Chatty AF: The Anime Feminist Podcast
Exploring Japanese pop culture through a feminist lens.
Episodes
May 4, 2025 • 81 mins
The classic AniFem combo of Dee, Caitlin, and Vrai get together to talk about the standout anime of 2025 Winter and AOTY hopeful, a meta throwback to ‘90s shojo isekai, ZENSHU!
0:00:00 Intro
0:02:25 Background
0:03:38 Production
0:06:51 Personal experiences
0:09:54 Sub and dub
0:12:59 The beginning
0:13:50 ‘90s shojo isekai vibes
0:16:43 Adult isekai
0:18:44 Industry conditions vs individual relationship with art narrative
0:23:18...
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April 20, 2025 • 70 mins
Tony, Vrai, and Peter return to conquer the nadir of the Monogatari series so they can enjoy Tony's promised greater pastures in Neko White and Black. Enjoy all our thoughts on the infamous toothbrush scene!
0:00:00 Intro
0:01:52 Why are we doing this?
0:05:55 It’s not good
0:06:46 Vrai and Tony see the egg GIF
0:07:36 Obligatory Senjougahara glazing
0:12:47 Karen’s place in the narrative
0:16:06 What’s Hanakawa up to?
0:19:49 May...
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April 4, 2025 • 70 mins
Dee, Tony, and Peter return to reflect on the 2025 Winter Season’s new anime as well as its many many many many MANY sequels!
0:00:00 Intro
Red Flags
0:01:18 OKITSURA: Fell in Love with an Okinawan Girl, but I Just Wish I Know What She’s Saying
Neutral Zone
0:05:48 Sorairo Utility
It’s Complicated
0:07:09 I May Be a Guild Receptionist, but I’ll Solo Any Boss to Clock Out on Time
Feminist Potential
0:09:14 ZENSHU
0:11:16 Medalist
0...
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March 14, 2025 • 61 mins
Caitlin, Colleen, and Megan return to complete their rewatch of the Magic Knight Rayearth anime!
0:00:00 Intro
0:01:49 Content Warning: Grief and loss
0:02:33 Production
0:04:09 Mech designs
0:08:11 New songs
0:10:03 The writing
0:13:01 Personal reactions
0:14:52 Lantis x Eagle x Hikaru
0:16:32 Plot Mess
0:24:25 Umi romance
0:26:27 Umi and Fuu have nothing to do
0:33:19 Anime vs manga ending
0:38:18 Themes + motifs
0:44:49 Value o...
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March 7, 2025 • 59 mins
Caitlin, Colleen, and Megan return to review the first half of Magic Knight Rayearth’s second season!
0:00:00 Intro
0:02:55 New writer
0:05:54 Major changes in second season
0:09:38 Narrative passivism
0:12:32 The dub
0:15:28 Differences from the manga
0:17:16 New designs
0:19:15 New music
0:20:51 Eagle Vision
0:28:26 Aska
0:30:13 Tatra and Tarta
0:35:14 The anti-monomyth
0:38:10 Trauma
0:39:56 Alcyone
0:43:42 Nova and Lady Debona...
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February 12, 2025 • 69 mins
Dee, Tony, and Peter team up to check-in on the A to ZENSHU of 2025 Winter anime, discussing the surprisingly top-heavy season!
0:00:00 Intro
Red Flags
0:01:45 OKITSURA: Fell in Love with an Okinawan Girl, but I Just Wish I Know What She's Saying
Yellow Flags
0:07:02 Sakamoto Days
Neutral Zone
0:11:40 Sorairo Utility
It's Complicated
0:13:19 I May Be a Guild Receptionist, but I’ll Solo Any Boss to Clock Out on Time
Feminist Potent...
