ShouJoe

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

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October 29, 2025 71 mins

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...

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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...

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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 ...

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September 25, 2025 58 mins

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!

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September 19, 2025 62 mins

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...

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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...

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September 3, 2025 72 mins

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!

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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!

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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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August 11, 2025 83 mins

Spoilers for Jurassic World Rebirth, We finish off the Jurassic Park movies. Mutants, Boats, video game objectives. This movie has a lot going on but also not much. For the first time we have slightly diverging opinions too! Join us for the final JP cinema episode!

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We jump to three episodes this week! But first, Sarah and Joe had pretty mild weeks. Not much going on it seems so we talk about a bunch of random stuff.

In A Sign of Affection, Yuki and Itsuomi take the plunge! Wow! So quick! And we get what seems like an end-of-show credit sequence on episode 6, so that’s pretty weird. There is more to this show for sure, we gotta learn like backstories and stuff. But with only 5 episodes left, ho...

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August 2, 2025 90 mins

We watch the sixth Jurassic Park movie. This movie boldly asks the question, what if Jurassic Park wasn't really about Dinosaurs at all? A question no one asked and doesn't need to be answered. But here we are. Almost at the end. Please be at the end.

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We’re return this week for episodes 3 and 4. But first, Sarah and Joe catch up on the trials of social drinking as not so outgoing folks.

In a sign of affection we go to Costo. Yuki and Itsuomi are hitting it off pretty well even though everyone thinks he’s weird and distant. It’s actually going fine. Don’t worry about it. Oushi is worried about it, but we don’t really like him so who cares. Surely no drama will happen and everythi...

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We watch the fifth installment in the Jurassic Park cinematic franchise. In this one, our heroes must return to dinosaur island to try to re-classify the dinosaurs as a protected species, but it turns out the corporate upstarts want to really use the dinosaurs for profit and...oh I'm sorry I was reading my Lost World notes. In this one the island blows up.

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This week we start a brand new show! But first, Sarah and Joe catch up on our lives. Joe has now watched both Vampire Hunter D movies while Sarah showed her mom Attack on Titan.

Then we get into our new show a Sign of Affection! We meet Yuki, a college kid who starts to catch some feelings for the tall and mysterious Itsuomi. Yuki, who is deaf, must put herself out there to get his attention! And she makes tons of progress compared...

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July 16, 2025 60 mins

We’ve done it! Two seasons down, one to go. Join us for the season 2 finale of Chihayafuru!

In our real lives, Joe is enrolling in the wrong language classes while Sarah is mourning the end of a notably non-romantic season of Love Island.

In Chihayafuru, Mizusawa cleans up the individual tournament, Taichi finally ranks up, and Shinobu takes a rare L. Oh and also we learn that maybe Arata is thinking about Chihaya constantly. Like al...

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We're back again, one away from the end of the season. But first, we catch up on the latest news from us. Sarah watched the latest Jurassic Park and it was...uh...a movie. Joe meanwhile has watched two good animated movies: Kpop Demon Hunters and Ghost in the Shell: Solid State Society. I can tell you who had the better time.

In Chihayafuru, we continue on to the individuals tournament! Chihaya is injured but that won't stop her. Sh...

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July 4, 2025 96 mins

We enter the sequel phase of our Jurassic Park watch through with Jurassic World 2015. Years later, we return to dinosaur island to explore a new park. We got Chris Pratt, a super dino, bizarre subplots, a bunch of product placement, and an old dino friend. Surely nothing will go wrong this time right?

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We return to our final team game episodes. But first we catch up on our lives. Joe went to a wedding and Sarah was in a car accident?!

In Chihayafuru we start off strong with… a recap episode. But after that we dive right back into the team game finals. Will Chihaya beat this mystery girl? Will Taichu finally have some luck? Will Nishida do anything interesting? Come watch it with us!

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We hit the season 2 midpoint! IRL, Joe has finally finished some Gundam and gets to talk about it, while Sarah has warmed up to her puppy, despite the cord chewing.

In Chihayafuru, we continue in team play. First we finish our game against Megumu and the all girls school. Chihaya’s game is pretty back and forth, but don’t worry about Tsutomu might clutch it out! Then we move on to the finals and meet Fujisaki, a team with the worst ...

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