My Taste is Better Than Yours

67 - Manga with Hailed Anime Adaptations

In a similar fashion to our episode on Manga with Failed Anime Adaptations, we’re flipping it to the positive: those adaptations that we hail, and believe surpass the sou

66 - A Bride's Story by Kaoru Mori

We switch to an Enzo recommendation this time, and it’s another all-timer for him: A Bride’s Story by Kaoru Mori: a historical drama set in Central Asia in the nineteenth

65 - Bleach (Thousand Year Blood War - Part II) by Tite Kubo

Enzo’s 74-volume journey to finish Tite Kubo’s Bleach has finally come to an end… or has it? With the possibility of a sequel on the horizon and the final cour of the ani

64 - Bleach (Thousand Year Blood War - Part I) by Tite Kubo

The final cour of Bleach’s Thousand Year Blood War is currently airing, so what better time than for Enzo to catch up and give his thoughts on the series than right now?

63 - Manga with Failed Anime Adaptations

There have been a lot of anime adaptations of good manga. And a lot of them have not been good. We came up with our top 5 (or bottom 5?) list of failed anime adaptations

62 - Hunter x Hunter Retrospective

Hunter x Hunter is back! To celebrate, we're talking about highlights of the series, ranking our favourites characters ad arcs, re-iterating why I love the series as much

61 - Weekly Shonen Jump 2026 Mid-Year Check-In

We’re midway through 2026, what better time to do a retrospective so far on Weekly Shonen Jump? Is Weekly Shonen Jump dead? Why is it struggling to find hits? What series

60 - Magus of the Library by Mitsu Izumi

We’re discussing one of Enzo’s favourite manga this episode (Magus of the Library by by Mitsu Izumi) one that he’s shouted out multiple times in the past, and now we get

59 - Bleach (Lost Agent) by Tite Kubo

We’re onto the Lost Agent (aka Fullbring) arc of Bleach now; one with a sour reputation in the eyes of plenty of fans of the series, but this concise and more focused arc

58 - Fool Night by Kasumi Yasuda

Just like last time, we’re recommending each other our highest regarded ongoing series we think need more appreciated. This time Samu’s pick for Enzo is Fool Night by Kas

57 - Touge Oni: Primal Gods in Ancient Times by Kenji Tsurubuchi

It’s Enzo’s time to recommend a series, and it was his pick for the most underappreciated ongoing manga from earlier this year: Touge Oni - a historical fantasy series wi

56 - Understanding the Shonen Manga Magazines

We’ve talked about plenty of shonen manga throughout our episodes, so we felt it made sense to finally breakdown the many magazines in which they come from: their histori

55 - Bleach (Arrancar - Part II) by Tite Kubo

In this second part of the Arrancar arc discussion we get into the Turn Back the Pendulum and Fake Karakura Town sections of the story, filled with: more backstory and mo

54 - Bleach (Arrancar - Part I) by Tite Kubo

Enzo’s journey with Bleach continues, this time finally stepping into possibly the longest arc in shonen manga (or manga in general?). We’ve split this giant arc into two

53 - Rurouni Kenshin (Jinchu) by Nobuhiro Watsuki

We come to the end of the main Rurouni Kenshin series, the yet-to-be-properly-animated: Jinchu. Is this a case of the best arc saved for last? Does it serve as a fitting

52 - Snow White with the Red Hair by Akizuki Sorata

It’s the first series review of 2026 and it’s one Samu and Enzo had a similar introduction to with an excellent anime adaptation and decided to venture into the manga pos

51 - Best Ongoing Underappreciated Manga

With the start of a new year we thought it best to highlight some of our favourite ongoing manga that deserve more love. We’ve put together a list of ten series we think

50 - The Next Big Thing 2.0

What better way to kick off the year than by revisiting our favourite topic: What’s the next big thing in anime/manga? In this episode we revisit our picks from 2024 and

49 - Best Manga of 2025

Just like last year, we’re ending 2025 with a ‘best of’ episode, going through various categories to shout-out as many titles that we think deserve recognition and added

48 - Dandadan by Yukinobu Tatsu

We’re covering Dandadan by Yukinobu Tatsu this week - a series both of us have followed since the manga’s debut. Our opinions might go against the mass opinion right now,