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[lilbluntworld]

You literally can not make this shit up.

[mangamachinations]

331 - Triple Dip 48 - Blue Giant, My Dress-Up Darling, My Androgynous Boyfriend

This week we share our favorite social media content and dive into a massive spoiler discussion for BEASTARS volume 10! Then it’s time for a new Triple Dip with Blue Giant, My Dress-Up Darling, and My Androgynous Boyfriend!!!

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Timestamps:

00:00:00 - Intro Song: “Lost in Paradise feat. AKLO” by ALI from Jujutsu Kaisen, Opening, Introductions, Bernie Sanders Tokyo Tarareba Girls memes

00:01:11 - Answering our new iTunes review 

00:05:33 - Listener Emails: Discussing manga piracy vs. light novel piracy

00:10:36 - Sharing our favorite social media content

00:32:45 - Whatchu Been Reading: Transition Song: Dragon Ball Z OST “Prologue”, *SPOILERS* We discuss the major revelations in BEASTARS volume 10

00:52:42 - Asumiko Nakamura’s Oukoku Monogatari is filled with beautiful male twins

00:59:57 - News: Chainsaw Man and Dead Dead Demon’s Dededede Destruction among winners at the 66th Shogakukan Manga Awards

01:01:36 - Hell's Paradise: Jigokuraku getting an anime adaptation

01:04:33 - Yumiko Shirai’s WOMBS to be release in French

01:06:45 - Next Episode Preview and Rundown: Retrospective on The Flowers of Evil, A complete review of Shuzo Oshimi’s story about a young teen who’s evil deed is discovered by a classmate with a destructive personality(covers volumes 1-3)

01:07:43 - Main Segment Triple Dip: My Androgynous Boyfriend/My Dress-Up Darling/Blue Giant, Transition Song “Moment’s Notice” by John Coltrane, we read the beginning of each manga for discussion and to see if we’d continue reading it before picking our favorite of the three, including:

01:08:32 - My Androgynous Boyfriend by Tamekou

01:20:41 - My Dress-Up Darling by Shinichi Fukuda

01:38:12 - Blue Giant by Shinichi Ishizuka

02:14:14 - We pick our favorite of the three manga

02:16:05 - Next Week’s Topic: The Flowers of Evil, Social Media Rundown, Sign Off Song: “wish men” by sunbrain from Beet the Vandel Buster

[intelligentliving]

First Ever Couple To Carry A Baby In Both Their Wombs

Donna and Jasmine are the first parents to undergo a "shared motherhood" procedure, and now they welcome a healthy son into the world.

[mahngah]

[oldpoet56]

A Few Things To Think About ( #2200 )

A Few Things To Think About ( #2200 )   1.) Pray with faith, do not worry for worry is one of the Devils ways into our Soul! 2.) Quit degrading yourself with your own tongue, don’t doubt ourself, trust in God! 3.) Our words can hold an acid to them so first think about our words before we say them! 4.) Fear is something that is a liar, fear is not sent to us from God, have faith and pray! 5.)…

[yurimultiship]

"Without you... I..."

What great content for my ship in the Wombs prequel.

[yurimultiship]

For the final day of Femslash February, the female-centric manga I'm going to talk about isn't exactly super f/f shippy and has some themes that won't be for everyone but it's a really unique work, dabbling into genres for which it can be hard to find stories with a big female cast: I'm talking about a SF military story with horror elements.

And also it has women drawn like this, which is a kind of character design for female characters I would quite like to see in a lot more manga and anime:

The name is Wombs and it's a 5 volumes manga drawn and written by Shirai Yumiko. She has worked on multiple sci-fi manga and this one in particular has won the Nihon SF Taisho Award, a prize for which all types of SF Japanese media can be selected.

It is set on an alien planet where two different groups of colons are at war with each other. The "Firsts" arrived before and have already settled there but the "Seconds" are more technologically advanced and to have a chance against them, the military of the Firsts starts implanting the wombs of female soldiers with a special "organ" from creatures living on this planet. This organ (on which many military secrets are set) gives translocation powers to the special units of women carrying them. Those are the main characters we will follow in this story.

It deals with pretty heavy themes around military and war propaganda as well as the commodification of female bodies. And there's some big horror vibes too, especially body horror as you could expect from the whole "implanting an alien organ", which makes those characters appear pregnant.

Like I said in the beginning, it's not exactly shippy and some of the characters are noted to be in/having had a relationship with a man (though it's mostly in the background).

But since it's one of few war stories focusing on a unit of women, if you're into the tropes that come with that like loyalty kink, hierarchies and mentorship, intimacy from living in shared quarters, dealing with the horrors of war, etc... I think you should definitely give it a go! Same if you simply find it intriguing; maybe you'll come out of it with some shippy feelings, maybe not, but it's a harsh yet fascinating story so it's worth giving it a try.

[wombsorballs]