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Eugene Korekishi is the smartest kid in his class, but despite his Grandma's promise to one day come back to haunt and hang out with him, he doesn't believe in ghosts. That is until one day, a young exorcist in training named Mogari Shishikuno joins his class! 
While Mogari can't see or hear ghosts himself, he can perform exorcisms by eating spirits who refuse to pass on! Another handy trick he has up his sleeve is the ability to touch someone with a supernatural ability and borrow their powers... Given this high school is seemingly filled to the brim with super natural talent, it's time to form a club and get recruiting! 
This week, Mat is joined once again by Zane Reid of Undisputed Anime to talk Phantom Busters by Neoshoco! Join us as we discuss the book's spin on the traditional shonen manga format, who exactly it's audience might be and how we feel about a book that delivers more punch-lines than punches! 
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Show Notes
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Manga
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Mashle by Hajime Komoto
One-Punch Man by ONE and Yusuke Muruta
Sakamoto Days by Yuto Suzuki
Wistoria: Wand and Sword by Fujino Omori
Witch Hat Atelier - Kamome Shirahama
Hunter x Hunter by Yoshihiro Togarashi
Frieren by Kanehito Yamada & Tsukasa Abe
Black Torch by Tsuyoshi Takaki
DanDaDan by Yukinobu Tatsu
Phantom Seer by Togo Goto & Kento Matsuura
Bungo Stray Dogs by Kafka Asagari & Sango Harukawa
Chainsaw Man by Tatsuki Fujimoto
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Love can hit you when you least expect it... Sometimes it's up close with a 9mm, other times it's at a distance from an semi-automatic! Some people even end up falling in love as collateral damage from a stray grenade... All is fair in love and war when cupids are involved! Anything to earn that karma to get re-incarnated! 
This week Mat's once again joined by Behind The Manga co-founder Winter Venom to discuss Love Bullet by inee! We get into the book's premise, a yuri manga where gun-toting cupids take matchmaking to the extreme, discuss it's potential scope, as well as the mix of action and emotion that forms the foundation of a wonderful first volume.
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Show Notes
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Find MangaAlert's Review of Love Bullet here.
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Manga
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The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn't A Guy At All (aka Green Yuri) by Sumiko Arai
Gokurakugai by Yuto Sano
Mechanical Buddy Universe by Takuji Kato
Midnight Diner by Yarō Abe
Maid to Skate by Suzushiro
This Monster Wants to Eat Me by Sai Naekawa
Lycoris Recoil by Yasunori Bizen
Black Lagoon by Rei Hireo
Chainsaw Man by Tatsuki Fujimoto
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Daisuke Niwa's 14th birthday isn't going according to plan: rejected by the girl he has a crush on, and receiving no sympathy from his mother, Daisuke suddenly feels a weird transformation coming on... but this isn't puberty, it's something in his DNA! Before Daisuke knows it, he's transformed into Dark Mousy, the legendary phantom thief! 
With the only way to break the curse being to get his crush to return his affection, and his classmate, Satoshi Hiwatari turning out to be a young prodigal detective, Daisuke's going to need more than angelic powers: he's going to need a miracle!
This week, Mat is joined once again by Tsutsudae of Undisputed Anime to discuss Yukiru Sugisaki's Shojo masterpiece, DN Angel, in it's shiny (and we mean SHINY) New Edition from Yen Press!
We discuss how the series has held up during it's many hiatuses, talk  phantom thieves in anime / manga at large, before ruminating a little on how great it is that fans of this series from 1997 will finally get a chance to read it's ending almost 30 years later!
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Show Notes
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Manga
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X by CLAMP
Card Captor Sakura by CLAMP
Man of Many Faces by CLAMP
D.Gray-Man by Katsura Hishino
Sailor Moon by Naoko Takeuchi
Lupin the Third by Monkey Punch
Cat's Eye by Tsukasa Hojo
Phantom Thief Jeanne by Arina Tanemura
Saint Tail by Megumi Tachikawa
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Sugisaki Interview with  Comics Natalie

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Buntarō Mori transfers to a new school in the hopes of being left alone... Only for a school bully to send his life down an unexpected path: a new passion for solo climbing! Mori, a gloomy loner, soon opens up under the watchful eye of his teacher, Oonishi and the students form a climbing club... But after a climbing trip gone wrong, Mori's life starts to catch up with him... Maybe this is one climb he must face alone!
This week, Mat is joined once again by Georgie (aka Mainly.Manga) to discuss The Climber by Shin-ichi Sakamoto, Yoshio Nabeta & Hiroshi Takano. We discuss not only the book's high-highs, but it's interesting publishing history, Sakamoto's other works and the author's own journey from a young Mangaka to almost retiring from Manga altogether before the success of this work! 
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Show Notes
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Manga
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Innocent by Shin-ichi Sakamoto
#DRCL Midnight Children by Shin-ichi Sakamoto
Monster by Naoki Urusawa
GTO by Tooru Fujisawa
The Summit of The Gods by Jiro Taniguchi
A Journal of my Father by Jiro Taniguchi
The Solitary Gourmet by Jiro Taniguchi
The Walking Man by Jiro Taniguchi
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Interviews Etc.
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Shin-Ichi Sakamoto Manben Episode!
Kerastyle Interview with Shin-ichi Sakamoto
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The passing of world-renowned wine critic Yutaka Kanzaki sends shockwaves through the industry... but perhaps nobody is more surprised by his passing than his son, Shizuku, who has been estranged from his father for many years and in an act of defiance after his harsh upbringing, never touched a drop of wine...
But upon hearing from his father's lawyer, Shizuku discovers that if he wants claim his inheritance, the world's most expensive wine collection, he must correctly identity 13 wines: 12 'apostles' and a wine cryptically referred to as 'The Drops of God' in a competition against another renowned wine critic, Issei Tomine, who was adopted by his father just before his passing!
This week, Mat sits down once more with Árni Beck Gunnarsson to talk The Drops of God by Tadashi Agi and Shin Kibayashi! Join us as we discuss if this wine manga had us reaching for another glass, or if it's approach to wine left us longing for something stronger. We speculate on it's tone and target audience, while Mat also gets into his thoughts about the Live Action TV show currently streaming on Apple TV!
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Show Notes
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Manga
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Death Note by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata
Midnight Diner by Yarō Abe
Great Teacher Onizuka by Tooru Fujisawa
Oishinbo by Tetsu Kariya Akira Hanasaki
Food Wars!: Shokugeki No Soma by Yūto Tsukuda and Shun Saeki
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TV Shows
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Drops of God (Apple TV)
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Jarret Melendez' story about a Tokyo Jazz Bar can be found in Vol.1 of IDW's Full Bleed Anthology!
Listen to Mat and Arni talk Manga more broadly on Tegenseriessnak here!
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