#105 Appearance of the Yellow Dragon! (Ft. Sakaki from Weekly Shougakukan Edition)

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[00:00:28] Welcome to this episode of Shonen Flop where we talk about manga, usually in shonen jump that didn't make it big. I'm David. I'm Jordan. Next week we're going to be getting dirty as we're covering Muddy.

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[00:00:45] But this week we're talking about Appearance of the Yellow Dragon and we are joined by our guest today Sakaki. Sakaki, thank you so much for joining us. Hey, no problem. It's great to be here. Yo. Yo. Yo MTV raps. Asakura. Yeah, I remember that guy.

[00:01:02] Sakaki, do you mind telling the audience a little bit about yourself? Yeah, sure. I translate. You don't have to if you don't want to. I'm sorry, my ADHD brain. What? Sorry, I wasn't paying attention.

[00:01:16] So I used to translate manga. Nowadays I've kind of transitioned over into just kind of tweeting about it because it's much less work. The translator to tweet pipeline. I love it.

[00:01:25] Yeah. So and I translate this. So it's funny because every we had a couple of manga that you wanted me to be on for and I translated all of them. So I don't know how much of that was on

[00:01:36] purpose or if you just kind of looked up to see the stuff I've done and were like, oh, he could be on these or if it just happened that each one you just picked and I translated them.

[00:01:45] Maxie B who picks the series that we cover is a legend, so I would not be surprised. Oh, OK. Yeah. Maxie and I go way back. Yeah, Maxie, I guess just knew. So we're excited to talk about this.

[00:01:56] So what made you want to translate this series? I don't remember. It was a very, it was a very long time ago. I think it was just because the art kind of captured my attention.

[00:02:06] Oh, OK. The art is it's interesting and we'll definitely get into that. But before that, why don't we actually hear about the deal with this manga? So let's get into the manga details. Yeah. Jordan, take it away.

[00:02:19] All right. So this is Appearance of the Yellow Dragon written by Mitsuhisa Tamura. Notable people they were an assistant for is Yohei Sakai of Dinosaur King. Is Dinosaur King like that Pokemon ripoff except with dinosaurs? Yeah, that sounds about right. Yeah. And Yuki Miyoshi of Samurai

[00:02:37] Showdown, which is, I believe, an old fighting game. Notable people they had as an assistant was Masanori Yoshida of Tokyo Kido Elevator Girl. Never heard of it. Sounds like a manga about elevators. It's got all ups and downs.

[00:02:54] Oh, my God. David with the Zingers and Chiyo Kenmotsu of Umisaki Lilac. Like the flower? They have flowers in Japan, Jordan. Do they? Yeah. Let me tell you about the Sakura thing. Anyway, Bakugyaman, which I guess is stupid

[00:03:12] Pokemon from 2006 to 2007, five volumes, weekly Shonen Sunday. Apparently had a 51 episode anime, so I guess that is not flop eligible. Yeah. All these mangaka that he had as assistants actually were in Shonen Sunday. So Yoshida

[00:03:31] did this series called Ifrit. I don't remember how long it ran. And Chiyo Kenmotsu did a series of... It was about a doctor. I guess he was like a monster doctor. Jack Black. Black Jack, not Jack Black. I fucked up my own joke.

[00:03:46] And I read both of them, obviously, millions of years ago. And the other ironic thing is you were just about to get to this. Chiyo Kenmotsu also did a Pokemon manga. I think it was more of a shoujo-ish one. Interesting.

[00:03:59] And Bakugyaman is actually the brainchild of Kazuhiro Fujita, the guy behind Ushio and Tora. He wanted to kind of get into the ring with the Pokemon thing. So Bakugyaman was a media mix project. It had a manga, an anime, and all these things at the same time.

[00:04:15] Oh, so it was trying to be like Pokemon 2. Essentially. And Kazuhiro Fujita came up with the character designs. Actually, if you watch Bakugyaman, the anime, you'll see some of his yokai designs from Ushio and Tora. Oh, that's really cool.

[00:04:29] And obviously that didn't work out so well. It actually aired right after The Law of Ueki ended, its anime adaptation. Interesting. It was a show immediately after. I remember watching Ueki Raw on TV in Japan, downloading Torance back in the day.

[00:04:45] You can't fool us! You can't fool us! He was hitting that anime raw. I'll obviously get into this later. But yeah, so when I was watching Ueki, towards the end of the series, they had commercials for obviously the show that

[00:04:57] was going to take the time slot next and it was Bakugyaman. Ah, okay. I actually have a memory associated with this where I was doing like an anime marathon where we were going to watch all of Baccano in one shot. But we had people who were interested

[00:05:10] watch the first episode just to see if it was for them because, you know, it's kind of violent. And this one guy is like, yeah, man, I loved it. It was super awesome. And then it turned

[00:05:17] out that he had watched this show instead. That is my memory of this series. That sounds very different from Baccano. He wasn't a very smart person. Bam! Fuck you if you're listening. It's all right, Moe. You are an asshole.

[00:05:35] Jordan, can you keep telling us about his other works? Yeah, so he made a Pokemon manga as Sakaki just mentioned. Future Card Buddy Fight? Okay, buddy. That sounds like our subreddit, okaybuddycardfight. Which is apparently a Yu-Gi-Oh ripoff. Was. Rest in peace, it died.

[00:05:54] Yeah, rip. It had like six anime series, apparently. No, they're still going actually. But the card game itself has stopped being printed. That's what it said on Wikipedia. For 2020, they stopped printing new cards.

[00:06:06] This seems like it was a huge fad that died out and no one remembers it. Like just like the Macarena, I guess. Yeah, we got another Future Card Buddy Fight manga. I have to look this up. What the fuck is this? It's called Shin Buddy Fight.

[00:06:22] God, it's in the same universe as Shin Godzilla. Or Shin Megami Tensei. Yeah. And then Shin Myth Sensei Uraman, which seems like it was also a flop 2022-2023 weekly CoroCoro comic, which is apparently, as Maxie B says, a rare original work. Woof.

