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2021 Winter Premiere Digest
The new year has started out strong with some incredible premieres that nobody was expecting.
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Anime Feminist’s Top Picks for 2020
In an exceptionally hellish year, good anime managed to provide some brief moments of reprieve. Here are the staff’s 2020 favorites!
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WONDER EGG PRIORITY – Episode 1
Wonder Egg is fabulism meets horror/suspense meets character drama. It is fantastical and grounded in equal turns, with a raw emotionality that pulls no punches but also doesn’t revel in suffering. It is surprising, tense, and stunning to look at, and I am beyond psyched to watch more of it.
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Redo of Healer – Episode 1
The source material has a reputation for being (to put it bluntly) rape revenge fetish porn, but this premiere is mostly a standard dark fantasy with some glimmers of potential that it will almost certainly never fulfill.
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Idoly Pride – Episode 1
IDOLY PRIDE’s premiere is good… until it tries to get twisty and drops the ball. Still, it’s worth watching… right?
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WAVE!! Let’s go surfing!! Episode – 1
There hasn’t been a major successful aquatic sports anime since FREE! and I wondered if Wave!! Let’s go surfing!! would fill that void. My short answer is “No,” and overall this premiere was a strong OK.
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Ex-Arm – Episode 1
Ex-Arm is everything that can probably go wrong making an anime, beating out even Kemono Friends and Gibiate in production values.
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Kemono Jihen – Episode 1
Inugami Koachi meets a half-demon boy named Dorotabo together they will solve the mystery of his missing parents.
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Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation – Episode 1
The show looks cool, so I guess I’ll stick around for 3 episodes. Totally fair if you’re not up for a gross protagonist constantly whining about boobs though.
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Sk8 the Infinity – Episode 1
First, let me tell you how much fun I had watching this bright, energetic premiere. Next, allow me to put on my Feminist Killjoy Hat and talk about its worrisome sexist streak.
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Dr. Ramune: Mysterious Disease Specialist – Episode 1
Dr. Ramune is an eccentric who treats his clients with spiritual illnesses with equally questionable methods.
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BACK ARROW – Episode 1
It’s familiar, like Gurren Lagann meets Escaflowne—but familiar doesn’t have to mean bad.
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Horimiya – Episode 1
A teenage love comedy that’s got a few problematic beats to an otherwise solid premiere.
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Scar on the Praeter – Episode 1
Kai Yamato is trying to make a living for himself and his little brother in the chaotic Tokyo Akatsuki Special Ward.
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The Hidden Dungeon Only I Can Enter – Episode 1
A show that could have been a forgettable isekai, but the dude doesn’t come from Japan for once. He’s still boring and everyone wants to get into his pants.
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Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki – Episode 1
You have the basic foundation for a series about a teenage boy whose misanthropy and pessimism feel all too real in 2021, all things considered. You also have the story of a girl who’s about to change his entire world… which also feels a bit too real in 2021, all things considered. Still, that could hypothetically result in a pretty heartwarming premiere… right?
