'From the first sip of alcohol to piercing their ears together, Botan Kamiina feels like the moment when sharing food, drinks, and good company becomes halcyonic, making not just a memory in the moment but bonding two hearts forever' So well put, Cy. 🙌 Amazing anime, easily in my top 5!

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Anime Feminist Recommendations of Spring 2026 Our staff picks from Spring include fantasy adventures, earnestly weird high schoolers, and tender yuri. www.animefeminist.com/anime-femini...

I watched a whole mess of shows to help with this check-in and I STILL haven't started everything I want to try yet! Spoiled for choice, what a great problem to have.

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2026 Summer Three-Episode Check-In This Kaiju-sized post is proof that the summer season is stacked with intriguing series. www.animefeminist.com/2026-summer-...

2026 Summer Premiere Digest With that, that's all 42 premier review from us this season, check out the best of them, and take heed on the worst. It's almost time for our three-episode check-in, which is coming up as well! www.animefeminist.com/2026-summer-...

2026 Summer Premiere Digest - Anime Feminist

Summertime means long days, golden sunshine, and plenty of potentially interesting new anime to choose from---from sweeping historical epics to fairy tale retellings to classic sci-fi.

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Anime Feminist Recommendations of Spring 2026 Our staff picks from Spring include fantasy adventures, earnestly weird high schoolers, and tender yuri. www.animefeminist.com/anime-femini...

Anime Feminist Recommendations of Spring 2026 - Anime Feminist

Our staff picks from Spring include fantasy adventures, earnestly weird high schoolers, and tender yuri.

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Genuinely one of the most engaging articles I’ve ever read and edited and read again. Chiaki is out here inventing an entirely new way to look at media and I love it!

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Spring 2026 Season Wreck: Needy Girl Overdose In a new format, Chiaki has written a season wreck as well. She would deepy, deeply like nyalra to notice her. www.animefeminist.com/spring-2026-...

New to this season: we've added a succinct "Off the rails" digest because we keep getting otherwise perfectly average anime that somehow embraced slavery (it keeps happening).

Anime Feminist@animefeminist.com · 6d ago

2026 Summer Three-Episode Check-In This Kaiju-sized post is proof that the summer season is stacked with intriguing series. www.animefeminist.com/2026-summer-...

A great conversation between @pixelatedlenses.bsky.social and @sam-animeherald.bsky.social - give it a read then maybe check out the new issue of AHMag? ❤️ Info: hera.fyi/ahmag2info 📔 Order: hera.fyi/buyahmag2 📦

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Building Intertextual Communities through Anime Journalism with Anime Herald Founder and EIC Samantha Ferreira @pixelatedlenses.bsky.social sits down for a chat with @sam-animeherald.bsky.social to discuss what it means to intentionally produce a fandom-focused physical publications in 2026.

Building Intertextual Communities through Anime Journalism with Anime Herald Founder and EIC Samantha Ferreira @pixelatedlenses.bsky.social sits down for a chat with @sam-animeherald.bsky.social to discuss what it means to intentionally produce a fandom-focused physical publications in 2026.

Building Intertextual Communities through Anime Journalism with Anime Herald Founder and EIC Samantha Ferreira - Anime Feminist

Anifem's own Cy Catwell sat down for a digital chat with Anime Herald Founder and EIC ahead of the second released of Anime Herald's digital and print magazine to discuss what it means to intentionall...

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2026 Summer Three-Episode Check-In This Kaiju-sized post is proof that the summer season is stacked with intriguing series. www.animefeminist.com/2026-summer-...

2026 Summer Three-Episode Check-In - Anime Feminist

Aside from a couple of nosedives, Summer is shaping up to be a season full of pleasant surprises!

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Spring 2026 Season Wreck: Needy Girl Overdose In a new format, Chiaki has written a season wreck as well. She would deepy, deeply like nyalra to notice her. www.animefeminist.com/spring-2026-...

Spring 2026 Season Wreck: Needy Girl Overdose - Anime Feminist

NEEDY GIRL OVERDOSE is an incredible show, but it might, for all intents and purposes, not be for you.

