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Join Jim & Luke as they dive into the world of Manga, with their Manga Monday and Weekly Manga Review Shows! Keywords: Manga, Anime, Comics, Comic Books, Television, Movies, Anime, Pop Culture
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · June 2026
A lively manga review show that turns weekly chapters and first impressions into practical, opinionated manga criticism.
Weird Science Manga & Anime Podcast is a loose, talk-forward manga review room in Arts, built around Weekly Manga Review installments, Manga Monday episodes, chapter reactions, and ongoing series check-ins. The sampled episodes stay close to the page.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A brisk Kagurabachi check-in on sword duty, family pressure, and a sharp ending.
Jim and Luke keep the discussion grounded in the chapter's beats, and the appeal is how they keep circling back to the father's code, the weight of swordsmith tradition, and the gag ending that flips the mood at the last second.
Jim and Luke turn a weirdly escalating manga setup into a quick, funny problem-solving session.
Jim and Luke get a chapter that starts plain and then swerves hard, which is exactly the sort of setup they seem to enjoy. They spend most of their time on the cafe hunt, the teacher's clumsy reasoning, the glasses-off disguise bit, and the welcome-home-prince reveal, and the…
A school-set romance earns more weight on a second pass.
On Manga Monday, Jim and Luke spend most of their time on what the story does after the first read. They like the premise, the setup, and the twist, but the real draw is how earlier lines shift once the full picture is in place.
A rough, funny manga chat that turns a clunky title into a sharp wartime read.
Do Retry is the kind of title that sounds silly until the episode starts leaning into it. The hosts stay with the wartime imagery, the dated setting, and the artwork that makes the bombers and flames feel almost demonic.
A hitman-school setup gets pushed until it either earns a next move or runs out of road.
Luke Hollywood and his co-host spend the episode worrying at a setup that promises hitman action and school chaos, then keep pressing on whether the story has anywhere left to go.
A brisk, funny check on a ghostly manga premise that keeps asking whether the rules really hold up.
Weird Science Manga Monday shifts into Tenmaku Cinema, and the segment works best when Jim and Luke stay on the logic. They move quickly, pull apart the rules around the dead director, the ghost, and Shinichi, and keep finding fresh angles without losing the thread.
A vampire lodging premise becomes a brisk, funny test of whether the chapter has enough to hold the room.
This episode follows a vampire-lodging manga with a bed-and-breakfast texture and moves through the pages in a steady, conversational way. The best stretches come from the hosts circling the mansion, the manager, the visitor, and the strange setup, since those details give the…
A blunt, funny take on a classic hidden-gold chase, carried by host banter and immediate reactions.
Weird Science Manga spends this episode with a classic hidden-gold setup: a gold thief is jailed after a slaughter, the loot is hidden, and the question is where it all went. Jim and Luke seem right at home with it.
Art historian Tamar Avishai interviews critics, curators, and writers about single paintings and ideas.
Jennifer Dasal narrates art history's overlooked lives, from Picasso's police file to Rauschenberg and Twombly's romance.
Russell Tovey and Robert Diament interview artists about their materials, biography, and process.
Cinematographer Roger Deakins and James Deakins interview film crew about the craft behind specific shots.
Robert Bound interviews artists and reviews new film, book, and music releases with critics.
Sound art from places, recordings, and memory.
A hot-off-the-presses manga wrecks the schedule.
Island life is not city life.
The manga comes in hot and very sword-shaped.
Not-so-hot-off-the-presses, MamaYuyu lands badly.
Back to cafes.
Episode 134 of Manga Monday covers two main titles: Red Cat Ramen, a food-focused slice-of-life manga, and a weird science manga and anime.
Superman Food Wars, except not.
DC manga gets weird fast.
The bias lands hard here.
Jim and Stork work through chapter one, still curious about the setup but baffled by the release coming in little chunks instead of one bigger first swing.
Kindergarten gets weird fast.
Luke Hollywood is back.
Luke is out, so the host runs this one alone.
Do Retry arrives hot off the presses.
Luke Hollywood ghosts the recording, so the host grabs the baseball lane Luke keeps avoiding and uses the United States baseball season as cover for Ace of Diamond.
Vibration Man pretty much warns you upfront.
The concept sounds like a layup, then starts slipping around.
Pass the popcorn.
Tuesday Manga Monday.
It gets silly before it has any right to.
Golden Kamuy starts with hidden gold, and Jim and Luke are in fast.
Goku Raku Gai trips them up right away.
The title gives them trouble right away.
The sus bus leaves immediately.
Luke Hollywood is asleep.
Manga Monday is rusty, and the hosts do not try to hide it.
Dad is the VTuber queen.
Jim calls Luke a slimeball right out of the gate.
Eight chapters, apparently.