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Chatty AF 229: 2025 Spring Mid-Season Check-In (WITH TRANSCRIPT)
Spring 2025 is a season with a lot of nice titles and a few that are taking on way too many concepts outside of their scope.
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No Gunpla Girls Allowed: How Gundam Build Fighters fails its female cast
In a world where high-tech Gunpla battles reign supreme, anyone can build a Gunpla model kit and become a Gundam Battle champion… in theory. In practice, Build Fighters and its sequel end up undermining that message through the treatment of their female cast, and accidentally saying a lot about trends in shounen and the Gundam franchise in the process.
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Gigi Murakami demonstrates how horror manga can channel Black girl nightmares
The Ignatz Award-nominated Murakami draws influence from manga, vintage grindhouse picture posters, and pulp comics, breathing fresh air into the horror genre while approaching the fearful experiences of descendants of the African diaspora and, most significantly, the fears and nightmares of dark-skinned women.
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Supporting Women’s Wrongs (Just Not Like That): Fandom misogyny and the flawed women of NANA
The need for well-written female characters is supposedly understood and advocated for in fandom spaces, but the moment these female characters show any unfavorable attributes or make mistakes, they are rarely given the same grace as male characters. The complicated women of NANA prove that there’s a limit to how flawed a female character can be before she’s no longer palatable to readers.
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BanG Dream! It’s MyGo!!!!!, Ave Mujica, and the Doll in Asian Feminism
Bang Dream: It’s My Go!!!!! and Ave Mujica challenge overly simple distinctions between fake and real that imagine Asian girls as doll-like constructs of femininity and marginalize trans women.
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Chatty AF 228: ZENSHU Retrospective (WITH TRANSCRIPT)
The classic AniFem combo of Dee, Caitlin, and Vrai get together to talk about the standout anime of 2025 Winter and AOTY hopeful, a meta throwback to ‘90s shoujo isekai, ZENSHU!
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2025 Spring Anime Three-Episode Check-In
Spring has brought us some powerful stories about girls growing up and compelling-but-fraught speculative fiction about decaying systems.
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Anime Feminist Recommendations of Winter 2025
This season, let’s hear it for incredible women writers and directors, from new franchise entries to original projects!
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How Ascendance of a Bookworm depicts the challenges and triumphs of chronic illness
Ascendence of a Bookworm depicts both the societal forces shaping the lives of people with chronic illness and how accessible community can help ameliorate them.
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Chatty AF 227: Monogatari Watchalong Part 4 – Nisemonogatari (WITH TRANSCRIPT)
Tony, Vrai, and Peter return to conquer the nadir of the Monogatari series so they can enjoy Tony’s promised greater pastures ahead. Enjoy all our thoughts on the infamous toothbrush scene!
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2025 Spring Premiere Digest
Spring brings a crop of nostalgic revivals, from aesthetic throwbacks to reinventions of classic franchises.
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mono – Episode 1
It has some big shoes to fill, coming from the same creator as Laid-Back Camp, and it makes a strong start as a hobby show.
