Trash Manga Friends

Five seconds was more than enough for us to decide the fate of Battle in 5 Seconds, a good ol' action manga where everyone gets wacky abilities and must fight to survive in the ultimate death game! Well, except there's not really any death. Or winning. Or losing. Confused? So were we... ~ 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. Each fortnight, our trio of Sean, Mike and Phil read the first two volumes (or equivalent) of a manga, webtoon, manhua or manhwa, analysing every little detail to discuss what's good, what's bad, and what's trash. And believe us, half a decade in, there's a lot of trash to discuss. So come listen to our book club slash neverending existential nightmare! ~ Follow us on social media! Links to all platforms on our site - https://trashmangafriends.carrd.co/ [https://trashmangafriends.carrd.co/] Sean, foreeeeveeeer host, is on Bluesky & Twitch - https://bsky.app/profile/slazo.bsky.social [https://bsky.app/profile/slazo.bsky.social] ~ https://www.twitch.tv/slazoking [https://www.twitch.tv/slazoking] Mike, speedrunner and streamer extraordinaire, is everywhere @Bersekrer - https://bersekrer.carrd.co/ [https://bersekrer.carrd.co/] Phil, arbiter of trash, is on Twitter @PheNaxKian - https://twitter.com/PheNaxKian [https://twitter.com/PheNaxKian] ~ Support the official release! Battle in 5 Seconds is licensed by Comikey - https://comikey.com/comics/battle-in-5-seconds-manga/33/ [https://comikey.com/comics/battle-in-5-seconds-manga/33/] Want to check out the anime? It's available via via Crunchyroll - https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/G8DHV7DG7/battle-game-in-5-seconds [https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/G8DHV7DG7/battle-game-in-5-seconds]

We're closing in on the end of Year 5, so let's get back to something we're all comfortable with. No, not more yanderes, we're returning to streaming with our lord and VTuber Saviour ✟ Messiah-chan! Was this a religious Live2D experience? Or should we have stuck with that one satanic VTuber Mike actually remembers... ~ 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. Each fortnight, our trio of Sean, Mike and Phil read the first two volumes (or equivalent) of a manga, webtoon, manhua or manhwa, analysing every little detail to discuss what's good, what's bad, and what's trash. And believe us, half a decade in, there's a lot of trash to discuss. So come listen to our book club slash neverending existential nightmare! ~ Follow us on social media! Links to all platforms on our site - https://trashmangafriends.carrd.co/ [https://trashmangafriends.carrd.co/] Sean, foreeeeveeeer host, is on Bluesky & Twitch - https://bsky.app/profile/slazo.bsky.social [https://bsky.app/profile/slazo.bsky.social] ~ https://www.twitch.tv/slazoking [https://www.twitch.tv/slazoking] Mike, speedrunner and streamer extraordinaire, is everywhere @Bersekrer - https://bersekrer.carrd.co/ [https://bersekrer.carrd.co/] Phil, arbiter of trash, is on Twitter @PheNaxKian - https://twitter.com/PheNaxKian [https://twitter.com/PheNaxKian]

Is it our fifth April Fools special already? For 2025, we've dived into the world of rate-ups and infinite currencies known as gacha games, and taken aim at one of the genre's bigger recent successes, Goddess of Victory: NIKKE! Was this an SSR pull? Or just another title we'll set to aut-burn? ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podcast To Play Trash Gacha With My Friends And Whoops There Goes My Life Savings But At Least I Have This Jpeg! Or The Trash Gacha Friends Podcast, for short. Each fortnight, our trio of Sean, Mike and Phil download and play a gacha game, analysing every little detail to discuss what's good, what's bad, and what's trash. And believe us, half a decade in, there's a lot of trash to discuss. So come listen to our book club slash neverending existential nightmare! ~ Follow us on social media! Links to all platforms on our site - https://trashmangafriends.carrd.co/ [https://trashmangafriends.carrd.co/] Sean, foreeeeveeeer host, is on Bluesky & Twitch - https://bsky.app/profile/slazo.bsky.social [https://bsky.app/profile/slazo.bsky.social] ~ https://www.twitch.tv/slazoking [https://www.twitch.tv/slazoking] Mike, speedrunner and streamer extraordinaire, is everywhere @Bersekrer - https://bersekrer.carrd.co/ [https://bersekrer.carrd.co/] Phil, arbiter of trash, is on Twitter @PheNaxKian - https://twitter.com/PheNaxKian [https://twitter.com/PheNaxKian] ~ Support the official release! Goddess of Victory: NIKKE is available to play on iOS, Android and Windows - https://nikke-en.com/ [https://nikke-en.com/]

