Trash Manga Friends

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...

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...