2025 Summer Anime Three-Episode Check-In
This is a summer of horror and romance–sometimes at the same time!
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Anime Feminist Recommendations of Spring 2025
Spring brought us rebellious teens, simmering adult dramas, and existential robots.
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Chatty AF 231: 2025 Spring Season Wrap-Up (WITH TRANSCRIPT)
Vrai, Peter, and Toni belatedly regroup to finally recap the 2025 Spring season’s many triumphs and biggest blunder.
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2025 Summer Premiere Digest
A summer marked by technical and ethical streaming issues is still home to some incredible shows.
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Tougen Anki – Episode 1
The action scenes look fantastic, but that’s about all to recommend from this premiere.
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Turkey! Time to Strike – Episodes 1-2
Gauging the first episode of Turkey! feels useless without the second, which is both a good and bad thing.
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Kamitsubaki City Under Construction – Episodes 0-1
These episodes unfortunately throw so much information and stimulus at you that it’s hard to get a grip on what all this means or why it matters.
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Solo Camping for Two – Episode 1
You’ll wish you’d checked into anywhere but this lackluster premiere that features the two most irritating people AND a sexual assault threat for comedic effect.
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Dealing with Mikadono Sisters Is a Breeze – Episodes 1-2
This might collapse into a harem show, but right now it’s nice to see the focus on making each sister distinct and highlighting their bonds from the start.
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There’s No Freaking Way I’ll Be Your Lover! Unless… – Episode 1
It’s “part time girlfriend” premise is fun and joyously silly, but its frenetic pacing might not be for everyone.
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See You Tomorrow at the Food Court – Episode 1
Food Court takes us truly back to basics for a “girls doing stuff” anime: no club setting, no central hobby or special interest, just girls hanging out and shootin’ the breeze.
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Nyaight of the Living Cat – Episode 1
This premiere injects a healthy does of fun into what easily could have been a too silly premiere, resulting in one of the season’s strongest debuts and also, another fear on my list: kitty-pocalypse!
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Uglymug, Epicfighter – Episode 1
The only ugliness to be found is in Shigeru’s volcel actions and this premiere’s treatment of his body and physicality.
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Apocalypse Bringer Mynoghra: World Conquest Starts with the Civilization of Ruin – Episode 1
One young man finds himself in another world in a grounded premiere that doesn’t overpower him, but instead, empowers him to do right by some of the fantasy world’s most downtrodden.
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Dekin no Mogura: The Earthbound Mole – Episode 1
A supernatural comedy that’s probably only going to click with a very niche audience.
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Cultural Exchange with a Game Centre Girl – Episode 1
A lot of the shine comes off this rather sweet premiere when you realize it’s setting up a romance between a 13-year-old and an 18-year-old.
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Hotel Inhumans – Episode 1
Dive into the dark underbelly of a world where living past twenty is a huge achievement in a premiere that’s engaging right from the start.
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Gachiakuta – Episode 1
Gachiakuta is an angry show, but it’s not yet clear whether it has a goal or will fall into aimless edgelord exploits.
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Bad Girl – Episode 1
Bad Girl will make a good girl out of any viewer due to being pretty charming yuri fun.
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CITY the Animation – Episode 1
If you loved Nichijou, this creative reunion is largely more of a good thing..
