Trash Manga Friends

If in doubt, shounen will never let you down, right? So was it a bloodbath when we read the classic blood power series Tougen Anki: Legend of the Cursed Blood? After all, if you’re drawing inspirations from every big name shounen manga past and present, you’ve got to be able to channel something interesting... right? ~ 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 ~ Support the official release! Tougen Anki: Legend of the Cursed Blood is licensed by Yen Press - https://yenpress.com/series/tougen-anki-legend-of-the-cursed-blood Want to check out the anime? It’s available via Crunchyroll - https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/GP5HJ84D2/tougen-anki

Another year, another Valentine’s, which can only mean yet another romcom. But this time we’ve looked to the bard for inspiration, to find Boarding School Juliet, inspired by Shakespeare’s own Romeo and Juliet! Surely a romcom based off this all time iconic work in this season of love and romance couldn’t enrage our trio? ~ 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 ~ Support the official release! Boarding School Juliet is licensed by Kodansha - https://kodansha.us/series/boarding-school-juliet/

Our first webtoon of 2026, and it’s all about mixed martial arts fighting! Surely with an ex-martial artist, a wrestling stan and a shounen fan amongst our trio, Guard Pass must have been set to go down a treat. It’s even got a female lead kicking butt and an atypical mountain of a male protagonist! There’s no way we would hard pass on Guard Pass, right? ~ 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 ~ Support the official release! Guard Pass is licensed by Tapas - https://tapas.io/series/guard-pass/info

Now that 2026 has well and truly begun, we can start another of our traditions, the seasonal anime tie-in! And for the first time in a long time we’re drawing inspiration from the villainess trope, as we let The Holy Grail of Eris bring out the worst in us! But was that a good thing? Or just more slop to animate two frames of and stick an AI sub or dub onto... ~ 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 ~ Support the official release! The Holy Grail of Eris is licensed by Yen Press - https://yenpress.com/series/the-holy-grail-of-eris-manga Want to check out the anime? It’s available via Crunchyroll - https://www.crunchyroll.com/news/seasonal-lineup/2025/12/16/winter-anime-2026-crunchyroll

Happy New Year! For the first time ever, our fortnightly episode falls on January 1st, so we scoured high and low to find a manga related to the new year! And we failed. So here’s the next best thing when you need a series on new beginnings - isekai! But not just any isekai, an onsen isekai! ...No, not that onsen isekai (yes there’s multiple), but Reincarnated as a Hot Spring in an Alternate World! ~ 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