Connor & Niamh
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Manga readalong, detours fully preserved.
Pondering Pootan follows Connor and Neve through Eiji Nonaka's manga one small chapter at a time. The actual pleasure is the drift: screen shares, cat interruptions, recording-space notes, and practical digressions that somehow become the episode.
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Pondering Pootan is a chapter-by-chapter comedy readalong with Connor and Neve, built around Eiji Nonaka's manga and the strange amount of life that can gather around a very small assignment. The chapters matter. So does everything that interrupts them. A recent episode can open on a pretend crisis about not recognizing the sun, then slide into screen sharing, visual jokes, and the discovery that a bit has become more elaborate than the premise probably required. Another can pause for a long, serious explanation of how a belt is cut, thinned, punched, folded, and fitted, while the other speaker quietly fails to picture any of it. That failure becomes the point. The show is funny because it lets ordinary logistics get overdescribed until they turn into a soft argument, a craft seminar, or a little test of friendship. It also keeps podcast production in frame. Audio changes, sound panels, recording spaces, cats making noise, and minor intro failures are not hidden away as mistakes. They are treated as usable material. Connor and Neve's dynamic is loose but attentive, with room for corrections, interruptions, and the sort of exact phrasing that takes three attempts to land. The manga provides continuity across volumes and chapters, but the episodes are just as interested in how two people talk when the agenda is stable and the room is not. There are recurring references to other podcasts, Blue Sky accounts, theme music, and the wider little ecosystem around the show. The tone is dry, relaxed, and occasionally irreverent without needing to force a punchline every minute. It rewards patience. It is less useful for someone who wants concise literary analysis and more satisfying for someone who likes comics conversation that keeps its detours, its recording artifacts, and its very human uncertainty intact.
Made for: For comedy and manga listeners who enjoy slow-burn banter, procedural tangents, and chapter talk that is allowed to wander. It especially fits people who like the informal texture of a recording session left mostly intact.
What sets it apart: The show treats the accidental material around the readalong as part of the show itself: screen shares, audio problems, cats, craft explanations, and failed intros all become usable comedy. Its manga discussion is less recap-driven than conversationally archaeological, finding the funny thing by circling it for a while.
Connor and Niamh read through Cromartie High School at the same pace it was published in Weekly Shōnen Magazine.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
A manga read-through where Connor and Neve turn misunderstandings, invented explanations and exacting tangents into the main comic machinery.
Connor and Neve turn a chapter-by-chapter manga read-through into an exercise in deliberate derailment. A discussion can begin with the material at hand, then wander through mispronounced names, moving boxes, public transit or the mechanics of making a belt.
A manga chapter keeps trying to start while you get happily stranded in Connor and Niamh's detours.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A review where screen-share friction becomes the joke.
Chapter 211 keeps its best joke in plain sight: Connor and Neve start with a deadpan question about whether anyone has ever seen The Sun, then drift into screen sharing, permissions, and the small indignities of trying to make a visual bit work.
A belt lesson, a cat interruption, and a pleasantly unsteady conversation that finds its joke in real time.
This episode keeps its charm by letting two hosts drift through not quite remembering what they are doing, or whether the cat is even there. A belt-making topic turns into a small live puzzle, and the confusion is left intact instead of smoothed over.
A boxed-away Volume 9 turns the read-through into a funny argument about whether Shimada is actually a seal.
A boxed-away Volume 9 turns the read-through into a loose, funny argument about whether Shimada is actually a seal. Connor and Niamh start Chapter 199, "Don't Let Me Down," and Chapter 200, "Can't Get Anything," with Niamh unable to follow along because the manga has already…
A loose conversation that turns name pronunciation, transit, and grocery runs into the same practical joke.
This episode opens with a small name-pronunciation snag and then settles into a breezy conversation about the machinery of everyday life: buses, cars, groceries, errands, and the annoyance of hauling ice cream home without a cooler.
A booster-dazed chapter chat that turns a dog's confusion about cars into a small, sturdy theory.
Chapter 181, "The Hidden Rider," follows Connor and Neve through a conversation that keeps slipping sideways, but it never loses its footing. Booster aftereffects, a Ghost Divers timing note, and a long, committed detour into what a dog might think about cars all sit in the same…
Connor and Neve open Chapter 211, "Funky Monkey Baby," by pretending not to know what The Sun is.
Connor and Neve begin by seeming unsure what the show is even doing.
The hosts Connor and Neve introduce themselves and the episode titled 'Chapter 209: Dandy In The Underworld'.
This is a lighthearted and uproarious comedy podcast hosted by Connor and Neve, dedicated to the people of the world.
The hosts introduce themselves and mention their podcast setup with sound-absorbing panels.
Connor and Niamh comically read through Cromartie High School manga at the original publication pace.
Connor and Niamh comically read through Cromartie High School manga at the original publication pace.
Connor and Niamh comically read through the manga Cromartie High School at its original publication pace.
Connor and Niamh read through Cromartie High School manga in a comedic podcast format.
Connor and Neve comically read through the manga Cromartie High School at its original publication pace.
Pondering Pootan with Ajishio Taro & Hachimitsu Boy covers Chapters 199, “Don’t Let Me Down,” and 200, “Can’t Get Anything,” from Volume 9 of Eiji Nonaka’s Kuromari High School.
Connor and Niamh comically read through Cromartie High School manga at the original publication pace.
Connor and Niamh read through Cromartie High School manga at the same pace it was originally published.
Connor and Niamh comically read through Cromartie High School manga at the original publication pace.
Connor and Niamh comically read through Cromartie High School manga at the original publication pace.
Connor and Niamh read through Cromartie High School manga in a comedic podcast format.
Two hosts read through Cromartie High School manga in a comedic style.
Connor and Niamh comically read through Cromartie High School manga at its original publication pace.
Connor and Niamh read through Cromartie High School manga in a comedic podcast format.
The episode opens on a name pronunciation problem, and it stays funny because everybody knows how awkward translation can get.
Connor and Niamh comically read through Cromartie High School manga at the original publication pace.
Connor and Neve continue Volume 8 with Chapter 181, "The Hidden Rider." The conversation starts with a bit of housekeeping about a Ghost Divers recording, the timing of COVID and flu boosters, and one host still dragging through the 24-hour post-shot slump.
Connor and Neve comically read through Cromartie High School manga at the original publication pace.
Connor and Niamh read through Cromartie High School manga in a lighthearted comedy podcast.
This episode discusses chapters 176 and 177 of One Piece, analyzing the story and characters with hosts Connor and Neve.
The hosts Connor and Neve introduce themselves at the start of the podcast episode.
This is a lighthearted comedy podcast episode where hosts Connor and Niamh discuss Eiji Nonaka's manga series Komari High School.
This episode is an introduction to the podcast 'Wandering Pyrton' featuring hosts Connor and Niamh, with mentions of Ajishio Taro and Hachi Mitsuboi.
Two hosts attempt to synchronize their recording start time with humorous banter before reading a manga.
Connor and Niamh read through Cromartie High School manga in a comedic, lighthearted podcast format.
Connor and Neve read through Cromartie High School manga in a comedic style.