September 04, 2025

“How Do We Relationship?” by Tamifull

1 hour 3 minutes

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.

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