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Iā€™m in Love with the Villainess: Advocating Equality for Gender and Sexual Minorities Among Indonesian Audiences, Guest Review by Lena Tama

October 18th, 2023

We continue Reality in Anime Week with a fantastic guest review by Lena Tama, who takes a look at I’m In Love With The Villainess from a different cultural lens than I bring to the topic. Today’s review is an adaptation of an Indonesian-language review for Sukarita, Iā€™m in Love with the Villainess: Mendorong Topik […]

Birdie Wing: Golf Girls’ Story on Nintendo Switch, Guest Review by Eleanor W.

September 13th, 2023

Hello again. Iā€™m back for another game review. You can find me lurking around the Internet @st_owly as usual. Today I’m looking at: Birdie Wing: Golf Girlsā€™ Story. The Nintendo Switch Game I LOVE Birdie Wing, itā€™s everything I ever wanted out of a sports anime, so I was very excited to discover this was […]

Birdie Wing, Continued, Continued

April 25th, 2023

It’s not that often that I write a review and mere hours later, everything I said was *completely* wrong, but Birdie Wing has done it, by golf! Golf changes *everything* here. It ruins the dreams of young women by leading them to defeat in a single high school doubles tournament, which clearly is the end […]

Birdie Wing, Continued

April 16th, 2023

The first “season” of Birdie Wing was an absolute triumph that didn’t so much come to an end, as just stopped. ^_^ And now what was being called the second “season” is more or less a continuation of the first. In the middle of what might have been a climactic arc in any high school […]

If My Favorite Pop Idol Made It to the Budokan, I Would Die, Volume 1

February 22nd, 2023

Eri is a fan. Not just a regular fan, but a full-on fanatic. Her favorite idol is a singer with Cham Jam, a small, not-well-known idol group from Okayama, in western Japan. Eri has given her life over to support her idol, who is very cute, pathologically shy and almost always in the back row. […]