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Shojo & Tell: A Manga Podcast

Ashley McDonnell

A manga discussion podcast focusing on shojo (and josei!) series that make your heart go doki-doki. Covering classics like CLAMP’s “Cardcaptor Sakura” and Yuu Watase’s “Fushigi Yuugi” to newer favorites like Kazune Kawahara’s “My Love Story!!” and Hiro Fujiwara’s “Maid Sama!”

Shojo & Tell host Ashley McDonnell discusses one series per episode with a rotating shojo superfan. We're recreating all those impassioned rants you'd have with your friends about your favorite series, just in podcast form.

Shojo [or shoujo] manga: Japanese comics made for young women. A breath of fresh air after reading over 100 volumes of “One Piece.” The underappreciated sibling of all those same-y never-ending shonen titles.

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  • 136 episodes
  • Updated June 19

Episodes136

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  • Nov 15, 2024 · 1 hr 39 min

    Mars Manga Discussion (Pt. 1) [with Lucy of CLAMPcast in Wonderland]

    This episode discusses volumes 1-8 of MARS by Fuyumi Soryo. We continue our melodrama mood with the late 1990s/early 2000s series, MARS. Kira Aso is a quiet girl who loves to paint. Rei is a bad boy who loves to race motorcycles. Naturally they fall in love, and all the dark secrets come out about them both. Shojo & Tell host Ashley and CLAMPcast in Wonderland co-host Lucy discuss what makes this series so gripping despite it being over the top, how iconic the art is, the portrayal of America,

  • Oct 11, 2024 · 1 hr 44 min

    Hot Gimmick Second Half (Pt. 2) Discussion (with Naja B. of Blerdy Otome)

    This episode discusses the second half (volumes 7–12) of HOT GIMMICK by Miki Aihara. Oh, so you thought the first half of HOT GIMMICK contained the worst of the problematic hot trash? Think again. Shojo & Tell host Ashley and Naja of Blerdy Otome are back to talk about this wild, wild ending to a wild, wild series where all the content warnings apply. Who does Hatsumi end up with in her triangle of horrible choices? Why are Tachibanas like this? What are you doing, Shinogu? Who is THE worst cha

  • Jul 1, 2024 · 1 hr 52 min

    Hot Gimmick First Half (Pt. 1) Discussion (with Naja B. of Blerdy Otome)

    This episode discusses the first half (volumes 1-6) of HOT GIMMICK by Miki Aihara It's here. It's finally here. Shojo & Tell host Ashley has been trying to make this episode happen for at least two years. And now, here we are. We're talking about the first half of Hot Gimmick, aka, Hot Trash, aka Hot Mess. Seriously: Content warning for basically everything. Ashley was prepared to have nothing nice to say about this series (she's read it before and thought it was the worst shojo series ever), b

  • May 29, 2024 · 1 hr 29 min

    Neon Genesis Evangelion: Angelic Days (with Joshua McHugh)

    This episode discusses all of NEON GENESIS EVANGELION: ANGELIC DAYS (volumes 1-6) by Fumino Hayashi. Shinji, get in the robot! Shojo & Tell host Ashley and the guy previously known as Ashley's "CYBORG 009 buddy," Josh McHugh, delve into this version of the beloved series NEON GENESIS EVANGELION, which is an alternate universe of the video game NEON GENESIS EVANGELION: GIRLFRIEND OF STEEL 2ND (a PlayStation 2 game, and yes there is first GIRLFRIEND OF STEEL before this entry), which is an altern

  • Apr 17, 2024 · 52 min

    Miyuki-chan in Wonderland and The One I Love (with Asher Sofman)

    This episode discusses MIYUKI-CHAN IN WONDERLAND and THE ONE I LOVE by Clamp A short episode to discuss two short Clamp works. Shojo & Tell host Ashley and her husband/journey-through-all-of-Clamp-buddy Asher recognize that hentai MIYUKI-CHAN was perhaps.... just not at all for them. And also isn't meant to be taken seriously anyway. Which is good, because neither Ash really enjoyed it. Then there's THE ONE I LOVE, which feels like a strange gender experiment gone wrong. To quote Asher: It feel

  • Mar 27, 2024 · 58 min

    Legal Drug (with Asher Sofman)

    Covers all three volumes of LEGAL DRUG by Clamp Get ready to get high. And horny. And gay. And paid. Okay, to be honest, we're not sure what the drug is, or that it's legal, but hey, we're here to talk about it anyway. Shojo & Tell host Ashley and her husband Asher continue their Clamp journey with LEGAL DRUG, which is technically complete, in the same way that QQ SWEEPER is complete (which is to say: Not at all, because there's a sequel, DRUG & DROP, and it's been on hiatus for forever). None

  • Mar 6, 2024 · 1 hr 19 min

    The Poe Clan (with Vrai Kaiser and Megan DeYarman)

    Covers all of the original POE CLAN series by Moto Hagio It's time to talk about the gay vampires who built shojo manga. Year 24 author Moto Hagio, one of the most influential names in shojo, tells the tale of the Poe clan, a group composed of immortal vampirnella who turn the young siblings, Edgar and Marybelle, into one of their kind. Edgar turns his classmate, Alan Twilight, into a vampire, and the two go gallivanting through the forest like fairies. (Okay, they go on other adventures over t

  • Jan 10, 2024 · 1 hr 2 min

    Juline Manga Discussion (with Megan DeYarman of Manga Test Drive)

    This episode discusses all volumes (1-5) of JULINE by Narumi Kakinouchi. When you think "shojo manga," you typically don't think "ninjas." But that's just a stereotype, and we're here to defy stereotypes. Shojo & Tell host Ashley and Megan DeYarman, of the sites Manga Test Drive and Renaissance Josei, talk about JULINE, a manga series from animator Narumi Kakinouchi (of VAMPIRE PRINCESS MIYU fame). The titular Juline, along with other young female ninjas Bakuya and Seika (and inevitable male lo