Anime Feminist
Chatty AF 233: 2025 Summer Wrap-Up
Anime Feminist Recommendations of Summer 2025
2025 Fall Premiere Digest
Weekly Round-Up, 15-21 October 2025: Japan’s First Female Prime Minister, Gnosia Translation Guide, and LGBTQ Census Exclusions
What was your favorite Summer 2025 anime?
With You, Our Love Will Make it Through – Episode 1
Li’l Miss Vampire Can’t Suck Right – Episode 1
Weekly Round-Up, 8-14 October 2025: ICE ADOLESCENCE, Gainax’s Princess Anime, and BL Light Novels
What’s your favorite game based on an anime?
GNOSIA – Episode 1
Wandance – Episode 1
The Dark History of the Reincarnated Villainess – Episode 1
Ninja Vs Gokudo – Episode 1
Chitose is in the Ramune Bottle – Episode 1
Plus-Sized Misadventures in Love! – Episode 1
Alma-Chan Wants to Be a Family! – Episode 1
Weekly Round-Up, 1-7 October 2025: Not Your Idol Returns, NANA Anniversary Cover, and Crunchyroll’s Worsening Subtitles
A Mangaka’s Weirdly Wonderful Workplace – Episode 1
My Status as an Assassin Obviously Exceeds the Hero’s – Episode 1
Touring After the Apocalypse – Episode 1
My Friend’s Little Sister Has It In for Me! – Episode 1
Digimon Beatbreak – Episode 1
Dad is a Hero, Mom is a Spirit, I’m a Reincarnator – Episode 1
SI-VIS: The Sound of Heroes – Episode 1
Tojima Wants to Be a Kamen Rider – Episode 1
The Banished Court Magician Aims to Become the Strongest – Episode 1
What Fall 2025 anime are you most interested in?
Mechanical Marie – Episode 1
Sanda – Episode 1
Shabake – Episode 1
A Star Brighter Than the Sun – Episode 1
Inexpressive Kashiwada and Expressive Oota – Episode 1
The Fated Magical Princess: Who Made Me a Princess – Episodes 1-3
This Monster Wants to Eat Me – Episode 1
May I Ask for One Final Thing? – Episodes 1-2
My Gift Lvl 9999 Unlimited Gacha: Backstabbed in a Backwater Dungeon, I’m Out for Revenge! – Episode 1
Let’s Play – Episode 1
Dusk Beyond the End of the World – Episodes 0-1
Pass the Monster Meat, Milady! – Episode 1
My Awkward Senpai – Episode 1
Yano-kun’s Ordinary Days – Episode 1
2025 Fall Premiere Reviews
Weekly Round-Up, 24-30 September 2025: “It’s Not That Deep,” Mermaid Melody, and Newspaper AI
A Gatherer’s Adventure in Isekai – Episode 1
A Wild Last Boss Appears! – Episode 1
Cat’s Eye (2025) – Episode 1
What anime makes the best use of a weird premise?
Hero Without a Class: Who Even Needs Skills?! – Episode 1
Maebashi Witches sets a new standard for tackling fatphobia
WATATABE: This Monster Wants to Eat Me—World premiere and insights from the creative team
Weekly Round-Up, 17-23 September 2025: Matt Haasch In Memorium, Ojamajo Music Video, and Message From Chiitan
What shoujosei manga would you like to see reprinted?
Captivated, By You – Series Review
Weekly Round-Up, 10-16 September 2025: Erika Yoshida Interview, Yuri Game Festival, and Shoujo Humble Bundle
What’s your definition of “filler”?
The Fragrant Flower Blooms With Dignity – Episodes 1-2
Complicated Age: Passion, hobbies, and aging through the lens of Complex Age
Weekly Round-Up, 3-9 September 2025: Yuri Mobile Game, Promise Mascot Agency, and Pro-Palestine Manga Artists
What anime has the best stage show?
Weekly Round-Up, 27 August – 2 September 2025: Silent Hill f, Soft Censorship of Manga, and Anime-Inspired Streetwear
What’s your weird midnight snack?
Weekly Round-Up, 20-26 August 2025: AI Translation Creep, Early Jun Mayuzuki Manga, and Idol Lolita
What’s your favorite anime that’s shorter than 12 episodes?
Chatty AF 232: 2025 Summer Mid-Season Check-In (WITH TRANSCRIPT)
Anime Feminist’s Recommendation Backlog: Unusual School Clubs
Weekly Round-Up, 13-19 August 2025: Workplace BL and Yuri, Retro Shoujo Pins, and New Josei Web Magazine
Fermat Kitchen – Episode 1
Have you ever recreated food from an anime?
Weekly Round-Up, 6-12 August 2025: Crunchyroll Layoffs, Library Streaming Options, and Osaka’s Queer Feminist Cafe
What anime-related topic could you give a convention panel about?
