Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You — Episodes 1-3
You’ve heard of meet cutes: well this is a “meat” cute with the brightly lit aisles and dimly lit alley of a supermarket serving up the start of a fantastic adaptation.
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Performing Ease: Emotional detachment and masculinity in Skip and Loafer
Skip and Loafer highlights how gendered expectations around emotion are learned and reinforced at an early age.
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Chatty AF 243: 2026 Spring Mid-Season Check-In
Dee, Caitlin, and Peter check in on the 2026 Spring season where they actually get to spend most of their time talking about Feminist Potential titles!
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Fighting Evil by Moonlight, Selling It by Daylight: Sailor Moon and the limits of 1990s American girl power
Sailor Moon’s original North American release was a product of its moment, shaped by broadcast standards, marketing logic, and a cultural framework that simply did not have room for everything the original series was doing.
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Magical Sisters LuluttoLilly — Episodes 1-3
It’s colorful, it’s sweet, and it wears its heart on its sleeve, combining a legacy of famous magical girl shows into a modern series that feels fresh enough, especially given that it’s so openly for children and not appealing to an adult demographic.
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Agency, consent, and queer monstrosity in This Monster Wants to Eat Me
The series’ nature as a piece of horror, coupled with the monsters and ambiguous intimacies at its core, set the stage for messy and emotional questions.
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2026 Spring Anime Three-Episode Check-In
Two of the team’s favorite series are receiving excellent adaptations this season, and there’s more solid shojosei on the docket. How could we not be happy?
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Chatty AF 242: 2026 Winter Wrap-Up (WITH TRANSCRIPT)
Vrai, Dee, and Peter make a much-delayed return to Wrap up the 2026 Winter season which, despite having many dropped titles, more than made up for them with its many successes!
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Anime Feminist Recommendations of Winter 2026
Winter gifted us some amazing shojosei, including what’s already one of 2026’s best anime.
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Umamusume: Pretty Derby – Beginning of a New Era – Movie Review
This standalone movie commits to its larger-than-life sports anime premise and lets its female leads be almost terrifyingly competent athletes, giving them meaningful character arcs along to way, too.
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2026 Spring Premiere Digest
Spring has sprung and with it, that means loads of new series to love, loathe, or just kind of shrug at. Thankfully, there’s some pretty stellar animation to kick back with while you smell that fresh spring air!
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Love Through a Prism – Series Review
Love Through a Prism has a romantic’s heart, for better and (occasionally) for worse.
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The Classroom of a Black Cat and a Witch — Episode 1
This premiere features too much upskirting, strange sexual harassment jokes, and a pairing of cat teacher and hapless student that feels dead on arrival.
