Trash Manga Friends

Webtoons are back on Trash Manga Friends, as we descend into the depths of L.A.G! No, I don't mean the audio glitches that plagued our last episode, I mean total nonstop action as we fight through chamber after chamber, challenge after challenge, and see if all fighting all the time is truly a winning formula for a series. ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podcast To Read Trash Manga With My Frie...

It truly was a war of the worlds when we read Secret of the Alien! Our class rep protagonist confesses to the girl he likes, but shock, she's an alien and needs his help with her mission! What could it be? And how on (and beyond) Earth was it so divisive to have Sean and Mike at each other's throats!? ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podcast To Read Trash Manga With My Friends And Actually Most...

It's a feast for the senses this time around as we partake of The Kajiki Chef: Divine Cusine, a Jump Plus series set in ye olde Tokyo where giant fish swim the skies and chefs look to take 'em down and cook 'em up to make the best eats. And save people from rampaging monsters, I guess. Were we asking for seconds, or trying to get the fishy stank out of our noses? ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A...

Fantasy! Anime! Truly, who could've predicted such an unexpected turn of events for our first anime tie-in episode of Year 6. Yes, buried amongst the mountain of sequels, it's New Saga, where our hero manages to rewind the clock at the end of the world to give himself one more chance to set things right. But did we want to rewind time to before we read this? ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podc...

Okay, that's enough good series, it's back to the trash pits with Hensuki, also known as Are You Willing to Fall in Love with a Pervert, as Long as She's a Cutie? Would this combination of friendship tropes and fetishes blended together into a romcom exceed expectations, or be yet another in a long line of fanservice rubbish? ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podcast To Read Trash Manga With My F...

Another year, another big name series to kick us off, as we dive into the Shadow Realm to read Yu-Gi-Oh! But throw away everything you know about card games on motorcycles and Dark Magician Girls, this is OG, Season 0 Yu-Gi-Oh, where every game is a dance with death. Did we enjoy Yu-Gi-Oh Classic, or were we begging for Duel Monsters to return? ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podcast To Read Tr...

An off week episode!? That can only mean it's the climax of Trashtacular Tournament Arc-V! With the chaff eliminated, we're into the knockout rounds, as we take the 16 survivors and 1v1 them down to find this year's Not Actually Trash series! Will a big name like Naruto or Pokémon win? Can the gays Girl Friends and I Think Our Son is Gay triumph? Or will the hentai Metamorphosis beat 'em all? Let...

Five years! Yes, that's right, we've made it to Trashtacular Tournament Arc-V, as for the fifth time we pit all the mangas, webtoons and whatever So Pure So Flirtatious was into the tournament arc to end all tournament arcs. In this first half, we'll find which of our 25 series survive the group stages and make it to the Last 16, and which are on the fast track to being the Trashest Manga, Friends...

For our final Year 5 series, Mike has dived into his childhood once more, to pick the award winning, best selling, shoujo megahit Boys Over Flowers! Can this classic reverse harem of a poor girl in a rich person's school overcoming bullying, making friends and finding romance end the year with a beautiful bouquet, or wilt under our scorn? ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podcast To Read Trash Ma...

Five seconds was more than enough for us to decide the fate of Battle in 5 Seconds, a good ol' action manga where everyone gets wacky abilities and must fight to survive in the ultimate death game! Well, except there's not really any death. Or winning. Or losing. Confused? So were we... ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podcast To Read Trash Manga With My Friends And Actually Most Of Them Were Tr...

We're closing in on the end of Year 5, so let's get back to something we're all comfortable with. No, not more yanderes, we're returning to streaming with our lord and VTuber Saviour ✟ Messiah-chan! Was this a religious Live2D experience? Or should we have stuck with that one satanic VTuber Mike actually remembers... ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podcast To Read Trash Manga With My Friends An...

Is it our fifth April Fools special already? For 2025, we've dived into the world of rate-ups and infinite currencies known as gacha games, and taken aim at one of the genre's bigger recent successes, Goddess of Victory: NIKKE! Was this an SSR pull? Or just another title we'll set to aut-burn? ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podcast To Play Trash Gacha With My Friends And Whoops There Goes My L...

