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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The passing of world-renowned wine critic Yutaka Kanzaki sends shockwaves through the industry... but perhaps nobody is more surprised by his passing than his son, Shizuku, who has been estranged from his father for many years and in an act of defiance after his harsh upbringing, never touched a drop of wine...

But upon hearing from his father's lawyer, Shizuku discovers that if he wants claim his inheritance, the world's most expensive wine collection, he must correctly identity 13 wines: 12 'apostles' and a wine cryptically referred to as 'The Drops of God' in a competition against another renowned wine critic, Issei Tomine, who was adopted by his father just before his passing!

This week, Mat sits down once more with Árni Beck Gunnarsson to talk The Drops of God by Tadashi Agi and Shin Kibayashi! Join us as we discuss if this wine manga had us reaching for another glass, or if it's approach to wine left us longing for something stronger. We speculate on it's tone and target audience, while Mat also gets into his thoughts about the Live Action TV show currently streaming on Apple TV!

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Show Notes

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Manga

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Death Note by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata

Midnight Diner by Yarō Abe

Great Teacher Onizuka by Tooru Fujisawa

Oishinbo by Tetsu Kariya Akira Hanasaki

Food Wars!: Shokugeki No Soma by Yūto Tsukuda and Shun Saeki

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TV Shows

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Drops of God (Apple TV)

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Jarret Melendez' story about a Tokyo Jazz Bar can be found in Vol.1 of IDW's Full Bleed Anthology!

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After agreeing to marry a mysterious, beautiful girl after a near death experience, Nasa Yuzaki has his world turned upside down on his 18th birthday when she suddenly appears on his doorstep with a marriage form in hand! Who is this woman and why does she remind him so much of the fabled moon princess Kaguya?

This week on Manga Tak, Mat is joined once more by AC Yoshimura (aka prodtally) to discuss T̶o̶n̶i̶k̶a̶k̶u̶ ̶K̶a̶w̶a̶i̶i̶ Fly Me To The Moon by Kenjiro Hata! Join us as we discuss the dangers of 2am Don Quixote visits, how the manga compares to the anime, and watch in real time as Mat does a complete 180 turn on reading on based solely on the mention of one of his favourite movies...

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Show Notes

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Manga

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Urusei Yatsura by Rumiko Takahashi

Ranma 1/2 by Rumiko Takahashi

Love Hina by Ken Akamatsu

Trigun by Yasuhiro Nightow

Revolutionary Girl Utena by Chiho Saito / Be-Papas

Neon Genesis Evangelion by Yoshiyuki Sadamoto

Wash It All Away by Mitsuru Hattori

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Other

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Highlander

Mamoru Oshii

Seikima-II

Japan's Culture Council

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In the world of competitive ballroom dancing, there are two competing styles: standard and latin, but in order to be the best in the world, two Japanese 'kings of ballroom' will have to come together in order to rise to the challenge of 10Dance: a glittering triathlon that would see them compete in both styles!

This week, Mat is joined once again by Ida to discuss 10Dance by Inouesatoh. It's the first BL on the show, so after taking some time to discuss what the genra is and isn't, we get into what's so appealing about the book! It's tension, the romance and at times, the artwork!

Along the way, we talk BL tropes, the Netflix live action adaptation of the manga, as well as give some recommendations for other books that contain other queer stories that will leave you smiling at the end!

Show Notes:

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J-Pop Con Info!

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BL Descriptors!

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Shonen-ai / BL / Yaoi

Bara

Fujoshi

Yuri / GL

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Manga

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Our Not So Lonely Planet Travel Guide by Mone Sorei

What Did You Eat Yesterday? by Fumi Yoshinaga

Blue Flag by Kaito

Boy Meets Maria by PEYO

I'm Kinda Chubby and I'm Your Hero by Nore

Witch Hat Atelier by Kamome Shirahama

Gorgeous Carat by You Higuri

Love Hina by Ken Akamatsu

Gravitation by Maki Murakami

Excel Saga by Koshi Rikudo

She Loves To Cook, She Loves to Eat by Sakaomi Yuzaki (podcast episode!)

Even Though We're Adults by Takako Shimura

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Movies

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10Dance Live Action on Netlfix

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Just a quick message from me to ask with your help picking the manga and guest for the 100th episode of the show!

Get your vote in now using this link - https://forms.gle/oiXmaX24ry6sHvEf9

Voting will close on February 20th, so be sure to get your vote in ASAP!

Thank you in advance!

Mat

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A young Fujino publishes a weekly comic strip in her school paper to the fanfare of all her classmates, dreaming to become a Mangaka when she grows up... However, after another student named Kyomoto is published in the same paper, the way Fujino and her classmates see her work changes forever. It's the start of an unlikely friendship and a tragic story: one that echoes it's creator's feelings and real life incidents. But is it worth reading?

This week, Mat is once again joined by writer and illustrator, A.C. MacDonald, to discuss Look Back by Tatsuki Fujimoto. In this spoiler filled episode, we look at Look Back in relation to Fujimoto's other works, discuss how the creator reflects his own thoughts and feelings through the story, as well as asking each other questions on the nature of art and why we both feel the need to create things!

Join us for perhaps one of the most introspective episodes of the podcast ever, but we hope you'll agree: it's likely the kind of conversation someone like Fujimoto would want us to have about this book!

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Show Notes

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Twistwood Tales by A.C. MacDonald

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Other Works of Fujimoto:

Fire Punch

Chainsaw Man

Goodbye, Eri

Before Chainsaw Man

Look Back (the anime)

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Manga

Blame! by Tsutomo Nihei

Tower Dungeon by Tsutomu Nihei

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