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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
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3 hours ago
1hr 31 min
Every year we head to China for a series, and results have been... mixed... So how will this year's entrant fare, as we read My Mobster Girlfriend, a harem romcom as a bunch of female mafiosos in training squabble over our lead guy from a former family dropped into their school life. And on a scale of Heaven Official's Blessing to So Pure, So Flirtatious, where will this one rank?
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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!
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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
Jul 2, 2026
Jul 2, 2026
1hr 34 min
Is it already time for the first anime tie-in of Year 7? Well, it's also our first fantasy series of the year, so that tracks. We discuss The Level 999 Villager ahead of its anime release, where one villager has min-maxed harder than anyone else to bring peace to humans and demons. With such an original premise, this one must be good, right?
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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!
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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
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Support the official release! The Level 999 Villager is licensed by MangaPlaza - https://mangaplaza.com/title/0303011638/
Want to check out the anime? It's available via Crunchyroll - https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/GT00371878/the-villager-of-level-999
Jun 18, 2026
Jun 18, 2026
1hr 24 min
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?
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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
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Want to check out the anime? It's available via Crunchyroll - https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/G6GG5KQ86/beelzebub
Jun 4, 2026
Jun 4, 2026
1hr 28 min
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 be enough to win us over?
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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
May 28, 2026
May 28, 2026
2hr 19 min
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 Trash. Who joins the Frierens and Narutos at the top of the pile, and who gets eternal trashnation as the Trashest Manga, Friends? Trashtacular Tournament Arc 6-7 concludes now!
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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.
New episodes drop every fortnight, where our trio of Sean, Mike and Phil read the first two volumes (or equivalent) of a manga, webtoon, manhua or manhwa, analysing every little thing to discuss what's good, what's bad, but mostly, what's trash. Five years in, we're just getting started, as trash never ends, and neither do we. So please, come join us and listen to our book club slash never-ending existential nightmare!
~
Follow us on social media! Links to all platforms on our site - https://trashmangafriends.carrd.co/
Sean, our forever host, is on Bluesky & Twitch - https://bsky.app/profile/slazo.bsky.social ~ https://www.twitch.tv/slazoking
Mike, our streamer extraordinaire, is everywhere @Bersekrer - https://bersekrer.carrd.co/
Phil, our trash overlord, is on Twitter @PheNaxKian - https://twitter.com/PheNaxKian
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Support the official releases!
Yu-Gi-Oh!, Alice in Borderland and My Hero Academia are licensed by Viz - https://www.viz.com/
New Saga is licensed by Alpha Manga - https://www.alpha-manga.com/
The Kajiki Chef: Divine Cuisine is licensed by MangaPlus - https://mangaplus.shueisha.co.jp/updates
I'm Standing On A Million Lives and Witch Hat Atelier are licensed by Kodansha - https://kodansha.us/
Kemono Jihen is licensed by Seven Seas Entertainment - https://sevenseasentertainment.com/
Sanda is licensed by Titan Comics - https://titan-comics.com/
The Holy Grail of Eris is licensed by Yen Press - https://yenpress.com/
Guard Pass is licensed by Tapas - https://tapas.io/
My Teasing Fiancée is licensed by Comic Growl - https://comic-growl.com/
Ottoman: Henshin Hero Husband is licensed by Udon Entertainment - https://store.udonentertainment.com/
May 21, 2026
May 21, 2026
3hr 13 min
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 to our Last 16 for next week's knockout stages. Was Yu-Gi-Oh better than My Hero? Was Flowers of Evil or Hensuki truly that bad? Does Sean still hate Secret of the Alien? All these answers and more await...
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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.
New episodes drop every fortnight, where our trio of Sean, Mike and Phil read the first two volumes (or equivalent) of a manga, webtoon, manhua or manhwa, analysing every little thing to discuss what's good, what's bad, but mostly, what's trash. Five years in, we're just getting started, as trash never ends, and neither do we. So please, come join us and listen to our book club slash never-ending existential nightmare!
~
Follow us on social media! Links to all platforms on our site - https://trashmangafriends.carrd.co/
Sean, our forever host, is on Bluesky & Twitch - https://bsky.app/profile/slazo.bsky.social ~ https://www.twitch.tv/slazoking
Mike, our streamer extraordinaire, is everywhere @Bersekrer - https://bersekrer.carrd.co/
Phil, our trash overlord, is on Twitter @PheNaxKian - https://twitter.com/PheNaxKian
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Support the official releases!
Yu-Gi-Oh!, Alice in Borderland, My Hero Academia and Zoids: Chaotic Century are licensed by Viz - https://www.viz.com/
New Saga is licensed by Alpha Manga - https://www.alpha-manga.com/
The Kajiki Chef: Divine Cuisine is licensed by MangaPlus - https://mangaplus.shueisha.co.jp/updates
I'm Standing On A Million Lives, Boarding School Juliet, Witch Hat Atelier and The Flowers of Evil are licensed by Kodansha - https://kodansha.us/
Kemono Jihen is licensed by Seven Seas Entertainment - https://sevenseasentertainment.com/
Sanda is licensed by Titan Comics - https://titan-comics.com/
The Holy Grail of Eris and Tougen Anki: Legend of the Cursed Blood are licensed by Yen Press - https://yenpress.com/
Guard Pass is licensed by Tapas - https://tapas.io/
Trigun is licensed by Dark Horse - https://www.darkhorse.com/
My Teasing Fiancée is licensed by Comic Growl - https://comic-growl.com/
Ottoman: Henshin Hero Husband is licensed by Udon Entertainment - https://store.udonentertainment.com/
May 7, 2026
May 7, 2026
1hr 38 min
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 ago, and it's not like you can rotoscope manga, so surely this romantic drama will have grown on him somewhat since then? If he can u-turn on Girl on the Shore, he can u-turn on anything, right?
