And today, we begin our supplication to the power that is Ainz Ooal Gown as Louie takes us through the first light novel of Overlord. It's spooky scary skeletons that can crush you like the ant you are. Hooray! And before that, we cover a whole range of series in our weekly What we've read, from more about magical bug doctors to the love of girl gamers, on this week of the Mudai Manga and Book Club Podcast.

Note: There is some background noises that couldn't be properly removed without damaging the audio; hopefully they are not too distracting, and we are taking steps to prevent that going forward. However, editor Tom would like to apologize for them still being there to some degree in the final cut.

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We will start the bidding at one light novel of silly romantic comedy mixed with horrifying implications of it's world and extraordinary killing power, as today we cover the first volume of An Archdemon's Dilemma. Tom walks us through the narrative, some explication of it's magic systems and future steps, and even tries to logic out why everyone is such a weirdo. Beyond that, in our what we're reading, Louie talks about dragon maids and Tom spends twenty minutes gushing about the inevitability of mortality. That, and more, in this week's episode of the Mudai Manga & Book Club Podcast.

Also it's spelled Marchosias. Don't worry about it.

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The adventurers need food, badly! So, with this episode, we take a look through the first volume of Delicious in Dungeon by Ryoko Kui. In addition, this week we do some programming change, and we are only covering the main review and our recently read, so enjoy a more focused episode. But we do have time for a few minutes for Louie to talk about the second volume of the Elden Ring manga, and Tom gets obsessed with the light novel series Enough with this Slow Life! I was Reborn as a High Elf and Now I'm Bored and the talks on the first three books.

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A series of unconnected stories, Mushishi follows a titular mushishi (translatable as a mushi doctor) Ginko as he wanders around heling people deal with mushi, tiny proto-lifeforms that are yet powerful enough to cause effects both deadly and magical for the people of rural Japan. Beyond that, and now that I can think of stupid jokes to add to this summary, we talk about our thoughts on when to drop a series, which ends in a completely different place than we intended because we both read too much and are too forgetful to drop things. Go us! Enjoy all that, along with a quick discussion of the entirety of Shaman King in our What We've Read section, on this week's podcast.

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This week, we log in for a look at the first two arcs of one of our favorite series, Shangri-La Frontier. Sunraku's adventures begin with some rather tame bosses for this series, like a wolf the size of a schoolbus or a man who fused himself with a tree and mastered more magic than half of the cast of Hogwarts. But before that, we take a look through the list of the highest selling manga series of all time. And not just One Piece, though, if you haven't heard how massive One Piece is, you better prepare yourself for some big, big numbers. And no, Tom didn't forget to give Louie his score at the end of the quiz, . . . he forgot to score it at all.

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Is it the last episode, when we just made double digits? Nah, we're just covering the single volume comic Goodbye Eri by Tatsuki Fujimoto, the story of movies, goobyes, and, well, massive spoilers. And in addition to that, Louie takes us through an introduction to manga, covering the basic terms and what they mean; if you're just getting into this, here's our primer on a number of terms you'll see and some of how manga is published in Japan and around the world.

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You know what's cool about space? The temperature. You know what else is cool about space? The manga Edens Zero, which we finally sit down and talk about; this week we dive into the opening of the story, covering the introductory chapters and the Norma arc. Alongside that, we take some time to get a little more contemplative as we look into Slice of Life, the genre, and discuss what we find appealing and effective about it.

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In the city where people sleep normally, and the weather is just about always sunny and warm, and a certain five year old has unfathomale powers of turning bubble pipes into breathing apparatuses, we find our series for this week, Hard Boiled Cop and Dolphin! In addition, Louie takes Tom through the wringer with a few rounds of Name That Isekai! and Tom read a reasonable number of books. It was reasonable. Not absurd at all. He had two weeks after all, and the amount he read was not strange at all. Nope.

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