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Covers volumes 16–23 of Hana-Kimi by Hisaya Nakajo.

Welcome back for the final Hana-Kimi episode! The Ashleys are back to discuss how wild this ride has been: The strange results of the final character poll, what the series says about gender, how it compares to other gender-bending series, and of course, finally, the ships. Also: Can you believe this manga kept up the premise of Mizuki's gender being a secret the ENTIRE TIME? We just don't get manga like this anymore! 

REFERENCES

• Hana-Kimi is available from Viz Media
• This series is the precursor to Ouran
• Other manga mentioned:
  • Tokyo Babylon
  • Girl Got Game
  • Basara
  • Not Your Idol
  • Princess Jellyfish
  • Fruits Basket
  • Kimi ni Todoke
• Outro song: "The Streatham Hill Gods" by Danosongs

CONTACT US

• Ashley Hawkins' website: Manga Librarian
• Ashley Hawkins' Twitter:  @manga_librarian
• Shojo & Tell on Twitter, Tumblr, and Instagram
• Host Ashley on Twitter: @AshMcD00

Covers volumes 1–8 of Hana-Kimi by Hisaya Nakajo.

We're throwing back and throwing down with a big-time, gender-bending shojo classic: Hana-Kimi, aka, the precursor to Ouran High School Host Club. Mizuki Ashiya moves all the way from America to Japan, in high school, without express permission from her parents, just to be with her favorite high-jumper, Izumi Sano, a boy she's never met. Even better: She has to disguise that she's a girl so she can attend Sano's all-boys school. Who approved this premise? We don't know, but we do know it is full of good boys. Come listen if you love hijinks and dogs and stereotypes about gender (and America, too).

REFERENCES

• Hana-Kimi is available from Viz Media
• This series is the precursor to Ouran
• Other series referenced:
  • Naruto
  • My Hero Academia
  • Fruits Basket
  • Boys Run the Riot
• It would be nice if Hana-Kimi was retranslated by transgender translators like Rachel Thorn
• “Queering” Heteronormativity: Biological essentialism in genderbending manga discusses Hana-Kimi a lot [Anime Feminist article]
• Back when Titanic premiered, people in Tokyo were meh about it
• Free Online Gender Quiz
• Outro song: "The Streatham Hill Gods" by Danosongs

CONTACT US

• Ashley Hawkins' website: Manga Librarian
• Ashley Hawkins' Twitter:  @manga_librarian
• Shojo & Tell on Twitter, Tumblr, and Instagram
• Host Ashley on Twitter: @AshMcD00

Covers both volumes of Meteor Prince by Meca Tanaka.

A wild and whacky ride awaits in this super-short series about an alien named Io (who is essentially Tamaki Suoh from Ouran High School Host Club) looking for his soul mate, Hako, on Earth. Shojo & Tell host Ashley and her lover Asher dive deep into the use of soul mates in literature and have an excessively silly shipping corner. Remember: You and me, baby, ain't nothing but mammals, so let's do it like they do on the Discovery Channel. (But is Io a mammal??)

REFERENCES

• Meteor Prince is available from Viz Media's Shojo Beat line
• Meca Tanaka's other work, The Young Master's Revenge, is also available from Shojo Beat. We also have a podcast about it.
• Other manga mentioned: Wake Up, Sleeping Beauty, Basara, Princess Jellyfish, Ouran High School Host Club, Fullmetal Alchemist
• Random things: Shaun of the Dead, "The Bad Touch" by Bloodhound Gang
• Outro song: "The Streatham Hill Gods" by Danosongs

CONTACT US

• Asher on Archive of Our Own: dashery
• Shojo & Tell on Twitter, Tumblr, and Instagram
• Ashley on Twitter: @AshMcD00

Covers all seven volumes of Behind the Scenes!! by Bisco Hatori

What if Ouran High School Host Club, but with college students who are members of the “art squad”? That’s the premise of Bisco Hatori’s follow-up to her smash-hit, formative comedy series. Shae from Shaegeeksout and Shojo & Tell host Ashley discuss all the ways in which Behind the Scenes!! is and is not like Ouran, give some sound dating advice, shout-out the representation of anxiety in Ranmaru, choose which Goda is better (long hair? short hair?!), and stan Tomu x Maasa forever. If you don’t want to craft after reading this series, do you have a soul?

REFERENCES

• Behind the Scenes!! is available from Viz Media
• Gateway shojo: Ouran High School Host Club and Fruits Basket
• Maasa needs to read Embrace Your Weird by Felicia Day
• Maasa also needs to listen to this podcast episode about surviving the zombie apocalypse from Charles Duhigg's How To!
• Soulless by Gail Carriger
• Forever stanning Akiko Higashimura
• Outro song: "Smile Its Me!" by Danosongs

CONTACT US

• Shae on the Internet: Twitter, YouTube, and Instagram
• Shojo & Tell on Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr
• Ashley on Twitter: @AshMcD00

The next episode of the podcast will cover My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness and My Solo Exchange Diary by Nagata Kabi.