[00:06:43] Yeah, it's about an elementary school teacher who must protect his students from spooky urban myths. I want to read Hell Teacher Nuve, but we have Nuve at home. It's this. Oh my God. And then, Jordan, what's the publishing dealio with this guy?

[00:07:00] All right. So we're not talking about that shit right now. We are unfortunately talking about Appearance of the Yellow Dragon, which ran in Shonen Sunday Super. It was a monthly... The sequel to Shonen Sunday. Shin Shonen Sunday.

[00:07:15] It ran from July 2090 to June 2010. So almost a year. Not quite. It replaced Mirai no Football, which was apparently a flop. And the series that replaced this was Akumugari, which was also one volume and a flop. Series that started at the same time as it was Mushibugyo.

[00:07:35] Three volumes, little bit of a flop, but it got rebooted into a series that lasted 32 volumes and got an anime. So I guess that was Shin Mushibugyo. Shin Mushibugyo Super. Yes. Shin Mushibugyo Z Super Fighting Edition. Superhero.

[00:07:52] And Mahou no Iroha, which was also three volumes and a flop. A lot of flops here. But Appearance of the Yellow Dragon, 12 chapters, two volumes, which is weird to me because these chapters are not big. So these volumes have to be like tiny.

[00:08:09] Yeah, I was excited when I saw monthly, but then I was like, ooh, 25 page chapters. I love it. Yeah. But why don't we actually hear about what's going on in the plot summary? So ready? Enji is a mad scientist specializing in magic who wants a hot,

[00:08:21] big boobie girl named Moegi to like him. He decides to summon the great yellow dragon to impress her. But oh no, instead of a dragon, a little girl appears. Her name is Kiwidori and she is actually the dragon.

[00:08:32] She's got little lizard tails and instead of breathing fire, she vomits clear jelly that explodes. She soon meets new friends, Botan, Shishimaru, and some other kid in an attempt to make the kids think he's cool. And she summons a red dragon, which appears as a tiny little birdie

[00:08:47] that beats the shit out of him. It's at this point that Kiwidori reveals to Enji that he fucked up the incantation when summoning her and accidentally made himself subservient to her. Popcorn Jordan. A bunch of goofy shit happens, then an armor clad, down on her luck,

[00:09:01] young dragon hunter named Lucora shows up to take down Kiwidori. When Kiwidori easily defeats her, she demands that Lucora become her underling. When training, Kiwidori fires one of her dragon jelly cubes with a slingshot that sends Lucora and Enji flying right in front of a bear, where

[00:09:19] Enji's magic potion drops out of his pocket and makes the bear super strong. Enji jumps in front of her because she's only a kid, and the bear gets diarrhea from the potion and runs away.

[00:09:32] Lucora's clothes get ripped off by branches and in a shocking and incredibly thankful turn of events. For manga, Enji doesn't give a shit because she's a kid. Oh my god, thank you author

[00:09:45] for canonically making your main character who's a pervert not a pedophile. Why is that so fucking rare? Popcorn David. A bunch more goofy shit happens involving the obligatory hot springs peeping chapter, and then Kiwidori and Mogi are kidnapped by Genjo, the head scientist of Bolt Country,

[00:10:01] who considers himself Enji's rival even though Enji doesn't give a shit about him. Enji, Lucario, and the kids all get on a magic carpet powered by Kiwidori's dragon breath placed into glass balls called dragon balls. It seems at first that Kiwidori is under the

[00:10:28] control of the bad guy, when Genjo, who seems to actually be a pedo, tries to make her change into a swimsuit. Kiwidori blows up the entire city and reveals she was faking it the whole time.

[00:10:38] Ah, what a- how kawaii. A bunch of bad guys start plotting to take over the Bolt Empire now that Kiwidori broke it up but just kidding, the manga is over. I kinda liked that joke, I don't know.

[00:10:50] That's the thing that's- I mean we'll get into it. Let's talk about it. Sakaki, would you tell us about Enji and how he should get into the robot? So Enji's the main character, he's a cool magical scientist, a perv, you know. Well,

[00:11:04] Enji's a guy, like he's living in- He's just a guy, he's just a bro, you know? He has this girl that he really likes and he could be curing cancer or something but instead he's summoning dragons badly. I don't want to cure cancer,

[00:11:20] I want to summon dragons! I'm so glad you got that joke. That panel will truly live in the annals of history. One of the greatest panels ever. I'm so glad. I mean he's a bit of a pervert, like, and super- he does get emotional,

[00:11:38] that's one thing I guess I kinda like about him is that he wears his emotions on his sleeve. He's not overly difficult to figure out. Like he does have like a certain sense of responsibility as an adult towards protecting children, like I respect that. Like,

[00:11:53] it's one of the few positive qualities that Enji has. Yeah, not being a pedophile is a big plus. Not being a pedophile, trying to prevent children from getting killed, also kind of a plus. The big two of morality, not being a pedophile and not wanting to kill children.

[00:12:09] Yes, they go hand in hand! Yeah, I mean they do actually. But yeah, I just also think of Steins Gate with that I'm a cool scientist scene, whenever I say he's a cool magical scientist, I don't know if you guys have ever seen it?

[00:12:21] No. Actually, yeah, no. He does have a lot of Okabe vibes. It is one of, Jordan, it is one of the greatest moments of a character in an anime trying to speak English really badly. Jordan, just go watch it after, just look up cool scientist

[00:12:36] scene and you'll just- it's fucking ridiculous. I will, yeah. Now I've heard good things about Steins Gate. Yeah, it's very good. Yeah, I'd recommend it, yes. And then, um, anyway, uh, Jordan do you want to tell us about Mogi? Can you please use the

[00:12:48] terminology I use for consistency? Mogi? No, under my- under the notes. Oh, yes, yes, yes. So we got Mogi, uh, she has bazongas? Thank you. Yes. Yeah, that's, uh, that's the main thing about her. She's very nice and has giant boobs and that's her entire character.

[00:13:07] She's nice and has giant boobs and NG is primarily perverted towards her. Because you gotta again respect that he's a perv towards adult women. Yes, I think he's a perv towards explicitly one adult woman. That's true because he doesn't care about the other adult women in the series.

