Our InuYasha retrospective and Manga Fight have been very well received and we couldn’t be happier! We got more four times the likes on the Retrospective on tumblr than we have on all the other Manga Mavericks episodes combined! Thank you all for your comments and enthusiasm! We hope to make more retrospective and Manga Fights like those in the future, so stay tuned to our brand-spanking new twitter account for future updates on the show!

On this week’s Manga Mavericks, Colton and Sid spend a good hour discussing their new favorite manga, Ajin: Demi-Human, a thought-provoking and introspective series about humanity, morality, and mortality that also happens to be one of the most badass action series currently-running. Other topics of discussion include the recent Jump Starts Spring Weapon No. 01 and RWBY, how Weekly Shonen Sunday can compete with Jump and Magazine, whether Keijo!!!!!!!! is actually worth watching, and a whole lot more!

Podcast Breakdown:

00:23 – Announcements

09:00 – Spring Weapon No. 01 Discussion

15:00 – Love Rush Cancellation Discussion

18:55 – RWBY Manga Discussion

23:30 – Demon’s Plan & Oreggo Rasso Jump Starts Speculation

26:55 – Shonen Jump Reprints an Issue For the First Time Ever

29:38 – NYT Best Selling Manga List: Week of October 30th-November 5th

33:18 – Tite Kubo Returns to Twitter

35:00 – New Bleach Novels Coming Soon

36:45 – Mari Okada Writes New Manga For Bessatsu Shonen Magazine

39:25 – Naoki Urasawa to Debut New Manga in Big Comic Spirits in 2017

43:25 – Yoshitoki Oima Debuts Her New Manga “To You, the Immortal” in Weekly Shonen Magazine

45:25 – Weekly Shonen Magazine’s Circulation Drops Below One Million

57:15 – Orange Nominated for Goodreads Choice Award

58:25 – DMP’s Under the Air Kickstarter Reaches Goal, Record of Glass Castle now available as an Add-On

1:01:00 – Ajin: Demi-Human Gets Live-Action Film

1:03:42 – Ajin: Demi-Human Discussion

1:59:36 – Q&A: “Is Keijo!!!!!!!! Worth Watching?”

2:16:40 – Wrap-Up

Enjoy the show, and follow us on twitter at @manga_mavericks, and the hosts at @sniperking323 and @lumranmayasha. Our next episode will be released on Wednesday, December 7th and will feature a retrospective on Toriko to commemorate the recent conclusion of the series. We’ll be joined by special guest Maxy Barnard, host of the Shonen Jump-centric podcast Friendship! Effort! Victory! We’ll also be recording our Toriko Manga Fight with him early December and plan to release it on Wednesday, December 14th. If there are any Toriko-related debate topics you would like to see us duke it out over on the show, or other topics, series, or mangaka you want us to center a Manga Fight on, drop us a line in the comments below, or e-mail us at mangamavericks@gmail.com! Thanks for listening!

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