Trash Manga Friends

We're back to webtoons as we see a Korean take on the wuxia genre in Nano Machine! When one kid at death's door gets a dose of nano machines from the future injected directly into him, how will this effect his future and that of his clan? And will Mike care? All those answers and many more await... ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podcast To Read Trash Manga With My Friends And Actually Most Of...

The spooks are upon us for another year, and what could be more horrifying than kids fighting to the death in an all-out battle royale in... Battle Royale! We discuss the manga version of this household name, and how it compares to it's famous cinematic cousin and the many, many series that have followed in its wake. ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podcast To Read Trash Manga With My Friends An...

Shounen's are back baby, as we read Monochrome Factor, a manga about what happens when shadows from the other side invade our world and take our lead's body! Bleach? Nah, completely different. Will Sean love this as much as his beloved shounen darling, or see red in a world of black and white? ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podcast To Read Trash Manga With My Friends And Actually Most Of Them...

The world of anime calls to us once more with that rarest of series – a fantasy that isn't an isekai! No, instead we're pondering what happens to the hero's party in the years, decades and centuries after their journey is over as we discuss Frieren: Beyond Journey's End. Will we love it? Or was endless isekai not that bad actually? ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podcast To Read Trash Manga Wit...

Sean is running the show more so than usual, as he provides his take on a classic 00s series in FLCL! But how on Earth do you adapt something so unique to manga? Is it even possible? We discuss the Fooly, the Cooly and everything inbetween! ~ 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...

Mike's taking charge this time and dragging us back two decades to a world of Linkin' Park and Evanescence when we cover the iconic manga Elfen Lied! Did its mature themes stand the test of time, or was it pure edgelord cringe widdling itself on the floor? ~ 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...

As surely as night follows day, does a romcom series follow an isekai one. But it's a classic, as we discuss The World God Only Knows, where one visual novel and dating sim god is tasked with translating those skills to the real world... or else! Did we enjoy this high stakes wooing, or did Mike once again get very mad at the mere concept of romantic comedy? ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podc...

We're back to ol' inevitable this time, as we tackle yet another isekai manga in Kenja no Mago, aka Wise Man's Grandchild! Fantasy world? Check. Ridiculously overpowered protagonist? Check. But will it be checkmate once again for the genre, or is this actually one of the good'uns? ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podcast To Read Trash Manga With My Friends And Actually Most Of Them Were Trash Bu...

A long running detective manga? Yes, that's right, we're covering QED! ...what, did you think we meant something else? And boy does this redefine long, with the longest single chapter we've ever read, but was it packed full of content and goodness, or just a really, really long murder of the mind? ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podcast To Read Trash Manga With My Friends And Actually Most Of T...

Anime tie-in time has arrived once again! And the spooks are out early this year as we tackle Dark Gathering, a supernatural horror manga about one lil' girl's quest to catch 'em all to help save her family and friends from eternal damnation. But did we need to perform an exorcism on this series as well? ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podcast To Read Trash Manga With My Friends And Actually Mo...

Imagine taking a pill that could take you back 10 years? Not in time thankfully, who wants to relive the past decade, but back to your youthful good looks and high school banter. That's the premise of webtoon ReLife, but were our trio ready to go back to school, or happy to have left those days and this series behind? ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podcast To Read Trash Manga With My Friends A...

Year 4 is here and we're kicking off with a banger - the legendary, crticially acclaimed and super successful shonen manga Fairy Tail! Will our trio love Hiro Mashima's magnum opus, or be rebuffed by its zany antics and off-the-wall comedy? ~ 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...

The group stages are over, it's time to whittle our remaining 15 series 1v1 until only one remains! Which will join Solo Leveling and Look Back as Not Actually Trash? And what will be thrown into the slurry pit of Trashest Manga, Friends like Minamoto's Story and Redo of Healer? All those answers and more as Trashtacular Tournament Three concludes! ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podcast To Rea...