Covers volumes 10-18 of OURAN HIGH SCHOOL HOST CLUB by Bisco Hatori

OURAN superfan Rose Bridges, manga reviewer Aisha Soleil chat, and Shojo & Tell host Ashley are back to talk about even more host club hijinks. Specifically, this episode is basically about everything that wasn't adapted into the anime version. (You've been warned.) The three dive into more comparisons between the anime and manga, discuss some responses from listeners about their favorite host club boys (y'all are such haters about the twins, you know that?), talk about why there aren't more reverse harem series of late, and have a 40-minute Shipping Corner. There is just so much to say about Haruhi x Tamaki x Kyoya, okay?

REFERENCES

• Ouran High School Host Club is available from Viz Media
• Brief mention of Digimon and discussions that took place on Ashley's previous podcast, Podigious
• What the heck's a ganguro girl?
• If you want to go more in-depth about how Ouran changed the reverse harem genre and led to shows like Free! and Yuri!!! on ICE, read Rose's article on Anime News Network, "The Secret Revolution of Ouran High School Host Club"
• Hana Yori Dango/Boys Over Flowers
• What’s takarazuka?
• FREE ONLINE GENDER QUIZ
• Zelda: Majora’s Mask is frightening
• Ouran definitely inspired Maid-sama!
• Author Bisco Hatori will be attending Anime Expo this year
• Reminder that you can legally watch all of the Revolutionary Girl Utena anime subbed on YouTube for free
• Modern Ouran: Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun
• Be sure to check out Rose’s book on the Cowboy Bebop soundtrack
• Outro song: A cover of "Sakura Kiss" by AmaLee, which you can buy on iTunes

CONTACT

• Follow Rose on Twitter @composerose
• Follow Aisha on Instagram @MommaLuvsManga
• Watch Aisha's manga reviews on her YouTube channel
• Follow the podcast on Twitter, Instagram, or Tumblr
• Follow Ashley on Twitter @AshMcD00

If you have any comments or questions, you can email shojoandtell@gmail.com

Please leave a rating in iTunes or Stitcher!

The podcast is going on hiatus until September 2019! What the next episode is going to be about is still a mystery.

Covers volumes 1-9 of OURAN HIGH SCHOOL HOST CLUB by Bisco Hatori

Bisco Hatori’s breakout hit has made everyone laugh at pretty rich boys and their host club hijinks for over a decade. At the same time, it’s got a fair amount of problematic takes in it. So should OURAN be considered a must-read classic? OURAN superfan Rose Bridges and manga reviewer Aisha Soleil chat with Shojo & Tell host Ashley about who their favorite boy is (lots of unpopular opinions abound, but we can all agree that Haruhi Fujioka is the best part of this manga) and dissect the ups and downs of Ranka’s portrayal as a drag queen. Of course, there's also plenty of talk about gender being a performance, social class being a different kind of performance, and how the facade of the Host Club lets characters be their authentic selves. Welcome to Music Room #3.

REFERENCES

• Ouran High School Host Club is available from Viz Media
• Lots of talk about similarities with Fruits Basket
• Tamaki is voiced by Vic Mignogna in the English dub, and he has been accused of sexual misconduct
• Read The Power by Naomi Alderman
• Follow the Manga Mavericks podcast
• What's a fujoshi?
• Ouran definitely inspired Maid-sama!
• Author Bisco Hatori will be attending Anime Expo this year
• Please tell me! Galko-chan
• Cranbrook Kingswood, aka, "IRL Ouran"
• Super cool to eat at The Ratty
• Crazy Rich Asians, aka, more mainstream Ouran
• Yōji Enokido was a screenwriter on both the Utena and Ouran anime
• Still waiting on that Udon release of Rose of Versailles
• Reminder that you can legally watch all of the Revolutionary Girl Utena anime subbed on YouTube for free
• If you're really into Lobeila in Ouran, get into Strawberry Panic
• Modern Ouran: Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun
• Outro song: A cover of "Sakura Kiss" by AmaLee, which you can buy on iTunes

CONTACT

• Follow Rose on Twitter @composerose
• Follow Aisha on Instagram @MommaLuvsManga
• Watch Aisha's manga reviews on her YouTube channel
• Follow the podcast on Twitter, Instagram, or Tumblr
• Follow Ashley on Twitter @AshMcD00

If you have any comments or questions, you can email shojoandtell@gmail.com

Please leave a rating in iTunes or Stitcher!

The next podcast episode will be about Ouran High School Host Club volumes 10-18 (which is the second half).

Roses are red

Violets are blue

Shojo is sweet

Here are strange ships

Happy Valentine’s Day! Here’s a bonus episode where we asked various people to answer this question: If you could ship any characters across shojo series, who would you ship and why? The answers may surprise you. Especially since Ashley cheats and takes protagonists from a shonen manga instead.

SOCIAL

• Follow Loyola on Twitter
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• Follow Asher on Tumblr
• Follow Shojo & Tell on Twitter @shojoandtell
• Shojo & Tell is also on Instagram @shojoandtell
• Follow Ashley on Twitter @AshMcD00

Comments, questions, concerns? Want to let us know who you would ship across shojo canons? Have a suggestion on what to do for a special White Day episode? Email shojoandtell [at] gmail.com, leave a comment on the episode page, or tweet us.