Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You — Episodes 1-3
You’ve heard of meet cutes: well this is a “meat” cute with the brightly lit aisles and dimly lit alley of a supermarket serving up the start of a fantastic adaptation.
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Magical Sisters LuluttoLilly — Episodes 1-3
It’s colorful, it’s sweet, and it wears its heart on its sleeve, combining a legacy of famous magical girl shows into a modern series that feels fresh enough, especially given that it’s so openly for children and not appealing to an adult demographic.
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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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Anime Feminist Recommendations of Winter 2026
Winter gifted us some amazing shojosei, including what’s already one of 2026’s best anime.
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Umamusume: Pretty Derby – Beginning of a New Era – Movie Review
This standalone movie commits to its larger-than-life sports anime premise and lets its female leads be almost terrifyingly competent athletes, giving them meaningful character arcs along to way, too.
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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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Love Through a Prism – Series Review
Love Through a Prism has a romantic’s heart, for better and (occasionally) for worse.
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The Classroom of a Black Cat and a Witch — Episode 1
This premiere features too much upskirting, strange sexual harassment jokes, and a pairing of cat teacher and hapless student that feels dead on arrival.
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Yowayowa Sensei — Episode 1
Spring delivers its worst with a romantic comedy where clumsy teacher meets pupil supporter and the world’s most uncomfortable hijinks ensue.
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Rooster Fighter — Episode 1
I’d rather eat a bucket of fried chicken than watch a rooster try to kick ass, but here I am with no fried chicken and a premiere that I really didn’t like.
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I Want to End This Love Game — Episode 1
Love in the name of the game in a perfectly okay premiere where you know the characters are end game, but you don’t know the journey there.
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Ichijyoma Mankitsu Gurashi! – Episode 1
Generally, this premiere seems more interested in setting up jokes about underwear than exploring the tangled psychosocial web the main character finds herself in.
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Botan Kamiina Fully Blossoms When Drunk — Episode 1
This yuri is as sweet as the scent of Spring, openly queer in its premiere that focuses on the simple pleasure of sharing a drink with someone you like.
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A Hundred Scenes of Awajima — Episode 1
Tender, thoughtful, and truly charming, this premiere promises a season filled with the growth of a dozens of perspectives all aimed at standing on the grand, operatic stage after their time at Awajima.
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Kill Blue – Episode 1
It’s not often we get adult protagonists, so it’s kind of a shame that this middle-aged assassin regressed to being a middle schooler.
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Fist of the North Star: HOKUTO NO KEN – Episodes 1 – 2
Maybe this reboot is the kind of hopeful narrative we need during these challenging times, even if it’s against such a gritty and gory backdrop.
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NIPPON SANGOKU – Episode 1
As far as problems go, there are many, but by sheer dint of aesthetic this could also become a fave.
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Kujima: Why Sing, When You Can Warble? – Episode 1
If you’re a fan of oddball comedies and birds, this might be the premiere for you. Just know that your humble reviewer was terrified the entire time, but totally gets this series appeal.
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Gals Can’t Be Kind to Otaku?! – Episode 1
Nerds and Cool Girls Meet in a premiere where what we think of each other is pushed and pulled on to ultimately reveal we all like fandom at the end of the day.
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MARRIAGETOXIN – Episode 1
You’ll be saying “I do!” to this fantastic premiere that features two criminals who make for a fantastically odd couple in the daylight.
