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Parker☕️👟💸 @parkerparmenter.bsky.social · 11d

I bought Summit of the Gods way back when it was recommended on @mangasplaining.bsky.social
I started it last night, I'm already on volume 3

If nothing else, it's a great list of peaks to visit in Japan

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Manga Tak | Weekly Podcast @mangatakpod.bsky.social · 10d

This week on Manga Tak, @toodlebug500.bsky.social and I have been reading the excellent Search and Destroy by Atsushi Kaneko! Published by @fantagraphics.bsky.social in collab with @mangasplaining.bsky.social

Listen here or wherever pods are cast! www.buzzsprout.com/2373443/epis...

Cover of Search and Destroy Vol. 1 by Atsushi Kaneko on ‘snow’ at the base of a statue with city lights in the background

The big question of the book: “why are you so angry?” - Hyaku stands, swords out, in front of a bunch of yakuza corpses

The nightclub bouncer explains ‘Hyoo’ Humans and “Kreach” Creatures, the world’s robot population

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Azuki: Manga App & Publisher @azuki.co · 20d

In Memoriam: Matt Haasch

“Matt was warm, friendly, and endlessly positive, with an infectious energy.” Azuki’s @evanminto.com honors the memory of the @starfruitbooks.bsky.social founder

www.azuki.co/news/2025/09...

In Memoriam: Matt Haasch – Azuki

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Mangasplaining @mangasplaining.bsky.social · 21d

Today we'd like to share a cool website, Books from Taiwan. It's a government initiative designed to share compelling works in all formats in genres, but of course, we love the comics stuff the best. Primarily for publishers, but anyone can browse: booksfromtaiwan.moc.gov.tw/books.php?ca...

Books From Taiwan | Books

Books from Taiwan is an initiative funded by TAICCA (Taiwan Creative Content Agency) to introduce a select list of Taiwan publishing titles, ranging from fiction, non-fiction, children's books, and co...

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Mangasplaining @mangasplaining.bsky.social · 21d

Sometimes we're ALSO learning as we go. ;)

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Manga Tak | Weekly Podcast @mangatakpod.bsky.social · 24d

And it’s also a great excuse to reshare these two wonderful posts from @mangasplaining.bsky.social on Taiyō Matsumoto -

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BONUS: Interview with Taiyo Matsumoto from 2011, on the digital publication of No. 5

The first time Deb and Christopher worked together, on an old interview

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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 25d

Now available online in english: Naoki Urasawa interviewing Katsuhiro Otomo about his work and his manga "Domu" during one hour.
"Manben" is such a great TV program.
>> www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/...

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Mangasplaining @mangasplaining.bsky.social · 25d

We do get to that a little in the episode and show notes! Sorry it was confusing

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Mangasplaining @mangasplaining.bsky.social · Sep 8

Excellent reference

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Deb Aoki @debaoki.bsky.social · Sep 8

Shocked and saddened to hear that Matt Haasch, founder of indie manga publishing company @starfruitbooks.bsky.social has passed away. His gofundme campaign for his medical and other expenses is still up - contribute if you can. www.gofundme.com/f/donate-to-...

Donate to Matt's Journey: Healing and Comics, organized by Matthew Haasch

With your support, I can focus on healing from lymphoma while continu… Matthew Haasch needs your support for Donate to Matt's Journey: Healing and Comics

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Star Fruit Books @starfruitbooks.bsky.social · Sep 1

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Mangasplaining @mangasplaining.bsky.social · Sep 8

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Not All Girls Are Stupid by Minami Q-ta on Mangasplaining

This week the Mangasplaining gang dig into the edgy 90s shojo manga short stories of Minami Q-ta in Not All Girls Are Stupid! It's a heck of a NSFW episode.

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Cartoon Crossroads Columbus @cartooncrossroads.bsky.social · Jul 17

CXC’s first ever full manga track brings together creators from literally around the globe—Japan, France, and here in the U.S.—for four days of programming, events, and workshops that showcase not just Japanese cartooning, but also the vast influence of manga worldwide.

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Mangasplaining @mangasplaining.bsky.social · Aug 30

Find it at: mangasplaining.substack.com/p/search-and...

SEARCH AND DESTROY: Afterwords Pt. 1

Putting a few finishing touches on Search and Destroy with materials from Atsushi Kaneko and Peach Momoko!

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Mangasplaining @mangasplaining.bsky.social · Aug 30

Previously unseen sketches by Atsushi Kaneko for SEARCH AND DESTROY? Don't mind if we do...

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Mangasplaining @mangasplaining.bsky.social · Aug 30

Due to some reg fuckery mangasplainingextra.com stopped working for an undetermined length of time. It is working again! Apologies.

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The podcast, the show notes, original articles about manga and new manga, delivered to your inbox! Click to read MSX - The Mangasplaining Extra Newsletter, by MSX: Mangasplaining Extra, a Substack pub...

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Ben Applegate @benapplegate.com · Aug 28

Thanks @mangasplaining.bsky.social crew for the chance to translate this kickass manga and write a bit about what it means to me. A few excerpts are here, or read the whole thing plus an extraordinary afterword to his own work from Kaneko-sensei: mangasplaining.substack.com/p/search-and...

