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My Taste is Better Than Yours

My Taste is Better than Yours

Welcome to My Taste is Better Than Yours, the manga podcast with Samu and Guardian Enzo! Who are we? Two anime bloggers (Samu former, Enzo current - at https://lostinanime.com) who love manga. We"ll discuss some of our favourite manga series and let you decide which one of us has the better taste. Throughout this podcast we’ll be covering series we"ve both already read or follow, as well as series one of us recommends to the other to compare our opinions. From time-to-time we’ll also cover some

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All Episodes

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25 - Hunter x Hunter (Greed Island) by Yoshihiro Togashi

My Taste is Better Than Yours ·

2025/02/03

Back to Hunter x Hunter we go, jumping over now to Greed Island along with Gon and Killua. In a shake-up from the usual HxH arc reviews, this might be the first where we have disagreements about how much we enjoy this one on the whole.Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction - the third island: Greed Island 4:26 Our experiences of Greed Island and favourite iteration of the arc? 8:34 Is it an Isekai? 10:08 Hisoka’s role this arc - enemy turned ally with all his “quirks” 19:28 Biscuit - Gon and Killua’s new

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00:58:18

24 - The Summer Hikaru Died by Mokmok Len

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2025/01/20

It's our first episode of 2025 and we're discussing a series that is due to get an anime adaptation later this year: The Summer Hikaru Died by Mokmok Len. This is the first series picked by the LostinAnime patrons, and it’s one we both mostly agree is pretty damn good.Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction - Our first series voted by the LostinAnime patrons, an early sensation in Japan 8:04 Comparing our experiences of binging vs followed it as it’s published 11:04 Momok Len’s ‘slice of life’ approach to

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01:19:25

23 - Best Manga of 2024

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2024/12/30

It’s our second end of year special episode, this time we’re doing a Year in Review for the manga we read in 2024 - we hope you enjoy and can take some recommendations from our choices of across 18 categories that covers the full scope of both our tastes..Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction - another special end of year episode 1:43 Best new manga published in 2024 4:51 Best manga that finished in 2024 7:41 Best ongoing manga of 2024 11:04 Best manga we discovered in 2024 15:38 Newcomer mangaka to look

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22 - Weekly Shonen Jump 2024 Retrospective

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2024/12/23

It’s the end of the year and we’ve got the first of two special episodes for you. This time we’re getting into Samu’s favourite subject: Weekly Shonen Jump. We’re taking a look over every series that ran in 2024 - concluded and still ongoing - to discuss our takes and how well they’re doing. Hopefully this helps provide some insight into the ever-competitive nature of manga’s most popular magazine as well as some series worth checking out. Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction - our relationship with the

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00:54:41

21 - Hunter x Hunter (Yorknew City) by Yoshihiro Togashi

My Taste is Better Than Yours ·

2024/12/06

We’re back to Hunter x Hunter again, and this time we’re diving into Yorknew City, where things start getting serious, Kurapika steps into the main character spot as we follow his quest for revenge, and we both disagree on whether this feels like a shonen or a seinen arc. Check it out!Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction - New York City and how that relates to Yorknew 4:51 Why is Yorknew City arc beloved by fans, particularly pre-2011 anime? 9:22 Shonen vs Seinen debate 19:88 Enzo’s love for the Whale

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20 - A Distant Neighborhood by Jiro Taniguchi

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2024/11/25

This time it’s Enzo’s recommending a series for Samu - and it’s another seinen manga! Habits seem to be forming. A Distant Neighborhood by the iconic Jiro Taniguchi is a 2-volume series about a father in his forties who is transported back to his teenage years leading up to the event that still lingers within him: the night his father disappeared and left his family behind. Could this be his chance to uncover the truth of the incident or perhaps even change the future by preventing

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00:53:22

19 - Double by Ayako Noda

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2024/11/11

This time it’s Samu’s recommendation for Enzo - and it’s another josei manga! Double by Ayako Noda is a psychologically twisted acting series about the complicated relationship of two men in the industry, one a natural talent and the other a hard worker, with differing levels of success and the drama that unfolds from the power each has over the other.Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction - a josei acting manga with a complicated relationship at the core 3:52 Is Takara and Yuujin’s relationship toxic? 5:00

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18 - Goodnight Punpun by Inio Asano

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2024/10/28

We’re discussing a series we both read over a decade ago and have revisited for this discussion: Goodnight Punpun by Inio Asano - a manga we both love, but have our feelings on this ultra-depressing tale changed or waned years later? Listen to find out.Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction - getting ready for depression 3:59 Our general feelings about Goodnight Punpun, apprehensive to re-experiencing the series 10:09 Does Punpun’s story resonate with men in particular? 14:05 Does it ever it ever go into

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17 - Hunter x Hunter (Zoldyck Family + Heavens Arena)...

