Join Setsuken and myself this week for a wide-ranging (as always) discussion – but with a special focus on a few of the manga (spoiler in the graphic) we think would make great anime. As always, please “Like” and subscribe if you dig what we’re doing – and of course, leave us your comments and questions!
Timecodes:
- Introduction: 0:00
- Feedback: 3:45
- What We’re Watching: 4:42
- Anime News: 8:42
- Topic of the Week: (Manga That Would Make Great Anime: 42:42
- Manga Recommendation Corner: 1:18:25
- Listener Questions: 1:25:30
Red
September 3, 2020 at 9:14 amI enjoyed every podcast so far but I think I enjoyed this one the most and I thought of a suggestion inspired by the podcast, a different theme each week where you offer your recommendations on the best anime/manga that you think matches that theme.
Listener question: What’s the origin of your blogging names (Setsuken and GE)?
Keep going!
Guardian Enzo
September 3, 2020 at 10:03 amInteresting! As to your question I won’t spoil the answer here – we’ll answer on the podcast.
Give me a little more detail on the theme idea. A couple of examples?
Red
September 3, 2020 at 12:07 pmBrainstorming some, recommendations for great: episodic anime, 4-panel mangas, non-traditional sports anime (like chihayafuru), baseball manga/anime etc. anything really that gets those creative juices going, I think the isekai podcast and manga that’ll make great anime were previous examples.
Red
September 3, 2020 at 12:34 pmOh and by theme I mean it doesnt necessary need to match the topic of the week, just a mini segment of sorts.
Riv
September 4, 2020 at 11:02 amYou’ve got me hooked on Watashi no Shounen. It’s not quite at the level of After the Rain for me so far, but it’s really good. A question for a future podcast: You’ve talked about the poor labor conditions in the anime industry, particularly the low wages for animators. How does the manga industry compare?
Guardian Enzo
September 4, 2020 at 12:25 pmGood question! Tune in to next week’s show for your answer.
I think the similarities to Koi wa Ameagari get more pronounced as you wade farther in, especially from the adult protagonist’s perspective.
BluBlu
September 4, 2020 at 8:28 pmInteresting and also VERY surprising. Indeed, regarding Inoue, do you remember where/when he made that claim regarding “Vagabond”? Because as you may know, he did NOT appreciate the handling of “Slam Dunk” and that was one of his motivations for buying his own rights and handling (with his wife) the intellectual property of all his series (“Real” too). So I am surprised (like you) by the claim that no one approached him regarding “Vagabond”. Do not want to doubt Inoue-sensei here but I think that he’s saying the half-truth here and I won’t be surprised if he had also (too) high expectations for instance.
Regarding manga in anime, of course, like every manga reader, I have an almost neverending list too. Even though as I like to say, I am more a fan of manga than anime and sometimes (for not saying very often), it is better to not see something that you were craving for being mistreated (yeah we are talking to you Diomedea and “Ahiru no Sora”).
So on my side, my only remaining wish is to see Shogakukan strikes the same kind of deal that Kodansha recently made for guaranteeing an anime for everything from his weekly magazine. Because this is non-sensical to have no anime for “Komi-san” (not yet), “Alice in Borderland” (even though Netflix will save a bit with the upcoming live series) or great football manga such as “Be Blues” or even “Ao ashi” (LINE stickers, Yeah!). And for these last two, it is even more painful when you see the recent news that “Sayonara Watashi no Cramer” (Kodansha again, even though not weekly) managed to have both a movie and an anime TV series.
And a question to finish. We all have genre that we don’t like or at least not fan (me for instance, this is war-themed and fantasy/RPG like. The latter is one of the reason why I can’t handle many isekai). Which anime/manga made you watch/read a genre that you do not like or not a fan?
Guardian Enzo
September 4, 2020 at 8:34 pmCramer is a cute girls doing soccer things series, that’s the difference.
Will try to answer that question in the next podcast, thanks for submitting.
As for Vagabond, it’s been so long since I read that I can’t recall where it was from, but I’ll see if I can find it.
Steve
September 6, 2020 at 11:53 amOvercast is go. Like a lot of podcast apps, it uses the iTunes feed.
Steve
September 6, 2020 at 11:59 amI would love to see a Nausicaa anime that followed the manga, but we know that is not going to happen. Same for Yokohama Kaidashi Kiko.
Guardian Enzo
September 6, 2020 at 2:04 pmA full-length YKK adaptation is certainly a dream. Probably my favorite manga of all-time (and Kabu no Isaki would be in the top 10).
Steve
September 6, 2020 at 12:51 pmIf Spirit Circle, then why not Sengoku Youko?
Guardian Enzo
September 6, 2020 at 2:02 pmBecause we only had limited time and I was only going to pick one Mizukami series. And if I’m only picking one it’s going to be Spirit Circle.