[00:13:26] He's kind of a stalker. Yeah. We almost redeemed him where he's like, okay, at least he's a one woman dude, but no, then we haven't- No! No, he's- he's a one woman dude in the creepiest possible way. Okay. He literally pays a guy to get photos

[00:13:44] of her at the beach. Yeah, he tries to turn into a snake because she has another snake that she lets crawl over her body and he's like,

[00:13:52] I want to do that too. Oh my God, I'm going to turn myself into a snake so I can touch her boobs. Yeah, it's- it's crazy. And speaking of, let's talk about Kimidori, the yellow dragon. She's

[00:14:02] very smug. She likes to live a simple life. She doesn't have a ton of personality traits. She slowly gains them at the end of the series. To be honest, she kind of exists a lot as like

[00:14:09] a prop rather than someone who actually has like their own agency in the series. Yeah, she's very blasé. She kind of seems like she doesn't really give a shit about anything really. She likes to eat a lot. I don't know what- what more can you say about Kimidori?

[00:14:24] Yeah. Sakaki, do you mind telling us about the last character, the dragon slayer? Lucora Radishumai... I don't know if I spelled it wrong on purpose or if it was a thing with when I translate. I don't know. I'm actually kind of glad I got that name.

[00:14:40] Anyway, um... I love having the translators on here. Like, this is like our third- the third person who's worked on the manga we've had on like in a row. Yeah, it's true. It's been great. The big three. Yeah. I'm like the bronze medal here.

[00:14:55] Oh, I didn't mean that! Goddamnit! No, no, no, I know you didn't mean that. She's a dragon slayer and yes, forehead. I love her forehead. More like five head. There's so many forehead jokes about her. Yes. It's just shiny. She's like cosplaying as Alphonse Elric. Yeah!

[00:15:13] So like there's that. The reveal of that is so fast though because it's like in another series, I feel like it would have taken a long time to get to that. That she- oh, it's this big

[00:15:22] hulking armor but she's actually like a little girl. Yeah, she feels like she should have been the protagonist in this maybe? But she's introduced basically in the back half of the series. Yeah. And I love you have typical Brooklyn.

[00:15:36] I just love how she's like a quintessential girl failure. Yeah, she is so much wants to be kind of like this like, I guess paragon of like, again, the protagonist but she just fails so hard at it mainly because I guess in another

[00:15:49] series with like lesser dragons that she probably wouldn't have been able to like do her job properly. But the first one she beats up with is Kimidori who's like, again, a prop. So

[00:15:59] it she's no chance. And yeah, I'm not sure what I guess her relationship with NG is kind of like the perverted older brother to her little sister or whatever who tries to keep him in line.

[00:16:11] Yeah, I just I couldn't tell if she was like a tsundere and then after just kind of gave up on that like being a thing. It seemed basically like he kind of viewed her as like a daughter figure

[00:16:20] almost like he he's like someone's like, hey, who's that? And she's like, we live together and they're like, you live together like a girlfriend. And he's like, she's more like my fucking daughter. There are like a few scenes where it's implied that Lucora is developing a

[00:16:35] crush on NG. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And he keeps seeing her naked. Yeah. And again, he don't care. Now that's fair, because again, he views her as more like a daughter figure.

[00:16:46] And speaking of girl failure, why don't we get into why it failed? Yeah, I will kick things off. So I think the big thing is this series has like kind of no plot, but not like in a way that like

[00:16:55] a gag manga has no plot. It just kind of feels like everything is pointless rather than it being fun, silly adventures. And then, of course, shotguns apply in the last three chapters as

[00:17:03] it just wants to do. But like the whole time I'm reading it, I'm just like, what is the point of any of these scenes? Yeah, because it's just not funny enough to get away with having nothing go

[00:17:12] on. I feel like this series is I would describe it as nothing. It's the Seinfeld. Yeah, except even though we already made that joke with SWAT's cover art. Well, SWAT is just truly about nothing in the worst way. This is like it's not even like the

[00:17:30] worst. It's just kind of like whatever. It's like extremely forgettable. It's like this series was bad, but it's like when you're asking me how why it failed, it's difficult because I'm just like

[00:17:41] the series left almost no impression on me. Like you must have loved writing this plot somewhere because it was super easy versus last episodes. You notice that I just said a bunch of goofy shit happened twice. Yeah, because nothing mattered. Like it's the reverse of a Gravity

[00:17:58] Boys where a bunch of goofy shit happens, but somehow it all matters. God, I love that series. Good series. No, it's just like whatever. This is a strong contender for series we most forgot

[00:18:09] we read. I feel like the biggest thing for this series is right. It had a weekly pacing in a monthly magazine. Yeah, but and the chapter still felt too long. It was like it was like

[00:18:20] Cyborg Grandpa G where it was like the joke had like 12 pages of jokes, but then he had to repeat the joke multiple times to fill the page count. Yeah, it feels like this should have been a weekly

[00:18:28] Shonen Sunday manga. I don't know if that would have helped it, but I feel like at least then it could have gotten through more because it sounds like tomorrow was trying to get around to a plot,

[00:18:39] but it kind of being nothing chapters once a month made it all that much easier to forget. At least if it was constantly in your face in a weekly magazine, I feel like it might have had a

[00:18:49] little bit more time to get through what you know, get through the character introductions. Basically, I completely agree. This series almost feels like a four coma comic stretched out. That was my suggestion. Actually, this should have been a four coma. It feels like a comic

[00:19:03] strip more than like a comic. Like imagining 25 pages of Charlie Brown every week. God damn it. Yeah. Fuck. Like with the same plot. Oh my God. This series is very short, but it still feels stretched out. Yeah. There's so many things where it's like I get it.

[00:19:23] I get the joke. I get the joke. He's a pervert and like there aren't that many jokes in this series. There are like a few jokes that they repeat over and over again. Exactly. I also think, though, that like Kimidori, yeah, it's just a boring character.

