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[upbeat music] Guess what time it is? It's Shojo time.

The time where I, Sarah, introduce the great and powerful Joe to Shojo anime.

This week we continue our coverage of Fushigi Yugi, where it's not as bad, but also I'm like, I feel like I don't love this batch of episodes either, so we're like on a downward slump for Fushigi Yugi maybe.

They're so down to earth.

And I'm glad that I got to connect with Paul and have this conversation with him because it's not often that I find like that I really... enjoy people's content in the manga and anime space in the way that I enjoy his content where it's just someone talking about what they love they talk they like figures they like standees they like certain characters and I think that's really dope to have someone who's really like proud of of the things that they like and I think we need more of that In this conversation, we get into Shoujo, we get into BL, we get into his origin stories as an anime fan, his origin stories as a content creator.

And it's just really fun.

Paul's a lot of fun, exactly as you see him in videos.

Had a lot of fun with it.

Shojo is back in 2026.

Shojo's been back-

I have proclaimed [laughs]

... for a while, man.

Whether as you go to like a con, like an artist alley, it's not always going to be that.

And like sometimes too, unfortunately with Shoujo, that's like one in a million finding something.

Right.

And here it's like, actually, I have 20 million things.

How technically, like, Shonen is for young boys type shit.

I don't think it's Shonen or Shoujo, which is, like, young boy or young girl.

It's probably just show kid or something.

show kid kid show yeah oh shit kid show

Editorial category of Japanese comics targeting audiences of mainly adolescent boys.

It, along with Shoujo, targets adolescent girls and young women.

Seinen, young adult men.

Jose, adult women.

patty aka madam star hat aka this imd celestial freaking dragon aka this my pirate ship aka miss frizzle and i got with me two of the greatest content creators i have ever met in anime and yc but i know them for a while but actually physically meet them in our exhaustion we just knew we had to link up so let's start from the melanated brother up top and then the melanated brother on the bottom please introduce yourselves

what's a good job my name is dj breezy splash i am a content creator that dabbles in all things anime i do reviews recommendations games but I have a particular niche for Shojo romance slice of life.

That is my baby.

I've matured as a man, and now I went from Shonen to Shojo.

I feel like that was kind of a shot

game.

yeah yeah i know exactly what you mean um I was trying to think to myself, is there anything else this story, because the look of it and stuff do remind me of other things that I've seen, like the style of it.

I've already mentioned Shoujo because it has like an amazing transformations in it.

um of course it has like its roots in theater because one of the transformations she almost becomes a ballet on stage and turns into quite a swan yeah um but obviously like the animations i say obviously the animation style feels like a trigger type thing right

and it's funny it's so funny you say that because like i was watching i was trying to piece together like what does this animation style remind me of it reminds me of um the uh star wars visions episode the twins

And the anime I'm going to speak about is called, hold on, hold on.

It is just Mahou Shoujo Ikusei Kaikaku Restart.

Is there not an English title for this one?

I couldn't see