Manga in Your Ears

Edit: So it came out soon after we recorded and released this episode that the writer for Act Age, Tatsuya Matsuki, is not someone we should have ever been talking about because of "indecent acts," as the ANN article very generously put it. He was groping at least one middle school student, which is very obviously disgusting. We would not have ever talked about Act Age had this come out before the...

Given that there are three sports leagues trying to do bubbles in Florida, the hotspot of COVID in the entire world, does not bode well for the start of the NBA and WNBA, nor the continuation of MLS, but hopefully they can all get through the entire seasons without any cases and without any casualties. At least NWSL appears to be in full swing and doing very well, so I continue to be hopeful. MLB...

NJPW just came back with the New Japan Cup, and I have been really enjoying this... AEW has been around all this time, but seeing these new wrestlers in a country that at least takes regular illness seriously by wearing masks when you go out makes it feel different (in a good way) than AEW putting on shows in Jacksonville, which does not seem safe. It could be equally unsafe, but who knows. The Sh...

I said this in the latest episode of the Taiiku Podcast's post, and retweeting things from the Manga In Your Ears Twitter account, but Black Lives Matter. Please donate to organizations if you can, and keep tweeting, call your legislature, protest, and vote. And through it all, stay safe; there's still a pandemic on. This episode, we're talking about Moyoco Anno's In Clothes Called Fat published b...

This episode, it's a SPOILERCAST of the Koyoharu Gotouge's Demon Slayer manga, published by Viz! If you haven't finished the manga, don't listen to this episode. The song you heard in the episode was "Gurenge" by LiSA from the Demon Slayer anime. As always, you can find me on Twitter @ImpassionateK , and my co-hosts Helen ( @WanderinDreamr ) and Apryll ( @manjiorin ) on Twitter at those places in...

I need to watch more KBO, but they're on so early, and I forget to watch the ESPN on demand streams. Someone's gotta remind me, so I can properly root for the Giants. This episode, we're talking about Syundei's Total Eclipse of the Eternal Heart and Kodama Naoko's I Married My Best Friend to Shut My Parents Up, both published by Seven Seas. The song you heard in the episode was Bonnie Tyler's Tota...

I am extremely open about this, but it's not like I yell "I AM KOREAN" at the top of every episode, but I am Korean. I was adopted too, and I don't know much about Korean culture, history, or anything else. Which is why I'm glad books such as Banned Book Club exist, so I can read about some history by way of comics. This time, I'm doing something a little different; I'm interviewing Ryan Estrada ,...

The Busan Lotte Giants are 5-0 baby!! Top of the KBO, the hometown team finally comes through. Can't wait to be disappointed at some point this season. This episode, I have a special guest, Chris ( @gokuffy ), talking about two adaptations of No Longer Human! The first is Usamaru Furuya's, published by Vertical, then it's Junji Ito's, published by Viz. The song you heard in this episode was " Huma...

The KBO is slowly coming back with no fans preseason games, and I cannot wait to try to stay up until like midnight or later to watch my beloved Lotte Giants play baseball. This episode, we're talking about KAITO's Cross Manage and Blue Flag, both published by Viz. The song you heard in the episode was " The Girl " by Run River North. As always, you can find me on Twitter @ImpassionateK , and my c...

Going out is hard now, not just because it is relatively anxiety inducing, but because the masks fog up my glasses and the bandanas keep falling off, so it's a lose-lose-lose proposition no matter what. My only release is running, which is a different kind of lose. This episode we're talking about Natsume Ono's Ristorante Paradiso and Inio Asano's Downfall, both published by Viz. It's also more sp...

Podcasts are a good way, during this time of stay-at-home orders and global pandemics, to have real human interaction with real other humans, and not just coworkers over IM or email or gritting through your teeth at the other folks in line at the grocery store, praying they don't cough. Anyway, stay safe everyone, and wash your hands. This episode, we're talking about Shinobu Ohtaka's Magi publish...

I, as my Manga In Your Ears co-hosts, have been working from home for the past few days in an attempt not to spread a pandemic. Sports has stopped in the US and Canada, so I can't even talk about my newfound fandom of the Vancouver Canucks (not that I know anything about hockey still). On the plus side, the air quality in LA is GREAT. Ban cars. This episode, we're talking about Riyoko Ikeda's Rose...

