Trash Manga Friends

It's spooky season! And so for Halloween, we've dug up another horrific nightmare manga to read, when we discuss Doku-Mushi, a series all about that classic trope of a group of people trapped together without food or supplies. But who'll go mad first, the inmates, or the trio reading this... ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podcast To Read Trash Manga With My Friends And Actually Most Of Them We...

Our seasonal anime tie-in episode is here once more, and can it be? Do my eyes deceive me? Psyren, getting an anime after 15 plus years? Miracles do occur, as we discuss this psychic shounen manga of yesteryear and whether it holds up in the modern era. ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podcast To Read Trash Manga With My Friends And Actually Most Of Them Were Trash But Some Of Them Weren't! Or T...

It's the horrifying conclusion of our childhood memories arc! Beyond Sean and Digimon and Phil and HiMEs lies the biggest nightmare of them all though, a Mike choice! And after years of dangling it over our heads, he's finally making us read his beloved Gantz. Will this despair fueled death game for the already dead be the one that wins us over? ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podcast To Read T...

Our childhood memories arc continues, as Phil delves into his past to bring us My-HiME, an actiony romcomy haremy dramay mangay series. About couples using their children to fight orphans! Wait, no, not like that, I promise it's not that bad... probably... ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podcast To Read Trash Manga With My Friends And Actually Most Of Them Were Trash But Some Of Them Weren't! O...

From one Leomon to another, as we begin our childhood series arc! Mike's not the only one who had one of those "being a kid" phases, so this time Sean's bringing his beloved Digimon Adventure to the show. Did the manhua version live up to the iconic anime from our youth though? ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podcast To Read Trash Manga With My Friends And Actually Most Of Them Were Trash But S...

We could really use some healing after last episode's nightmare, so along comes the medic fantasy manga The Beast King: Master of Medicines! And good news, it's better than the last series we did about a healer. But will this story of demon and human working together to cure monsters and save the world be the tonic we so desperately need? ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podcast To Read Trash Ma...

Who let the dogs out? No, really, who, they didn't deserve this. This time around we read My Life as Inukai-san's Dog, a lovely innocent manga about a poor boy waking up one day as a dog and being adopted by his crush and everything is wholesome and nothing yabai happens. Nothing. Yabai. Happens. ... We're so sorry. ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podcast To Read Trash Manga With My Friends And...

Every year we head to China for a series, and results have been... mixed... So how will this year's entrant fare, as we read My Mobster Girlfriend, a harem romcom as a bunch of female mafiosos in training squabble over our lead guy from a former family dropped into their school life. And on a scale of Heaven Official's Blessing to So Pure, So Flirtatious, where will this one rank? ~ Welcome to Tha...

Is it already time for the first anime tie-in of Year 7? Well, it's also our first fantasy series of the year, so that tracks. We discuss The Level 999 Villager ahead of its anime release, where one villager has min-maxed harder than anyone else to bring peace to humans and demons. With such an original premise, this one must be good, right? ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podcast To Read Trash...

Okay, so last time may have been a false start, but for our second Year 7 episode, we've gone to Shounen Jump, and read one of their esteemed comedy series, Beelzebub! Will this story about some poor thug tasked with raising the spawn of Satan himself get a laugh out of us, or is manga comedy truly dead? ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podcast To Read Trash Manga With My Friends And Actually Mo...

Was it lucky year number seven for our trio, as we kick off another season of trash with Nozoki Ana, aka A Peep Hole! Well, considering its a 69 episode, it's definitely going to be a nice manga, but would good ol' T&A be enough to win us over? ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podcast To Read Trash Manga With My Friends And Actually Most Of Them Were Trash But Some Of Them Weren't! Or The Tr...

Doesn't it feel like only yesterday we kicked off Year 6 with Yu-Gi-Oh? And now here we are, at year's end, with the King of Games standing alongside 15 other series, ready to fight it out for the title of Not Actually Trash. Who joins the Frierens and Narutos at the top of the pile, and who gets eternal trashnation as the Trashest Manga, Friends? Trashtacular Tournament Arc 6-7 concludes now! ~ W...

