Mangasplaining

The book we've been threatening to cover for two seasons is finally here. You have arrived... At Dick Fight Island! This pinnacle of BL manga is the talk of the town, and now it's here in a very spic…

“They’re reading a manga… about Ping Pong? But why? How good could it possibly be? Wait, did Chip say it might be his favourite new manga of all time? Chip said that, not Christopher, who’s deeply bi…

It's about to steamy on Mangasplaining, as the crew travels to an unnamed tropical island to visit with 'The Birds of Shangri-la', a significantly steamier BL entry. In this NSFW episode, we learn th…

Hello! And welcome BACK to Mangasplaining, as we begin "Season 3"! We're starting off with a bang, as David brings the crew 'violence comics' in the form of AJIN: Demi-Human Volumes 1 & 2. Horror and…

Tired of "balanced" reviews pointing out strengths and weaknesses of a title? Just want to know what manga you should ACTUALLY read?! Well this week, the full Mangasplaining crew picks their "best ma…

The team is still on a break (of sorts), but we’re also still making podcasts! This week, David interviews Jamila Rowser, the founder of Black Josei Press. This interview is one of our first looks at…

The Mangasplaining Team's vacation continues, but we still keep bringing you new episodes! This week it's an interview with Spanish-Japanese manga-ka Ken Niimura, (co)creator of I Kill Giants, Henshi…

Check it out, it's the special-edition, remastered, upgraded re-release with bonus material episode of Mangasplaining! As a special bonus week we bring you David Brothers' complete interview with Emm…

It's the Season 2 Wrap-up episode! We reflect on the second 25 weeks of Mangasplaining, from A Drunken Dream to Wotaoki, and everything in between! No reading to catch up with, no spoilers (er, mostl…

This week, we’re back to where it all began, as the gang luxuriates in the visual feast that is Katsuhiro Otomo’s AKIRA Volume 3. We’re gonna spoil you up front this week: Chip calls it his favourite…

The Mangasplaining gang reads their very first BL Manga, Our Dining Table, by Mita Ori! Will it live up to the BL Hype!? Plus a Sponsored VIZ Blind Date with Deadpool: Samurai, Reader Q&A, and Shout …

This week on Mangasplaining, Deb leads the crew through a book that sort of sums up some of the themes of Season 2, with an autobiographically-informed piece of art about art, and a story that's very…

This week on Mangasplaining David leads the group into our first small-press short-story, Minami Q-Ta’s The Blood Red Boy. We take a deep, deep dive into this story, and while we’d love it if you rea…

The Mangasplaining crew wrap up their "Classic Manga" arc, by going back to the most influential Japanese superhero comic of all time, Kamen Rider, by Shotaro Ishinomori! Straight from 1971, this man…

This week the gang talks about Studio Ghibli big-boss Hayao Miyazaki, and his classic 1982 manga Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind! A bonafide among bonafides, but does this manga meet Chip & the ga…

Keeping up with your new year's resolutions? Akira resolved to save all of humanity by combining with the power of the Devil to become DEVILMAN, in one of the wildest manga the Mangasplainers have ev…

A very special episode as the Mangasplaining team splits up to cover more ground, with Chip and Christopher interviewing manga translator Jocelyne Allen, live and in person at a bar in Toronto, and D…

Get ready for a rollicking deep dive into the Gundam universe with Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin. It's often described as "Japan's answer to Star Wars," but as the Mangasplaining Gang learns this ep…

This week the Mangasplainers challenge the very notion that Love is Hard for an Otaku, by reading a book on that very subject! Fujita's 'Wotakoi: Love is Hard for an Otaku' is a treatise on modern da…

Get ready to get rugged, as the Mangasplaining team heads north... and back in time!... to the colonization of Hokkaido, Japan at the end of the 1800s with GOLDEN KAMUY! It's Satoru Noda's historical…