Mudai Manga and Book Club

Scrumptious in a Subterranean Sepulchre - Episode 13 - Delicious In Dungeon Volume 1

The adventurers need food, badly! So, with this episode, we take a look through the first volume of Delicious in Dungeon by Ryoko Kui. In addition, this week we do some programming change, and we are only covering the main review and our recently read, so enjoy a more focused episode. But we do have time for a few minutes for Louie to talk about the second volume of the Elden Ring manga, and Tom gets obsessed with the light novel series Enough with this Slow Life! I was Reborn as a High Elf and Now I'm Bored and the talks on the first three books.
 
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Main Theme: Sunrise by Meizong & Yeeflex
Music provided by Argofox:Meizong & Yeeflex - Sunriseyoutu.be/-GurRvqxg3I
Additional Music:
Phat Phrog Studio -  Cyber Chill
Phat Phrog Studio - Echo Nexus

Mushishi as Far as the Eye Can See - Episode 12 - Mushishi Vol 1 and 2, When to Drop a Series

A series of unconnected stories, Mushishi follows a titular mushishi (translatable as a mushi doctor) Ginko as he wanders around heling people deal with mushi, tiny proto-lifeforms that are yet powerful enough to cause effects both deadly and magical for the people of rural Japan. Beyond that, and now that I can think of stupid jokes to add to this summary, we talk about our thoughts on when to drop a series, which ends in a completely different place than we intended because we both read too much and are too forgetful to drop things. Go us! Enjoy all that, along with a quick discussion of the entirety of Shaman King in our What We've Read section, on this week's podcast.
 
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Main Theme: Sunrise by Meizong & Yeeflex
Music provided by Argofox:Meizong & Yeeflex - Sunriseyoutu.be/-GurRvqxg3I
Additional Music:
Phat Phrog Studio -  Cyber Chill
Phat Phrog Studio - Echo Nexus
Dark Fantasy Studio - Together

Money is the New Frontier -- Episode 11 - Shangri-La Frontier, Best Selling Manga of All Time

This week, we log in for a look at the first two arcs of one of our favorite series, Shangri-La Frontier. Sunraku's adventures begin with some rather tame bosses for this series, like a wolf the size of a schoolbus or a man who fused himself with a tree and mastered more magic than half of the cast of Hogwarts. But before that, we take a look through the list of the highest selling manga series of all time. And not just One Piece, though, if you haven't heard how massive One Piece is, you better prepare yourself for some big, big numbers. And no, Tom didn't forget to give Louie his score at the end of the quiz, . . . he forgot to score it at all.
 
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Main Theme: Sunrise by Meizong & Yeeflex
Music provided by Argofox:Meizong & Yeeflex - Sunriseyoutu.be/-GurRvqxg3I
Additional Music:
Phat Phrog Studio - Machines of the Night
Phat Phrog Studio - Echo Nexus
AndySv - Experiment

Intro to Manga, and GOODBYE! -- Episode 10 - Goodbye Eri, An Introduction to Manga

Is it the last episode, when we just made double digits? Nah, we're just covering the single volume comic Goodbye Eri by Tatsuki Fujimoto, the story of movies, goobyes, and, well, massive spoilers. And in addition to that, Louie takes us through an introduction to manga, covering the basic terms and what they mean; if you're just getting into this, here's our primer on a number of terms you'll see and some of how manga is published in Japan and around the world.
 
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Main Theme: Sunrise by Meizong & Yeeflex
Music provided by Argofox:Meizong & Yeeflex - Sunriseyoutu.be/-GurRvqxg3I
Additional Music:
Phat Phrog Studio -  Resistance
Phat Phrog Studio - Echo Nexus
Phat Phrog Studio -  Cyber Chill

We're Off to Make Friends IN SPACE! - Episode 9 - Edens Zero, Genre Spotlight: Slice of Life

You know what's cool about space? The temperature. You know what else is cool about space? The manga Edens Zero, which we finally sit down and talk about; this week we dive into the opening of the story, covering the introductory chapters and the Norma arc. Alongside that, we take some time to get a little more contemplative as we look into Slice of Life, the genre, and discuss what we find appealing and effective about it.
 
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Main Theme: Sunrise by Meizong & Yeeflex
Music provided by Argofox:Meizong & Yeeflex - Sunriseyoutu.be/-GurRvqxg3I
Additional Music:
Phat Phrog Studio -  Cyber Chill
Phat Phrog Studio - Echo Nexus
Dark Fantasy Studio - Together

Death by Dugong on the Docks with the Drawers - Episode 8 - Hard Boiled Cop and Dolphin, Name that Isekai!

In the city where people sleep normally, and the weather is just about always sunny and warm, and a certain five year old has unfathomale powers of turning bubble pipes into breathing apparatuses, we find our series for this week, Hard Boiled Cop and Dolphin! In addition, Louie takes Tom through the wringer with a few rounds of Name That Isekai! and Tom read a reasonable number of books. It was reasonable. Not absurd at all. He had two weeks after all, and the amount he read was not strange at all. Nope.
 