Third time's the charm, as we embark on our third Trashtacular Tournament Arc! Which series will rise through the ranks to be crowned Not Actually Trash? And who'll have found a way to sink deeper than the rest to be the Trashest Manga, Friends? I mean, remember series like Soul Land and Platinum End? Sure wish we didn't! ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podcast To Read Trash Manga With My Frien...

It's a Year 3 climax of AAA Hollywood blockbuster scale as we tackle the all action thrill ride that is The Last Exorcist: Ender Geister! But beyond the endless film references, did we close out the year with a bang or twenty, or just morb out at what a flop this manga was? ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podcast To Read Trash Manga With My Friends And Actually Most Of Them Were Trash But Some...

We're delving back into the world of kinks on main for our penultimate Year 3 series, as we discuss Ore no Himekutsu wo Haitekure, or Help Me Put On My Princess Shoes, a story about cobbling, feet, and one guy's incontrollable leg fetish. Definitely legs. Honest. ~ 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 Wer...

So you reincarnate and wait come back it's not an isekai! Instead we're reborn on good old Earth as your favourite idol's kids, with a second shot at life and happiness. But there's lies behind those smiles, as we discuss the award-winning anime-adaptation receiving Oshi no Ko! There's no way Mike could hate this one, right? ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podcast To Read Trash Manga With My Fr...

Our annual April Fools special is back, as we turn to visual novels for fresh trash-spiration. And bug-ger me did we find one, in the form of Creature Romances: Kokonoe Kokoro, where our romance protag dumb dumb is just trying to get with his girl. His grasshopper girl. Did this VN lean into it's insanity, or somehow play it blander than bland. Plus! Sean and Phil talk about their VN recommendatio...

We're the cult of isekainality! Which makes no sense, as our isekai manga this time takes place on a world without religion, gods or cults. Bar the religion, god and cult the series is about. But will we end up worshipping our latest anime tie-in, KamiKatsu: Working for God in a Godless World? ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podcast To Read Trash Manga With My Friends And Actually Most Of Them...

We're going back, back further than we've ever been before, to the 1970s and some small series called Kinnikuman. Which you may know better as the origins of what became Ultimate Muscle! But were we (well, one of us) in wrestling heaven, or attempting to bury this all-time Shonen Jump classic? ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podcast To Read Trash Manga With My Friends And Actually Most Of Them...

Isekai? Isekai! Re:turning to isekai. But sadly not with that Re: series. Instead we're delving into a fantasy world from before Slime and Spider, where our overpowered lead is reincarnated as an even more overpowered goblin. But does our trio like little green men, or has this infamous series earned every part of its reputation? ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podcast To Read Trash Manga With...

Finally we're back to the world of webtoons with Dice, the cube that apparently changes everything? Well, this series on completing random tasks to better yourself certainly changed one of our opinions on the little rollable trinkets... but for the better, or the infinitely worse? ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podcast To Read Trash Manga With My Friends And Actually Most Of Them Were Trash Bu...

How many romcoms is too many romcoms? Time to find out as we discuss yet another romantic comedy manga in A Couple of Cuckoos, where two kids swapped at birth are forcibly engaged and made to live together. But the real question is, has Mike finally found a romcom to love? Or tolerate, at the very least. ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podcast To Read Trash Manga With My Friends And Actually Mo...

We're delving into another manga full of superpowered kids going to school, but fret not, this definitely ain't no Alice Academy rerun, as we discuss the surprising Talentless Nana, and her bloody quest to save the world from the enemies of humanity. Was it a talented production? Or just really, really dumb. ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podcast To Read Trash Manga With My Friends And Actuall...

As a new year dawns, so does a new season of anime come to be. Which means it's tie-in episode time! We discuss Tomo-chan is a Girl!, a 4koma romcom about one lady's hapless attempts to get her man to see her as wo...man... Will Mike hate this as per, or is there room in his heart for at least one of these series to live? ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podcast To Read Trash Manga With My Frien...