Today, the panelists discuss How Do We Relationship?, our first yuri on the show! Join us for a discussion on depictions of queer women in manga, how this book handles sex, and our favorite fashion in this manga.

• (00:00 ) - How Do We Relationship?


• (02:16 ) - Front Matter


• (07:55 ) - The art


• (09:45 ) - Feelings circles!!!


• (14:30 ) - Ba-dump ba-dump


• (16:26 ) - Our lead characters, Miwa and Saeko


• (19:59 ) - Sex in this book


• (28:50 ) - Physical details


• (29:31 ) - Fashion Corner


• (30:37 ) - (Lobster shirt)


• (32:33 ) - How Miwa is written in this book


• (35:48 ) - Their underwear


• (36:26 ) - More sex chat


• (37:33 ) - How the bandmates handle their relationship


• (39:02 ) - The bandmates


• (41:46 ) - The fear of homophobia in this narrative


• (45:12 ) - More about the bandmates


• (45:48 ) - A potential aro/ace or nonbinary character


• (52:35 ) - We should read X Gender


• (52:55 ) - Memes


• (54:30 ) - Further Reading


• (01:01:19 ) - Back Matter

Further Reading:
"Asumi-chan is Interested in Lesbian Brothels!" by Kuro Itsuki: https://bookshop.org/p/books/asumi-chan-is-interested-in-lesbian-brothels-vol-1-kuro-itsuki/18536192
"My Cute Little Kitten" by Milk Morinaga: https://bookshop.org/p/books/my-cute-little-kitten-vol-1-milk-morinaga/18407746
"Lover Boy" by ZEC: https://bookshop.org/p/books/lover-boy-vol-1-zec/21916540
"Countdown to Yes" by Roji: https://store.crunchyroll.com/products/countdown-to-yes-manga-9798989570331.html

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Matt

Scout

Robin

Jillian

Editing by Matt Horton and AJ Fillari.
Cover art by Scout Wilkinson.
Intro/Outro music by Boqeh.