This week: the effects of white foreigner fetishization for Asian American students in Japan, anti-Blackness in the cosplay community, and bad behavior by male Love Live! fans in Japan.
This week: a postmortem of Clear Card’s shortcomings, a guide for LGBTQ+ folks looking to move to Japan, and a world summit for women in animation.
This week: #MahouShouJune, queer manga recs, and influential female authors in Japanese literature. (Content warning for suicide, racism, and sexual harassment.)
This week: a trans idol group, the year’s popular trends in BL, and Japanese war brides in New Zealand.
This week: visual novels with sexual content under fire, #WeToo, and spousal abuse (Content warning for sexual assault).
This week: Amanchu and anxiety, the origins of “Is this a pigeon?,” and female otaku’s important financial contributions to the industry.
This week: the fight for legal protection of trans individuals, Azur Lane Korea’s removal of an artist’s work after accusations that she supported feminist causes, and a discussion of Inside Mari.
This week: a Universal Fan Con postmortem, a modern history of romance games, and why Aggretsuko is great.
Thanks for your patience this weekend while we rolled out the new site design, AniFam!
This week: the Kase-san OVA, the best couples, and Kyoto Sekai University elects the Mali-born Oussouby Sacko as its president.
This week: eugenics, workplace discrimination, and the cost of piracy for manga artists.
This week: Mari Okada’s biography, new anime studios, and feminist recommendations.
This week: Lezhin’s abuse of web artists, reading Sephiroth as trans, and a response from Flying Colors Foundation.
This week: elderly women in prison, fandom demographics, and realism in School Babysitters.
This week: women in construction work, Liz and the Blue Bird, and Ikuhara anime.
This week: Kaceytron, backlash against #MeToo in Japan, and workplace sexism.
This week: Banana Fish, the final days of this year’s #28DaysofBlackCosplay, and first-hand accounts from Japanese-American internment camps.
This week: the charms of Laid-Back Camp, academic feminism, and Japanese feminist vloggers to follow.
This week: Colorism, Yami Kawaii, and Olympic Yuri!!! on ICE Fans.
This week: NHK and LGBTQ+ representation, Netflix and piracy, and #BlackGirlMagic…
