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@ Movies #19: Kabaneri, Guardians, and My Entire High School Oct 07, 2018

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This week we're continuing to dig through our backlog of unreleased episodes to finally deliver you guys one of the oldest in our archive! Back in May 2017 we recorded an episode of @ Movies discussing three very different films that we'd seen between late April to early May - the Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress compilation films, Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 2, & My Entire High School is Sinking Into the Sea! These three films don't have anything in common other than we saw them around the same time and decided to record about them on the same audio file, but hey, variety is the spice of life! So, did we enjoy the Kabaneri compilations more than its regular tv cut? Is Guardians of the Galaxy vol 2 a worthy follow-up to Marvel's breakout sci-fi comedy? What even is My Entire High School is Sinking Into the Sea about? No kidding, I have no clue! Find out the answers to these questions and more in this long overdue episode of Manga Mavericks @ Movies! Enjoy the show, and follow us on twitter at @manga_mavericks, on tumblr at mangamavericks.tumblr.com, and subscribe to us on Youtube. You can follow the hosts on twitter at @LumRanmaYasha and @VLordGTZ. Don’t forget to also subscribe to us on iTunes and leave us reviews to help us curate the show and create better content! We take your suggestions and feedback very seriously and want to figure out more ways to reach out and interact with you guys, so please leave some responses! You can also drop us a line in the comments below, comment in the Manga Mavericks thread on Animation Revelation, tweet at us, or send an e-mail to mangamavericks@gmail.com! As always, thanks for listening! Thanks for listening!

Manga Mavericks EP. 60: Not Another News Episode! Oct 05, 2018

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On this episode of Manga Mavericks, what was supposed to be an episode discussing the latest Jump Starts from Shonen Jump and My Hero Academia goodness with Maxy Barnard of Friendship Effort Victory, turned out to be another news episode again! We promise you'll get to hear that discussion next time, but in the meantime, we have plenty of news to keep us busy! Including unfortunate news for Yusuke Murata's Back To The Future manga, another tidal wave of licenses from Seven Seas, and just how well My Hero Academia: Two Heroes has been doing at the box office! We PROMISE we'll have a non-news episode next time, but enjoy a shorter episode until then! PODCAST BREAKDOWN: 00:00 - Intro 00:58 - Yusuke Murata’s Back to the Future manga cancelled 02:34 - Tomo-chan is a Girl ends with 8th volume 03:23 - Detective Conan currently on 9 week hiatus 04:26 - Tokyo Tarereba Girls gets 3 new chapters 05:14 - M&C licenses The Secret of Girls 06:28 - Viz Media releases MHA One Shot manga: “All Might Rising” 08:00 - Viz licenses Snow White with the Red Hair 09:32 - New Kodansha Licenses: October Edition 14:56 - New J-Novel Club licenses 17:49 - New Seven Seas License (and Kaoru Mori manga available digitally) 27:38 - Manga Translation Battle of Professionals 30:33 - Alita film pushed back to February 14th 31:34 - My Hero Academia Two Heroes is a hit at the box office! 35:48 - Jump Force Updates (More characters, original characters, and a release date!) 39:07 - Its Over Already!? Enjoy the show, and follow us on twitter at @manga_mavericks, on tumblr at mangamavericks.tumblr.com, and now on Youtube! You can also follow the hosts at @sniperking323 and @lumranmayasha. If you’d like to help support the show financially you can donate to Colton’s Ko-fi here and LumRanmaYasha’s Ko-fi here. Don’t forget to also like and subscribe to us on Youtube and iTunes and leave us reviews to help us curate the show and create better content! We take your suggestions and feedback very seriously and want to figure out more ways to reach out and interact with you guys, so please leave some responses!

