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April 2023 ANN Interest Article Round-Up
I've been writing some of Anime News Network's Interest articles as of late. Here they all are for your perusal!
March 2023 ANN Interest Article Round-Up
I've been writing some of Anime News Network's Interest articles as of late. Here they all are for your perusal!
ANN Guest article: Osamu Kobayashi
I had the honor of writing about the career of Osamu Kobayashi's career for ANN recently, though tragically due to the fact that he passed...
AnimeJapan 2023 Round-Up
I went to AnimeJapan 2023 this past weekend. Here are the articles I wrote about it.
ANN Guest Article: Interview with Samuel Sattin
To go along with this month's podcast episode about the new Unico: Awakening manga, I also interviewed Samuel for Anime News Network! Yo...
ANN Guest Article: Interview with Hiroshi Nagahama
I am incredibly honored to have gotten to interview Hiroshi Nagahama ( Revolutionary Girl Utena, Mushi-shi, The Flowers of Evil ) about hi...
Summer 2023 Supernatural Round-Up
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Dark Gathering, My Happy Marriage, Undead Murder Farce, Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead, Ayakashi
Summer 2023 Anime Review Round Up
New anime seasons don’t always interest me. I usually look through the new releases on various streaming platforms, but I don’t follow the release schedule. I don’t use…
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…
The Manga Review: SDCC 2023 Round-Up
Over the last 20 years, SDCC has morphed from a comics-focused show to a pop-cultural behemoth dominated by movie studios and television stars. The ongoing SAG-AFTRA and WGA…
Summer 2023 Mid-Season Isekai Round-Up
Published: 8/21/2023 The Summer season features seven isekai titles and one reverse-isekai title. I have followed six of these beyond the first episode (the exceptions being Sweet Reincarnation…
Summer 2023 Non-Isekai Fantasy Round-Up
Posted: Last week, I did a run-through on the various isekai titles for the Summer 2023 season. Despite isekai tending to dominate the fantasy genre these days, this…
Bleach, Classroom for Heroes, Helck, Reign of the Seven Spellblades
Female Intimacy and Slice of Life Anime Article on ANN
You may remember that this past spring I was extremely ill with Long COVID. During my recovery I turned towards slice-of-life anime in an attempt to feel engaged…
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, 3-9 May 2023: Skip & Loafer Director Profile, Rebellious Fashion, and WataMote at 10
AniFem Round-Up Higurashi, subversion of moe, and the birth of the modern yandere Now known as a huge origin point for modern yandere, it’s often lost that the…
Weekly Round-Up, 24-30 May 2023: Fushigi Yugi Flashback, Official Takarazuka Livestream, and Translating Indie Games
AniFem Round-Up Sharp Blades, Soft Frills: Femme rebellion in lolita fashion, Japan. Scholar Megan Catherine Rose details the fashion movement’s origins, its counter-cultural importance, and the inclusive spaces…
Weekly Round-Up, 17-23 May 2023: #EndOTWRacism, Immigration Law Protests, and Tears of the Kingdom Accessibility
AniFem Round-Up The Journey to Cure Wing: A history of magical boys in PreCure Ayumi Shinozaki walks through the ups and downs of boys in the PreCure franchise…
Elegies (詩, Ann Hui, 2023)
Ann Hui considers the role of poetry in an age of resistance while interviewing some of the island’s most revered poets.
Weekly Round-Up, 26 April – 2 May 2023: Fire! Re-release, Soaring Sky PreCure, and Asexuality in Yuri
AniFem Round-Up Anime Feminist Recommendations of Winter 2023 This season had plenty of shows we liked, but only a handful that stood head and shoulders above the rest.…
Monthly Round-up: April
Not much in the way of anime again this month, but a decent amount of manga. Anime I've Watched:Bleach - Still not finished this yet. Really should as…
Fairy Tail, Silver Spoon, Recorder to Randoseru, Blue Exorcist, Ayakashi
Round-Up Pride Post
In case some of you wanted to read LGBTQ posts during this pride month, I did a round-up!
