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🎧 Weekly Manga Pod on the best 1st Volumes
💎 Hidden Gems | 🏛️ Classics | 🚨New Manga
📚1000+ Manga Collection | 🚀Cons / Travel
Dark Horse just out here, casually teasing Appleseed Deluxe?! Be still my beating heart!!!
December 2, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Today’s a great day to support your favorite independent anime & manga journalism sites!

@yattatachi.com
@animefeminist.com
@animeherald.com
@okazu.yuricon.com

All of these sites rely heavily on community funding, so why not help them out!

🧵 (breakdown of each site & donation links)
December 2, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Have an absolute ton of incredible, historically important manga at my finger tips… I just don’t know where to begin hahahah! Expect some mini reviews of all of this over the coming days! @dandq.bsky.social
December 2, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Apologies folks - I’ve been neglecting this account a bit recently while I was traveling! But dropped a new review for ‘You Can’t Live All On Your Own’ by @tsunomizoko.bsky.social and published in English by @tokyopop.bsky.social!
November 19, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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On the way back from the London gaming market! Time to read some manga on the train, thanks to @mangatakpod.bsky.social for the recommendation on this one! Listened to the episode yesterday and found it at forbidden planet
November 9, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Japanese medicine box design has a real blank VHS cassette cover feel to it and I’m honestly here for it…
November 5, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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October 30, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Them: What’s your favourite SNES RPG?
Me:
November 2, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Ahhhhhhhh! I never get the prize I want in Combini Lotteries! Thank you Halloween Gods!!!
October 31, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Today’s torture is my wallet it seems…
October 31, 2025 at 6:00 AM
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

RIP to the man whose face inspired a generation of Mangaka to create pretty characters with long flowing hair!
Björn Andrésen, Swedish actor who starred in Death in Venice, dies aged 70
Actor who also starred in Midsommar and became a musician was nicknamed ‘the most beautiful boy in the world’ – a title he struggled with all his life
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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OH CRAP!

So I guess in all that excitement, I forgot about these 3 whole CLAMP series / books! Whoops.

I was settling into my flight to listen to some @clampcastpod.bsky.social on Clover and saw I still hadn’t listened to the Wish wrap up and well, here we are….
October 9, 2025 at 11:15 AM
So I’m just realizing as I finish up Clover that I’ve not done a CLAMP update in forever! While it’s highly likely I’m not going to get to the end of their works by the end of the year, I just wanted to give high level thoughts on both so I can move onto Suki in peace!
October 8, 2025 at 7:49 PM
I finally got around to reading Bonds by Zenzo, published in English by our friends over at @mangamavericks.bsky.social ! I think it’s fair to say I didn’t just like it, but loooved it!
October 8, 2025 at 2:25 PM
This week on Manga Tak, I’m joined by Pippa and Georgie to chat the excellent They Were 11! by Moto Hagio (published by @denpabooks.bsky.social )

This groundbreaking sci-fi Shojo is one not to be missed! Get it here or wherever pods are cast! www.buzzsprout.com/2373443/epis...
October 6, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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

Listen here or wherever pods are cast! www.buzzsprout.com/2373443/epis...
September 29, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Also as it’s been a busy week, here’s this week’s Manga Tak Plus on ‘Mechanical Buddy Universe’ by Takuji Kato, published by @square-enix-books.com!
September 25, 2025 at 4:54 PM
This week on Manga Tak, @tsutsudae.bsky.social and I sit down to talk about Josei manga ‘You Can’t Live All on Your Own’ by Mizoko Tsuno published by @tokyopop.bsky.social!

Listen here and wherever pods are cast! www.buzzsprout.com/2373443/epis...
September 25, 2025 at 4:38 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...
booksfromtaiwan.moc.gov.tw
September 18, 2025 at 1:34 PM
This week on Manga Tak Plus, I took a look at the first volume of Saint Seiya Dark Wing, it’s a spin off of the classic series by Kurumada Masami, written by Kenji Saito and illustrated by Shinshu Ueda!

It’s published by @titanmangahq.bsky.social and hit shelves yesterday!
September 17, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Read a manga that blew me away right after closing my bookshop, & became disillusioned with publishing & creating.

@mangatakpod.bsky.social & I explore how this book hits so hard.

Creatives who work or want to work in making books should listen.
mangatakpod.buzzsprout.com

#manga #comics #books
September 15, 2025 at 8:32 PM
This week on Manga Tak, @jambookshopuk.bsky.social and I talk the excellent Tokyo These Days by Taiyō Matsumoto.

Listen to us discuss creativity, burnout and drawing hands here / wherever pods are cast! www.buzzsprout.com/2373443/epis...
September 15, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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I'm a guest on a cool podcast that dissects manga.
New episode out today.
Feel free to embarrass me by listening.

Go to @mangatakpod.bsky.social

#manga #podcast #mangadrawing #tokyo #japan
September 15, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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this is what i mean for the young’uns. they’d chop one manga volume up into western style floppy comic books, read left to right, images sometimes flipped for western format, you could sometimes find fan letter/fan art submissions near the back too
September 13, 2025 at 12:08 AM