@ Movies #18: Dunkirk, Kingsman, and Victoria & Abdul Sep 30, 2018

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Welcome back to Manga Mavericks @ Movies, the only movie podcast that waits over a year after recording to release an episode! Well, 2018 is almost over and I still have 13 episodes of @ Movies recorded in 2017 I still haven't released, so let's see if I can get at least some of those out before the year is up. We're starting off with a triple threat of British-based films this week as LumRanmaYasha and VLordGTZ talk about Dunkirk, Kingsman: The Golden Circle, and Victoria & Abdul. Yes, literally the only reason these reviews are paired together in this episode is that they are all about British people and characters so I thought I'd lump them together. Still, as tenuous the thread connecting these films is, each review is quite a lot of fun with some great jokes throughout, so I'll think you'll have a good time! Did we think Dunkirk deserved to win Best Sound Design at the Oscars? Was Kingsman: The Golden Circle really that bad a sequel? Was Victoria & Abdul a disgustingly offensive whitewashing of history catering to the romantic fetishes of middle-aged white women? The Mavericks answer these question and more in this stacked episode of @ Movies! Jolly good gov'na! PODCAST BREAKDOWN: 00:00 - Intro 02:48 - Dunkirk 32:54 - Kingsman: The Golden Circle 1:03:36 - Victoria & Abdul 1:22:17 - Wrap-Up Enjoy the show, and follow us on twitter at @manga_mavericks, on tumblr at mangamavericks.tumblr.com, and subscribe to us on Youtube. You can follow the hosts on twitter at @LumRanmaYasha and @VLordGTZ. Don’t forget to also subscribe to us on iTunes and leave us reviews to help us curate the show and create better content! We take your suggestions and feedback very seriously and want to figure out more ways to reach out and interact with you guys, so please leave some responses! You can also drop us a line in the comments below, comment in the Manga Mavericks thread on Animation Revelation, tweet at us, or send an e-mail to mangamavericks@gmail.com! As always, thanks for listening! Thanks for listening!

Manga Mavericks EP. 59: The (Now Named) Nameless Man Sep 24, 2018

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ANOTHER news-only episode?! What is this, 2016? Don't worry folks, we'll have series to cover and topics to discuss very soon! We've been listening to your feedback and we'll be implementing some changes that we think you'll be really happy with starting from the next episode onwards. We're committed to bringing on more guests and talking about more than shonen series, not just other manga, but discussion-forum episodes on important topics that deserve a thorough dialogue. We've got a lot of plans, and here's hoping we'll be able to follow through on some of them before the year's out! For now, it's just the two of us and the news, but it's quite a crop of news! We've got an MHA-dominated Bookscan list, new simulpubs at Crunchyroll, a Promised Neverland character popularity poll, and a whole lot more to cover! Listen and be entertained as Colton tries to blindly guess who the top ten most popular Promised Neverland characters are after not having read the series for a couple months. He didn't even know the Nameless Man is now named! PODCAST BREAKDOWN: 0:00:00 - Intro 0:01:42 - August 2018 Bookscan List 0:08:45 - Q Hayashida launches new manga in 2019 0:10:06 - Naoki Urasawa launches new manga in Big Comic Spirits 0:15:30 - Akiro Hiramoto launches new manga 0:17:11 - Gundam Thunderbolt goes on hiatus 0:17:58 - Terraformars goes on hiatus 0:18:33 - Back Street Girls ends 0:20:34 - Invade You ends 0:21:27 - New Jump Starts Debut 0:24:37 - Hunter x Hunter returns on Sept 24th 0:28:13 - The Promised Neverland has entered its final arc 0:30:59 - Gintama ends in Jump, moves to Jump Giga 0:37:59 - Content announced for 1st Tezucomi Magazine 0:41:27 - Animage magazine gets first digital edition 0:42:07 - Denpa licenses Today’s Menu for the Emiya Family 0:43:39 - Crunchyroll licenses three new Square Enix manga 0:48:09 - Cross Infinite World licenses emeth: Island of Golems 0:49:49 - New York Review publishes collection of Tadao Tsuge manga 0:51:14 - FUNimation’s license to The Woman Called Fujiko Mine expires 0:57:33 - NYCC to host Harold Sakuishi 0:58:30 - New Crunchyroll membership tier includes J-Novel Club subscription 0:59:06 - Global Road files for Bankruptcy 1:00:34 - Yugi joins Jump Force 1:03:57 - Promised Neverland Character Popularity Poll results 1:16:33 - Wrap Up Enjoy the show, and follow us on twitter at @manga_mavericks, on tumblr at mangamavericks.tumblr.com, and now on Youtube! You can also follow the hosts at @sniperking323 and @lumranmayasha. If you’d like to help support the show financially you can donate to Colton’s Ko-fi here and LumRanmaYasha’s Ko-fi here. Don’t forget to also like and subscribe to us on Youtube and iTunes and leave us reviews to help us curate the show and create better content! We take your suggestions and feedback very seriously and want to figure out more ways to reach out and interact with you guys, so please leave some responses!

