Urasawa Boys

After taking a quick video detour with our extremely serious and scientific RANKING OF ROBOTS - the Urasawa Boys are back to wrap up this season on Pluto! We spend some time talking about our final feelings on the comic before getting into some of the neat stuff from the afterwards of each volume, which Matt admits, he should have been reading the whole time! After that we get into a few quick questions, and then talk a little bit about what's coming down the road - a brief hiatus, and then the start of a new season on Master Keaton! Thanks for sticking with us through the ups-and-downs of our journey through Pluto, please enjoy this final episode of us getting into it on Tezuka, Urasawa, and all those dang robots! Folks, it's a good one! Links to the supplemental content mentioned: Bartkira - A collaborative rewrite/redraw of Akira inspired by The Simpsons The Anime Business - Documentary series by AnimEigo How to Read Nancy - A book-length essay on "The Elements of Comics in Three Easy Panels" by Paul Karasik and Mark Newgarden Dinosaur Comics - A truly classic webcomic by Ryan North Jon - Garfield mini-comic by Gale Galligan The D*lbert Project - Blog post and post-modern D*lbert cutup comic(?) by Kaleb Horton Material Covered: Wrap-up / Listener Questions / Final Discussion Next Time: Master Keaton (Chapter 1-8) Urasawa Boys is a podcast hosted by S. Quinn Morris and Matt Fennell covering the collected works of Naoki Urasawa. You can follow the show on BlueSky and support us on Patreon. The theme music for this season is the track "Clues to the Truth" from the official soundtrack to the anime, composed by Yugo Kanno. Thanks for listening! CONTENT WARNINGS We're currently reading Pluto, which contains scenes of gore, violence, bodily fluids, racism, terrorism, death, suicide, weapons/guns, war, civilian and child casualties, war related trauma, the Ku Klux Klan, modern US politics, bugs, child abandonment, and parental trauma. Please proceed with caution!

Ah, Montblanc... Ah, North No. 2... Ah, Brando... Ah, Hercules... Ah, Gesicht... Ah, Epsilon... Ah, Pluto... You lived the live given you without hesitation, self-doubt, shame, or resentment... You carried out your duty, and then you were gone... When will they sit in judgment of the humans who created temporary life, out of a limitless lust for power and control, and then destroyed it? And just like that - only 18 full months after we began, we've reached the end of our journey with PLUTO. It's been a long weird trek through Urasawa's adaptation of one of the most famous Astro Boy stories of all time - who would have thought that it would take us through the Iraq War, a global financial crisis, and the crushing realization that we're facing a climate apocalypse? Who would have thought that this decade-old comic would still be so relevant today? Join Matt and Quinn for a 5-star runtime discussion of PLUTO's finale - with all the things we love about its plot payoffs, its emotional beats, its cinematic fights, and its incredible artistic restraint and characteristically Urasawa simultaneous metaphoric excess. (Speaking of excess, what is Matt on in this episode description!) Thank you for joining us on this science-fiction odyssey, please enjoy this final outing - folks, it's a good one! Material Covered: Pluto (Chapter 56 - 65) Next Time: Pluto - Wrap-up / Listener Questions / Final Discussion Urasawa Boys is a podcast hosted by S. Quinn Morris and Matt Fennell covering the collected works of Naoki Urasawa. You can follow the show on BlueSky and support us on Patreon. The theme music for this season is the track "Clues to the Truth" from the official soundtrack to the anime, composed by Yugo Kanno. Thanks for listening! CONTENT WARNINGS We're currently reading Pluto, which contains scenes of gore, violence, bodily fluids, racism, terrorism, death, suicide, weapons/guns, war, civilian and child casualties, war related trauma, the Ku Klux Klan, modern US politics, bugs, child abandonment, and parental trauma. Please proceed with caution!

