Chatty AF 151: 2021 Fall Mid-Season Check-in (WITH TRANSCRIPT)
Dee, Vrai, and Peter check in on the Fall season, from plucky princes to rollerblading tokusatsu heroes.
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The Importance of Centering Black Fans When Discussing Yasuke
With positive reviews and high ratings, Yasuke is a critical success. However, I found Yasuke lacking and wanted some perspectives on this story that was supposed to center a Black lead from people other than the mostly white critics who were praising it. Thankfully, I found several overlooked Black reviewers highlighting how the show falls short of the source material’s potential.
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Slut-Shaming and the Fetishization of Queer Childhood: A love letter to Alois Trancy
Since his introduction, despite the fact that he’s a character quite hated by the audience, I’ve loved the Earl Alois Trancy as a multi-layered character that carries many intertwined themes around child abuse, queerness, genre influences and slut-shaming.
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Blade Runner: Black Lotus – Episode 1
Blade Runner: Black Lotus offers up a gorgeous premiere that has a somewhat go-nowhere premiere filled with tidbits that built the world, but don’t feel compelling.
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Writer Budjette Tan discusses Filipino folklore and the TRESE anime’s international reach
Michele Kirichanskaya recently had the chance to interview Budjette Tan about working as the writer of Trese and the series’ recent anime adaption on Netflix
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#AnitwtKKK: When Trolling is Just White Supremacy in Disguise
Racebending, or drawing characters as races other than what they were intended as, is not new to fandom; however, this particular iteration was to counter the fact that the person took it upon themself to aggressively white out the existence of canonically Black and brown characters in anime.
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Chatty AF 150: Soul Eater Rewatchalong – Episodes 14-26 (WITH TRANSCRIPT)
Part two of Caitlin, Vrai, and Dee’s newbie-friendly rewatch; featuring much crying over Crona, talk about the show’s portrayals of adult women, and EX-CALI-BUR.
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2021 Fall Three Episode Check-In
This is a Fall of firsts–including the tentative death of Netflix jail (kinda). Join us as we check in on some hotly anticipated adaptations.
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Site Update: New Patreon perks, manga recommendation pages, and more
Just in time for harvest season, we’ve got a cornucopia of exciting news for you!
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High Guardian Spice – Episode 1
Despite all the grief this show has attracted over the years, mostly by people appalled a show could be marketed as explicitly queer and then the relative media silence that relegated it mostly forgotten since it was announced 2017, High Guardian Spice debuts as a comfy and, above all, enjoyable show.
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Chatty AF 149: Soul Eater Rewatchalong – Episodes 1-13 (WITH TRANSCRIPT)
Part one of Caitlin, Vrai, and Dee’s newbie-friendly rewatch of the only battle shounen with a Halloween theme and a lady lead, Soul Eater!
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Anime Feminist Recommendations of Summer 2021
This summer’s recs are definitely a case of quality over quantity.
