On this episode of Manga Mavericks, the Mavericks are joined by comics artist and graphic designer, Darren Vogt, to discuss Iwakuni Kogyo's Great Metal God ! An incredible sci-fi, action spectacle about a colossal metal being that wreaks havoc and destruction upon the world until another equally giant being is summoned to step in and save the day! Join us as we discuss Kogyo-sensei's amazing artistic ability to convey a story of such epic proportions without the use of very little text, while Da...
Apr 27, 2026•1 hr 21 min
It's the 10th anniversary of Manga Mavericks!! On this special episode of the podcast, Colton & Lum are joined by both Sakaki and Vlord to celebrate 10 years of discussing manga as both a medium and as an industry. Join the usual Mavericks crew as they reminisce about their time doing the podcast, press, and now publishing, and how Manga Mavericks has changed their lives! Big thanks to everyone who has ever supported us throughout our journey, whether they be a fan or a past guest. Thank you...
Mar 30, 2026•3 hr 36 min
Been a while, hasn’t it? On this episode of Manga Mavericks, Colton, Lum and Maxy all get together after two years to finally talk about Weekly Shonen Jump once again! This time, however, they decide to go about it a little differently, as they focus more on the new debuts from 2025 that are still going (or at least were still going in the case of a couple of them at the time this was recorded). In general though, there’s still plenty of discussion to be had about some of the magazine’s more cur...
Feb 09, 2026•3 hr 33 min
Launched on the weekend of New York Comic Con 2025, the One Piece x Mercer Labs immersive exhibition transported visitors into the world of the series through 11 rooms featuring a variety of digital and physical installations themed around the Wano arc. LumRanmaYasha sat down for two interviews with Nasir Dean, the Manager of Special Projects at Mercer Labs and driving force behind the immersive One Piece exhibition. We discussed Nasir’s history with One Piece and anime, his pathway to collabora...
Dec 01, 2025•1 hr 19 min
On this episode of Manga Mavericks, Colton, Lum and Sakaki continue to read through and discuss the back half of Kodansha's Young Magazine USA! Starting off with the baffling post apocalyptic, sci-fi epic, Protocol Ryugu from Daisaku Tsuru, and then bookended with another equally as baffling horror adventure with Into The Dark by Anri Morikuma! Get ready for even more scares than last time as we finish off the magazine and head to the polls to vote for which series will get to continue! Enjoy! ...
Nov 04, 2025•2 hr 40 min
On this episode of Manga Mavericks, Colton, Lum and Sakaki all get together to take a look at the special US edition of Kodansha's Young Magazine and attempt to spotlight and discuss every first chapter featured! Though as you can clearly see, we had definitely bit off more than we can chew! So much so, that we have to split this up into TWO PARTS! Seriously! There was NO WAY we'd be able to get through all 16 series (plus two one shots) in one go! Especially not when you throw in an official se...
Oct 27, 2025•3 hr 11 min
We recorded a podcast. A podcast just for us (and you, our listeners). This is that podcast. Once again, we’re opening up our heart-shaped boxes to give you our self-liner notes for one of our debut Manga Mavericks Books titles, Alternative[Self-Liner Note] ! In this free-style jam session of a podcast that you can think of as the “B-Side” to our previous discussion on Alternative , we sat down with our Accounting & Sales Manager, Nicholas Hodges, to discuss the series from the perspective o...
Oct 22, 2025•1 hr 36 min
On this episode of Manga Mavericks, we're spotlighting the third and final of our first round of Manga Mavericks Books licenses with 9banta's Zigoku's Foreman ! A workplace comedy taking place in Hell about a demon named Mizuchi, who acts as the leader of a construction crew! Join our Mavericks crew as they discuss the specific HELLISH challenges that come with releasing a work such as this one, not just with it being a combination of both manga and light novel prose, but especially with our ver...
Oct 06, 2025•1 hr 21 min
Christmas has come early for Manga Mavericks, as we’re celebrating our 250th episode with a special gift from Titan Manga, the first volume of Sanda , Paru Itagaki’s crazy dystopian manga about a kid who can transform into a buff, hot Santa Claus investigating the conspiracy behind the disappearance of his classmate! You know a manga by Paru Itagaki’s gotta be wild even without featuring horny-hungry anthropormophic animals, and we talk about everything that makes Sanda the gift that keeps on gi...
Sep 29, 2025•1 hr 18 min
On this episode of Manga Mavericks, we spotlight another one of our upcoming Manga Mavericks Books releases with BONDS by Zenzo! An action adventure tale that is an alternate take on Journey to the West taking place at the start of Son Goku and Sanzo's journey! We're joined by the book's translator, Robert Harkins, to discuss what his translation process was like, while the rest of the Mavericks crew spotlight Victoria's great lettering work! But what does fellow manga letterer and American Mang...
