#shueisha — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #shueisha, aggregated by home.social.
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https://www.wacoca.com/videos/3216306/ske48/ 【2026/5/12 Thu. 19:00～＃江籠裕奈】デジタル写真集「Noble Style」オンラインサイン会 #1900江籠裕奈デジタル写真集Noble #shueisha #shupure #SKE48 #SKE48TeamKII #Styleオンラインサイン会 #THU #Vlog #WeeklyPlayboy #wpb #かわいい #グラビア #プレイボーイ #江籠裕奈 #美人 #美女 #週プレ #週刊プレイボーイ #集英社
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Antes de que el #anime se estrene los lectores de la revista Weekly Shonen Jump de #Shueisha deciden cuál es el personaje más popular del #manga #Kagurabachi. El resultado habla bien de la impresión dejada por esta popular serie :3. https://universo-nintendo.com.mx/2026/05/10/kagurabachi-cual-personaje-mas-popular-manga/
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#Shueisha anuncia oficialmente el #anime #Kagurabachi, el cual no solo tiene un póster y tráiler sino también actor para el papel principal y equipo de producción a cargo. Ah, por cierto, también tiene mes de estreno :3. https://universo-nintendo.com.mx/2026/04/27/kagurabachi-anime-trailer-mes-estreno-equipo/
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El #manga 2-nen B-gumi Yuusha Destroyers (Class 2-B Hero Destroyerz, en inglés) del creador de #Gintama y #Dandelion comienza en la revista Weekly Shonen Jumo de #Shueisha y no está de más darle un vistazo :3. https://universo-nintendo.com.mx/2026/04/19/class-2-b-hero-destroyerz-manga-gintama-historia/
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ICYMI: Crunchyroll Manga Gains Over 20 New Shueisha Titles This Month https://popgeeks.com/crunchyroll-manga-gains-over-20-new-shueisha-titles-this-month/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Crunchyroll #Manga #Shueisha #Anime #ComicBooks
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Crunchyroll Manga Gains Over 20 New Shueisha Titles This Month https://popgeeks.com/crunchyroll-manga-gains-over-20-new-shueisha-titles-this-month/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Crunchyroll #Manga #Shueisha #Anime #ComicBooks
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https://www.wacoca.com/life/?p=381108 【イソップ】のハンドケアに新作。手肌に光を宿すハンド セラムで自己肯定感もUP – ビューティニュース | SPUR #Aesop #beauty #beautynews #HandCare #Handokea #SHUEISHA #SPUR #ハンドケア #ボタニストボタニカルシャンプーモイスト
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https://www.wacoca.com/life/?p=380892 【クラランス】【NARS】大人の肌にちょうどいい、2026春ファンデーション【トム フォード ビューティ】 – 路地裏の美容天竺からこんにちは【SPURエディターの超私的気になりコスメ】 – ビューティ ##TOMFORDBEAUTY #beauty #Biyō #CLARINS #grooming #NARS #SHUEISHA #SPUR #ボタニストボタニカルシャンプーモイスト #美容
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https://www.wacoca.com/news/?p=2801714 キャサリン皇太子妃、史上初の女性カンタベリー大主教の就任式にウィリアム皇太子とともに出席。シックな装いに際立つ、大きなつば広ハットが注目の的に！ – セレブニュース | SPUR ##CelebrityNews #Ahamo #celebrity culture(セレブリティ・カルチャー) #culture #fashion #FASHION NEWS(ファッションニュース) #Princess Catherine(キャサリン妃) #PrinceWilliam #Shueisha #SPUR #WorldNews
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https://www.wacoca.com/media/?p=608876 キャメロン・ディアスとキアヌ・リーブスが約30年ぶりに共演！ 映画『アウトカム』予告編が公開され、「時間を感じさせない美しさ」にファン歓喜 – セレブニュース | SPUR #Cameron Diaz(キャメロン・ディアス) #celebrity culture(セレブリティ・カルチャー) #CELEBRITY NEWS(セレブニュース) #CULTURE #fashion #film #Keanu Reeves(キアヌ・リーヴス) #movie #SHUEISHA #SPUR #映画 #高嶺の花
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https://www.wacoca.com/life/?p=361381 【ボディケア】汗・匂い対策からむくみ解消まで！ 夏の肌に自信をくれる、注目アイテム6選 – ビューティトピックス | SPUR #Aesop #beauty #BEAUTY TOPICS(ビューティトピックス) #BIRKENSTOCK(ビルケンシュトック) #FootCare #johnmastersorganics #SHIRO #SHUEISHA #SPUR #SPUR recommends #フットケア #ボタニストボタニカルシャンプーモイスト
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Yu-Gi-Oh Destiny Board Traveler & World Championship Tournament 2004 with David (Anime Field Guide)
Some duels are fought with cards. Some are fought with dice. And then some… are fought with the Game Boy Advance’s eternal struggle against decent menu navigation. This week on Play Comics, we’re shuffling up and drawing into Yu-Gi-Oh! Destiny Board Traveler and World Championship Tournament 2004, two games that take everything we love about Yu-Gi-Oh!, monsters, strategy, friendship laser beams, and cram it into a tiny cartridge that smells faintly of childhood and battery corrosion.
