor to discuss what they are buying. Psst... Its BOYS LOVE! Yes all of them... Well not Scholastic but the rest are. Thursday Feb 22 ICv2 Graphic Novel Conference ***Industry Only*** 16:00~16:50 Buyers Panel -- Graphic Novels, the Next Three Years A panel of key ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ICv2 Panel - the White Paper (with Audio!!) As the members of Bloggers' Row know the only reason to go to NYCC was to show up for the stats and blue drinks at the ICv2 panel. Milton Griepp shared an hours worth of data and analysis of graphic novel sales for 2006. An hour was not enough when you consider the industry was $360,000,000 last year (most people have $330,000,000 but Milton later added $30mil from Scholastic Book Fair Sales). And how much of that was manga you ask? A LOT!! You want to know how much? Listen to the podcast ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | MangaBlogCast #24 Manga Represent!! Happy Prez Day from the MangaBlogCast. Later this week Brigid will be heading down to the Big Apple to represent the Mangasphere at NYCC. Make sure to check out her reports on that. But before she leaves, the MangaBlog has another 10+ minutes of news and commentary for your earbuds. This time they take a look at a couple of publishers. RealBuzz made some noise this last week with their Christian global manga. Hey, someone has to make manga for this market right? Del Rey ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #273: Nodame, Kitchen Hime and School Rumble This was going to be a Valentine but it ended up becoming a Del Rey episode. I guess in a round about way Del Rey can equal love. I really do feel the love when I read titles like Nodame and ES. Big bad-ass Basilisk is definitely love. But can I say the same about Kitchen Princess??????????? (8)by: ??? ??Nodame Cantabile #8by: Ninomiya TomokoRated: 16+Price: $10.99Del Rey/josei/romance-comedyI want to ROCK!! ROCK!!!I want to ROLL!! ROCK!!! I want tooo ROCK!None of that here but there is ple ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #272 ~ Densha Otoko, Samurai Executioner, Yubisaki Milk Tea Hmmm, I wasn't thinking about this but somehow this episode turned into a valentines episode with three male romances... Hmm read the books and you'll get my point.??????????????? (3)by: ???Densha Otoko #3by: Watanabe WataruRated: 16+Price $9.99CMX/shounen/romance-comedyOtaku romance is not your every day love story. An otaku could seriously be satisfied with the complete collection of DC PVE Super-Heroines. That would be enough for hot tears of sh... LOVE!In Densha Otoko we get to experien ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | MangaBlogCast #23 NaniNani Mania, WHATI have been trying for so long to make Jack a Maniac. Everytime I pushed, I felt I took him too far. Like the main character from NHK, he gets too deep into each element of fandom. A few months back I tried to get Jack into Japanese games and he suddenly became a sudoku fan. He tested out the world of ero-manga and then he started to talk about bishoujo like a professional lolicon. Now he is podcasting about doujinshi and yuri while debating the shojo/yaoi elements in Ba ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Side Dish #027 ~ Comptiq Ace (futomaki) Back in the early 90's when I was starting to get into anime I began reading a lot of Kadokawa Shoten manga. In the 90's Kadokawa Shoten with its Dragon Jr, Shonen Ace and Dragon Mag were good sources of manga. Many of their titles were in some way connected to a number of fantasy and sci-fi titles that aired during that era. Vs Knight, HyperPolice, Tenchi Muyo, Lodoss Wars, Slayers and eventually Evangelion were staples of my diet back then. Providing me with plenty of sources for me to sp ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #271 ~ Her Majesty's Dog, Junjo Romantica and High School Girls In between moaning about press releases and typing up report cards, I unbelievably had time to read some manga over the weekend. And shock it was not in a magazine!! Three titles from 2006 this time and this time they are not from iPubs. ????? (5) by: ???? Her Majesty's Dog #5 by: Takeuchi Mick Rated: 16+ Price $109.99 Go!Comi/shoujo/fantasy-drama By now you all know that words are very powerful. They have the ability to change lives. So in this latest volume of Her Majesty's Dog a cou ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | MangaBlogCast #22 the Shot Heard Round the MangaSphere!! Is it me or is winter always this hot for manga controversy? Last year at NYCC we had anime producers talking smack about manga while sitting next to manga industry reps. This year a manga publisher essentially declares war on manga fans everywhere! It's easy to get defensive about what you love but personally I felt this latest episode of ame-comi vs manga turned out becoming quite educational. Definitely opened my eyes to how much manga bloggers out ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #267 ~ MangaCasts' Top 10s of 2006 Happpyyyy New Year!!! Just a month late. But at least we beat the Lunar New Year. Actually in North America the Manga New Year isn't until NYCC so I think we are in good shape ^_^Last year around the half-way point of the Manga Calender MangaCaster Jack Tse approached me with an idea. He wanted to take the reigns and close out 2006 by taking on what I consider one of the highlights of my job - the annual top ten list. Knowing Jack I knew he'd give you listeners an energy-filled action packe ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #270 - MAIL, NHK and Gertrude In between moaning about press releases and typing up report cards, I unbelievably had time to read some manga over the weekend. And shock it was not in a magazine!! Three titles from 2006 this time and this time they are not from iPubs.???????????2?by: ???Recipe for Gertrude #2by:Rated: 3+Price $9.99CMX/shoujo/fantasy-dramaThe recipe has been found but it was hidden on the most unlikely of places. What was the reasoning behind this and how will Sahara and Gertrude get to it? All roads poin ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #269: Blood Alone, Council of Carnality, Unbalance X2 So much manga piling up everywhere!! I am feeling a little overwhelmed. So I decided to play manga darts to figure out where to start. Dart #1 landed on section I. So today the "I" are it... Icarus and Infinity.BLOOD ALONE???by: ????Blood Alone #2by: Takano MasayukiRated: 13+Price $9.99Infinity/seinen/dramaYour average vampire manga revolves around cool looking bad-asses and their emo prey. Blood Alone is a vampire drama. You never see the vamp hunting innocent damsels down in this manga. I ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #268: To Terra... Ahh classic manga = so much love. I could easily do a whole week of podcasts dedicated to the stuff but instead I will treat you to 18mins or so of To Terra.... And honestly if you are a fan of classic manga, like me, reading To Terra... is like revisiting a handful of classic manga. In a way it gave me a chance to think about the titles this series has influenced and it reminded me of the artists that Takemiya was influenced by as well. ???