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

On the one hand it's bleak and unflinching in how high-risk investment trading ruined a girl's family...but that's the prologue to what appears to be a cute hobby anime about said high-risk investment trading.

This horror-action-comedy has an intriguing emotional hook and, so far, a solid heroine.

A Solo Leveling also-ran with an unengaging protagonist and an uneven tone.

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.

We've got discounts on both our monthly and annual offerings

This series grabs the theme of young people’s autonomy with both blood-splattered, spell-casting hands.