Joining Chris for this summoning circle of digital nostalgia is David from Anime Field Guide, who brings the kind of anime expertise that makes you question whether your life points can drop below zero if you cringe too hard at English dub dialogue. Together, they’ll explore why these particular duels feel like being trapped in a friendship-branded fever dream, complete with turn-based confusion and more “draw phase” puns than anyone asked for.
So grab your duel disk, blow into that GBA cartridge like it owes you rent, and prepare to enter a world where forbidden memories and confusing mechanics go hand-in-hand. It’s the heart of the cards… but maybe also a faint cry for a player’s guide.
Learn such things as:
- Whether the heart of the cards can survive low battery warnings.
- The surprising crossover between duel monsters and chaos theory.
- Why Destiny Board Traveler isn’t just Monopoly with a Yu-Gi-Oh skin.
- And so much more!
You can find David on BlueSky @anifieldguide.bsky.social, Threads @anifieldguide, and of course hear him over at Anime Field Guide.
If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.
If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store.
Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.
You can find Play Comics @playcomics.bsky.social on Bluesky, @playcomicspodcast on Threads, @playcomics on YouTube, or the Play Comics website.
If you want to hear Chris talk with Karrington Martin about the lessons we learned from children’s media and how crazy it is that we’re supposed to just forget about that now that we’re adults, then Sugar, Spite, and Everything is Fine is probably something you should check out.
A big thanks to The Monsters that Made Us and Worst Collection Ever for the promos today.
Intro/Outro Music by Backing Track, who is just sitting there waiting for me to spring the traps.
#DarkMagicianGirl #DavidAnimeFieldGuide #GameBoyAdvance #Grandpa #JoeyWheeler #Kaibaman #Konami #MaiValentine #MaximillionPegasus #Mokuba #RebeccaHawkins #SetoKaiba #Shueisha #VizMedia #YamiBakura #YamiYugi #YugiMutou -
One Piece Grand Battle with Janine Juliette (D’ohmance Dawn)
Set sail, button-mashers, because this time Play Comics is diving face-first into One Piece: Grand Battle! that PS2 and GameCube special where early Water 7-era drama gets smooshed into a chaos-filled arena and told to play nice. Expect stretchy punches, loud special attacks, and exactly the kind of character balance you’d expect from a game that assumes “pirate” and “fair” don’t belong in the same sentence. We’re talking Straw Hats, shipyards, and the eternal question: “Is this actually good, or do I just really like yelling ‘Gum-Gum’ every five seconds?”
Joining Chris on this voyage is Janine Juliette from D’ohmance Dawn, here to bring big-brain One Piece insight and just the right amount of gremlin energy to keep things interesting. Janine’s got thoughts on how this slice of the anime translates into a brawler, where the game nails the Straw Hats’ personalities, and where it feels like someone skimmed the wiki five minutes before coding a super move. If you’ve ever wondered what happens when a deeply thoughtful One Piece fan is forced to reckon with PS2-era anime jank, this is absolutely your kind of chaos.
So grab your controller, your favorite questionable snack, and maybe a backup controller for when Luffy’s rubber nonsense finally pushes you over the edge. We’re digging into how far the game actually gets into the story, why some characters feel terrifying and others feel like they snuck in as a joke, and whether this one belongs on your “must-play” shelf or your “fondly mock from a distance” list. Treasure, friendship, and highly unsafe maritime workplace practices await. Let’s see if Grand Battle! can keep its ship together.
Learn such things as:
- Which Straw Hat shines in an arena brawler and which one feels like they forgot to finish the move set?
