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Oldtaku no Radio #062 – Planetes
Reuniting for the annual Anime Secret Santa project Jared and Ink stuff your stocking with opinions about 2004 8217 s Planetes via a special episode of…
Planetes, Project Blue Earth SOS, Stars Align, Godzilla Singular Point
Anime Like Overtake
After a traumatic event, freelance photographer Kouya Madoka has trouble taking pictures of people, and his career is suffering for it. However, while working
Capeta, Initial D First Stage, MF GHOST, Stars Align, The Gymnastics Samurai
Anime Like Free!
Haruka Nanase has a passion for swimming that led him to compete and win a tournament in elementary school with his friends.
Kuroko's Basketball, Stars Align, Tsurune, Chihayafuru, Dive!!
Day 7 of Niji Nights: Representation! Characters of Color in Anime Part 4
Welcome back, to yet another night of Niji Nights! We’re bringing in another year of Characters of Color in celebration of Juneteenth. There’s nothing more that I love…
Akudama Drive, Bleach, Children of the Whales, Stars Align, Kuroko's Basketball
21 Non-Binary Anime Characters That Eschew Gender Conformity
Do you know more non-binary anime characters? I am certain there are quite a few more that I missed. Let fans know who they are in the comments…
Sailor Moon, Knights of Sidonia, Kino's Journey, Naruto, Ouran High School Host Club
15 Realistic Sports Anime That Emphasis Skill Over Superpower
If you enjoy your sports anime, but want to see skill built on the back of hard work and techniques steeped in realism, then give these realistic sports…
Giant Killing, Fighting Spirit, Stars Align, Big Windup!, Capeta
Weekly Round-Up, 1-7 March 2023: Shoujo AniTube, Funding for Anime, and Stars Align Update
AniFem Round-Up Airborne Onnagata: Viewing Macross Frontier’s protagonist through a genderqueer lens Corrine Courtland focuses in on the much-maligned Alto and how his arc is greatly enriched by…
Anime Like Tsurune
Kyudo is a modern martial art with a focus on archery. Minato used to be into the sport in middle school, enchanted by the "tsurune" sound made by…
Dance Dance Danseur, Free! – Iwatobi Swim Club, Stars Align, Tsurune, Your Lie in April
Crunch Time | A Guide to Sports Anime and What You Should Be Watching
Whether you’re a novice at sports anime or one of the pros, this handy guide breaks down what makes the genre so great, and which ones you need…
Megalobox, Scorching Ping Pong Girls, Stars Align, Burning Kabaddi, Free! – Iwatobi Swim Club
Lycoris Recoil is an Ideal Original Anime | Animation Spotlight
Download Genshin Impact here: https://hoyo.link/14biuBA6 And use this code to receive 60 Primogems: 6A6VJTWGCPYV #ad Canipa talks about the team behind Lycoris Recoil who revived the guns with girls…
Sword Art Online Alternative: Gun Gale Online, Ben-To, Gunslinger Girl, ID-0, KanColle
EXTREEEEEEME BASEBALL: Tribe Nine: AniTAY Early Impressions
Sports anime tend to leave me cold (unless you’re Stars Align and stuffed with child abuse, parental neglect and other dark teenage…
From Rookie to Rockstar: 15 Sports Anime Series Where The Main Character Starts as a Complete Novice
In my admittedly limited experience with sports anime, the vast majority of the plots can be split into two general themes. The first is that someone that was…
This Week in Games - Stars Align
For this week's Halloween column, Heidi investigates the "spooky" possibility of Warner Bros. making its own Smash-like fighting game. There's also the new Star Ocean game announcement—will it…
Anime Series Like Opera Girl
After being forced out of her idol group due to a stalker fostering her discomfort with men, Ai Narata seeks to use her talents at the prestigious Kouka…
Stars Align, WONDER EGG PRIORITY, Dear Brother, Glass Mask, Kids on the Slope
Stars Align But Not Quite
I have to admit, Stars Align was not what I expected. And that was both a blessing and a curse. I would watch more though.
50 Best Harem Anime Series Loaded With Ladies
You like harem series for reasons, like the “plot” and the “development” on of the characters. You need more harem anime in your life, like, right now. Maybe…
Hundred, The World God Only Knows, The Testament of Sister New Devil, Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody, Demon King Daimao
Stars Align And The Importance Of Compassion In Social Justice
You may or may not have heard about this anime, but if you had it was likely from Anifem’s glowing reviews of the series, Fanbyte, or perhaps the…
Weekly Round-Up, 14-20 April 2021: Studio MAPPA Analysis, Attack on Titan’s Ending, and Stars Align Update
AniFem Round-Up Osamake: Romcom Where the Childhood Friend Won’t Lose Glimmers of potential drowned out by the genre’s worst tropes. CESTVS -The Roman Fighter- – Episode 1 Bad…
OSMcast! Show #163: Stars Align
Sometimes, an anime is about a sport. Sometimes, it's about other things entirely. Sometimes, it's about other things entirely but also absolutely needs the sport in question to…
OSMcast! Anime, Games, Interviews, & More!
Legend of the Crystals: Final Fantasy, Listeners, Stars Align
The Ever-Ending Story: Notaku Podcast #5
If I were a rich man... Read more
Bloom Into June – Episode # 95 – Pride Month Special feat. Meta and RetroSofa
Note: This podcast was recorded before the murder of George Floyd and was delayed in the hopes that people would focus in on the incredibly important social movement…
TheOASG’s March and April Lab Reports
From an interview with the Stars Align director to a transcript of a 80's magazine, here's a round up of interviews and posts around the internet.
