Mangasplaining

SPAAAAAACE BROTHERS! It's the story of two young brothers who promise each other to join Japan's space program and journey to the moon, to Mars, and beyond! Except one of them just got fired from his…

This week, Deb takes the Mangasplainers to a place that no one can go, the demolished Kowloon Walled City, in Jun Mayuzuki's Kowloon Generic Romance! A unique seinen manga from a mangaka that got her…

Every generation needs its coming-out story, and Gengoroh Tagame’s Our Colors is both groundbreaking and timeless. This week Christopher leads the crew through this autobiographically-informed title …

This week on the podcast, David hosts a story about a young boy with immense psychic power, and the nefarious forces that want to control them. Wait, did we skip to the end of the season to do an epi…

Is Chi just a cute little kitty, or a personification of the bittersweet memories of growing up and away from your innocence? Deb asks this, and the other Big Questions on this week's episode of Mang…

FOUR FOR THE PRICE OF... NONE!? This week Christopher leads the Mangaskateers (?) through four different first-chapters from four different manga, all of which are free to read (legally) on the inter…

Our third and final entry into witch-week ends with what might be the witchiest book of them all, Daisuke Igarashi’s WITCHES. Exploring different traditions of witches across a selection of magical r…

It's another Witchy Week on Mangasplaining, as David leads the crew through Ryu Mizunagi's Witchcraft Works! Will this silly harem comedy bewitch the Mangasplainers? And then, Chris leads the team th…

Get ready for the witchiest month of them all, AUGUST, as we begin three weeks of Very Different books about Witches! We kick things off with the darling of the witchy world (and one of the bestselli…

This week the team 'reads' its first UNTRANSLATED manga, jumping into Season 3 of MOONLIGHT MILE by Yasuo Otagaki. Self-serialized by the author, this sci-fi action manga set on the moon creates a un…

It's another double-header this week as the crew dives into one of the bestselling manga of 2020, My Hero Academia by Kohei Horikoshi, and then travels back in time to enjoy the seinen manga classic …

This week the Mangasplaining Crew finally gets to one of David and Deb's fav fighting manga, Hiroki Endo's All-Rounder Meguru! In this unique episode, the team reads the first volume of the MMA manga…

This week the team takes a decidedly NSFW dive into the surprising world of gay manga, with the MASSIVE Anthology! How does it compare to BL? How does it compare to their 'regular' reads? How will th…

Deb continues to recommend her favorite shojo manga to the Mangasplainers, this week cheering-on Mika Yamamori's 'In The Clear Moonlit Dusk.' But will the arrow of this shojo manga's love pierce Chip…

This week the team digs into a classic manga, Cross Game, by Mitsuru Adachi! This story has huge twist/reveal and they SPOIL IT, A LOT. It's not a spoiler to say that this (baseball!?) manga is EXCEL…

Darkness! No Parents! Continued Darkness! The Opposite of Light! Black Hole! All of these things await you... and much more... in Dorohedoro creator Q Hayashida's new manga Dai Dark Volume 1. But it …

This week the team dives into their very first music manga, the Jazz odyssey Blue Giant, by Shinichi Ishizuka! They're also reading their first ever series where they don't start from the first volum…

This week, we dive back into a josei title, and it's by a noted boys love manga creator! It's all coming together in this week's All My Darling Daughters by Fumi Yoshinaga! But does this manga from t…

After the spicy romance of the last few weeks, we veer back into something a bit sweeter and funnier with My Love Mix-Up! But is this shojo manga romantic comedy with a hint of boys love be something…

Are you ready to try your luck on Kakegurui? All it could cost you is millions of yen... or your fingernails? David guides the team through this smash-seinen manga pitting trust-fund-teens against on…