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In this episode we finally chat about My Hero Academia's final arc and our thoughts on the series at it reaches its end. Before hopping into our review of 2023.

- MHA Final Arc general thoughts (00:55)

- All For One's fate (9:40)

- Predictions for Character deaths (19:45)

- Deku vs Shigaraki Talk (32:30)

- Overall rating of MHA plus comparison to Naruto/Bleach/JJK (45:15)

- Top 3 Manga of 2023 (57:08)

- Favorite New Manga (1:05:34)

- Manga that increased in quality the most (1:13:47)

- Manga that dropped off (1:22:12)

- Most surprising plot twist (1:25:28)

- Most disappointing moment (1:34:49)

- General yapping revisting earlier topics (1:41:02)

- JJK Talk (1:57:50)

Characters (Finalized):

• One Piece: Luffy, Zoro, Sanji, Nami, Blackbeard

• Naruto: Naruto, Sasuke, Kakashi, Itachi, Shikamaru

• Bleach: Ichigo, Aizen, Rukia, Uryu, Urahara

• FMA: Edward, Alphonse, Mustang

• JJK: Gojo, Sukuna, Yuji, Megumi

• Demon Slayer: Tanjiro, Nezuko

• Tokyo Ghoul: Kaneki, Arima, Touka

• Vinland Saga: Thorfinn, Askeladd, Canute 

• Blue Lock: Isagi, 

• Attack on Titan: Eren, Levi, Zeke, Armin, Mikasa

• Kingdom: Shin, Riboku, Kyoukai, Mouten, Ouki

• MHA: Midoriya, Bakugo, Todoroki, All Might

• Vagabond: Musashi, Kojiro

• Sousou no Frieren: Frieren

• OPM: Saitama, Genos, King

• CSM: Denji, Makima

• Golden Kamuy: Sugimoto, Asirpa, Tsurumi

• Sakamoto Days: Sakamoto, Shin, Nagumo

• Death Note: Light, L

• Tomodachi Game: Yuuichii

• Berserk: Guts, Griffith

  
  

  
  

Hey guys, today we review Tomodachi Game, a mind game manga written by Yuki Sato. https://myanimelist.net/manga/62795/Tomodachi_Game. We go over our thoughts on the mindgame genre as a whole (00:00), our review of the manga (6:40), before giving theories for the final arc that's currently ongoing (58:31).

In this episode we each give 5 theories with different chances (90%/70%/50%/30%/10%) and try to guess which one is which. 

The final episode of our mega Naruto Lookback. This time we give our thoughts on hype moments, saddest moments, worst plot holes, underrated characters and more.

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Part 2 of our Naruto recap as we look back on this iconic manga by giving awards. We rank our top 3 worst arcs (Kaguya), best designed characters, most hype moments and our saddest ones as well. 

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This time we're doing a deep rewind of an iconic manga: Naruto. We throw it back to one of our earliest manga and talk about our favorite characters, fights, arcs and antagonists. We each rank our top 3 in each of these categories and discuss.

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Today we're doing a snake draft of the top 15 generals in the Kingdom manga. We each draft 5 generals each before deciding on who was overrated and underrated in this draft.

Draft (00:00 - 42:00)

Overrated and Underrated (42:00 - 53:20).

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Today we're doing a snake draft of the top 15 strongest characters in the One Piece manga. We each draft 5 characters each before deciding on who was overrated and underrated in this draft.

Draft (00:00 - 33:28)

Overrated and Underrated (33:28 - 36:10).

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Today we're doing a snake draft of the top 15 strongest characters in the Jujutsu Kaisen manga. We each draft 5 characters each before deciding on who was overrated and underrated in this draft.

Intro and Rules (00:00 - 1:20)

Draft (1:20 - 33:42)

Overrated and Underrated (34:18 - 37:43).

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This week we dive into a new manga we haven't talked about before Jujutsu Kaisen! Then we wrap up with some One Piece theories regarding Luffy's new abilities.

JJK (00:00 - 1:13:57): Long talk all about Jujutsu Kaisen. We talk about similarities with other popular shounen such as Naruto, the ongoing culling game arc before taking a higher level view on the series (39:15) . Favorite fights, characters, tier lists and more.

One Piece (1:13:58- 1:53:05): All about Luffy's new abilities as of chapter 1046. And how we see the reveals reflecting the endgame.

This time we're taking a look at 3 of the most popular manga around: One Piece, Kingdom, and My Hero.

One Piece (00:00 - 36:12): Our thoughts on Big Mom's feat, Kidd/Law and the mysteries behind Wano.

Kingdom (36:12 - 1:15:02): Predictions on the ongoing tensions between Shin and Kanki. And we look ahead to Riboku vs Kanki.

My Hero Academia (1:15:03 - 1:44:17): Our thoughts on My Hero Academia and our review of the final arc so far.

We talk about the ongoing state of 3 popular manga at the moment.

One Piece (00:00 - 32:22) : Thoughts on Wano Arc so far and the upcoming endgame.

Kingdom (32:23 - 56:47) : How was Eikyuu and what's coming up with Riboku.

One Punch Man (56:48 - 1:37:00) Who are the strongest heroes and how's the MA arc going to wrap up.

In this episode we talk all about one of the best on going manga: Golden Kamuy. In part 1 we discuss what makes it so good, what are the themes conveyed, our favorite running jokes and more. And in part 2 (38:27) we preview the final arc and give our ending predictions.

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An episode dedicated the the our hot takes across different manga. We all came up with 3 takes and have to defend it from the other 2 members of the group. Leave a review or comment on your favorite take and what you want to see next!

00:00:00 - Xin is a bad protagonist in Kingdom

00:05:55 - Riboku is the best general in Kingdom

00:15:40 - Thriller Bark is unnecessary and the worst arc in terms of plot significance

00:26:35 - Skypiea is a top 5 One Piece arc

00:39:30 - Mihawk is the most overrated character by the One Piece community and is a tier below the admirals

00:56:23 - Shikamaru should have been Hokage over Naruto

01:09:46 - Ulquiorra is the strongest Espada

01:19:20 - Kisame is underrated and as strong as Itachi

01:33:17 - Tou can beat Moubu in a 1v1

A bit late, but in this episode we remember the late Kentaro Miura, talk about our favorite long running series (21:00) and go over One Piece and Kingdom (51:45).

We're back with episode 2.

First we go over the final chapter of attack on titan then we each give 3 manga recommendations to fill the void (32:50), before talking all things Wano Arc (58:24). Power scaling, predictions and thoughts on strawhats and more. 

We reflect on attack on titan, the war on paradis arc before giving our final chapter predictions. 

Manga reflections: 0 -> 32:00 War on Paradis Review: 32:00 -> 54:30 Final Chapter Predictions: 54:30 -> 1:17:07