[00:19:38] And it's literally she's in the name of the title and she's perhaps like one of the least interesting characters in this series. But because of the nature of the series, she constantly has to be the center of attention. You know, it's she's kind of

[00:19:48] a catalyst for some stuff. She's a prop, I guess. Yeah, prop. That's a good way to describe it. I mean, let's see. Like there's a lot of stuff in here that like I expected to bother me that

[00:19:59] didn't bother me. Like I thought that NG being a total creep was going to bother me more than it did. It bothered me a bit at different points, but it wasn't like a super deal breaker. I mean,

[00:20:09] that's the problem ultimately. Like there's it's in that section where it's like, you know, there's a saying where like in art, you never want to have a C. You never want to get a C grade. A

[00:20:19] C grade is worse than an F. Yeah. Because a C grade is average and average is forgettable. I agree. I mean, this is below average, but it's like. This is not a good manga. This is not a good manga, but it's also like

[00:20:31] not blatantly horrible enough where I'm going to be like, like I remember how bad SWAT was. I don't remember necessarily the things that happened in SWAT, but I remember my feelings while I was reading SWAT. This is like Protect Me Shigemaru where it was just really bad and

[00:20:47] unfunny, but I honestly couldn't tell you what happened besides saying it was really bad and unfunny. Oh, except for the manga chapter. All the penis jokes. God. There's really nothing worse than a bad comedy. Yeah. And then Sakaki, is there anything you feel like was an issue in

[00:21:03] the series we haven't brought up yet? Like I said, I just feel like Tamura had this pacing issue with it where it was just kind of like this would have been fine at like 18 pages.

[00:21:13] Like if it ran in current Shonen Sunday where you can have a 10 page chapter, I feel like this would have been much better because like something like Sleepy Princess is like 11 pages a week. I feel like that would have done this wonders, honestly. Yeah,

[00:21:25] I can't say that it would have made this a successful series like Sleepy Princess and Demon's Castle, but I can say that. Yeah, I because it's a shame because like Tamura's art is like interesting. Like he definitely has like a battle manga vibe in a comedy thing,

[00:21:38] which I'm just like it's to me that's an odd choice. But hey, go off King. Go off. Like I mean, hey, I mean, I guess if he wanted to do something for himself and this is what he could

[00:21:50] come up with, then sure. But like you definitely are a person that should stick to action manga. Yeah, I mean, I think that's as we said, the page count is the thing that really

[00:21:59] fucked this series up. I kind of feel like this series and Killing Me should have like swapped. Oh yeah. Killing Me is a vampire romance or a vampire lesbian manga after Unfamiliar Sakaki. Yeah, but it's just chapters are like eight pages and like nothing happens because of that.

[00:22:15] Yeah. Oh, oh, these chapters are like double that length and still nothing happens in them. Yeah. So like Killing Me needed more things to happen, whereas this series, obviously nothing was going to happen no matter what. So it's like it needed to be condensed.

[00:22:32] Some series in current Shonen Sunday do just alternate. They're not even alternate, but they'll just if they don't feel like there's a lot to do in a chapter, like for example, Fly Me to the Moon or Tonikaku Kawaii, there'll be some weeks where it's just

[00:22:43] eight pages because like Kenjiro Hata is like, that's all I got out of this idea. Or you'll have chapters of Komi can't communicate, for example, that'll just be four comas in the

[00:22:52] middle of the chapter because rather than have a few pages dedicated to one joke, he'll just do a four. He'll just be like normal page count or comma for three pages, then go back to normal

[00:23:01] page count. Yeah, he does this like mini chapters where it's like a six page chapter and someone's like, how's our three chapters of the manga out this week? And you just split like, you know, 20 pages into three chapters, which the series should have done.

[00:23:11] I mean, I don't think it was the thing Sunday was doing at the time, but like, I really wish that I'm so glad that they do it now. And then, like I said, bringing up, they actually know they're more than Sleepy Princess. There are like three series in

[00:23:22] Sunday right now. There are just like eight pages a week, including Koji Kumata's Shibuya Near Family, which is basically South Park in Shibuya. I love it. And it's the Zetsubou Sensei guy. What is it called? Shibuya Near Family. I don't know if anybody's translating it.

[00:23:39] Hmm. If only we had a translator. When we do our shout outs, I'll tell. I do talk about it once in a while. But yeah. I love it. And then speaking of things that are great, let's get into what it did well. So,

[00:23:50] Jordan, I know you've been tearing apart the series, but you do have to build up a little bit. So what are some things you actually enjoyed about it? This series sometimes gets a sensible chuckle out of me. Sensible Chuckle Magazine.

[00:24:00] Yeah, it's like Ichigoki is under control where every other chapter or so there's something funny. There are jokes in this series that land. The one I'm thinking about is like it is in the

[00:24:12] Hot Springs chapter where Kimidori just drinks way too much water and she gets like really massive and was just like bouncing around like, I don't know, that was kind of funny. There's like weird shit in here. Like he thinks like, ah, once I lengthen my nose,

[00:24:29] it will make Moggy like me. And he makes a frog have like the long nose. And I really love that frog with the long nose. It's just so silly looking. I love the frog too.

[00:24:41] The physical comedy and art in this is actually pretty good, which I've noticed in a lot of shitty gag mangas. It's usually the physical comedy, which I guess is the easiest thing to

[00:24:48] write well. From the first chapter, I thought this art was going to be really bad. But as it went on, I realized, no, actually, this art's like for what it is, it works. Yeah, the artwork's perfectly fine for this. I also think actually there are some good

[00:25:02] instances also of good paneling. Like when you see Lucario doing curls as training, the next panel just subtly zooms out and you see she's also like carrying a bunch of tires.

[00:25:11] And I thought that was really good in the offer. It didn't get greedy and he didn't like have some say, whoa, what does she do with all those tires? It was just like a very nice, subtle joke. That

[00:25:19] was exactly what the series needed to do more of. So he did have it in him to actually make good jokes that were actually based on the characters. Yeah, no, I mean, I liked the bear getting

[00:25:30] diarrhea. That was pretty good. What the fuck? Sasaki, besides bears and having diarrhea, what else did you like in the series? I actually kind of like the Kuro's character, honestly. I wish we could have gotten more of her because there's just something about the broke

[00:25:47] drag. And like she's like super strong, like her weapons, like bigger than she is. And it's like, it's just so much of that that I wish that she had been introduced sooner or even was the main

[00:25:57] character because like, I don't know, there's something about her that's just endearing to me. I feel like I feel like she had the most character, like like the most care, rememberable character out of all of those characters in this series.