My Taste is Better Than Yours ·

2024/10/14

Hunter x Hunter is back! Let’s talk Hunter x Hunter! We kicked off with the Hunter Exam arc when we began this podcast and there’s no better time than to ride the wave than continue our task of covering the series arc-by-arc, this time continuing with the Zoldyck Family mini-arc as well as what Enzo describes as the most “shonen” arc of the entire series: Heavens Arena. Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction - breaking our coverage by arc 1:24 Zoldyck Family arc - our thoughts on the short anti-rescue

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01:02:10

16 - Ooku The Inner Chambers by Fumi Yoshinaga

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2024/09/30

We’re continuing with recommendation mode, this time with Samu’s pick of an all-time favorite: Ooku: The Inner Chambers by Fumi Yoshinaga. This is tale as epic an detailed as they come, spanning over 200 years of the gender-flipped Tokugawa Shogunate as we follow the lives and trials of various rulers in an alternate-history Japan where a pandemic has wiped out majority of the male population, thrusting these women into the unlikely position of power with all the drama and court politicking that

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00:52:54

15 - Yugami Doesn't Have Any Friends by Jun Sakura

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2024/09/16

We’re back into recommendation mode, this time with Enzo’s pick: Yugami Doesn’t Have Any Friends by Jun Sakura. It’s a series that balances a lot of things: comedy, sports, romance, coming of age, rakugo, and more - but do we agree on how well it succeeds? Listen and find out.Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction 4:32 Samu’s first impressions and expecting it to be set in college 6:50 Chihiro being a representative of a Japanese ideal vs Yugami standing out for the wrong reasons 10:53 Is Yugami coded as

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00:45:15

14 - Blue Box by Kouji Miura

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2024/09/02

We’re once again sticking with the Weekly Shonen Jump, jumping to our favourite (and only) sports-drama-romcom title of the magazine, with Blue Box by Kouji Miura. An instant hit we’ve been following since the beginning and have plenty to discuss ahead of the upcoming anime adaptation.Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction - continuing with Weekly Shonen Jump with Samu’s favourite 4:52 Kouji Miura’s previous works and how different they are to Blue Box 7:52 Does Blue Box feel like a Weekly Shonen Jump

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13 - Akane-banashi by Yuki Suenaga, Takamasa Moue

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2024/08/19

We’re continuing with the Weekly Shonen Jump series, this time to Samu’s favourite currently running in the magazine: Akane-banashi, the rakugo drama that’s been an unexpected hit since it’s debut.Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction - continuing with Weekly Shonen Jump with Samu’s favourite 2:42 A success story during an era of performing arts series in Weekly Shonen Jump 5:29 Enzo’s impression: more like a sports series, rakugo, comparison to PPPPPP 9:50 Neither sport or battle series but embraces

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01:10:26

12 - My Hero Academia by Kohei Horikoshi

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2024/08/05

We’ve recorded this episode in record time in order to release alongside the end of My Hero Academia’s manga, by Kohei Horikoshi. With the end of one of the giants of Weekly Shonen Jump and anime/manga in general for the past decade we’ve got a giant-sized episode discussing everything we wanted to cover about the series: its legacy, its fanbase, and our feelings on the ending while they’re still fresh.Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction - a series we’ve both been following for 10 years 4:34 How many

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11 - The Elusive Samurai by Yuusei Matsui

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2024/07/29

For the next several episodes we’re focusing on Weekly Shonen Jump, this time beginning with The Elusive Samurai by Yuusei Matsui, which is currently receiving a stellar anime adaptation - although it’s worth noting we recorded this some weeks before its release.Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction and the popularity of Assasination Classroom 5:16 Yuusei Matsui at his most unrestricted after two previous WSJ hits 7:52 The artwork, panelling, meta comedy and how it fits with the time period 14:07 More

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10 - The Days of Diamond by Ohashi Hirai

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2024/07/22

This time we’re discussing a new hit in Japan, The Days of Diamond by Ohashi Hirai, a seinen baseball manga that started in 2023 and already proved to be an early success from the beginning. Now that MangaPlus are doing simultaneous translations we’re up to date and want to get as many people on board for this mature take on childrens’ baseball.Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction - Enzo anticipating the series before Mangaplus translated it 6:34 The ‘suffering from success” storyline and the young age of

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00:44:13

9 - Spirit Circle by Satoshi Mizukami

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2024/07/15

We’re back to recommending our favourites to one another - this time we’re discussing one of Enzo’s all-timers: Spirit Circle by Satoshi Mizukami, the story of a middle school boy (Fuuta) whose ordinary life is disrupted when a transfer student (Kouko) reveals that their fates are in fact tied between in the past, present, and future in ways that changes everything between them and the life Fuuta thought he lived up until now.Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction 6:34 Samu’s general impressions 7:47 Enzo’s

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00:53:30

8 - Blue Flag by KAITO

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2024/07/08

We’re back to recommending our favourites to one another - this time we’re discussing one of Samu’s all-timers: Blue Flag by KAITO, a coming of age high school story that delves into a slew of deep and meaningful themes.Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction 3:43 Why Samu recommended that Enzo (and you) should read it 5:53 Enzo’s general impressions of the series 8:40 Blue Flag and how it differentiates itself from its contemporary shonen romance series 9:17 (Volume 1) spoiler discussion begins 9:24 The

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7 - Interview with Jake Jung (Anime/Manga Translator)

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2024/06/24

This episode we’re thrilled to be joined by Jake Jung, a Japanese-to-English translator who has worked on various anime and manga throughout his career - Made in Abyss, Oshi no Ko, Vinland Saga, and Ya Boy Kongming! to name a few. Together we go through his own personal history in Japan as well as his career as a translator, his tastes in manga, and his insights into the world of anime/manga translation.Timestamps: 4:13 Jake’s photography and time as a tour guide 6:00 Oshi no Ko, Ya Boy Kongming!’s

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00:38:49

6 - The Next Big Thing?

My Taste is Better Than Yours ·

2024/06/10

This episode we forecast what we think some of the next big series will be, choosing from manga that have yet to have an anime released. Time will tell if our choices end up fruitful or missed opportunities.Please note: This episode was filmed in March 2024 before the official anime announcements of two of the series mentioned here, so any discrepancies from latest information is due to what was known at that time. Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction - revisiting a familiar topic 6:08 Discounting Kaijuu

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