Episode 139 - Trashtacular Tournament Arc-V Part 1

Episode 139 - Trashtacular Tournament Arc-V Part 1

Author: Trash Manga Friends May 22, 2025 Duration: 3:25:08
Five years! Yes, that’s right, we’ve made it to Trashtacular Tournament Arc-V, as for the fifth time we pit all the mangas, webtoons and whatever So Pure So Flirtatious was into the tournament arc to end all tournament arcs. In this first half, we’ll find which of our 25 series survive the group stages and make it to the Last 16, and which are on the fast track to being the Trashest Manga, Friends. ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podcast To Read Trash Manga With My Friends And Actually Most Of Them Were Trash But Some Of Them Weren’t! Or The Trash Manga Friends Podcast, for short. Each fortnight, our trio of Sean, Mike and Phil read the first two volumes (or equivalent) of a manga, webtoon, manhua or manhwa, analysing every little detail to discuss what’s good, what’s bad, and what’s trash. And believe us, half a decade in, there’s a lot of trash to discuss. So come listen to our book club slash neverending existential nightmare! ~ Follow us on social media! Links to all platforms on our site - https://trashmangafriends.carrd.co/ Sean, foreeeeveeeer host, is on Bluesky & Twitch - https://bsky.app/profile/slazo.bsky.social ~ https://www.twitch.tv/slazoking Mike, speedrunner and streamer extraordinaire, is everywhere @Bersekrer - https://bersekrer.carrd.co/ Phil, arbiter of trash, is on Twitter @PheNaxKian - https://twitter.com/PheNaxKian ~ Support the official releases! I Think Our Son Is Gay is licensed by Square Enix - https://squareenixmangaandbooks.square-enix-games.com/en-us Girl Friends, Plus-Sized Elf, 365 Days To The Wedding, I Got Married to the Girl I Hate Most in Class and The Too-Perfect Saint: Tossed Aside by My Fiancé and Sold to Another Kingdom are licensed by Seven Seas Entertainment - https://sevenseasentertainment.com/ K-On! and Girls’ Last Tour are licensed by Yen Press - https://yenpress.com/ Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint is licensed by Naver Webtoon - https://www.webtoons.com/en/ Battle Vixens is licensed by Tokyopop - https://tokyopop.com/ Naruto, Magilumiere Magical Girls Inc, Pokémon Adventures and Boys Over Flowers are licensed by Viz - https://www.viz.com/ Metamorphosis is licensed by Fakku - https://www.fakku.net/ Don’t Mind Me, Sensei! Give Yourself A Hand! is licensed by Tentai Books - https://tentaibooks.com/en/ So Pure, So Flirtatious is licensed by Webnovel - https://www.webnovel.com/ Revenge of the Baskerville Bloodhound is licensed by Tapas - https://tapas.io/ Battle in 5 Seconds is licensed by Comikey - https://comikey.com/

Ever find yourself in a comic shop or scrolling through a digital library, staring at a cover that’s either brilliantly absurd or just plain baffling? That’s the exact feeling we chase on Trash Manga Friends. It began as a simple, slightly ridiculous idea: get a few friends together, pick out the most questionable-looking manga we could find, and see what happened. What you’ll hear in each episode is the genuine, unfiltered result of that experiment-the laughter, the groans, and the occasional, very real surprise. While our title promises a deep dive into the wonderfully weird and often poorly executed corners of the manga world, we’ve discovered that not everything under that “trash” label is without its merits. Sometimes a bizarre premise hides a strangely compelling story, or a cliché character arc suddenly takes a turn that makes us all stop and reconsider. This podcast is really about the shared experience of discovery, of judging books by their covers and then thoroughly debating whether we were right or completely wrong. We read them so you don’t have to, but we also end up celebrating the hidden gems and the gloriously odd choices that make this medium so endlessly fascinating. Join our conversations for a mix of sincere critique and affectionate roasting, where the definition of “trash” is always up for debate.
Author: Language: English Episodes: 100

Trash Manga Friends
Podcast Episodes
Episode 74 - A Couple of Cuckoos (Kakkou no Iinazuke) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:39:20
How many romcoms is too many romcoms? Time to find out as we discuss yet another romantic comedy manga in A Couple of Cuckoos, where two kids swapped at birth are forcibly engaged and made to live together. But the real…
Episode 73 - Talentless Nana (Munou na Nana) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:48:41
We’re delving into another manga full of superpowered kids going to school, but fret not, this definitely ain’t no Alice Academy rerun, as we discuss the surprising Talentless Nana, and her bloody quest to save the world…
Episode 72 - Tomo-chan is a Girl! (Tomo-chan wa Onnonoko!) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:20:16
As a new year dawns, so does a new season of anime come to be. Which means it’s tie-in episode time! We discuss Tomo-chan is a Girl!, a 4koma romcom about one lady’s hapless attempts to get her man to see her as wo...man…
Episode 71 - Saint Young Men (Saint Oniisan) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:25:11
It’s another Christmas special, and this year we’re getting back to the true meaning of the day, Jesus Christ himself! Will it be a religious experience for our trio when we read the award-winning comedy manga Saint Youn…
Episode 70 - Blue Lock [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:48:19
World Cup season has descended upon the podcast! And hey, we’re still in it as of this episode going live (by we I mean England, not Wales, boooo). So to celebrate it’s time for our FIRST EVER sports manga! And not just…
Episode 69 - Sunset of Passion (Rakujitsu no Pathos) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:25:49
Yes, we’ve finally made it to the funny sex joke episode, as our trio thrusts into Sunset of Passion, a romantic drama about reuniting with old flames, the stresses of working and... well, really, really wanting to fuck…
Episode 68 - Killing Me / Killing You [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:41:15
A modern fantasy manga that... isn’t an isekai!? Yes, it’s true, as we discuss Killing Me / Killing You, a very wholesome series about two protagonists in a post-apocaylptic world trying to kill themselves. But will we b…
Episode 67 - Pumpkin Night [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:28:21
Halloween is almost upon us, so it’s time for a bloodbath as we trek through the slasher inspired and goreporn heavy Pumpkin Night! Will our trio keep their contents in their stomach long enough to dissect this grisly ho…
Episode 66 - Uzaki-chan Wants to Hang Out! (Uzaki-chan wa Asobitai!) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:22:53
Another fall anime tie-in!? That’s right, this fortnight we hang out with Uzaki-chan in her titular romcom, and see if this teasing senpai and kouhai relationship gets torn apart like so many others at Mike’s hands, or i…

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