The light at the end of the tunnel, it's healing vibes for our latest anime tie-in special, as we discuss The Too-Perfect Saint! Will we enjoy this fantasy series about escaping your abusers and being inundated with positive affirmations, or defy all odds and still find something to complain about? ~ 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. Each fortnight, our trio of Sean, Mike and Phil read the first two volumes (or equivalent) of a manga, webtoon, manhua or manhwa, analysing every little detail to discuss what's good, what's bad, and what's trash. And believe us, half a decade in, there's a lot of trash to discuss. So come listen to our book club slash neverending existential nightmare! ~ Follow us on social media! Links to all platforms on our site - https://trashmangafriends.carrd.co/ [https://trashmangafriends.carrd.co/] Sean, foreeeeveeeer host, is on Bluesky & Twitch - https://bsky.app/profile/slazo.bsky.social [https://bsky.app/profile/slazo.bsky.social] ~ https://www.twitch.tv/slazoking [https://www.twitch.tv/slazoking] Mike, speedrunner and streamer extraordinaire, is everywhere @Bersekrer - https://bersekrer.carrd.co/ [https://bersekrer.carrd.co/] Phil, arbiter of trash, is on Twitter @PheNaxKian - https://twitter.com/PheNaxKian [https://twitter.com/PheNaxKian] ~ Support the official release! The Too-Perfect Saint: Tossed Aside by My Finacé and Sold to Another Kingdom is licensed by Seven Seas Entertainment - https://sevenseasentertainment.com/series/the-too-perfect-saint-tossed-aside-by-my-fiance-and-sold-to-another-kingdom-manga/ [https://sevenseasentertainment.com/series/the-too-perfect-saint-tossed-aside-by-my-fiance-and-sold-to-another-kingdom-manga/] Want to check out the anime? It's available via via Crunchyroll - https://www.crunchyroll.com/ [https://www.crunchyroll.com/]

Fun's over, we're back to abject misery, as we cover Ijousha no Ai, aka An Abnormal Person's Love. And by abnormal, we mean yandere. And by yandere, we don't mean happy go lucky streaming antics or Yuno Gasai facial expressions, we mean oh god help us. Did we find joy in the darkness, or just yet more despair? ~ 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. Each fortnight, our trio of Sean, Mike and Phil read the first two volumes (or equivalent) of a manga, webtoon, manhua or manhwa, analysing every little detail to discuss what's good, what's bad, and what's trash. And believe us, half a decade in, there's a lot of trash to discuss. So come listen to our book club slash neverending existential nightmare! ~ Follow us on social media! Links to all platforms on our site - https://trashmangafriends.carrd.co/ [https://trashmangafriends.carrd.co/] Sean, foreeeeveeeer host, is on Bluesky & Twitch - https://bsky.app/profile/slazo.bsky.social [https://bsky.app/profile/slazo.bsky.social] ~ https://www.twitch.tv/slazoking [https://www.twitch.tv/slazoking] Mike, speedrunner and streamer extraordinaire, is everywhere @Bersekrer - https://bersekrer.carrd.co/ [https://bersekrer.carrd.co/] Phil, arbiter of trash, is on Twitter @PheNaxKian - https://twitter.com/PheNaxKian [https://twitter.com/PheNaxKian]