#130.5 It ain’t easy being a samurai | Musashi First Impressions
Release Date: 07/07/2025
#132.5 This guy can out-talk spirits with facts and logic! Yokai Buster Murakami First Impressions
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MAL Description: Terrifying youkai from hundreds of years ago have been released into the present day. Kuin the exorcist stands tall to protect the peace of this world! But in this war of Youkai vs. Exorcist, regular high schooler Murakami has entered the battle! Show Notes: • You can reach us at Twitter @shonenflopcast or email us [email protected] • Help keep the show running by joining the Shonen Flop Patreon at patreon.com/shonenflop. Get perks like early access to episodes; picking series for us to cover; and exclusive episodes on manga like Undead Unluck, Magu-chan:...
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#132 These are not good vibrations | Vibration Man
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We discuss Jump+ manga Vibration Man. MAL Description: Since the government announced the existence of people with "special powers" 10 years ago, Susumu Shindou has longed for his own amazing abilities. However, he finds himself to be nothing but an average 15-year-old. Then one day, during his high school entrance ceremony, a power finally awakens inside him...but it's not exactly the kind he'd always hoped for! Show Notes: • You can reach us at Twitter @shonenflopcast, Tumblr shonen-flop, or email • Get Shonen Flop merch, including this...
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#131.5 Does this superhero manga bring good vibrations? | Vibration Man First Impressions
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MAL Description: Since the government announced the existence of people with "special powers" 10 years ago, Susumu Shindou has longed for his own amazing abilities. However, he finds himself to be nothing but an average 15-year-old. Then one day, during his high school entrance ceremony, a power finally awakens inside him...but it's not exactly the kind he'd always hoped for! Show Notes: • You can reach us at Twitter @shonenflopcast or email us [email protected] • Help keep the show running by joining the Shonen Flop Patreon at patreon.com/shonenflop. Get perks...
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#131 Behold the power of…two swords! | Musashi ft YouTuber MercuryFalcon aka John Falco
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We and our guest YouTuber MercuryFalcon aka John Falco discuss Shonen Jump manga Musashi. Show Notes: • You can reach us at Twitter @shonenflopcast, Tumblr shonen-flop, or email • You can find our guest at /@MercuryFalcon • Get Shonen Flop merch, including this episode’s cover art, on a shirt, mug, print, or whatever else might catch your 1https://www.teepublic.com/stores/shonen-flop?ref_id=22733 • Become a member of our community by joining our Discord. You can hang out with us, submit your questions or six word summaries! Find it at...
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#130.5 It ain’t easy being a samurai | Musashi First Impressions
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Show Notes: • You can reach us at Twitter @shonenflopcast or email us [email protected] • Help keep the show running by joining the Shonen Flop Patreon at patreon.com/shonenflop. Get perks like early access to episodes; picking series for us to cover; and exclusive episodes on manga like Undead Unluck, Magu-chan: God of Destruction, and Cypher Academy. • Become a member of our community by joining our Discord. You can hang out with us, submit your questions or six word summaries! Find it at • Get Shonen Flop merch, including this episode’s cover...
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#130 Cyberpunk? No Cyber…Monk | Bozebeats ft YouTuber Living Deadman
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We and our guest YouTuber Living Deadman discuss Shonen Jump manga Bozebeats. MAL Description: Religious monks adapted to modern technology and weaponry to combat the threat of demons. Ryuudaiji, a monk who's on a journey to locate and purge a demon spirit that is terrorizing a forest which was notorious to be a place where people commit suicides, meets a wolf boy, Tamaki Madoka, and his wolf companion. Things start to develop between the two, after an encounter with a tree demon spirit as Tamaki decides to go to the outside world to learn more about his past. Show Notes:...
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#129.5 Evil spirits and prayer bead machine guns | Bozebeats first impressions
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MAL Description: Religious monks adapted to modern technology and weaponry to combat the threat of demons. Ryuudaiji, a monk who's on a journey to locate and purge a demon spirit that is terrorizing a forest which was notorious to be a place where people commit suicides, meets a wolf boy, Tamaki Madoka, and his wolf companion. Things start to develop between the two, after an encounter with a tree demon spirit as Tamaki decides to go to the outside world to learn more about his past. Show Notes: • You can reach us at Twitter @shonenflopcast or email us [email protected]...
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#129 Slow cars and the power of the sun | Donten Prism Solar Car ft Blerd Without Fear
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We and our guest YouTuber Blerd Without Fear discuss Jump SQ manga Donten Prism Solar Car. MAL Description: When 10-year-old Kaneda Shota was involved in a car accident that claimed the life of his father, it changed the course of his life forever. Even though his mother got a job and tried her best to support her son, money was always tight. Now, unable to afford college, Shota works a part-time job, in addition to his full-time job at his uncle's factory. He dreams of one day saving enough money to go to college. He lives alone, on the second floor of one of his uncle's warehouses, and...
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#128.5 A cars the devil? Donten Prism Solar Car First Impressions
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MAL Description: When 10-year-old Kaneda Shota was involved in a car accident that claimed the life of his father, it changed the course of his life forever. Even though his mother got a job and tried her best to support her son, money was always tight. Now, unable to afford college, Shota works a part-time job, in addition to his full-time job at his uncle's factory. He dreams of one day saving enough money to go to college. He lives alone, on the second floor of one of his uncle's warehouses, and doesn't have any friends. Everywhere he goes, he rides a bicycle, with headphones to block...
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#128 Five years and two guests! | SWOT relook with Rem and Shaun from Anime out of Context
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For the first time on a main episode we not one, not three but, our two guests Rem and Shaun from Anime out of Context discuss Shonen Jump manga SWOT to celebrate five years of Shonen Flop MAL Description: Transfer student Manabizaki Kyou is a swot, a person who spends too much time studying. His dream is to attend Tokyo University and then work for NASA! He will soon discover, however, that the high school he's transferred into, which was once very prestigious, has taken in delinquents from the surrounding schools. Now it is full of violence and gang fights. ...
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Credits:
• Manga by Motomiya, Hiroshi
• Shonen Flop is hosted by David Weinberger and Jordan Forbes
• Additional editing assistance by Dylan Krider you can find his podcast, Anime Out of Context at animeoutofcontext.com
• Assistance with pronunciation, translation, and other miscellaneous research done by Tucker Whatley and MaxyBee