Manga Mavericks EP. 58: Sexism in the Manga Industry and More Sep 06, 2018

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On this episode of Manga Mavericks, its time for another news episode since we didn’t have a topic planned for the week, though unfortunately, we don’t have a lot of very especially good news as we go over some recent accounts of sexism from artists in the industry, how many manga magazines have ended so far this year and the recent passing of the creator of Chibi Maruko-chan, Momoko Sakura. We also have our usual bit of news on different serializations and movie and anime news, as well as LumRanmaYasha’s thoughts on the recent announcement of Crunchyroll’s High Guardian Spice as well as the controversy that has formed around it. It's an unfortunately low energy, but actually short episode of the podcast at least! Podcast Breakdown: 0:00:00 - Intro 0:01:28 - Noah’s Notes has ended 0:03:36 - Akame ga kill Zero ends with 10th volume 0:05:35 - Citrus spinoff, Citrus Plus debuts this winter 0:06:21 - 12 manga magazines have ended in the 1st half of 2018 0:11:58 - Recent stories of sexism in the manga industry 0:20:08 - Erotic manga artist describes poor pay and working conditions 0:23:11 - Momoko Sakura passes away 0:26:18 - Dororo manga remake debuts in October 0:27:31 - Haikyu claymation short to premiere at Jump Special Anime Festa 2018 0:29:14 - Saiki K. gets conclusion anime 0:31:40 - Sequel to Netflix Death Note movie in production 0:33:43 - Bleach Live-action movie hits Netflix on September 14th 0:35:39 - Banks have repossessed the studio making the Tiger & Bunny live-action film 0:38:30 - Script for Opus anime being written 0:40:14 - Conan O’Brien finds out that Detective Conan is a thing 0:43:38 - LumRanmaYasha’s thoughts on the High Guardian Spice/Crunchyroll/Digibro “controversy” 0:56:17 - Wrap Up Enjoy the show, and follow us on twitter at @manga_mavericks, on tumblr at mangamavericks.tumblr.com,and now on Youtube! You can also follow the hosts at @sniperking323 and @lumranmayasha. If you’d like to help support the show financially you can donate to Colton’s Ko-fi here and LumRanmaYasha’s Ko-fi here. Don’t forget to also like and subscribe to us on Youtube and iTunes and leave us reviews to help us curate the show and create better content! We take your suggestions and feedback very seriously and want to figure out more ways to reach out and interact with you guys, so please leave some responses!

Manga Mavericks EP. 57: Bakuman Aug 26, 2018

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On this episode of Manga Mavericks, we’re joined by One Piece Podcast contributor and writer for Anime News Network, Sam Leach, as well All Comic contributor, Nick Rowe, as we discuss Bakuman from Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata! We cover all sorts of bases during our discussion from what Bakuman meant to some of us as young readers as an in-depth look at the behind the scenes of what goes into creating Shonen Jump manga, to its unfortunate unchallenged depiction of sexism in the industry. Listen to the episode to find out how well Bakuman holds up 10 years after its debut! We also discuss our usual helping of news including My Hero Academia continuing to dominate half of North American manga sales, Gintama finally coming to an end, and even some new publishers making their way into the market! Enjoy!! Podcast Breakdown: 0:00:00 - Intro 0:01:26 - July Bookscan List 0:08:24 - Tezuka Mix Magazine to launch as Tezucomi in October 0:09:53 - Kodansha’s Nemesis manga magazine has ceased publication 0:10:53 - Fruits Basket Another ending 0:12:21 - Alice in Murderland ends next month 0:13:45 - The Seven Deadly Sins to end in about a year 0:15:09 - Gintama ends on Sept 17th 0:21:52 - Dark Horse licenses Emanon 0:23:38 - Viz licenses FMA: The Complete 4-Panel Comics 0:26:30 - New publisher, Denpa, launches with Kaiji, Inside Mari, & More! 0:32:09 - Harvey Awards creates new Best Manga category 0:33:53 - We Never Learn anime domain registered 0:36:42 - JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure Survey Reveals fan Demographics 0:46:47 - Viz’s MHA character popularity poll is now open!! 0:49:17 - Jump Force adds Sanji, Blackbeard, Gon, & Hisoka, adds Planet Namek w/Statue of Liberty Stage 1:01:02 - Bakuman (/w Sam & Nick) 3:40:58 - Wrap Up