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January 30, 2025 • 55 mins
Due to some technical issues with the first episode audio, Caitlin jumps into part 2 of a watchalong of Magic Knight Rayearth with special guests Megan and Colleen
0:00:00 Intro (special note)
0:02:21 Sub vs Dub
0:08:35 The story so far
0:11:30 Greatest anime betrayals
0:16:30 Visuals and pacing
0:19:38 Ferio
0:21:51 Caldina
0:23:40 Zagato
0:25:36 Inouva
0:29:58 Individuality in isekai
0:38:31 Girlhood and innocence
0:45:53 Woman...
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January 4, 2025 • 79 mins
Alex, Cy, and Peter return to close out 2024 by wrapping up the Fall season, including a number of shojo titles and some surprise shonen favorites!
0:00:00 Intro
Red Flags
0:01:56 Yakuza Fiance
0:09:11 The Do-Over Damsel
Yellow Flags
0:11:49 TsumaSho
0:14:04 I’ll Become a Villainess Who Goes Down in History
Neutral Zone
0:15:01 Orb: On the Movements of the Earth
0:20:40 Negative Positive Angler
0:24:00 Demon Lord 2099
0:27:15 Acro...
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December 17, 2024 • 62 mins
Caitlin, Cy, and Anime Herald’s Samantha get together to look back at a unique anime featuring adult romance and the consequences of burnout, Recovery of an MMO Junkie!
0:00:00 Intro
0:02:20 Synopsis
0:03:48 The why
0:06:05 The controversy
0:11:15 Relatability
0:24:05 Similarities to Isekai
0:36:45 The gender of it all
0:44:02 Queering het
0:46:20 Koiwai
0:50:03 Moriko’s presentation
0:56:08 Final thoughts
1:01:19 Outro
Caitlin: ...
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December 5, 2024 • 75 mins
Toni and Cy meet to discuss Anime Feminists core values and our plans going forward post-election.
0:00:00 Intro
0:01:40 Not throwing anyone away
0:10:36 Safe place to express and explore community
0:14:47 How we discovered Anime Feminist
0:26:40 How anime helps and has helped us
0:47:35 Why we create these communities
1:03:19 Recommendations
1:15:10 Outro
Toni: https://bsky.app/profile/poetpedagogue.bsky.social
Cy: https://bsky....
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November 7, 2024 • 76 mins
Alex, Cy, and Peter check in on the 2024 Fall season’s surprising number of magical girls, enjoyable het romances, and girls hitting the sailor moon pose!
0:00:00 Intro
0:02:41 Yakuza Fiance
0:09:46 The Do-Over Damsel Conquers the Dragon Emperor
0:15:07 TsumaSho
0:16:39 I'll Become a Villainess Who Goes Down in History
0:18:12 Orb: On the Movements of the Earth
0:24:56 Negative Positive Angler
0:28:23 Acro Trip
0:31:01 Ranma 1/2
0...
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November 6, 2024 • 11 mins
The fantastic LOOK BACK, based on Fujimoto Tatsuki's one-volume manga, is available on streaming as of today!
Toni, Caitlin, and Peter got together to talk about burnout, relationships with creative peers, and grappling with mourning.
Check out the rest of this episode or read the transcript at our Patreon!
https://www.patreon.com/c/animefeminist
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October 27, 2024 • 72 mins
Vrai, Cy, and Chiaki gather to talk self-actualization and automobiles for the final episode of their Revolutionary Girl Utena watchalong covering the Adolescence of Utena film!
0:00:00 Intro
0:04:04 Content warnings
0:04:29 Colorism and Anthy
0:10:08 Standalone or sequel?
0:12:36 Chiho Saito manga
0:13:42 First touch
0:14:33 Akio
0:21:11 Sexual assault
0:23:17 General horniness
0:26:29 Toga
0:30:10 Shiori
0:33:52 Kissing
0:39:35 ...
