Manga Mavericks

Hello, darlings! Welcome back to #LumSquad, a podcast hosted by @LumRanmaYasha and @ProdTally devoted to the wonderful and wacky world of Rumiko Takahashi’s Urusei Yatsura! We’re approaching the 2/3rds mark of the series’ volume count as we head into the first half of the 11th omnibus! Not only that, we’re entering one of the strongest periods for the series to date, and this volume in particular...

On this episode of Manga Mavericks, we're joined by founder of Okazu and yuri scholar, Erica Friedman, to once again revisit the works of Nagata Kabi with a discussion of another one of her self-reflective personal memoirs with My Alcoholic Escape From Reality! In which we visit Kabi during her time recovering in the hospital from severe pancreatitis due to her excessive drinking, as well chronicl...

On this episode of Manga Mavericks, its time for another round of new simulpubbed manga, as Lum & Colton discuss not just the newest series from Shonen Jump with rakugo manga, Akane-Banashi, and sci-fi romance manga, Earthchild, but as well the newest Kodansha title from Yuuki Kodama with The World of Summoning, and some new titles available on Comikey! For a complete list of links and Community S...

On this episode of Manga Mavericks, we go over more news from the past month, including some big series ending such as Dr. Stone & Fire Force, a ton of big yearly North American manga sales updates, a whole lot of new licenses and even the merging of Funimation & Crunchyroll as a single brand! Enjoy! For a complete list of links and Community Shout-Outs mentioned in this episode, please visit this...

Man oh Manga! 2021 was an incredible year for the manga industry, seeing record sales with books of all stripes flying off the shelves both in Japan and abroad! There sure was a lot of great manga published in 2021, a lotta of which we had the great fortune of reading and keeping up with throughout the year! So, as per our annual tradition, the time has come once again to do our yearly spotlight o...

One of these days our convention report podcasts won’t take months after the con is over to come out. Today is not that day. But hey, Anime NYC kept us waiting too! After a pandemic-imposed hiatus, Anime NYC returned in 2021 with its highest-ever attendance… and longest lines. Was the wait worth it… or was it just more waiting? Has Anime NYC grown too big for the Javits Center to handle? Was it ev...

On this episode of Manga Mavericks, after Colton & Lum cover a little news, its time for more new simulpubbed manga! As we once again talk about the latest chapter of Shokugeki no Sanji, along with the newest series that have debuted on Manga Plus with Magilumiere Co. Ltd & The Kaijiki Chef! Plus we discuss the first chapter of Susumu Higa's Sword of Sand as part of the Okinawa collection soon to...

On this episode of Manga Mavericks, its time once again to go over the latest news from the past month as we discuss the latest serialization, licensing and anime news! Plus we finally get to some Shonen Jump popularity polls we haven't had the time to go over! Other topics of discussion include our thoughts on Blood Blockade Battlefront, Kodansha finally making GTO available digitally, and how we...

Take the Manga Mavericks 2021 Podcast Survey and get entered into our FREE MANGA giveaway! Click the link to take the survey and listen to the show for details! - https://s.surveyplanet.com/1m409qcf Hello darlings! Welcome back to #LumSquad, a podcast hosted by @LumRanmaYasha and @ProdTally devoted to the wonderful and wacky world of Rumiko Takahashi’s Urusei Yatsura! Urusei Yatsura’s getting a ne...

Take the Manga Mavericks 2021 Podcast Survey and get entered into our FREE MANGA giveaway! Click the link to take the survey and listen to the show for details! - https://s.surveyplanet.com/1m409qcf We all know manga is translated from japanese to english, but do you ever think about how the actual text is placed on the page, and who places it there? It doesn’t magically appear out of thin air - m...

On this episode of Manga Mavericks, its time for the first news roundup of the year as we catch up on a whole lotta news from the past month! Including some rather interesting items such as how Viz has been handling their release of Ayakashi Triangle lately and mangaka of Love Hina, Ken Akumatsu, getting into politics, as well as some big news items like Naoki Urasawa making all of his works acces...

On this episode of Manga Mavericks, it may be a new year, but Colton & Lum still have a ton of new simulpubbed manga from over the past few months that need to be discussed from places such as Shonen Jump, Azuki, Yen Press, and especially Mangamo! We'd like to thank Mangamo for reaching out and giving us a sneak peek at some of their newest titles before they were even added onto their app! We eve...

Hello darlings! Welcome back to #LumSquad, a podcast hosted by @LumRanmaYasha and @ProdTally devoted to the wonderful and wacky world of Rumiko Takahashi’s Urusei Yatsura! It’s time for I, I, You, and I to review the Urusei Yatsura: Only You! We’re so excited to finally have the films streaming on Crunchyroll and coming to blu-ray courtesy of Discotek, and so we’ll be periodically interrupting our...