Monthly Round-up: February
Well, I've been a bit more prolific this month with any anime watching, and am slowly getting back into the swing of things. Anime I've Watched:Working'!! -Along with…
Ben-To, Chihayafuru, Nichijou - My Ordinary Life, Chi's Sweet Home, Fairy Tail
Monthly Round-up: March
March was a fairly busy month for me real life wise, so anime was a little thin on the ground in the end. Apart from all the Bleach…
Bleach, Silver Spoon, Hanamaru Kindergarten, Naruto, Nichijou - My Ordinary Life
Monthly Round-up: January
First up I have an apology to make for the severe lack of posts this month. There's little good excuse and I've certainly failed hardcore at the "Blog…
Mononoke, Nichijou - My Ordinary Life, Blue Exorcist, Beelzebub, Fairy Tail
Shounen Jump Round-Up
I re-subscribed to Weekly Shounen Jump for some reason. I think I was feeling guilty because I read so much pirated material. Paying a dollar something a month…
ANN Guest Article: All I Want For Christmas Is More Classic Shojo Anime!
To celebrate Discotek's upcoming release of Lady Georgie on SD-blu ray, I got to write an article about what other classic shojo anime I...
The ANN Aftershow - Solo Leveling Levels Up!
Finally out of the hospital, Jinwoo encounters his first boss battle one-on-one, and the animation team at A-1 Pictures didn't hold back! Plus, we rate the newest dish…
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, 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…
Reading Log: May 2023
It has been a busy month! Lots of new manga and light novels arriving, and work picking up again. I’m hoping to have read away a little bit…
May 2023 Monthly Favorites
Welcome back one and all, with another edition of things I’ve come across this past month that I would consider a favorite! I’ve had a very action packed…
Monthly Listening: May 2023
This month's round-up of great new Japanese releases from iri, cero, Motto Music and more
End of May 2023
Now with the end of May 2023, in sight, adding and uploading more photographic evidences for the pictoral record, as we move into early mi...
October (2020) Monthly Round-Up
Hello again blog-o-sphere viewers! It is once again, time for the staple feature of my blog, my monthly round-up! It’s the best of the best, and me briefly…
Spring ’23 Isekai Round-Up
Posted: Tuesday May 9, 2023 With some series hitting their sixth episodes this week, we’re now approaching the midway point of the Spring 2023 season. That means it’s…
Doujinshi Round-up: Plague Edition
Once upon a time, people gathered in great numbers in large halls in odd corners of cities around the world to browse the fine wares of many a…
January Album Listen Round-Up
Hi friends, I hope you’re all doing well! Today I wanted to do a different kind of post. Since the beginning of the year, I’ve been keeping up…
March Album Listen Round-Up
Hi friends, I hope you’re all doing very well! It’s that time of the month where I recap and discuss all of the albums I listened to in…
February Album Listen Round-Up
Hi friends, I hope you’re all doing very well! It’s that time of the month where I recap and discuss all of the albums I listened to in…
Anime Talk January Round Up
2020 was a long year for many reasons and I myself as an anime fan and member of an anime community took a step back. I had gone…
April Album Listen Round-Up
Hi friends, I hope you’re all doing well! It’s that time again to reflect on the KPOP releases from the month of April and phew, were there a…
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, 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, 12-18 May 2021: MAPPA Animator Conditions, Intersectionality, and Nagata Kabi Interview
AniFem Round-Up The Feminist Potential of the Lolita Fashion Subculture Sarah Alexander explores the history of lolita fashion as a rebellious outlet and highlights marginalized voices in the…
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…
Weekly Round-Up, 6-12 May 2020: FF7R Interview, New Re:ZERO OVA, and Lesbian Writers
AniFem Round-Up A Tale of Two Nanas: The fuzzy line between homoromantic subtext and queerbaiting in Nana Roy Lemmons discusses the josei classic and the difficulties in analyzing…
Weekly Round-Up, 5-11 May 2021: Olympics Protests, Tokyo Revengers, and Anti-Muslim Discrimination
AniFem Round-Up The Spell of Self-Assurance: How Howl’s Moving Castle challenges myths about youth and beauty Nicci Attfield revisits the 2004 film and the ways its female cast…
Mecha Madness 2023 Round 3
This entire round is going nuts. I think it is possibly because I didn’t have as much time to advertise Round 2 last weekend due to how busy…
Mecha Madness 2023: Final Round
So here we are, it’s the final round for Mecha Madness 2023. I don’t know how we got here with these choices, but it makes me so happy…