Episode 170 - Beelzebub

Episode 170 - Beelzebub

Author: Trash Manga Friends June 18, 2026 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 raising the spawn of Satan himself get a laugh out of us, or is manga comedy truly dead? ~ 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. The trash journey never ends! Every fortnight our trio of hosts, Sean, Mike and Phil, pick out a manga, webtoon, manhua or manhwa, read the first two volumes (or equivalent), and then spend the next hour or so having an existential breakdown about it. Some are good! Some are bad. Most are trash. So join us, for our seventh year, as we slowly close in on 200 episodes and series covered! ~ Follow us on social media! Links to all platforms on our site - https://trashmangafriends.carrd.co/ Sean, your, say it with us, foooreeeeveeeer host, can be found on Bluesky & Twitch - https://bsky.app/profile/slazo.bsky.social ~ https://www.twitch.tv/slazoking Mike, your streamer haternaire, can be found everywhere @Bersekrer - https://bersekrer.carrd.co/ Phil, your master of trashimonies, can’t be found on Twitter @PheNaxKian - https://twitter.com/PheNaxKian ~ Want to check out the anime? It’s available via Crunchyroll - https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/G6GG5KQ86/beelzebub

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
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Duration: 1:43:40
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Episode 172 - My Mobster Girlfriend (Wo De Fan Pai Nü You) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:31:05
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Episode 171 - The Level 999 Villager (Lv999 no Murabito) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:34:26
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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…
Episode 165 - Ottoman: Henshin Hero Husband [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:34:28
As the end of Year 6 draws nigh, who else will save us from endless trash manga, but Ottoman! This time around it’s the turn of the Henshin Hero Husband, but can romance, superheroism, and a splash of Mike’s beloved cons…