AniFem Round-Up The Villain Edit: Dissecting how Oshi no Ko evokes real-life tragedy in its depictions of harassment and reality TV culture Oshi no Ko evokes a real woman’s death with good intentions, but it’s still worth asking if the story’s execution did more harm than good. Nagata Kabi and the Mundane Pain of Sickness; […]
24 days ago • Subscribe
More like this
Weekly Round-Up, 18-24 May 2022: Asexual Manga, Otome Game Demand, and Bloober Silent Hill
AniFem Round-Up How shoujo manga helps me grapple with internalized misogyny Shojo & Tell host Ashley McDonnell shares how she came to love the genre, and how it’s…
KADOKAWA’s Weekly Top 5 Manga and Light Novel: May 29 – June 4, 2024
Please note that from the looks of it, the rankings provided by KADOKAWA are limited to that of Japan only. The methodology is not provided, however, it is…
Weekly Round-Up, 7-13 June 2023: Pride Recommendations, CBR Layoffs, and Abuse Investigation
Content Warning: Excerpts included in this post discuss police brutality/racial profiling and suicidal ideation/planning. AniFem Round-Up Akane-Banashi: Writing women protagonists using Battle Shounen tropes The series not only…
Weekly Round-Up, 12-18 June 2024: Visual Kei Chat, Education on Trans Issues, and Columbus Music Video
AniFem Round-Up Powerful feelings, intimacy and sex in Joseimuke anime Rejecting a sole focus on climax and embracing the spectrum of erotica, we can learn a lot from…
Weekly Round-Up, 27 May – 2 June, 2020: Protest Resources and Celebrating Black Creators
As with yesterday’s Talk post, this week’s Links round-up is slightly different. Below, we’ve listed links to AniFem articles penned by Black contributors, as well as our podcasts…
Weekly Round-Up, 10-16 May 2023: Entertainment Industry Abuse, Underpaid Older Women, and New Animation Studio
AniFem Round-Up The joyful affirmation of plus-sized leads in yuri There are very few plus-sized leads in manga, especially romantic leads. Patricia C. Baxter discusses two recent titles…
Weekly Round-Up, 26 May – 1 June 2021: Ace Attorney Localization, “Cool Japan,” and Gendered Translation
AnFem Round-Up The Girl with the Healing Kiss: How Talentless Nana explores gender, morality and the savior complex Avanya Manickum unpacks Michiru’s arc and how it implicitly plays…
Weekly Round-Up, 19-25 June 2024: Dyslexia-Friendly Fonts, Yuri Autofiction, and Omegaverse Chat
AniFem Round-Up How racial inequality in From the New World mirrors the Black American struggle The series achieves deeper nuance than many fantasy metaphors, and isn’t afraid to…
Weekly Round-Up, 23-29 June 2021: Utada Hikaru’s Coming Out, Cosplay in 2020, and Translator Interviews
AniFem Round-Up Love, Sex, and Power in Fruits Basket Sara Connor analyzes Akito’s character arc and the complicated interplay of abuse and trauma. A Dress Isn’t Just A…
Weekly Round-Up, 29 June – 5 July 2022: Crunchyroll Translator Wages, X-Gender Manga, and Coming Out
AniFem Round-Up Yuri is for Everyone: An analysis of yuri demographics and readership Nicki “YuriMother” Bauman breaks down the demographics of reader surveys and magazine markets. Skip Beat!’s…
Weekly Round-Up, 1-7 May 2024: Black BL, Mental Health Chat, and KOSA Updates
AniFem Round-Up From Takarazuka to Terayama: The influence of queer theater on Revolutionary Girl Utena Looking into the queer outsider theatre that Ikuhara drew inspiration sheds fascinating new…
Weekly round-up
Hello, happy New Year, and welcome back. We’re excited to hear from you all again as we blog our way into this new decade! January can be a…
Weekly round-up
Here we are gathering together for the last weekly round-up of 2019. I know, we can’t believe it either! After a busy year or so focusing on family…
Weekly round-up
We’ve been in a Harry Potter kind of mood lately – must be all that festive spirit in the air. So we captured that and fed a little…
Weekly round-up
Hello again friends and fellow bloggers! This busy month seems to have come to a height for us. There’s so much anime (and Star Wars!) to be watching…
Weekly round-up
It’s a good week as an aniblogger-slash-reviewer when you can get excited over the giant haul of discs coming in for the New Year’s slate. One Punch Man,…
Weekly round-up
We were so happy to let you lot see our reviews for both Garden of Sinners and the 2019 Fruits Basket this week. It never stops being exciting…
Weekly round-up
