Trash Manga Friends

We've had a time as of late, but is now when our trio finally gets on the same page? Kemono Jihen is up to the plate in this episode, a supernatural mystery shounen involving tanukis, kitsunes, vampires and more besides! Can this series that's sold millions and has an anime finally be something we all consider good, or another foul spirit to be banished to the shadow realm? ~ Welcome to That Time...

Childhood trauma's continue in some capacity, as now we delve into Phil's past for A Town Where You Live! It's just a little romantic drama manga, we've done a bunch of those and Sean's bought a couple, so surely this one can't be that bad? Oh, you sweet summer children... ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podcast To Read Trash Manga With My Friends And Actually Most Of Them Were Trash But Some O...

What could be scarier than Halloween? How about a Mike's choice episode! We delve once more into his childhood to unearth Zoids, a rare mecha manga for us to dissect, with its own massive toy line and legacy to boot. But did he finally come good, or am I just going back to watching Robot Wars reruns? ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podcast To Read Trash Manga With My Friends And Actually Most O...

Halloween is here, so it's time to send in the clowns! Those murderous, psychotic clowns...? Join us for another gorefest as we tackle The Killer Clown's Questions, a bloody horror manga about... killer clowns... Will Pumpkin Night finally be toppled from its throne? And how many times will we say the word clus- ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podcast To Read Trash Manga With My Friends And Act...

Episode 150! The Fall Anime Tie-In Special! Combine these two and yes, he is here, as we discuss one of the biggest series of the past decade and shounen megahit My Hero Academia, as it prepares for its final season airing now! In this special bumper length episode, we discuss the first three volumes and two seasons of the show, from Deku's origins to the sports festival! Did we find this All Migh...

Anime tie-ins aren't the only kind we do, as to celebrate the release of the third and final season on Netflix today, we're covering Alice in Borderland! Will this sort of isekai sort of death game very little Wonderland be the one to finally unite us in praise? Or will it be more developed by Randy Pitchford level? ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podcast To Read Trash Manga With My Friends And...

Wait, an isekai that... justified being an isekai? Surely not! This time we've covered I'm Standing On A Million Lives, and asking ourselves if we have finally, truly found the best isekai ever... or if once again, we're standing on yet another trash manga. ~ 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!...

After a trio of Chinese series over the years that have... let's say underwhelmed... we decided enough is enough. And so we turn to the #1 ranked Chinese series according to MAL, from acclaimed author Mo Xiang Tong Xiu, it's Heaven Official's Blessing. Did we finally discover peak, or another worst of the year contender? ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podcast To Read Trash Manga With My Friend...

Webtoons are back on Trash Manga Friends, as we descend into the depths of L.A.G! No, I don't mean the audio glitches that plagued our last episode, I mean total nonstop action as we fight through chamber after chamber, challenge after challenge, and see if all fighting all the time is truly a winning formula for a series. ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podcast To Read Trash Manga With My Frie...

It truly was a war of the worlds when we read Secret of the Alien! Our class rep protagonist confesses to the girl he likes, but shock, she's an alien and needs his help with her mission! What could it be? And how on (and beyond) Earth was it so divisive to have Sean and Mike at each other's throats!? ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podcast To Read Trash Manga With My Friends And Actually Most...

It's a feast for the senses this time around as we partake of The Kajiki Chef: Divine Cusine, a Jump Plus series set in ye olde Tokyo where giant fish swim the skies and chefs look to take 'em down and cook 'em up to make the best eats. And save people from rampaging monsters, I guess. Were we asking for seconds, or trying to get the fishy stank out of our noses? ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A...

Fantasy! Anime! Truly, who could've predicted such an unexpected turn of events for our first anime tie-in episode of Year 6. Yes, buried amongst the mountain of sequels, it's New Saga, where our hero manages to rewind the clock at the end of the world to give himself one more chance to set things right. But did we want to rewind time to before we read this? ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podc...

Okay, that's enough good series, it's back to the trash pits with Hensuki, also known as Are You Willing to Fall in Love with a Pervert, as Long as She's a Cutie? Would this combination of friendship tropes and fetishes blended together into a romcom exceed expectations, or be yet another in a long line of fanservice rubbish? ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podcast To Read Trash Manga With My F...