[00:26:10] Honestly, the chapter where she showed up should have been the first chapter. Oh, that would have been a good idea. Well, maybe the second chapter. I don't know, because like if she just showed up and then they told how Kimidori showed up

[00:26:22] in like flashbacks sort of or like subtly as it went on and she's just like, what the fuck? Like that would have been better. Like she could have been like the audience fish out of water

[00:26:31] surrogate, which is sort of what she became. Like she was far and away the most interesting character in the series. Like, yeah, yeah. I mean, you know, it's not a huge, huge accomplishment, but she does it. She is. She's all right. You know, the broke millennial.

[00:26:46] Yeah. I also do think it's funny. The dragon slayer is being trained by a dragon, which makes me think of what Mama Yu could have done if it had dropped the ball in that area.

[00:26:54] Yeah, yeah, yeah. I've only read two chapters of that, but yeah, that's fine. You don't need to read more. I don't know. I thought it was I thought it was all right. I said it wasn't a

[00:27:05] flop, you know? Yeah, I think you're out of pocket, but whatever. I respect that. On that note, shall we get into where it could have gone? Yeah. So, Jordan, what what are some

[00:27:14] things that you feel like you would have revised? I either would have introduced Lucora earlier or I would have kept her as an antagonist longer. Either she shows up from the beginning or she

[00:27:24] acts as like like almost a Team Rocket type character where she's like trying to catch Kimidori and Kimidori is outsmarting her at any at every point, you know, just absolute girl failure. Absolute girl failure. Yes. I mean, Kimidori literally sends her blasting off again.

[00:27:40] Yeah, she does. I actually think that that would have been cool. And also like maybe Kimidori was like punished to be in this form. And it's kind of like what was it like the hundred deeds of

[00:27:49] Eddie McDowell where in order to turn back to a dragon, she has to do like 100 MacGuffins or something. And that also gives you like a structure and like it feels like it can very slowly move

[00:27:58] towards something like maybe she lost 100 Dragon Balls and she has to get them all to turn back. It would have been nice if Kimidori had any motivation whatsoever. Yeah, she just fucking is chilling all the time, which makes the plot feel like it's forcing itself to happen.

[00:28:12] Anything happened or we could have it the other way, right? Where Angie is like we could have done the thing where he summoned her wrong. So he's like trying to find a way to get her to leave.

[00:28:21] I mean, which is it kind of that. But like he kind of just just says, you know what? Well, this is my life now. So, OK, he gets into this mode where it's 11. Yeah, he kind of gets into

[00:28:31] the mode where he just gives up on that. But like as the series kind of went on, like him reading up on trying to get rid of this dragon and finding out more about other dragons, which

[00:28:40] again, he kind of does. But like everything comes so it comes so fast and it's completely forgotten almost immediately that like I almost think that the plot was OK, but it just feels like tomorrow

[00:28:51] had this again ADHD brain where he just kept introducing stuff and then going on to the next thing right away. Let's think simmer a little bit like, yeah, like Angie, we could have had a

[00:29:00] couple of chapters of him saying, OK, I'm going to read this book and find out like I'm such a gay as this dragon. I hate it. But like, you know, let me find a way to like undo this and send her

[00:29:10] back. And hey, maybe you had a whole thing where he actually gets sent back with her. Then we could see Dragon World or something. It's also the magical parts of the series new built out. Like

[00:29:18] I'm surprised we haven't talked about Dr. Stone. We are sorry, Dr. Slump. I mentioned the Chibi, but this is pretty much magical Dr. Slump. And I think a cool way to have different is he has

[00:29:26] all these magical devices, but they don't really explain the rules. Except worse, except worse. We know the series isn't good. And so it would have been cool if they'd actually built out like

[00:29:35] a magic system and maybe there are some rules to how his devices worked in it kind of contrasts the tune force that the dragons use. And I think that would have been a fun way where like I'm

[00:29:43] a sucker for how witch hat Altair has like a very strict magic system. And that just would have been a cool contrast with like characters and made it more fun that these characters don't even play by the rules of magic. That's like how tuned force they are.

[00:29:55] No, I kind of like that idea, actually. Yeah. Where it's like, wait, you're like, how are you summoning something without the ritual circle? She's like, I just do. And he's like, what the fuck?

[00:30:04] I mean, I do kind of like when she is summoned. She just comes in an egg and it's like, it's her apartment. And she just she just opens the door. Yeah, that was a good joke.

[00:30:13] Like it seemed like he could have summoned her as a full dragon, but he fucked up like she isn't supposed to be here as a little girl. But I thought she said that was actually a performance,

[00:30:23] like how one of the dragons is a bird. It's so confusing. It's so confusing. They needed to have at least one normal looking dragon. They needed to show some cutaway or flashback of her in her world to understand what the

[00:30:36] fuck was going on there. Like give us some idea of what he took her from. Yeah, that goes back to what I was saying. Like we should have had like an establishing thing

[00:30:44] of like what it is where the dragons live, like something like that, even if it was like kind of part of the first chapter or something where it's like she's just chilling as a dragon,

[00:30:52] just thing. And then you're like magical circle appears and giant hand just grabs her and brings her to this dimension. But it's like the hands like bumping against the thing because she won't fit because she's too big. So it's like, all right, balls are up, little girl mode.