The light at the end of the tunnel, it's healing vibes for our latest anime tie-in special, as we discuss The Too-Perfect Saint! Will we enjoy this fantasy series about escaping your abusers and being inundated with positive affirmations, or defy all odds and still find something to complain about? ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podcast To Read Trash Manga With My Friends And Actually Most Of...

Fun's over, we're back to abject misery, as we cover Ijousha no Ai, aka An Abnormal Person's Love. And by abnormal, we mean yandere. And by yandere, we don't mean happy go lucky streaming antics or Yuno Gasai facial expressions, we mean oh god help us. Did we find joy in the darkness, or just yet more despair? ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podcast To Read Trash Manga With My Friends And Actua...

Happy Pokémon Day! Finally the stars have aligned and we get to talk about the #1 franchise of all time, Pocket Monsters! We discuss all three volumes of the Red Green Blue arc of Pokémon Adventures aka Special, alongside plenty of games chat and memories as we reflect on the greatest of 'em all, and why it was Sean's destiny to be a Pokémaniac. ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podcast To Read T...

You want another romcom for our Valentines special? It's like we read your mind! Which is exactly the theme of the manga this time, a 4koma where our hapless heroine can hear everyone's thoughts, including those of our very horny, very into her lead. Did we love it? Or did National Singles Awareness Day win out once again. ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podcast To Read Trash Manga With My Frie...

Back to back webtoons? Well I never! This time it's Revenge of the Baskerville Bloodhound, a series that has nothing really to do with Sherlock Holmes or bloodhounds. But it is a, and stop me if you've heard this before, power trip fantasy series with art by Redice Studio! Was it another regression for this well worn genre, or could this count itself among the Solo Leveling's of the world? ~ Welco...

We've returned to China for So Pure, So Flirtatious, a romcom webtoon all about a guy finding some special contact lenses but also about dating a teacher but also about overthrowing some criminal charges and also some magical fighting stuff too, why not. And that's just for starters! Join us trying to figure out what the hell we even read this time around... ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podc...

2025 is here! And we're kicking off with a romcom for our seasonal anime tie-in special, where I Got Married to the Girl I Hate Most in Class! Ah, back to the good ol' days of long titles that were just the premise. Did this make us fall in love and want to watch the anime? Or discover new depths of hatred? ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podcast To Read Trash Manga With My Friends And Actually...

Christmas is almost here, and so is the second half of our Secret Santa Specials! Sean and Mike are competing for Phil's affections to win a chance to screw the other over in Trashtacular 5 in 2025, and this time, Mike's gone for the jugular, picking a manga adaptation of critically acclaimed game The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past! Will Phil love this as much as he loves Zelda? Or was it bes...

It's the first half of our Secret Santa Christmas Specials, as Sean and Mike compete to woo Phil for a chance at winning the ultimate prize – screwing somebody over in Trashtacular 5! Sean steps up first, picking legendary award winning sci-fi manga Girls' Last Tour as his champion, as two girls travel the end of days to see what's what. Were his co-hosts as apocalyptically won over as Sean was? ~...

The phrase "do you need a hand" has never been more twisted as we tackle Don't Mind Me, Sensei! Give Yourself A Hand! A lovely manga about drawing manga. Y'know, like iconic series Look Back and Bakuman. Except this time, with more masturbation. What will those mangakas think of next... ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podcast To Read Trash Manga With My Friends And Actually Most Of Them Were Tr...

Yanderes! Isekai! Streaming! Yes, it's the weirdest what3words ever conceived as we discuss The Case In Which Streaming In Another World Led To The Creation Of A Massive Yandere Following! Were we so in love with it we'd hunt down all other fans? Did we just find this fine? Or did our now two streamers lament yet another disappointing streaming manga? What do you think, dear show notes reader, wha...

We're getting our Henshin on for Halloween this year, but... not in the way you'd probably like. Or hope. Yes, on the spookiest day of the year we're tackling one of the most morbid and horrific mangas / hentais of them all, ShindoL's Metamorphosis. This episode isn't for the faint of heart, so gather your resolve, and prepare to dive into a never-ending descent. ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A...

It's Fall anime season tie-in time, and for the biggest season we've gone corporate... and also magical girls? Yes, it's Magilumiere, where being a mahou shoujo is just another 9 to 5 career option. Did we enjoy this fresh take on the genre? Or stare longingly at all the other Fall anime series we could've been discussing instead... ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podcast To Read Trash Manga Wi...