Urasawa Boys is BACK and there's no time to mourn for Gesicht! Just like that, we're in Australia! Tune in for some heated discussion of the story's pivot to Epsilon's turn in the spotlight, and all of its ups-and-downs. We tackle an opening flashback that may be one of the best to ever do it, and then dig into a volume full of loaded metaphors on queerness (Happy Pride!) along with some pretty sick robot fights. What's that? A typo in the episode description? No no no, you're mistaken, we just had to re-award the title of Best Boy with the sudden arrival of Hogan - who is definitely not a Poochie! Join us for what is somehow the penultimate reading for our season on Pluto, as we bask in the splendor of Epsilon's dying light! Folks, it's a good one! Material Covered: Pluto (Chapter 48-55) Next Time: Pluto (Chapter 56 - 65) - FINAL READING! Urasawa Boys is a podcast hosted by S. Quinn Morris and Matt Fennell covering the collected works of Naoki Urasawa. You can follow the show on BlueSky and support us on Patreon. The theme music for this season is the track "Clues to the Truth" from the official soundtrack to the anime, composed by Yugo Kanno. Thanks for listening! CONTENT WARNINGS We're currently reading Pluto, which contains scenes of gore, violence, bodily fluids, racism, terrorism, death, suicide, weapons/guns, war, civilian and child casualties, war related trauma, the Ku Klux Klan, modern US politics, bugs, child abandonment, and parental trauma. Please proceed with caution!

And we're back! Here to welcome in the summer season after a nice 3-day weekend here in the US, Matt and Quinn re-convene for another episode of Urasawa Boys, to discuss the doomed, thrilling, and seemingly climactic reading that was volume 6 of Pluto! This one's got it all! New locales, dense discussions of orientalism and the loaded idea of saying "at least we got Democracy," classic investigatory chapters, a 3 chapter 90s action movie extravaganza, and a fittingly tragic end for our favorite robot detective. Also - we talk about dads! It turns out this adaptation of a work by the father of modern manga has a lot to say about dads! Who would have thought? The thrilling conclusion of Pluto draws closer every week, and who knows how this will all shake out! All I can say for certain is that folks - this is a good one! Material Covered: Pluto (Chapter 40-47) Next Time: Pluto (Chapter 48-55) Urasawa Boys is a podcast hosted by S. Quinn Morris and Matt Fennell covering the collected works of Naoki Urasawa. You can follow the show on BlueSky and support us on Patreon. The theme music for this season is the track "Clues to the Truth" from the official soundtrack to the anime, composed by Yugo Kanno. Thanks for listening! CONTENT WARNINGS We're currently reading Pluto, which contains scenes of gore, violence, bodily fluids, racism, terrorism, death, suicide, weapons/guns, war, civilian and child casualties, war related trauma, the Ku Klux Klan, modern US politics, bugs, child abandonment, and parental trauma. Please proceed with caution!

Flashbacks, revelations, symbolism, religion, history, and incredible robot battles - all of these things and more are here, in this month's groundbreaking episode of URASAWA BOYS! (Note from Matt - It's groundbreaking because we've switched to a MUCH more sustainable monthly release schedule!) Join us after 4 weeks of patient anticipation for a lively discussion of all the arcs in this next chunk of Pluto, as we tackle Hercules + Epsilon, Gesicht + Adolf's Horrible Brother, and Ochanomizu + Tenma (ft. Science + Philosophy). Additionally, there are some important notes from the Matt + Quinn arc, including apartment disaster updates and a thorough explanation of regional sodas and barbecue. Folks, it's a good one! Material Covered: Pluto (Chapter 32-39) Next Time: Pluto (Chapter 40-47) Urasawa Boys is a podcast hosted by S. Quinn Morris and Matt Fennell covering the collected works of Naoki Urasawa. You can follow the show on BlueSky and support us on Patreon. The theme music for this season is the track "Clues to the Truth" from the official soundtrack to the anime, composed by Yugo Kanno. Thanks for listening! CONTENT WARNINGS We're currently reading Pluto, which contains scenes of gore, violence, bodily fluids, racism, terrorism, death, suicide, weapons/guns, war, civilian and child casualties, war related trauma, the Ku Klux Klan, modern US politics, bugs, child abandonment, sexual assualt, and parental trauma. Please proceed with caution!

