ShouJoe
The ShouJoe Podcast is a podcast where host Sarah shows her favorite Shoujo anime series to her long time friend Joe. Each week, the two do a deep dive of Shoujo Anime they’re covering, about 2-3 episodes at a time, provide summaries, opinions, analysis, and generally just joke around about the episodes. Join us as Sarah shows Joe what Shoujo is all about! Follow us on all the things! | Intro/Outro music by viyn
Episodes
We hit the halfway point this week! And speaking of hits, Joe tells us about his new car problems and Sarah remembers her car trauma. Boo cars, we don’t like.
In my happy marriage, we speedrun our way through the plot. We learn some troubling news about Miyo’s new bestie that caps off in some pretty cool fighting. The illusion guy does some illusions. As one does.
Happy new year everyone! IRL we go over our holiday events and plans as we round out 2025. Here’s to another year with the ShouJoe pod!
In my happy marriage, we’ve got more parents. The B plot becomes the A plot and we get a new bi-specticaled baddy. Then Milo gets a new friend and we learn that being a woman in the army isn’t so great.
This week we prep for the holidays. We go over our Christmas prep plans and dicuss a bunch of other stuff that isn’t related to that. Also video games.
In My Happy Marriage, we meet the parents! It’s season 2 and Miyo has a new problematic parent to deal with, while Kiyoka has a new forest adventure. The vibes are better and we’re ready to dig in.
Happy holidays everyone! Sarah and Joe decided to celebrate by watching the Star Wars Holiday Special. Days later, it’s still unclear to me why we did this to ourselves. Why did we watch Chewbacca’s dad imagine a sexy lady singing to him? Why did Princess Leia sing a song to the main theme tune? Why was GM running the equivalent of campaign ads in 1978? Absolutely nothing makes sense in this special and neither of us think you shou...
This week we finish My Happy Marriage Season 1. In our real lives, we adjust to getting back to weekly recordings by talking about what really matters, video games. We talk about some of the latest and somewhat off-putting game trailers from the video game awards and then we talk about what we’re currently watching and playing. We even talk a bit about anime. Imagine that!
In My Happy Marriage, we finish off season 1 with two really...
We near the end of season one this week. But first, Joe is back and talks about his time in Japan. Joe and Sarah gab about that and many more things. Lots to catch up on!
In my happy marriage, we meet the other half of Miyo’s family and they are…uh…not much better! Kiyoka gets baited into a gentleman’s duel, but as we learned from the Rose of Versailles, never do those. Next time it’s the end of season 1 + the OVA
We pass the halfway point of season one. IRL Joe preps to leave on his trip to Japan (which he'll already be on when you're listening).
In My Happy Marriage, we close the book on Miyo's family and open it on Kyouka's. Miyo gets some formal lady training from Kyoula's sister Hazuki and tries to move on with her live. Also evil ghosts get loose and start harassing the country side, what fun!
Since Joe is in Japan this week, here is a bonus ep for the very odd, but well costumed, live action 1979 movie Lady Oscar.
Content Warning for My Happy Marriage: Abuse, Violence
We’re back for another helping of misery. But first, we get back into the swing of things and find out that actually our lives might be boring week to week. This was way easier where we had like three weeks of things to talk about. Oh well. We do the usual talking about games and stuff.
In My Happy Marrage, we finish up the family arc with the worst kidnapping scheme I’ve ever se...
Content Warning for My Happy Marriage: Abuse
We begin a new show! We catch up after a long break that we had IRL and go over the big events like weddings and going to Houston! Hurray. Then we start a brand new show, My Happy Marriage, hurray!
We met Miyo and her terrible awful no-good very bad family. Miyo has basically the worst life ever. Then she suddenly gets married to a mysterious, but kinda sexy man. Who is this mystery man? ...
This week we finish Chihayafuru! Not much has happened since last recording in the real world. Joe finds out that he doesn’t need to upgrade his computer to windows 10 and Sarah stubs her toe real bad (and sends Joe a picture of it mid recording, look forward to that).
In Chihayafuru, we end with two solid episodes and one out of place one. It’s character drama time and we take the last few moments of the series to work out our feel...
Back from unexpected break - we're two busy bees over here, sorry about that folks!
We finish the master and queen matches this week. IRL, Sarah waits her new car and Joe gets ready to play some new games. The anticipation is real.
In Chihayafuru, we finish of the master and queen matches. We learn that the sexism in karuta is even worse than we thought. And everyone hates Suo even though he really doesn’t seem all that bad. Then Tai...
This week the master and queen matches. But first, we discuss what's going on with us. Sarah has picked out a potential car for herself and Joe has picked KOTOR2 back up. Big stuff for the two of us.
In Chihayafuru, we get a christmas episode unexpectely! Wow, then we get the master and queen matches that we've been waiting for? We get to hangoug with Shinobu again who we haven't seen in a while. She's still going through it with he...
We finally get some romance this time! In our real lives, Sarah has been considering a car purchase while Joe made a big purchase, a Steam Deck.
Then we talk about video games as one does. In Chihayafuru, we ramp up for the Arata v Harada match. Wow, what a mouth full. Then we get some quality time with Master Suo. Our opinion on him might change a bit. Then the boys get to make some romantic progress! Things are really heating up ...
Our best boy is stuck on the sidelines this week. In our real lives, Sarah is deciding which car to buy so she can get back out on the open road, while Joe goes to a concert, a rare occurrence for him!
In Chihayafuru, we see if any main character can make it to the challengers final. Which is to say, Arata needs to pull through or this season is a wash. Come on Arata! You’re finally in the show! Make us proud!
Welcome to our late night recording. We’re punchy this episode because we both recorded late and had to restart. So we’re in good spirits while we talk about our lives…but mostly we talk about movies and stuff like that.
In Chihayafuru all our momentum comes to a screeching halt. It’s the Taichi misery hour and wow do we get to watch him go through it. Meanwhile, Chihaya is being a total brat on her school trip. Also Arata is starti...
We return once again, but this time Sarah is all (mostly) moved in to her new place! Elsewhere, Joe went to an anime convention and has picked up a mystery box. Ooo, what could be in it?? It’s been pretty exhausting few weeks, but nothing can stop us from watching Chihayafuru S3.
In Chihayafuru, the tournament continues. Challengers come and go and we finally build up to a long awaited game? Who will be victorious? Tune in to find o...
We took a surprise week off due to Sarah’s big move! We recorded this episode before the move so we’ll be talking like it hasn’t happened yet, just FYI!
We're back into Chihahayfuru with the final season. We start with a good OVA followed by a mostly karuta focused trio of episodes that lead us into, you guessed it, another tournament. Strap in for the final season!
This week we finish off a sign of affection. But first, we catch up on our real lives and talk about lounging by the pool, anime, and vocaloids. You know, normal stuff.
In A Sign of Affection we say farewell to all our friends (and Oushi). As we close the book on probably our most straightforward romance series to date. It’s a good one!
Next week we’re back in the Chihayafuru mines, digging into season 3!
We arrive at our second to last Sign of Affection episode. But first, we catch up, IRL Sarah is back from her vacation and managed not to get fried! Meanwhile Joe has watched some anime and done pretty much nothing else.
In a sign of affection we get into our beloved side character drama. Hey, wouldn’t it suck if you liked your friend but they were into someone else? Well imagine that happened for four different people. At least Rin...
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