Manga Musings

This week’s episode is brought to you by technical difficulties, as Opera GX proves to be yet another bloated Chromium-based browser. Speaking of technology, we’ve got a brand new manga about retro game design, some extra horniness from Hima-Ten!, and our first Halloween show-and-tell of the spooky season!This episode covers issue 43 of Weekly Shonen Jump from 24 September 2024.Manga Show-and-Tell this week is Kaiki Manga Michi by Miyazaki Masaru and Adachi Tsuyoshi.Full transcripts of the Show-and-Tell can be found at the official Manga Musings Obscure Manga Blog, along with original content dating back nearly a decade.In the Jump segment, we cover:Hakutaku #1Hima-Ten! #11Kagurabachi #50To support the show and to hear exclusive monthly postgame coverage of Boruto, head to the Manga Musings Patreon.Our theme music is Rainy Day by Souichi Sakagami.

This week we’re bringing you a socially awkward shinobi, more AI panic from creator Yusei Matsui, and an isekai we’ve redubbed “Starting Over Without Any Limbs in Another World.”This episode covers issue 42 of Weekly Shonen Jump from 17 September 2024.Manga Show-and-Tell this week is Madou Kikou by Ousuke and Iruka Yoshimitsu.Full transcripts of the Show-and-Tell can be found at the official Manga Musings Obscure Manga Blog, along with original content dating back nearly a decade.In the Jump segment, we cover:Shinobi Undercover #1 (New Serialization)Ichi the Witch #2Kagurabachi #49One Piece #1126Elusive Samurai #172To support the show and to hear exclusive monthly postgame coverage of Boruto, head to the Manga Musings Patreon.Our theme music is Rainy Day by Souichi Sakagami.

New series alert! And it’s pretty good too! But of course as one new series begins, an old one must have its candle snuffed out. This week we commemorate the passing of our first U-19 series in a long while with a show-and-tell showcasing another U-19 from the creator of Shape-Up Ran, the series we covered on last week’s show-and-tell segment, featuring all the same raunchy and scatological humor we loved so much last week, with (almost) no reason to pull out the racism particle geiger counter.This episode covers issue 41 of Weekly Shounen Jump from 9 September 2024.Manga Show-and-Tell this week is Wrestling with Momoko, a 90s era U-19 series by Tokuhiro Masaya.Full transcripts of the Show-and-Tell can be found at the official Manga Musings Obscure Manga Blog, along with original content dating back nearly a decade.In the Jump segment, we cover:Ichi the Witch #1 (New Serialization)Psych House #17 (End of Serialization)Kagurabachi #48Akane-banashi #125To support the show and to hear exclusive monthly postgame coverage of Boruto, head to the Manga Musings Patreon.Our theme music is Rainy Day by Souichi Sakagami.

On this week’s thrilling comeback episode of Manga Musings, we bring you a remembrance of things past, a raunchy 80s comedy gag series, the introduction of the “racism particle geiger counter,” and, of course, coverage of Weekly Shonen Jump!This episode covers issue 40 of Weekly Shonen Jump from 2 September 2024.Manga Show-and-Tell this week is Shape Up Ran by Tokuhiro Masaya.Full transcripts of the Show-and-Tell can be found at the official Manga Musings Obscure Manga Blog, along with original content dating back nearly a decade.In our Jump segment, we cover:Kagurabachi #47 (Lead Color Page)Kyokuto Necromance #18 (End of Serialization)Jujutsu Kaisen #268Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi #10To support the show and to hear outtakes from this episode, head to the Manga Musings Patreon.Our theme music is Rainy Day by Souichi Sakagami.

Welcome back for another Manga Musings Rewind with our episode 69 spectacular! This episode features a conspiracy-laden thriller for show and tell, as well as Andrew’s thoughts on the live-action Little Mermaid.This episode covers issue 25 of Weekly Shounen Jump from 22 May 2023.Manga Show-and-Tell this week is Keibuho Daimajin by Nagasaki Takashi (as Richard Woo) and Kouno Kouji.Full transcripts of the Show-and-Tell can be found at the official Manga Musings Obscure Manga Blog, along with original content dating back nearly a decade.In the Jump segment, we cover:On ePiece #1084 (Lead Color Page)The Elusive Samurai #110Fabricant 100 #22To support the show and to hear exclusive monthly postgame coverage of Boruto, head to the Manga Musings Patreon.Our theme music is Rainy Day by Souichi Sakagami.

Welcome back for this week's Manga Musings Rewind covering the first chapter of Nue's Exorcist. In hindsight we may have been a little unfair to Nue, given that this series has survived almost a year while the previous week's premiere, Do Retry, ended on Chapter 19.Still, whether you agree or disagree with our takes on Nue's first chapter, we hope you enjoy this previously-unreleased episode.This episode covers issue 24 of Weekly Shounen Jump from 15 May 2023.Manga Show-and-Tell this week is Zashisu by Morita Masanori.Full transcripts of the Show-and-Tell can be found at the official Manga Musings Obscure Manga Blog, along with original content dating back nearly a decade.In the Jump segment, we cover:Nue's Exorcist #1Sakamoto Days #118To support the show and to hear exclusive monthly postgame coverage of Boruto, head to the Manga Musings Patreon.Our theme music is Rainy Day by Souichi Sakagami.

This week we’ve got a new serialization from mangaka Wakui Ken, so Andrew’s brought one of his previous series for show and tell. Plus, the end of a series none of us really read, but which nonetheless deserves our coverage.This episode covers issue 20 of Weekly Shounen Jump from 15 April 2024.Manga Show-and-Tell this week is Dessert Eagle by Wakui Ken of Tokyo Revengers fame.Full transcripts of the Show-and-Tell can be found at the official Manga Musings Obscure Manga Blog, along with original content dating back nearly a decade.In the Jump segment, we cover:Astro Royale #1 (New Serialization) (Lead Color Page)Two on Ice #28 (End of Serialization)Kagurabachi #29To support the show and to hear exclusive monthly postgame coverage of Boruto, head to the Manga Musings Patreon.Our theme music is Rainy Day by Souichi Sakagami.

This is Manga Musings Rewind: an episode recorded during our long hiatus, published here for your present enjoyment.It's the first chapter of Do Retry, a series we would come to thoroughly adore and which we miss very dearly.This episode covers issue 23 of Weekly Shounen Jump from 8 May 2023.Manga Show-and-Tell this week is Neeting Life by Tsutsui Tetsuya.Full transcripts of the Show-and-Tell can be found at the official Manga Musings Obscure Manga Blog, along with original content dating back nearly a decade.In the Jump segment, we cover:Do Retry #1Witch Watch #107To support the show and to hear exclusive monthly postgame coverage of Boruto, head to the Manga Musings Patreon.Our theme music is Rainy Day by Souichi Sakagami.

To celebrate the resumption of Boruto coverage on the Patreon feed, we're unlocking the first episode of our premium Boruto coverage here for your listening pleasure.To hear further coverage of Boruto including our episode on Chapter 2 head on over to the Manga Musings Patreon.