Seminars on software to replace paperwork - a massive workplace machine disassembled into Ikea-esque pieces - newspaper interviews of a local heroic pizza parlor employee - a closet somehow collapsing with a deafening BANG! These are the forces that conspired to delay the release of this month's episode of Urasawa Boys: Pluto, which finally brings us across the halfway point, and many many steps closer to solving the mystery of The Greatest Robot on Earth! Join us for a discussion of the nature of man, fatherly robot professors (good and bad), the perils of extended metaphors for racism, huge water-based tornado demons, a tightening neo-noir plot with Jason Bourne-like action sequences, incredible comedic chapters, and a little bit of theorizing from Matt about how this could all shake out! Folks, it's a good one! A quick note from Matt here - when we started this season on Pluto, we underestimated how much we'd have to say about this story. As a result, the reading, note-taking, and production of each episode has been taking significantly longer than it did for our season on Monster. For the remainder of our time with Pluto (4 more episodes) we'll be switching to a monthly release schedule, with episodes coming out on the last Tuesday of the month. Our hope is that this will better allow us to get everything out on time for you (which is always our goal) while still giving it all the care it deserves! Thank you so much for your patience, thank you for listening, and thank you for being a friend! Material Covered: Pluto (Chapter 24-31) Next Time: Pluto (Chapter 32-39) Urasawa Boys is a podcast hosted by S. Quinn Morris and Matt Fennell covering the collected works of Naoki Urasawa. You can follow the show on BlueSky and support us on Patreon. The theme music for this season is the track "Clues to the Truth" from the official soundtrack to the anime, composed by Yugo Kanno. Thanks for listening! CONTENT WARNINGS We're currently reading Pluto, which contains scenes of gore, violence, bodily fluids, racism, terrorism, death, suicide, weapons/guns, war, civilian and child casualties (and other war related trauma), the Ku Klux Klan, modern US politics, and bugs. Please proceed with caution!

Move over THE BRUTALIST - Urasawa Boys is back with episode 3 of our season on Pluto! Just as long (three and a half hours) but also featuring powerful robots who understand abstract art! (Take that Adrien Brody!) On a more serious note - thank you for your patience during our delay, this week's episode features incredible exposition, classic Urasawa chapters on a shocking racist mystery-conspiracy in the suburbs, and a top-tier lanky disheveled mystery man with wet clothes and greasy hair. All the stars are here! Join us as we dig into how Urasawa adapts the Uran plotline, and marvel at how great the use of color pages are - folks, it's a good one! Material Covered: Pluto (Chapter 16-23) Next Time: Pluto (Chapter 24-31) Urasawa Boys is a podcast hosted by S. Quinn Morris and Matt Fennell covering the collected works of Naoki Urasawa. You can follow the show on BlueSky and support us on Patreon. The theme music for this season is the track "Clues to the Truth" from the official soundtrack to the anime, composed by Yugo Kanno. Thanks for listening! CONTENT WARNINGS We're currently reading Pluto, which contains scenes of gore, violence, bodily fluids, racism, terrorism, death, suicide, weapons/guns, war and war related trauma, the Ku Klux Klan, modern US politics, and bugs. Please proceed with caution!