� by: ?? ?? To Terra... by: Takemiya Keiko Rat ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Maki Side Dish #25: Comic Sylph (FutoMaki) Podviews and Side Dishes; rinse and repeat until I can get myself record a regular GN review again. Not that I can't (at least I think I still can). I am just starting to really like looking at this mountain of manga by my desk. Reminds me of the Sunshine Bldg in Ikebukuro... Shiwase!!Speaking of Ikebukuro and while stumbling there on New Year's Day, I got my hands on the newest magazine from bishojo and video game spin-off manga publisher MediaWorks. This one is nothing like the AzuDai's, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Maki Side Dish #23 ~ Houbunsha's Weekly Manga Times (FutoMaki) The ComiFoot has not fully healed but I am already up hitting the mean streets of Kansai for eats and competition on SFIII:3rdA. And as the year is still young the hours are not yet normal in many places, which lead to some time to record a FutoMaki in the middle of a shopping arcade.Seinen manga about cooking, enka and new years prayer all shared with a musak background provided by the association behind a certain magical shopping arcade that isn't that magical.This week we look at:Houbuns ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | FuyuComi 2006 ~ Day 2 or Fuuuujoshi wars!!! Got there darn early on Saturday to go shopping for a few of you. I get two requests for hentai but 6 for BL.... I hope you all know I love you after this. Got there early enough to be right near the bottom of the steps to the bridge. And I only needed to get there at 6:00am!! Fortunately there was nikuman and hot cocoa to be had at the conbini near the station. There was a great time had in the cold but seriously today was not a day for me. Today was a one of the...Day Two... Fujoshi WarsS ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Con Alert! ~ Comiket 71 Very uncool of me not to do a Con Alert a day early. Even worse is how I am now doing one a day late. But as a few of you know I got up pretty early... Not as early as promised, but early, to get into line hell. It was a cold exhilarating experience to say the least. Fortunately, I was prepared. Had me my maps with me. I had a pocket heat warmer and some cocoa to warm the body. Tunes to warm the soul and long socks to keep the blood lust warm before the hunt.Took a couple picks of the crazy ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Maki Side Dish #24 - Doujin Walker&Young Animal (FutoMaki) Okay still running a couple days late, but I blame not mastering time travel and the Comiket blisters on my feet.Got to do a FutoMaki a couple days back in our old Tokyo studio... The Akiba UDX. While hanging out in front of the train stating I took a look at a magazine a couple MangaCast-ers want to simply port over to English. Yeah all of it from the DMC Official Special Edition CD Jacket to the Berserk ads at the end of the book.This week we look at:Hakusensha'sYoung Animal01? 2007300Y/3 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Maki Side Dish #22 - AkibaWalker/Catalog Hunter If this doesn't work email me. I have access on my cell and PSP... kinda.But as I am riding the monorail thingy to Ariake here goes a simple version of a MakiSide Dish. An AkibaWalker version running around looking for a Comiket catalog and a little complaining on Tuedsay. Check out my japanese skilz as I order onigiri by the Don Quixote! TsunaMayo anyone?!!Listen to Side Dish Here:As always, be aware that the review might contain spoilers.Subscribe to the MangaCast atemail at mangacast@gma ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | MangaBlogCast #20 I go on my own Way, the Name is Maniac/Otome Road! A lot of shojo talk around the mangasphere as of late. Got to say I have not been on top of this because I have been in ota-mode instead of working it fujo-kei. But over at the MangaBlog Brigid and Jack were all over it this in this episode. Now I have to warn you they are covering different topics; ranting and raving from different sides of the spectrum. Maybe the MangaCast is rubbing off on them... Maybe it is about time for a holiday br ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #265 - Let's Be Perverts, Banya and YoDong's Vampire A day late sorry. But I got some audio reviews for you. This time we take a look at some manhwa. But not the manhwa you get from ICE Kunion or even DramaQueen. These are the seinen titles. The titles from Seoul Cultural Productions and others that have a different style and attitude from the Daiwon CI and Sigongsa titles we have seen dominate the manhwa sector. These are the type of title that some of us old skool manhwa readers remember from the early days when Korean comics started coming ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #264 - Kasimasi, Tenshi ja Nai!! & GA BETA and a Contest Ranma ended a few weeks back but that doesn't mean we are short for gender-benders. Three titles covering boys-now-girls, boys dressing like girls and the girls that love them and girls acting like guys to protect the nation that love them! Lots of love in gender-benders... Maybe Tom Hanks and Takahashi Rumiko were onto something... ???? ???????????????? by: ???????/???? Kasimasi #1 by: Akahori Satoru/Katsura Yukimaru Rated: 16+ Price $10.99 Seven Seas/seinen Boy gets rejected by fi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | SAMAcast 26th Inning - Angel Cup, Hikaru no Go and Slam Dunk Its always SAMA season... Sometimes we forget that here at the MangaCast. But today we continue to play extra innings with three more sports manga. Get your towels ready and don't forget your cheers between swigs of beer and spoonfuls of Koshien Curry; we got another inning to play! ??? (2) by???? Angel Cup #2 by: Youn JaeHo Rated: 13+ Price $9.99 TOKYOPOP/shojo/Soccer When I think of soccer manga, Captain Tsubasa and Whistle! come to mind. But you see those titles are shonen. There ha ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #263 - Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service, Golgo 13&Masquerade Got a lot of manga over the weekend and with so many of them being of the seinen persuasion I thought I might as well knock them out quickly. So I go back to what we do best here at the MangaCast with some of that other manly manga. You know the stuff men actually read.??????? (1)by: ????