Anime Feminist Recommendations of Spring 2024
Vibe with some great fantasy, check out some winning third seasons, and put your middle fingers up to the licensors who buried the season’s brightest new gem.
Vibe with some great fantasy, check out some winning third seasons, and put your middle fingers up to the licensors who buried the season’s brightest new gem.
Alex, Toni, and Peter return to wrap up a season with multiple strong anime-original titles and stellar sequels!
It is hard to know where to start with this amazing, beautiful, labyrinthine, and disturbing premiere
Alex, Toni, and Peter check in on a number of eyebrow-raising romances and some science fiction series with big but as-of-yet unrealized potential.
A quarter done already? This is one oddball spring, though there are still some standouts worth investing your time in.
Licensing frustrations aside, there are a number of titles to look forward to this season.
I had a wonderful time with Whisper Me a Love Song, but your experience will likely depend on how willing you are to stretch your disbelief over the premise.
I love a series that presents an interesting premise and then does absolutely nothing with it, don’t you?
It’s worth following a few more episodes just to see what the hype is about.
Yatagarasu’s focus on the women themselves grants them a little narrative autonomy even if the system itself reduces them to political pawns being gracefully moved around a precarious board.
If I had a nickel for every anime MAPPA made about a promising middle school athlete starting high school with amnesia, I’d have two nickels. That’s not a lot, but it’s weird that it’s happened twice.
An isekai protagonist who’s actively anti-slavery! We’ve cleared the lowest bar!
It’s okay, but so far the leads’ chemistry isn’t terribly convincing.
Viral Hit is a show about frustrations with the medical system and exploitation when working online—something that’s sadly relatable across cultures.
Strap in, everyone, because we have a lot to unpack here.
There are plenty of stories that sound sketchy but come out on top thanks to thoughtful execution. But I’m not sure from this first episode whether it has the chops to sell its romance convincingly.
Sumireko is fantastic, but the show is being strangled by obtrusive fanservice.
Sometimes, it’s good to remember that humor is cultural….but boy, was this still a dull slog.
Despite leaning hard into the absurdity of its premise, Go! Go! Loser Ranger! feels like it has some earnest regard for the genre it’s parodying. Plus kick-ass action direction.
Its leads are good kids, but your interest will depend on your feelings about het crossdressing stories and tolerance for limited animation.