Episode 140 - Trashtacular Tournament Arc-V Part 2

Episode 140 - Trashtacular Tournament Arc-V Part 2

Author: Trash Manga Friends May 29, 2025 Duration: 2:23:18
An off week episode!? That can only mean it’s the climax of Trashtacular Tournament Arc-V! With the chaff eliminated, we’re into the knockout rounds, as we take the 16 survivors and 1v1 them down to find this year’s Not Actually Trash series! Will a big name like Naruto or Pokémon win? Can the gays Girl Friends and I Think Our Son is Gay triumph? Or will the hentai Metamorphosis beat ’em all? Let the wars begin! ~ 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, 365 Days To The Wedding 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/ Naruto, Magilumiere Magical Girls Inc and Pokémon Adventures are licensed by Viz - https://www.viz.com/ Metamorphosis is licensed by Fakku - https://www.fakku.net/ Revenge of the Baskerville Bloodhound is licensed by Tapas - https://tapas.io/

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.
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Episode 175 - Digimon Adventure [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:39:04
From one Leomon to another, as we begin our childhood series arc! Mike’s not the only one who had one of those ”being a kid” phases, so this time Sean’s bringing his beloved Digimon Adventure to the show. Did the manhua…
Episode 174 - The Beast King: Master of Medicines (Juuou to Yakusou) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:43:40
We could really use some healing after last episode’s nightmare, so along comes the medic fantasy manga The Beast King: Master of Medicines! And good news, it’s better than the last series we did about a healer. But will…
Episode 172 - My Mobster Girlfriend (Wo De Fan Pai Nü You) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:31:05
Every year we head to China for a series, and results have been... mixed... So how will this year’s entrant fare, as we read My Mobster Girlfriend, a harem romcom as a bunch of female mafiosos in training squabble over o…
Episode 171 - The Level 999 Villager (Lv999 no Murabito) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:34:26
Is it already time for the first anime tie-in of Year 7? Well, it’s also our first fantasy series of the year, so that tracks. We discuss The Level 999 Villager ahead of its anime release, where one villager has min-maxe…
Episode 170 - Beelzebub [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:24:21
Okay, so last time may have been a false start, but for our second Year 7 episode, we’ve gone to Shounen Jump, and read one of their esteemed comedy series, Beelzebub! Will this story about some poor thug tasked with rai…
Episode 169 - A Peep Hole (Nozoki Ana) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:28:57
Was it lucky year number seven for our trio, as we kick off another season of trash with Nozoki Ana, aka A Peep Hole! Well, considering its a 69 episode, it’s definitely going to be a nice manga, but would good ol’ T&A b…
Episode 168 - Trashtacular Tournament Arc 6-7 (Part 2) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 2:19:16
Doesn’t it feel like only yesterday we kicked off Year 6 with Yu-Gi-Oh? And now here we are, at year’s end, with the King of Games standing alongside 15 other series, ready to fight it out for the title of Not Actually T…
Episode 167 - Trashtacular Tournament Arc 6-7 (Part 1) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 3:13:27
We’ve made it! Once again, welcome to our end of year tournament spectacular! In this first half of Trashtacular Tournament Arc 6-7, we relive all 25 series covered throughout our sixth year, and slowly whittle them down…
Episode 166 - The Flowers of Evil (Aku no Hana) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:38:50
Baudelaire, give us strength. It’s the FINAL series of Year 6, and we’re going out with a traumatic bang, as Sean unleashes the manga version of one of his most hated anime – The Flowers of Evil! But that was 13 years ag…