Isn’t it great when you go back to certain anime or manga and find something more to love? We had that this week with our feature on pacifism…
Weekly Round-Up, 5-11 June 2024: Free Film Festival, Pride Month VNs, and Viz Originals
AniFem Round-Up Boys Run the Riot, Visual Kei, and Gender Euphoria Through Fashion Clothing can be an incredible way to feel like yourself, as both the author and…
Weekly Round-Up, 20-26 May 2020: In Memoriam
AniFem Round-Up Beyond UNIQLO: Tips for supporting Japan’s indie fashion designers Daz Skubich provides a primer on the world of street fashion and how enthusiasts the world over…
Weekly Round-Up, 22-28 May 2024: Indie Otome Spotlight, Ashihara Hinako Memorium, and Discrimination Bills
AniFem Round-Up “Queering” Heteronormativity: Biological essentialism in genderbending manga With the Hana Kimi anime announcement, it’s worth looking back at how cross-dressing rom-coms of its era handled gender…
TSUTAYA Weekly Manga Sales Ranking: April 29 – May 5, 2024
There have been some changes to the reporting style here on the Blog. Please refer to the post here for further information. All of the data you find…
Undead Unluck, World Trigger, Dragon Quest: Dai no Daibouken, Fuuto PI, Kekkaishi
TSUTAYA Weekly Manga Sales Ranking: May 27 – June 2, 2024
There have been some changes to the reporting style here on the Blog. Please refer to the post here for further information. All of the data you find…
Weekly Round-Up, 28 April – 4 May 2021: Yoko Taro Interview, Class S Yuri, and Yasuke
AniFem Round-Up Yasuke – Episode 1 A compact, engaging historical title (with fantasy elements) about the first Black samurai. Anime Feminist Recommendations of Winter 2021 The team shares…
Weekly Round-Up, 22-28 June 2022: Queer Games Bundle, Boys Run the Riot Interview, and Pro-Trans Rally in Japan
AniFem Round-Up Site Update: Patreon Tier Perk Changes Beginning in July Some news about site funding and some shuffling we’ll be doing of Patreon rewards starting next month.…
Weekly Round-Up, 8-14 May 2024: Aggretsuko’s Commodified Rage, Medical GoFundMe, and 50 Years of Hana to Yume
AniFem Round-Up BanG Dream! It’s MyGo!!!!! and the value of letting female characters suck Soyo is a relative rarity for the music gacha subgenre: a sympathetic member of…
Weekly Round-Up, 23-29 December 2020: Onyx Equinox, Rekijo, and Japan’s History of Protests
AniFem Round-Up “Black Should Sound Black”: The inherently racist politics of anime dubbing Bracy unpacks the history of dubbing studios casting white actors to play brown and Black…
Weekly Round-Up, 15-21 May 2024: Gender Census, Auto-Generated Captions, and Copyright vs Art Preservation
AniFem Round-Up Evangelion, alienation, and Japan’s 1990s economic crisis In a time wracked by despair, paranoia, and economic devastation, Evangelion captured the nihilistic zeitgeist of a nation and…
OSMcast: Silent Hill (1 thru 4) 10-13-2008
Silent Hill 2 To further our Halloween tendencies, we decided to rock out with a crazy-long podcast all about Konami’s uber-creepy video games series Silent Hill. Lee takes us…
Weekly Round-Up, 4-10 May 2022: Bloodborne’s Pregnancy Horror, Animator Vlogging, and Requiem of the Rose King Interview
AniFem Round-Up 2022 Spring Three-Episode Check-In The team checks in on the season in progress to let you know which shows have tripped up and which have outshone…
Fullmetal Alchemist, My Hero Academia, Requiem of the Rose King
Japan Top Weekly Video Game Ranking: April 29 – May 5, 2024
It is thanks to the wonderful people over at Famitsu that we get to see these charts on a weekly basis, so be sure to head over to…
Weekly Round-Up, 11-17 May 2022: Evolution of BL, Neurodiverse Manga, and Okinawa Protests
AniFem Round-Up Reading The Duke of Death and His Maid as disability allegory Borealis Capps digs deeper into this story about a couple who can’t touch one another…
Grims Monthly Round-up JUNE 2017
Hi folks! Welcome to my brand new monthly round-up where I’ll compile everything I found of interest during the last month. As this is my first one I…
Japan Top Weekly Video Game Ranking: May 27 – June 2, 2024
Most brands have reported an increase in sales week-over-week with the Xbox Series experiencing the largest percentage gain of 54.74% to 3,248 units from 2,099 units. The PlayStation…
Weekly Round-Up, 1-7 December 2021: Trans VTuber Love, Cupid Parasite, and Lack of Women at Nintendo