Queer Self-Acceptance in Guilty Gear Strive
From the Verdigris House to the Rear Palace: Sex workers’ perspective on The Apothecary Diaries
Weekly Round-Up, 30 July – August 5 2025: Plus-Sized Misadventures in Love, Queer Summer Anime, and Fluffy BL
What’s your favorite Precure series?
Weekly Round-Up, 23-29 July 2025: NSFW Game Censorship, Manga Bans, and Aoi Yuki Interview
What Summer 2025 anime are you most invested in?
2025 Summer Anime Three-Episode Check-In
Anime Feminist Recommendations of Spring 2025
Weekly Round-Up, 16-22 July 2025: Horror Romance, the Apothecary Diaries, and Leaving VShojo
What was your favorite Spring 2025 anime?
Chatty AF 231: 2025 Spring Season Wrap-Up (WITH TRANSCRIPT)
2025 Summer Premiere Digest
Tougen Anki – Episode 1
Turkey! Time to Strike – Episodes 1-2
Weekly Round-Up, 9-15 July 2025: Blocked Visa Payments, Addressing Animation Crunch, and Short Shoujosei Manga
Kamitsubaki City Under Construction – Episodes 0-1
Solo Camping for Two – Episode 1
Dealing with Mikadono Sisters Is a Breeze – Episodes 1-2
There’s No Freaking Way I’ll Be Your Lover! Unless… – Episode 1
See You Tomorrow at the Food Court – Episode 1
Nyaight of the Living Cat – Episode 1
Uglymug, Epicfighter – Episode 1
Apocalypse Bringer Mynoghra: World Conquest Starts with the Civilization of Ruin – Episode 1
Dekin no Mogura: The Earthbound Mole – Episode 1
Weekly Round-Up, 2-8 July 2025: Women in Death Stranding, Sugar Sugar Rune Anime, and Ouji Fashion
Cultural Exchange with a Game Centre Girl – Episode 1
Hotel Inhumans – Episode 1
Gachiakuta – Episode 1
Bad Girl – Episode 1
CITY the Animation – Episode 1
Ruri Rocks – Episode 1
The Summer Hikaru Died – Episode 1
With You and the Rain – Episode 1
The Shy Hero and the Assassin Princesses – Episode 1
Betrothed to My Sister’s Ex – Episode 1
Watari-kun’s ***** is About to Collapse – Episode 1
Scooped Up by an S-Rank Adventurer! – Episode 1
Secrets of the Silent Witch – Episode 1
The Water Magician – Episode 1
New Saga – Episode 1
Onmyo Kaiten Re:Birth Verse – Episode 1
Clevatess – Episode 1
Welcome to the Outcast’s Restaurant! – Episode 1
Hell Teacher: Jigoku Sensei Nube – Episodes 1-2
Necronomico and the Cosmic Horror Show – Episode 1
Detectives These Days Are Crazy! – Episode 1
Weekly Round-Up, 25 June – 1 July 2025: Convervative Youth Backlash, Rent-a-Girlfriend Sunk Cost, and the Real TOGENASHI TOGEARI
Who’s your favorite LGBTQ+ protagonist?
Private Tutor to the Duke’s Daughter – Episode 1
2025 Summer Premiere Reviews
Takopi’s Original Sin – Episode 1
Throw the Man Away With Me: Rejecting heteronormativity in Run Away With Me, Girl
Dweebs, Dorks, and Dictators: El-Hazard’s prescient political commentary
Weekly Round-Up, 18-24 June 2025: Steam Accessibility Tags, Showa Fudanshi, and Tomino’s Gundam
What LGBTQ+ manga would you most like to see as an anime?
Weekly Round-Up, 11-17 June 2025: Legal Manga Platforms, Sailor Moon Day, and Switch 2
What was your first BL or yuri series?
Orb: On the Movements of the Earth and imagining radical futures
In Sailor Moon S and Revolutionary Girl Utena, butchness is vital fluidity
Weekly Round-Up, 4-10 June 2025: Dark Otome Kickstarter, Hayashibara Megumi Blog Post, and Real Honey Lemon Soda
What’s your favorite LGBTQ+ light novel?
Weekly Round-Up, 28 May – 3 June 2025: Queer Monster Rom-Com, Steam Festivals, and AI Translations
What’s your most rare or unusual out-of-print manga?
Chatty AF 230: Ave Mujica Retrospective (WITH TRANSCRIPT)
The women coloring the worlds of Studio Ghibli from behind the scenes
The Real Indians of Victorian Britain: Black Butler and the representation of South Asian histories
Weekly Round-Up, 21-27 May 2025: Crunchyroll Awards Postmortem, New Geikomi Publisher, and Adult Women in Anime
What’s your most interesting tape/DVD of an out-of-print anime?