Woah! Two in a row? We're BACK! This time, Urasawa Boys delves deep into the second volume of Pluto, and we talk about how maybe this comic about giant robots fighting (with not a lot of giant robots fighting?) isn't quite working for us? But never fear - there's still a whole lot of good stuff here - Hercules, Brando, robot wrestling, the fictional war in Central Asia, the real war in Iraq, and giant metallic dream statues from the Bible! There's a lot going on in Naoki Urasawa's adaptation of Astro Boy - and you don't want to miss even a minute of us digging in! Folks - it's a good one! Material Covered: Pluto (Chapter 8-15) Next Time: Pluto (Chapter 16-23) Urasawa Boys is a podcast hosted by S. Quinn Morris and Matt Fennell covering the collected works of Naoki Urasawa. You can follow the show on BlueSky and support us on Patreon. The theme music for this season is the track "Clues to the Truth" from the official soundtrack to the anime, composed by Yugo Kanno. Thanks for listening! CONTENT WARNINGS We're currently reading Pluto, which contains scenes of gore, violence, bodily fluids, racism, terrorism, death, suicide, weapons/guns, war and war related trauma. Please proceed with caution!

URASAWA BOYS is back!! Exactly on schedule - 2 weeks (and 1 year) after our Episode 0 on "Astro Boy: The Greatest Robot on Earth," we're finally beginning our coverage of Pluto. After a quick review of what we've been doing in our barely noticeable hiatus, join us for our thoughts on Pluto's interesting shift of main character, the obvious (and not-so-obvious) intertexts, cool robots, sad robots, and what seems to be a prelude to a metaphor about the US war in the middle-east? Who could say. Folks - it's a good one! Material Covered: Pluto (Chapter 1-7) Next Time: Pluto (Chapter 8-15) Urasawa Boys is a podcast hosted by S. Quinn Morris and Matt Fennell covering the collected works of Naoki Urasawa. You can follow the show on BlueSky and support us on Patreon. The theme music for this season is the track "Clues to the Truth" from the official soundtrack to the anime, composed by Yugo Kanno. Thanks for listening! CONTENT WARNINGS We're currently reading Pluto, which contains scenes of gore, violence, bodily fluids, racism, terrorism, death, suicide, weapons/guns, war and war related trauma. Please proceed with caution!

And we're back! 2024 is off to a rip-roaring start with the first episode of Season Two of URASAWA BOYS! This time, we're covering Pluto, but before we dig into the main attraction, we take a look back at the original arc of Astro Boy that inspired Urasawa's one of a kind cyberpunk murder mystery manga. Join Matt and Quinn as they dig into "The Greatest Robot on Earth" and go long on this influential chunk of a classic manga, ponder on how best to make adaptive moves, talk about Dragon Ball, and generally just have an absolutely great time doing the dang thing. Folks - it's a good one! Material Covered: Astro Boy - The Greatest Robot on Earth Next Time: Pluto (Chapter 1-7) Urasawa Boys is a podcast hosted by S. Quinn Morris and Matt Fennell covering the collected works of Naoki Urasawa. You can follow the show on BlueSky and support us on Patreon. The theme music for this season is the track "Clues to the Truth" from the official soundtrack to the anime, composed by Yugo Kanno. Thanks for listening! CONTENT WARNINGS We're currently reading Pluto, which contains scenes of gore, violence, bodily fluids, racism, terrorism, death, suicide, weapons/guns, war and war related trauma. Please proceed with caution!

We did it! This is the end! No reading this time, just some light fun discussion of what's going on in our lives, our thoughts on MONSTER a few weeks removed from reading the finale, and then a bunch of fun segments! We do some fancasting, tier-rank our favorite readings, imagine some AUs, take a handful of very fun listener questions, and then talk about a Reddit post (very bad) and a blog post (very good!). Thanks for joining us on this inaugural season of URASAWA BOYS - we're so excited to get into Master Keaton next! Oh yeah, almost forgot - folks, it's a good one! Material Covered: Monster - Wrap-up / Listener Questions / Final Discussion Next Time: Astro Boy - The Greatest Robot on Earth Urasawa Boys is a podcast hosted by S. Quinn Morris and Matt Fennell covering the collected works of Naoki Urasawa. You can follow the show on Twitter and support us on Patreon. Thanks for listening! CONTENT WARNINGS We're currently reading Monster, which contains scenes of gore, violence, bodily fluids, child abuse, gaslighting/emotional abuse, racism, Nazis, terrorism, death, suicide, hospitals/surgery, alcoholism, drug abuse, weapons/guns, and transphobia. Please proceed with caution!

