We cobbled together some pre-release notes about this season's upcoming shojosei titles to help audiences find the right show for them.

We’ve officially jumped into the ’embers and ‘obers and Spring is in full swing for me! Here’s what I published this month. On the blog Manga Tasting Platter: Magical Girls,…

Alt: Team Rocket: Jessie, James & Meowth Peace Signs

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

If it gets too real, you can always turn it off.

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

If it gets too real, you can always turn it off.

In being so surreal, this series touches on very real and relatable ideas, holding up a bendy carnival mirror to the audience’s own world.

Welcome back to another buffet serving of manga mini-reviews! It’s been a while! These days I’m doing most of my manga reviewing over on Yatta-Tachi where I get to check out new series …

The love between Sakura and Hinagiku is difficult to define, but in a way I find compelling rather than a cop-out.

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. 

Welcome back to another buffet serving of manga mini-reviews! It’s been a while! These days I’m doing most of my manga reviewing over on Yatta-Tachi where I get to check out new series …

Here are the September 2026 manga, manhwa, manhua, light novel, and book releases from 14+ publishers, such as Yen Press, Seven Seas Entertainment, VIZ Media, Kodansha, Square Enix Books, Kana, and Om...

August was a disjointed yet creatively charged month! I did a bunch of reading, did a bunch of writing, got quite sick, and slept terribly multiple nights in a row because, despite how exhausted my…

The love between Sakura and Hinagiku is difficult to define, but in a way I find compelling rather than a cop-out.

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!

Here are the August 2026 manga, manhwa, manhua, light novel, and book releases from 14+ publishers, such as Yen Press, Seven Seas Entertainment, VIZ Media, Kodansha, Square Enix Books, Kana, and Omoi!

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.

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The Actually Disabled AJ brings you a recommendation list of their top manga with Disabled Representation!

Alex reviews The Delinquent and the Transfer Student, a charming new retro yuri manga series from Seven Seas.

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!

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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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.

A potentially fun premise for a supernatural comedy that gets mired in lousy jokes.

This is a fine but unmemorable fantasy romance that unfortunately looks a bit rough.

A power fantasy with dull writing, fan service, and a side of transphobia.

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.