- Is this game might secretly be more fun as a chaotic couch brawler than as a serious competitive fighter?
- How would the internet have broken if people could have known what was to come for these characters?
- And so much more!
You can find Janine on BlueSky @janinejuliet.bsky.social and of course her podcasts D’ohMance Dawn and Wrestle Girlies.
If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.
If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store.
Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.
You can find Play Comics @playcomics.bsky.social on Bluesky, @playcomicspodcast on Threads, @playcomics on YouTube or the Play Comics website.
If you want to hear Chris talk with Karrington Martin about the lessons we learned from children’s media and how crazy it is that we’re supposed to just forget about that now that we’re adults, then is probably something you should check out.
A big thanks to I am Your Target Demographic and Longbox Review for the promos today.
Intro/Outro Music by Backing Track, who probably has a stuffed Chopper.
#Aokiji #Arlong #Bandai #Buggy #DonKrieg #DraculeMihawk #Enel #Foxy #Gamecube #Ganbarion #JanineJuliette #JumpComics #Kuro #MonkeyDLuffy #Mr2BonClay #Nami #NicoRobin #PS2 #RoronoaZoro #Sanji #Shanks #Shueisha #SirCrocodile #Smoker #TonyTonyChopper #Usopp -
DMCA Subpoenas Can’t Be Used for Foreign Piracy Lawsuits, Court Rules
https://torrentfreak.com/dmca-subpoenas-cant-be-used-for-foreign-piracy-lawsuits-court-rules/
#DMCAsubpoena #Anti-Piracy #mangajikan #Shueisha #DMCA
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https://www.moezine.com/?p=2269663 【小田切ヒロ】2026年春はヌードピンク系リップがトレンド！ ヒロさんのおすすめ４選 – 小田切ヒロの”ファ美ュラス”への道 | SPUR ヒロ 2026年もよろしくお願いします。新年最初にお届けするのはリップメイクアップの最旬事情。いつだって視線を集める唇は〝おしゃべり〟と同じくらいその人を物語る饒舌なパーツ。だからこそ、インテンスに仕上げてしゃれ感を見せ #beauty #Mac #shueisha #SPUR #SPURmagazine #THREE #白石麻衣 #美容
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El #manga Exorcist no Kiyoshi-kun (Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi) estará disponible en #Mexico. Conoce qué ofrece esta historia, la cual es publicada en Japón por la editorial #Shueisha :3. https://universo-nintendo.com.mx/2026/01/24/exorcist-no-kiyoshi-kun-manga-llegara-mexico/
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Infortunadamente, el #manga Tomoshibi no Oteru (alias Otr of the Flame) terminó antes de tiempo pero aún queda por conocer su epílogo. Otra serie cancelada por #Shueisha, y la segunda del mismo autor que sufre el mismo destino :/. https://universo-nintendo.com.mx/2026/01/20/otr-of-the-flame-manga-termina-pero-epilogo/
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#KyotoAnimation, el estudio de City the Animation, #KobayashisanChinoMaidDragon y #VioletEvergarden, hará el #anime de #RURIDRAGON. Entérate de los primeros detalles de la primera serie de #Shueisha en que trabajará #KyoAni en su historia :3. https://universo-nintendo.com.mx/2025/12/28/ruri-dragon-anime-estudio-kobayashi-san-violet-evergarden/
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#KyotoAnimation, el estudio de City the Animation, #KobayashisanChinoMaidDragon y #VioletEvergarden, hará el #anime de #RURIDRAGON. Entérate de los primeros detalles de la primera serie de #Shueisha en que trabajará #KyoAni en su historia :3. https://universo-nintendo.com.mx/2025/12/28/ruri-dragon-anime-estudio-kobayashi-san-violet-evergarden/
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#KyotoAnimation, el estudio de City the Animation, #KobayashisanChinoMaidDragon y #VioletEvergarden, hará el #anime de #RURIDRAGON. Entérate de los primeros detalles de la primera serie de #Shueisha en que trabajará #KyoAni en su historia :3. https://universo-nintendo.com.mx/2025/12/28/ruri-dragon-anime-estudio-kobayashi-san-violet-evergarden/
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La editorial #Shueisha anunció el mes de estreno del #anime #Marriagetoxin, además de que compartió un póster, tráiler y más información :3. https://universo-nintendo.com.mx/2025/12/16/marriagetoxin-mes-estreno-trailer-nuevos-detalles/
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Naruto Ultimate Ninja with Cory Byrd (Byrds Eye View Comics)
Grab your custom jutsu hand seals and prepare to feel a crushing sense of inadequacy when comparing your reaction time to a ninja’s because we’re diving shadow clone deep into the first Naruto Ultimate Ninja game on PlayStation 2! This week we’re channeling our inner shinobi to explore how Bandai Namco took Masashi Kishimoto’s legendary manga about a determined orange-suited underdog and transformed it into a frantic button-mashing tournament fighter that somehow convinced an entire generation of fans that they could recreate iconic Naruto moments if they just hit the attack button fast enough and screamed at their TV harder than Naruto himself.
