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16bit Sensation is (unfortunately) a useful case study for what we talk about when we talk about character autonomy, active versus reactive characters, an…

On paper, A Galaxy Next Door sounds like a cliché rom-com where a magic wife fixes a sad boy’s problems. And it very well could turn into that, but this p…

1". Anime Feminist. Archived from the original on April 6, 2023. Retrieved April 6, 2023. "Redo of Healer - The Winter 2021 Preview Guide - Anime News

Episode 1". Anime Feminist. Archived from the original on October 17, 2023. Retrieved January 30, 2024. "2023 Fall Premiere Digest". Anime Feminist. October

January 13, 2015. Retrieved August 23, 2020. "Anime Feminist's Top 25 Anime of the Decade". Anime Feminist. December 25, 2019. Archived from the original

Lauren (January 9, 2018). "[News] Anime Matsuri Moves to Silence Vlogger with Cease & Desist – Anime Feminist". Anime Feminist. Archived from the original on

1". Anime Feminist. Archived from the original on November 29, 2023. Retrieved April 22, 2024. "2019 Summer Three-Episode Check-In". Anime Feminist. July

Birthday To Us!". Feministing. Retrieved 14 April 2016. Goldberg, Emma (8 December 2019). "A Farewell to Feministing and the Heyday of Feminist Blogging". The

Anime is hand-drawn and computer-generated animation originating from Japan. Outside Japan and in English, anime refers specifically to animation produced ...

Anime Feminist Wants To Get Real About Fan Service So-called nerd culture has, over the last few years, been forced to take a moral inventory. Women and …

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…

About Us Become a hub for the kinds of feminist critique we, as feminist anime and manga fans, wanted to see. Create a welcoming, inclusive space from wh…

Team AniFem To protect the site from devastation! Meet the team who keeps the articles, podcasts, and reviews running on time. Managing Editors While the…

All Articles 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 r…

Join the AniFam We started Anime Feminist to create a space for marginalized folks to talk about the things they love and connect with like-minded people…

BL Tag In the afterword of the first volume of Classmates, Nakamura Asumiko wrote of her first BL series, “I wanted to go with something cliche, almost h…

W’z Tag I spent a bit of time hemming and hawing over whether to write this review or let it go as a sequel, since it technically is one. On the one hand…

Shy’s embrace of a Double Empathy Problem framing reveals larger tensions in the struggle for autistic self-determination, both allowing a deeper underst…

This is a beautiful action premiere that sets the stage for its conspiracy plot and the oddball team-up of its leads, and I will absolutely watch at leas…

Tiv Tag There are more foreign-born manga artists active in Japan than you might think. You just may not notice some of them because they take on penname…

BEM Tag 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 …

Nana Tag Though its depiction of queerness is a bit dated, it’s a powerful portrayal of a bond between women and the life of two young women trying to fi…

Free! Tag One of the biggest gripes I have now with Free! is the amount of fanservice the show throws at you. While the perfectly sculpted muscles of the…

18if Tag In its depiction of women’s anger and frustration with patriarchal norms, 18if shows the potential for feminist commentary. However, any points …

yuri Tag Everything in Yurikuma Arashi is more symbol than literal representation, and I have often mulled over its meaning as I’ve navigated entering th…

SHWD Tag In a media landscape where there are seldom women who have a body type like mine, seeing two very different series, in terms of genre and presen…

Real Tag In REAL, Takehiko Inoue uses three similarly aged young men to portray different aspects of physical disability. By looking at these characters …

Pink Tag Constantly, in pop culture, we see women being used as an accessory, a love interest, a mother, but in Okazaki’s world, women take the main stag…

During seasonal premieres, we pause feature coverage to provide episode one previews of new shows coming out and organize them into a digest, with conten…

Anime Feminist hosts essays and reviews critiquing anime and manga from a social justice perspective. The editors also compile a weekly links roundup, li…