In 1969, Edwin Starr asked “war! What is it good for?” His answer, in the next line of the song, was “absolutely nothing.” Many years later, an alternate answer might be “speculative fiction anime starring pretty young women.”
As the fifteen exclamation points in the title might imply, Teppen has ENERGY!
As fiction has told us for many years, no one makes a better assassin than a sixteen-year-old girl.
Visually, there’s a lot to like about Engage Kiss. Unfortunately, then you get to the plot.
A spin-off of a beloved 90s series that can’t capture the same magic.
Much like ghosts, you’ll either believe in Phantom of the Idol or you’ll ignore it ratling around in the background due to its pretty okay premiere that, while not polarizing, doesn’t wow like some of Summer 2022’s other options.
A stunning, action packed three-episode premiere that welcomes fans int he know with welcome arms, but risks isolating newcomers with no prior knowledge of the series.
Spring is shaping up to be packed with excellent heroines and good kids.
Winter 2022 has been pretty hectic for the AniFem staff, but we still found time to make one of our biggest seasonal rec posts in almost a year!
Here is a tip: if you want to endear me to your trash gremlin heroine—something which should not be hard, given my record—then probably the last thing you should use is a one-two punch of “filming a fake suicide attempt” and “threatening the hero with fake sexual harassment claims.” Because I’ll tell you, I’m just not gonna come back from that even before you start dangling incest in front of my face.
Spring brings a bustling bouquet of promising series!
A seemingly promising premiere that’s ultimately too many tropes doing… nothing at all.
Love After World Domination reminds us that heroes loving villains and villains loving heroes will always be pretty good to watch.
I think how you feel about this premiere will largely depend on a few things: how you feel about the “two characters who don’t really like each other get handcuffed together and must go on an adventure” trope (magical edition), how you feel about goofy fantasy comedy, and how you feel about Carla.
Have y’all ever made a zombie brain? It turns several very tasty alcoholic beverages into one of the single worst textural experiences on Earth. This is like that.
Spy x Family is a fun romp with a warm heart; endearing, tense, and silly in equal measures. Hopefully the anime can continue to draw out the manga’s charms to create a satisfying adaptation
that will satisfy current and new fans alike.
Do you like Black Clover? This is basically Black Clover, but soccer.
It’s a fantastic premiere that mixes dance with commentary on toxic masculinity.
Over the years I’ve gotten accustomed to the incorporation of very soft, cutesified character designs in shows. So RPG Real Estate has come along to catapult me directly back to the 2007 as punishment for my hubris.
This is just another goddamn isekai fantasy about some misunderstood nice guy who looks like a monster (How Not to Summon a Demon Lord) steeped in MMO mechanics (She Professed Herself Pupil of the Wise Man) to follow his fun little over-powered adventures in another world without much of a goal in mind (Wise Man’s Grandchild). There are so many other shows I would rather watch or promote.