Another year, another big name series to kick us off, as we dive into the Shadow Realm to read Yu-Gi-Oh! But throw away everything you know about card games on motorcycles and Dark Magician Girls, this is OG, Season 0 Yu-Gi-Oh, where every game is a dance with death. Did we enjoy Yu-Gi-Oh Classic, or were we begging for Duel Monsters to return? ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podcast To Read Tr...

An off week episode!? That can only mean it's the climax of Trashtacular Tournament Arc-V! With the chaff eliminated, we're into the knockout rounds, as we take the 16 survivors and 1v1 them down to find this year's Not Actually Trash series! Will a big name like Naruto or Pokémon win? Can the gays Girl Friends and I Think Our Son is Gay triumph? Or will the hentai Metamorphosis beat 'em all? Let...

Five years! Yes, that's right, we've made it to Trashtacular Tournament Arc-V, as for the fifth time we pit all the mangas, webtoons and whatever So Pure So Flirtatious was into the tournament arc to end all tournament arcs. In this first half, we'll find which of our 25 series survive the group stages and make it to the Last 16, and which are on the fast track to being the Trashest Manga, Friends...

For our final Year 5 series, Mike has dived into his childhood once more, to pick the award winning, best selling, shoujo megahit Boys Over Flowers! Can this classic reverse harem of a poor girl in a rich person's school overcoming bullying, making friends and finding romance end the year with a beautiful bouquet, or wilt under our scorn? ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podcast To Read Trash Ma...

Five seconds was more than enough for us to decide the fate of Battle in 5 Seconds, a good ol' action manga where everyone gets wacky abilities and must fight to survive in the ultimate death game! Well, except there's not really any death. Or winning. Or losing. Confused? So were we... ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podcast To Read Trash Manga With My Friends And Actually Most Of Them Were Tr...

We're closing in on the end of Year 5, so let's get back to something we're all comfortable with. No, not more yanderes, we're returning to streaming with our lord and VTuber Saviour ✟ Messiah-chan! Was this a religious Live2D experience? Or should we have stuck with that one satanic VTuber Mike actually remembers... ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podcast To Read Trash Manga With My Friends An...

Is it our fifth April Fools special already? For 2025, we've dived into the world of rate-ups and infinite currencies known as gacha games, and taken aim at one of the genre's bigger recent successes, Goddess of Victory: NIKKE! Was this an SSR pull? Or just another title we'll set to aut-burn? ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podcast To Play Trash Gacha With My Friends And Whoops There Goes My L...

The light at the end of the tunnel, it's healing vibes for our latest anime tie-in special, as we discuss The Too-Perfect Saint! Will we enjoy this fantasy series about escaping your abusers and being inundated with positive affirmations, or defy all odds and still find something to complain about? ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podcast To Read Trash Manga With My Friends And Actually Most Of...

Fun's over, we're back to abject misery, as we cover Ijousha no Ai, aka An Abnormal Person's Love. And by abnormal, we mean yandere. And by yandere, we don't mean happy go lucky streaming antics or Yuno Gasai facial expressions, we mean oh god help us. Did we find joy in the darkness, or just yet more despair? ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podcast To Read Trash Manga With My Friends And Actua...

Happy Pokémon Day! Finally the stars have aligned and we get to talk about the #1 franchise of all time, Pocket Monsters! We discuss all three volumes of the Red Green Blue arc of Pokémon Adventures aka Special, alongside plenty of games chat and memories as we reflect on the greatest of 'em all, and why it was Sean's destiny to be a Pokémaniac. ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podcast To Read T...

You want another romcom for our Valentines special? It's like we read your mind! Which is exactly the theme of the manga this time, a 4koma where our hapless heroine can hear everyone's thoughts, including those of our very horny, very into her lead. Did we love it? Or did National Singles Awareness Day win out once again. ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podcast To Read Trash Manga With My Frie...

Back to back webtoons? Well I never! This time it's Revenge of the Baskerville Bloodhound, a series that has nothing really to do with Sherlock Holmes or bloodhounds. But it is a, and stop me if you've heard this before, power trip fantasy series with art by Redice Studio! Was it another regression for this well worn genre, or could this count itself among the Solo Leveling's of the world? ~ Welco...