On this episode Morgana joins Deb Aoki’s Best & Worst 2020 Comi-Con panel, we celebrate the 2020 Eisner awards manga winners, and we discuss the newest volume of BEASTARS! Then our Retrospective on Daruma Matsuura’s Kasane shocks us with a new character and we compare this tale of misery with spoilers from The Last of Us Part II!!! Remember to send us emails! mangamachinations@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter! @mangamacpodcast Check out our website! https://mangamachinations.com Check out our tumblr! http://mangamachinations.tumblr.com Join our Discord! https://discord.me/mangamac Timestamps: 00:00:00 - Intro Song: “Black Bird” by Aimer from Kasane, Opening, Introductions, Morgana on Best & Worst Manga 2020 panel 00:03:04 - News: Cats of the Louvre and Witch Hat Atelier win Best U.S. Edition of International Material - Asia award 00:08:57 - Potential live drinking episode of Manga Machinations 00:10:25 - The Way of the Househusband wins Best Humor Publication category 00:15:35 - Junji Ito in conversations with Hideo Kojima about working on a horror-based game 00:22:47 - Whatchu Been Reading: Transition Song: Dragon Ball Z OST “Prologue”, *SPOILERS* We breakdown everything inside BEASTARS vol. 7 00:33:54 - dakazu checks out Sumomo Yumeka’s drama Watashi to Watashi that was released under her seinen pen name Mizu Sahara 00:40:06 - Boku to Sanbon Ashi no Chiyonpi is a cute series about Doragon Odawara’s three-legged miniature pinscher Chiyonpi 00:44:03 - Morgana reads Matt Alt’s Pure Invention: How Japan's Pop Culture Conquered the World 00:49:32 - Next Episode Preview and Rundown: Fantasy Magazine: Science Fiction, a new podcast format where each of the hosts will pick 5 unlicensed or out-of-print series to create their ideal science fiction themed manga magazine 00:51:19 - Main Segment Retrospective: Kasane, Transition Song: “Dance of Salome” by Yugo Kanno from Kasane, Comprehensive review of Daruma Matsuura’s dark fairy tale about a girl with an ugly face who uses a magical lipstick to swap faces and become an actress like her mother(covers volumes 4-6) 01:31:43 - *SPOILERS* We discuss the discourse over the revenge story of The Last of Us Part II & The Last of Us compared to Kasane 01:37:57 - End of *SPOILERS* for The Last of Us Part II & The Last of Us 01:58:09 - Next Week’s Topic: Fantasy Magazine: Science Fiction, Social Media Rundown, Sign Off Song: “wish men” by sunbrain from Beet the Vandel Buster