Love can hit you when you least expect it... Sometimes it's up close with a 9mm, other times it's at a distance from an semi-automatic! Some people even end up falling in love as collateral damage from a stray grenade... All is fair in love and war when cupids are involved! Anything to earn that karma to get re-incarnated!

This week Mat's once again joined by Behind The Manga co-founder Winter Venom to discuss Love Bullet by inee! We get into the book's premise, a yuri manga where gun-toting cupids take matchmaking to the extreme, discuss it's potential scope, as well as the mix of action and emotion that forms the foundation of a wonderful first volume.

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Show Notes

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Find MangaAlert's Review of Love Bullet here.

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Manga

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The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn't A Guy At All (aka Green Yuri) by Sumiko Arai

Gokurakugai by Yuto Sano

Mechanical Buddy Universe by Takuji Kato

Midnight Diner by Yarō Abe

Maid to Skate by Suzushiro

This Monster Wants to Eat Me by Sai Naekawa

Lycoris Recoil by Yasunori Bizen

Black Lagoon by Rei Hireo

Chainsaw Man by Tatsuki Fujimoto

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Daisuke Niwa's 14th birthday isn't going according to plan: rejected by the girl he has a crush on, and receiving no sympathy from his mother, Daisuke suddenly feels a weird transformation coming on... but this isn't puberty, it's something in his DNA! Before Daisuke knows it, he's transformed into Dark Mousy, the legendary phantom thief!

With the only way to break the curse being to get his crush to return his affection, and his classmate, Satoshi Hiwatari turning out to be a young prodigal detective, Daisuke's going to need more than angelic powers: he's going to need a miracle!

This week, Mat is joined once again by Tsutsudae of Undisputed Anime to discuss Yukiru Sugisaki's Shojo masterpiece, DN Angel, in it's shiny (and we mean SHINY) New Edition from Yen Press!

We discuss how the series has held up during it's many hiatuses, talk phantom thieves in anime / manga at large, before ruminating a little on how great it is that fans of this series from 1997 will finally get a chance to read it's ending almost 30 years later!

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Show Notes

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Manga

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X by CLAMP

Card Captor Sakura by CLAMP

Man of Many Faces by CLAMP

D.Gray-Man by Katsura Hishino

Sailor Moon by Naoko Takeuchi

Lupin the Third by Monkey Punch

Cat's Eye by Tsukasa Hojo

Phantom Thief Jeanne by Arina Tanemura

Saint Tail by Megumi Tachikawa

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Sugisaki Interview with Comics Natalie

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Buntarō Mori transfers to a new school in the hopes of being left alone... Only for a school bully to send his life down an unexpected path: a new passion for solo climbing! Mori, a gloomy loner, soon opens up under the watchful eye of his teacher, Oonishi and the students form a climbing club... But after a climbing trip gone wrong, Mori's life starts to catch up with him... Maybe this is one climb he must face alone!

This week, Mat is joined once again by Georgie (aka Mainly.Manga) to discuss The Climber by Shin-ichi Sakamoto, Yoshio Nabeta & Hiroshi Takano. We discuss not only the book's high-highs, but it's interesting publishing history, Sakamoto's other works and the author's own journey from a young Mangaka to almost retiring from Manga altogether before the success of this work!

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Show Notes

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Manga

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Innocent by Shin-ichi Sakamoto

#DRCL Midnight Children by Shin-ichi Sakamoto

Monster by Naoki Urusawa

GTO by Tooru Fujisawa

The Summit of The Gods by Jiro Taniguchi

A Journal of my Father by Jiro Taniguchi

The Solitary Gourmet by Jiro Taniguchi

The Walking Man by Jiro Taniguchi

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Interviews Etc.

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Shin-Ichi Sakamoto Manben Episode!

Kerastyle Interview with Shin-ichi Sakamoto

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