Manga Mavericks EP. 56: HOT (Akira Amano) Aug 10, 2018

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On this episode of Manga Mavericks, we were going to be talking about Shaman King, but instead we’ll be talking about HOT, the newest one shot by Akira Amano (Reborn, elDLIVE) from Weekly Shonen Jump! With Colton and Sid not being very familiar with Amano’s past works, will HOT convince them to start diving into her bibliography, or will they only feel cold towards it? We also have some news to discuss beforehand, such as ICV2’s top 10 manga franchises of Spring 2018, more new digital titles from Kodansha, and David Pro’s Captain Tsubasa anime getting an English dub on a TV channel that (probably) nobody has! Enjoy!! 0:00:00 - Intro 0:02:25 - ICV2’s Top 10 Manga Franchises Spring 2018 0:06:32 - Little Witch Academia manga ends 0:08:19 - Akiko Higashimura launches new manga in October 0:09:41 - Viz licenses MHA: School Briefs novels 0:11:58 - New Viz SUBlime licenses 0:13:40 - GL Bunko offers Girls Kingdom yuri novels in English 0:14:37 - Tokyopop to release collector’s edition of Aria 0:19:47 - New Digital Titles from Kodansha 0:33:36 - Kodansha reveals authors for GITS anthology 0:37:54 - Nozomi Entertainment’s Space Adventure Cobra license expires 0:38:55 - DMP is suspended as a company 0:41:13 - Stop Piracy campaign 0:47:41 - Captain Tsubasa premieres on Primo TV with English dub 0:52:51 - Mix gets an anime in Spring 2019 0:54:15 - New GITS anime is coming 0:55:15 - Perfect Blue gets theatrical screening in September 0:56:38 - Haikyuu Battle of Concepts gets theatrical screening in September 0:57:17 - Pokemon: The Power of Us gets theatrical screenings in November 0:58:05 - Warner Bros. will distribute Detective Pikachu film 0:59:33 - HOT (One-shot by Akira Amano) 1:37:30 - Wrap Up Enjoy the show, and follow us on twitter at @manga_mavericks, on tumblr at mangamavericks.tumblr.com,and now on Youtube! You can also follow the hosts at @sniperking323 and @lumranmayasha. If you’d like to help support the show financially you can donate to Colton’s Ko-fi here and LumRanmaYasha’s Ko-fi here. Don’t forget to also like and subscribe to us on Youtube and iTunes and leave us reviews to help us curate the show and create better content! We take your suggestions and feedback very seriously and want to figure out more ways to reach out and interact with you guys, so please leave some responses! On our next episode we’ll be discussing the classic Shonen Jump manga Shaman King by Hiroyuki Takei, celebrating its 20th anniversary! We’ll be joined once again by Maxy Barnard, who considers Takei’s magnum opus one of his all-time favorite manga! If you have any Shaman King-related comments, questions, or discussion topics you’d like us to talk about, please send them our way either in the comments below, in our Discord server, commenting in the Manga Mavericks thread on Animation Revelation, tweeting them to us, or by sending an e-mail to mangamavericks@gmail.com! And as always, thanks for listening!

