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(the very) Weekly Manga Review Show Ep 67 Week of 3/8/23 - Undead Unluck Returns, Sinister Smiles, Alien Invasions & Bangers All-Around

March 9, 2023·57 min·5 clips

Damien shocks the bully boys by apologizing to Anya, revealing a vulnerable side in Spy x Family.

Everybody is a weirdo, naturally. Jim and Luke open with their fast, sideways greeting routine, including wolf-man business before the manga list settles down. Eight chapters are waiting. Undead Unluck has just joined the rotation, and Jim says he is not fully caught up but read the chapter Luke sent him toward. Somehow, that chapter both blows him away and lets him claim he knew what was happening after clearly not knowing. DanDaDan goes first. Chapter 96 is called Motivation, so Luke and Jim get another title-drop laugh before they deal with the book itself. The whole thing stays loose. After Undead Unluck, they hit a break that sounds massive, even though podcast time brings them right back. Fabricant 100 then takes over. Luke suddenly has the titles nailed, except this chapter makes him wait until the last page for the drop. The chapter is Reunited. Jim chases the old music reference for a second, then gets back to the sister in trouble and the sniper guess that does not hold. Hugo is with Ashibi and Fabricant 100. They need the mansion, but Hugo sits on details until Ashibi calls him a cheater and rattles him into talking. The mansion is the nasty part. A fabric there collects children, sees everything, and hints that higher-numbered fabric can pull off more elaborate plans. Gross little premise, honestly. The recap keeps poking at the logic, especially the part about gathering kids and raising them for the bigger scheme. Then the schedule wobbles. They recorded a day early, so Chainsaw Man missed the window and slides to next week. Jim has homework too. He has only read the first chapter for Manga Monday, which leaves catch-up reading and more additions hanging around the closing business.

As heard by us

A fast, loose manga roundtable that cares whether a chapter actually lands.

This manga roundtable keeps its footing by reacting to what is on the page instead of drifting into generalities. Dan the Dan, Undead Unluck, and Fabricant 100 are treated as live chapters, and the best stretches come when a small oddity opens into a bigger argument.

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Why you'd press play

You want eight chapters, quick reactions, and a steady run of goofy title-drop banter.

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