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Anime Feminist Recommendations of Spring 2026 Our staff picks from Spring include fantasy adventures, earnestly weird high schoolers, and tender yuri. www.animefeminist.com/anime-femini...

Anime Feminist Recommendations of Spring 2026 - Anime Feminist

Our staff picks from Spring include fantasy adventures, earnestly weird high schoolers, and tender yuri.

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2026 Summer Premiere Digest With that, that's all 42 premier review from us this season, check out the best of them, and take heed on the worst. It's almost time for our three-episode check-in, which is coming up as well! www.animefeminist.com/2026-summer-...

2026 Summer Premiere Digest - Anime Feminist

Summertime means long days, golden sunshine, and plenty of potentially interesting new anime to choose from---from sweeping historical epics to fairy tale retellings to classic sci-fi.

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Draw This, Then Die! – Episodes 1-2 This is a deceptive little series, soft and adorable and largely a “sensible chuckle” kind of comedy; then it turns around and socks you in the gut by having one of its squishy-cheeked characters deliver a genuinely affecting monologue about burnout.

Draw This, Then Die! - Episodes 1-2 - Anime Feminist

This is a deceptive little series, largely a “sensible chuckle” kind of comedy until it turns around and socks you in the gut by having one of its squishy-cheeked characters deliver a genuinely affect...

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Young Ladies Don’t Play Fighting Games – Episode 1 Y-You're into anime about fighting games, right?! www.animefeminist.com/young-ladies...

Young Ladies Don't Play Fighting Games - Episode 1 - Anime Feminist

An excellent series with a side of yuri , about two girls finding community in their "unladylike" hobby.

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Though I am an Inept Villainess – Episode 1 While it is unlikely to rise to the heights of Mitsue Yamazaki’s greatest properties, it can be recommended to those who want a better version of the villainess fantasy that has become all the rage lately. www.animefeminist.com/though-i-am-...

Though I am an Inept Villainess - Episode 1 - Anime Feminist

While it is unlikely to rise to the heights of Mitsue Yamazaki’s greatest properties, it can be recommended to those who want a better version of the villainess fantasy that has become all the rage la...

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Draw This, Then Die! – Episodes 1-2 This is a deceptive little series, soft and adorable and largely a “sensible chuckle” kind of comedy; then it turns around and socks you in the gut by having one of its squishy-cheeked characters deliver a genuinely affecting monologue about burnout.

Draw This, Then Die! - Episodes 1-2 - Anime Feminist

This is a deceptive little series, largely a “sensible chuckle” kind of comedy until it turns around and socks you in the gut by having one of its squishy-cheeked characters deliver a genuinely affect...

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Young Ladies Don’t Play Fighting Games – Episode 1 Y-You're into anime about fighting games, right?! www.animefeminist.com/young-ladies...

Young Ladies Don't Play Fighting Games - Episode 1 - Anime Feminist

An excellent series with a side of yuri , about two girls finding community in their "unladylike" hobby.

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Tomb Raider King — Episode 1 Korean animation adaptations deserve a lot more respect, but this middling story that feels like a riff on an already bloated subgenre of male fantasy anime isn’t helping the medium get the positive representation it needs to be on more equitably footing.

Tomb Raider King — Episode 1 - Anime Feminist

Korean animation adaptations deserve a lot more respect, but this middling story that feels like a riff on an already bloated subgenre of male fantasy anime isn't helping the medium get the positive r...

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Let’s go KAIKIGUMI — Episode 1 A strange and off-putting comedic horror that doesn’t feel very funny or even very scary. www.animefeminist.com/lets-go-kaik...

Let's go KAIKIGUMI — Episode 1 - Anime Feminist

A strange and off-putting comedic horror that doesn't feel very funny or even very scary.

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Love this show, and especially love how halfway through it feels like the writers are just as confused as I am in regards to what is actually going on. Haven't actually finished it; maybe I'm wrong but it feels like something that has a lot of promise but ended S1 half-baked.

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I Want to End This Love Game — Episode 1 A perfectly okay premiere where you know the characters are end-game, but you don’t know the journey there. www.animefeminist.com/i-want-to-en...

