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.
Among the changes that this remake made to its source material, the most personally striking was the radical difference in one character: Ryan Gray, a neurodivergent-coded antagonist originally presented as an unambiguous villain, but reinvented as a nuanced, sympathetic figure.
It’s a summer of love, ranging from sweet to very, very messy.
In the afterword of the first volume of Classmates, Nakamura Asumiko wrote of her first BL series, “I wanted to go with something cliche, almost hackneyed.” It’s true, Classmates does indulge many of the standards of the genre. Instead of using these cliches as shortcuts, however, Nakamura uses the reader’s familiarity to build a framework for a humanistic, multifaceted story about queer intimacy, connection, and joy.
This show is an example of just how much strong animation and adaptation can elevate even the most banal of premises.
Watching ATRI feels like watching a Hollywood feature film tailor-made to contend for an Oscar.
I wish the characters were more interesting, because the premise here has a lot of potential.
One good scene and pretty visuals can’t make up for clunky fantasy racism and buckets of exposition.
This show is clearly not afraid of moving into the messier, more interesting parts of romance that many slow burn romances little interest in–what happens when you try to break up with somebody and you can’t let go? What happens when your reason for breaking up was fundamentally a bad one, but you still have to live with the consequences?
Failgirl YouTuber/blockhead vampire yuri, made by PA Works? Yes, please.
Please let Dazai Osamu’s ghost rest. He and Edgar Allan Poe are probably commiserating over brandy in the afterlife.
If all you want is a show that revels in the contrast between pretty anime character designs and gross characterization, hey, you might have a good time.
Wistoria is a competently told take on a familiar story that might make nice casual viewing for action fantasy fans.
How is it that after watching two episodes, I still felt like nothing noteworthy happened.