Trash Manga Friends

Our final series of our second year and... it's... well, what a doozy to wrap this season up with. We discuss the twincest antics of Kissxsis, one of the most infamous series of its ilk, and whether there's any story or comedy to be enjoyed past all of the... yeah... ~ 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...

It's a rare sci-fi episode of the podcast this time, as we dive into a world without colour, but not a manga without it. Can this high concept translate into a great story, or just become a sea of confusing characters, concepts and art? ~ 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 Fr...

Time to shift focus to the current anime season, and cutesy cool romcom Shikimori's Not Just A Cutie! Does it live up to it's title and provide more depth than your average love story, or tread in steadfast vanilla waters? ~ 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,...

April Fools! In this bonus episode, we branch out into the world of anime, as our trio rewatches the original season of Sword Art Online to celebrate its tenth anniversary and the franchise's twentieth. Will time have softened us on the catalyst of a decade of isekai domination in anime and manga, or is SAO still just really, really, *really* bad? ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podcast To Watc...

For this special FIFTIETH episode, we celebrate the isekai GOAT by discussing the Sword Art Online manga's first two volumes. From Aincrad to Skull Reaper, Yui to... ethics codes... we deep dive into the manga version of the franchise that's come to define the industry this past decade. But is the original still the best, or best left forgotten? ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podcast To Read T...

Our month of shounen continues as Mike brings the classic Claymore to the table, a dark fantasy series about fighting demons with a big sword that feels eerily like a certain Rivia man... But will it still hold up in 2022, or best be consigned to the trash piles of the past? ~ 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 taking a break from Phil's tyranny throughout March, with Sean and Mike picking some shounen series to feature. And so we dive into the sci-fi world of World Trigger, a bonafide Jump series! But does being in the top magazine make this the cream of the crop, or just another forgettable fight manga? ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podcast To Read Trash Manga With My Friends And Actually Mo...

Reject love, embrace villainy. With Valentine's in the rear view mirror, we journey back to the world of webtoons with Beware the Villainess, a... sigh... isekai, except one where our leading lady is cast as the baddy, not the hero. Will this flip of the script be enough to win over our trio, or will one of them really, really hate this? Like, really really. ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podc...

We're celebrating Valentine's with the most important l word of them all. That's right, lesbians abound in this episode as we ask ourselves How Do We Relationship?, a yuri romance manga for the modern era. Will we fall in love, or be left Loveless all over again? ~ 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...

Remember when fanservice series were the hot trend? Well, we try to forget this time around as the trio discuss Dragons Rioting, a manga with some action, some T&A, and a whole lotta nothing, as our "will die if comes into contact with the woman" protag joins a mostly female high school! ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podcast To Read Trash Manga With My Friends And Actually Most Of Them Were T...

Another year, another anime season, another tie-in episode! We're tackling the risqué but super popular World's End Harem, which goes about as close to hentai as you can be without actually doing the deed. But will we appreciate the finer elements of this post-apocalyptic society sans men, or... y'know, just watch porn. ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podcast To Read Trash Manga With My Friends...

Merry Christmas! We celebrate the most wonderful time of the year with not one, but THREE short series. Stocking stuffers, if you will. Mike's bringing Ashe of Purgatory from the creator of Spy x Family, Phil has How to Make an Invisible Man from the creator of My Monster Secret, and Sean champions Look Back from the creator of Chainsaw Man. Will these limited series live up to the pedigree's of t...

Y'know what we've not had enough of on this show? Fanservice! Good ol' T&A. But can the actual spy thriller story of You Are 008 shine out with comedic hijinks and narrative depth, or will it just jerk our poor trio off-er, I mean, around? ~ 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...

It's another first as we head to the stars for our first ever sci-fi! But don't get too excited, it's still an isekai. Is a change of genre enough to make up for the usual isekai trappings? Find out as our trio reads Reborn as a Space Mercenary! ~ 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...

It's our first manhua AND our first wuxia this time around, as we discuss Battle Through The Heavens. Will our first foray into Chinese manga bear fruit, or will it be just as trash as it's Japanese cousins? ~ 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. Eve...

Happy Halloween! We celebrate the season of spoopy by mashing together spiders, murder and macking in a blender and chugging the remains. That or by reading The Nameless Monster. Same difference. But is it horrifying the right way, or the trash manga way? ~ 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...

Yandere season has descended upon the Trash Manga Friends as we talk shop on Tsubasa, You're My Killer Match, a cancelled before it's time manga about trying to discover who your beloved is before they kill everyone you know. And Phil delivers a very important PSA. ~ 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...

The Fall anime season is here! And as we already suffered through Mieruko-chan way back in episode 7, this time we take on the super popular Komi Can't Communicate, a series about one very socially awkward girl's quest to make 100 friends! But will our trio find it endearing or enraging? ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podcast To Read Trash Manga With My Friends And Actually Most Of Them Were T...

Phil's back in control and has decided to drag us right back into fantasy hell this time around with Redo of Healer, a dark fantasy not-isekai all about the greatest member of any party, the healer! But, content warning, this series is anything but healing. ~ 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!...

It's Mike's time for revenge after being subjected to countless isekai, and he's brought in the big guns to deal with the other two, a yakuza no less! We discuss the Eisner award winning The Way of the Househusband, and see if there is room in Mike's heart for a comedic slife of life series afterall... ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podcast To Read Trash Manga With My Friends And Actually Most...

The Summer of Isekai continues! Sean and Phil are spending the hottest time of the year debating which truly is the best isekai with a non-humanoid lead. This time, it's Sean's champion, So I'm A Spider, So What, as he tries to prove it's itsy bitsy superiority over Phil's beloved slime. Will the rest of the trio agree with his arachnolove, or prefer some slippery slimy goodness? ~ Welcome to That...

The Summer of Isekai is here! Sean and Phil are spending the hottest time of the year debating which truly is the best isekai with a non-humanoid lead. This time, it's Phil champion, That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Slime, which is a manga about... well, that time someone got reincarnated as a slime... But is it a rare good isekai, or easy picking for Sean's choice next episode? ~ Welcome to That...

It's 4koma time for the first time on the podcast as we delve into A Maiden In Love With A Maiden Boy, a wuvy duvy slice of life featuring cross-dressers and pretty boys galore. Join us as we discuss this manga, 4komas and more! ~ 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 Po...

Is it a shounen? Is it a seinen? No, it's Peach Boy Riverside, an action fantasy manga featuring demons, psychopaths and ultra cute bunny people. We discuss this series, plus chat a little on the summer season of anime and what to look out for! ~ 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...

Time to go back to school and ask the important questions, like who calls superpowers Alices, why hasn't that teacher been arrested and did Gakuen Alice deserve all the popularity and success it accumulated? Join us as we discuss all this and so much more! ~ 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...