Anime Feminist Recommendations of Fall 2024
The year closed out on a wide range of winners, from yakuza thrillers and fake marriages to fishing stories.
The year closed out on a wide range of winners, from yakuza thrillers and fake marriages to fishing stories.
Alex, Cy, and Peter return to close out 2024 by wrapping up the Fall season, from okay adaptations of great shoujo to (mostly) great adaptations of good shounen.
Alex, Cy, and Peter check in on the 2024 Fall season’s surprising number of magical girls, enjoyable het romances, and girls hitting the Sailor Moon pose!
This season is all about the popcorn-munching drama, from erotic thrillers to court drama.
Can I offer you a middle-grade shounen about samurai in these trying times?
We’re going back to school with lots of magical girls this season!
A refreshingly inventive take on a “demon lord” story, with a side of cyberpunk.
Vrai, Caitlin, and Peter wrap-up the 2024 Summer season on a number of rom-coms ranging from good to questionable execution…
Packed to the gills with drama! betrayal! And a seriously questionable age-gap in the central romance!
There’s nothing more Halloween-grade horrifying than a fun supernatural slice-of-life premise cursed by an obnoxious protagonist.
A show that’s managed to escape from 2008 and appear, fully formed, in 2024.
Dive into the story of a girl’s unexpected rise from rags to brutal riches as she tries to keep her head while pretending to be one of the kingdom’s most valuable nobles!
This show deeply, desperately wants me to believe it’s not going to get weird with the premise. The jury is still out.
Expect the unexpected in a premiere that combines sensuality, sexuality, and the darker side of the yakuza underworld in a girl meets boy crime thriller that never slams on the brakes.
The show wants to do fan service capers but it also wants this character to read like a cutesy child and, arguably, represent the protagonist’s childhood. This is, as I’m sure you can imagine, a deeply uncomfortable combination.
It’s fantastic to see adult magical girls, though the execution is somewhat middle-of-the-road.
Step back in time to witness a young man suss out the secrets of the Sun and Earth, all while having to evade the grim reality of life in the Inquisition.
The Stories of Girls Who Couldn’t Be Magicians has all the makings of a solid magic school story for older kids,
Tepid on the surface and bland as can be, this premiere invites questions about the overall “I’m secretly the strongest” subset of fantasy narratives and its implications.
It’s hard not to root for a crowdfunded-project-turned-big from a female director to succeed.