Content Warning: Discussion of predatory behavior/sexual harassment Growing up, I learned from shoujo manga that there’s nothing more precious than female friendship. The josei manga I’ve read as an adult have continued to celebrate those relationships, even as the fully-grown heroines’ lives take different directions from their friends’. Satoko and Nada, a story of cross-cultural …
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