Released during the golden age of anime-to-console adaptations, the Naruto Ultimate Ninja games became the de facto way fans could live out their ninja fantasies—assuming your ninja fantasy involves janky camera angles, occasionally unresponsive inputs, and the kind of special effect visual soup that makes you wonder if you’re actually watching a jutsu or if your PS2 is just having a mild aneurysm. With fighters pulled straight from the Hidden Leaf Village and beyond, these games proved that sometimes the best way to honor a beloved manga is to give players the chance to make Naruto fight characters he had absolutely no reason to fight (looking at you, random filler villains).
This episode, we’re absolutely stoked to welcome Cory Byrd from Byrds Eye View Comics—a fellow enthusiast of all things sequential art and gaming who can probably explain why Naruto’s popularity transcended manga, anime, AND video games with the kind of clarity that makes marketing departments weep with envy. Together, we’ll investigate whether these games managed to capture the heart, humor, and hyperkinetic energy of Kishimoto’s creation, or if they just left us face-first in the dirt like Naruto at the beginning of the series.
So synchronize your chakra, practice your most devastating combo, and prepare for an episode that’s guaranteed to be more chaotic than a Sand Village invasion and infinitely more entertaining than watching filler arcs about onigiri eating contests.
Learn such things as:
- Can a game truly capture the experience of having ninjas solve political problems through friendship when there’s no friendship stat on the screen?
- How many ninja village headbands would it take to actually run an economy, or is that question unanswerable because the series never bothered explaining it?
- Is it more important for characters in a fighter to be balanced or accurate?
- And so much more!
You can find Cory on Instagram @ByrdsEyeOfficial, the Byrds Eye View Comics Facebook page, and of course his website Byrds Eyes View Comics.
If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.
If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store.
Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.
You can find Play Comics @playcomics.bsky.social on Bluesky, @playcomicspodcast on Threads, @playcomics on YouTube or the Play Comics website.
A big thanks to Gender Pop and the Glitterjaw Queer Podcast Collective for the promos today.
Intro/Outro Music by Backing Track, who did something really cool but nobody saw it. You know, because of the whole being a ninja thing.
#CoryByrd #CyberConnect2 #Gaara #Haku #HinataHyūga #KakashiHatake #NamcoBanddaiGames #NarutoUzumaki #NejiHyūga #Orochimaru #PS2 #RockLee #SakuraHaruno #SasukeUchiha #ShikamaruNara #Shueisha #VizMedia #ZabuzaMomochi
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📰 "AI is just stealing with extra steps": Japanese manga publisher Shueisha issues statement against OpenAI — #DailyDot
Japan’s largest publishing house takes a stand against #AI in a recent statement published on its website.
Japanese manga publisher #Shueisha has publicly condemned #OpenAI after a wave of AI-generated videos appeared to mimic iconic anime and manga works without consent.
https://www.dailydot.com/entertainment/shueisha-openai-ai-copyright-statement/
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Cloudflare Says Piracy Liability Ruling Has Global Implications; Publishers Disagree
#Cloudflare #Shogakukan #Lawsuits #Kadokawa #Kodansha #Shueisha #japan #Manga
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Yu-Gi-Oh Dungeon Dice Monsters with Marcus Stewart (Game Informer)
Crack open your Millennium Puzzle and prepare to roll some incredibly awkward polygonal dice, because this week on Play Comics we’re delving into one of the most bewildering spin-offs to ever stumble out of the Yu-Gi-Oh universe! We’re talking about Yu-Gi-Oh Dungeon Dice Monsters for the Game Boy Advance—a game so determined to turn Kazuki Takahashi’s trading card phenomenon into a dungeon crawler that it somehow forgot to ask if it should.
