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In this episode we finally chat about My Hero Academia's final arc and our thoughts on the series at it reaches its end. Before hopping into our review of 2023. - MHA Final Arc general thoughts (00:55) - All For One's fate (9:40) - Predictions for Character deaths (19:45) - Deku vs Shigaraki Talk (32:30) - Overall rating of MHA plus comparison to Naruto/Bleach/JJK (45:15) - Top 3 Manga of 2023 (57:08) - Favorite New Manga (1:05:34) - Manga that increased in quality the most (1:13:47) - Manga that dropped off (1:22:12) - Most surprising plot twist (1:25:28) - Most disappointing moment (1:34:49) - General yapping revisting earlier topics (1:41:02) - JJK Talk (1:57:50)

Characters (Finalized): One Piece: Luffy, Zoro, Sanji, Nami, Blackbeard Naruto: Naruto, Sasuke, Kakashi, Itachi, Shikamaru Bleach: Ichigo, Aizen, Rukia, Uryu, Urahara FMA: Edward, Alphonse, Mustang JJK: Gojo, Sukuna, Yuji, Megumi Demon Slayer: Tanjiro, Nezuko Tokyo Ghoul: Kaneki, Arima, Touka Vinland Saga: Thorfinn, Askeladd, Canute  Blue Lock: Isagi,  Attack on Titan: Eren, Levi, Zeke, Armin, Mikasa Kingdom: Shin, Riboku, Kyoukai, Mouten, Ouki MHA: Midoriya, Bakugo, Todoroki, All Might Vagabond: Musashi, Kojiro Sousou no Frieren: Frieren OPM: Saitama, Genos, King CSM: Denji, Makima Golden Kamuy: Sugimoto, Asirpa, Tsurumi Sakamoto Days: Sakamoto, Shin, Nagumo Death Note: Light, L Tomodachi Game: Yuuichii Berserk: Guts, Griffith

Hey guys, today we review Tomodachi Game, a mind game manga written by Yuki Sato. https://myanimelist.net/manga/62795/Tomodachi_Game. We go over our thoughts on the mindgame genre as a whole (00:00), our review of the manga (6:40), before giving theories for the final arc that's currently ongoing (58:31).

In this episode we each give 5 theories with different chances (90%/70%/50%/30%/10%) and try to guess which one is which. 

The final episode of our mega Naruto Lookback. This time we give our thoughts on hype moments, saddest moments, worst plot holes, underrated characters and more. Leave a voice message here for your review or thoughts at https://anchor.fm/manga-takes/message or email us at [email protected]

Part 2 of our Naruto recap as we look back on this iconic manga by giving awards. We rank our top 3 worst arcs (Kaguya), best designed characters, most hype moments and our saddest ones as well.  Leave a voice message here for your review or thoughts at https://anchor.fm/manga-takes/message or email us at [email protected]  

This time we're doing a deep rewind of an iconic manga: Naruto. We throw it back to one of our earliest manga and talk about our favorite characters, fights, arcs and antagonists. We each rank our top 3 in each of these categories and discuss. Leave a voice message here for your review or thoughts at https://anchor.fm/manga-takes/message or email us at [email protected]

Today we're doing a snake draft of the top 15 generals in the Kingdom manga. We each draft 5 generals each before deciding on who was overrated and underrated in this draft. Draft (00:00 - 42:00) Overrated and Underrated (42:00 - 53:20). Leave a voice message here for your review or thoughts at https://anchor.fm/manga-takes/message or email us at [email protected].

Today we're doing a snake draft of the top 15 strongest characters in the One Piece manga. We each draft 5 characters each before deciding on who was overrated and underrated in this draft. Draft (00:00 - 33:28) Overrated and Underrated (33:28 - 36:10). Leave a voice message here for your review or thoughts at https://anchor.fm/manga-takes/message or email us at [email protected].

Today we're doing a snake draft of the top 15 strongest characters in the Jujutsu Kaisen manga. We each draft 5 characters each before deciding on who was overrated and underrated in this draft. Intro and Rules (00:00 - 1:20) Draft (1:20 - 33:42) Overrated and Underrated (34:18 - 37:43). Leave a voice message here for your review or thoughts at https://anchor.fm/manga-takes/message or email us at [email protected]

This week we dive into a new manga we haven't talked about before Jujutsu Kaisen! Then we wrap up with some One Piece theories regarding Luffy's new abilities. JJK (00:00 - 1:13:57): Long talk all about Jujutsu Kaisen. We talk about similarities with other popular shounen such as Naruto, the ongoing culling game arc before taking a higher level view on the series (39:15) . Favorite fights, characters, tier lists and more. One Piece (1:13:58- 1:53:05): All about Luffy's new abilities as of chapter 1046. And how we see the reveals reflecting the endgame.

This time we're taking a look at 3 of the most popular manga around: One Piece, Kingdom, and My Hero. One Piece (00:00 - 36:12): Our thoughts on Big Mom's feat, Kidd/Law and the mysteries behind Wano. Kingdom (36:12 - 1:15:02): Predictions on the ongoing tensions between Shin and Kanki. And we look ahead to Riboku vs Kanki. My Hero Academia (1:15:03 - 1:44:17): Our thoughts on My Hero Academia and our review of the final arc so far.