/????Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service #1by: Otsuka Eiji/Yamazaki HousuiRated: 18+Price $10.99Dark Horse/seinenYou there was a time where going to college basically guaranteed a job for people. You go to cer ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #258 - Berserk, Nodame and 0/6 Cough, cough! Oh god the voice box was almost rust shut, but I somehow got it to work after a long, long break. Yeah, I am sure many of you might not have minded the break. It was possibly refreshing not having me in your iTunes everyday. ^_^ Unfortunately, the holiday is over! The MangaCast is back on its original schedule and I have a heap of my own to get through over the next few weeks. We turn to mature manga again tonight. what's new right?! A little method to the madness though. We ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | YaoiCon 6 - Jun� Wow it took us more than two weeks to get through it all but YaoiCon coverage has finally come to an end. Our last .mp3 is the Jun� panel that took place on Sunday Oct 22. Jun� was my big winner at this years YaoiCon. Queens of the Party... I don't know if that works. But you don't have to look at the number of titles they announced to figure out that this pub was everywhere at all times at this con. They brought in a great guest in Kawai Touko. The mangaka had a reasonably well attended ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | MangaCurrynoMaki #11 - Kai Phenen Edition Manga Curry no MakiVolume #11 - November 2nd, 2006Kai Phenan EditionTrack (Starts):Intro: (01:10)MangaCon-ed - October Con recap. (04:35)Manga CrossField - Densha Otoko (13:00)+++Skype us (Skype ID: Mangamaki) or email us (mangacast@gmail.com) to let us know which version really is the best! CMX, Viz or Del Rey.+++Your Neighborhood Small Pub - Vertical, Broccoli, MediaBlasters, Icarus, DramaQueen, netcomics and their value and influence in the American Manga Market. (28:46)Curry recipe (41 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | YaoiCon 6 - Yaoi Press Have been experiencing abnormal behavior from the LJ over the last day plus. So I had a chance to work on the WP site today. Don't like how things are formatting over there. Really am considering a better solution right now. Augh.Well since things seem to be working here, most likely temporarily, I'll give you some audio from the Yaoi Press panel at YaoiCon. As I noted in the preview for this, I have not been following YP all that much of the past year or so. Many of you know its not the BL ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Maki Side Dish #19: the HEAP (8 titles from the Restroom Pile) Jarred is off conquering those Iron Curtain nations for the next week or so. Wait, wait... Before you all leave me here alone, I have some audio from the Jarhead. In a Maki SideDish Special he calls the Heap, Jarred takes a look at a pile o' manga in a constant stream of komikkusu consciousness. 10 manga in 30ish minutes... that's just unfair guys. And check it... He even provided a POWER rankings for them all for those of you who don't want to listen. You know we have too many volumes ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | YaoiCon 6 - Broccoli Books (partial sorry) & contest!! You might be wondering what Broccoli Books was doing at YaoiCon. Well, Dejiko's minions have been regulars at this con for a couple years now, selling raw BL and other goodies in the Dealers Room. Their library is not really known for BL. Until the Full Moon was called BL Light by some. But at their panel for YaoiCon 6 they revealed that BL properties are coming.... Unfortunately, I was in the Watanabe Asia panel when they announced that. So yeah another botched panel from me. But I do have ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | YaoiCon 6 - Kawai Touko (MangaBio) Here we go! Finally, ready to launch out some more audio from YaoiCon 6. I wanted to just post what I had ready (the shorter panels) first but then I thought about it a bit. Decided I should try to give you the experience the way I went through it. Obviously, you won't get audio from me when I was crawling out of bed at 5:30a on Saturday but audio of my pre-morning orange juice voice at 9:30a is available. The first bit from Day Two has me sit down with DMP and Kawai Touko. You possibly kno ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Manga Recon Show #006 Direct Download: This entry is cross-posted on ninjaconsultant. These reviews are also posted (in text form) on my "Manga Recon" column on Popcultureshock.com Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life, Volumes 1 & 2 by Bryan Lee O'Malley Published by Oni Press Who Would Like This Book: Fans of Love Roma and American indy comics lovers who think that most indy comics are too depressing. Who Would Hate This Book: Hardcore hipster haters - but even then they might like it. Robot: Super ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | MangaNEXT 2006 - Vertical Rolling along with the audio from New Jersey, and Jack chimes in with the Vertical panel. Eddie Stemkowski, Marketing Manager, lead most of the conversation that covered a little bit of Vertical history, some news on their upcoming titles Ode to Kirihito and Terra he... and then went on to their novels. Much love at the Vertical Panel. I only wish I could have seen the images of the Kirihito release!VerticalVertical Inc., an indie publishing house specializing in contemporary Japanese ficti ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #254 - Madtown Hospital, Kamunagara and Tower of the Future One of the things we try to do is look at as many pubs as possible. Yeah, Jack might be very Del Rey friendly and Jarred is a Dark Horse fan, but we try to look at the other pubs now and then. Today we look at some pubs that don't get enough respect. Two because we don't see their books on shelves and the other we might avoid.?????? (1)by: ?? ??Tower of the Future #1by: Hiwatana SakiRated: 13+Price $9.99CMX/shojoTakeru liked writing stories filled with adventure and fantasy. One day when he ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #250: Suzuka #1, D. GrayMan #1 and Qko Chan #1 Jack does shonen like no other.?? by: ?? ??Suzuka #1by: Seo Kouji18+$10.95Del Rey/ShonenLove at first sight? Yeah, it still happens. But Yamato is possibly going to regret ever having such a feeling in his heart. Yamato has fallen for Suzuka. And Suzuka is not about falling. She is solely about flying. As a high jumper she tries to aim for the sky and she cannot be held down by an average good-for-nothing like Yamato. ?????????? (1)by: ?? ?D. Gray-man #1by: Hoshino Katsura13+$7.95Viz/Shonen ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Maki Side Dish #18: FutoMaki Look at Monthly Shonen Champion With all the talk about anthologies recently, I thought I should dust off the phonebooks and give people an example of a MangaCast must buy.... CGH Approved?? I wonder.Akita Shoten is a publisher that seems to be filling up many a publishers libraries lately. This publisher is old school. Look at their titles - Captain Harlock, Black Jack, Crest of the Royal Family, Dokaben, Vampire Princess, Iron Wok Jan. But their recent titles are nothing to laugh at either. Almost all of Go!Comi's title ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #247: Shonan Junai Gumi #1 and WORST #6 YANKIIIIII! REPRESENT!WORST #6by ?????WORST #6by: Takahashi Hiroshi16+410YShonen/Akita Shoten (DMP - on hiatus)The Big War between Suzuran and Housen is over. But now that the town is trying to piece itself back together after a failed coup d'tat the real rats are coming in from everywhere. A couple of young yanki from Osaka make the trip to cause some trouble in the name of their gang. With branches in many regions in Japan, the two feel that this is a prime spot and prime to stake their ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #247 - RavenSkull, Tsukihime #2, Chikyu Misaki #3 Let's look at some fantasy for a change... no one else is.RavenSkull #1by: Christopher Vogel and Elmer Damaso13+$10.95Seven Seas/ShonenWho cares if Robin Hood, King Richard and Ivanhoe were remembered through poetry and prose, on film, TV and in comics. Sir Brian de Bois Guilbert, RavenSkull, has his own manga. Literally pulled from the depths of hell by a woman he thought had scorned him, Sir Brian gets to straddle the lines between life and death with a power that cannot be from this worl ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #244 - Disgaea and Emperor's Castle #1 This time the MangaCast goes deep into the underworld with two titles each covering a different realm of this vast dark side.??????????by: ??????Disgaeaby: Shindo Arashi13+$9.95Broccoli/SeinenGo take a nap for a bit and wake up with your whole world upside down. That is what happened to Prince Laharl in Disgaea.Making matters worse is that now suddenly no one gives him the respect he deserves. Dood, his dad is dead and he is the new KING! Everyone should fear him what's up with the lack of ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Maki Side Dish #017: Manga on Film (aka: my nights in Japan) One thing I always do whenever I go travelling is hit the movie scene. Yeah, why waste time in a movie theater or baseball stadium when I can do that at home? Why not!?!While in Japan I got to see my share of film. Almost all of them Manga on Film!! Well kinda. Some of these are manga in some way. Some will be. But you will notice soon more manga on film will make its way to the States and abroad.Brave StoryDirected by K�ichi ChigiraWriting creditsMiyuki Miyabe (novel)Ichiro Okouchi (screen ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #241: Jazz #2, Crying Freeman #2 and Antique Bakery #4 JAZZ (2)by: ?? ?/?? ?JAZZ #2by: Maeda Sakae & Takamura Tamotsu18+$12.95June/BLNot even moving to America could keep Koichi away from Naoki's obsessive love. Together again, their lives begin to change for the better. Unfortunately, the two still cannot communicate well. Therefore, they struggle to share their love. Not even a trip to the home of JAZZ could stop these guys from hurting each other as they learn how to love.????? ??????(2)by: ?????????Crying Freeman #2by Koike Kazuo/Ikegami Ry ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #240: DeFilippis/Wier & Colingo's Destiny's Hand #1 Destiny's Hand #1by: Nunzio DeFilippis/Christina Weir and Melvin Calingo13+$10.95Seven Seas Living by the sea all my life I can say I feel I can never leave it. In SF, Osaka or Bilbao I have never been more than a mile or two away from the water, which lead to plenty of daydreams about someday hitting the open sea looking for adventure. Olivia Soldanda grew up in a family of shipping merchants. With every time she saw one of her father's ships set sail, she would dream of the adventure that ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #239: Park and Kim's SWEETY #1 ??? (1)by: ??? /???SWEETY #1by: Ju-Ri Kim/Jae-Sung Park13+$9.95Daiwon CI/Infinity StudiosRomance was never easy to come by. Sometimes it might seem like it comes once every 18 years and then all of a sudden it comes in threes. High school senior MyungHo's very own love story is about to kick off with a pair of nightmares. On one side he has his neighbor's 12-year-old daughter JinHae who "just became a woman" and has declared herself MyungHo's lover! The newspapers would love to find out abo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Maki Side Dish #016: A Walk through the Tezuka Osamu Memorial Museum You know when I am in Japan I seriously rarely do much of the tourist thing. Unless I am going to a city I have never been to (most of the far North and Okinawa along with parts of Shikoku fit that bill) I generally just hang around eating and reading. This summer I spent more time eating than anything else but I also made some time to watch some sports. Sounds like what I do on a weekend at home. Well, in a strange way this is exactly that.But there are moments where I dust off the camera, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Maki Side Dish #014: Futomaki look at Shueisha's Cookie So we have done audio from Ikebukuro and Akihabara in Tokyo. Now the MangaCast has gone to its home away from home away from its other home - Osaka. I grew up around here and today I take a look at some shojo manga from in front of the train station I would take regularly to get up to the big city from my burb home in Sakai.Cookie for those of you who don't know is a part of the Ribbon Comics line. Shojo for the more mature shojo out there. NANA and a few other titles have come from this ma ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Maki Side Dish #009 - ComiKet Day 1 Twice a year doujin fans across the world head for the big one. This is the manga mecca. This is where people pass out in line for a book from their favorite circle covering their favorite genre and series. This is where it feels hotter and muggier inside than it does outside and its 30+celsius outdoors and their is air conditioning inside! This is where you can find pokemon doujin's a few aisles away from Batman doujins a few feet away from Kino no Tabi books. This is where there is a whol ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #236: Tsuchiya and Minegishi's OLDBOY #1 ??????? ~?????