Lots of discussion of Pixar films and western animation in our discussion of Weekly Shounen Jump Issue 8, published on January 23rd, 2023.This week's Manga Show and Tell is Happa 64 by Yamamoto Naoki.In this week's Jump segment, we cover:Undead Unluck #143, which had the cover and lead color pageWitch Watch #93Mashle: Magic and Muscles #140Sakamoto Days #103Text-only versions of the weekly manga show-and-tell can be found on Andrew's Obscure Manga Blog.Subscribe to the Manga Musing Patreon to hear next week's episode a week early.Our theme music is Rainy Day by Souichi Sakagami. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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