[00:31:06] Or like there's an implication at some point that her motivation should be that she doesn't want to go back to her world because it's like way more chill in this one. Why don't you have

[00:31:17] bad guys coming to this world to try and take her back again? That's something. Yeah. Or a real dragon slayer. Yeah. God, so stupid. And then as we talked about it before, definitely this would have been much

[00:31:29] better as a four coma format or at least like keep it under 10 pages. Yeah. Yeah. And weekly. I think that we've sufficiently have redesigned this series. So it'll be a success to show again some miscellaneous

[00:31:39] thoughts. So, Kaki, what would you say is like something you feel you haven't had a chance to bring up that you want to mention in the show? Again, like I don't remember why I translated

[00:31:48] this or in the fact that I guess I just like the art. I kind of feel like it's a guy that translated Gintama for 10 years. I kind of have a handle on comedies, I guess. As far as this goes,

[00:32:00] in a way, I'm kind of glad it was short because it was definitely something I cut my teeth on as a translator. And I don't know I would have stuck with it if it had been like successful.

[00:32:08] I'm using air quotes. So running two volumes meant that I was able to finish it. And as far as like, because I see one of the things here is like, why is Western Dragons? I mean, it seemed like

[00:32:19] the background of this, like, I guess the setting of this series was more Western. Yeah. With the night. So it makes sense. Yeah. I mean, I guess even though they have Japanese names, which is interesting. Or hot springs.

[00:32:32] Yeah. And it's a weird kind of prestige of different things. As far as the series goes, revisiting it now, I guess when I was translating, I was like, this is fine.

[00:32:42] I had time. I think I was a little bit sad when I realized, oh, well, this is it. Okay. Especially, I know we're probably going to get to it in a second, but especially the ending gag,

[00:32:53] which was like, yeah, no, I had a plan, but you're not going to see it now. Would have been pretty cool, I guess. Yeah, it would have been nice to introduce a plot. Damn. Also, this series? Little bit transphobic. I'm just going to say it. Happy Pride Month.

[00:33:07] Yeah, happy Pride Month. There's a couple of moments like there's a pervert chasing mogi, a different one aside from NG. Like it seemed like the joke in that chapter was it was going to be. Yeah, there was a cross dressing person.

[00:33:19] Yeah, cross dressing. He was like, there was a panel where he's like, no, it's totally fine for a guy to wear a bikini. What? And then she's like all freaked out. And then there's the other. There's the hot springs one where it's like, oh, no,

[00:33:32] NG is making himself look like a girl walking into a hot spring, which, you know, is like the conservative trans panic thing. But yeah, so those were those were a little weird. Yeah. You know, a little unfortunate.

[00:33:44] I'm also imagining during the earthquake scene, if this had been animated, how they explicitly say there's an earthquake going on. The anime would have played that out like the turbulent scene in Airplane. Oh, God. Yeah, God.

[00:33:55] What a fucking classic scene where it's like the jelly is jiggling and then they just have like a woman's breasts just shaking. Only PG movie to have breasts in it. Like, by the way, that's good fun fact. It's a fact. Yeah.

[00:34:10] Yeah. Also, Maxie V wanted me to say that they have no fun facts about this series. This is a little deep and I don't mean that's criticism part on its sleeve. I don't think I've ever seen Maxie B's just say I got nothing.

[00:34:21] Yeah, this does make sense as a series for Maxie V to say I cannot find anything interesting about this series to mention. I also got nothing and can barely find anything interesting to say about this series.

[00:34:32] Oh, the Eva alien mashup where they also make the same lawsuit joke. Yeah, that was all right. That was a cool design. OK, yeah, ridiculous. So Xenomorph Eva unit one combination. Yeah, I guess it's kind of it. I guess we'll go into final verdict. Yeah.

[00:34:48] So starting with our six word summaries from the community from Tucker, Sorcerer's Slump. Hey, there you go. Summits of creepy bullshit. Maxie V, Ancient Loli Dragon, but less gross. Indies Islands, Brew Dragon Witch Watch Part Two. Ooh, that's what I'm saying.

[00:35:00] You should read the Flying Witch, which is literally that. Aura Paladin, Dragon Falls instantly into a slump. Diego, The Phantom Seer, not actually a Ruri kind of dragon. Unfortunately. Dude Rocks, second half ruined by Slayer sexualization. Glormak, Dragon Meal long for the bullshit.

[00:35:14] Captain Clueless, Imagine Dragons with slice of life. Last of the Red Rose, second best yellow dragon behind Xeno. Meru, another dragon manga ruined by adults. Portalman, Beware the powers of Dragon Loli and wait, this came before Ruri Dragon? Quack, wait, how was Engie the protagonist? Yeah, right?

[00:35:32] Real said Evil Dragon Child hates innocent frogs. Yeah, that was a weird plot element. I don't know if they really explained her hatred of frogs. I probably at that point just kind of gave up caring. They were literally just like, why are you afraid of frogs?

[00:35:42] And she's like, I don't know. Everybody's got something they don't like. I just don't like frogs. It's like, OK, well, that's all right. It's just a little unsatisfying. Yeah, Spubby, Sleazy Savant summoned Sassy Serpura powered serpent. Spike, if only the plot wasn't dragon.

[00:35:56] Super Dave, will Engie ever cross second base? Talk about a nine dragons ball parade. He gets the second base, but then he immediately loses his memory of it. He does. Yeah. Which good. Yeah, that's good. Tri-Attack Zack, still can't believe they said Giga Boobs.

[00:36:14] Dooku Dumbass, this one seems to drag on. Blah Moo Moo, the Dragon series quickly burnt out. And then Sakaki, what was your six word summary? Man summons pet but becomes pet. That's just the future liberals want. Oh, that'd be a good six word summary. Jordan, what is yours?

[00:36:33] The fuck can I even say? Yeah, I don't know. And then I had to mine was yellow drag on these nuts. I got them. That would be a contender. And then I'm actually really the series was kind enough to give me a panel just to use

[00:36:48] where Kimidori just says no taste or texture at all. Yeah, accurate. And I just I just love it when the manga actually just has like a panel. It's a six word summary. So I would say we all think this is a flop.

[00:37:02] The question is certified flop or not. Sakaki, what would you say? Are you would you say this is a would you say this is a flop or a certified flop? Certified flop. Yeah, there we go. Yeah. Do you regret translating this? No.

