Urasawa Boys
Episodes
Pluto 9: Wrap-Up
09 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 Pl...
Pluto: Ranking of Robots
26 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A quick announcement! In lieu of the traditional wrap-up episode, Matt put together a tournament style bracket to determine which of the robots that a...
Pluto 8: The Greatest Robot in History
29 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ah, Montblanc... Ah, North No. 2... Ah, Brando... Ah, Hercules... Ah, Gesicht... Ah, Epsilon... Ah, Pluto... You lived the live given you without hesi...
Pluto 7: The Greatest Bodyguard on Earth (Again)
24 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 p...
Pluto 6: The Most Indestructible Robo-Botanist on Earth (Tragic)
27 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 Urasa...
Pluto 5: The Most American Teddy Bear on Earth
29 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Flashbacks, revelations, symbolism, religion, history, and incredible robot battles - all of these things and more are here, in this month's groundbre...
Pluto 4: The Greatest Bodyguard(s) on Earth
25 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Seminars on software to replace paperwork - a massive workplace machine disassembled into Ikea-esque pieces - newspaper interviews of a local heroic p...
Pluto 3: The Worst Detective on Earth
25 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 powerfu...
The Quickest Announcement on Earth
18 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Whoops! We accidentally recorded a 4-hour podcast on this week's reading. Matt has to teach a class at work today and tomorrow, so he couldn't finish ...
Pluto 2: The Luckiest Robot at the Bottom of the Ocean
04 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 gian...
Pluto 1: The Saddest Robot in Scotland
21 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 begin...
Pluto 0: The Greatest Robot on Earth
09 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 w...
Monster 19: Wrap-Up
17 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Monster 18: Great Physician Tenma
03 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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. Out...
Monster 17: Wasteland, Tenma!
12 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 M...
Monster 16: Airplane Engineer Tenma
29 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 re...
Monster 15: NPC Tenma
15 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 14: Tenma (With a Gun (In a Car))
03 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Another late episode? Couldn't be URASAWA BOYS, your favorite podcast covering the collected works of Naoki Urasawa. (Thanks for your patience with th...
Monster 13: Prison Break Tenma
18 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 hav...
Monster 12: Smile Consultant Tenma
04 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Monster 11: Afterimage of Tenma
20 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 referen...
Monster 10: Ex Doktor Tenma
06 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Monster 9: Scaredy Cat Tenma
23 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We've arrived at the halfway point of MONSTER, and what a mid-season finale this one is! Matt and Quinn got together to do a morning recording coverin...
Schedule Announcement / Mattaining Balance 1
09 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Whoops! The schedule got messed up again. Very sorry about this, but the semester is over now and I got a good grade on my data mining paper, so the s...
Monster 8: I Am Tenma (Tenma I Am)
25 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
And we're back! It's another episode in Munich as we zoom around the city, spending time with Rudi, Lunge, Lotte, Nina, Tenma, Reichwein, Dieter, Karl...
Monster 7: Tenma's Return
11 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Woah hey, another episode of Urasawa Boys! Matt and Quinn are really in the swing of it on this one, there's some good banter, some good thoughts abou...
Monster 6: Lucky Doctor Tenma
28 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Another thrilling episode of Urasawa Boys! In this one, we stick the landing on last time's cliffhanger, spend some time with Eva, and then head to th...
Monster 5: CSI Tenma
14 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Woah, it's here - so soon after the last episode (which was definitely not late)! Matt and Quinn convene once again to talk Monster, this time going o...
Monster 4: Firefighter Tenma
12 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Better late than never - here's a weekend drop of your absolute favorite podcast covering the collected works of Naoki Urasawa! In this episode, we re...
A Quick Announcement
28 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Hey gang! We had some unexpected production delays related to the recent winter weather in the states - Episode 4 (which covers chapters 25-32) will b...
Monster 3: Frontier Doctor Tenma
14 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Technically, the third episode of a podcast is the first official episode, since the first and the second are just provisional! (Don't think it throug...
Monster 2: True Crime Tenma
31 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We're back with Episode 2 of our season on MONSTER! This time, we cover Chapters 9-16, which make up the back half of Volume 1 of the Perfect Edition....
Monster 1: Herr Doktor Tenma
17 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The first episode of the first season! In this one we discuss chapters 1-8 of MONSTER, which make up the first half of the first volume of the 'Perfec...