216 - Triple Dip 31 - Starving Anonymous, Scum's Wish, The Fable

On this episode we check out 3 more manga for another Triple Dip! Seamus picks the ultimate unrequited love story of Scum’s Wish, darfox with the crime drama about a legendary hitman in The Fable, and dakazu brings the grotesque horror of Starving Anonymous!

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Timestamps:

• 00:00:00 - Intro Song: “Uso No Hibana” by Kuroneko from Scum’s Wish, Opening, Introductions
• 00:01:02 - Listener Questions: Giving our picks for manga with good endings
• 00:08:52 - The Manga Machinations authoritative official anime canon list
• 00:11:13 - an important announcement about fixing our discord server, shout-out to Iyasu in the Manga Translation Battle
• 00:14:40 - Whatchu Been Reading: Transition Song: Dragon Ball Z OST “Prologue”, darfox talks about the roundabout progression in harem manga like We Never Learn
• 00:20:22 - dakazu revisits Himegoto: Juukyusai no Seifuku and realizes it has the same appeal as a daytime soap opera
• 00:31:36 - News: Upcoming movie adaptation of Flowers of Evil and anime adaptation of Dorohedoro
• 00:37:34 - Crowd funding has secured the creation of a life-size statue of Punpun to be on display at Inio Asano’s world exhibition Ctrl+T2
• 00:41:18 - Next Episode Preview and Rundown: Triple Dip where we read the first volume of three different manga, including: Give My Regards to Black Jack by Shuho Sato, Higanjima by Koji Matsumoto, and Kasane by Daruma Matsuura
• 00:44:32 - Main Segment Triple Dip:  Starving Anonymous/Scum’s Wish/The Fable, Transition Song: “Heikousen” by Sayuri from Scum’s Wish, we’ve read the beginning of each manga for discussion and to see if we’ll keep reading it before picking our favorite
• 00:45:23 - Starving Anonymous by Yuu Kuraishi & Kazu Inabe
• 01:00:39 - The Fable by Katsuhisa Minami
• 01:12:03 -Scum’s Wish by Mengo Yokoyari
• 01:25:10 - Next Week’s Topic: Give My Regards to Black Jack & Higanjima & Kasane, Social Media Rundown, Sign Off Song: “wish men” by sunbrain from Beet the Vandel Buster