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October 13, 2024 • 72 mins
Vrai, Caitlin, and Peter wrap-up the 2024 Summer season with a number of romcoms with good to questionable execution…
0:00:00 Intro
0:02:56 No Longer Allowed in Another World
0:03:17 VTuber Legend: How I Went Viral after Forgetting to Turn Off My Stream
0:03:41 Pseudo-Harem
0:07:22 Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian
0:08:36 SHOSHIMIN: How to become Ordinary
0:11:41 The Ossan Newbie Adventurer, Trained to Death by the Mos...
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October 1, 2024 • 10 mins
Take a peek into what's happening over on our bonus feed!
Last year on Patreon, Toni talked about their feelings on Made in Abyss season 2 and how it explores abuse survivor narratives. But there's a lot more to dig into. So Vrai and Lizzie did their homework, and now we've got a full season retrospective for your listening/reading pleasure.
Wanna hear the rest, or read the transcript? Just head over to
https://www.patreon.com/a...
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September 29, 2024 • 82 mins
Vrai, Peter, and Toni look back the anime adaptation of Inio Asano’s sapphic apocalypse, Dead Dead Demons Dededede Destruction!
0:00:00 Intro
0:01:28 Also there’s a manga
0:03:11 Spoiler warning
0:04:09 Content warning
0:04:29 Content vs tone
0:07:41 Anime vs manga
0:10:12 Oba and the aliens
0:17:34 Facism, colonialism, the military industrial complex, and corporate complicity
0:22:14 Activism and futility
0:28:13 Kenichi and Hiro...
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September 1, 2024 • 56 mins
Vrai, Chiaki, and Cy return to wrap up the Revolutionary Girl Utena TV series. Revelations are had. Tears are shed. Only the movie remains.
0:00:00 Intro
0:02:47 Reactions
0:03:58 Utena’s place in queer media
0:0838 Juri’s line: “Pure” vs “genuine”
0:14:43 Anthy’s storyline / rewatchability
0:16:44 Portrayal of race / WOC as the universal scapegoat
0:25:04 The stabbing
0:33:56 Akio
0:39:23 Anthy’s transformation / Utena’s realizat...
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August 18, 2024 • 70 mins
Vrai, Caitlin, and Peter convene to discuss the current state of the 2024 Summer anime season!
0:00:00 Intro
0:02:20 VTuber Legend
0:05:25 Pseudo-Harem
0:08:01 The Elusive Samurai
0:14:34 Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian
0:17:44 Wistoria: Wand and Sword
0:19:29 The Strongest Magician in the Demon Lord’s Army Was a Human
0:20:04 SHOSHIMIN: How to become Ordinary
0:22:12 Ramen Akaneko
0:26:27 Quality Assurance in Another...
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August 4, 2024 • 66 mins
Things are heating up, both narratively and literally, as Vrai, Cy, and Chiaki return to peak trauma with Part 4 of our Revolutionary Girl Utena watchalong!
0:00:00 Intros
0:01:51 State of the retrospective
0:03:58 Initial impressions
0:05:05 Juri
0:13:25 Akio
0:15:30 What is Touga doing?
0:20:41 Nanami
0:25:36 Episode 33
0:37:43 Anthy and Akio
0:44:17 Prejudice, exoticism, and Anthy
0:55:18 Utena’s memory
1:04:24 Outros
Vrai: bs...
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July 7, 2024 • 69 mins
Alex, Toni, and Peter return to wrap-up the 2024 Spring anime season!
0:00:00 Intros
0:01:50 Mysterious DIsappearances
0:06:09 Train to the End of the World
0:09:54 Tonari no Yokai-san
0:10:28 Go Go! Loser Ranger
0:10:56 Kaiju No. 8
0:13:47 WIND BREAKER
0:18:28 Tadaima Okaeri
0:24:00 Spice and Wolf
0:25:39 Jellyfish Can’t Swim in the Night
0:36:11 YATAGARASU
0:39:35 Whisper Me a Love Song
0:43:00 A Condition Called Love
0:50:04 Bl...
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