Rainbow Releases: Autumn 2019
In 2018, we introduced an anime convention panel called Rainbow Releases to highlight LGBTQ-related anime and manga coming to the United States in English. Thank you to everyone…
Ode to Anime Studios – 8-bit
Stars Align’s put my eye towards these guys. If I wanted to catch the seasonal train on Stars Align, I’m a bit late, but…welp, the post in this…
Weekly Round-Up, 18-24 March 2020: Gender-Neutral Dresses in Animal Crossing, Chihayafuru Behind-the-Scenes, and How to Support Stars Align
AniFem Round-Up How Kingdom Hearts helped me assert my gender identity Latonya Pennington shares their struggles with the strict binary often enforced by character creators, and how they…
Weekly Round-Up, 4-10 March 2020: Asexuals in History, Trans Voice Actor Coming Out, and Stars Align Director Interview
AniFem Round-Up AniFem Fundraiser Update: February 2020 News on our new review database, perks, and some delays on international shipping. I Am One Yet Many: Plurality representation in…
How Stars Align offers a fresh narrative model for LGBTQ+ characters
Every character in Stars Align gets at least a few moments under the spotlight, and the team’s manager, Asuka Yuu, is no exception. Yuu provides an example of…
Fall 2019 Roundup.
Fall 2019 had quite a lot of shows that caught my interest. I enjoyed some more than others so I compiled a comprehensive list of anime shows I…
Where Do We Go From Here? – Hoshiai no Sora Episode 12 Review & Final Thoughts
This is a review of the final episode of Hoshiai no Sora, or Stars Align episode twelve.
Weekly Round-Up, 29 January – 4 February, 2020: Hatori Bisco Interview, PokeMom Pam, and Stars Align Fan Movie
AniFem Round-Up 2020 Winter Three-Episode Check-In The team checks in with what they’re watching now that the season is a quarter of the way over. AniFem Fundraiser Update:…
Bakacast #396 – The Saddest Clap
iTunes | Direct Download | Current RSS | Archive RSS (Episodes 0-323) sees original recording date of audio files is December 6th, 2019 “That’s not a real date.…
Stars Align Anime Series Review
While there are some truly great moments in Stars Align, the series lacks balance and the pacing doesn't really allow any of its concepts to get the full…
Storytelling is a dying art
This is something I wrote while finishing up my Stars Align final episode review. After much (internal) deliberation, I’ve decided to post it. May the chips fall where…
When the Stars don’t align – Hoshiai no Sora & The Anime Industry
Wow. I am so mad. But not at Hoshiai no Sora—just to get that out of the way. No, Hoshiai no Sora did nothing wrong to me—it was…
Hoshiai no Sora Review
"Hoshiai no Sora sacrifices much of its time dedicated to episodically exploring its casts plights, and o boy do they have a lot of plights"
Hoshiai no Sora / Stars Align: A Story About Corporate Betrayal, But Also A Lot More
Hoshiai no Sora / Stars Align was one of 2019’s best shows… then its team got backstabbed, and it became emblematic of the fundamentally unfair system for anime…
Looking Back on Fall 2019
Shinchou Yuusha‘s delays mean that I had to wrap this up basically on the day the new season started happening. The new season began on a Saturday for…
Anime Feminist’s Top Picks for 2019
Our two-week recommendations extravaganza comes to an end with the staff's Best of 2019 list! The post Anime Feminist’s Top Picks for 2019 appeared first on ANIME FEMINIST.
Stars Align Episode 12 Review
Well that's a cliff-hanger finish for you. Admittedly, the match is done and we can see the growth of some characters. Still, there's a lot left open by…
Anime Feminist Recommendations of Fall 2019
The recs lists just keep on comin'! Last week, we celebrated the end of the decade. This week, we're zeroing in on the season and year that was,…
Fall 2019 Final Thoughts
It’ll be New Year’s in less than an hour but it’s still technically 2019 here in the U.S. and by golly, if barely squeezing in our final thoughts…
[Links] 25-31 December 2019: Stars Align’s Financial Woes, Game Criticism Across 2019, and Shoujo Manga in the US
AniFem Round-Up Anime Feminist’s Top 25 Anime of the Decade The team got together to vote on their collective top titles of the decade. Anime Feminist’s Bonus Picks…
Animation Awards 2019 Final Day: Best Show And Movie
We’ve reached the grand finale of our animation awards! These are the shows and movies that, for some reason or the other, have impressed our panel of fans…
Top Ten Anime of 2019
Hello all, and welcome to the end of another year in anime. This has been an undeniably difficult year, both in the world at large, and within our…
Put a Tune to It (Tag Post)
So, it’s time to show off my taste in music (which has shown up in awards and tag posts before, but not as much as it has in…
Will This Victory Even Matter? – Hoshiai no Sora Episode 11 Review
This is a review of Hoshiai no Sora, or Stars Align episode eleven.
Stars Align Episodes 10 + 11 Review
With apparently only one more episode to go Stars Align is moving through things rapidly and yet has almost zero chance of dealing with all the issues it…
A Magical 2019 Pt. II: The Spellbook Awards (3rd Day of Anime 2019)
By popular demand…or maybe just Derek’s…the Awards are back (and harder to nominate for than ever, considering the AniList end-of-season forum posts have essentially died off due to…
A Magical 2019 Pt. I (4th Day of Anime 2019)
This is the yearly rankings post. Just to make it faster for myself, I’ve left the month that I finished at the end of each entry of these…
Fall 2019 – Week 10 in Review
Well folks, it’s just about that time again. Wednesday has arrived once more, and though I’m currently buried under a variety of end-of-year lists and other assorted projects,…