~ (1)by: ?? ???/?? ??OLDBOY #1by: Tsuchiya Garon & Minegishi Nobuaki18+$12.95Futabasha/Dark HorseOkay, so you have heard my review of this great new title from Dark Horse and Futabasha. Now you will get to hear from Jack Tse as he takes on Oldboy in the second part of the Vengeance Manga Review Trilogy! I wonder when Jarred will chime in?!?!I haven't heard this one yet, so who knows maybe there will be a split in opinions. But never say that the MangaCast was not democratic. W ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Maki Side Dish #008 - FutoMaki look at Fujimi Shobo's Dragon Age Being in Tokyo, I cannot escape the one thing I used to live off when I lived in Osaka as a student... PHONEBOOKS!!! These things are everywhere. Train station kiosks, news stands, convenience stores and obviously book stores have these in bunches. You really cannot walk two blocks without running into one on sale. Their ads are all over the insides of trains. Their billboards are everywhere. There are so many to choose from; ranging from Golf to CoroCoro. So to please the manga gods, I'll ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | MangaBlogCast #7 I am so out of touch!!Being in Tokyo right now, I have to say I seriously feel a close connection to the manga scene. Yeah, I might not be in Nakano or Musashino where most of the stuff goes down (where you could literally run into mangaka like Hojo Tsukasa drinking having steak for dinner), but Akihabara is not a bad place to start. But somehow I feel as if I have no clue what is going on the other side of the pond. To remedy that the MangaBlog has come to my rescue once again. Now I can g ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #235: Air Gear #1 by Oh!Great ????????by? ????Air Gear #1by: Oh!Great16+$10.95Del Rey/KodanshaYou know I always thought roller blading was a hoot. Fast, agile and cool roller blading should not need improvement. However, Oh!Great finds a way to improve this already super-hip super-cool extreme sport. In Air Gear the roller blades can take to the skies. I mean serious air! And the action gets to be even more extreme as teen gangs are involved! I kinda get a Naruto on skates vibe (but that might just be me). One thing to ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | MangaBlogCast #6 Final Score: Comic Con International 1000, San Diego 0San Diego ComicCon was a blast. A blast! At the same time the event I dubbed KingCon has left me wrecked. While Jarred works through the night repairing me and the MangaCast, rebuilding both into indestructable forces that can withstand "Mushishi" style licenses and one-on-one interviews with King of Comedy JTK, we will hand the reigns to the MangaBlog. Jack and Brigid will take you through their magical tour of that annual Southern Cali ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | SDCC 2006 - Henson Company&TOKYOPOP One of the more intriguing panels at SDCC was one that combined the names of two established names inmedia - the Henson Family and TOKYOPOP. The Labyrinth and Dark Crystal panel reveals the secrets behind how these two establishments came together for this project. We got to hear from the people who worked on the manga detailing why they took on these beloved properties. I really wish I could have Video-Blogged this since you all as listeners will miss out on the artwork (which was critical ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #231: Azuma Mayumi's Elemental Gelade #1 ??????????? (1)by: ????Elemental Gelade #1Azuma Mayumi$9.99Rated 13+This fantasy adventure follows young sky pirate Cou as he struggles through his adolecence. Then one day when he meets Ren, his whole life changes. His purpose in life was now thrust upon him. Maybe he did not want to have his life changed like this, but at least now he has somewhere to go and someone to count on.(my apologies for getting the mangaka name wrong a couple times got it mixed up with the next review)Listen to ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #229: Toume Kei's Kurogane #1 ?? (?) by: ?? ?Kurogane #1by: Toume Kei$10.95usRated 16+You know, I don't know much about this title outside of that one of my favorite mangaka Toume Kei (Lament of the Lamb) drew this. And if Toume drew this I am guaranteed that this will be an introspective where loneliness and sense of duty might end up consuming its lead. Knowing that this is also a samurai manga, I am asuming that Toume is also going to give that a new twist as this mangaka often reinvents tired genres. Enough fortune ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #229: Tatsumi Yoshihiro's Infierno Infiernoby: ??????Infernoby: Tatsumi Yoshihiro7.50euRated 18+Another collection of Tatsumi's gekiga shorts that present the dark side of humanity. The depression of men after living the pitiful (often meaningless) life of a salaryman. The desperation of men to fulfill their "needs" for the first time. The frustration of men when they live as the dependent of the one they love. Being a man in Tatsumi's world means being a deviant and nothing is ever going to turn out right. Live with the pai ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #229: Tatsumi Yoshihiro's Infierno Infiernoby: ??????Infernoby: Tatsumi Yoshihiro7.50euRated 18+Another collection of Tatsumi's gekiga shorts that present the dark side of humanity. The depression of men after living the pitiful (often meaningless) life of a salaryman. The desperation of men to fulfill their "needs" for the first time. The frustration of men when they live as the dependent of the one they love. Being a man in Tatsumi's world means being a deviant and nothing is ever going to turn out right. Live with the pai ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #227: Takeuchi Mick's Her Majesty's Dog #2 ????? (2)by: ????Her Majesty's Dog #2by: Takeuchi Mick$10.99usRated 16+A dog and her master have a unique bond. Friends have special relationships as well. Each one is different. And they are all special because of how valuable they are to all those involved. In this volume of Her Majesty's Dog Go!Comi, Amane has to choose between friends and her beliefs. This shojo dark comedy/romance title is being released in Japan by Akita Shoten printed under their Princess Comics imprint.Listen to Rev ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #225: Anne Freaks #2 and Orphen #3 ????????? (2)by: ??? ??Anne Freaks #2by: Kotegawa YuaRated 16+$9.99Anna from Kadokawa Shoten/ADV's Anne Freaks takes teenage rebellion to an extreme. She the leader of a one girl two guy anti-terrorism group that is hell bent on bringing down the cult that destroyed their lives. Her hobbies are guns, bombs and apartment hunting. How many manga titles have characters like that!????????????? (3)by ?? ??