‘My Girlfriend is Shobitch’ and what we teach teen girls about sex
I would have thought there was nothing that would convince me to watch an anime with “bitch” in its title. But then Vrai, my colleague at Anime Feminist, gave it…
Otaku Links: We’ll miss you, Grape-kun
Have you figured out what you’re watching this anime season yet? I just got my Anime News Network review assignments: Land of the Lustrous, Anime-Gataris, and URAHARA. Another show I’m…
Be scared of something and do it anyway
Last month I taped a segment with Fox News. I haven’t watched any of it and I don’t plan to. When I tell people that, even my loved ones who…
Otaku Links: Even more self-promotion than usual!
Fox News came to my house and interviewed me about my 2015 book, Cosplay: The Fantasy World of Role Play. Here’s the video I still have not watched. The Anime…
The double-edged sword of making people mad
In 2015, I wrote Why you want to make readers emotional, and included this line: “In the future, I’d like to avoid articles that make people angry, but even that…
Otaku Links: On the big screen
Summer’s over, and it’s time for the best and worst of summer anime over at Anime News Network. You won’t be surprised by my picks. The highlight of my September…
I love anime. Wait, what is anime?
Last week I interviewed some of the staff at Noir Caesar, an American studio that portrays black experiences through the medium of anime and manga. I was especially interested in…
Otaku Links: Links for snake people
Low-key lesbian relationships in A Centaur’s Life. This show lays it on pretty thick when it comes to race relations, but lesbians are just part of the scenery. Neo Yokio…
‘New Game!’ and the self-taught programmer blues
New Game! is my favorite accidentally feminist anime—in an effort to populate the series with only cute girls and have them explore yuri relationships, it’s a show that features an…
Otaku Links: Press play
It’s been a year since this groundbreaking interactive web comic ended. Let Gita Jackson tell you about Homestuck. For me, Homestuck led to my first big reporting win—my first time appearing…