OverMangaCast

A heartwarming tale of a lovely orphanage in the countryside where children grow up under the careful watch of their loving Mom. Emma, Ray, and Norman are the oldest and smartest of the group, serving as a bastion of fun to all the younger children. There is nothing sinister lying beneath the surface. There is no de eper m eaning between the cracks. Every on e is happy and healthy. S oon, the e nt...

Elden Ring, the top-rated FromSoft game devouring hard-core gamers has an official manga... well, at least a gag manga. The main character is wearing only a loin cloth and fumbling his way through the world, trying desperately not to die. Also, there is literally an art contest boss fight. This week, Matt, Sam, and Jacob read and discuss Elden Ring: The Road to the Erdtree by Nikiichi Tobita. Read...

Thorfinn is back, no working for Askeladd the man who killed his father to earn the right to kill him. Also, now they're invading England. But wait, now there's a rebel viking named Thorkell and a whole succession plot? Things are really heating up. This week, Matt, Sam, Jae, and Jacob read and discuss Vinland Saga by Makoto Yukimura. Read along, meme along, or just yell at our bad opinion...

Hey! Battle Shonen are pretty cool! People get all these weird powers and duke it out in what eventually devolves into a tournament arc! Rad! Anyway, what's up with those magic powers and what are some cool ones? Ya know, Dragonball Z, Naruto, One Piece, Demon Slayer; all that nonsense! This week, Matt, Sam, Jae, and Jacob talk about Shonen Power Systems. Read along, meme along, or just yell a...

Sugimoto is still immortal and searching the Hokaido wilds for the escaped criminals with a treasure map to stolen Ainu gold tattooed onto their flesh. Nothing will stop him or Asirpa until they find their treasure haul... except for maybe a hunting expedition as they track down a deer. Oh wait, some crazy bear hunter is after Asirpa's white wolf companion. Guess we have an arc, bois. This wee...

2022 is coming to an end, and the OverMangaCast crew is taking a break from reading over the holiday season to rank the top manga of 2022. Each co-host is bringing their top 3 things we read this year, as we countdown to our recommendations. This week, Matt, Sam, Jae, and Jacob countdown their Top 3 Manga for a total of 12 best manga of 2022. Read along, meme along, or just yell at our bad opinion...

Jacked Santa is back, and he's bringing all of comics with him. Klaus is back on Earth in modern times after spending an indeterminate time locked in the moon for participating in the Lunar Civil War. Now he has to contend with the Witch of Winter, who is kidnapping children and building a wooden army of snow golems to reclaim the boundaries of her frozen kingdom lost to global warming. Also,...

What's this? Someone slipped isekai nonsense past the gates. A doctor, Goro Amemiya, is tasked with delivering babies in the remote japanese mountains. However, one day he discovers his new patient is Ai Hoshino, famous idol looking to have her baby in secret. Then several drastic genre shifts from murder mystery, to isekai, to baby slice of life, and finally teen revenge fantasy, but also sho...

Daniel is your average overweight nerd, being picked on by literally everyone at his school. His poor mother has finally scrimped and saved enough to send him to a new school, hoping to give him a fresh start. However, after Daniel ruins his new start, he falls into despair. Its only when he wakes up in a second hotter body does his life finally turn around. Now he needs to handle his new ability,...

No Read November is over, but unfortunately the first of December is a Thursday, so we haven't had any time to read something new. But don't worry, we've got Jacob our resident grump, and he's got enough to complain about. This week he dives into the concept of Objective Quality and Reading Charitably, and gives his options on Dragon Ball, Yu-Gi-Oh, My Hero Academia, and many other...

No Read November is at its end, but not without a final boss of its own. Only a movie that is so far divorced from its source material that its creation is theorized to be out of spite could possibly match up. Aang (Ah-ng), Sokka (Soh-kah), and Katara (Cat-a-Ra) are going to fight the Fire Nation with subpar cgi and a whole script-full of stilted expositional dialog. This week, Matt, Sam, Jae, and...

No Read November punishes us for the folly of our ways, as what was supposed to be a run romp of uncanny valley eyes turns into a slog of blockbuster drivel. Alita is a cyborg who is found in a dump by her German dad, except she knows kung-fu from her time living on mars, so now she can be the best at NASCAR but with murder. Hopefully that means she'll be able to pay off her delinquent boyfrie...

