Manga in Your Ears – Details, episodes & analysis

The Chicago White Sox are 25-24, they current hold the second wild card spot, and their prized free agent acquisition, Munetaka Murakami, has a 157 wRC+ and 1.7 fWAR. We may be back?

This episode, Fumi Yoshinaga's Ōoku: The Inner Chambers published by Viz and Chiyu Amairo's The Otaku Love Connection published by Square Enix.

Ōoku: The Inner Chambers credits:

• Translation and adaptation: Akemi Wegmüller
• Touch-up art and lettering: Monlisa De Asis
• Design: Frances O. Liddell (volume 1, 3-6), Fawn Lau (volume 2, 7-12), Yukiko Whitley (volume 13-14, 18-19)
• Editor: Pancha Diaz

Join the unofficial Taiiku Podcast discord, the OSMCast discord. Or the second unofficial Taiiku Podcast discord, the Third Impact Anime discord. Both used with permission.

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Show notes:

1:26 - We talk about Ōoku: The Inner Chambers

24:57 - We talk about The Otaku Love Connection

Next time is Talk to My Back and On and Off: Work-Life Imbalance.

It is 1990 and we are engaged in a questionable war in the middle east. It is 2001 and we are engaged in a questionable war in the middle east. It is 2003 and we are engaged in a questionable war in the middle east. It is 2026 and we are engaged in a questionable war in the middle east.

This episode, the fourth of Light Novels In Your Ears, we're talking about Iori Miyazawa's (with illustrations by shirakaba) Otherside Picnic published by J-Novel Club.

Otherside Picnic credits:

• Translation: Sean McCann
• Editor: Krys Loh

As always, you can find me on bsky @nidokorn, and my co-hosts Helen (@WanderinDreamr) and Apryll (@manjiorin) and the podcast on bsky at those places in the parenthesis. You can find both of their writing at The Organization of Anti-Social Geniuses, more of Helen’s writing at Narrative Investigations, and my writing at the Fandom Post and Awko Tako.

Read Helen's review of Otherside Picnic over at The OASG.

Join the unofficial Taiiku Podcast discord, the OSMCast discord. Or the second unofficial Taiiku Podcast discord, the Third Impact Anime discord. Both used with permission.

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Show notes:

No show notes. We just talk about Otherside Picnic.

Next time is Ōoku: The Inner Chambers and The Otaku Love Connection

The last time I brought up the PWHL, I said go Frost. And I'm here to say, I lied, go PWHL Seattle.

This episode, we're talking about Yama Wayama's Let's Go Karaoke! and Mokumokuren's The Summer Hikaru Died, both published by Yen Press.

Let's Go Karaoke! credits:

• Translation: Leighann Harvey
• Lettering: Chiho Christie

The Summer Hikaru Died credits:

• Translation: Ajani Oloye
• Lettering: Abigail Blackman

As always, you can find me on bsky @nidokorn, and my co-hosts Helen (@WanderinDreamr) and Apryll (@manjiorin) on bsky at those places in the parenthesis. You can find both of their writing at The Organization of Anti-Social Geniuses, more of Helen’s writing at Narrative Investigations, and my writing at the Fandom Post and Awko Tako.

Join the unofficial Taiiku Podcast discord, the OSMCast discord. Used with permission.

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Show notes:

1:17 - We talk about Let's Go Karaoke!

16:53 - We talk about The Summer Hikaru Died

Next time is Catch These Hands! and This Monster Wants to Eat Me

I need to watch more KBO, but they're on so early, and I forget to watch the ESPN on demand streams. Someone's gotta remind me, so I can properly root for the Giants.

This episode, we're talking about Syundei's Total Eclipse of the Eternal Heart and Kodama Naoko's I Married My Best Friend to Shut My Parents Up, both published by Seven Seas.

The song you heard in the episode was Bonnie Tyler's Total Eclipse of the Heart.

As always, you can find me on Twitter @ImpassionateK, and my co-hosts Helen (@WanderinDreamr) and Apryll (@manjiorin) on Twitter at those places in the parenthesis. You can find both of their writing at The Organization of Anti-Social Geniuses, more of Helen's writing at Narrative Investigations, and my writing at the Fandom Post.

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Show notes:

0:43 - We talk about Total Eclipse of the Eternal Heart!

9:59 - We talk about I Married My Best Friend to Shut My Parents Up!

Next time is Demon Slayer (if it ends) and Saint Young Men! Failing Demon Slayer ending, we'll talk about In Clothes Called Fat instead.

I am extremely open about this, but it's not like I yell "I AM KOREAN" at the top of every episode, but I am Korean. I was adopted too, and I don't know much about Korean culture, history, or anything else. Which is why I'm glad books such as Banned Book Club exist, so I can read about some history by way of comics.

This time, I'm doing something a little different; I'm interviewing Ryan Estrada, one half of the writing team for Banned Book Club! Here's what the publisher, Iron Circus Comics, has to say about Banned Book Club:

The gripping true story of a South Korean woman’s student days under an authoritarian regime in the early 1980s, and how she defied state censorship through the rebellion of reading.

If you want more interviews with Ryan, and including Kim Hyun Sook, here's two cool interviews, one from Foreword Reviews and one from Rich in Color.

The song you heard in the episode is "Noonside" by Yaeji.

As always, you can find me on Twitter @ImpassionateK, and my co-hosts Helen (@WanderinDreamr) and Apryll (@manjiorin) on Twitter at those places in the parenthesis. You can find both of their writing at The Organization of Anti-Social Geniuses, more of Helen's writing at Narrative Investigations, and my writing at the Fandom Post.

