Guests join host Ashley McDonnell to discuss manga, mainly shojo and josei. The show covers classic and newer series, with occasional episodes on manga outside those categories.
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<p><i>Red River</i> by Chie Shinohara has finally gotten an anime adaptation, so, just as everyone else is talking about it right now, we, too, are entering the fray of the ancient Hittite Empire. Sho...
<p>Red River by Chie Shinohara has finally gotten an anime adaptation, so, just as everyone else is talking about it right now, we, too, are entering the fray of the ancient Hittite Empire. Shojo & Te...
<p>We pick up right where we left off, and... It's not what you expect. At all. Rin is up to Rin machinations. Shion did exactly what you thought he did. Jinpachi is suddenly kinda sinister. Alice is...
<p>It's 1980s Japan. Saki Hiwatari is telling a story set in the extremely near future, in 1990s Tokyo (now nostalgic past). A group of teens start to meet up because they all have dreams of a past li...
<p>There are few authors more synonymous with "shojo" than Arina Tanemura. We've done Tanemura works before. But <i>Full Moon</i> is peak Tanemura. Which is not to say it's a masterwork. </p> <p>For t...
<p>Hanayu wants to be a sushi chef, but her father expects her to take over the family pastry shop. Hayato wants to be a pastry chef, but is expected to take over his family's sushi restaurant. Uh, yo...
<p>Caitlin and Ashley are back to discuss the second half of <i>Horimiya</i>, aka, all the bits that don't matter. Like, it's a miracle this episode is over an hour long, because the two spend most of...
<p>Finally, we're here to talk about the shonen elephant in the shojo room: <i>Horimiya</i>. Look at almost any list of "best shojo anime," and you're bound to see <i>Horimiya</i> near the top of it....
<p>Get ready to go to the beach in this emotionally affecting, short josei series. <i>Mermaid Scales and the Town of Sand</i> by Yoko Komori follows Tokiko, a sixth grader whose parents are recently s...
<p>Ashley and Asher are back to discuss volumes 11 through 20 of <i>Snow White with the Red Hair</i>, and they have a lot more to say this time (most of it is still some variation of "they're so cute!...
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