I was honored to have the opportunity to translate Search and Destroy and pleased that it has been recognized by the comics community with an Eisner nomination and the most nominations of any series at the American Manga Awards in 2025—primarily because Kaneko-sensei is a brilliant artist who has been unknown in this country for far too long (here's hoping this is just the beginning). I’m especially pleased that this attention is coming this year, because Search and Destroy’s anti-fascism could not possibly be more relevant, rooted as it is in a blazing, indignant rage on behalf of the people in this, the real world.

I've spent several days this year visiting Delaney Hall, a private prison in Newark, New Jersey, near my home. First I went as a protester, hoping to prevent the facility from reopening, and now I volunteer on the weekends to help support people there hoping to visit their loved ones in detention. There is no way to make an appointment, and the process to get in is always changing. Currently, you have to figure out which “unit” your loved one is in, then come for one of just two sessions a week. Some people arrive as early as 6 am, because there is no way to tell whether the gate guard will strictly limit the number of inmates who can see visitors to as few as 15 or will be more lenient. There is no waiting area or amenities for visitors. Volunteers who dedicate many more hours than I do arrive early with chairs, drinks, and food. They erect tents in the triangular space of black asphalt, which is bordered by a driveway, a barbed-wire fence, and a road that also leads to a waste processing plant and a fat rendering facility. (When there's no wind, and the hot, acrid air settles, I have to launder my clothes as soon as I get home.)

To members of their respective in-groups, the fascism of the 20th century offered, and the American fascism of Donald Trump offers today, the chance to flatten the disquieting individuality of their personal grievances into a simple, comforting unity of purpose: the spiteful exercise of power to disintegrate social identities and physical bodies that don't fit in. Search and Destroy offers elegant comment on this brutalizing, seductive formula with its human-robot divide (whose complexity certainly puts it on par with the best science fiction) and its very literal metaphor of Hyaku and Doro's physical bodies being captured and compromised by those in power. In this, it does better than provide the fleeting analgesic of escapism—it brings the lasting assurance that someone understands.

At this moment, when fascism is resurgent around the world, when pregnant and trans and queer people are being treated with a cruelty that has nothing to do with the lives they just want to be left alone to live, when unaccountable homeland security officers are kidnapping our neighbors and their children to fill a national network of concentration camps they have just secured funding to expand, I sometimes lose faith that what I do for a living, working in comics, really matters. I even despair that there is anything I can do that will have any kind of real impact on the world. There can be no single antidote to that feeling, but Search & Destroy helps. No one could sum up why better than Kaneko-sensei himself, so I urge you to read his afterword to this scintillating manga; remember that you belong to you, not them—and stay angry.

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Mangasplaining @mangasplaining.bsky.social · Aug 28

"At those times, touching something that has been charged with someone else’s rage, like a manga, book, movie, music, or other piece of art, demonstrates that there is someone else out there feeling the same rage, and that this feeling welling up inside us is not a mistake." - Atsushi Kaneko

SEARCH AND DESTROY: Afterwords Pt. 2

Creator Atsushi Kaneko gives his epilogue for the series, translator Ben Applegate shares his thoughts, and a few special thank yous...

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Mangasplaining @mangasplaining.bsky.social · Aug 28

New Post: SEARCH AND DESTROY: Afterwords Pt. 1. Featuring art from Atsushi Kaneko and Peach Momoko! Read it now at Mangasplaining Extra.

SEARCH AND DESTROY: Afterwords Pt. 1

Putting a few finishing touches on Search and Destroy with materials from Atsushi Kaneko and Peach Momoko!

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Mangasplaining @mangasplaining.bsky.social · Aug 28

(You can buy Search and Destroy v2 right now from Fantagraphics and many other fine retailers) www.fantagraphics.com/products/sea...

Search and Destroy Vol. 2

The second volume in manga creator Atsushi Kaneko's cyberpunk retelling of the timeless, Eisner Award–winning Dororo by "God of Manga" Osamu Tezuka. Hyaku has been betrayed. A fearsome killer, her bod...

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Mangasplaining @mangasplaining.bsky.social · Aug 28

Did you know that the incredible @peachmomoko.bsky.social contributed a pin-up and afterword to SEARCH AND DESTROY VOLUME 2, by Atsushi Kaneko? We'll reveal both in the next posting at MSX, mangasplaining.substack.com.

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Mangasplaining @mangasplaining.bsky.social · Aug 24

The final print edition of Atsushi Kaneko's SEARCH AND DESTROY, VOLUME 3, is coming on September 3rd. Just over a week away! Pre-order your copy now from wherever you get your manga...

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Mangasplaining @mangasplaining.bsky.social · Aug 24

This sounds like a really interesting manga!

TheOASG @theoasg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Aug 23

Dark Horse has announced at Anime NYC that they've licensed John Tarachine’s The Credits Roll into the Sea, slated for a March 2026 release; Jocelyne Allen will translate the manga

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Mangasplaining @mangasplaining.bsky.social · Aug 24

This is so, so good.
Did you listen to our episode on the career of Tsutomu Nihei by the way? That was a fun episode. We gotta do another of those someday... www.mangasplaining.com/blog/ep-29-t...

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Mangasplaining @mangasplaining.bsky.social · Aug 22

Congratulations to the winners of this year's American Manga Awards! Lots of good books there. www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/202...

The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn't a Guy At All, The Apothecary Diaries Win 2nd American Manga Awards

Tamaki & Amane, Ashita no Joe, minami, Evan Hayden, Riley VanDyke, Carl Gustav Horn also honored

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