Anime Feminist’s Top Picks for 2023
2023 saw some massive franchises retire, others make history, and old favorites return. Settle in and check out our favorites from the year that was!
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Ribbons for the Win: Battling internalized misogyny with Pokemon Diamond & Pearl
I watched Pokemon: Diamond & Pearl during elementary and middle school, and Dawn became one of my all-time favorite characters. This might seem a little strange given that Dawn was a girl who loved pink and dresses, while I was a girl who rejected all things feminine, including my “girly” classmates. However, I realize now that I adored her so much because she challenged my conceptions of what femininity could be.
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Anime Feminist’s Top Picks for 2019
Our two-week recommendations extravaganza comes to an end with the staff’s Best of 2019 list!
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Anime Feminist’s Bonus Picks of the Decade
We proudly present Part Two of our Decade Selections, affectionately titled: “I can’t believe my teammates have such bad taste!”
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Nonconforming in the ‘90s: How Pokemon’s gender variance caught the hearts of a generation
Twenty years ago, I fell in love with the Pokemon anime. Now, I think I can finally tell you why: why this strange, silly, sincere show mattered. How it filled the space between “boy stuff” and “girl stuff,” treated both as having value, and challenged why there was a division in the first place.
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Lady Leads & Sidekick Lads: Flipping the script in Team Rocket’s “Training Daze”
The Team Rocket trio have never been your typical villains. So perhaps it’s no surprise that their special backstory episode defies as many conventions as they do, taking the classic team origin story and turning familiar gendered archetypes cleverly on their heads.
