Firstly, R.I.P. Toriyama Akira, creator of Dragon Ball, Dr. Slump, and other treasured works… When a storyteller entrusts their work to another author, it can get messy, but it can also create some of the most interesting developments in the story and fandom. Series like Dragon Ball, Naruto and Berserk have changed hands in one form or another, and the discussions around the topic tend to be highly controversial.  Do continuations like Dragon Ball Super and Boruto only distort the legacy of their parent series, or do they perhaps have something truly interesting to offer? Maybe both? Wh ..read more

What's the first thing you think of when you think of fighting anime? Is it perhaps... a hero screaming out the name of his ultimate technique!? Of course it is, which is why we're returning with an episode dedicated to listing off our top 10 attacks in animanga ..read more

Anime, manga, and sword wielders are inseparable, and, as two guys who can’t get enough of animanga badassery, it would be unthinkable for us not to make a top ten celebrating this holy trinity ..read more

This has got to change. We’ve been at this for over a year and STILL haven’t done a Top 10 Most Badass Characters list? Badass characters emitting outrageous cool factor performing ridiculous feats of power is the only reason many people need to get into Animanga, and, honestly, that’s fair. That’s why, today, we’re doing what we should have done a long time ago ..read more

Settings are quite literally “the background”, but who ever said “the background” is unimportant? Particularly in the bombastic stories of animanga, the world the events of the series take place in can shape its identity, keeping readers engaged with unique ways of life, civilizations, and natural phenomena that push the plot forward. Today, we celebrate the often overlooked awesomeness of setting with our 10 favorites ..read more

Here’s a bold statement: another name for “catharsis,” or the emotional “payoff” in a story, is “minor villains”. See what I did there? Especially in animanga, Mini-bosses are the most popular way writers build up the tension and anticipation around a main villain’s defeat, and in this episode of Manga Kaiwa, we count down our top ten minor antagonists ..read more

What's the first thing you think of when you think of fighting anime? Is it perhaps... a hero screaming out the name of his ultimate technique!? Of course it is, which is why we're returning with an episode dedicated to listing off our top 10 attacks in animanga ..read more

What if we told you we could talk about the same topics as usual AND change up the usual pool of series we tend to talk about? Well, this time we’re discussing our top 10 casts in animanga. Since we considered likeability, variety, and dynamics as opposed to how individual characters are written, this list will include a whole slew of entries that we don’t talk about as often, but definitely deserve praise ..read more

Vagabond’s fights are like nothing you’ve ever seen before, literally (they’re artistically guaranteed to blow your mind) but in other ways nonetheless. Throughout the run of Vagabond, Inoue Takehiko was able to continually hone his ability to fuse psychological and physical conflict until they were nearly one and the same. This episode, we discuss where that journey started: the battle between the warrior monk Inshun and Miyamoto Musashi himself ..read more

Especially when an animanga series runs for a long time, the story naturally divides into different arcs, each addressing different characters, conflicts, and plot threads. Some arcs can have such monumental consequences on the identity of a story that they start to be perceived almost like their own “story” or “brand”, independently from the overarching narrative. Today, in appreciation of this phenomenon, we count down our 10 favorite arcs in animanga ..read more