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Chatty AF 233: 2025 Summer Wrap-Up (WITH TRANSCRIPT)
Vrai, Dee, and Peter have quite a bit to say about a very sequel-heavy season and possibly one of the best anime of the year!
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Anime Feminist Recommendations of Summer 2025
Summer gave us a strong contender for anime of the year, plus some exceptional comedies and daringly out-there concepts.
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2025 Fall Premiere Digest
Fall is shaping up to be good eating for fans of shoujo and josei! Here’s hoping that trend continues.
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With You, Our Love Will Make it Through – Episode 1
Move over Beastars: there’s an a new romance to capture the hearts of fans of forbidden love, only it mingles humans AND beastfolk to tell a story about what it means to be human, whether you have fur or not.
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Li’l Miss Vampire Can’t Suck Right – Episode 1
In a city where everything from yokai to robots exist, one vampire girl tries to figure out how to properly drink blood from a classmate who never expected their worlds to collide.
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GNOSIA – Episode 1
GNOSIA transports viewers to the deepest recesses of the universe and a crew trying to find the traitor among them before it’s too late. So far it has all the beauty and gender of the game.
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Wandance – Episode 1
A genuine and engaging premiere about a boy who wants to dance and a girl who loves dance that’s marred by the uncanny 3DCGI for its dance sequences.
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The Dark History of the Reincarnated Villainess – Episode 1
Transporting a woman into her own middle-school fanfic makes for a great affectionate parody of isekai stories for teenage girls.
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Ninja Vs Gokudo – Episode 1
The concept of ninja and yakuza having a hidden war in society’s darkest corners isn’t a cool enough premise to fix a premiere that’s dead on arrival.
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Chitose is in the Ramune Bottle – Episode 1
Everything is filtered through the male lead’s patronizing perspective, trapped in an internal monologue that oscillates between musings about the springtime of youth and crude comments about his friends’ boobs.
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Plus-Sized Misadventures in Love! – Episode 1
Plus-Sized Misadventures in Love is lifting an absolutely herculean task onto its shoulders: selling a fatphobic world on the charm of a cute and confidently fat heroine.
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Alma-Chan Wants to Be a Family! – Episode 1
Alma-chan Wants to Be a Family provides what we all need in these genuinely hard times: a low-stakes premiere that is simple, sweet, and well executed.
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A Mangaka’s Weirdly Wonderful Workplace – Episode 1
AniFam, I am pleased to present to you a star rom-com of the season: “useless lesbians make manga.”
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My Status as an Assassin Obviously Exceeds the Hero’s – Episode 1
A breath of fresh air for its niche, with expressive fight scenes, classmates that don’t feel cartoonishly evil, and a genuine sense of mystery.