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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.
New episodes drop every fortnight, where our trio of Sean, Mike and Phil read the first two volumes (or equivalent) of a manga, webtoon, manhua or manhwa, analysing every little thing to discuss what's good, what's bad, but mostly, what's trash. Five years in, we're just getting started, as trash never ends, and neither do we. So please, come join us and listen to our book club slash never-ending existential nightmare!
~
Follow us on social media! Links to all platforms on our site - https://trashmangafriends.carrd.co/
Sean, our forever host, is on Bluesky & Twitch - https://bsky.app/profile/slazo.bsky.social ~ https://www.twitch.tv/slazoking
Mike, our streamer extraordinaire, is everywhere @Bersekrer - https://bersekrer.carrd.co/
Phil, our trash overlord, is on Twitter @PheNaxKian - https://twitter.com/PheNaxKian
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Support the official release! The Flowers of Evil is licensed by Kodansha - https://kodansha.us/series/the-flowers-of-evil/
Apr 23, 2026
Apr 23, 2026
1hr 34 min
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 conspiracy theories make for a good series to relax in after a hard day at work?
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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.
New episodes drop every fortnight, where our trio of Sean, Mike and Phil read the first two volumes (or equivalent) of a manga, webtoon, manhua or manhwa, analysing every little thing to discuss what's good, what's bad, but mostly, what's trash. Five years in, we're just getting started, as trash never ends, and neither do we. So please, come join us and listen to our book club slash never-ending existential nightmare!
~
Follow us on social media! Links to all platforms on our site - https://trashmangafriends.carrd.co/
Sean, our forever host, is on Bluesky & Twitch - https://bsky.app/profile/slazo.bsky.social ~ https://www.twitch.tv/slazoking
Mike, our streamer extraordinaire, is everywhere @Bersekrer - https://bersekrer.carrd.co/
Phil, our trash overlord, is on Twitter @PheNaxKian - https://twitter.com/PheNaxKian
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Support the official release! Ottoman: Henshin Hero Husband is licensed by Udon Entertainment - https://store.udonentertainment.com/
Apr 9, 2026
Apr 9, 2026
1hr 17 min
Revenge is a dish best served romcomtically, as after last episode we decided to subject dear Mike to his favourite genre – romcoms! This time it's My Teasing Fiancée up to the plate, a series with arranged partners (though at least both have agreed to it this time) and... er... wait, that can't be it, there must be more going on here, surely...
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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.
New episodes drop every fortnight, where our trio of Sean, Mike and Phil read the first two volumes (or equivalent) of a manga, webtoon, manhua or manhwa, analysing every little thing to discuss what's good, what's bad, but mostly, what's trash. Five years in, we're just getting started, as trash never ends, and neither do we. So please, come join us and listen to our book club slash never-ending existential nightmare!
~
Follow us on social media! Links to all platforms on our site - https://trashmangafriends.carrd.co/
Sean, our forever host, is on Bluesky & Twitch - https://bsky.app/profile/slazo.bsky.social ~ https://www.twitch.tv/slazoking
Mike, our streamer extraordinaire, is everywhere @Bersekrer - https://bersekrer.carrd.co/
Phil, our trash overlord, is on Twitter @PheNaxKian - https://twitter.com/PheNaxKian
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Support the official release! My Teasing Fiancée is licensed by Comic Growl - https://comic-growl.com/series/cb45e345f928e
Apr 1, 2026
Apr 1, 2026
2hr 54 min
Happy April Fools! For you, definitely not for us, as for 2026, it's the turn of cartoons in the spotlight. And if you thought animation couldn't get worse than Sword Art Online, my friends, you have no idea. So enjoy, as the Trash Cartoon Friends discuss Stargate Infinity, the cartoon spin-off of the beloved scifi franchise that two of our trio grew up with. I'm so, so sorry.
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Welcome to That Time I Started A Podcast To Watch Trash Cartoons With My Friends And Answer Is Teen Titans An Anime Or Not!
Or The Trash Cartoon Friends Podcast, for short.
New episodes drop every fortnight, where our trio of Sean, Mike and Phil watch a season of a cartoon, analysing every little thing to discuss what's good, what's bad, but mostly, what's trash. Five years in, we're just getting started, as trash never ends, and neither do we. So please, come join us and listen to our toon club slash never-ending existential nightmare!
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Follow us on social media! Links to all platforms on our site - https://trashmangafriends.carrd.co/
Sean, our forever host, is on Bluesky & Twitch - https://bsky.app/profile/slazo.bsky.social ~ https://www.twitch.tv/slazoking
Mike, our streamer extraordinaire, is everywhere @Bersekrer - https://bersekrer.carrd.co/
Phil, our trash overlord, is on Twitter @PheNaxKian - https://twitter.com/PheNaxKian
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Support the official release! Startgate Infinity is available via Amazon Prime - https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/video/detail/B09R4GNR5K