Mookie Betts was traded to the Dodgers! Except maybe not because of medical particulars surrounding Brusdar Graterol, the greatest name in baseball, but also a fireballing probably reliever when the Red Sox wanted a starter. I sure hope this trade still goes through, because I will be a very sad Dodger fan if it does not. If they can keep Kenta Maeda, though, that'd be cool. This episode, we're ta...

We're back from holiday break! The Astros cheated to win the World Series and get to another one, and also in the season in between. The players should be much more punished than they are, but labor negotiations maybe?!?! This episode, we're talking about Yuki Midorikawa's Natsume's Book of Friends published by Viz and Akiko Higashimura's Blank Canvas: My So-Called Artist's Journey published by Se...

I think I mentioned somewhere in these ramblings that I became a Clippers fan the moment Kawhi signed and Paul George was traded there, and with that has apparently come a passing interest in shoes. So RIP me for an added random fandom. Also my audio is still weird and wonky and not great, so apologies for that. Hopefully I have fixed it for the next podcast...we'll see. This episode, we're just c...

Whoops, it's been two week and I completely forgot to edit this episode, so here's what's about to be two episodes in quick succession! Hope you don't mind. Also I got a new motherboard and reinstalled windows, so my audio may be of very questionable quality. Apologies in advance. This episode, we're talking about Akimi Yoshida's Banana Fish published by Viz and Kaori Ozaki's The Golden Sheep publ...

Per Helen...The Washington Nationals are World Series champions! I personally couldn't root for them during the NLCS, having defeated the Dodgers in a full NLDS, but they put the Cardinals to rest in a short four games and then faced the biggest villains of them all, toxic masculinity—I mean the Houston Astros. And they were defeated, thus finally given them their just dues. Between the NHL Capita...

It's playoff time for a lot of things! LAFC has the first round bye in MLS, the Chicago Red Stars just won their semifinal match in NWSL, and nothing is good about baseball. Also basketball is about to start again, and I'm looking forward to jumping onto the Clippers x Kawhi bandwagon. Also, and I can't believe we're already here, but this is our 50th episode! I want to thank everyone for listenin...

Playoff baseball is here, and I couldn't be more pleased. I can finally watch Dodger baseball without going to Dodger Stadium! Sports blackout rules are dumb. This episode, we're talking about CLAMP's Legal Drug published by Dark Horse and Mari Okada (writer) and Nao Emoto's (illustrator) O Maidens in Your Savage Season published by Kodansha. The song you heard at the beginning of the episode was...

Forgot to write a whole thing until I was already done, so just here to say the Bears squeaked by in a game they should have lost and the White Sox season means NOTHING. Also looking forward to following the Clippers for the first time ever. This episode, we get closer and closer to the New World, first finishing off Thriller Bark, then arriving on the Sabaody Archipelago, and finally landing on A...

College football is back, and NFL football is about to be back, and while I have just about every problem one could have with a particular organization, I still love football as a sport. They just need to...make it safer. Anyway, Iowa State grabbed their first win against fellow statesmen UNI in a thriller, so I'm glad for the distraction from White Sox baseball. This episode, we're talking about...

Helen here; in hindsight it may not have been such a good idea to read three, long manga series back to back to back for this show but in my defense, I actually approached Dee about doing this episode a year ago and then graduate school kicked my ass! What the hell grad school!! In any case, Pandora Hearts is rad y'all and could some con in the the U.S. please please PLEASE bring MochiJun over as...

I usually reserve this space for my random ramblings about sports, but sports is pretty sad right now until my old flame the Chicago Bears start up, or until my new flame the Los Angeles Clippers start up. So I'll just drop in that I contributed to the OASG's AX, SDCC, and Otakon licensing round up , and you should check that out. This episode, we're talking about Yuhki Kamatani's Our Dreams at Du...

It's the G1 Climax, which means I'm watching a lot of wrestling and, relevant to this episode, seeing a lot of buff dudes that are definitely into each other. Go Sanada and ZSJ. This episode, we're talking about Hiromi Takashima's Kase-san published by Seven Seas and Gengoroh Tagame's My Brother's Husband published by Pantheon. The song you heard at the top of the episode is "Asu e no Tobira" by M...

The Women's World Cup is going on, which is about the only time I am openly supportive of US sports, because the women's national team is so good. And also the KFA blew it with some legitimate talent on their squad... This episode, we're talking about Kou Yaginuma's Twin Spica published by Vertical and Hiroyuki Asada's Pez published by Denpa. The song you heard at the top of the episode is "Feel s...