Manga Mavericks

We’re having a long-overdue conversation about Shonen Jump’s culpability in perpetuating sexism in both its workplace culture and in its series. More specifically, it’s time to have a serious talk about how it has been enabling and rehabilitating not one, not two, but THREE known pedophiles. When I say this podcast was long overdue, I mean it. We originally recorded this way back last August, back...

Manga Mavericks @ Movies continues our coverage of TMS’s newly-dubbed releases of Detective Conan movies by going back to the beginning - literally! That’s right, we’re covering Detective Conan Episode “One” - the 20th-anniversary anime special remaking the show’s first episode! This special was the first Detective Conan movie released on home video in the US in nearly a decade, and the first chan...

On this episode of Manga Mavericks, we celebrate our 5 year anniversary by going over the results of our latest survey, as well as our favorite episodes of the show, moments, guests and more! And it wouldn't be a celebration without our friends VlordGTZ (host of the Demon Slayer & Shaman King Podcasts), Sakaki (Founder of the Weekly Shogakukan Edition blog & Twitter), and last but not least, Maxy...

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! Continuing our read-through of Viz’s rerelease of the manga, we cover volume 7! This volume prominently features Onsen-Mark... sorry, “Hot Springs Emblem.” We still need to get used to that. But hey, his name change may leave us...

On this episode of Manga Mavericks, we're finally back to cover the truck load of news we've been meaning to cover, or at least as much as we could before EVEN MORE started popping up afterwards, but we'll get those eventually! For right now, we have 40 minutes worth of serialization news alone to discuss, along with the newest lists from both Bookscan and the New York Times! Afterwards we have so...

Manga Mavericks @ Movies continues our coverage of TMS’s newly dubbed Detective Conan movies by discussing the 19th film in the franchise, Sunflowers of Inferno! It’s another showdown between Conan and his magician rival Phantom Thief Kid, but this time the infamous jewel thief is after… a painting? It’s up to Conan (and the viewers) to see through all the red herrings and figure out Kid’s artful...

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 went back on an unexpected hiatus again last year, but hey, Viz’s second attempt to release UY in the 90s also unceremoniously stopped too. As they say, the third time’s the charm, and at least we’ve come back for our third...

* Take the Manga Mavericks 5-Year Anniversary Survey and Enter to Win a Free manga! More Details Below!: https://s.surveyplanet.com/uwgeMjcMq * Art is hard. Did you know that? If not, Akiko Higashimura’s autobiographical memoir of her “so-called artist’s journey,” Blank Canvas, will school you in the fundamentals! To help us navigate Higashimura’s memories, we’re joined by Jenny McKeon, who transl...

* Take the Manga Mavericks 5-Year Anniversary Survey and Enter to Win a Free manga! More Details Below!* (https://s.surveyplanet.com/uwgeMjcMq) On this episode of Manga Mavericks, Colton & Lum travel to the Hole to take a look at Q Hayashida's Dorohedoro! A violent but wholesome tale of mystery and intrigue, as lizard man Caiman and his gyoza shop owner friend, Nikaido, search for answers about wh...

* Take the Manga Mavericks 5-Year Anniversary Survey and Enter to Win a Free manga! More Details Below!: https://s.surveyplanet.com/uwgeMjcMq * Manga Mavericks @ Movies’ first episode of 2021 is none other than Lupin III: The First! While it’s not the first Lupin film we’ve covered on this podcast, it is a first for the franchise; its first 3DCG animated feature! Vix joins us to discuss our theatr...

* Take the Manga Mavericks 5-Year Anniversary Survey and Enter to Win a Free manga! More Details Below!: https://s.surveyplanet.com/uwgeMjcMq * They’re all animals!… as well as tragic victims of familial abuse. That’s right, we’re starting off the year by taking a look back at Natsuki Takaya’s generation-defining shojo classic, Fruits Basket, a manga exploring a family curse that’s both literal an...

* Take the Manga Mavericks 5-Year Anniversary Survey and Enter to Win a Free manga! More Details Below!: https://s.surveyplanet.com/uwgeMjcMq * Tite Kubo’s traded in Soul Reapers for Witches and Hollows for Dragons in his newest manga, but his storytelling is no less enchanting! To discuss what makes Kubo’s new series Burn the Witch so spellbinding, we’re delighted to have on the magically talente...