[00:37:15] Do you think the world is better that we can read this series in English? No, no, I don't regret translating only because again, I was definitely starved for stuff that wasn't Gintama, which is like I've explained to other people.

[00:37:26] Imagine trying to explain to Simpsons of somebody who's never seen it in another language. That's Gintama. Except there's like also a plot, right? Is there a plot in Gintama? There it's a badly executed one, but yes.

[00:37:40] So but yeah, and I love that you mentioned a much better series that I love from a much another author I love. I wish his other series. I don't know if you'll ever cover it. I see Sorara mentioned and I have to talk about it.

[00:37:53] He didn't already not Yamaji, not much, but like, yeah, he's he's a really good guy. He had a flop before two flops before finding a hit with that one. Oh, I thought you were about to say Dr.

[00:38:02] Slump and you're like, I don't know if you've heard of his other works because we actually have covered Sand Land on Patreus. We have covered something Akira Toriyama did. Yeah, it's like, yo, have you heard of this other manga by the guy who did Dr. Slump?

[00:38:15] It's called Kowa. God. But yeah, no, I'm so glad you mentioned. Nori Yamaji even by like association because he's good. I love it. And then, Jordan, what do you think? Oh, this is a certified flop. As David said, it's fucking boring. Yeah, buddy.

[00:38:32] And it's it just leaves nothing. It's just like blah. Like, I don't know. It sure is a manga, I guess. It is so fucking boring. And then, Jordan, what should someone check out instead of this? Oh, God, I don't fucking know. Dr. Stone.

[00:38:49] OK, I thought you were going to suggest Ruri Dragon, which you just caught up on. Uh, yeah. Check out Ruri Dragon as well. I knew I just got a notification saying a new chapter drops. So I'm going to go read that. Oh, fuck.

[00:39:00] Yeah, I'm going to read that after this. Yeah. Hell yeah. So also, though, if people are curious for our we'll get into it. But in our June Shonen Drop, our monthly recap series of our episodes, we actually did a

[00:39:11] review of Ruri Dragon so you can find out if we liked it or not. Spoiler alert. We liked it a lot. Hence why we're recommending it. I already mentioned the Flying Witch, which is essentially what if Yotsuba had magic in it?

[00:39:21] But I also like Sorara and the Monsters House. It's kind of like a crossover between Build King and Dungeon Meshi without being shitty. And it's literally about a former. So essentially, there was a war between humans and monsters. The war ended.

[00:39:36] And so this lady is like a former soldier and she runs into some dwarves that literally go around traveling, building houses for monsters. So it's really cool. There's a lot of engineering. There's a lot of thought.

[00:39:46] It's like how they build a slime house and they have to make sure there's no it's made out of materials that have no friction so the slime can slide around everywhere and like a tube system. So it's really cool.

[00:39:55] And they have really interesting kind of pseudo blueprints of the house. So it really looks like how you could have built the house if it actually existed. And so it's just like kind of scratches that Dungeon Meshi edge where you like to you want

[00:40:04] to be in a world where it's more about kind of how people exist in the world rather than there being like a plot. Sakaki, have you read Build King? I have. I have. I'm sorry. I it was back when I was still reading Jump on a regular basis.

[00:40:16] I know I should get back to reading Jump at some point, but and I will, I promise. But yeah, I haven't read Jump in like three years. Seriously. Oh, there's some good shit in there. You got to read Witch Watch, man.

[00:40:27] It's essentially one of the series was good. I did read Witch Watch, but I didn't feel much for I like I like the conceit of the series, but I don't feel anything for the characters, especially coming off a skit dance, which I just feel like is much better.

[00:40:41] I didn't like skit dance. I actually bounced off of it. I don't feel any for the Witch Watch characters. I need to read Asta, though. Yeah. Well, you should check out Dondodon. Yes, I do like Dondodon. I did start that. I just haven't read in a long time.

[00:40:56] We are getting so off topic. That's usually a bad sign for the series. Yeah, we already called a certified flop, Jordan, so I don't think it's much of a spoiler alert at this point. No, sorry.

[00:41:06] I was just thinking about there was like a 4chan post where someone was talking about Risa Skywalker, where when Ray says her last name is Skywalker, I think I was absolutely awful dialogue. I walked out after she said that. And so he goes, well, yeah, dumb fuck.

[00:41:19] That's the last line of the movie. What are you going to say, Sakaki? Yeah, well, I was going to say it's like actually some of Sunday recently. OK, two series that if I would recommend to you guys, Shonen Sunday has a series called

[00:41:34] Ogami Sumiki to Kinichijo or Ogami Sumiki in the. I'm going to be real if you doggy goddess and me the name of that in like a written form. I will. I will check it out, but you need to DM me the name of that series.

[00:41:46] The English name of it is Ogami Sumiki in the abnormal life, and that's basically Ruri Dragon, except like she's a werewolf instead. Oh, I can't wait for the crossover then. So like that's one. And then there's another Shonen Sunday series that recently started Hello Work Monsters,

[00:42:02] which is Sorara. But instead of building houses for the monsters, you're looking for jobs for them because it's got the same. I'll send it to you as a link because I actually wrote up like a quick brief thing about the

[00:42:12] series, and it's pretty similar to the format that you guys have on this show, which is I talk about the author's past works and then talk about what they are currently doing in Sunday for every new series that comes out.

[00:42:22] Yeah, and that one, there's again war, war happens or ended. And then now it's like, OK, we need to rebuild the kingdom. But it's like humans can't do this by ourselves. And we have all these unemployed monsters because the Demon King's dead.

[00:42:35] So like what are we going to do with all these monsters are just kind of around? I love the idea of LinkedIn for monsters. Yeah, that's essentially what it is, because it's like the Demon King has this like right hand man.

[00:42:47] He's still alive, but he's like, yeah, you know, you know, yeah, Demon King's dead. That sucks. But all these monsters deserve some kind of second life now. So, you know, the heroes there and he's like, you guys know what you need as humans.

[00:42:59] And I know how to get these monsters to work. So let's work together and solve this problem. And you have like the hero's maid, who's basically the Marseille, where she's like, after all of this weird shit's happening and she's just barely dealing with it.

