595 - Shojo Showdown 10 - Never Say Ugly, Run Away With Me, Girl, World's End and Apricot Jam

We continue our tandem anime Retrospective on Samurai Champloo, Cowboy Bebop, and Michiko & Hatchin! We also discuss Hope, The Prince of Tennis, and more!!! Send us emails! [email protected]  Follow us on Social Media! @mangamacpodcast Check out our website! https://mangamachinations.com Support us on Ko-fi! https://ko-fi.com/mangamac  Check out our YouTube channel! https://www.youtube.com/mangamactv Check out our new gaming channel! https://www.youtube.com/@NakayoshiGaming/  Timestamps: Intro - 00:00:00 Listener Email - 00:02:19 Hope - 00:07:22 The Goonies - 00:16:29 The Prince of Tennis - 00:18:51 Next Episode Preview - 00:27:33 Cowboy Bebop 18, Michiko & Hatchin 17, Samurai Champloo 20+21 - 00:27:58 Outro - 01:23:59 Song Credits: "Talk of the Town" by Devon May "We Don't Stop" by 2MooveKa "Home" by Zach Sorgen "God Mode" by Konstantin Garbuzyuk

We've reached yet another milestone! To celebrate, we're revisiting Billy Bat, Fire Punch, and Historié! We've even invited manga letterer Aidan Clarke to tell us about his experience working on Billy Bat! We also discuss Ichi the Killer, More Weight: A Salem Story, Glitch Witch, and more!!! Follow Aidan on Bluesky! Send us emails! [email protected]  Follow us on Social Media! @mangamacpodcast Check out our website! https://mangamachinations.com Support us on Ko-fi! https://ko-fi.com/mangamac  Check out our YouTube channel! https://www.youtube.com/mangamactv Check out our new gaming channel! https://www.youtube.com/@NakayoshiGaming/  Timestamps: Intro - 00:00:00 Ichi the Killer - 00:03:07 More Weight: A Salem Story - 00:09:47 Glitch Witch - 00:22:25 Next Episode Preview - 00:28:11 Fire Punch - 00:31:57 Historié - 00:52:10 Billy Bat - 01:21:49 Our Rankings - 02:10:08 Outro - 02:17:09 Song Credits: "Forever Funk" by Akolo "We Don't Stop" by 2MooveKa "Groovy Panda" by IamDayLight "God Mode" by Konstantin Garbuzyuk

Numbering be damned as we dive into volumes 7, 8, and 9 of Land of the Lustrous! New revelations have made way to new questions and we continue to examine Haruko Ichikawa's sci-fi take on Buddhism! We also discuss Scarlet, Lanterns, Night of the Living Cat, and much more!!! Send us emails! [email protected]  Follow us on Social Media! @mangamacpodcast Check out our website! https://mangamachinations.com Support us on Ko-fi! https://ko-fi.com/mangamac  Check out our YouTube channel! https://www.youtube.com/mangamactv Check out our new gaming channel! https://www.youtube.com/@NakayoshiGaming/  Timestamps: Intro - 00:00:00 Listener Email - 00:01:38 Scarlet - 00:08:08 Batman: Caped Crusader - 00:17:48 The End of Oak Street - 00:24:24 Lanterns - 00:30:48 Absolute Batman - 00:35:59 Night of the Living Cat - 00:40:04 Next Episode Preview - 00:43:05 Land of the Lustrous - 00:44:33 Outro - 01:26:09 Song Credits: "Yule" by Ian Post "We Don't Stop" by 2MooveKa "Flight of the Inner Bird" by Yehezkel Raz "God Mode" by Konstantin Garbuzyuk