Joining us for this delightfully confusing journey through Dungeon Dice Monsters is none other than Marcus Stewart from Game Informer, who’s armed with the kind of gaming knowledge that only comes from actually playing this thing. Whether he’s here to defend it, destroy it, or just figure out what the heck is happening on a 240p screen, we’re thrilled to have his voice in the mix as we attempt to understand why anyone thought “card game meets roguelike dice mechanics” was the logical next step for the King of Games.
So lock your monsters in the vault, prepare your dice for rolling, and get ready for an episode that’s far less about card strategy and far more about watching two people gradually lose their minds over a game that inhabits some kind of strange liminal space between “ambitious experiment” and “fever dream at a game arcade.” The dice have been cast. The dungeon awaits. Our sanity? Well, that’s negotiable.
Learn such things as:
- Does the dice-rolling mechanic create engaging strategic depth or just mask random chaos behind a veneer of math?
- Does the actual Dungeon Dice Monsters storyline tie-in justify the existence of this video game adaptation at all?
- Does the very small mention of what this game actually is give young gamers their first instance of bait and switch marketing?
- And so much more!
You can find Marcus over at Game Informer in either digital or physical format or on BlueSky @marcusstewart7
If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.
If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store.
Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.
You can find Play Comics @playcomics.bsky.social on Bluesky.
A big thanks to Piecing it Together and “Fun” & Games for the promos today.
Intro/Outro Music by Backing Track, who rolls dice to see which dice he should roll.
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📬 Cloudflare muss 3,2 Millionen Dollar Schadenersatz bezahlen
#Rechtssachen #Warez #Anime #Cloudflare #Kadokawa #Kodansha #OnePiece #Shogakukan #Shueisha https://sc.tarnkappe.info/f24d66 -
Tokyo Court Finds Cloudflare Liable For Manga Piracy in Long-Running Lawsuit
#Cloudflare #Shogakukan #Lawsuits #Kadokawa #Kodansha #Shueisha #japan #Manga
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Pirate Site Op Wants Shueisha to File a U.S. Lawsuit in 180 Days or Restore their Privacy
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Studio Ghibli e le principali case editrici di manga contro Sora 2 di OpenAI
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Ultimate Muscle The Kinnikuman Legacy The Path of the Superhero & Legends vs New Generation with SerpyMatt
Strap on your meat-based wrestling tights and oil up those biceps because Play Comics is about to suplex you straight into the absurdly wonderful world of Kinnikuman! This week we’re tag-teaming not one, but TWO Ultimate Muscle games—The Path of the Superhero for GameCube and Legends vs New Generation for Game Boy Advance. That’s right, we’re going double or nothing like a Choujin who forgot leg day exists and decided to compensate with twice the spandex.
These games, spawned from the legendary Kinnikuman manga and anime, brought us a universe where wrestling isn’t just a sport—it’s the entire basis of intergalactic civilization, which honestly makes about as much sense as any other comic book logic we’ve tackled on this show. Whether you’re commanding Kid Muscle through his heroic quest to not embarrass his legendary father or settling the age-old debate of who would win between old-school wrestlers and the new generation (spoiler: everyone’s finishing move is magnificently ridiculous), we’ve got you covered.
Joining us for this muscle-bound mayhem is none other than SerpyMatt, who hasn’t quite gotten around to launching his own podcast yet—but he’s told me the concept and folks, when it finally drops, you’re going to absolutely love it. Assuming he ever stops procrastinating long enough to record episode one, that is.
So crack your knuckles, practice your most intimidating wrestler growl, and prepare for an episode that’s guaranteed to have more body slams than a physics textbook thrown at a trampoline factory. It’s time to find out if these games captured the magnificent weirdness of their source material or if they just left us feeling like we got hit with the Kinniku Buster of disappointment.
Learn such things as:
- What happens when you give character designers unlimited freedom and a fever dream?
- What’s the exchange rate between friendship power and actual wrestling skill?
- Should we be concerned that intergalactic peace depends entirely on entertainment wrestling?
- And so much more!
You can find SerpyMatt on BlueSky @serpymatt.bsky.social.
If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.
If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store.
Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.
You can find Play Comics @playcomics.bsky.social on Bluesky, @playcomicscaston Twitter and in the Play Comics Podcast Fan Groupon Facebook.