On this episode of Manga Mavericks, Colton & Lum cover the news from the past month, including the yearly Oricon list of the top selling manga and light novel series, and you won't believe what the highest selling manga of the year was (no, it wasn't Demon Slayer again). We also discuss our most anticipated licenses from the past month, as well as a lot of exciting anime news, including some from...

Hello, darlings! Welcome back to #LumSquad, a podcast hosted by @LumRanmaYasha and @ProdTally devoted to the wonderful and wacky world of Rumiko Takahashi’s Urusei Yatsura! Our discussion on Urusei Yatsura Volume 10 was so long we had to split it up across multiple recordings for different parts! This discussion is an interesting mix of different recordings in of itself, because we had originally...

On this episode of Manga Mavericks, Colton & Lum are joined by Yen Press Sales & Marketing Assistant and co-host of the Manga Machinations podcast, Morgana Santilli, as well as former host of the Manga Corner podcast, JD Banks, to talk more about Hitoshi Iwaaki's Parasyte with the Neo Parasyte m and Neo Parasyte f anthologies! A collection of stories written and illustrated by various manga creato...

Hello, darlings! Welcome back to #LumSquad, a podcast hosted by @LumRanmaYasha and @ProdTally devoted to the wonderful and wacky world of Rumiko Takahashi’s Urusei Yatsura! We’ve entered the double-digits of Urusei Yatsura’s omnibus volumes, and to mark the occasion we’re mixing up our format for covering the manga from here on out. Our past couple of volume discussions have run so long that from...

On this episode of Manga Mavericks, Colton & Lum are joined by Dawn from the Anime Nostalgia Podcast, as well past manga editor and game creator, Jason Thompson, to discuss Hitoshi Iwaaki's classic manga, Parasyte! A sci-fi, horror, action story about a teenager named Shinichi, who's body is almost taken over by a parasitic creature, but stops it just before it reaches his brain causing it to only...

Hello, darlings! Welcome back to #LumSquad, a podcast hosted by @LumRanmaYasha and @ProdTally devoted to the wonderful and wacky world of Rumiko Takahashi’s Urusei Yatsura! We've officially hit the halfway point of the Urusei Yatsura manga! The series' ninth omnibus is a fantastic collection of stories, a real showcase of the manga in its prime! Perhaps no storyline best demonstrates this than the...

On this episode of Manga Mavericks, Colton & Lum once again report on and discuss the latest in manga news with new series, what new manga licenses they're looking forward to, as well new anime films coming to the US! Particular topics include our thoughts on what's been happening in Fire Force recently, a beloved(?) Fist of the North Star character getting their own isekai manga, and our thoughts...

On this episode of Manga Mavericks, Colton & Lum are joined by Eisner award winning comics artist, Joey Weiser, Twitter extraordinaire and horror enthusiast, Casey "MinovskyArticle", as well as translator and yokai expert, Zack Davisson, to discuss Shigeru Mizuki's GeGeGe no Kitaro manga! We discuss not only our thoughts on the comic in general, but as well as the life of Shigeru Mizuki and how hi...

Hello darlings! Welcome back to #LumSquad, a podcast hosted by @LumRanmaYasha and @ProdTally devoted to the wonderful and wacky world of Rumiko Takahashi’s Urusei Yatsura! Rising up like a tidal wave and roaring like a dragon, Ryuunosuke Fujinami has finally arrived! At long last, english manga fans finally get to meet the last and arguably most important member of Urusei Yatsura's main cast - a m...

On this episode of Manga Mavericks, Colton & Lum are joined by John from the MercuryFalcon Youtube channel, as well as Karleen & Malia from Coherent Cats, to discuss Osamu Tezuka's original Dororo manga! A story about a wandering samurai named Hyakkimaru and his rambunctious thief sidekick, Dororo, as they hunt down and slay all kinds of evil spirits and yokai in order for Hyakkimaru to regain all...

On this episode of Manga Mavericks, Colton & Lum finally catch up on about two months worth of new one shots and simulpubs! Including not just everything from Shonen Jump, but also titles from Manga Plus, Star Fruit Books, Yen Press, Kadokawa and even our first look at Comikey! Is Dandadan as good as everyone says it is? What is up with PPPPPP? And is Colton into dragon girls now? Listen to the sh...

Queer manga should be read and celebrated all year round, and thanks to the growing efforts of publishers to bring more great LGBTQ titles over west, it’s easier than ever to find works that speak to you! We’ve taken pride in covering many great LGBTQ manga on our show over the years, and for the longest time I’ve wanted to do a broader topic discussion centered around queer manga. So I decided to...