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Re:Monster – Episode 1
The opening is impressively bad, and the rest of the episode has the gall to settle into mediocrity.
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Train to the End of the World – Episode 1
This is an anime-original project written by Yokote Michiko. With this one sentence, a non-insignificant number of you will be able to make up your minds about whether to check out this premiere.
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Gods’ Games We Play – Episode 1
Play a game with the gods and take a gamble on this just okay premiere about gods playing games and humans playing against gods that debuted with a day one dub in multiple languages.
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Spice and Wolf: MERCHANT MEETS THE WISE WOLF – Episode 1
It’s slow-going and softly-spoken, which means Spice and Wolf won’t be for everyone. But honestly, for me it’s a refreshing change of pace.
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2024 Spring Premiere Reviews
All the spring premiere reviews in one easy-to-find place.
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Studio Apartment, Good Lighting, Angel Included – Episode 1
Studio Apartment, Good Lighting, Angel Included is a magical girlfriend anime with absolutely no thoughts in its head.
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Crunchyroll fails to meet industry standards for Closed Captioning
Despite having a near-complete monopoly on the anime streaming industry in 2024, Crunchyroll does not offer closed captioning for the majority of its English dubs.
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Who is Granted Personhood? Frieren’s demons and the trouble with the “inherently evil race” trope
This story about immortality, grief, and the importance of emotional connections is interrupted by the presence of blunt, strawman villains who exist not as characters but as plot devices to show the “humanity” of the protagonists.
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Chatty AF 203: Revolutionary Girl Utena Watchalong – Episodes 21-27 (WITH TRANSCRIPT)
Vrai, Cy, and Chiaki return to cover the conclusion of the Black Rose arc, the beginning The End of the World, and Akio being both the worst and relentlessly sexy on convertibles.
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Becoming Monstrous: Yurikuma Arashi and transmisogyny in the school system
Everything in Yurikuma Arashi is more symbol than literal representation, and I have often mulled over its meaning as I’ve navigated entering the teaching profession as a nonbinary Chinese person. Like the bears, I’ve often asked myself: what do I sacrifice to be allowed to exist within the school?
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Curses and True Forms: Reading Fruits Basket as a lesbian
As a lesbian, Fruits Basket was not written for me. Even so, the romance between Kyo and Tohru resonates deeply with my experience of queerness.
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The Consequence of No Consequences: Mushoku Tensei and excusing sexual violence
Any story that wants to explore this darker side of humanity must be willing to explore how doing horrible things affects the world and people around you, or it risks trivializing the true horrors of the darkness it depicts.