Though I am an Inept Villainess – Episode 1 While it is unlikely to rise to the heights of Mitsue Yamazaki’s greatest properties, it can be recommended to those who want a better version of the villainess fantasy that has become all the rage lately. www.animefeminist.com/though-i-am-...

Though I am an Inept Villainess - Episode 1 - Anime Feminist

While it is unlikely to rise to the heights of Mitsue Yamazaki’s greatest properties, it can be recommended to those who want a better version of the villainess fantasy that has become all the rage la...

animefeminist.com

Tomb Raider King — Episode 1 Korean animation adaptations deserve a lot more respect, but this middling story that feels like a riff on an already bloated subgenre of male fantasy anime isn’t helping the medium get the positive representation it needs to be on more equitably footing.

Tomb Raider King — Episode 1 - Anime Feminist

Korean animation adaptations deserve a lot more respect, but this middling story that feels like a riff on an already bloated subgenre of male fantasy anime isn't helping the medium get the positive r...

animefeminist.com

Let’s go KAIKIGUMI — Episode 1 A strange and off-putting comedic horror that doesn’t feel very funny or even very scary. www.animefeminist.com/lets-go-kaik...

Let's go KAIKIGUMI — Episode 1 - Anime Feminist

A strange and off-putting comedic horror that doesn't feel very funny or even very scary.

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Hiya folks, sorry for the lack of updates on new posts this last week. We just had a small hiccup in getting these cross posted. Thank you for your patience. We're gonna catch up starting now!

MEBIUS DUST — Episode 1 Underwhelming despite being an anime original, this premiere will have you counting the minutes until you can watch anything else. Which is a shame, since plot-wrangling could have given this preteen anime potential. www.animefeminist.com/mebius-dust-...

MEBIUS DUST — Episode 1 - Anime Feminist

Underwelming despite being an anime original, this premiere will have you counting the minutes until you can watch anything else, and honestly, that's a shame since plot wrangling could have giving th...

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My Stepmother and Stepsisters Aren’t Wicked — Episode 1 Raise that hand to your chin, tilt your head just so, and let out a proud "Ah-ha-ha-ha!" 'Tis time to see what viciousness abounds in a premiere that’s anything but wicked! www.animefeminist.com/my-stepmothe...

My Stepmother and Stepsisters Aren’t Wicked — Episode 1 - Anime Feminist

Raise that hand to your chin, tilt your head just so, and let out a proud Ah-ha-ha-ha! Tis time to see what viciousness abounds in a premiere that's anything but wicked!

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Hanaori-san Still Wants to Fight in the Next Life — Episode 1 Past violence begets bickering in a rom-com where the Demon King is a NEET, the Hero is a high schooler, and they seem destined for a less grisly fate in a world full of peace but ripe for revenge! www.animefeminist.com/hanaori-san-...

Pardon our social media silence for the past few days. We had a bushel of premiere reviews go live, so please check out our review landing page for a rundown of all the current titles. We hope to return to posting individual reviews going forward. www.animefeminist.com/2026-summer-...

Jaadugar: A Witch in Mongolia – Episode 1 – 2 A beautifully-rendered, heartbreaking double premiere about the horror and tragedy of war and invasion… and one girl’s grasp for her own agency in the middle of it all. www.animefeminist.com/jaadugar-a-w...

Jaadugar: A Witch in Mongolia – Episode 1 - 2 - Anime Feminist

A beautifully-rendered, heartbreaking double premiere about the horror and tragedy of war and invasion... and one girl's grasp for her own agency in the middle of it all.

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The Duke’s Son Claims He Won’t Love Me Yet Showers Me with Adoration — Episode 1 A soft and sweet premiere that establish the possibility that you can marry and fall in love in that exact order, even when one side just wants a political match. www.animefeminist.com/the-dukes-so...

The Duke's Son Claims He Won't Love Me Yet Showers Me with Adoration — Episode 1 - Anime Feminist

A soft and sweet premiere that establish the possibility that you can marry and fall in love in that exact order, even when one side just wants a political match.

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