We've made it! Once again, welcome to our end of year tournament spectacular! In this first half of Trashtacular Tournament Arc 6-7, we relive all 25 series covered throughout our sixth year, and slowly whittle them down to our Last 16 for next week's knockout stages. Was Yu-Gi-Oh better than My Hero? Was Flowers of Evil or Hensuki truly that bad? Does Sean still hate Secret of the Alien? All thes...

Baudelaire, give us strength. It's the FINAL series of Year 6, and we're going out with a traumatic bang, as Sean unleashes the manga version of one of his most hated anime – The Flowers of Evil! But that was 13 years ago, and it's not like you can rotoscope manga, so surely this romantic drama will have grown on him somewhat since then? If he can u-turn on Girl on the Shore, he can u-turn on anyt...

As the end of Year 6 draws nigh, who else will save us from endless trash manga, but Ottoman! This time around it's the turn of the Henshin Hero Husband, but can romance, superheroism, and a splash of Mike's beloved conspiracy theories make for a good series to relax in after a hard day at work? ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podcast To Read Trash Manga With My Friends And Actually Most Of The...

Revenge is a dish best served romcomtically, as after last episode we decided to subject dear Mike to his favourite genre – romcoms! This time it's My Teasing Fiancée up to the plate, a series with arranged partners (though at least both have agreed to it this time) and... er... wait, that can't be it, there must be more going on here, surely... ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podcast To Read T...

Happy April Fools! For you, definitely not for us, as for 2026, it's the turn of cartoons in the spotlight. And if you thought animation couldn't get worse than Sword Art Online, my friends, you have no idea. So enjoy, as the Trash Cartoon Friends discuss Stargate Infinity, the cartoon spin-off of the beloved scifi franchise that two of our trio grew up with. I'm so, so sorry. ~ Welcome to That Ti...

We've got a spring in our step for our Spring anime season tie-in, since one of the most anticipated anime adaptations has arrived! Yes, we're reading the award winning and critically acclaimed Witch Hat Atelier! Will the story of a normal girl stumbling into the world of magic resonate with our trio, or is one superfan about to have a horrible awakening... ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podca...

We're back in Mike's childhood once more. But this time, after the Tokyo Underground's and Boys Over Flowers's, we're guaranteed to have a banger, as we tackle the iconic Trigun. The anime might've been one of the pillars of Adult Swim, but how fares the original manga? Yeah, about that... ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podcast To Read Trash Manga With My Friends And Actually Most Of Them Were...

If in doubt, shounen will never let you down, right? So was it a bloodbath when we read the classic blood power series Tougen Anki: Legend of the Cursed Blood? After all, if you're drawing inspirations from every big name shounen manga past and present, you've got to be able to channel something interesting... right? ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podcast To Read Trash Manga With My Friends An...

Another year, another Valentine's, which can only mean yet another romcom. But this time we've looked to the bard for inspiration, to find Boarding School Juliet, inspired by Shakespeare's own Romeo and Juliet! Surely a romcom based off this all time iconic work in this season of love and romance couldn't enrage our trio? ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podcast To Read Trash Manga With My Frien...

Our first webtoon of 2026, and it's all about mixed martial arts fighting! Surely with an ex-martial artist, a wrestling stan and a shounen fan amongst our trio, Guard Pass must have been set to go down a treat. It's even got a female lead kicking butt and an atypical mountain of a male protagonist! There's no way we would hard pass on Guard Pass, right? ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podcast...

Now that 2026 has well and truly begun, we can start another of our traditions, the seasonal anime tie-in! And for the first time in a long time we're drawing inspiration from the villainess trope, as we let The Holy Grail of Eris bring out the worst in us! But was that a good thing? Or just more slop to animate two frames of and stick an AI sub or dub onto... ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Po...

Happy New Year! For the first time ever, our fortnightly episode falls on January 1st, so we scoured high and low to find a manga related to the new year! And we failed. So here's the next best thing when you need a series on new beginnings - isekai! But not just any isekai, an onsen isekai! ...No, not that onsen isekai (yes there's multiple), but Reincarnated as a Hot Spring in an Alternate World...

It's Chriiisssstmaaaas! And this year, more than any other, we're on brand, as we discuss Sanda! No, I've not misspelt that, it's the seasonal tale of a boy called Sanda who has the power to turn into Santa Claus. Set in a world where Christmas doesn't exist anymore and the kids can do literally no wrong. All done by the Beastars mangaka. Intrigued? So were we... ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A...