2024 Summer Premiere Reviews
All the summer premiere reviews in one easy-to-find place. We’ll update the chart as new series become available, so be sure to check back in the coming days for more!
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The Strongest Magician in the Demon Lord’s Army was a Human – Episode 1
The Strongest Magician in the Demon Lord’s Army was a Human gives away its twist without diminishing what has the potential to be a solid story for the audience that loves this particular subgenre.
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Chatty AF 209: Manga Variety Hour: History is Written by the Mangaka (WITH TRANSCRIPT)
Dee, Peter, and Vrai share some of their favorite historical fiction manga, some of which are now important pieces of history themselves!
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Not Just Roses and Sparkles: Unpacking assumptions about shoujo through Hagio Moto’s work
Manga artist Hagio Moto’s work in particular opened my eyes to how versatile the iconic shoujo style can be as a storytelling tool—not just for romance, but for horror, mystery, and mind-expanding science fiction.
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Powerful feelings, intimacy and sex in Joseimuke anime
The way sex is represented in media can be one-note, draining all the eroticism from the experience. If we want exciting variations on the representation of sex in media, it seems to me that joseimuke (media intended for a female audience) anime are optimal mediums for representing the erotic aspects of sex.
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Chatty AF 208: Monogatari Watchalong – Kizumonogatari (WITH TRANSCRIPT)
Toni, Vrai, and Peter return to their Monogatari watchalong with the ultra violent trilogy Kizumonogatari!
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Dead Dead Demon’s Dededede-Destruction – Episodes 0-1
It is hard to know where to start with this amazing, beautiful, labyrinthine, and disturbing premiere
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Nagata Kabi and the Mundane Pain of Sickness; or, That Time My Body Broke and I Had To Figure Out How to Keep Going
Nagata Kabi’s sixth autobiographical entry is a story about what happens when your life falls apart and you can no longer escape. That last bit is what this article is about: falling apart.
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The Villain Edit: Dissecting how Oshi no Ko evokes real-life tragedy in its depictions of harassment and reality TV culture
Oshi no Ko spends a few episodes examining the harsh way that people who participate on reality TV can be treated, especially online. In this way, it shines a light on an issue that people who don’t watch much (if any) reality TV have probably ever considered. But what does the way it goes about this mean for its overall message?
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Chatty AF 207: 2024 Spring Mid-Season Check-In (WITH TRANSCRIPT)
Alex, Toni, and Peter check in on a number of eyebrow-raising romances and some science fiction series with big but as-of-yet unrealized potential.
