Manga Mavericks

Ever wanted to know what a slime monster tastes like? Apparently mangaka Ryoko Kui did. This week the Manga Mavericks fill up on her D&D-inspired cooking manga Delicious in Dungeon, recently published over in the west by Yen Press. Did it whet the boys’ appetite for a fantasy cooking manga, or did it leave a bad aftertaste? If you’ve read my review of the first volume, you can probably guess, but...

Pokémon Adventures is perhaps the most famous and by far the best Pokémon manga ever made. To celebrate its 20th anniversary, LumRanmaYasha is once again joined by Annaliese (Ace) Christman, the official english letterer for the series for Viz Media, as well as the self-proclaimed Pokémon fanatic Jonathan (Vix) to discuss the series and its legacy. In the first part of our two-part retrospective,...

Even if rakugo was a dying art form, manga surely isn’t! The anime adaptation of Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuu was critically acclaimed among anime connoisseurs in the west, so the Manga Mavericks take a look at the original manga, licensed and renamed Descending Stories by Kodansha USA. Can a manga capture the essence of rakugo as an auditory performance art in a soundless medium? Or is this anoth...

Rounding off our My Hero Academia podcast trilogy is this long-awaited Q&A special! We received so many questions for our Manga Fight we couldn't possibly use them all, so we organized this special episode to answer them! Both Jeff Ruberg and Doctor return to give their takes on your questions, and what results is the realization that all podcasters are evil, Stain is best girl, Mineta should make...

Who's the greatest teacher in manga? Korosensei? Zetsubou Sensei? The Ultimate Otaku Teacher? Ha! Posers, all of them! They pale in comparison to the original gangsta, the one and only, Great Teacher Onizuka. To celebrate the GTO manga's 20th anniversary, we're schooling you guys a crash-course on the fundamentals of GTO. Fellow All-Comic manga specialist Nick Rowe joins us to give us the 101 on h...

It’s time for another episode of All-Comic Presents: Manga Mavericks Presents: Manga Fights sponsored by Geoff Martin Art Sales (not really)! Operating in the same fashion as Screen Junkies’ Movie Fights, Manga Fights features passionate manga fans debating it out over manga-related several topics both intriguing and insane. With the Manga Mavericks as your hosts, intelligent conversations, heated...

There's been a lot of gloom and doom about One Piece recently. It got taken off Toonami, then it got dumped by Hulu, and now everyone's aflame over whether the Pudding twist was sexist or not. In these trouble times, just remember - One Piece has three times as many volumes in print than the entire population of Japan! It has more graphic novels in circulation than any other comic book in the worl...

I AM HERE! And our never-ending fight to discuss great manga continues with another Shonen Jump series discussion! This week we're talking My Hero Academia with Doctor of the Ass Backwards Anime Podcast. We talk the good, the bad, the ugly, the all right and All Might - every quirky detail we could extrapolate from the series for the sake of doing it justice! It's all for one great all-encompassin...

Alternatively titled: Dr. Stockholm, Or: How I Learned To Stop Hating and Love Black Clover. ^ I was thinking of making that the episode title but I thought it would be too long. But yes, today's episode is all about the up-and-coming Shonen Jump hit, Black Clover, to celebrate it passing 100 chapters, two years of serialization, and an upcoming anime. Colton never continued with Black Clover past...

We were going to record a podcast about Toonami, but that fell through, so we're talking about Sword Art Online: Ordinal Scale instead. What a switch. Needless to say we needed some extra help to get through this, so we recruited our friend Ethan to help us dissect everything that works and the exponentially greater number of things that doesn't work about this latest installment in the illustriou...

Hey, I technically got this up on Sunday, right? Ah, I suppose it doesn't matter if you're not listening to this episode on the day it was posted anyway. Sorry for the delay, but the rough audio for this episode was over four hours long and I had to edit it instead of Colton. But hopefully because this is such a long - and stuffed - episode it was well worth the wait! That's right, our long awaite...

What, another Movie Mavericks in the same week?! That’s right, since this week’s Manga Mavericks is being delayed a few days, we thought we’d give you a little something-something to tide you guys over! In this installment LumRanmaYasha and VLordGTZ talk about the Oscar-nominated animated french-japanese co-production The Red Turtle and the cinematic classic anime masterpiece Ghost in the Shell, a...

