Oh my god, they've killed Colton! Those b@st@rds!

Wait...WhatwhatWHAT?

Relax, guy. I'm not being seriously. He's fine. He dies in every episode! Inside. Because editing so many podcasts makes him want to suck Chef's chocolate salty balls. Last week he went insane and said "screw you guys, I'm going home." Last I heard he went off to hunt for ManBearPig with Al Gore in a quiet pissant mountain town. Don't know where he is now, but he's probably fighting the frizzies, at eleven. They mostly come out at night. Mostly.

Me? I'm super! Thanks for asking. But with Colton MIA I had to get someone to sub for him. So I some calls and got Rod Stewart to play a gig at New Year's in Las Vegas...but it turns out he doesn't read manga, so he wouldn't come on the podcast. So, I just got my brother Varun aka VlordGTZ to come on instead! And if you don't like it, well...you go to hell! You go to hell and you die! Or blame Canada. Their cartoons destroyed Colton's fragile little mind Plus, they bombed the Baldwins. Those uncle farting savages.

Well, you gotta do what you gotta do. As long as what you're doing is cool and popular with everyone. This week we go over a couple of lists that highlight some anime adaptions and Shonen Jump heroines that are about as popular as Scott Malcomson. Plus we run down some other hella kewl news including Spice & Wolf author Isuna Hasekura coming to New York Comic Con, Active Gaming Media's Tezuka-inspired digital card game, and the upcoming Manga Translation Battle Contest! Sweeeet.

Podcast Breakdown:

00:15 - Introducing Varun
3:07 - Manga We’ve Been Reading Recently
13:05 - New York Times Best Selling Manga List: Week of August 21st-28th
16:23 - Monthly Bookscan List: August 2016
18:27 - Akame ga Kill Ending Discussion
22:29 - Natsumo Ono Debuts New Work in December
23:26 - Silver Spoon Returns from Hiatus
26:04 - Spice & Wolf author Isuna Hasekura will have a panel at NYCC
27:54 - Viz to publish the OmegaRuby & AlphaSapphire arc of Pokemon Adventures
29:14 - Black Clover to get a Jump Festa anime special
31:10 - Yoshitoki Oima draws a special A Silent Voice chapter for anime filmgoers
32:32 - Active Gaming Media Launches Kickstarter for Osamu Tezuka-inspiried digital card game
36:06 - MyAnimeList Hosts the 5th Manga Translation Battle Contest
38:04 - Goo’s Biggest Manga-to-Anime Fails List
46:48 - Goo’s Worst Shonen Jump Heroines List
56:35 - Wrap-up

Enjoy the show, and follow us on twitter at @sniperking323 and @lumranmayasha. If there’s something you want to ask that’s too big to tweet, drop us a line in the comments below, or e-mail us at mangamavericks@gmail.com! Thanks for listening!