From Bureaucrat to Villainess: Dad’s Been Reincarnated! – Episode 1
This might just be the best villainess isekai anime we’ve had in years.
Posts by Tony Sun Prickett
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Flower and Asura – Episode 1
I will try to put my need for gay aside to enjoy for what it is: a beautifully directed, psychologically rich hobby anime.
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Tasokare Hotel – Episode 1
It desperately wants to evoke the likes of Death Parade and The Apothecary Diaries, but has none of their spark.
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“Every Inch of My Imagination”: Mangaka Makoto Yukimura on writing women and slavery in Vinland Saga
Anime Feminist also had the remarkable opportunity to interview Yukimura about Vinland Saga, writing female characters, portraying slavery and the role of Buddhist Philosophy in his work. Our interview with him, which was one of the great honors of my time in anime journalism, is below.
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Dan Da Dan – Episode 1
Dan Da Dan is a mess. But it is my mess.
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Uzumaki – Episode 1
Stunningly animated, with the kind of avant-garde soundtrack you almost never hear in anime, and genuinely stomach churning, if you are any fan of Ito’s style of horror you would do yourself a favor by pausing reading this and watching the show right now.
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Makeine: Too Many Losing Heroines! – Episode 1
This show is an example of just how much strong animation and adaptation can elevate even the most banal of premises.
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Bye Bye, Earth – Episode 1
One good scene and pretty visuals can’t make up for clunky fantasy racism and buckets of exposition.
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Love is Indivisible by Twins – Episode 1
This show is clearly not afraid of moving into the messier, more interesting parts of romance that many slow burn romances little interest in–what happens when you try to break up with somebody and you can’t let go? What happens when your reason for breaking up was fundamentally a bad one, but you still have to live with the consequences?
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My Deer Friend Nokotan – Episode 1
I would not describe the experience of watching Nokotan in English as it was presented on Crunchyroll as enjoyable. Overwhelming? Yes. Frustrating? Yes. Occasionally funny? Yes. But enjoyable? Absolutely not.
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Dead Dead Demon’s Dededede-Destruction – Episodes 0-1
It is hard to know where to start with this amazing, beautiful, labyrinthine, and disturbing premiere
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Mysterious Disappearances – Episode 1
Sumireko is fantastic, but the show is being strangled by obtrusive fanservice.
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Tadaima, Okaeri – Episode 1
I would love to be able to recommend this show as a fantasy of domestic life for queer people, but it doesn’t even really function as that. Its portrait of queer domestic life has all of the depth of a Hallmark greeting card.
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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 Chinese person. Like the bears, I’ve often asked myself: what do I sacrifice to be allowed to exist within the school?
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Sengoku Youko – Episode 1
It’s somewhat hard to judge the show right now, the author’s previous works suggest that the binary morality of this premiere is likely a facade.
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The Demon Prince of Momochi House – Episode 1
The Demon Prince of Momochi House is largely playing the beats of a fairly familiar genre of shoujo: an orphan teenage girl stumbles into a supernatural world of bishonen hotties and becomes enmeshed in their drama. I just wish that these hotties had a bit more going on.
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SHY, Stardust, disability, and the double empathy problem
Shy’s embrace of a Double Empathy Problem framing reveals larger tensions in the struggle for autistic self-determination, both allowing a deeper understanding of the process of Stardust’s self-conception and also revealing the limits of the mainstream culture’s understanding of “empathy.”
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My New Boss is Goofy – Episode 1
If you want shows where characters openly confess their feelings for each other in explicitly romantic ways, you will almost certainly leave frustrated. If you are looking for fodder for your next fic, this might be the show for you.
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Ron Kamonohashi’s Forbidden Deductions – Episode 1
I was yearning for schlock, but the show utterly fails to live up to the camp it seems to promise.
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Synduality Noir – Episode 1
Good news: it has great animation and mecha designs, and intriguing worldbuilding.
Bad news: All of this is in service of a plot that can only be described as Toxic Masculinity: The Anime.
