OverMangaCast

2021 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 2021. 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 2021. Here's a link to some of the things we recommended:...

Remember back when all the classic childhood stories were getting gritty reboots about their origins? Except now Santa is a super-hero, and he's JACKED. The titular Klaus fights in his first adventure with his wolf sidekick Lilli, fighting the evil Baron who wants to work his men through the Yuletide season in an effort to summon the demon lord Krampus. This week, Matt, Sam, Jae, and Jacob rea...

Momo Ayase is a high school girl who doesn't believe in aliens; Okarun is a high school boy who doesn't believe in spirits. Can these two opposites find some middle ground, or maybe even romance? Not until Okarun's genitals are stolen by a super-fast old woman ghost and Momo's latent psychic powers manifest. Look, a lot happens in Dandadan, and sometimes it has the benefit of makin...

Mash Burnedead is an abnormal kid, living in the woods with his adoptive grandpa. While everyone else in this world has magical powers like something out of Harry Potter, mash just has the power of gains. He works out every day, and is a model of physical fitness. However, when his peaceful life is placed in danger, he's forced to go undercover into not-Hogwarts in order to become the greatest...

Tanjiro, Inosuke, and Zenitsu are recovering from the butt-whooping they received at spider mountain with some training from hell, because their next mission will be their most dangerous yet. Tasked with accompanying hashira Rengoku to take on the mysterious Infinity Train, you know, that one the movie Demon Slayer: Mugen Train talks about? Anyway, this is the manga version of that. This week, Mat...

No-Read November finally comes to a merciful end with one final movie. Goku is your average AMERICAN high schooler, just trying to make it through class alive. Bullies pick on him, girls don't notice him, what's a guy to do? Oh wait, now his grandpa was killed by Piccolo, a girl named Bulma breaks into his house, and now he's on a quest to find the dragon balls. And then... ugh, like a...

No-Read November crosses the half-way point, and we're hitting hard mode. Erin Yeager is a kid who lives in a medieval walled, that appears to be built out of abandoned helicopters? Anyway, there's some giant cgi monsters that live just outside the wall, and his childhood friend Mikasa Ackerman is killed, but actually not, and then hooks up with someone's weird self-insert OC. Its... a...

No-Read November continues on, with no reading this whole month and instead watching movies. Light Turner is just your average AMERICAN school kid that no one understands, getting picked on by bullies, and never noticed by the girl of his dreams. But what if he could make them all pay? Then William Dafoe gives him a magic notebook that can kill people. Now he's off to make the world a better p...

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 get everything back. It then kind of devolves into a weird collection of scenes from the anime loosely connected with unnecessary...

Spooktober comes to a close as we culminate with this final horror comic of the Halloween season. Kirie's life was completely normal, loving family, plenty of friends, and even a spooky goth bf who is definitely not a Junji Ito self-insert. However, things begin to go wrong as her boyfriend's (Shuichi) father begins to delve into a new obsession, from which all things begin to spiral out o...

Spooktober continues as we delve into Season 1 the Webtoon horror sensation Everything is Fine. Except it isn't. Maggie has grown disillusioned with her mundane life as a suburban housewife, with her husband Sam seemingly oblivious to her frustrations. However, the all-seeing eye of big brother constantly watching adds an unrelenting sense of tension that lives just below the surface. This wee...

Spooktober rears its head around the OverMangaCast crew with this week's read. Fran is just some poor Frankenstein's monster girl , gifted with an ungodly skill in all things surgical. With her specialty in reanimation, Fran takes on all tasks, giving people their utmost heart's desire. However, sometimes she dabbles in things not meant for man, and terrible karmic fates befall her pat...

Metroid: Dread eve is here, but the crew can't sleep so they crack open an old story to make it through the night. The origin of Metroid's protagonist, Samus Aran, never before told. From her traumatic childhood all the way up to her Zero Mission, this manga shows the life and times of the normally silent bounty hunter as she trained with the Chozo. Except Ridley, he talks a lot. Mostly ab...

