Trash Manga Friends

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...

We're through the looking glass now, as on this day that never was, Leap Day 2024, we tackle the weirdness of Welcome to the NHK. Conspiracies, questionably legal substances and so much more dubiousness await in this bizarre cult classic... ~ 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 Mang...

What do you get if you make a webtoon Game of Thrones? Probably something like The Flower That Was Bloomed By A Cloud, a historical romance series with political machinations aplenty. Was this enough to win us over for once? Or just remind us of how that TV show ended... ~ 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...

Valentines! Romance! Drool! Come now, did you expect anything less from us? We're discussing Mysterious Girlfriend X in our latest Love Day special, a romantic manga where one girl's drool has the power to drive you crazy, relay emotions, mimic traits, and so much more! With such a crazy mechanic, this has to be good, right? ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podcast To Read Trash Manga With My Fr...

Ah yes, this is much more our speed, doing manga's with slave in the title. For our Winter anime tie-in we're discussing Chained Soldier, a very horny on main shounen manga that bears an uncanny resemblance to a certain other big time shounen. Were we able to look past the more problematic elements, or chugging bleach to forget this ever happened... ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podcast To Re...

This is it! Was the One Piece real? Or just another trash manga in disguise? We celebrate our hundredth episode by reading the Greatest Of All Time. But not just two mere volumes, no, but an entire 100 chapters! Did the entire East Blue arc make us want to undertake manga's most epic voyage, or avoid the sea forever more? ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podcast To Read Trash Manga With My Frien...

Christmas is a time of giving, so we're giving back to you, our listeners, by reading a series that you recommended! And it's our first magical girl series no less, in MachiMaho, a very on-brand manga for us. Why be pure and nice and innocent when you can be a bad bitch? But will we simp or will we scream? ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podcast To Read Trash Manga With My Friends And Actually...

As we close in on the century, it's time for a highlights special, as we celebrate the Best of Trash Manga Friends with clips chosen by all three hosts! What weird things are we into? When did we rage the most? Is meat a food? The answers to these and so much more await in this whistle stop tour through three and half years of podcasts! ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podcast To Read Trash Mang...

Ever wanted to know what the life of Mike is like? Then do we have the manga for you! We're covering I Fell In Love, So I'm Streaming It, a romcom all about a bunch of livestreamers and their insistence on not revealing this fact to anyone. Weird? Enjoyable? Or just plain Trash? Watch and find out for yourself... ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podcast To Read Trash Manga With My Friends And Ac...