Morgana and Seamus are back to hear dakazu talk about all thing Paru Itagaki with BEASTARS, Beast Complex, and Bota Bota! dakazu also gives his impressions on the new DC manga series Batman Justice Buster and One Op Joker! Then we have an older manga themed Triple Dip with Basara, Claymore, and MPD-Psycho!!! 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: “endless loop” by ROUAGE from Basara, Opening, Introductions, Praising Chainsaw Man and complaining about One Piece 00:00:59 - Listener Emails: Our dream collaborations projects 00:13:32 - Recommendations for digital manga platforms and subscriptions  00:25:06 - Whatchu Been Reading: Transition Song: Dragon Ball Z OST “Prologue”, Darfox teases his newly arrived Glaeolia 2 00:26:47 - dakazu started 2021 by watching the new anime season of BEASTARS and rereading the manga 00:29:05 - Paru Itagaki returns to Weekly Shonen Champion with Beast Complex 00:33:49 - dakazu knows exactly why Paru Itagaki created her new short series Bota Bota 00:37:54 - dakazu is unsure about Batman Justice Buster but One Operation Joker seems to be a promising DC manga 00:43:03 - Deadpool: SAMURAI is a good self-aware Marvel manga 00:44:49 - News: Takehiko Inoue announces new Slam Dunk anime film 00:49:32 - Translator Stefan Koza was also arrested in Japan in 2014 for secret recordings of students 00:52:44 - Shueisha issuing copyright strikes against twitter users including official Dragon Ball artist Fenyo 00:55:56 - Glacier Bay Books announces new series along with digital release of Glaeolia 1 00:56:39 - Next Episode Preview and Rundown: One Shot on Remina, we will review Junji Ito’s chilling tale of a hell star attacking Earth 00:57:33 - Main Segment Triple Dip: Claymore/Basara/MPD-Psycho, Transition Song “Raison d'être” by Nightmare from Claymore, we read the beginning of each older manga for discussion and to see if we’d continue reading it before picking our favorite of the three, including: 00:58:49 - Claymore by Norihiro Yagi 01:21:41 - Basara by Yumi Tamura 01:39:16 - MPD-Psycho by Eiji Otsuka & Shou Tajima 01:56:03 - *SPOILERS* The twists and ending of MPD-Psycho 02:10:28 - We pick our favorite of the three manga 02:12:49 - Next Week’s Topic: Remina, Social Media Rundown, Sign Off Song: “wish men” by sunbrain from Beet the Vandel Buster