Edo-era was Japan was a peaceful quiet place; then the aliens invaded. Now its basically modern day Japan, definitely no metaphors there. Gin is a slacker freelancer who has given up fighting for the freedom of his country, and just wants to live a simple life helping people where he can. But mostly its an absurdist comedy where wacky hi-jinks are behind every corner. This week, Matt, Sam, Jae, an...

Yatora Yaguchi is a delinquent who coasts by on his hard work ethic. However, once he discovers art, he suddenly has a passion in life. Now he wants to fight his way to the top to become King of the Oil Painters... oh? No? Its a coming-of-age story that's actually pretty grounded in reality? That sounds cool, too! This week, Matt, Sam, Jae, and Jacob read and discuss Blue Period by Tsubasa Yam...

Thorfinn is on a quest for revenge, working for the man who killed his father to earn his shot. The young viking fights the French, the norse, and everyone in between. Also, they mention going to the magical land of Minnesota, except they call it Vinland. 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 opinions...

Content Warning: Discussion of suicide and abusive themes Mirai is at the end of his rope, having dealt with his aunt & uncle's abuse throughout middle school. However, on the night he decides to end it all, he's rescued by an angel Nasse. He's given magic wings to fly anywhere and a magic red arrow to make anyone fall in love with him, all to find true happiness. Wait, he also has...

Jonathan Jostar is you average red-blooded English boy living alone with his father and servants in a stately manor. However, this all gets turned on its head when the devilishly gentlemanly Dio Brando comes to live with them and turns his life upside down! How will he learn to live with this strange boy who usurps him at ever corner? Also at some point there are vampires... look, its a bizarre ad...

Shiki was just your average socially deprived jungle child living in an abandoned robot theme park, when a visiting youtuber turns his life around. Rebecca & her cat Happy rescue him and take him for a life of adventure in the stars, to find a giant lady who grants wishes. Totally normal sci-fi shenanigans when you spell it out like this. This week, Matt, Sam, and Jacob read and discuss Edens...

Revisit month comes to a merciful end with another look at Kill 6 Billion Demons! Allison actually does things this book as she starts her quest to rescue her boyfriend and potentially get laid. However, a crew of demons and even gods themselves stand in her way while she just wants to get the whole "hero's quest" over as soon as possible. This week, Matt, Sam, Jae, and Jacob read and...

Taking a short break from our regularly scheduled podcast. On this episode listen to Jacob and Jae provide more commentary of their thoughts on My Hero Academia (Boku no Hero Academia) characters while Sam and Matt were away. Listen to them simp and gush over their favorite heroes and their quirks. We'll be back and refreshed next week with another manga to read. Read along, meme along, or jus...

Revisit month claims another victim with this audience-voted pick: Tanjiro's finally making some friends; too bad they're a whiny coward and a boar-headed pretty boy. Will Zinetsu and Inosuke help defeat Arachnophobia Mountain, or will they just end of being dead emotional weight? This week, Matt, Sam, Jae, and Jacob read and discuss Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (Ch.20-44). Read along, m...

Revisit month is going on strong, with the conflict between gods and mankind going into its next two major fights! In one, Poseidon, God Amongst Gods, is forced to contend with History's Greatest Loser Sasaki Kojiro! Then bless my soul, Hercules is on a roll, as Heracles faces the truly worst of humanity with the one, the only - Jack the Ripper! This week, Matt, Sam, Jae, and Jacob read and di...

We're back for more Dragon Ball! Goku meets his eternal rival Krillin, and the tournament of the world's strongest martial artists take place! Who will win? And where is Master Roshi and Launch? This week, Matt, Sam, Jae, and Jacob read and discuss Dragon Ball Ch.24-54 by Akira Toriyama. Read along, meme along, or just yell at our bad opinions by following  @OverMangaCast  on Twitter. YouT...

Sam is on vacation this week, so this week Sam & Matt discussed filler to call for time. Listen as they go over filler in Dragon Ball, One Piece, Bleach, and others, and share some opinions on the nature of filler in general. We'll be back and refreshed next week with another manga to read. Listen to Matt's guest spot here, it was a fun session: One Podcast Prevails - Episode 72: The D...