We were lucky enough to sit down for an interview with Higashimura, the massively accomplished mangaka best known in English for Princess Jellyfish

Through her curated idol persona, Ai’s girlhood is reframed as labor, and as a product to be carefully marketed and sold.

My Happy Marriage begins in the familiar tropes of an arranged marriage romance, but its focus on the healing arc of its main female character allows the show to fully blossom. 

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.

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

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...

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

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

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

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.

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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!

All the summer premiere reviews in one easy-to-find place.

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.

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.

There's a lot of passion and creativity put into this premiere, even if it struggles to find cohesion between its many moving pieces.

A round of applause for another stellar entry into the BanG Dream! franchise, this time with virtual musicians aiming to make a mark online.

Fans of Cinderella stories will likely be a fan of this supernatural romance as well.

A visually overwhelming anime premiere that will, at best, leave you bored but at worst, will literally induce a migraine during your watch.

A pleasant premiere that feels grounded in its world and avoids the often fraught tropes in general fantasy anime by simply being normal about its cast.

Chainsmoker Cat is the artistic equivalent of trying something on a dare and almost throwing up...then finding yourself going back for another taste.

A complicated premiere that never wrestles with its very white main character owning nomadic oni land and instead sets up an interspecies romance with an ambiguously aged character.

Blended families---and blended romances---abound in a premiere that's all about finding your stride in a new household full of unexpected brothers.

There's a whole lot going on here and it's hard to say what any of this will pan out to at the end of the day.

You'll be wanting to kiss-kiss-rawr in love with this monstrous romantic comedy about a kaiju girl who yearns for connection and the genuinely nice boy who likes her.