Girl Got Game (with Loyola Rankin)

Covers all 10 volumes of Girl Got Game (also known as Power!!) by Shizuru SeinoGirl Got Game is a basketball manga about Kyo Aizawa, who’s pretending to be a boy so she can play on the men’s team and live out her father’s dream of becoming an NBA star. And yet it’s also not at all a basketball manga, because they never actually play a basketball game. (Okay. Maybe once. In 10 volumes.) Even so, Shojo & Tell host Ashley and her good friendo Loyola Rankin have a soft spot for this ’90s manga. Ashley relates perhaps too much to Kyo, and Loyola definitely likes bad boy Yura far too much. In the episode, Ashley and Loyola list off all the crimes Yura commits and somehow doesn’t go to jail for, praise the representation of menstrual cramps and periods generally, have a heated shipping corner, and come up with many lucrative business ideas. This is the funniest episode of the podcast to-date.REFERENCESGirl Got Game is out of print (originally published by Tokyopop), but you can still find copies of it on eBay and the likeThe team in Girl Got Game has practiced SO MUCH, surely they can take on the boys in Kuroko's BasketballClaudine prepared Ashley for Seino's artLibib is Ashley's preferred G**dreads alternativeTsuyaka Himejima from Girl Got Game and Sawako Kuranuma from Kimi ni Todoke look very similarOutro: This mashup of Allen Iverson's infamous "practice" rant with "Dreams and Nightmares" by Meek Mill [CONTENT WARNING for the Meek Mill song!] (essentially, the most Philadelphia thing possible)CONTACT USLoyola on Twitter:  @loyolarankinShojo & Tell on Twitter, Tumblr, and InstagramAshley on Twitter: @AshMcD00The next episode will be about Love in Focus  by Yoko Nogiri