A big thanks to the Byrds Eye View Comics and The Last Comic Shop for the promos today.
Intro/Outro Music by Backing Track, whose wrestling gimmick here would probably be something based around weaponizing VHS tapes.
#AKICorporation #Bandai #BaronMaximilian #BoneCold #BrockenJr #Buffaloman #Checkmate #Chihuahuaman #Coconutman #CrescentHearts #Dazzle #Dialbolic #DikDikVanDik #ElKaerun #Eskara #Forkolossus #GameBoyAdvance #Gamecube #Hanzo #Hydrazoa #Jeager #JumpComics #KevinMask #KidMuscle #KingMuscle #Pandaman #Pumpinator #Ramenman #RoadRage #RobinMask #SerpyMatt #Shueisha #ShunDa #Skullduggery #Sunshine #TerryKenyon #Terryman #TheNinja #Tyrannoclaw #Ultimanoid #WallyTusket #Warsman #Weaponman #Yeti
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Digimon Digital Card Battle with Sahoni (Bramble Wolf Games)
Digivolve your PlayStation controllers and prepare to shuffle your way through the most wonderfully confused identity crisis in gaming history, because this week on Play Comics we’re tapping into the pixelated card-battling chaos that is Digimon Digital Card Battle for the PS1! Released in 2001 when every entertainment franchise on Earth was racing to cash in on the trading card game gold rush sparked by Pokémon and Yu-Gi-Oh, Bandai decided their digital monsters deserved a piece of that sweet, sweet card-slinging action. The twist? They didn’t just adapt the existing Digimon trading card game – oh no, that would be far too simple. Instead, they created an entirely NEW card game exclusively for this PS1 title, because apparently someone at BEC thought “You know what kids collecting physical cards really need? A completely different set of rules that only exists in digital form!”
What emerged was a gloriously polygonal fever dream where Veemon, Hawkmon, and Armadillomon became your partners in a card-battling odyssey through Battle Arenas, all while you sacrifice Digimon from your hand like some kind of digital monster cult leader gathering “DP” (Digivolve Points, not whatever your brain just went to) to evolve your creatures into increasingly ridiculous forms. It’s rock-paper-scissors meets card game mechanics meets “please stop making me grind the same battles 300 times to unlock the secret final boss.”
Joining us for this digivolved discussion is the phenomenally talented Sahoni from Bramble Wolf Games! When they’re not busy crafting games that actually mean something or channeling their Queer and Indigenous (ᏣᎳᎩᏱ ᏕᏣᏓᏂᎸᎩ) storytelling magic into unforgettable tabletop experiences, Sahoni brings their narrative expertise to help us understand how this PS1 oddity somehow convinced an entire generation that carrying around 30 digital cards was infinitely more practical than the hundreds of physical ones weighing down their backpacks.
So crack open that PS1 jewel case, practice your best “I’m going to pretend I understand these Support Card effects” face, and prepare for an episode more entertaining than watching the same Digimon battle animation for the 47th time. We’ll explore whether this card-game-that-never-was actually honored the spirit of the Digimon franchise, or if it just left us wondering why we couldn’t trade our digital cards with friends like we could in literally every other TCG game of the era!
Learn such things as:
- If watching the same PS1-era polygonal battle animations 300+ times builds character or just destroys your will to live?
- Why the game forces you to read tiny PS1-resolution text on cards and whether that counts as an accessibility nightmare or just “authentic retro experience”
- Why creating a brand-new trading card game that only exists in one video game is either pure genius or complete madness (spoiler: probably both)
- And so much more!
You can find Sahoni on Bramble Wolf Games, on Tumbler @sahonithereadwolf, or on BlueSky @Sahoni.
If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.
If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store.
Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.
You can find Play Comics @playcomics.bsky.social on Bluesky, and in the Play Comics Podcast Fan Group on Facebook.
A big thanks to The Monitor Tapes and Nerd Best Friends for the promos today.
Intro/Outro Music by Backing Track, who might actually be the champion my friend.
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Yu-Gi-Oh Reshef of Destruction with Max Golden (The Pop Quiz Podcast)
Grab your duel disk and prepare for the ultimate test of patience, because this week on Play Comics we’re shuffling into the notoriously punishing world of Yu-Gi-Oh! Reshef of Destruction for Game Boy Advance! This 2003 Konami creation took the beloved manga and anime franchise and somehow managed to turn it into a gaming experience more brutal than being sent to the Shadow Realm by a pack of rare holographic cards.