Manga Mavericks EP. 55: Seiji Tanaka + Alice and Taiyo Aug 03, 2018

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On this episode of Manga Mavericks, we dedicate an entire episode to the latest round of Jump Starts recently featured in Viz Media’s Weekly Shonen Jump! Including the action packed, time travelling adventures of Seiji Tanaka: Secretary to the Managing President, General Time Industries from Keiji Amatsuka, as well as the musical, coming of age story of Alice & Taiyo from Takahide Totsuno. We also discuss Tite Kubo’s latest one-shot, Burn The Witch, and Food Wars creators Yuto Tsukuda and Shun Saeki’s take on One Piece with Shokugeki no Sanji!! Topics of discussion from Colton and Sid include which of the two newest Jump Starts they’d like to see more of, the flaws of Kubo’s general storytelling, and why Shokugeki no Sanji is such a breath of fresh air for Sanji as a character. Enjoy! PODCAST BREAKDOWN: 0:00:00 – Intro 0:02:02 – Seiji Tanaka 0:19:26 – Alice & Taiyo 0:35:33 – Burn The Witch 0:55:05 – Shokugeki no Sanji 1:15:13 – Wrap Up Enjoy the show, and follow us on twitter at @manga_mavericks, on tumblr at mangamavericks.tumblr.com,and now on Youtube! You can also follow the hosts at @sniperking323 and @lumranmayasha. If you’d like to help support the show financially you can donate to Colton’s Ko-fi here and LumRanmaYasha’s Ko-fi here. Don’t forget to also like and subscribe to us on Youtube and iTunes and leave us reviews to help us curate the show and create better content! We take your suggestions and feedback very seriously and want to figure out more ways to reach out and interact with you guys, so please leave some responses! On our next episode we’ll be discussing the classic Shonen Jump manga Shaman King by Hiroyuki Takei, celebrating its 20th anniversary! We’ll be joined once again by Maxy Barnard, who considers Takei’s magnum opus one of his all-time favorite manga! If you have any Shaman King-related comments, questions, or discussion topics you’d like us to talk about, please send them our way either in the comments below, in our Discord server, commenting in the Manga Mavericks thread on Animation Revelation, tweeting them to us, or by sending an e-mail to mangamavericks@gmail.com! And as always, thanks for listening!

Manga Mavericks EP. 54: Summer Con Craziness! Jul 30, 2018

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Anime Expo and San Diego Comic Con happened as per the annual July tradition, and with them comes a ton of news we need to talk about. From major licensing acquisitions to remarkable industry achievements, this episode runs the gamut of every monumental piece of news to come out of this month. With the sheer quantity of things to talk about, we’re lucky this episode didn’t run four hours long like our previous news-focused episode did! PODCAST BREAKDOWN: 00:22 - Intro & LumRanmaYasha’s Brief AX Report 04:00 - June 2018 Bookscan list 9:10 - Dr. Stone popularity poll 18:45 - Comico cancels Recovery of an MMO Junkie due to author’s health 19:55 - Sweetness and Lightning ends 21:07 - Dorohedoro ends in September 22:42 - Kengen Ashura ends in August 24:07 - Citrus ends in August 25:10 - Atsuo Ueda launches Fairy Tail sequel 26:28 - Comixology offers first American comic to be simulpublished in Japan 28:57 - Comixology debuts BECK and Seven Shakespeares manga from Harold Sakuishi 31:05 - Fantagraphics licenses Moto Hagio’s The Poe Clan 32:32 - Media Do licenses Baki 38:33 - Drawn & Quarterly to publish collected works of Yoshiharu Tsuge 41:45 - Udon Licenses FLCL art book & Mega Man X manga 43:23 - Dark Horse licenses Elfen Lied 46:31 - Crunchyroll Manga AX licenses 48:31 - J-Novel Club’s AX licenses & Announcements 57:50 - Kodansha USA AX licenses 1:06:50 - Seven Seas AX Licenses 1:14:26 - Yen Press AX Licenses 1:27:55 - Viz Media AX & SDCC Announcements 1:42:42 - Rumiko Takahashi inducted into the Eisner Hall of Fame 1:45:40 - My Brother’s Husband wins an Eisner 1:47:30 - Otakon to host Shoji Kawamori 1:49:10 - Studio Trigger launches Patreon 1:51:28 - Kill la Kill: IF game news 1:53:05 - Ichigo, Rukia, & Aizen join Jump Force 1:55:10 - New Anime Song Streaming Service AniUta! 1:56:40 - Sunrise is making a live-action Gundam film 1:57:45 - Children of the Sea gets a movie 1:59:45 - Final Evangelion film finally has a release date 2:00:57 - Dragon Ball Super film is about BROLY, will debut in U.S. theatres in January 2:04:22 - MHA movie opens in the US in September 2:05:41 - I Want to Eat Your Pancreas will get theatrical screenings in the US 2:06:46 - 2nd Heaven’s Feel film screens in the US in 2019 2:07:26 - Fireworks grosses over 500,000 dollars in U.S. theatrical run 2:08:56 - Attack on Titan’s theatrical screening earnings 2:10:56 - Attack on Titan Season 3 premieres on Toonami on August 18th 2:11:15 - Bungo Stray Dogs gets season 3 2:12:42 - Crunchyroll Expo to premiere Rising of the Shield Hero anime 2:14:08 - Anime Fest @ NYCC 2:16:48 - Wrap-Up Enjoy the show, and follow us on twitter at @manga_mavericks, on tumblr at mangamavericks.tumblr.com,and now on Youtube! You can also follow the hosts at @sniperking323 and @lumranmayasha. If you’d like to help support the show financially you can donate to Colton’s Ko-fi here and LumRanmaYasha’s Ko-fi here. Don’t forget to also like and subscribe to us on Youtube and iTunes and leave us reviews to help us curate the show and create better content! We take your suggestions and feedback very seriously and want to figure out more ways to reach out and interact with you guys, so please leave some responses! On our next episode we’ll be discussing the classic Shonen Jump manga Shaman King by Hiroyuki Takei, celebrating its 20th anniversary! We’ll be joined once again by Maxy Barnard, who considers Takei’s magnum opus one of his all-time favorite manga! If you have any Shaman King-related comments, questions, or discussion topics you’d like us to talk about, please send them our way either in the comments below, in our Discord server, commenting in the Manga Mavericks thread on Animation Revelation, tweeting them to us, or by sending an e-mail to mangamavericks@gmail.com! And as always, thanks for listening!

