Episode 169: Shonen Manga II: One Piece, Naruto, My Hero Academia, and Frieren: Beyond Journey's End

Between the Gutters Podcast

Last year, we did an episode on shonen manga that proved to be one of our most popular episodes, so here we are again with a roundup of the first volumes of four more prominent shonen series: One Piece, Naruto, My Hero Academia, and Frieren: Beyond Journey's End. One Piece and Naruto are two of the biggest of all time. My Hero is one of the hottest properties of current times, and as a comics podcast that's covered a ton of superhero comics, it made sense to check this one out. Frieren is a newer fantasy series that deserves all the attention and then some. Check out what we had to say about each of the first volumes of these popular series! Timestamps for book discussions: One Piece - 18:45 Naruto - 1:02:30 My Hero Academia - 1:58:45 Frieren: Beyond Journey's End - 2:32:55 Here are some related links that may be of interest. Episode 129 is the prior shonen manga episode we did: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5GKngeXLo0rEIFUKOwNk9J Here's a link to a playlist of all of our manga episodes thus far: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4xHx0IxWdV1iq4pVMlEzxc?si=6bbbc00de2564c26&nd=1 Last year, we did a yearlong readthrough of Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin by Yoshikazu Yasuhiko. Here's a playlist with all of those episodes: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3IEJYdVyNUan4qtqiDrLgv Here's the link to The Anime Waiting Room, the other podcast that Dru is on, which he mentions in this episode: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theanimewaitingroom/ Thanks again to Corey J. Beats for producing our theme music. Check out all of his music on various platforms here: linktr.ee/Coreyjbeats If you have any thoughts, comments, questions, or corrections, we're here. Feel free to hit us up on our socials, or email us! We have a Linktree here: linktr.ee/betweenthegutters