The Nightmare that is 2020 is almost over, but are you prepared to face The Darkest Nightmare? AKA the 20th Detective Conan movie that suddenly dropped dubbed out of nowhere on digital platforms without any promotion or fanfare whatsoever? Well then, this podcast is your dream come true! Manga Mavericks @ Movies returns to close out the year by facing our greatest fear in this hell of a year - a b...

On this episode of Manga Mavericks, Lum & Colton take a closer look at the Mangamo app and read a few select titles such as the award winning MMO rom-com Loving Yamada at LV999!, the hilariously cruel Dropkick on My Devil, and the harrowing but thoughtful gender identity story of I Wanna Be Your Girl. They also take a look at even some more recent additions to the app with The Most Tsundere Boss i...

On this episode of Manga Mavericks, Colton & Lum spend most of the time just catching up on the news, including Oricon's list of the top 10 highest selling manga series from the past year (in which case, number 1 WILL surprise you!), as well as some shake ups in the anime/manga industry that may or may not have already happened by the time this episode has been released. We also talk about some ne...

Just when you thought you polished off the last of your Thanksgiving leftovers, LGBThanksgiving concludes with one last juicy podcast stuffed full of queer manga goodness! Hope you’re hungry, because this is a big one - our retrospective of the defining yuri manga of the 2010’s, Kase-san! We couldn’t digest a series this savory by ourselves, so we invited on some yuri connoisseurs to help us devou...

Just in time for the turkey day itself, LGBThanksgiving continues with another special interview! We’ve spotlighted manga localizers before, but on this episode we’re excited to host on the show someone who’s making their own manga, and has been doing great work sharing theirs and others’ diverse voices and perspectives by producing manga, animation, blog posts, analysis videos, interviews, mercha...

After our recent retrospective on My Brother's Husband, we were left curious about its creator, Gengoroh Tagame, and the world of gay manga. So we decided to talk to the person who perhaps knows Tagame's work best - Anne Ishii, the translator of My Brother's Husband and ambassador of Tagame's work in the west! Anne is one of the co-founders of Massive Goods, a publisher dedicated to producing gay...

Our Dreams at Dusk is a beautiful manga that explores characters across the LGBTQ+ spectrum in different phases of their life, struggling to be accepted for being themselves, and finding a community and support network in one another. It made waves when Seven Seas released it in English last year, and after reading it we knew we had to talk about it on the show! We’ve also brought on a very specia...

Boo! That’s the sound a vuvuzela makes, at least according to the series we’re talking about today. That’s right, Naoki Urasawa superfan and lettering enthusiast Aidan joins us to discuss the first Urasawa manga we’re covering on the show - Mujirushi: The Sign of Dreams! We discuss how the series reflects Urasawa’s storytelling principles while differing stylistically in interesting ways, and gush...

On this episode of Manga Mavericks, Colton & Lum spend most of the show catching up on and discussing their thoughts on the latest round of Jump Starts from Shonen Jump (Phantom Seer, High School Family & Our Blood Oath), as well as some other simulpub debuts from Mangamo (Deathdeus: Hero of the Dead & My Evil Stepbrother) and Manga Plus (World's End Harem ~Britannia Lumiére~, Hokkaido Gals are Su...

On this episode of Manga Mavericks, we have yet another review of a new series whose first volume is now on sale from Viz Media known as Moriarty the Patriot from Ryosuke Takeuchi and Hikaru Miyoshi! A series that runs in Shueisha's monthly Jump Square magazine starring the infamous nemesis of Sherlock Holmes himself, as he and his comrades take on the task of murdering the worst of England's elit...

“Fly Me to the Moon Let me podcast among the stars Let me see what marriage is like From a, Sunday and Hata In other words, listen to me In other words, baby, read this series!” That’s right, we’re over the moon because we’re taking a trip into one of the latest hit Shonen Sunday manga, Kenjiro Hata’s Fly Me to the Moon! As always when we cover anything Sunday, we’re joined once again by Sakaki, f...

Anime and manga are beloved worldwide and enjoyed by passionate fans of all walks of life. However, marginalized voices are often not represented or visible in community events, conversations, or the media we enjoy itself. But POC fans and creatives have done so much great and essential work for this fandom, Black fans in particular. Recently there’s been a long-overdue movement in creative and pr...

On this Manga Mavericks, its once again time for another news roundup, but this time we try something different! Instead of bogging down the episode with a huge slew of licenses that have been announced since the last time news was covered, Colton & Lum decide to each make their own short list of licenses that they're personally looking forward to seeing! Its a slight change in format compared to...