Five years! Yes, that’s right, we’ve made it to Trashtacular Tournament Arc-V, as for the fifth time we pit all the mangas, webtoons and whatever So Pure So Flirtatious was into the tournament arc to end all tournament arcs. In this first half, we’ll find which of our 25 series survive the group stages and make it to the Last 16, and which are on the fast track to being the Trashest Manga, Friends. ~ Welcome to That Time I Started A Podcast To Read Trash Manga With My Friends And Actually Most Of Them Were Trash But Some Of Them Weren’t! Or The Trash Manga Friends Podcast, for short. Each fortnight, our trio of Sean, Mike and Phil read the first two volumes (or equivalent) of a manga, webtoon, manhua or manhwa, analysing every little detail to discuss what’s good, what’s bad, and what’s trash. And believe us, half a decade in, there’s a lot of trash to discuss. So come listen to our book club slash neverending existential nightmare! ~ Follow us on social media! Links to all platforms on our site - https://trashmangafriends.carrd.co/ Sean, foreeeeveeeer host, is on Bluesky & Twitch - https://bsky.app/profile/slazo.bsky.social ~ https://www.twitch.tv/slazoking Mike, speedrunner and streamer extraordinaire, is everywhere @Bersekrer - https://bersekrer.carrd.co/ Phil, arbiter of trash, is on Twitter @PheNaxKian - https://twitter.com/PheNaxKian ~ Support the official releases! I Think Our Son Is Gay is licensed by Square Enix - https://squareenixmangaandbooks.square-enix-games.com/en-us Girl Friends, Plus-Sized Elf, 365 Days To The Wedding, I Got Married to the Girl I Hate Most in Class and The Too-Perfect Saint: Tossed Aside by My Fiancé and Sold to Another Kingdom are licensed by Seven Seas Entertainment - https://sevenseasentertainment.com/ K-On! and Girls’ Last Tour are licensed by Yen Press - https://yenpress.com/ Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint is licensed by Naver Webtoon - https://www.webtoons.com/en/ Battle Vixens is licensed by Tokyopop - https://tokyopop.com/ Naruto, Magilumiere Magical Girls Inc, Pokémon Adventures and Boys Over Flowers are licensed by Viz - https://www.viz.com/ Metamorphosis is licensed by Fakku - https://www.fakku.net/ Don’t Mind Me, Sensei! Give Yourself A Hand! is licensed by Tentai Books - https://tentaibooks.com/en/ So Pure, So Flirtatious is licensed by Webnovel - https://www.webnovel.com/ Revenge of the Baskerville Bloodhound is licensed by Tapas - https://tapas.io/ Battle in 5 Seconds is licensed by Comikey - https://comikey.com/