/?? ?Orphen #3by: Akita Yoshinobu/Sawada HajimeRated 13+$9.99Anime fans might be familiar w ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #224: Kurata and Yamada's R.O.D, #3 (preview) ????? ? (3)by: ?? ????? ???R.O.D #3by: Kurata Hideyuki/Yamada ShutaroRated 16+$9.99 Viz and Shueisha's R.O.D. is the prequel to the anime OVA and Read or Dream TV series. And it focuses on the background of the British Library Agent known as the Paper. Readers familiar with the animated versions should remember the characters involved, but as we get to see in this volume the circumstances have made them show parts of their personalities that were not touched in the other incarnations. Th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | MangaCurrynoMaki #7: Whitefish in Coconut Milk Curry Edition Manga Curry no MakiVolume #7 - June 25th, 2006Whitefish in Coconut Milk Curry EditionTrack (Starts):Intro: (00:15)Thursday Night... err Sunday Night Quarter Back Manga Faux Pas and How Jarred would Fix them (02:27)June Pull List (20:39)MCMail Bag: (27:40) Winner!!! - Jacob P.SAMA-SamosaWhistle! #13 and the World Cup (35:45)Curry: (41:15).... Whitefish in Coconut Milk Curry3 hot chillies1 tbls cummin2 tbls corriander1 tsp pepper corn1tsp tumeric powder3/4 can coconut milk1 cup water2 cloves ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #220: Yazawa Ai's NANA #2 NANA (2)by: ????NANA #2by: Yazawa AiRated: 16+Price $8.99NANA is more than a story, it is a lifestyle. Fashion, furnitings, music and pop culture all from the mind of Yazawa Ai. Sit back relax and bring your notebook/sketchbook for crafty ideas. Oh and there is a decent plot too. No wonder this is one of the best selling shojo properties of all time.Listen to Review Here: As always, be aware that the review might contain spoilers. These reviews were read by Ed Chavez for the MangaCast.Subsc ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | MangaBlogCast #2 After a successful debut show last week, Jack is back with another wrap up of the week's news provided by Brigid and her MangaBlog. This week they cover Viz, ADV and even get some info from AnimeNext. All the manga-news for the past week you need packed into your iPod or .mp3 player.Download the latest edition of the MangaBlogCast here: . Shownotes will be provided at the MangaBlog. And if you enjoy the show please let them know by sending them email at MangaBlogCast@gmail.com.This program ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #219: Shiozaki Yuuji's Battle Vixens #2 ???? (2)by: ????Battle Vixens #2by: Shiozaki YuujiRated: 16+Price $9.99Ready for a fight? Songoku Hakufu is. Actually if it were up to her she would spend her days fighting, eating and sleeping. She does a bit of that in this volume, in part because she is KO'd pretty early in this volume. Ikkitousen is a solid seinen, fanservice friendly, tournament manga. A little light on plot but definitely a fun read filled with Shiozaki's fun art.Battle Vixens is a story based on the art of Ikkitousen ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #218: JTK's Madtown Hospital #2 and Hotel California ??? ???? (2)by: ???Madtown Hospital #2by: Kim JinTae (JTK)Rated: 13+Price $9.99Ever wondered what ER would have been if it were a parody filled black comedy? What if the survival rate was at around 2%? Well that is what you get in this 4 volume manhwa comedy series originally published by eComix Media. If only the staff at Madtown Hospital were not so dedicated to their community!?? ?? ?????by: ???Hotel Californiaby JTK$14.95Rated 13+Sometimes prison might seem like a long vacation. Sometim ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #216: Clan of the Nakagamis & Empty Heart ??????by: ???????Clang of the Nakagamiby: Homerun KenRated: 16+Price $12.99Love between a student and teacher is not just taboo but it could be a crime. In Clan of the Nakagamis the cast is concerned about authorities finding out their secret. However, they were much more afraid of their crazy families finding out! This cooky BL romance comedy teases readers and its supporting cast with the promise of throw-down passion.This one shot series will be released by Digital Manga on June 28, 2006 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #215: Claymore #2 and Cheeky Angel #4 ???????? (?)by: ?? ??Claymore #1by Yagi NorihiroRated: 16+Price $7.99Claymore has the makings of being a very good action based fantasy title for Viz's Shonen Jump Advance line. Generally light on fantasy, Viz's Claymore follows the life of an outcast. Clare is a Claymore a mercenary physically modified as she is part human part monster. With no one to turn to and the fear of becoming a full monster some day all Claymores can count on are their swords and their strength. This 9 volume seri ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Maki Side Dish #4 - Futo Maki: Monthly IKKI A few years back actuallly around the time when Viz's PULP saw its last printings, Shogakukan decided to expand their seinen line. Already, Shogakukan had one of the better men's lines in the business with the famous Big Comic imprints. Each Big was taylored to a different demographic from college student to salaryman to manga scholar. Their new imprint was very different. This was sophisticated manga from a slightly alternative angle. Mature titles with excellent stories and innovative des ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #214: Fujji Mihona's GALS! #3 GALS! (3)by: ?? ???GALS! #3by: Fujii Mihona$9.95usRated NAGALS! is easily one of the more entertaining titles out there. A shojo title made for shojo readers, this is about gals and what makes them