Aug 18, 2025•1 hr 12 min
Anime Expo was a busy event for us this year, because we hosted our first-ever Manga Mavericks Books panel there! If you couldn’t go or missed it, don’t fret, because we’re sharing the audio recording of our panel here on the podcast feed, and we have the video of it up on our Youtube! So join the team behind Manga Mavericks Books in our very first industry panel and find out how the company that started as a manga podcast has transformed itself into one of the newest indie manga publishers! We ...
Jul 24, 2025•1 hr 38 min
Manga Mavericks finally went to the mecca of animation, Annecy! Annecy is the premier animation film festival and a film market designed to show off some of the best new animated projects coming out, present an opportunity for creatives to pitch or secure funding for their projects, and provide professional development opportunities for students and networking opportunities for professionals in the animation industry. VLordGTZ and our resident European contributor, Mugen, attended Annecy togethe...
Jul 14, 2025•1 hr 45 min
On this episode of Manga Mavericks, we're spotlighting the first of our upcoming Manga Mavericks Books releases with Chiaki Yagura's Alternative[Self Liner Note] ! A short story about a young artist trying to leave her mark on the world while struggling through a creative slump. Varun (aka VlordGTZ) discusses the process of finding and bringing over this wonderful story, while Sakaki (Weekly Shogakukan Edition) discusses what it was like translating something that resonated with him very persona...
Jul 02, 2025•1 hr 23 min
“What if a Peking Opera actress became a Superhero?” That question is both the inspiration and premise of Chang Sheng’s Taiwanese manga Yan, a series which pays homage to a variety of influences including the Peking Opera, martial arts movies, spy thrillers, revenge flicks, and sci-fi manga of all kinds of premises. Centering on Yan Tien Hua, a former teenage Peking Opera performer who resurfaces after 30 years to get revenge on those who wronged her, what starts as a seemingly straightforward r...
Jun 27, 2025•1 hr 17 min
Dun Da Dun, we’re talking about Dan Da Dan! Dan Da Dan is one of the best-produced anime on the scene, and the first three episodes of season two are currently screening in U.S. theaters as a compilation film dubbed Dan Da Dan: Evil Eye. I had the opportunity to interview the new season’s co-director, Abel Góngora, a longtime Science Saru animator who directed the beloved opening sequence for Dan Da Dan ’s first season, as well as the English dub voice cast: A.J. Beckles (Okarun), Abby Trott (Mo...
Jun 11, 2025•1 hr 3 min
Welcome back to Manga Mavericks @ Movies! The show where we don’t just talk smack about movies, we celebrate them! What’s up, Mavericks? Lum and VLord are here to chew bubblegum and talk Looney Tunes, and we’re all out of gum! Luckily, we still have plenty to chew on, as we’re discussing the first ever fully original 2D animated Looney Tunes movie, The Day the Earth Blew Up ! Originally slated for a streaming-only release on Max, and then put at risk of being written off by WBD altogether, the f...
May 28, 2025•1 hr 11 min
Gu~ta-lala Su~da-lala! On this episode of Manga Mavericks, Colton & Lum are joined by manga letterer and Urasawa super fan, Aidan Clarke, as well as host of both Duckface Diaries and Podcastmon Adventures, Wensleydale Cheddar, to discuss one of Naoki Urasawa's most beloved manga series with 20th Century Boys ! A multifaceted, sprawling Stephen King-esque story about a group of kids born in the 60's whose wild and active imaginations are co-opted and brought to life decades later by a cult-li...
May 12, 2025•2 hr 29 min
Hey there folks in tv land! Don’t touch that dial, and don’t change the channel, you’re tuned into the right podcast station - welcome back to Manga Mavericks On TV! Manga Mavericks On TV is back after another 2 years to talk about another long-awaited return to the airwaves - Shinichiro Watanabe, whose latest series Lazarus finally premiered on [adult swim] in April after nearly two years of anticipation. Lazarus had a lot of pre-release buzz as not only Watanabe’s return to tv anime since Caro...
May 09, 2025•1 hr 9 min
“From Podcast, to Press, and now… Print!” - @kiirobon You heard right - MANGA MAVERICKS IS PUBLISHING MANGA!! Manga Mavericks started as a podcast dedicated to exploring manga as both a medium and as an industry, and now, Manga Mavericks is becoming a publisher dedicated to spotlighting some of the best indie artists working in the medium and industry! We are officially announcing our new publishing division, Manga Mavericks Books! We plan to license and publish the work of indie mangaka in Japa...
Apr 26, 2025•1 hr 30 min
The time to start is now! And we can show you how! Because we’re reopening the doors to music room 3 to revisit the Host Club we remember so fondly! That’s right, we’re finally discussing the classic parodic shojo romcom that we all kiss, kiss fell in love with back in the mid-2000s - Ouran High School Host Club ! And we’re hosting our own club of Ouran fans to help us entertain all our lovely ladies, gentlemen, and non-binary listeners with their unique personalities and perspectives - music an...
Mar 28, 2025•3 hr 2 min
Welcome back to Manga Mavericks @ Movies! The show where we don’t just talk smack about movies, we celebrate them! We’re back after (check notes) FOUR YEARS (?!) to talk about the year of film in 2024! It’s been a long time since we’ve done one of these, so you may be wondering why we were so eager to record a podcast about 2024 films than years past. While 2024 was a bad year for most of the world, it was a pretty strong year for entertainment all around, including movies. While it got off to a...
Mar 02, 2025•3 hr 47 min
On this very spooky episode of Manga Mavericks, we're joined by both Casey (MinovskyArticle) and ANN Guest Writer, Adeline, to spiral into madness as we discuss the Junji Ito magnum opus, Uzumaki ! A horrifying story of a teenage couple who live in a small village that is being overrun by spirals everywhere they turn! Including twisted, contorted middle aged men, snail people, even giant curly hair! Listen as we discuss some classic Ito comics and the many underlying themes and ideas within that...
Feb 12, 2025•1 hr 49 min
WE’RE SEEING SPIRALS! After five long years, the highly anticipated anime adaptation of Junji Ito’s iconic horror manga Uzumaki is finally premiering on Adult Swim, and we got a chance to preview and review the first episode! With an ambitious production that spiraled out of control and was so cursed with delays that executive producer Jason DeMarco has joked that he’s “still seeing spirals,” did the show end up being just as cursed to watch, or does it break the curse of Adult Swim’s track reco...
Sep 24, 2024•46 min
On this episode of Manga Mavericks, Colton, Lum & Sakaki discuss their time at San Diego Comic Con 2024! Listen as Colton talks about going to his first ever big convention and whether he'd do it all again! Enjoy! PODCAST BREAKDOWN: 00:00 - Intro 04:34 - San Diego Comic Con 2024 2:18:43 - End Enjoy the show, and follow us on twitter at @manga_mavericks , on tumblr at mangamavericks.tumblr.com, and on Youtube ! You can also follow the hosts on Twitter at @sniperking323 and @lumranmayasha . If...
Sep 21, 2024•2 hr 27 min
On this special episode of Another Day, Another Adventure, Colton & Sakaki have a somewhat unorganized talk in order to get their feelings out about Toriyama's passing and ruminate on what his influence meant to both the world and their friendship.
Mar 19, 2024•1 hr 16 min
On March 1st, 2024, Akira Toriyama, creator of Dragon Ball (amongst many other works), passed away at the age of 68, and the world is worse without him in it, but that won't stop us from celebrating his life and the legacy he left behind. This episode of the podcast contains the first ever discussion we ever recorded exclusively for our Patreon back in 2019. A discussion featuring our good friends, Sakaki (founder of Weekly Shogakukan Edition) and Maxy Barnard (Shonen Jump enthusiast and contrib...
Mar 09, 2024•1 hr 44 min
On this (late) episode of Manga Mavericks, Colton & Lum discuss the highest selling manga in Japan according to the latest Oricon list! You won't BELIEVE what number 1 was!! Afterwards, they discuss some more simulpubs! This time mostly from both Kodansha and Jump. First we have two titles from KManga with All My Neighbors Are Convinced the Female Knight From My Rice Field is My Wife and Versus , along with two English first manga titles with Blood Blade and The Spellbook Library ! And then ...
Feb 19, 2024•2 hr 44 min
On this episode of Manga Mavericks, Colton & Lum round out the year with one more news episode! We start out the show with some industry news, including more unions, more mergers and more data! Afterwards, we get into the latest North American sales lists from Circana on the New York Times, and then spend the rest of the show on a ton of new licenses! Big thanks to everyone who's been listening to us for the past year, and look forward to our next episode discussing some of the latest simulp...
Dec 23, 2023•1 hr 59 min
On this episode of Manga Mavericks, Colton & Lum discuss another batch of simulpubs! Such as the new Super String Webtoon comic drawn by Boichi, as well some interesting titles from Manga Up like Reto the Protector and Goinda's Naughty Secret ! Two other new titles from KManga such as Tune In to the Midnight Heart and The Healer Ditches the Boonies to Become an S-Class Adventurer , and then the newest batch of new series from Shonen Jump with MamaYuyu , Kagurabachi and Two on Ice ! Enjoy! Ch...
Nov 11, 2023•2 hr 33 min
On this episode of Manga Mavericks, Colton & Lum are joined by new official website owner, Vlord, as they talk about some upcoming changes to the site, including being the home of a bunch of new podcasts that we have highlighted on the show over the years that are now apart of the Manga Mavericks podcast network! Afterwards, they discuss some big shake ups in the industry with Rightstuf officially being phased out and merged with Crunchyroll's online store, as well some new manga licenses, V...
Oct 16, 2023•2 hr 13 min
