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Never. We place pixels by hand in this house.
November 12, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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Coming this month, the shocking conclusion in Atsushi Kaneko’s SEARCH AND DESTROY VOL. 3! Get your pre-orders in wherever there are books!
November 12, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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Psyched to see that the Italian edition of VEIL by Kotteri took home a major prize at Lucca in Italy this past weekend: Best Series!
November 11, 2025 at 3:17 AM
mangasplaining.bsky.social
Just discovered findyourcomic.store. It even works in Japan! We've been promo-ing the Comic Shop Locator on the podcast since the beginning, but with Diamond imploding (they owned that site) this might be a good replacement. What do you all think?
Find the closest shop around you to buy the best product in the world: comics!
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November 10, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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Love Village Vanguard Exciting Book Store. For reasons...
November 8, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Published last night: our latest episode!
We take a look at Search and Destroy, the sci-fi Dororo adaptation published by @mangasplaining.bsky.social, and Kaina of the Great Snow Sea from @kodansha.us!
Available from all good Podcast services and screentone.club
ScreenTone Club
A fortnightly look at manga, with a focus on joint in-depth discussion of titles both old and new.
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November 5, 2025 at 1:27 PM
mangasplaining.bsky.social
We're deeply honored to see VEIL Volume 1 by Kotteri, translated by Jocelyne Allen, on Publisher's Weekly's "Must Read Manga of 2025" list! MSX produced this title and UDON published it and it's so great, and we're so happy for its success. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
Must-Read Manga of 2025
This year, as middle grade and YA manga continued to show strength, publishers also embraced manga for adult readers, with New York Review Comics, HarperAlley, and Abrams ComicArts continuing to expan...
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November 2, 2025 at 3:51 PM
mangasplaining.bsky.social
Happy to continue working with @fantagraphics.bsky.social as they start their new Takumigraphics imprint. Our first title with them will be the forthcoming hardcover release of Wandering Cat's Cage, by Akane Torikai! Details: www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
Fantagraphics Launches East Asian Comics Imprint
Takumigraphics, the storied indie publisher's new dedicated home for manga, manhua, and graphic novels from across the region, will launch four titles next spring.
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October 31, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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One of Taiwan's Comics of the Year is "SPARKLE AT THE FUCKING END" by Hacocho. It's about two teenagers who find a superstar turned into a zombie during the apocalypse, and decide to keep him and film him on social media for likes. So, y'know. Taiwan is making some neat comics.
October 23, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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Japanese pundits coined the term "Galapagos syndrome" to express how their country lost its role as global consumer electronics innovator. But in a world driven mad by tech disruption, is Japan’s having fallen behind turning into a secret super power?
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Super Galapagos
In a world driven mad by tech disruption, Japan’s having fallen behind is a superpower
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October 23, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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parkerparmenter.bsky.social
I bought Summit of the Gods way back when it was recommended on @mangasplaining.bsky.social
I started it last night, I'm already on volume 3

If nothing else, it's a great list of peaks to visit in Japan
September 27, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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This week on Manga Tak, @toodlebug500.bsky.social and I have been reading the excellent Search and Destroy by Atsushi Kaneko! Published by @fantagraphics.bsky.social in collab with @mangasplaining.bsky.social

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Cover of Search and Destroy Vol. 1 by Atsushi Kaneko on ‘snow’ at the base of a statue with city lights in the background The big question of the book: “why are you so angry?” - Hyaku stands, swords out, in front of a bunch of yakuza corpses The nightclub bouncer explains ‘Hyoo’ Humans and “Kreach” Creatures, the world’s robot population Gaz realizing crime doesn’t pay…
September 29, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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In Memoriam: Matt Haasch

“Matt was warm, friendly, and endlessly positive, with an infectious energy.” Azuki’s @evanminto.com honors the memory of the @starfruitbooks.bsky.social founder

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In Memoriam: Matt Haasch – Azuki
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September 18, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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Today we'd like to share a cool website, Books from Taiwan. It's a government initiative designed to share compelling works in all formats in genres, but of course, we love the comics stuff the best. Primarily for publishers, but anyone can browse: booksfromtaiwan.moc.gov.tw/books.php?ca...
Books From Taiwan | Books
Books from Taiwan is an initiative funded by TAICCA (Taiwan Creative Content Agency) to introduce a select list of Taiwan publishing titles, ranging from fiction, non-fiction, children's books, and co...
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September 18, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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And it’s also a great excuse to reshare these two wonderful posts from @mangasplaining.bsky.social on Taiyō Matsumoto -