special. Friends, fashion, fun and love are mandatory in a gal's life and as such all these are present in this volume of GALS!GALS! is 10 volumes long and is currently being released by CMX.Listen to Review Here: As always, be aware that the review might contain spoilers. This review was read ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Maki Side Dish #3: Manga & Soccer - A Perfect Game In Japan soccer is now the national sport along with Sumo. Nowadays more stadia are being built there are two men's leagues and the biggest women's league in the world. More and more people are watching soccer every year and as Japan keeps on moving up the world rankings after a Silver Medal in the Sydney Olympics and two consequetive Asian Championships the Japanese people and the Japanese manga scene is living the game. Manga has embrassed soccer for decades now and today in our lastest r ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #209: Anno Moyoco's happy mania #6 ???????? (6)?? ???happy mania #6by: Anno MoyocoPrice: $9.99Rate 18+ happy mania might be considered a tragic tale of love never found. A story about coming to terms with what love means to people as individuals and as couples. It might be that... Or it might be a black comedy about how selfish and naive many of us are when dealing with relationships. In this volume three couples come in and none stay together. Not even the more stable ones survive. Originally published by Shodensha this was ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #207: Four Constables #4 and Angelic Days #1 ???? (4)by: Tony Wong/Andy SetoFour Constables #4by: Tony Wong/Andy SetoPrice: $13.99Rated: 13+This epic kung-fu adventure continues from a new publisher (DrMaster) after an all too long hiatus.Four Constablescombines martial arts fantasy with a ton of drama to create a great caper that is fun and never stale.Full color in a more appealing A5 size book for a relatively affordable $13.99. Kung-fu manhua is back!????????????????????????by: ? ???Angelic Days #1by Hayashi Fumino$9.99usRated 13+ ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Side Dish #2: How would you like your Manga - Paper or Pixel? The debate continues about eManga. Manga is on cell phones in Japan. Its almost exclusively on computer screens in Korea. Will it be on Sony Readers in the US? Or will another vehicle... stone, smoke signals or PDA's. Electronic Manga is here already. In the US netcomics is leading the charge (long after ComicsOne tried and failed miserably).The following are online web comics and iManga services available in Japan for cell or PC:Computers:Comic SEED - FutabashaWeb Comics (including Tezuka ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Maki Side Dish #1 - Futo Maki: Dengeki Daioh Introducing the Magazine FutoMaki!! Weekly reports on Japanese Manga Anthologies. We will look at a different magazine every week. Share some details, talk a bit about the titles in the magazine and what titles we would like to see licensed. This week we look at:MediaWork's??????????6??Monthly Comic Dengeki Daioh Vol #6Every Month on the 21st680YMajor Titles:ToriKoro?*GUNSLINGER GIRL *Yotsuba&! *TsukihimeGunparade OrchestraKashimashi ?Girl?Meets?Girl?BLOOD ALONE?*Hayate BladeMaburabu Unli ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #205: Yellow Tanabe's Kekkaishi #5 ??? (5)by???????Kekkaishi #5by Yellow Tanabe$9.99us/$13.95canRated 13+Kekkaishi is being released in the US by Viz Media and was originally released Japan by Shogakukan. There are 11 volumes currently from their Shonen Sunday Comics imprint.Listen to Review Here: As always, be aware that the review might contain spoilers. This review was read by Jack Tse for the MangaCast.Subscribe to the MangaCast at email at mangacast@gmail.com Next review: Ghost HuntIs Kekkaishi going to be your pick for ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #203: Saijyo Shinji's Iron Wok Jan! #18 ?????? (18)by: ?? ??Iron Wok Jan #14by: Saijyo Shinji$9.95usRated 13+Cooking Battle mangaIron Wok Jan!is being released in North America by DrMaster. Filled with cooking action and cooking recipes this shonen cooking title was originally released in Japan by Akita Shoten under their Shonen Champion Comics imprint. The wideban versions are currently being released by MediaFactory.Listen to Review Here:As always, be aware that the review might contain spoilers.This review was read by Ed Chav ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #202: Lady Snowblood #3 & Samurai Executioner #6 ???? (3)by: ?????/?????Lady Snowblood #3by: Koike Kazuo/Kamimura Kazuo$14.95usRated 18+This grand tale of revenge that crossed two generations has been made into numerous movies under the name Syurayuki Hime. This 4 volume collection is currently being released by Dark Horse and was most recently released by Koike Shoin.???? (6)by: ?????????Samurai Executioner #6by Koike Kazuo/Kojima GosekiRated: 18+Price $9.99Kubikiri Asa (aka: Samurai Executioner) is being released by Dark Horse and is co ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #201: Fujieda Tooru's Oyaybihime Infinity #1 ??????? (1)by: ?????Oyayubihime Infinity #1by: Fujieda Tooru $9.95usRated 13+On the surface this might look like your standard shojo romance, but like the characters in this story you can never judge a book by its cover. Oyayubihime Infinty will launch from CMX on June 28, 2006 and is currently being released being released in Japan by Akita Shoten's Princess Comics line.Listen to Review Here: As always, be aware that the review might contain spoilers. This review was read by Ed Chavez for ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #198: Kurata & Yamada's Read or Die #2 ????? ? (2)by: ?? ????? ???R.O.D #2by: Kurata Hideyuki/Yamada ShutarouRated 16+$9.99 This 4 volume bibliophile crime fighting/creating modern day fantasy series is currently being released in the US by Viz and was originally released by Shueisha. This is the prequel to the anime OVA and Read or Dream TV series. And it focuses on the background of the British Library Agent known as the Paper.Listen to Enhanced Recording Here: As always, be aware that the review might contain spoilers.This ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #196: Iwahara Yuji's Chikyu Misaki #2 ????? (2) by ?? ??Chikyu Misaki #1by Iwahara Yuji$9.99 USRated 13+ Chikyu Misaki was released in the US by CMX and was originally published in Japan by Kadokawa Shoten. There are 3 volumes total in this fantasy action series that was printed under the Kadokawa Comics Ace imprint.Listen to Review