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Chatty AF 40: Fushigi Yugi Watchalong – OVAs (Part 2 of 2) (WITH TRANSCRIPT)
The team finishes out the OVAs in trademark rollercoaster fashion as they bask in one of the series’ highest highs, suffer through one of its lowest lows, and still come out the other side fighting for this messy, sincere franchise. Taka finds himself. Chichiri needs a hug. Mayo does everything wrong.
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DEVILMAN crybaby, Legacies of Queerness, and Diversifying Remakes
What do you do with a series that features sympathetic representation while also roundly killing its queer characters off, and does it make a difference that everybody is dying?
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2018 Winter Three-Episode Check-In
We’re continuing the informal three-episode “check-in” roundtable that we started last season, this time with the long list of promising Winter 2018 titles.
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[Links] 24-30 January 2018
Yuri!!! On Ice, hafu support networks, and updates about John Leigh.
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Chatty AF 39: Fushigi Yugi Watchalong – OVAs (Part 1 of 2) (WITH TRANSCRIPT)
The multi-part Fushigi Yugi watchalong with Dee, Vrai, and Caitlin is back for a pair of bonus episodes covering the OVAs! Here in Part 1, the team talks Oni 1 and half of Oni 2. (Spoiler alert: It’s the angry half.) Studio Pierrot writes a drunken fanfic. Hotohori and Nuriko revisit some old haunts. Tasuki gets […]
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Roundtable: Age-gap relationships in fiction
During the Chatty AF Fushigi Yugi watchalong, Caitlin, Dee, and Vrai would frequently chat privately about the show. While watching the OVAs, the conversation turned to the relationship between a pair of supporting characters, which in turn developed into a spontaneous discussion about age-gap romances in fiction. As the subject is a complicated one (and particularly topical given recent anime), the team thought it worthwhile to expand it into a roundtable and publish it for the site.
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Makoto Kageyama discusses mental health issues in Japan and anime
Makoto Kageyama, a former volunteer at Aokigahara, was kind enough to speak with us about their experiences living with mental illness, how the mentally ill are treated in Japan, and how those issues are depicted in anime.
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[Links] 17-23 January 2018
FRANXX discourse, LGBT coming-of-age, and Taishou fashion.
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Chatty AF 38: DEVILMAN crybaby Retrospective (WITH TRANSCRIPT)
Chatty AF is back from its winter break, and what better way to kick off the new year than by chatting about the flawed-but-ambitious series that’s been emotionally wrecking the anime community? Vrai, Peter, and special guest Dawn get together to discuss Masaaki Yuasa’s DEVILMAN crybaby!
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My road to finding better Latinx representation in anime
Throughout my ever-growing love for all things manga and anime, there have been a lot of pretty good and some downright horrible portrayals of Latinx people.
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2018 Winter Premiere Digest
Another season of premieres watched and reviewed! Now that we’ve gone through every new show, it’s time to get ’em all in one room and see how they measure.
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[Links] 10-16 January 2018
The premiere season is wrapping up, plus idol culture and unhelpful dictionaries.
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Beatless – Episode 1
Beatless feels largely like a pastiche of genre conventions and other series that came before it.
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DARLING in the FRANXX – Episode 1
This has the potential to challenge cultural and gender norms. It also has the potential to be a queer-erasing mess of cliches. And while I want to believe it’ll be the former, I can’t shake the feeling it’ll wind up being the latter.
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Hakumei and Mikochi – Episode 1
Hakumei and Mikochi, with its watercolor-inspired art, intelligent but not anthropomorphized animals, and chill forest vibe, reminds me of nothing so much as a children’s book.
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Violet Evergarden – Episode 1
There’s an art to premiere episodes, and Violet Evergarden is a masterclass.
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Killing Bites – Episode 1
Remember when this season started, and there were so many good titles with promising characters and unique premises and the world seemed shiny, new, and full of possibility?