Based on the wildly popular Yu-Gi-Oh series that taught an entire generation that the real power of friendship is having really expensive cards, Reshef of Destruction promised an epic adventure featuring Yugi, Joey, and the gang facing off against an ancient evil. What it delivered was a grinding experience so merciless that even seasoned duelists found themselves questioning their life choices faster than you can say “Exodia, obliterate!”
Joining us for this masochistic journey through the world of impossibly difficult AI opponents and deck-building restrictions is the absolutely delightful Max Golden from The Pop Quiz Podcast. When he’s not busy creating the most creative trivia games known to humanity or making movie nights infinitely more entertaining, Max brings his pop culture expertise to help us understand how this handheld nightmare somehow spawned from one of the most beloved franchises in entertainment history.
So dust off that Game Boy Advance, practice your most dramatic card-playing poses, and prepare for an episode that’s guaranteed to be more satisfying than finally beating that one opponent who’s been destroying your carefully crafted deck for the past three hours. We’ll explore whether this digital duel was faithful to its source material, or if it just left us feeling like we’d been trapped in our own personal tournament from Hell.
Learn such things as:
- Why does grinding for cards feel more exhausting than actually working a real job?
- What happens when the AI cheats harder than a politician during election season?
- How many times can you fight Yugi before you start questioning your sanity?
- And so much more!
You can find Max as part of The Pop Quiz Podcast.
If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.
If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store.
Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.
You can find Play Comics @playcomics.bsky.social on Bluesky, @playcomicscaston Twitter and in the Play Comics Podcast Fan Groupon Facebook.
A big thanks to D’OhMance Dawn and the Glitterjaw Podcast Collective for the promos today.
Intro/Outro Music by Backing Track, who was wearing a strangely evil smile when telling me to meet up in the shadow realm……
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Dragon Ball Z Budokai with Doc Issues (Capes on the Couch)
Gather around power-level enthusiasts and tournament fighters, because this week on Play Comics we’re charging up our ki and diving headfirst into the legendary slugfest that is Dragon Ball Z: Budokai for PS2 and GameCube. That’s right, we’re looking at the 2002 fighting game that asked the burning question “What if we took the first three arcs of Dragon Ball Z and squeezed them into a button-mashing experience that makes even the most patient Z-Fighter want to go Super Saiyan with frustration?”
Developed by Dimps and published by Infogrames (back when they still existed and weren’t just a nostalgic memory floating in gaming’s hyperbolic time chamber), this cel-shaded beatdown promised to let players experience everything from Raditz’s surprise family reunion to Cell’s perfectionist power trip. What it delivered was a fighting system so basic that even Yamcha could probably figure it out, paired with enough beam struggles to make your thumbs file for workers’ compensation.
Joining us for this Saiyan-sized discussion is the one and only Doc Issues from Capes on the Couch, because when you need someone to analyze the psychological implications of repeatedly punching people until they explode into light particles you call a professional. Together we’ll explore how this game managed to compress roughly 100 episodes of screaming, power-ups, and “next time on Dragon Ball Z” frustrating end caps into a tournament format that somehow made sense.
So grab your orange gi, practice your best Kamehameha stance, and prepare for an episode that’s over 9000 times more entertaining than waiting five episodes for Goku to finish charging his spirit bomb. Will this manga-to-game adaptation achieve its final form? Or will it get sent to Other World faster than you can say “Kakarot”? Time to find out if this Z-Fighter deserves a senzu bean or a one-way ticket to Snake Way!
Learn such things as:
- What happens when you try to balance Goku’s overwhelming power level against characters who can barely survive a Saibaman encounter?
- Is there a psychological explanation for why watching grown men scream for five minutes while powering up never gets old?
- What’s the secret to making players care about story mode when everyone already knows Goku’s going to win everything anyway?
- And so much more!
You can find Doc @CapesOnTheCouch on BlueSky, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and of course the Capes on the Couch website.
If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.
If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store.
Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.
You can find Play Comics @playcomics.bsky.social on Bluesky, @playcomicscaston Twitter and in the Play Comics Podcast Fan Groupon Facebook.
A big thanks to Nerd Best Friends and Super Switch Club for the promos today.
Intro/Outro Music by Backing Track, who still hasn’t reached his final form.
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