This is the end. Rain drums against the roof, and in between the low rolls of thunder, you hear something that you could have sworn was a gunshot. Outside, fear alone animates the hearts of those still stuck out on the streets - the devil has come to town. Woah, hey, who let Matt write self-indulgent prose again? Sorry about that. Arriving not late, but exactly when it intended to is the FINAL READING of Urasawa Boy's inaugural season on Monster. Across a new "record-breaking" number of recordings (2 each), Matt and Quinn update you on everything that's going on for them, and then spend almost three and a half hours talking about rain, atonement, micro-expressions, death-flags, guilt, history, consequences, metaphors, cutaways, psychic powers, illustration and interpretation, Stephen King, The Bible, 90s Action Movies, 90s Spider-Man comics, 90s Batman comics, and just about everything else we've gone nuts over while reading this finale. Join us for showdown after showdown as the cast of Monster converges on Ruhenheim to finally experience Johan's vision of the end. Thank you for listening, and for waiting - folks; it's a good one. Material Covered: Monster (Chapter 152 - 162) Next Time: Monster - Wrap-up / Listener Questions / Final Discussion Urasawa Boys is a podcast hosted by S. Quinn Morris and Matt Fennell covering the collected works of Naoki Urasawa. You can follow the show on Twitter and support us on Patreon. Thanks for listening! CONTENT WARNINGS We're currently reading Monster, which contains scenes of gore, violence, bodily fluids, child abuse, gaslighting/emotional abuse, racism, Nazis, terrorism, death, suicide, hospitals/surgery, alcoholism, drug abuse, weapons/guns, and transphobia. Please proceed with caution!

Coming to you a few hours late, edited LIVE somewhere in the swamps of New Jersey, it's the penultimate episode of Urasawa Boy's inaugural season on MONSTER! Join Matt and Quinn on the rollercoaster once again as we round the corner and begin barreling down the hill into a peaceful and unsuspecting town somewhere in the mountains of southern Germany. We dig into what it was that Johan saw, and what that means for him, and all of our other favorite characters that have gotten caught in the black hole that swirls around him. Aside from that, all of your favorite things are here - long digressions to talk about other podcasts and media consumption habits, the two of us saying "we'll probably speed through the rest of these chapters," an hour into the podcast, Quinn providing context about which locations are actually real, and Matt making wildly big conceptual and narrative swings and then hedging those bets with plot ignorance. Folks, it's a good one! If you have questions, or topics of discussion that you think would be fun for our wrap up episode, please send them to urasawaboys@gmail.com! Material Covered: Monster (Chapter 142 - 151) Next Time: Monster (Chapter 152 - 162) - FINAL READING! Urasawa Boys is a podcast hosted by S. Quinn Morris and Matt Fennell covering the collected works of Naoki Urasawa. You can follow the show on Twitter and support us on Patreon. Thanks for listening! CONTENT WARNINGS We're currently reading Monster, which contains scenes of gore, violence, bodily fluids, child abuse, gaslighting/emotional abuse, racism, Nazis, terrorism, death, suicide, hospitals/surgery, alcoholism, drug abuse, weapons/guns, and transphobia. Please proceed with caution!

A tragic assassination attempt; a stunning piece of detective work; three heroes racing against time to stop a horrible plan - but whose plan is it really? The rollercoaster stalls for a second, before entering free-fall, as all is revealed. MONSTER is loading the last of its narrative bullets into Chekov's gun, and aiming directly at a shocking conclusion. This week's episode of Urasawa Boys (which also features a long discussion of Quinn's ambitious mech decorating project in Armored Core VI, and a fun "what's Matt wearing" segment) is not to be missed!! Folks, it's a good one! Material Covered: Monster (Chapter 132 - 141) Next Time: Monster (Chapter 142 - 151) Urasawa Boys is a podcast hosted by S. Quinn Morris and Matt Fennell covering the collected works of Naoki Urasawa. You can follow the show on Twitter and support us on Patreon. Thanks for listening! CONTENT WARNINGS We're currently reading Monster, which contains scenes of gore, violence, bodily fluids, child abuse, gaslighting/emotional abuse, racism, Nazis, terrorism, death, suicide, hospitals/surgery, alcoholism, drug abuse, weapons/guns, and transphobia. Please proceed with caution!

