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