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Manga Tak · 121 episodes with transcripts

A Weekly Manga Podcast where we discuss the finest 1st volumes of manga to help you chose your next favourite title and build your collection!

Spoken has transcripts of 121 Manga Tak episodes, with the speakers named. The newest listed here is from October 19, 2026.

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curl -s -H "x-api-key: YOUR_KEY" \
  https://spoken.md/podcasts/1751180851/episodes \
  | jq -r '.episodes[] | "\(.id) \(.title)"' \
  | while IFS=' ' read -r id title; do
      slug=$(echo "$title" | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' | tr -cs 'a-z0-9' '-' | sed 's/-*$//')
      [ -f "${id}-${slug}.md" ] && continue
      curl -sf -H "x-api-key: YOUR_KEY" \
        -o "${id}-${slug}.md" \
        https://spoken.md/transcripts/$id || rm -f "${id}-${slug}.md"
      sleep 0.34
    done

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Latest Manga Tak transcripts

Episode 125 - Descending Stories: Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju by Haruko Kumota

October 19, 2026

Mat (0:11)

Hello everybody and welcome to Manga Tak, the weekly podcast where we read and reflect on the finest of swellings your money can buy so you can find your next favourite manga. As always, I'm your host, Mat, and this week is my absolute pleasure to welcome a new guest to the podcast, illustrator and fellow manga…

Jessica, welcome to the podcast, how are you doing?

Jessica Lai (0:30)

Doing well and super excited to join and thank you for having me.

Mat (0:34)

It is absolutely my pleasure, especially when you're just like, hey, can you do a book that I've wanted to talk about probably since the beginning of this podcast. We're going to talk about Descending Stories today, which is a book that honestly, as a big fan of Akane-Banashi, I have wanted to talk about for a very…

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