Miss us this past month? Well don't fret, because on this week's Movie Mavericks we've got a nostalgic double feature to talk about! First up is the classic Sailor Moon movie "The Promise of the Rose," a movie about Tuxedo Mask's homoerotic relationship with a rose-twirling alien and why Sailor Moon is Jesus Christ incarnate. Then we talk about the latest Yu-Gi-Oh! movie "The Dark Side of Dimensio...

It's been a while since we've had a relatively straight-forward episode with just our two Mavericks discussing the news, huh? Well, don't get used to it. We've got a lot of plans and a lot of guests booked for the show for the next couple of weeks. But it's nice to get back to basics for an episode, a breather before we cover more big topics and guest appearances. This week we discuss the latest l...

In this week's special bonus episode we run down the results of our first annual survey! We discuss the statistics and what you guys like most about the show, as well as suggestions on how to improve it moving forward. Additionally, to make for a belated Valentine's Day special, Colton reads all of Love Rush and shares his ambivalent opinions of it while LumRanmaYasha and Maxy's opinions argue why...

What does the unprecedented six new Jump Starts in six weeks initiative say about the future of Weekly Shonen Jump? This week our friend Maxy Barnard of Friendship! Effort! Victory! joins us for his first "official" Manga Mavericks guest spot to discuss the state of Weekly Shonen Jump and the future of the magazine. We discuss opinions on what'll be the new frontrunner of the magazine in the wake...

Manga Mavericks @ Movies is a new spinoff of Manga Mavericks hosted and edited by LumRanmaYasha, who visits cinemas at least once a week to watch movies and has been eager to find an outlet to talk about what he’s seen. It will likely be an irregularly released podcast until the summer, but you can expect it to come out within a week of the hottest new comic and nerdy movie releases! This week Col...

JoJo's month comes to a close with our first-ever Q&A special! That's right, this week we spend two and a half hours devoted answering YOUR JJBA-related questions! What are our favorite parts? What would our Stands be like? Why a road roller, of all things? All these and more will be answered as we go over 40 questions from 10 different people! Podcast Breakdown: 00:00 - Introductions & Announceme...

It’s time for another episode of All-Comic Presents: Manga Mavericks Presents: Manga Fights sponsored by Geoff Martin Art Sales (not really)! Operating in the same fashion as Screen Junkies’ Movie Fights, Manga Fights features passionate manga fans debating it out over manga-related several topics both intriguing and insane. With the Manga Mavericks as your hosts, intelligent conversations, heated...

Happy! Joy! Nice to meetcha! It's finally friday! Yes my friends...it's finally here. I feel utterly refreshed, like I put on a new pair of underwear on New Year's Day! Why? Because this is the first Manga Mavericks of 2017, and the first installment of JoJo's month, our celebration of the 30th anniversary of the monolithic manga franchise JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. Am I excited? YES I AM! JoJo's m...

The Manga Mavericks have expanded into the realm of movies! Manga Mavericks @ Movies is hosted and edited by LumRanmaYasha who visits cinemas at least once a week to watch movies and has been eager to find an outlet to talk about what he's seen. It will likely be an irregularly released podcast until the summer, but you can expect it to come out within a week of the hottest new comic and nerdy mov...

Manga Mavericks has lasted an entire year! We've done so much in such a short time, and we couldn't have done it without your support! Thank you for listening and giving feedback on our podcasts. We have great things planned for 2017 as well, so stay tuned and stick around for what we've got in store! In the meantime, we've set up a year-end poll for you guys to take to gather some statistics and...

It’s time for another episode of All-Comic Presents: Manga Mavericks Presents: Manga Fights sponsored by Geoff Martin Art Sales (not really)! Operating in the same fashion as Screen Junkies’ Movie Fights, Manga Fights features passionate manga fans debating it out over manga-related several topics both intriguing and insane. With the Manga Mavericks as your hosts, intelligent conversations, heated...

I know you're asking "wait, where's the Toriko retrospective?" Well, we recorded it, but unfortunately there were some technical difficulties during the editing process and we lost the whole thing. We're sorry guys. Don't worry, we'll still be discussing the series and answering your questions during our Toriko Manga Fight, which will be out next week. That episode will now double as our all-encom...

Our InuYasha retrospective and Manga Fight have been very well received and we couldn't be happier! We got more four times the likes on the Retrospective on tumblr than we have on all the other Manga Mavericks episodes combined! Thank you all for your comments and enthusiasm! We hope to make more retrospective and Manga Fights like those in the future, so stay tuned to our brand-spanking new twitt...