Here: As always, be aware that the review might contain spoilers. This review was read by Ed Chavez for the MangaCast.Subscribe to the MangaCast at email at mangacast@gmail.com/samacast@gmail.co ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #194: Soda Masahito's Firefighter #10 ????? (10)by: ????Firefighter #10by: Soda Masahito$9.95usRated 13+Me-gumi no Daigo is being released in the US by Viz Media and was originally released Japan by Shogakukan's Shonen Sunday line. There are 20 volumes to this award winning title that was the winner of the 1997 Shogakukan Manga award and also won the 1998 Japan Media Arts Award. This title was made into a one shot OVA anime and was recently made into a TV dorama in 2004. It is also considered the spark that started the emergenc ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #192: Fullmetal Alchemist #7 & Kamunagara #3 ?????? (7)by: ????Fullmetal Alchemist #7by Arakawa Hiromu$9.99usRated 13+Viz/SqaurEnixFullmetal Alchemist is an ongoing fantasy drama title from Viz Media. This 13+ volume series won the Shogakukan Shonen Manga Award in 2004 and this particular volume really illustrates why this is one of the more well written and most beloved titles in Viz's and SquarEnix's library. ????? ?3?by: ???????? Kamunagara #3by: Yamamura Hajime$9.99usRated 13+AW Publications/Shonen GahoshaFew titles have the level ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #191: Kadono & Ogata's Boogiepop doesn't laugh #1 ??????????????by: ?????/????Boogiepop doesn't laugh #1by Kadono Kouhei/Ogata Kouji$10.95usRated 16+Boogiepop doesn't laugh is the debut licensed title from Seven Seas Entertainment. This two volume suspense drama was originally released in Japan by MediaWorks. Seven Seas is also releasing the novel series that this title is based on - Boogiepop and others. And will begin releasing the second novel series in the Boogiepop franchise - Boogiepop Returns: VS Imaginator - this summer. Listen to ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #190: Yoshida Akimi's Banana Fish #3 ???????? (3)by ????Banana Fish #3by Yoshida Akimi$9.95usRated 16+Banana Fish is currently being released in the US by Viz Media and was published in Japan by Shogakukan.There are 19 volumes total in this series that was printed under the Flower Comics imprint.Shogakukan has also printed a 11 volume bunko version. Listen to Review Here: As always, be aware that the review might contain spoilers. This review was read by Ed Chavez for the MangaCast.Subscribe to the MangaCast at email at manga ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Manga Curry no Maki #6 Manga Curry no MakiVolume #6 - May 4th, 2006Daikon Curry EditionBe warned this one is a big serving!Track (Starts):Intro: 00:55Sneeking a Peek into Del Rey's two New Sophisitacated Titles-Basilisk (4:00): Where for art thou ninja??-ES (13:17): Brain Game Worst vol 4 "in the Raw" (25:42)May Pull List (42:00)MangaGiveaway Questions: (51:40) Winners!!! - Erliana and BrittanyCurry: (1:01:50).... WAIT A MINUTESince this one went a little long GarageBan cut out before the end, so here is the re ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Manga Curry no Maki #6 Manga Curry no MakiVolume #6 - May 4th, 2006Daikon Curry EditionBe warned this one is a big serving!Track (Starts):Intro: 00:55Sneeking a Peek into Del Rey's two New Sophisitacated Titles-Basilisk (4:00): Where for art thou ninja??-ES (13:17): Brain Game Worst vol 4 "in the Raw" (25:42)May Pull List (42:00)MangaGiveaway Questions: (51:40) Winners!!! - Erliana and BrittanyCurry: (1:01:50).... WAIT A MINUTESince this one went a little long GarageBan cut out before the end, so here is the re ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #189: Shrine of the Morning Mist #1 & Chun Rhang Yhur Jhung #1 ????? (?)by: ?? ??Shrine of the Morning Mist #4by: Ugawa Hiroki$9.99usRated 13+Asagiri no Miko (aka: Shrine of the Morning Mist) might look like a charming story about cute shinto priestesses but there is quite a bit more to this story. It is a family drama with family politics, Imperial politics and a good dose of action as well. This 4 volume seinen series from TOKYOPOP was originally released in Japan by Shonen Gahosha and also got an anime produced (available in English from MediaBlaste ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #188: Dokebi Bride #1 & JAZZ #1 Dokebi Bride (1)by: Marley$9.99usRated 13+Dokebi Bride is a charming modern day folk tale about the increasingly rapid disappearance of ancient tribal/pagan culture and the clash there is with modern civilization that continues to move away from the towns and villages to the our current metropolises.If anyone has any info on the artist please email me or post it here. When I did a search for Marley in hangul all I got was Bob Marley and some Ziggy. JAZZ (1)by: ?? ?/?? ?JAZZ #1by: Takamure ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | SAMAcast 24th Inning: Austen/Otsuka's Boys of Summer #1 Boys of Summer (1)by: Chuck Austen/Hiroki Otsuka$9.99usRated 16+Boys of Summer might very well be the first OEL SAMA title ever and is brought to you by TOKYOPOP. Fans can also check a few preview chapters of this college baseball comedy at TP's online magazine Manga ONLINE.Listen to Review Here: As always, be aware that the review might contain spoilers. This review was read by Ed Chavez for the SAMACast/MangaCast.Subscribe to the MangaCast at email at mangacast@gmail.com/samacast@gmail.c ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #187: Kawashima Yoshio's Gloom Party #1 Gloom Party #1by: Kawashima Yoshio ??????????(?)by: ??????$14.99usRated 18+Gloom Party is a collection of 4-panel manga currently being released in the US by Digital Manga, which was originally released Japan by Akita Shoten. There are 8 volumes total from their Shonen Champion Comics imprint. This is the first title under the DMP How to Read Manga... imprint which incorporates raw Japanese manga with translations and cultural notes placed in the gutters to give readers a look at what Jap ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #374 ~ Sumomomo, Momomo #2 すももも、ももも＃２ ｂｙ：大塚忍 Sumomomo, Momomo #2 by: Ohtsuka Shinobu SquareEnix/Yen Press/Seinen - $10.99 - Rated 16+ Being a teenager is always complicated. Being a teen in a manga makes survival even more difficult. With all the teenaged ninja and demon slayers running around hacking and slashing things left and right. Then you have yanki and sukeban beating everyone else up for [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |