Trash Manga Friends

We've returned to China for So Pure, So Flirtatious, a romcom webtoon all about a guy finding some special contact lenses but also about dating a teacher but also about overthrowing some criminal charges and also some magical fighting stuff too, why not. And that's just for starters! Join us trying to figure out what the hell we even read this time around... ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podc...

2025 is here! And we're kicking off with a romcom for our seasonal anime tie-in special, where I Got Married to the Girl I Hate Most in Class! Ah, back to the good ol' days of long titles that were just the premise. Did this make us fall in love and want to watch the anime? Or discover new depths of hatred? ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podcast To Read Trash Manga With My Friends And Actually...

Christmas is almost here, and so is the second half of our Secret Santa Specials! Sean and Mike are competing for Phil's affections to win a chance to screw the other over in Trashtacular 5 in 2025, and this time, Mike's gone for the jugular, picking a manga adaptation of critically acclaimed game The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past! Will Phil love this as much as he loves Zelda? Or was it bes...

It's the first half of our Secret Santa Christmas Specials, as Sean and Mike compete to woo Phil for a chance at winning the ultimate prize – screwing somebody over in Trashtacular 5! Sean steps up first, picking legendary award winning sci-fi manga Girls' Last Tour as his champion, as two girls travel the end of days to see what's what. Were his co-hosts as apocalyptically won over as Sean was? ~...

The phrase "do you need a hand" has never been more twisted as we tackle Don't Mind Me, Sensei! Give Yourself A Hand! A lovely manga about drawing manga. Y'know, like iconic series Look Back and Bakuman. Except this time, with more masturbation. What will those mangakas think of next... ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podcast To Read Trash Manga With My Friends And Actually Most Of Them Were Tr...

Yanderes! Isekai! Streaming! Yes, it's the weirdest what3words ever conceived as we discuss The Case In Which Streaming In Another World Led To The Creation Of A Massive Yandere Following! Were we so in love with it we'd hunt down all other fans? Did we just find this fine? Or did our now two streamers lament yet another disappointing streaming manga? What do you think, dear show notes reader, wha...

We're getting our Henshin on for Halloween this year, but... not in the way you'd probably like. Or hope. Yes, on the spookiest day of the year we're tackling one of the most morbid and horrific mangas / hentais of them all, ShindoL's Metamorphosis. This episode isn't for the faint of heart, so gather your resolve, and prepare to dive into a never-ending descent. ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A...

It's Fall anime season tie-in time, and for the biggest season we've gone corporate... and also magical girls? Yes, it's Magilumiere, where being a mahou shoujo is just another 9 to 5 career option. Did we enjoy this fresh take on the genre? Or stare longingly at all the other Fall anime series we could've been discussing instead... ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podcast To Read Trash Manga Wi...

The trilogy is complete! After Bleach in Year 3 and One Piece in Year 4, we wrap up our Big Three specials by discussing Naruto! And as is our ninja way for these eps, we discuss not just two, but five volumes of this iconic manga. From humble beginnings to the Land of Waves to the First Chunin Exam, we analyse the journey of Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura, and whether you should, in fact, believe it....

Social deaths abound this time as we tackle Ikenie Touhyou, aka Sacrificial Vote. And what is a social death? As it turns out, porn. Lots of porn. In a stacked genre of death games and battle royales, could this different take stand out, or just have us praying for good old fashioned sudoku. ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podcast To Read Trash Manga With My Friends And Actually Most Of Them We...

We're covering maybe the defacto fanservice series this time around, as Ikkitousen aka Battle Vixens is our latest manga. Did we unearth yet another fragment of Mike's illicit past? And was it as trash as pretty much every other series he's dragged us kicking and screaming through? Yes. But maybe not for the reason you'd expect... ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podcast To Read Trash Manga With...

We had so much fun the last time we did a manga on marriage, so why not do it again! We discuss 365 Days To The Wedding, a romCON manga (this joke gets funnier every time I make it) where our two not lovebirds set up a fake marriage to avoid being transferred to Siberia! Were we in on it with them, or dobbing this series in the first chance we got? ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podcast To Rea...

We're discussing one of the biggest webtoons of the moment this time, as we analyse Onmiscient Reader's Viewpoint! As Earth and all of humanity become caught up in the world's largest Twitch stream survival game, will this tale of not one but two protagonists win us over? Or just make us stumble over identifying them through the episode...? ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podcast To Read Trash...

Before isekai, there was moeblob! And we're tackling the king of the genre, K-On, this time on the show. There's music, there's comedy and there's fluffy fun galore in this 4koma manga... well, unless you're a certain member of our trio... ~ 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 Trash Manga...

Summer's here, so time to watch some anime and pack on the pounds! And what better manga to do that with than Plus-Sized Elf which gets it adaptation this season? Were we feasting in this sort of reverse isekai, or running for the treadmill to get away from it all? ~ 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 W...

Pride Month continues in our second LGBT manga focused episode! This time we're looking at lesbians in Girl Friends, a more traditional yuri romance series. Will we find a happy ending this pride? ~ 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 Trash Manga Friends Podcast, for short. Each fortnight...

Pride Month is kicking off our fifth year of podcasting, in this first of two LGBT manga focused episodes, tackling I Think Our Son Is Gay, featuring that rarest of critters in manga... no, not somebody gay, I'm talking about parents! Will our debut Year 5 manga set the bar, or be the first in a long line of disappointments... ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podcast To Read Trash Manga With My...

The group stages are over, now the real work begins! In this second half of our Trashtacular Fournament Arc, the remaining 16 series are pitted against each other 1v1 until only one Not Actually Trash series remains. Is Frieren inevitable? Will One Piece remain the GOAT? And which series will get the prestige of being the Trashest Manga, Friends? All shall be revealed... ~ Welcome to That Time I S...

A whole term of trash is in the books, which can only mean it's time for the Trashtacular Forunament Arc! Of the 24 series we've covered this year, which series will be crowned Not Actually Trash? I mean, One Piece, obviously, it's the GOAT. And on the flipside, which will be the Trashest Manga, Friends? From Fairy Tail to I, Superhero and Magical Girl, lets relive (or should that be ReLife) anoth...

The last series of Year 4! And we're giving magical girls one more chance, as we tackle I, Superhero and Magical Girl aka Ore to Hero to Mahou Shoujo. Was this some dream fusion of My Hero Academia and Sailor Moon? Or more like Black Adam meets Cardcaptor Sakura Clear Card Arc? Find out in the last stop before our fourth Trashtacular! ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podcast To Read Trash Manga...

One of the all-time best mangaka is our focus this time, as we read Sand Land by Akira Toriyama, to celebrate the game coming out tomorrow, and the legacy left behind by one of the greatest to ever do it. Was this short shounen a fitting way to remember him, or a barren desert wasteland amongst his other iconic creations? ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podcast To Read Trash Manga With My Frien...

We're going down, down, deeper and down, into the underground to cover 90s shounen manga Tokyo Underground and another piece of Mike's childhood? Was this oldie with wind, gravity and healing powers being flung around a forgotten classic, or just plain forgettable? ~ 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 W...

Another April Fools special is upon us, and on Mike's repeated, insistent request, we're looking towards live action adaptations, as we review the infamous Death Note adaptation. No, not the Japanese films. Or the Korean TV series. No no, we're watching Netflix's adaptation. And with Willem Dafoe in the mix, this has to be the best one of all! Right? ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podcast To W...

The spring anime season is here, with sequels galore. But why would we cover any of that drek, when we could talk about something much more... fabled. The Fable, in fact. A little action, a little comedy, a little drama, a whole lotta slice of life, but surely a slife about a hitman must be enough plot for our Mike? ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podcast To Read Trash Manga With My Friends And...

You've seen isekai before, but what about one where the lead is, get this, reincarnated and is super strong! So original, right? We discuss this fascinating new spin on the trope from Your SSS-Rank Afterlife is Confirmed, Virtuous Old Man. And one of us maybe, just maybe, has finally reached the end of their tether... ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podcast To Read Trash Manga With My Friends A...