Folks, we are in the small dip that the rollercoaster does before it crests back up the hill and climbs for the final breathtaking scramble - this is Monster at its most exciting, locking into place for a nailbiting conclusion. Join us this week as Martin becomes the main character, and then watch along as Nina's tragic flashbacks sum up all of the subtext from the past couple of readings. We're heading back to the scene of the crime in more way than one, as we draw on some long forgotten (and cut) theories about what this all means. Matt and Quinn have a grand old time puzzling through what the devil is and how he works, y'all - this is a good one! Material Covered: Monster (Chapter 123 - 131) Next Time: Monster (Chapter 132 - 141) Urasawa Boys is a podcast hosted by S. Quinn Morris and Matt Fennell covering the collected works of Naoki Urasawa. You can follow the show on Twitter and support us on Patreon. Thanks for listening! CONTENT WARNINGS We're currently reading Monster, which contains scenes of gore, violence, bodily fluids, child abuse, gaslighting/emotional abuse, racism, Nazis, terrorism, death, suicide, hospitals/surgery, alcoholism, drug abuse, weapons/guns, and transphobia. Please proceed with caution!

Another late episode? Couldn't be URASAWA BOYS, your favorite podcast covering the collected works of Naoki Urasawa. (Thanks for your patience with this one, Matt and Quinn were both on the road for a few weeks.) Anyways - this is a killer section. We do some all time media analysis, and then do some media analysis about media analysis; there's some incredible reveals, some more very scary picture books, incredible spreads, ridiculously late title cards, and the coolest bad dude to ever exist. Monster is working it's way up the big bad rollercoaster hill that will soon have us barreling into some sick-ass loops and twists and turns in what's shaping up to be an all-time ending. Folks, it's a good one. Material Covered: Monster (Chapter 114 - 122) Next Time: Monster (Chapter 123 - 131) Urasawa Boys is a podcast hosted by S. Quinn Morris and Matt Fennell covering the collected works of Naoki Urasawa. You can follow the show on Twitter and support us on Patreon. Thanks for listening! CONTENT WARNINGS We're currently reading Monster, which contains scenes of gore, violence, bodily fluids, child abuse, gaslighting/emotional abuse, racism, Nazis, terrorism, death, suicide, hospitals/surgery, alcoholism, drug abuse, weapons/guns, and transphobia. Please proceed with caution!

Lucky Number 13!! Matt and Quinn had to record this episode twice, because the original recording was annihilated, and hoo-boy; what an episode to have to redo, because this reading was not very good! We spend some time trying to figure out what makes this chunk feel over-stuffed and rushed; simultaneously spreading the stuff we like too thick and too thin. After that, we work our way through Tenma's time in prison as he deals with with a master escapee, a wunderkind lawyer, and the return of a trusted friend! This one ends with two absolute goobers and a hell of a bang, and maybe just for that, I can return to our constant refrain - folks, it's a good one! Material Covered: Monster (Chapter 105 - 113) Next Time: Monster (Chapter 114 - 122) Urasawa Boys is a podcast hosted by S. Quinn Morris and Matt Fennell covering the collected works of Naoki Urasawa. You can follow the show on Twitter and support us on Patreon. Thanks for listening! CONTENT WARNINGS We're currently reading Monster, which contains scenes of gore, violence, bodily fluids, child abuse, gaslighting/emotional abuse, racism, Nazis, terrorism, death, suicide, hospitals/surgery, alcoholism, drug abuse, weapons/guns, and transphobia. Please proceed with caution!

