Performing Ease: Emotional detachment and masculinity in Skip and Loafer
Skip and Loafer highlights how gendered expectations around emotion are learned and reinforced at an early age.
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Agency, consent, and queer monstrosity in This Monster Wants to Eat Me
The series’ nature as a piece of horror, coupled with the monsters and ambiguous intimacies at its core, set the stage for messy and emotional questions.
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2026 Spring Anime Three-Episode Check-In
Two of the team’s favorite series are receiving excellent adaptations this season, and there’s more solid shojosei on the docket. How could we not be happy?
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2026 Spring Premiere Digest
Spring has sprung and with it, that means loads of new series to love, loathe, or just kind of shrug at. Thankfully, there’s some pretty stellar animation to kick back with while you smell that fresh spring air!
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2026 Spring Premiere Reviews
All the spring premiere reviews in one easy-to-find place. We’ll update the chart as new series become available, so be sure to check back in the coming days for more!
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The AniFem Guide to Shojosei Series Coming Out in Spring 2026
We were truly spoiled for choice with shojosei for Winter 2026, from early contenders for anime of the year to some truly awful dreck. Spring doesn’t bring us quite the same embarrassment of riches, but there’s still a meaty selection available.
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Murakami’s The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and Societal Melancholia in the Wake of Imperialism
Each generation in The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle attempts to find a path out of suffering, groping at lost histories to understand themselves so they can connect with others, in the process forcing a reckoning for readers with Japan’s imperial legacies.
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Cripple Punk Motifs in Tank Chair
Tank Chair provides the kind of disabled power fantasy that has previously only existed in the minds of disabled people, and has never been so beautifully realized in a comic published in the mainstream.
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I Have No Enemies: Vinland Saga and the ethics of political nonviolence
Vinland Saga challenges our relationships with nonviolent resistance as individual moral actors and members of a collective struggle for a world free of state violence.
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Solo Leveling’s Adaptation and the Echoes of Anti-Korean Sentiment and Japanese Imperialism
Solo Leveling’s Japanese release removed all references to Korea, changing both character and location names to Japanese alternatives–a decision that becomes especially glaring when the Jeju Island Arc blatantly parallels Japan’s colonization of Korea.
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2026 Winter Anime Three-Episode Check-In
2026 has started off with a lot of big, complicated Gender Feelings, looked at with a range of styles and skill levels.
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2026 Winter Premiere Digest
We’re up to our ears in joseimuke anime this season, and we couldn’t be happier!
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2026 Winter Premiere Reviews
All the winter premiere reviews in one easy-to-find place. We’ll update the chart as new series become available, so be sure to check back in the coming days for more!
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The AniFem Guide to Shojosei Series Coming Out in Winter 2026
Although still vastly overshadowed by shonen and seinen anime, the 2025 fall season saw a huge boom in shojosei series. We’ve put together this guide ahead of the upcoming season to help our readers stay abreast of what’s coming out.
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How Just Like Mona Lisa uses speculative fiction to explore gender norms
Bundled in a melodramatic coming-of-age story, the storytelling sometimes falls into fraught tropes about genderqueer people, but it also raises some sincere philosophical questions and pointed commentary on the real world’s many gender paradoxes.
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2025 Fall Anime Three-Episode Check-In
It’s a little bit more like a four- or five-episode check-in this go round, but that just means bonus chat!
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2025 Fall Premiere Digest
Fall is shaping up to be good eating for fans of shoujo and josei! Here’s hoping that trend continues.
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2025 Fall Premiere Reviews
All the fall premiere reviews in one easy-to-find place. We’ll update the chart as new series become available, so be sure to check back in the coming days for more!
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Maebashi Witches sets a new standard for tackling fatphobia
Writer Erika Yoshida’s talents shine in Maebashi, which isn’t so much about revolutionizing the world as imagining achievable ways that everyday girls can make the world a better place. And nowhere is the show stronger than in its exploration of fatphobia.
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From the Verdigris House to the Rear Palace: Sex workers’ perspective on The Apothecary Diaries
As a sex worker, however, my favorite aspect of The Apothecary Diaries is the nuanced depiction of sex work. From the Verdigris House women to the royal concubines, the series treats the characters engaged in sex work with care, subverting many of the harmful tropes and expectations that other popular media from around the world often fall into.
