Trash Manga Friends

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...

It's another Christmas special, and this year we're getting back to the true meaning of the day, Jesus Christ himself! Will it be a religious experience for our trio when we read the award-winning comedy manga Saint Young Men, or will we be channelling the Buddha to avoid going off on one... ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podcast To Read Trash Manga With My Friends And Actually Most Of Them We...

World Cup season has descended upon the podcast! And hey, we're still in it as of this episode going live (by we I mean England, not Wales, boooo). So to celebrate it's time for our FIRST EVER sports manga! And not just any sports manga, but Blue Lock, the top sports manga currently publishing. But was this a beautiful series on the beautiful game? Or just further proof of why we never really disc...

Yes, we've finally made it to the funny sex joke episode, as our trio thrusts into Sunset of Passion, a romantic drama about reuniting with old flames, the stresses of working and... well, really, really wanting to fuck your neighbour. Were we dtf with this manga, or pulling out as fast as we could? ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podcast To Read Trash Manga With My Friends And Actually Most Of...

A modern fantasy manga that... isn't an isekai!? Yes, it's true, as we discuss Killing Me / Killing You, a very wholesome series about two protagonists in a post-apocaylptic world trying to kill themselves. But will we be joining them in their quest when all is said and done? ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podcast To Read Trash Manga With My Friends And Actually Most Of Them Were Trash But Som...

Halloween is almost upon us, so it's time for a bloodbath as we trek through the slasher inspired and goreporn heavy Pumpkin Night! Will our trio keep their contents in their stomach long enough to dissect this grisly horror manga, or be throwing up out of sheer disgust? ~ 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...

Another fall anime tie-in!? That's right, this fortnight we hang out with Uzaki-chan in her titular romcom, and see if this teasing senpai and kouhai relationship gets torn apart like so many others at Mike's hands, or if this is the rare slice of life that we can all vibe to. ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podcast To Read Trash Manga With My Friends And Actually Most Of Them Were Trash But So...

After years of teasing, it's finally time! We discuss ALL of Bleach in this Menos Grande edition of the podcast, from Soul Society and Hueco Mundo, to Fullbring and Thousand Years War, in celebration of the final arc getting animated this season (and for years to come). What were our fondest memories? The most head-scratching narrative decisions? And just how much do we hate the Zeroth Espada? Joi...

Another isekai? If we must. This time we dive into Loner Life in Another World, where it's not just one hero but a whole class summoned to ye classic fantasy lande, and our lead is left all alone with only the trash remains to survive upon. But on a scale of Solo Leveling to Redo of Healer, where does this one sit...? ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podcast To Read Trash Manga With My Friends A...

This time we tackle the iconic duo! No, not Batman and Robin, but Ohba and Obata, duh. Did the legendary creative team behind Death Note and Bakuman strike gold for a third time in a row with their thriller manga Platinum End, or do even the best in the industry have off days? ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podcast To Read Trash Manga With My Friends And Actually Most Of Them Were Trash But So...

A cult classic is our series this fortnight, as we discuss Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer, a tale of a princess and knight trying to save the world so they can... destroy the world... huh. Maybe older manga is trash too... ~ 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,...

Ready, Steady, Cook! The Iron Chef of manga steps up to the hot plate this time around, when we discuss Jump sensation shonen cooking manga Food Wars! Does it deliver a Mitchellin star experience worthy of being one of the best performing series of the past decade, or do we need to call in food standards to chuck this meal in the bin? ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podcast To Read Trash Manga...

We dive deep, deep into the trash this time around, as we cover the third worst manga ever according to MyAnimeList, Gal*Cleaning! Does this trashy romcom with cleaning elements live down to its infamous status, or is there actually something sweet beyond the gunk? ~ 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...

Manga returns to the Trash Manga Friends for our seasonal anime tie-in, as we cover Call of the Night, an after hours romcom featuring everyone's favourite sparkly teenage heartthrob supernatural beings, vampires! Will it be love at first bite, or banished to the Twilight realm? ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podcast To Read Trash Manga With My Friends And Actually Most Of Them Were Trash But...

It's our return to Korea and webtoons this time, as we cover Girls of the Wild's, which is all about a guy joining an all-female school with girls fighting it out to be the strongest and... wait, did we cover this already? Will this claw its way to the top of the pile, or be just another Dragons Rioting? ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podcast To Read Trash Manga With My Friends And Actually Mo...

Year 3 is here! For our third season debut, we look at Soul Land, an iconic manhua from China, and one kid's path to get stronger while keeping his hidden strength a secret as he journies to Shrek Academy. Yes, really. But will this series live up to its All Star reputation? ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podcast To Read Trash Manga With My Friends And Actually Most Of Them Were Trash But Some...

Trashtacular Tournament Two continues in this second half, as we pit the remaining 16 series against each other to find the best and worst of Year 2! Will Kissxsis or Sword Art Online go the distance? Or will it be a series we byed, like Peach Boy Riverside or Colorless? All is revealed in our Season 2 finalé! ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podcast To Read Trash Manga With My Friends And Actua...

Has it really been 2 years already? We ring in another year of the podcast with our second Trashtacular Tournament Arc to crown a new Not Actually Trash and Trashest Manga, Friends winners. In this first half, we work through Round 1, featuring 11 matchups and dredging up memories long forgotten including Tsubasa-chan, Alice Academy and Sword Art Online! ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podcast...