We continue No-Read November (for some reason), by taking a break from reading manga to watching live-action movies based on it. This week Ichigo Kurasaki and way too many of his friends fight supernatural creatures called Hollows in varying degrees of sunlight to varying degrees of visual effectiveness. This week, Matt, Sam, Jae, and Jacob watch and discuss... the 2018 live-action Bleach movie......

No-Read November begins in full force! This month we're taking a break from reading manga, to watch some movies. Edward Elric accidently traded his brother's body and an arm and a leg to get a flesh blog vaguely shaped like his mother. Now he's on a quest to catch the serial killer / genocide revenger Scar. It then kind of devolves into a weird collection of scenes from the anime loose...

Spooktober concludes the only way it can, with an isekai manga about a completely featureless protag being wiped away into the world of a 70s Slasher movie. However genre-savvy he may be, he finds himself trapped in the body of Summer, a voluptuous and sexually active cheerleader. Can he dodge the countless death flags tossed in his direction and survive the night? This week, Matt, Sam, Jae, and J...

The spooks continue with a blast from the past, as a zombie apocalypses ravages Japan. As the country selectively devolves into anarchy, the main cast of zombie-slaying teenagers get into sexually provocative situations as they... try to find their parents? The actually end-to-end goals are kinda vague. This week, Matt, Sam, and Jacob read and discuss High School of the Dead written by Daisuke Sat...

The spooky month marches on, as we dive into a revisit of last year's Spooktober champion Franken Fran! The always optimistic Fran is back for more implausible medical marvels. Will a kaiju find true love? Will the horrible secret to eternal youth be uncovered? Will not one, but two divine entities be canonically confirmed to exist within the manga's world building? All these questions ans...

Spooktober starts off fresh this year, as we dive inside the hollow flesh suit of a manga that is Gleipnir. Shuichi Kagaya is your average high schooler, except that when his passions erupt he is able to transform into a homicidal mascot costume.  However, after rescuing/assaulting Claire Aoki from her attempted suicide, the girl wants to use her newfound monster to obtain everything she desires....

Yoichi Isagi made the rookie mistake of trusting his less-talented teammate, and now has lost any chance of making it to Nationals with his high school soccer team. But luckily, some made man with ambitions of building Japanese World Cup Champion team has given him a second chance; Blue Lock. A prison built to house all of Japan's star striker talent, to beat out the passivity and teamwork and...

Momo and Okarun celebrate the return of one of his lost testicles from enemy-turned-friend Aira Shiratori, however Aira wants to elevate her relationship status from Side Girl to Main Girl. Okarun winds up in a misunderstanding, which lulls Momo Ayase into a negetive headspace as her safe nerdy not-boyfriend is being pursued by someone she can't stand. Taking advantage of the negative energy,...

Kafka Hibino was just you average, everyday 30-something sanitation agent, when one day he was bitten by a radioactive Kaiju. Now he can do whatever a Kaiju can, in a compact humanoid form. He wants to use these new powers to join the Japanese Defense Force and reunite with his childhood friend on the battlefield, but now his monstrous anatomy makes him a kill-on-site enemy of the state. Will he b...

I guess these guys did a video game episode while I was away? Listen in as Sam & Jacob dive into the storytelling aspects of video games. Read along, meme along, or just yell at our bad opinions by following  @OverMangaCast  on Twitter. YouTube  /  Instagram  /  Facebook Leave a review:  Podchaser

Metropoliman has laid a sinister trap for the brave trio of heros; Mukaido's wife and child have been held hostage to spur a final battle. However, the fight is stealing away time his illness is ill-incentivized to give him. Can he do the one thing he wanted in life and keep them safe? Also, will Mirai ever decide to do anything? Or will he keep taking half-actions and getting absorbed into ph...

Jonathan Jostar is still trying to kill his adopted brother turned vampire Dio Brando. However, an ancient graveyard of knights being reanimated stands in the path of his revenge. Will he be able to harness the true secrets of hamon to unlock the power necessary to defeat Dio in their final 1v1 conflict? Either way, only one of them is walking out alive as we reach Phantom Blood's ultimate con...

Yatora Yaguchi is still working hard to achieve his dream of making it into Tokyo University of Art. However, the work begins to take its toll as a mysterious rash begins to form. Will he be able to hold it together and pass the entrance exam from hell? Or will he shonen protagonist his way through adversity? Also, how will he handle when his rival-turned friend Yuta reveals their traumatic home l...