Mangasplaining

This week the gang reads Kaoru Mori's beloved historical fiction manga A Bride's Story. Deb picks and hosts, wanting to give a little gift of great manga to Chip. But will he accept it? Listen on to …

It’s a very big week for the Mangasplaining crew, as we tackle our first AND second “official” shojo manga releases... And they couldn’t be more different! Get ready for the teen fantasy adventure se…

A manga... about making MANGA? Will this recursive bit of shoujo comedy delight or dismay Chip Zdarsky and the Mangasplaining gang? Only one way to find out...! Plus the team gives their picks for th…

Mangasplainer Chip Zdarsky wanted to read something aimed at a grown-up audience this week, after a few weeks of reading about teens and their problems. So this episode we jump into Takako Shimura's …

This episode marks a very strange week indeed, as the Mangasplainers dive into the nonsensical erotic grotesquery of Edogawa Rampo and Suehiro Maruo's The Strange Tale of Panorama Island! It's a dooz…

The Mangasplaining Crew take on "The World's Most Popular Manga", er, of the 2000s anyway, with Masashi Kishimoto's NARUTO VOL 1! Is Naruto better comics than The Spider-Man? The Bat-Man? Listen and …

Fashion. Glamour. Sex. Highschool? Manga-ka Ai Yazawa takes on turn-of-the-millennium fashion culture in PARADISE KISS, recently re-released in a spiffy all-in-one edition! The Mangasplaining crew di…

The hit anime series BEASTARS sprung from the pages of this manga, and the similarities and differences are substantial! The Mangasplaining team are divided on this unique manga, but will reading mul…

Three months in and Chip Zdarsky is starting to ask the big questions! What is a Japanese novel? What even is manga, anyway? Luckily we balance out the serious stuff with a big helping of delicious f…

The international smash-sensation FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST is the subject this week on Mangasplaining? How can a universally beloved series be anything but universally beloved? Well you're about to find o…

Perhaps our most-anticipated episode! TekkonKinkreet is a manga that's had a powerful effect on many readers and comic creators, including this week's host Christopher. Will Chip Zdarsky like the boo…

Lots of firsts this episode, as the Mangasplaining gang read their first complete series, their first digtal-only series, and we get the first hints that manga just might be breaking poor Chip's brai…

Sure, the anime adaptation of the absolutely hilarious Yakuza-comedy Way of the Househusband makes its anime debut on Netflix later this week, but wouldn't you like to be like us? The people who read…

It's the adorable green-haired (maybe) moppet that everyone adores--Yotsuba! But is there a dark undercurrent to this manga that Chip and the gang will discover...? No, no there is not, thankfully, b…

What if your bar-stool complaining about your love life made it to air, and became a hit radio show? Would that make for a great manga? Find out what the gang thinks of Wave, Listen To Me! this episo…

What if your favourite fonts were actually cute manga characters? You'd have the new manga 'What The Font?!'! But the question is, what will writer, artist, and designer Chip Zdarsky think about mang…

Look out! Helter Skelter is a groundbreaking Josei manga that looks at the dark side of the beauty industrial complex, and it's just as timely today as when it was created more than 25 years ago! A v…

This week we tackle the work of the legendary manga creator Rumiko Takahashi, author of series including Inu Yasha, RIN, Ranma 1/2, Urusei Yatsura, Maison Ikkoku, and even more! We delve into her hor…

It's time for the second episode of MANGASPLAINING! In this episode Chip is introduced to action and food manga Delicious in Dungeon, by Ryoko Kui. Does he like it? Deb, Christopher, and this week's …

This is it, the first complete manga that Chip Zdarsky has ever read: AKIRA Volume 1! What did he think? And what will show hosts Deb Aoki, David Brothers, and Christopher Butcher have to say about h…