Mudai Manga and Book Club

You know what's cool about space? The temperature. You know what else is cool about space? The manga Edens Zero, which we finally sit down and talk about; this week we dive into the opening of the story, covering the introductory chapters and the Norma arc. Alongside that, we take some time to get a little more contemplative as we look into Slice of Life, the genre, and discuss what we find appeal...

In the city where people sleep normally, and the weather is just about always sunny and warm, and a certain five year old has unfathomale powers of turning bubble pipes into breathing apparatuses, we find our series for this week, Hard Boiled Cop and Dolphin! In addition, Louie takes Tom through the wringer with a few rounds of Name That Isekai! and Tom read a reasonable number of books. It was re...

With Louie on vacation, Tom is joined today by special guest host Renata, and without the guardrails in place from Louie, we still stay laser focused on our topics of FullMetal Alchemist and it's anime adaptation (mostly 2003's version), Renata's Choice Five anime and manga series, visiting Japan, the joys of vending machines in Japan, museums we visited in Japan, the Jujutsu Kaisen cafe experienc...

You have seven days to listen to this show, otherwise it will no longer be the newest episode and you'll have a different one to listen to. Join us today as we take a look at the beginning of Jujutsu Kaisen, the "Fearsome Womb" arc, as one of us tries to explain the interesting and entertaining aspects of the series while the other complains about everything he can find wrong with it. . . . It's T...

It's about time, and money, and obvious jokes about such things, as Mudai takes on the first volume of Peddler in Another World: I Can Go Back to My World Whenever I Want's light novel series. Tom attempts to explain it without rambling by breaking down the characters then the plot and has varied degrees of success! Before that, though, Louie takes us through the narrative device of plot skips, fr...

We hope you're hungry, as this week we look into the first volume of Campfire Cooking in Another World with my Absurd Skill's manga adaptation, where a Japanese person gets sent to a fantasy world, gains access to an online supermarket from our world, and befriends a being of pure power in the form of a mystical wolf. Along with that, we take some time to discuss the positives of physical books vs...

Time to go dark this week as the brothers go into seven cool villains across multiple series and what makes them special. Then, Tom goes over the first five chapters (volumes 1 and the first half of volume 2) of Issak, the samurai revenge story of a Japanese marksman chasing his target to Europe of the 30 Year's War, complete with knights, sieges, and plenty of brutal action.   Follow us on Bluesk...

Here with the hard hitting facts, we talk this week about the joys of gyarus almost some and the terribleness of the uzumaki in your ramen bowl, by which we mean Tom explains how Naruto self destructed in his eyes in the most niche and unimportant flaw that has still bothered him for more than a decade. And, to make it more exciting, Louie has to guess what it is with limited information and incre...

Today, we wander off into the endless sea of grass to cover the first volume of The Frontier Lord Begins with Zero Subjects light novel; engoy picturesque views of grass, be threatened by the locals, sleep in the grass, be threatened by the local wildlife, look at grass, set up a yurt, think about grass, all is grass . . . and sheep too! Also, Louie talks us through Hunter's Guild: Red Hood, a sho...

With 2024 officially, definitely, and technically behind us, Tom and Louie take far longer than they expected to cover their favorite series they discovered this past year. From an assemblage of notable mentions and honorable titles to the top five best of the year, there’s bound to be something here for you to enjoy as well! Also they spend too much time talking about how much they love them, . ....

In this pilot episode of the podcast, we flail around helplessly trying to talk about things we enjoy. But also and more importantly, Louie leads us in covering the first main arc of DanDaDan by Yukinobu Tatsu -- The Turbo Granny Arc -- and we spend much of the time gushing about how wonderful the series is due to the fact that, it is, actually, wonderful. In addition, Tom takes us on a short disc...