We're diving into more episodes of Cowboy Bepop, Michiko & Hatchin, and Samurai Champloo for Jianghu Journeys! We also discuss shojo manga, The Samurai and the Prisoner, Quit Laughing, Shijima, Choujin X, and even a quiz from Darfox!!! Send us emails! [email protected]  Follow us on Social Media! @mangamacpodcast Check out our website! https://mangamachinations.com Support us on Ko-fi! https://ko-fi.com/mangamac  Check out our YouTube channel! https://www.youtube.com/mangamactv Check out our new gaming channel! https://www.youtube.com/@NakayoshiGaming/  Timestamps: Intro - 00:00:00 Listener Email - 00:04:40 The Samurai and the Prisoner - 00:16:29 Man On Fire - 00:23:34 The Pagemaster - 00:25:46 Darfox's Quiz - 00:32:26 Quit Laughing, Shijima - 00:38:13 Big Walk - 00:42:15 Choujin X - 00:46:41 Suiken Japan - 00:48:16 Next Episode Preview - 00:54:36 Cowboy Bebop 17, Michiko & Hatchin 16, Samurai Champloo 19 - 00:55:00 Outro - 01:35:50 Song Credits: "Talk of the Town" by Devon May "We Don't Stop" by 2MooveKa "Home" by Zach Sorgen "God Mode" by Konstantin Garbuzyuk

We're finally back to continue our Land of the Lustrous Retrospective! Things continue to change for our hero, Phosphophyllite! We also discuss Manga Million, Purgatory Funeral Cakes, Spider-Man: Brand New Day, and more!!! Send us emails! [email protected]  Follow us on Social Media! @mangamacpodcast Check out our website! https://mangamachinations.com Support us on Ko-fi! https://ko-fi.com/mangamac  Check out our YouTube channel! https://www.youtube.com/mangamactv Check out our new gaming channel! https://www.youtube.com/@NakayoshiGaming/  Timestamps: Intro - 00:00:00 Manga Million - 00:03:27 Iron Wok Jan!, Tetsunabe no Jan!! 2nd - 00:15:39 Purgatory Funeral Cakes - 00:17:37 Spider-Man: Brand New Day - 00:22:56 Big Walk - 00:31:08 Next Episode Preview - 00:33:41 Land of the Lustrous - 00:34:13 Outro - 01:12:52 Song Credits: "Yule" by Ian Post "We Don't Stop" by 2MooveKa "Flight of the Inner Bird" by Yehezkel Raz "God Mode" by Konstantin Garbuzyuk

Morgana is away so the boys check out the Tsui Hark anime film, A Chinese Ghost Story! We discuss the unique and wild mix of 2D and 3D animation! We also talk about Mangaka, Ryoshi ni Naru and Mother 3!!! Send us emails! [email protected]  Follow us on Social Media! @mangamacpodcast Check out our website! https://mangamachinations.com Support us on Ko-fi! https://ko-fi.com/mangamac  Check out our YouTube channel! https://www.youtube.com/mangamactv Check out our new gaming channel! https://www.youtube.com/@NakayoshiGaming/  Timestamps: Intro - 00:00:00 Mangaka, Ryoshi ni Naru - 00:01:54 Mother 3 - 00:12:30 Next Episode Preview - 00:25:18 A Chinese Ghost Story - 00:25:53 Outro - 01:03:18 Song Credits: "Forever Funk" by Akolo "We Don't Stop" by 2MooveKa "Groovy Panda" by IamDayLight "God Mode" by Konstantin Garbuzyuk

Seamus is back so we continue our Jianghu Journeys with more Michiko & Hatchin, Cowboy Bebop, and Samurai Champloo! We also discuss manga trivia, Evil Dead Burn, The Odyssey, Oshimi Shuzo Zaiaku Collection, GTO Paradise Lost Kai, and much more!!! Send us emails! [email protected]  Follow us on Social Media! @mangamacpodcast Check out our website! https://mangamachinations.com Support us on Ko-fi! https://ko-fi.com/mangamac  Check out our YouTube channel! https://www.youtube.com/mangamactv Check out our new gaming channel! https://www.youtube.com/@NakayoshiGaming/  Timestamps: Intro - 00:00:00 Listener Email - 00:04:37 The Kid Who Would Be King - 00:12:32 Evil Dead Burn - 00:18:20 The Odyssey - 00:23:31 Oshimi Shuzo Zaiaku Collection - 00:33:50 GTO Paradise Lost Kai - 00:40:58 Doraemon fallout with Shogakukan - 00:45:16 Next Episode Preview - 00:48:41 Cowboy Bebop 16, Michiko & Hatchin 15, Samurai Champloo 18 - 00:49:42 Outro - 01:25:30 Song Credits: "Talk of the Town" by Devon May "We Don't Stop" by 2MooveKa "Home" by Zach Sorgen "God Mode" by Konstantin Garbuzyuk

