Manga gekkabijin raw

Sometimes manga is sexy. Sometimes, it’s “sexy.” And sometimes, just sometimes, it’s RaW Hero Volume 1. This episode and these show notes are extremely NSFW.

This Episode:00:00 RaW Hero Vol 1, by Akira Hiramoto54:54 THE BREAK!55:20 Q&A: Do manga creators get influenced by Western comics creators?1:09:00 Shout-outs!

02:00 [Deb:] I actually meant it was “wrapped for your PROTECTION.” Oh well. In case you don’t know, a lot of manga published in N. America that is kind of… well, not appropriate for the kiddies to flip through at the bookstore come shrink-wrapped. RaW Hero is one such manga.

Lastly, in reading RAW HERO, I’m reminded of the mandate that for any art to be vibrant, the boundaries must be pushed, broken, redrawn, and repeat. Even try-and-true old-skool shounen-fighting formula like DRAGONBAL and others, new titles are ever bucking and pounding against the old gate, everything from art to story to paneling to sound effect to the visual grammar, (a few recently popular examples: (your) DANDADAN, KAIJU #8, JUJUTSU KAISEN, CHAINSAW MAN, but also DOROHEDORO, ATTACK ON TITAN, DEMON SLAYER, ONE PUNCH MAN, and the surreal BIBLIOMANIA, etc). Often, the ones at that pushy vanguard are the trash manga… and by that extension and at the very tip (no pun intended), ero-manga.

Agree with BaccaB that this episode was really fun. I think the choice of Raw Hero forced the four of you into a direct discussion of the topics you skirted around in the Dandadan episode. It’s great that such a “trashy” manga can engender such a serious discussion.