Manga Tak

In a world filled with deadly dungeons, filled to the brim with untold riches, Ali Baba wants to leave behind the life of a wagon driver and fulfil his potential... but it isn't until he ends up giving a ride to a young boy named Aladdin, who just happens to be packing a Djinn in a magic flute that he thinks he really has a shot of succeeding where others have failed... But just who is this boy? And why does he have such a habit of attracting trouble? Let's find out!
On this week's episode, Mat is joined once again by Tsutsudae of the Undisputed Anime podcast to discuss Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic by Ohtaka Shinobu - a classic work of shonen manga based on the One Thousand and One Nights folktales. The boys get into the book's unique setting, what Tsu believes makes it stand out amongst other shonen books of the time and more importantly, if it's worth checking out at all!
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Show Notes
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Sumomomo, Momomo by Shinobu Ohtaka
Magi: Adventure of Sinbad by Shinobu Ohtaka and Yoshifumi Ohtera
Orient bt Shinobu Ohtaka
Sinbad by Atsuji Yamamoto (Mat Note - originally published in Monthly Comic Nora, Not WSS ;) )
Red River by Chie Shinohara
Ichi The Witch by Osamu Nishi & Shiro Usazaki
Naruto by Masashi Kishimoto
One Piece by Eiichiro Oda
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Moritaka Mashiro is an average 14 year old middle schooler who's jaded with the system. His plans to coast through life hit a snag one day when one of his classmates, Akito Takagi, snags his notebook and proposes the two of them create Manga together. Moritaka initially refuses because he's seen first hand what being a mangaka means, but after learniing his crush, Miho Azuki plans to become a voice actor he makes a pledge to her: he will team up with Akito, the two of them will create a smash hit manga, get it made into an anime for Miho to voice, then the two of them will get married!
Yes folks, Mat and Tom sit down to talk about the renowned manga about making manga, Bakuman by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata, and run face first into a romantic high school drama! Will the content be enough to hook them? Will it be as good as Mat remembers? And more importantly, does the second creative work from the Death Note duo improve upon their first hit series?
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Show Notes
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Death Note by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata
Trigun by Yasuhiro Nightow 
Fist of The North Star by Buronson and Tatsuo Hara
Akane Banashi by Yuki Suenaga and Takamasa Moue
One Piece by Eiichiro Oda
Dragon Ball by Akira Toriyama
Orange by Ichigo Takano
Jojo's Bizarre Adventure by Hirohiko Araki
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Books on Manga!
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Manga in Theory and Practice by Hirohiiko Araki
Manga School by Akira Toriyama
The Shonen Jump Guide to Making Manga
How to Draw Manga by Osamu Tezuka

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Mahoro Haruta the a top selling manga artist, who's series Revive Line has sold over 50 million copies, but the truth is it wasn't her idea: the original creator of the characters and the story were her High School Senpai, Shu Yukishima, who passed away while they were studying. After a fall though, she's somehow transported back before Yukishima's death! Can Mahoro right her wrongs and save her senpai...? Or is there some other reason she's been sent back?
This week on Manga Tak, Mat is joined by Marg (aka @MargReadsManga) to discuss Drawing From Your Memory by Shiki Kawabata! Join us as we dive into our feelings on time loop mysteries more broadly, why certain choices didn't work for us on a second read, and, more importantly, if we plan to see this 5 volume series through to its conclusion! 
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Show Notes
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Love at First Memory by Narumi Hasegaki
Orange by Ichigo Takano
Tokyo Revengers by Ken Wakui
The Long Summer of August 31st by Ikkado Ito
Blank Canvas by Akiko Higashimura
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Shiki Kiwabata's Switched
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As Billy Bat flys off American comic book shelves, it's creator, Kevin Yamagata is in emotional turmoil. After learning he may have copied the character from something he saw while stationed in Japan during the war, Kevin sets out to find it's original creator and make amends... what he finds instead is a web of conspiracy that threatens to insnare him, and the knowledge that the bat he thought he created, might be something bigger than he can ever comprehend! 
This week on Manga Tak, Mat sits down with Ramzee to discuss Billy Bat by Naoki Urasawa and Takashi Nagasaki. While they mainly try to stay on topic about the book, it's central themes of stories, creation and symbolism draw out many tangents about authorial intent, the meta levels of storytelling in comics and a whole lot besides! 
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Show Notes
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Manga
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Monster by Naoki Urasawa
20th Century Boys by Naoki Urasawa
Pluto: Urasawa x Tezuka by Naoki Urasawa
Pineapple Army by Naoki Urasawa
Asadora! by Naoki Urasawa
Master Keaton by Naoki Urasawa
New Treasure Island by Osamu Tezuka
One Piece by Eiichiro Oda
Hunter x Hunter by Yoshiro Togashi
Jujutsu Kaisen by Gege Akutami
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Books / TV / Essays / Ted Talks?!
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Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Singing Detective by Dennis Potter 
Manben on Naoki Urasawa (warning: contains spoilers)
George Orwell's The Decline of English Murder 
Kirby Ferguson - Everything's a Remix
Kirby Ferguson - Creativity is a remix
Do Conversation by Robert Poynton
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People
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Alan Lomax
Orson Welles
Franz Kafka
Hergé
Bob Kane
Bill Finger
Wally Wood
The Brothers Grimm
Ronald Wimberly
Tradd Moore

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Fuyunosuke is a quirky, fun-loving Tokyoite who's loved by his friends at the University in-spite of his idiosyncrasies (and kinks!).. But there's a reason for his odd behaviour... Fuyunosuke is an alien! His mission? Gauge Earth's potential for Alien colonisation! Except he's not doing his job! Despite being on Earth a whole year, he's failed to report back to high command, forcing them to send Fuyu's older brother, Natsutaro, down to the planet to see what's happening! 
This week, Mat is joined by Nick from Retrobreak to discuss Tokyo Alien Bros by Keigo Shinzo! Join us as we peel the invisible shrinkwrap on this NSFW book (and by extension podcast) to discuss it's themes, art and how it compares to Shinzo's later work, Hirayasumi! 
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Show Notes
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Hirayashumi by Keigo Shinzo
Midori no Hoshi by Keigo Shinzo
Wash It All Away by Mitsuru Hattori
The story of Keigo Shinzo's hospitalisation is in 'No Sentimental Reactions' by Keigo Shinzo, available soon from Denpa
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Keigo Shinzo Interviews!
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Mangabrog: Asano, Shinzo and Matsumoto
2018 Journal Du Japan Interview (machine translated)
Misaki Takamatsu x Keigo Shinzo (machine translated)
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