![[Feature] Pop Team Epic and the value of letting girls be absurd](https://i0.wp.com/www.animefeminist.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Pop-Team-Epic-1.png?resize=750%2C420&ssl=1)
Pop Team Epic blasted onto our screens at the start of the winter 2018 season and has been confusing and amusing viewers ever since. It’s fast-paced, surreal, absurd, a little crude, entrenched in pop culture, and just plain ridiculous. It stars Popuko and Pipimi, a pair of schoolgirls who, in taking this wild and wacky spotlight, step into a role not often given to girls in … [Read more...] about [Feature] Pop Team Epic and the value of letting girls be absurd
[Feature] Escapism and healing in Recovery of an MMO Junkie
![[Feature] Escapism and healing in Recovery of an MMO Junkie](https://i0.wp.com/www.animefeminist.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/MMO-Junkie-8.png?resize=750%2C420&ssl=1)
Recovery of an MMO Junkie is a bit of a misleading title. Looking at this romantic comedy by name and genre alone, it seems at first to be about its geeky protagonist, Morioka Moriko, getting pried away from her addiction to online games and finding happiness (and perhaps some good ol’ romance) in the real world. Instead, MMO Junkie gives us a story about finding happiness and … [Read more...] about [Feature] Escapism and healing in Recovery of an MMO Junkie
[Feature] Escape from Yuri Hell: FLIP FLAPPERS’ critique of the Class S genre
![[Feature] Escape from Yuri Hell: FLIP FLAPPERS’ critique of the Class S genre](https://i1.wp.com/www.animefeminist.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/YuriHell-5.png?resize=750%2C420&ssl=1)
FLIP FLAPPERS is many things: a magical girl adventure through visually stunning fantasy lands, a multi-layered exploration of its characters and the nature of perception, a problematic fave, and a queer coming-of-age story about an insecure girl who’s just trying to figure herself out. The story follows Cocona, a (seemingly) ordinary girl who gets swept up in a quest to … [Read more...] about [Feature] Escape from Yuri Hell: FLIP FLAPPERS’ critique of the Class S genre
[Feature] Adding Salt to Sweet Vanilla: The complex women of ToraDora!
![[Feature] Adding Salt to Sweet Vanilla: The complex women of ToraDora!](https://i1.wp.com/www.animefeminist.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/ToraDora-header3.png?resize=750%2C413&ssl=1)
ToraDora! tells a story about the bizarre tangled intricacies of teenage love, complete with matchmaker plots, zany schemes, and an increasingly convoluted love quadrangle that’s played for both comedy and drama. It also tells a story about how everyone has issues, inner turmoil, and inner selves that they keep concealed, usually with the intention of preserving a certain image … [Read more...] about [Feature] Adding Salt to Sweet Vanilla: The complex women of ToraDora!
[Discourse] The problem with the dark magical girl genre
![[Discourse] The problem with the dark magical girl genre](https://i1.wp.com/www.animefeminist.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/DarkMagicalGirl-13.jpg?resize=640%2C360&ssl=1)
SPOILERS: Major spoilers for Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Magical Girl Raising Project, Yuki Yuna is a Hero, Sailor Moon, and Puella Magi Madoka Magica: Rebellion Magical Girl Raising Project finished airing a few months ago, drawing its Battle Royale-esque death game to a close with most of its young, frill-clad, magical girl cast dead. It’s the expected outcome of anything … [Read more...] about [Discourse] The problem with the dark magical girl genre