Manga Mavericks EP. 53: Sleepy Princess in the Shonen Sunday Jul 22, 2018

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This week we’re joined by the one and only Shonen Sunday stan Sakaki and all-around manga enthusiast Maxy Barnard to discuss Viz Media’s latest Sunday license - Sleepy Princess in the Demon’s Castle by Kagiji Kumanomata! Well, it was intended to be a discussion about Sleepy Princess, but with both Bomber and Maxy on board it ended up being more of a follow-up to our Shonen Sunday discussion from last year. Could this episode be the unofficial pilot of a Shonen Sunday podcast by those two? I’m not sure, but once you finish listening to the episode you’ll definitely want it to be! We discuss what’s unique and charming about this adorable fantasy comedy, and why it’s such a fun fit for both Shonen Sunday and as a new license for Viz Media. I’m not even going to bother with timecodes for this episode because it’s so all over the place, so you better listen through it beginning to end. Trust me - you’ll laugh and learn a lot! Oh, and fun fact, we recorded this podcast on a Sunday and we’re releasing it on a Sunday! Though that’s probably irrelevant to those of you listening to this whenever...^^, Enjoy the show, and follow us on twitter at @manga_mavericks, on tumblr at mangamavericks.tumblr.com,and now on Youtube! You can also follow the hosts at @sniperking323 and @lumranmayasha. You can follow Maxy on twitter at @MaxyTheBee and Sakaki at @kiirobon! If you’d like to help support the show financially you can donate to Colton’s Ko-fi here and LumRanmaYasha’s Ko-fi here. Don’t forget to also like and subscribe to us on Youtube and iTunes and leave us reviews to help us curate the show and create better content! We take your suggestions and feedback very seriously and want to figure out more ways to reach out and interact with you guys, so please leave some responses! On our next episode we’ll be discussing the classic Shonen Jump manga Shaman King by Hiroyuki Takei, celebrating its 20th anniversary! We’ll be joined once again by Maxy Barnard, who considers Takei’s magnum opus one of his all-time favorite manga! If you have any Shaman King-related comments, questions, or discussion topics you’d like us to talk about, please send them our way either in the comments below, in our Discord server, commenting in the Manga Mavericks thread on Animation Revelation, tweeting them to us, or by sending an e-mail to mangamavericks@gmail.com! And as always, thanks for listening!

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