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Main Theme: Sunrise by Meizong & Yeeflex
Music provided by Argofox:Meizong & Yeeflex - Sunriseyoutu.be/-GurRvqxg3I
Additional Music:
Phat Phrog Studio -  Cyber Chill
Phat Phrog Studio - Echo Nexus
Phat Phrog Studio - Resistance

A Red Jacket that Isn't Quite Metallic - Episode 7.5 - FullMetal Alchemist

With Louie on vacation, Tom is joined today by special guest host Renata, and without the guardrails in place from Louie, we still stay laser focused on our topics of FullMetal Alchemist and it's anime adaptation (mostly 2003's version), Renata's Choice Five anime and manga series, visiting Japan, the joys of vending machines in Japan, museums we visited in Japan, the Jujutsu Kaisen cafe experience . . . all the hard hitting stuff you expect from us.
 
Special Thanks to Renata for guest hosting this week; you can find more with her
 
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On Tumbler: https://www.tumblr.com/suzu-kun22
 
 
[Due to some audio issues, part of the episode discussing the FullMetal Alchemist: Conqueror's of Shamballa had to be cut, we apologize for any confusion if it is still referenced despite no longer being part of the show this week.]
 
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Main Theme: Sunrise by Meizong & Yeeflex
Music provided by Argofox:Meizong & Yeeflex - Sunriseyoutu.be/-GurRvqxg3I
 
Additional Music:
Phat Phrog Studio -  Cyber Chill
Phat Phrog Studio - Echo Nexus
Dark Fantasy Studio - Together
Phat Phrog Studio - Machines of the Night
 

You Get a Curse, and You Get a Curse - Episode 7 - Jujutsu Kaisen, The "Critical Point"

You have seven days to listen to this show, otherwise it will no longer be the newest episode and you'll have a different one to listen to. Join us today as we take a look at the beginning of Jujutsu Kaisen, the "Fearsome Womb" arc, as one of us tries to explain the interesting and entertaining aspects of the series while the other complains about everything he can find wrong with it. . . . It's Tom, he couldn't even make it through half the episode before complaining about it, I don't see why we're trying to make it a secret.
In addition, Tom takes us through his recent narrative studies to talk about something we have named "the critical point," the spot in a story where a reader's opinion changes from, "this is good," to "this is amazing." While we cover examples, nuances, and theories about it, this is nowhere near a finished idea and we would live your feedback on it because Tom's brain will not shut up about it and we need him to start working on the next episode.
 
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Main Theme: Sunrise by Meizong & Yeeflex
Music provided by Argofox:Meizong & Yeeflex - Sunriseyoutu.be/-GurRvqxg3I
Additional Music:
Phat Phrog Studio -  Cyber Chill
Phat Phrog Studio - Echo Nexus
Dark Fantasy Studio - Together

Time and Money, also known as Things I Wish I Had More Of -- Episode 6 - Peddler in Another World, Time Skips

It's about time, and money, and obvious jokes about such things, as Mudai takes on the first volume of Peddler in Another World: I Can Go Back to My World Whenever I Want's light novel series. Tom attempts to explain it without rambling by breaking down the characters then the plot and has varied degrees of success! Before that, though, Louie takes us through the narrative device of plot skips, from training breaks to epilogue endings, and we do the obvious joke from such a topic as well. It's all coming up on a new episode of Mudai Manga Book CLub, right now!
 
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Main Theme: Sunrise by Meizong & Yeeflex
Music provided by Argofox:Meizong & Yeeflex - Sunriseyoutu.be/-GurRvqxg3I
Additional Music:
Phat Phrog Studio -  Cyber Chill
Phat Phrog Studio - Echo Nexus
Dark Fantasy Studio - Together
Phat Phrog Studio - Machines of the Night
 

Special Delivery, One Giant Wolf Plus a Sui on the Side - Episode 5 - Paper vs. Digital, Campfire Cooking in Another World ...

We hope you're hungry, as this week we look into the first volume of Campfire Cooking in Another World with my Absurd Skill's manga adaptation, where a Japanese person gets sent to a fantasy world, gains access to an online supermarket from our world, and befriends a being of pure power in the form of a mystical wolf. Along with that, we take some time to discuss the positives of physical books vs digital books and how we plan to keep reading into the future. Hint: considering how long Tom rambles about what he read since the last episode, it's going to be a lot.
 
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Main Theme: Sunrise by Meizong & Yeeflex
Music provided by Argofox:Meizong & Yeeflex - Sunriseyoutu.be/-GurRvqxg3I
Additional Music:
Phat Phrog Studio -  Cyber Chill
Phat Phrog Studio - Echo Nexus
Dark Fantasy Studio - Together