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BONUS: Interview with Taiyo Matsumoto from 2011, on the digital publication of No. 5
The first time Deb and Christopher worked together, on an old interview
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September 15, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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catsuka.bsky.social
Now available online in english: Naoki Urasawa interviewing Katsuhiro Otomo about his work and his manga "Domu" during one hour.
"Manben" is such a great TV program.
>> www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/...
September 13, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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debaoki.bsky.social
Shocked and saddened to hear that Matt Haasch, founder of indie manga publishing company @starfruitbooks.bsky.social has passed away. His gofundme campaign for his medical and other expenses is still up - contribute if you can. www.gofundme.com/f/donate-to-...
Donate to Matt's Journey: Healing and Comics, organized by Matthew Haasch
With your support, I can focus on healing from lymphoma while continu… Matthew Haasch needs your support for Donate to Matt's Journey: Healing and Comics
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September 8, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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September 1, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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Not All Girls Are Stupid by Minami Q-ta on Mangasplaining
This week the Mangasplaining gang dig into the edgy 90s shojo manga short stories of Minami Q-ta in Not All Girls Are Stupid! It's a heck of a NSFW episode.
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September 8, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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CXC’s first ever full manga track brings together creators from literally around the globe—Japan, France, and here in the U.S.—for four days of programming, events, and workshops that showcase not just Japanese cartooning, but also the vast influence of manga worldwide.
July 17, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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Previously unseen sketches by Atsushi Kaneko for SEARCH AND DESTROY? Don't mind if we do...
August 30, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Due to some reg fuckery mangasplainingextra.com stopped working for an undetermined length of time. It is working again! Apologies.
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The podcast, the show notes, original articles about manga and new manga, delivered to your inbox! Click to read MSX - The Mangasplaining Extra Newsletter, by MSX: Mangasplaining Extra, a Substack pub...
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August 30, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Thanks @mangasplaining.bsky.social crew for the chance to translate this kickass manga and write a bit about what it means to me. A few excerpts are here, or read the whole thing plus an extraordinary afterword to his own work from Kaneko-sensei: mangasplaining.substack.com/p/search-and...
We can look to these collaborators, who have each physically appropriated and jealously guard a part of Hyaku's dismembered body, to remind us that followers of fascist regimes do not pledge their loyalty to the leader because they are brave, but because they are cowardly; not because they alone have figured out the singular secret behind the good life, but because they have chosen cruelty and blind obedience as a way to paper over diverse individual deficiencies. I was honored to have the opportunity to translate Search and Destroy and pleased that it has been recognized by the comics community with an Eisner nomination and the most nominations of any series at the American Manga Awards in 2025—primarily because Kaneko-sensei is a brilliant artist who has been unknown in this country for far too long (here's hoping this is just the beginning). I’m especially pleased that this attention is coming this year, because Search and Destroy’s anti-fascism could not possibly be more relevant, rooted as it is in a blazing, indignant rage on behalf of the people in this, the real world. I've spent several days this year visiting Delaney Hall, a private prison in Newark, New Jersey, near my home. First I went as a protester, hoping to prevent the facility from reopening, and now I volunteer on the weekends to help support people there hoping to visit their loved ones in detention. There is no way to make an appointment, and the process to get in is always changing. Currently, you have to figure out which “unit” your loved one is in, then come for one of just two sessions a week. Some people arrive as early as 6 am, because there is no way to tell whether the gate guard will strictly limit the number of inmates who can see visitors to as few as 15 or will be more lenient. There is no waiting area or amenities for visitors. Volunteers who dedicate many more hours than I do arrive early with chairs, drinks, and food. They erect tents in the triangular space of black asphalt, which is bordered by a driveway, a barbed-wire fence, and a road that also leads to a waste processing plant and a fat rendering facility. (When there's no wind, and the hot, acrid air settles, I have to launder my clothes as soon as I get home.) To members of their respective in-groups, the fascism of the 20th century offered, and the American fascism of Donald Trump offers today, the chance to flatten the disquieting individuality of their personal grievances into a simple, comforting unity of purpose: the spiteful exercise of power to disintegrate social identities and physical bodies that don't fit in. Search and Destroy offers elegant comment on this brutalizing, seductive formula with its human-robot divide (whose complexity certainly puts it on par with the best science fiction) and its very literal metaphor of Hyaku and Doro's physical bodies being captured and compromised by those in power. In this, it does better than provide the fleeting analgesic of escapism—it brings the lasting assurance that someone understands. At this moment, when fascism is resurgent around the world, when pregnant and trans and queer people are being treated with a cruelty that has nothing to do with the lives they just want to be left alone to live, when unaccountable homeland security officers are kidnapping our neighbors and their children to fill a national network of concentration camps they have just secured funding to expand, I sometimes lose faith that what I do for a living, working in comics, really matters. I even despair that there is anything I can do that will have any kind of real impact on the world. There can be no single antidote to that feeling, but Search & Destroy helps. No one could sum up why better than Kaneko-sensei himself, so I urge you to read his afterword to this scintillating manga; remember that you belong to you, not them—and stay angry.
August 28, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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"At those times, touching something that has been charged with someone else’s rage, like a manga, book, movie, music, or other piece of art, demonstrates that there is someone else out there feeling the same rage, and that this feeling welling up inside us is not a mistake." - Atsushi Kaneko
SEARCH AND DESTROY: Afterwords Pt. 2
Creator Atsushi Kaneko gives his epilogue for the series, translator Ben Applegate shares his thoughts, and a few special thank yous...
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August 28, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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New Post: SEARCH AND DESTROY: Afterwords Pt. 1. Featuring art from Atsushi Kaneko and Peach Momoko! Read it now at Mangasplaining Extra.
SEARCH AND DESTROY: Afterwords Pt. 1
Putting a few finishing touches on Search and Destroy with materials from Atsushi Kaneko and Peach Momoko!
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August 28, 2025 at 1:39 PM