Tankobon

To celebrate the one-year anniversary of the Tankobon podcast we're listing 10 manga that we deem Tankobon Essentials. These manga all exude what we feel is the Tankobon spirit or highlight what we value in a manga.

This week we detail the happenings in volumes 7 and 8 of Rumiko Takahashi's manga Maison Ikkoku.

This week we discuss issue #29 of Weekly Shonen Jump and give our Nue's Exorcist scouting report.

This week we go over volumes 5 and 6 of Rumiko Takahashi's Maison Ikkoku.

In this episode we discuss issue #28 of Weekly Shonen Jump as well as give our scouting report on Do Retry.

This week we discuss volumes 3 and 4 of Maison Ikkoku by Rumiko Takahashi.

This episode we cover the table of contents for issue #27 of Weekly Shonen Jump.

It's our first episode covering Rumiko Takahashi's Maison Ikkoku! This week we're going through volumes 1 and 2.

This week we go over the table of contents for issue #26 of Weekly Shonen Jump and discuss our thoughts on where each series is at right now.

This week we go through the table of contents for issue #25 of Weekly Shonen Jump as usual and also announce the new series we'll be covering in our midweek episodes, Maison Ikkoku by Rumiko Takahashi!

This week we churn through the table of contents for Weekly Shonen Jump issue #24 and give our thoughts on the new digital manga services by VIZ and Kodansha (K Manga).

Weekly Shonen Jump is back from their Golden Week Break so this week we covered Issue #23 and Jude gave his scouting report on Kill Blue.

With no Weekly Shonen Jump this week we took it upon ourselves to list out what we think the 10 manga that would make up a Sight & Sound style poll. Jude also gives his scouting report for new series Tenmaku Cinema.

It's the final episode of our current run with Pokemon Adventures. We go through volumes 6 and 7 of the series, capping off the Red, Blue, Green, and Yellow arc.

We get a combined issue this week in Shonen Jump so we run down the table of contents for issue #21/#22.

This week we run through Pokemon Adventures volumes 4 and 5!

This week we say goodbye to Ichigoki's Under Control and run through the table of contents for Weekly Shonen Jump issue #20

This episode we run down volumes 2 and 3 of Pokemon Adventures.

This week we run through the table of content for Weekly Shonen Jump issue #19.

We're back with our mid-week episodes! This week we go over volume 1 of Pokemon Adventures and also give some background info on the mangaka who created it.

This week we go over the table of contents for Weekly Shonen Jump issue #18 and preview the four new series we will be seeing.

This week we run down the table of contents for issue #17 of Weekly Shonen Jump. We also announce the new series we will be covering every Thursday!

This week we quickly go over the Weekly Shonen Jump issue #16 table of contents and take a look at some of the newer series from Jump+.

This week we go over the table of contents for Weekly Shonen Jump issue #15 and our general thoughts on each manga. 

It's the final episode of our Death Note series! Tune in to hear the finale of one of the Weekly Shonen Jump greats!