AniFem Round-Up The AniFem Store Grand Opening! We’ve finally opened our store, with a variety of merch we hope y’all enjoy. A Double Edged Sword: Reconsidering Moe Through…
Weekly Round-Up, 4-10 March 2020: Asexuals in History, Trans Voice Actor Coming Out, and Stars Align Director Interview
AniFem Round-Up AniFem Fundraiser Update: February 2020 News on our new review database, perks, and some delays on international shipping. I Am One Yet Many: Plurality representation in…
Weekly Round-Up, 29 December 2021 – 4 January 2022: Heike History, Abortion Access, and Square Enix NFT Breakdown
AniFem Round-Up Navigating patriarchal institutions and personal power in Ōoku Alison Tam spotlights celebrated josei mangaka Yoshinaga Fumi and her alternate history manga about a women-led shogunate. Misery…
Weekly Round-Up, 29 January – 4 February, 2020: Hatori Bisco Interview, PokeMom Pam, and Stars Align Fan Movie
AniFem Round-Up 2020 Winter Three-Episode Check-In The team checks in with what they’re watching now that the season is a quarter of the way over. AniFem Fundraiser Update:…
Weekly Round-Up, 11-17 October 2023: Landmark Trans Legal Decision, Cancelled Kickstarters, and Plagiarism Lawsuits
AniFem Round-Up Kawagoe Boys Sing! -Now or Never- – Episode 1 A somewhat tepid high school choir story. 2023 Fall Premiere Digest The team sorted through 37 shows…
Weekly Round-Up, 9-15 2022: 100% Union Power, Tokyo Trans March, and Marriage Equality Fundraiser
AniFem Round-Up My Fave is Problematic: Bleach E.B. Hutchins looks back on one of the most influential series of her teen years, the arcs that hold up and…
Weekly Round-Up, 1-7 April 2020: Spring Premieres, Beastars Analysis, and Abuse of Power in My Hero Academia
AniFem Round-Up AniFem Fundraiser and Site Update: March 2020 Things are scary, but we have at least a small bit of fundraiser-related good news. 2020 Spring Premiere Reviews…
Weekly Round-Up, 13-19 May 2020: Sailor J, the Colonization of Hokkaido, and Shoujo Isekai
AniFem Round-Up Perfect World, Disability Narratives, and Writing Outside Your Experience Zahra Ymer explores this josei romance and the pros and cons of disability representation as written by…
TSUTAYA Weekly Manga Sales Ranking: January 29 – February 4, 2024
There have been some changes to the reporting style here on the Blog. Please refer to the post here for further information. All of the data you find…
Mobile Suit Gundam, Kono Oto Tomare!: Sounds of Life, Black Clover
Japanese Horror Weekly Wrap-up 2024/2/4
We are back! Missed some of the cool things that were released in the Japanese horror and Kowabana worlds this The post Japanese Horror Weekly Wrap-up 2024/2/4 first…
Weekly Round-Up, 29 April – 5 May 2020: Toxic Masculinity, COVID-19 in the Adult Entertainment Industry, and Free BL Manga
AniFem Round-Up 2020 Spring Three-Episode Check-In The team checks in with the current season a quarter of the way in, including a few delayed productions. Home is Where…
Weekly Round-Up, 19-25 May 2021: Miura Memorials, Toxic Nostalgia, and Queer Demons
AniFem Round-Up Idols Gone Viral: How Hololive VTubers both subvert and reinforce expectations of idol femininity Katie Gill explores the freedom the VTuber space provides for weirdness and…
Weekly Round-Up, 25-31 May 2022: #OurFlagMeansUnion, PIXIV Lawsuit, and Precure’s Tokusatsu Connection
AniFem Round-Up Framing the Model Minority Myth with Neo Cat Chiaki shines a light on this hidden josei gem, and how its surreal story about self-aware humanoid cats…
Weekly Round-Up, 28 June – 4 July 2023: Accessibility in Game Design, New Tezuka Adaptation, and Unions on Strike
AniFem Round-Up What Role Are You Playing? Communication, queerness, and neurodivergence in Yuri is My Job! The fake dating series’ smart genre parody explores how the tropes of…
Weekly Round-Up, 31 May – 6 June 2023: Director Utsumi Hiroko, Crunchyroll vs Unions (Again), and Anti-Racism in Game Design
AniFem Round-Up Site Update: New Shoujo-Inspired Merchandise at the AniFem Store! The new “Needs More Shoujo” designs over at our store. She Has Two Hands! Room For non-monogamous…
Weekly Round-Up, 9-15 June 2021: Anime Outsourcing, BL Games in English, and History of Japan
AniFem Round-Up How No More Heroes tackles otaku toxicity Lucas DeRuyter spotlights the sad life of Travis Touchdown and the game’s satire of toxic masculinity in fandom. Race,…