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Covers all 10 volumes of Girl Got Game (also known as Power!!) by Shizuru Seino Girl 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 a 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. REFERENCES Girl Got Game is out of print (originally published by Tokyopop), but you can still find copies of it on eBay and the like The team in Girl Got Game has practiced SO MUCH, surely they can take on the boys in Kuroko's Basketball Claudine prepared Ashley for Seino's art Libib is Ashley's preferred G**dreads alternative Tsuyaka Himejima from Girl Got Game and Sawako Kuranuma from Kimi ni Todoke look very similar Outro: 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 US Loyola on Twitter:  @loyolarankin Shojo a Tell on Twitter, Tumblr, and Instagram Ashley on Twitter: @AshMcD00 The next episode will be about Love in Focus  by Yoko Nogiri