Manga Machinations

After discussing the finer points of international coke, this week Seamus gets into Vikings with Vinland Saga and dakazu talks about primitive tribes living on terraformed Venus in Gyoseiki. Then we delve deep into Slam Dunk by discussing the Shohoku vs Shoyo match!!(covers chapters 79-98)

Prepare yourselves as we start up with a Billy Bat update, darfox finishes The Flowers of Evil to find inner peace and worms, dakazu loves the simple art and adult tales of Shinya Shokudo, and we ponder how our Sports manga turned into a high school gang manga in part 3 of our retrospective of Slam Dunk!(covers chapters 49-78)

We took a week off for the holidays but now we’re back! On this episode darfox continues to find his inner worm with The Flowers of Evil, Seamus becomes our official Shoujo(girl) manga specialist by reading Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun, and we discuss the Ryonan practice match arc of our main series Slam Dunk!!(covers chapters 26-48)

After last week’s anime talk, Seamus was inspired to start watching Kill la Kill but also found the time to read about preteen romance in Love at Fourteen. dakazu talks about Survival by the author of Golgo 13 and giant high school girl soldiers in the sci-fi manga Joshi kouhei. Then we begin discussing our new series Slam Dunk and the origins of the Naruto vs Sasuke rivalry with Hanamichi vs Rukawa!(covers chapters 1-25)

This week darfox learns about survival in Jisatsutou and dakazu thinks manga Wozniak is cute in Steve Jobs. Then we’re joined by our anime expert kenzo to talk about all the anime we’re watching: including Broken Blade, From the New World, Gundam: Reconguista in G, Psycho-Pass, Yowamushi Pedal, World Trigger, SHIROBAKO, Parasyte, Rage of the Bahamut: Genesis, The Seven Deadly Sins, and much more!

After missing a week due to technical issues(Ireland internet), we’re back! Darfox shares tales of creepy teens in The Flowers of Evil(Aku no Hana) and then we wrap up our Parasyte read through of the final chapters and review the series as a whole!(covers chapters 49-64)

This week we have a quick Billy Bat update with new chapters 126-127, dakazu gets hungry over Nobunaga no Chef(Nobunaga’s Chef), and we finish off the Tamiya Ryoko arc of Parasyte!!(covers chapters 32-48)

This week we have a long discussion/rant about the end of Naruto. We also extend our Parasyte discussion because darfox can’t get enough tentacle action!(covers chapters 17-31)

This week we discuss the creepy live-action Nana to Kaoru movie, dakazu tries to explain what Ikigami is, and we catch up on current Naruto & Bleach. Then we jump into our Parasyte read-through by discussing the Mom arc(covers chapters 9-16)

On this episode darfox reads Nana to Kaoru to learn about doms and subjects(?), dakazu rants about the downfall of Bleach, and we start our read through of Parasyte and learn to love tentacle gore!(covers chapters 1-8)

We’ve finally done it this week! In our final episode of Billy Bat discussion, we catch to all current chapters released, hypothesize about where the story will go next, and solve the mystery behind the Black & White Billy Bats!!!(covers chapters 118-125)

This week we continue to give Junji Ito love with discussion about his Uzumaki: Spiral into Horror horror series and take a look at his comedy Ito Junji no Neko Nikki: Yon & Mu(Cat Diary)! Afterwords, we carefully dissect the wealth of new information in Billy Bat given to us by the Kurusu Moon arc!(covers chapters 106-117)

This week darfox rants about the ending of Claymore, we lament over lackluster manga endings, and dakazu recommends Jisatsutou. Then we dive deep into the true protagonist of Billy Bat with the Golden Bat arc! Also included: rants about factual errors of New Jersey!(covers chapters 93-105)

Even though we say 5 in the intro, this is indeed episode 6! This week dakazu rants about Naruto(AGAIN!) and we dive deep into speculation over the mysteries of Billy Bat while finishing the Bat Village arc!(covers chapters 78-93)

This week we darfox continues to rave about Junji Ito, dakazu discovers the most amazing webcomic ever by Ishida Sui of Tokyo Ghoul fame, and we rant about the cutthroat business of Popularity polls in manga serialization magazines. We also continue our Billy Bat analysis as we begin the Devivie/Bat Village arc!(chapters 63-77)

Sit down for a megaton of an episode! Seamus raves about farts after finishing Gyo: The Death-Stench Creeps, darfox gives Uzumaki: Spiral into Horror some love, and dakazu is squeamish over the hyper violence of Magical Girl Apocalypse(Magical Girl of the End). Then the hosts dive deep into Billy Bat and spend over an hour discussing minutia in the conclusion of the JFK assassination arc!(covers chapters 42-62)

This week we get into mecha sharks running on gas with Junji Ito’s Gyo: The Death-Stench Creeps, complain about how we can’t remember who’s who in Claymore, and we continue our Billy Bat analysis with the JFK assassination arc while fact checking Wikipedia against the new main character Lee Harvey Oswald!(chapters 28-41)

This week Seamus gets spiritual with Budda, dakazu gets real angry about Naruto, and we try to work our way through the dreaded 'Ninja arc' of Billy Bat(chapters 16-27)

Welcome to the inaugural episode of Manga Machinations! This episode we talk about our manga origins, various Naoki Urasawa works, and our in depth discussion of Billy Bat!(chapters 1-15)