And you can find my review of Banned Book Club on the Fandom Post.

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Show notes:

There are no show notes; I just interviewed Ryan about Banned Book Club.

Next time is Total Eclipse of the Eternal Heart and I Married My Best Friend to Shut My Parents Up, actually.

The Busan Lotte Giants are 5-0 baby!! Top of the KBO, the hometown team finally comes through. Can't wait to be disappointed at some point this season.

This episode, I have a special guest, Chris (@gokuffy), talking about two adaptations of No Longer Human! The first is Usamaru Furuya's, published by Vertical, then it's Junji Ito's, published by Viz.

The song you heard in this episode was "Human After All" by Daft Punk.

As always, you can find me on Twitter @ImpassionateK, and my co-hosts Helen (@WanderinDreamr) and Apryll (@manjiorin) on Twitter at those places in the parenthesis. You can find both of their writing at The Organization of Anti-Social Geniuses, more of Helen's writing at Narrative Investigations, and my writing at the Fandom Post.

You can find our guest Chris on Twitter and at his YouTube channel, Cups of Knight Films.

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Show notes:

0:41 - Chris breaks down Osamu Dazai's version!

13:17 - or hereabouts, we meander into talking about Usamaru Furuya's version!

41:37 - We talk about Junji Ito's version!

Next time is an interview with Ryan Estrada, co-writer for Banned Book Club!

The KBO is slowly coming back with no fans preseason games, and I cannot wait to try to stay up until like midnight or later to watch my beloved Lotte Giants play baseball.

This episode, we're talking about KAITO's Cross Manage and Blue Flag, both published by Viz.

The song you heard in the episode was "The Girl" by Run River North.

As always, you can find me on Twitter @ImpassionateK, and my co-hosts Helen (@WanderinDreamr) and Apryll (@manjiorin) on Twitter at those places in the parenthesis. You can find both of their writing at The Organization of Anti-Social Geniuses, more of Helen's writing at Narrative Investigations, and my writing at the Fandom Post.

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Show notes:

0:55 - We talk about Cross Manage!

13:32 - We talk about Blue Flag!

Next time is Total Eclipse of the Eternal Heart and I Married My Best Friend to Shut My Parents Up! The relatively long titles episode.

Going out is hard now, not just because it is relatively anxiety inducing, but because the masks fog up my glasses and the bandanas keep falling off, so it's a lose-lose-lose proposition no matter what. My only release is running, which is a different kind of lose.

This episode we're talking about Natsume Ono's Ristorante Paradiso and Inio Asano's Downfall, both published by Viz. It's also more spoiler-y than usual, so heads up.

The song you heard in the episode were "Marigold" by orange pekoe and "Suteki na Kajitsu" by Lisa Komine from the Ristorante Paradiso anime.

As always, you can find me on Twitter @ImpassionateK, and my co-hosts Helen (@WanderinDreamr) and Apryll (@manjiorin) on Twitter at those places in the parenthesis. You can find both of their writing at The Organization of Anti-Social Geniuses, more of Helen's writing at Narrative Investigations, and my writing at the Fandom Post.

You can watch Ristorante Paradiso free and legal on Nozomi's YouTube channel (as of this posting).

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Show notes:

0:39 - We talk about Ristorante Paradiso!

9:05 - We talk about Downfall!

15:57 - Downfall spoilers.

Next time is Cross Manage and Blue Flag! The KAITO episode.

Podcasts are a good way, during this time of stay-at-home orders and global pandemics, to have real human interaction with real other humans, and not just coworkers over IM or email or gritting through your teeth at the other folks in line at the grocery store, praying they don't cough. Anyway, stay safe everyone, and wash your hands.

This episode, we're talking about Shinobu Ohtaka's Magi published by Viz and Asumiko Nakamura's Classmates published by Seven Seas.

The song you heard on this episode is "The Bravery" by supercell from the Magi anime.

As always, you can find me on Twitter @ImpassionateK, and my co-hosts Helen (@WanderinDreamr) and Apryll (@manjiorin) on Twitter at those places in the parenthesis. You can find both of their writing at The Organization of Anti-Social Geniuses, more of Helen's writing at Narrative Investigations, and my writing at the Fandom Post.

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Show notes:

0:34 - We talk about Magi!

14:50 - We talk about Classmates!

Next time is Ristorante Paradiso and Downfall!

I, as my Manga In Your Ears co-hosts, have been working from home for the past few days in an attempt not to spread a pandemic. Sports has stopped in the US and Canada, so I can't even talk about my newfound fandom of the Vancouver Canucks (not that I know anything about hockey still). On the plus side, the air quality in LA is GREAT. Ban cars.

This episode, we're talking about Riyoko Ikeda's Rose of Versailles published by Udon and Taiyo Matsumoto's Cats of the Louvre published by Viz.

The songs you can hear in the episode are "Bara wa Utsukushiku Chiru" and "Ai no Hikari to Kage," both by Hiroko Suzuki from the Rose of Versailles anime.

As always, you can find me on Twitter @ImpassionateK, and my co-hosts Helen (@WanderinDreamr) and Apryll (@manjiorin) on Twitter at those places in the parenthesis. You can find both of their writing at The Organization of Anti-Social Geniuses, more of Helen's writing at Narrative Investigations, and my writing at the Fandom Post.

Also check out Helen's reviews on Cats of the Louvre and Rose of Versailles. And this great piece by Jocelyne Allen on Cats of the Louvre, which is where I got all of the information I said on the podcast.

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Show notes:

0:39 - We talk about Rose of Versailles!

14:47 - We talk about Cats of the Louvre!

Next time is Magi and Classmates!