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Weekly Round-Up, 13-19 March 2024: Stolen Ryukyu Artifacts, Adult Content Creators, and Union Wage Wins
AniFem Round-Up Curses and True Forms: Reading Fruits Basket as a lesbian The manga’s take on textual queerness is messy at best, but its broader metaphors about being…
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…
Weekly Round-Up, 27 July-2 August 2022: Discussing Age-Gap Romance, Lovely Complex, and Needs More Magical Girls
AniFem Round-Up Anime Feminist Recommendations of Spring 2022 The team shares their favorite new titles and sequels from the past season. Conformity, mob mentality, and intersectionality in Gatchaman…
Gatchaman, Gatchaman Crowds, Lovely Complex, Yurikuma Arashi
Conformity, mob mentality, and intersectionality in Gatchaman Crowds Insight vs. Yurikuma Arashi
Both series, at the surface level, encourage their audiences to be mindful and critical of the ideas they’re asked to buy into as the price of inclusion. However,…
Tomohiro Furukawa, Revue Starlight The Movie, And The Legacy Of Experience-Centric Anime
Tomohiro Furukawa draws from the philosophy and methods of living legends like Mamoru Oshii, Hideaki Anno, and his mentor Kunihiko Ikuhara. He reconstructs their teaching and his influences…
Revue Starlight: The Movie, Sarazanmai, Yurikuma Arashi, Penguindrum, Revue Starlight
Yurikuma Arashi – Muddled Metaphors
As a huge fan of Ikuhara, I knew I had to watch Yurikuma Arashi at some point. Although it's not his best work, there is still a lot…
Ai Ohto’s room and safety in Wonder Egg Priority
Private rooms and home decor can be used in pointed ways to tell us more about the characters they belong to and Wonder Egg Priority once again seems…
Third Anthology by Yuri Legend Akiko Morishima Released in English
The Conditions of Paradise: Azure Dream (Ruriiro no Yume) was released in English today from Seven Seas Entertainment. This is Morishima’s third anthology released in English as part of…
Days of Anime 2020: Witch!
I was afraid of Suspiria. Everything I heard about it made me excited: stark production design, ultra-saturated colors, prog rock, witches terrorizing a school. But while I love…
4 Reasons To Watch: Yuri Kuma Arashi
Bearware the bear puns.
The Decade in Review: The Japanese Industry
I said I wouldn’t be updating this blog for a while, but I remembered that I was working on a two-post "decade in review" which I had star...
In This Corner of the World, Macross, Sailor Moon Crystal, Space Adventure Cobra, Blood Blockade Battlefront
Anime Feminist’s Top 25 Anime of the Decade
The Roaring Twenties are right around the bend! Before we turn that corner and leave the Turbulent Tens behind us, we wanted to lavish some love on the…
Catching the BIG GAY
Kunihiko Ikuhara’s anime are incorrigibly gay and degenerate, aren’t they? I was kind of worried that he peaked in Ikuhara-ness with Yuri Kuma Arashi (literally LESBIAN BEAR STORM), but…
Top Nine Anime of 2015
One year, I will make a top 10 list. I was really considering adding Aldnoah.Zero here just for that purpose, but then I remembered that Aldnoah sucks. This…
Owarimonogatari, Yurikuma Arashi, Aldnoah.Zero, Maria the Virgin Witch, Little Witch Academia
Anime Secret Santa 2015: Mawaru Penguindrum
Sorry for the delay, I procrastinated a little too long and ended up with not enough time to get through Ikuhara’s second anime: Mawaru Penguindrum. Unpacking any Ikuhara…
Twelve Days of Anime 2015 Part 10: Kill Genre Conventions
I missed it the first time around, but I barreled through Akame ga Kill earlier this year, and it totally won me over with it’s bold way of…
Anibros Podcast Episode 90 – Heading for the New World
Strap in for one of the funniest Anibros yet! Tonight Patrick AKA Gee-P returns and lays down the truth about the year’s tastiest…
Vampire Holmes, Yatterman Night, Yurikuma Arashi, Blood Blockade Battlefront, Comical Psychosomatic Medicine
OtakuGeneration (Show #502) Winter Impressions and MAGfest
Shownotes :: (show 502) :: (website) :: (podcast feed) :: (direct download) :: (direct iTunes link) With Winter Impressions and MAGfest, recorded live January 18th, 2015. This week…
Nisekoi:, Assassination Classroom, Durarara!!, Maria the Virgin Witch, Little Busters!
Monologue: Questions of Yuri, Kuma, Yurikuma, and Kumayuri in Yurikuma Arashi
Yurikuma Arashi has yuri, kuma, and arashi. Let me get this straight for all you motherfuckers who just don’t get it.
