Anime Feminist Recommendations of Summer 2019
Like the Spring season before it, Summer was a bit light on shows that wowed us, but the ones that shone were pretty darn bright. Here are the team’s picks for the 2019 Summer season.
Summer 2019 Tag
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Chatty AF 99: Summer 2019 Wrap-up (WITH TRANSCRIPT)
Vrai, Caitlin, and Peter look back on the summer 2019 season!
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Chatty AF 96: Summer 2019 Mid-Season Check-in (WITH TRANSCRIPT)
Vrai, Caitlin, and Peter check-in on the Summer 2019 season!
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Try Knights – Episode 1
Try Knights, I don’t think you tried at all.
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2019 Summer Three-Episode Check-In
The dog days of summer have arrived. Good thing we’ve got a parade of anime to keep us entertained indoors.
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2019 Summer Premiere Digest
We’ve viewed, we’ve reviewed, and now we’re ready to digest! Let’s see how this hot batch of fresh new titles shaped up.
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BEM – Episode 1
There will always be a place for episodic supernatural action series in anime, and BEM (mostly) has a solid aesthetic going for its main trio of monster-hunting monsters. Unfortunately, this episode spends most of its time with the least interesting of them.
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Do You Love Your Mom and Her Two-Hit Multi-Target Attacks? – Episode 1
This premiere works a strange alchemy, putting together story elements into something I honestly never would have expected to be my taste and combining them into something that I really enjoyed.
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Arifureta: From Commonplace to World’s Strongest – Episode 1
Arifureta’s poorly-realized edgelord aesthetic, ridiculous writing, and lack of anything truly offensive make it so there’s not much left to do but… laugh at it.
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given – Episode 1
It would be easy to say, “given is more like a music anime than a BL anime!” But that would be unfair to BL. It’s a BL romance and a music anime, one worth recommending to fans of both.
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The Demon Girl Next Door – Episode 1
Demon Girl is definitely cloyingly cute, but if you’re in the market for low-key slapstick with buckets of shipping fodder between the two leads, this isn’t half bad.
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HenSuki – Are you willing to fall in love with a pervert, as long as she’s a cutie? – Episode 1
Watching HenSuki is kind of like being trapped in a half-hour conversation with someone who treats their special interest as a substitute for having a personality.
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Isekai Cheat Magician – Episode 1
The show is rough around the edges visually, complete with big hair and wonky eye-to-face ratios straight out of 2004, but the isekai story is fresh air after season after seasons of noxious incel pandering and slavery apologism.
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Cop Craft – Episode 1
You know how Netflix put out that movie Bright back
in 2017, and it was really well-received and everybody liked it? Oh, that’s not what happened at all? Cop Craft might have a problem then. -
Vinland Saga – Episode 1
If this first episode is any indication, I’ve got a hell of a ride ahead of me.
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Kochoki – Episode 1
Overall, Kochoki is a fun time, and I like the character designs. Nothing’s egregious, so if you want some very loose historical fiction, this might be a good show to pick up.
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Re:Stage! Dream Days – Episode 1
Re:Stage! Dream Days, with its homoeroticism and apparent lack of male characters, will appeal to some. But the big-headed art looks weird to me, the jokes don’t land, and it’s all about as fresh as the stink of week-old tuna salad.
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The Ones Within – Episode 1
The Ones Within feels just like a mediocre adaptation of a good video game, but it skipped the step of the fun game coming out first.
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Ensemble Stars – Episode 1
I’m not sure that the series will be able to fully deliver on its promising premise while still being bound to both its origins as a mobile game and the aesthetic conventions already established in this first episode. I’d love to be surprised, though.
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Fire Force – Episode 1
Fire Force isn’t everything I was hoping for, but it is a ton of fun.
