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Chatty AF 211: Revolutionary Girl Utena Watchalong – Episodes 28-34 (WITH TRANSCRIPT)
Things are heating up, both narratively and literally, as Vrai, Cy, and Chiaki return to peak trauma with Part 4 of our Revolutionary Girl Utena retrospective!
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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.
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How Another Code: Recollection rewrote its villain in an empathetic way
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.
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2024 Summer Premiere Digest
It’s a summer of love, ranging from sweet to very, very messy.
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Classmates and finding the humanity in clichés
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.
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Makeine: Too Many Losing Heroines! – Episode 1
This show is an example of just how much strong animation and adaptation can elevate even the most banal of premises.
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ATRI -My Dear Moments- – Episode 1
Watching ATRI feels like watching a Hollywood feature film tailor-made to contend for an Oscar.
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Why Does Nobody Remember Me in This World? – Episode 1
I wish the characters were more interesting, because the premise here has a lot of potential.
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Bye Bye, Earth – Episode 1
One good scene and pretty visuals can’t make up for clunky fantasy racism and buckets of exposition.
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Love is Indivisible by Twins – Episode 1
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?
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MAYONAKA PUNCH – Episode 1
Failgirl YouTuber/blockhead vampire yuri, made by PA Works? Yes, please.
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No Longer Allowed in Another World – Episode 1
Please let Dazai Osamu’s ghost rest. He and Edgar Allan Poe are probably commiserating over brandy in the afterlife.