Darfox is back to join us for a Shojo Showdown! We check out Never Say Ugly, Run Away With Me, Girl, World's End and Apricot Jam. We also talk about A Questionnaire on the Mouth, Jaadugar: A Witch in Mongolia, The Ghost in the Shell, and more!!! Send us emails! [email protected]  Follow us on Social Media! @mangamacpodcast Check out our website! https://mangamachinations.com Support us on Ko-fi! https://ko-fi.com/mangamac  Check out our YouTube channel! https://www.youtube.com/mangamactv Check out our new gaming channel! https://www.youtube.com/@NakayoshiGaming/  Timestamps: Intro - 00:00:00 The Furious - 00:05:27 A Questionnaire on the Mouth - 00:12:36 Black Clover - 00:14:35 Jaadugar: A Witch in Mongolia - 00:18:24 The Ghost in the Shell - 00:21:34 Brother Bear - 00:26:06 Next Episode Preview - 00:33:05 World's End and Apricot Jam - 00:34:35 Never Say Ugly - 00:48:35 Run Away With Me, Girl - 01:06:10 Our Rankings - 01:20:17 Outro - 01:21:28 Song Credits: "Forever Funk" by Akolo "We Don't Stop" by 2MooveKa "Groovy Panda" by IamDayLight "God Mode" by Konstantin Garbuzyuk

Seamus and Darfox are out this week, leaving behind dakazu and Morgana to weigh in on Before You Go Extinct! We also talk about the 2026 ALA Conference, Draw This, Then Die!, Aka to Ao no Gown, and much more!!! Send us emails! [email protected]  Follow us on Social Media! @mangamacpodcast Check out our website! https://mangamachinations.com Support us on Ko-fi! https://ko-fi.com/mangamac  Check out our YouTube channel! https://www.youtube.com/mangamactv Check out our new gaming channel! https://www.youtube.com/@NakayoshiGaming/  Timestamps: Intro - 00:00:00 Listener Email - 00:03:35 2026 ALA Conference, More Weight: A Salem Story - 00:05:28 Toriko - 00:13:06 Draw This, Then Die! - 00:14:16 Aka to Ao no Gown - 00:20:45 Next Episode Preview - 00:28:42 Before You Go Extinct - 00:30:07 Outro - 01:01:28 Song Credits: "Forever Funk" by Akolo "We Don't Stop" by 2MooveKa "Groovy Panda" by IamDayLight "God Mode" by Konstantin Garbuzyuk

It's time for more of our triple anime Retrospective on Samurai Champloo, Michiko & Hatchin, and Cowboy Bebop! We also discuss Animal Signal, MARRIAGETOXIN, Boichi's thoughts on manga piracy, and more!!! Send us emails! [email protected]  Follow us on Social Media! @mangamacpodcast Check out our website! https://mangamachinations.com Support us on Ko-fi! https://ko-fi.com/mangamac  Check out our YouTube channel! https://www.youtube.com/mangamactv Check out our new gaming channel! https://www.youtube.com/@NakayoshiGaming/  Timestamps: Intro - 00:00:00 Listener Email - 00:01:23 Cars - 00:06:14 Road to Empress II - 00:07:12 Animal Signal - 00:09:22 MARRIAGETOXIN - 00:12:52 Boichi's thoughts on manga piracy - 00:15:48 Next Episode Preview - 00:38:15 Cowboy Bebop 15, Michiko & Hatchin 14, Samurai Champloo 16+17 - 00:38:55 Outro - 01:21:00 Song Credits: "Talk of the Town" by Devon May "We Don't Stop" by 2MooveKa "Home" by Zach Sorgen "God Mode" by Konstantin Garbuzyuk