Buckle in, this is a long one. Bees, Miso, Nikki, and Aza talk about beauty in manga; what constitutes beauty and how it can be harmful. As always, the girls provide series that push harmful beauty tropes and ideas and series that turn those ideas on their head. Does it always lead back to male dominance....?
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