Just in time for your drive back from any 4th of July barbecues, it's the next episode of Urasawa Boys! Matt and Quinn relish in the Friday energy of this recording, and open by doing some real fun thinking about narrative theory, serialization, and how to deal with story events in and out of context. (That's not a joke, it's really fun!) From there, we launch into the next set of happenings with Grimmer and Tenma in Prague, spend some time with Lunge on vacation, and finally start to unlock (or uncover? unbury? un-wall?) the mysteries of Johan's origins. Where do we go from that shocking ending? Who knows, but I'm sure we'll find a way that will involve 3-5 more memorable characters with unique backstories. Folks, it's a good one! CW - In-depth discussion of children in peril, depictions of sex work as horror, more transphobia, and exploitative stories / "cheap heat" in genre fiction from 01:13:00 - 01:32:00 Material Covered: Monster (Chapter 96 - 104) Next Time: Monster (Chapter 105 - 113) Urasawa Boys is a podcast hosted by S. Quinn Morris and Matt Fennell covering the collected works of Naoki Urasawa. You can follow the show on Twitter and support us on Patreon. Thanks for listening! CONTENT WARNINGS We're currently reading Monster, which contains scenes of gore, violence, bodily fluids, child abuse, gaslighting/emotional abuse, racism, Nazis, terrorism, death, suicide, hospitals/surgery, alcoholism, drug abuse, weapons/guns, and transphobia. Please proceed with caution!

Hoo boy! Matt had to update the content warnings again. This episode features a long discussion of transphobia (from 00:11:00 - 00:21:00) that references a Lindsay Ellis Video about the topic and really tries to unpack what this means for the story, and for the era as a whole. Afterwards, we spend a lot of time here in Prague, figuring out what happened last time, and setting up some landmines for next time, but overall - just really doing a whole lot of mixed analysis for this previously extremely good story (no caveats) that has become an extremely good story (many caveats). Matt and Quinn both agree that this "bombshell" just sucks, and then spend some time talking about some of the "western" comics revelations that they like (and hate) and figuring out where MONSTER goes from here. Folks, it's a bad one, but also - it's a real good one. CW - In-depth discussion of transphobia from 00:11:00 - 00:21:00 Material Covered: Monster (Chapter 87-95) Next Time: Monster (Chapter 96-104) Urasawa Boys is a podcast hosted by S. Quinn Morris and Matt Fennell covering the collected works of Naoki Urasawa. You can follow the show on Twitter and support us on Patreon. Thanks for listening! CONTENT WARNINGS We're currently reading Monster, which contains scenes of gore, violence, bodily fluids, child abuse, gaslighting/emotional abuse, racism, Nazis, terrorism, death, suicide, hospitals/surgery, alcoholism, drug abuse, weapons/guns, and transphobia. Please proceed with caution!

Urasawa Boys is back, and we're off to Prague! In this chunk of chapters, we're introduced to some new plot threads and some new characters, and we've got a new friend along with us to talk about it! In honor of making it to our 10th episode, we were thrilled to welcome special guest Tyler Crumrine of Possible World Games. Listen along as we talk about the shifting financial realities of the podcasting marketplace, Gundam, 1980s horror movies, being single, the mechanics of a fictional moral universe (and its rules on accepting candy from strangers), and how much we like this manga. Folks, it's a good one! Material Covered: Monster (Chapter 78-86) Next Time: Monster (Chapter 87-95) Urasawa Boys is a podcast hosted by S. Quinn Morris and Matt Fennell covering the collected works of Naoki Urasawa. You can follow the show on Twitter and support us on Patreon. Thanks for listening! CONTENT WARNINGS We're currently reading Monster, which contains scenes of gore, violence, bodily fluids, child abuse, gaslighting/emotional abuse, racism, Nazis, terrorism, death, suicide, hospitals/surgery, alcoholism, drug abuse, weapons/guns, and transphobia. Please proceed with caution!