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Arknights: PRELUDE TO DAWN – Episode 1
While not the most gripping premiere in the world, it’s honestly not bad.
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2022 Fall Three-Episode Check-In
We’re plagued with the best kind of problem: too much good anime to watch!
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Finding models of healthy masculinity in BL manga
In retrospect, I recognize those first fanfics as something that let me safely imagine myself as a boy in a relationship with another boy. That desire to find media that would let me project myself into the positions of these male characters was what led me to discover BL.
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Chatty AF 172: Kare Kano (His and Her Circumstances) Watchalong – Episodes 20-26 (WITH TRANSCRIPT)
Caitlin, Dee, and Meru complete their watchalong of GAINAX-produced shoujo anime and cap things off with some manga discussion!
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Romantic Killer – Episode 1
Cue incoherent screaming at the rotting corpse of Shinzo Abe clawing his way out of the grave as a zombie.
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Fandom Studies Resources
The list below offers some notable books and more informal discussion as places to start, as well as a few anime fandom-specific essays.
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Anime Feminist Recommendations of Summer 2022
Come in out of that brutal summer heat and enjoy the anime crop we harvested.
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2022 Fall Premiere Digest
A bustling season with some good josei food and great heroines!
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Exception – Episode 1
Philosphy and questions about the human soul abound in a bland premiere that has a lot of promise, but just doesn’t hit the mark despite having a fascinating foundation.
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Chatty AF 171: 2022 Summer Wrap-Up (WITH TRANSCRIPT)
Vrai, Chiaki, and Peter finally put one of the top contenders for most disappointing season we’ve covered to rest.
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The Little Lies We All Tell – Episode 1
Elephant in the room aside, this is a pretty funny premiere.
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Urusei Yatsura – Episode 1
Your Mileage May Vary when it comes to this new version of Urusei Yatsura, a series that brings the 70s into the 2020s, flaws included.
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Love Flops – Episode 1
As well as being a bad, dumb comedy, however, it’s a bad, dumb comedy with a disgusting concept at the heart of its “humor”.