[00:43:12] So it's it's really good. I've had a lot of fun with the series. Oh, that's really cool. I'll send you a link of like the write up so you can kind of look at that. That sounds good to me. I am.

[00:43:21] This reminds me of a pitch that taper clip who is a friend of the show and I previously wrote Basketball Grandma with where his idea where it's kind of like hitch, but for monsters trying to find love.

[00:43:32] And it's kind of a similar idea where it's like in a setting where monsters and humans are coming together. It's like you need matchmakers to try and like pair them together. So maybe I will write that pile.

[00:43:39] He asked me to write it, but I just didn't want to write 25 pages. Matchmaker, matchmaker, give me a match. Anyway, Jordan, is this the worst thing we ever read? Nah, it's just like, what the fuck ever? I mean, I didn't get super mad at it.

[00:43:53] It was just like that. Just like blah. Yeah. All right. I agree. Let's get into wrap ups, right? So Sakaki, I want to say thank you so much for joining us today. This is an absolute blast. Always a pleasure to have the translator on.

[00:44:04] Where can people find more of you? You can find me at Kirobon, K-I-I-R-O-B-O-N. I mean, that's more or less become a retweet machine nowadays, though. The real fun is at WSS Talkback on Twitter, which is where, again, I talk about the entire show on this Sunday magazine.

[00:44:21] I mean, fun fact, we are like there are lots of magazine Twitters now, but if you check the dates, we're the first one. We're just the least popular because no one cares about Sunday. At least. Um, no. Hell yeah! Getting in there early. Yeah. You know? Yeah, no.

[00:44:39] But yeah, we talk about I mean, I say so we talk about some of Sunday, but we talk about like anything show on pretty much from cover to cover. My whole goal with that Twitter account every week is to read the magazine in a way where

[00:44:51] it feels like you're reading it. So like I even little things like inserts, like advertisements and stuff, I'll include them and just kind of talk about. I know a lot of people hate that because it's like I can't go to any scenes. But yeah, that's what we do.

[00:45:05] And then we also WSS Talkback.blogspot.com, which is where we have like interviews, translators, interviews with manga, like directors. Most recent thing is like I just mentioned, we have a series where when there are new

[00:45:16] Sunday serials, we I write about them just kind of like a brief. Hey, it is what the author did before this. This is what the series is about now and how I feel about it. Oh, interesting.

[00:45:26] So like I did just link to the two of the series I was just talking about. So you can check those out. Perfect. Well, we will definitely check that out. I'm always a sucker for new things.

[00:45:36] I am trying to get myself to go through my backlog right now before I start any new series, but I always lie to myself about that. That's primarily what I do. And then I'm also on a few other podcasts.

[00:45:46] I'm going to mention the Demonslayer podcast, although the Lord hasn't had me on it in a million years, so I'll be on it eventually, I guess. There's also at Saturday Night Shoggy, which is Saturday Night Shoggy, which is kind of

[00:45:58] like the podcast arm of Weekly Shogakukan Edition where we just talk about Shogakukan things and right. Colton will kill me if I don't mention this another day, another adventure, a Dragonball podcast, add another DB pod where we go through.

[00:46:10] We're going through all of Dragon Ball is basically if it's animated and Goku shows up in it, we're going to talk about it because we have we were crazy. But can he be? Probably not.

[00:46:21] I love the the Machima versus Goku thing that went on in Twitter for a while. Yeah, it's just so stupid. But yeah, we're currently going through the original Dragon Ball series and we just record a couple more episodes. So like, yeah, we're slowly working our way through that.

[00:46:36] I feel like we're going to run out of steam at some point, but I'm hoping we don't because I have a lot of fun with that show. You'll probably run out of steam around Super. I haven't actually seen Super, so that's going to be interesting.

[00:46:48] Oh, super is pretty good. It's a shame the manga is on hiatus right now. Is it pretty good? It's super duper, which is what they should call the. That's what they should call the sequel to the super. Um, I think I tweeted that like 10 years ago.

[00:46:59] Anyway, Jordan, I also speaking of super duper props to Jordan for making the opening and anything, being a great co-host and helping with the editing. Thank you so much, David, for all the work that you do. I love you so much. I love you too.

[00:47:10] I hope you enjoy that door dash gift card and stuff has a good recovery. Yeah, thank you. Yeah, Jordan's girlfriend is recovering from surgery, so I just I'm a dash so she wouldn't have to worry about dinner. Yeah, I got you, babe.

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[00:48:23] We also have the show and drop where Jordan and I review the last two episodes of shown in flop talking about our TV guests going over the art and opening up the mystery box.

[00:48:32] This episode, we gave our thoughts on Ruri Dragon in our live action cast of Chainsaw Man. We had one character where people gas the same person. So then we are now officially best friends. You'll have to listen though to figure out who it is.

[00:48:47] Not very surprising who our choice was. And no, it's not Kishibe. No. Oh, God. God, that was that was peak. That was definitely Kino when we both said the same actor for that.

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[00:50:22] So I have to get serious here for a second. A few episodes ago, we covered Yoakumono and you probably already saw our tribute to our guest on that episode. But Comic Storian for people who are up. Comic Storian.

[00:50:37] Comic Storian recently passed away and we are shocked and very saddened to hear this. He was such a nice, funny guy. That episode is great. And my deepest condolences to his friends and family. That's very kind of you to say, Jordan. Yeah, our thoughts are with you.

[00:50:58] And we actually, if you're listening to this, you probably saw we re-aired that episode just because we really wanted to just kind of be in memory of him. He was just a fantastic guest and we were really privileged to have him on the show. We were.

[00:51:08] It's really tragic. Yeah. I'm really glad we read the patrons before this so we didn't have like, OK, now a patron list. Now we've got Comfort McStyles. Thank you so much for your $25 a month.

[00:51:20] God, I'm just glad we're not kind of assaulted like the anime out of context, guys. Anyway, let's get into sign off. Thank you so much for joining us. Tune in next Monday as we give our first thoughts on Muddy. This has been David. This is Jordan.

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