Shojo & Tell: A Manga Podcast

Apologies for audio quality on this episode (and the next episode). The recording software picked up the wrong mic for Ashley so it’s not as crisp as usual.

Mixed Vegetables Manga Discussion (with Asher Sofman)

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Arrangement of all 8 volumes of Mixed Vegetables with covers up.

New podcast episode out now!

@slashlyashley.bsky.social and husband Asher talk about Mixed Vegetables: how the main characters are so 15 and overwrought, how it shouldn’t have left its gender dynamics to subsubtext, and more.

Don’t read this manga while hungry. Listen to this episode whenever.

Looking for the Full Moon (sub • 52 episodes) is streaming on Tubi tubitv.com/series/30001...

Blu-ray with slipcover still available:
- Vol.1 www.mediaocd.com/product-page...
- Vol.2 www.mediaocd.com/product-page...

Full Moon volume 5, with Izumi and Mitsuki on the cover.

Tomorrow we’re recording about Full Moon o Sagashite with @spicedspica.bsky.social! Have a question or topic you want us to discuss on the podcast? Send it our way!

ME: I need to read Full Moon!

CAT: no you sacrificed your hand to me for grooming

Full Moon in blu-ray recently, so it’s time to talk about the Arina Tanemura classic.

Full Moon volume 5, with Izumi and Mitsuki on the cover.

Tomorrow we’re recording about Full Moon o Sagashite with @spicedspica.bsky.social! Have a question or topic you want us to discuss on the podcast? Send it our way!

Mixed vegetables is also available on the Viz app for anyone looking to try it out at low cost ($2/month)!

Does mixed vegetables include actual recipes (eg like Kitchen Princess)? Have you ever tried to recreate the dishes from it?

Next week we’ll be recording about Full Moon o Sagashite with @spicedspica.bsky.social! (So not totally disconnected from what the cool kids still talk about 😂)

Mixed Vegetables volume 8, featuring Hayato and Hanayu inviting you to sit down and eat pastries and sushi.

Tonight, Friday the 13th (spooky… in February?), we’ll be recording about Mixed Vegetables! Send us any questions or topics you would like us to discuss.

(Why Mixed Vegetables, in 2026, you ask? Honest answer: because it’s laying around in our house, $ is scarce, and we haven’t discussed it yet 🤷‍♀️)

Ep. 122: Horimiya Manga Discussion, Part 2 (with Caitlin Moore) [Shonen Exception #6] YouTube video by Shojo & Tell: A Manga Podcast

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Physical copies of volumes 10-17 of Horimiya.

The second Horimiya episode is out now! @alltsunnodere.bsky.social and @slashlyashley.bsky.social discuss the encroachment of side characters, the funniest and most touching chapters, and have a shipping corner for the ages.

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Not a total nosedive! The Horimiya anime is pretty good. But the second season (Missing Pieces) and the second half of the manga really meander. It just goes on longer than it should have for what it had to say.

It’s a great series! The first half, anyway 😂

a note that reads "Miyamura x Yanagi OTP 1:03:07"

The second Horimiya episode will be out this week! You'll have to tune in to find out how serious this statement is.

Hi! 👋 Popping over here to say sorry for the silence and the second Horimiya episode will come out later in January.

And then we’ll put out at least 1 episode a month for the rest of the year. (Accountability partner will make sure of it~)

Here’s to all the shojo we’ll read in 2026 😌

MARS 30th Anniversary Edition from @kodansha.us is up for preorder.
Its release date is June 16, 2026 and it’ll be hardcover! 🥰

To each their own! Either you’re Hori and you’re having a good time, or you’re everyone else being tortured by a Hori, I guess 😂

Years ago, Ashley said she wanted to do a Horimiya "shounen exception" episode

I told her, "If you do Horimiya without me, I will vomit up my organs out of rage"

Finally, the day has arrived!

I like to think all Shojo & Tell episodes are good ones, but this one is an especially good one, probably because Horimiya is great (well, at least this first half is great...) and Caitlin and I have been geared up to do this episode for, I don't know, I lost track, several years at this point 😂

Ep. 121: Horimiya Manga Discussion, Part 1 (with Caitlin Moore) [Shonen Exception #6] YouTube video by Shojo & Tell: A Manga Podcast

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Volumes 1 and 9 of Horimiya, which feature Hori and Miyamura (back to back on vol 1, holding hands and facing forward on vol 9). The volumes are surrounded by various Halloween decorations.

New episode about the first half of Horimiya is out now!

@alltsunnodere.bsky.social joins to discuss this shonen series that’s often mistaken for a shojo. We talk about how it lovingly subverts many romance tropes, its exploration of kink play, and more.

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Okay 👏🏻 today’s agenda is to get husband a new phone, decorate for Halloween, and edit and ideally release the first Horimiya @shojoandtell.bsky.social episode.

Good luck to me 🫡

Okay, not going to lie, this timeline isn’t looking feasible given some extra work that came up outside of the podcast 😓 But we’re gonna recommit to the end of this week! Horimiya episode one on or before Oct 4 🤝

cover art for Full Moon o Sagashite/Looking for the Full Moon

What shoujosei manga would you like to see reprinted?

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Hello! Too quiet on here! So busy! Coming here to promise a Horimiya episode is released before the end of September 🤝

Horimiya vol 17 featuring Hori and Miyamura interlocking index fingers

*taps mic* is this thing on? 😅

We’ll be recording about the second half of Horimiya in *checks clock* ~3 hours (1pm ET), so if you have any comments or questions you want us to discuss on the podcast, send them ASAP!

Thank you so much to @shojoandtell.bsky.social and @mangamart.com! I received Mermaid Scales and the Town of Sand 😊

Fair. I withhold verdict on Byakko since there’s so little of it out yet!