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Part 1 of the 4-part watchalong of Michiko & Hatchin with Amelia, Vrai, and special guests Lizzie Visitante and Jacqueline-Elizabeth Cottrell! 0:00:00 Introductions 0:03:19 Production history 0:05:25 Vocal blackface 0:07:20 The sub 0:11:00 First experience 0:15:41 Religion as a tool of violence 0:19:39 Representations of age, race, and sexuality 0:22:10 Colorism, racism, and Mejorando la Raza 0:27:43 Portrayal without representation 0:29:51 Hana as a perspective characters and religion 0:32:44 Religion 0:36:01 Beauty as trustworthiness 0:37:42 Gang recruitment 0:39:50 Atsuko and queer representation 0:43:45 Black and brown representation and relationships 0:47:43 Intergenerational trauma 0:53:13 Patriarchy and misogyny 0:56:17 Next six episodes 1:00:53 Outro Amelia: twitter.com/actuallyamelia Vrai: twitter.com/WriterVrai Lizzie Visitante: twitter.com/LizzieVisitante Jacqueline-Elizabeth Cottrell: twitter.com/JaxJaxAttaxx AniFem Patreon: www.patreon.com/animefeminist AniFem Twitter: twitter.com/AnimeFem

Amelia, Dee, and Peter look back on the Winter 2018 season. Winter 2018 Premiere Digest: www.animefeminist.com/winter-2018-premiere-digest/ Winter 2018 Mid-season Check-in: www.animefeminist.com/podcast-chatty-af-42-winter-2018-mid-season-check/ 0:00:00 Intros Red Flags 0:01:31 After the Rain Yellow Flags 0:04:07 DARLING in the FRANXX 0:08:10 Ms. Koizumi Loves Ramen Noodles Harmless Fun 0:10:21 Hakumei and Mikochi 0:12:16 How to Keep a Mummy 0:13:49 IDOLiSH7 0:14:49 Pop Team Epic 0:17:17 School Babysitters 0:18:38 citrus Feminist Potential 0:21:00 Record of Grancrest War 0:28:21 Violet Evergarden 0:30:04 Laid-Back Camp 0:36:33 Sanrio Boys 0:43:41 DamePri Anime Caravan 0:48:07 A Place Further Than the Universe Sequels & Carryovers 1:01:06 Classicaloids 1:05:25 Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card 1:07:54 March comes in like a lion 1:14:42 The Ancient Magus’ Bride 1:20:57 Outro Amelia: twitter.com/actuallyamelia Dee: twitter.com/joseinextdoor Peter: twitter.com/peterfobian AniFem Patreon: www.patreon.com/animefemi

Part 4 and final part of the 4-part watchalong of Kill la Kill with Amelia, Vrai, and special guest Miranda Sanchez! 00:00 Intros 01:55 Final quarter impressions 03:31 Equal oppornudity 10:00 The good stuff 11:25 RyuMako is real 18:46 Satsuki’s arc 20:51 Ragyo 23:00 The Mako turnaround 23:44 Ryuko’s heritage 27:20 Central theme and execution 35:04 Trigger’s reputation 38:03 A remake? 43:52 Overall takeaways 45:56 Miranda surprises 48:07 The OVA 51:05 Recommendations 52:16 Outro Amelia: twitter.com/actuallyamelia Vrai: twitter.com/WriterVrai Miranda: twitter.com/HavokRose AniFem Patreon: www.patreon.com/animefeminist AniFem Twitter: twitter.com/AnimeFeminist AniFem Facebook: www.facebook.com/animefem/ Recorded Sunday 11th March 2018 Music: Open Those Bright Eyes by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Part 3 of the 4-part watchalong of Kill la Kill with Amelia, Vrai, and special guest Miranda Sanchez! 00:00 Intros 02:50 The Ragyo scene 07:24 Kansai arc 09:23 Kill la Kill vs Gurren Lagann 10:37 Satsuki's background and story structure 13:18 Fanservice 17:55 Nostalgia and fandom 23:49 Intersectionality 29:33 Clothes maketh man 34:04 Reveals 38:43 Mako continues to be wonderful 41:04 Next 6 episodes 45:23 Maidens 47:28 Miranda surprises 50:01 Miranda predictions 51:13 Next episode 52:36 Outro Amelia: twitter.com/actuallyamelia Vrai: twitter.com/WriterVrai Miranda: twitter.com/HavokRose AniFem Patreon: www.patreon.com/animefeminist AniFem Twitter: twitter.com/AnimeFeminist AniFem Facebook: www.facebook.com/animefem/ Recorded Sunday 4th March 2018 Music: Open Those Bright Eyes by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Vrai, Caitlin, and Dee discuss Sayo Yamamoto and Mari Okada’s Lupin the Third: The Woman Called Fujiko Mine! 0:00:00 Intros 0:02:47 A history with Lupin III 0:11:23 Experiences with Lupin III 0:14:36 Content warnings 0:15:55 Sayo Yamamoto 0:18:51 Mari Okada 0:20:25 Visuals, framing, and fanservice 0:25:32 Portrayals of Fujiko as plot 0:27:44 Hayao Miyazaki’s take on Lupin and Fujiko 0:31:15 Legacy characters 0:38:54 Metaplot 0:42:04 Fujiko herself 0:53:34 Sexual assault 1:03:00 Oscar vs Fujiko 1:12:53 Oscar’s tragic backstory? 1:18:45 Outro Vrai: twitter.com/WriterVrai Caitlin: twitter.com/alltsun_nodere Dee: twitter.com/joseinextdoor AniFem Patreon: www.patreon.com/animefeminist AniFem Twitter: twitter.com/AnimeFeminist AniFem Facebook: www.facebook.com/animefem/ Recorded Saturday 4th March 2018 Music: Open Those Bright Eyes by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Part 2 of the 4-part watchalong of Kill la Kill with Amelia, Vrai, and special guest Miranda Sanchez! 00:00 Intros 01:50 Satsuki 05:48 Aesthetic 06:41 Gamagoori 09:26 Unequal sexualization 13:05 What are they doing 15:35 Ryuko x Mako 19:11 Not looking cute 21:08 Nue 23:56 Marxism, fashion, and women 29:07 Brass knuckles for Vrai 31:18 The nobility of poverty 40:32 Next six episodes 44:16 Nudist Beach 46:12 Ragyo 48:50 Miranda surprises 53:45 All gender work and no gender play 55:08 Outro Amelia: twitter.com/actuallyamelia Vrai: twitter.com/WriterVrai Miranda: twitter.com/HavokRose AniFem Patreon: www.patreon.com/animefeminist AniFem Twitter: twitter.com/AnimeFeminist AniFem Facebook: www.facebook.com/animefem/ Recorded Saturday 17th February 2018 Music: Open Those Bright Eyes by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Part 1 of the 4-part watchalong of Kill la Kill with Amelia, Vrai, and special guest Miranda Sanchez! 00:00 Intros 01:46 The most/least feminist anime 03:18 Background with Kill la Kill 07:11 Positive aspects 12:51 Setting 15:46 Female vs male nudity 20:00 Mako 21:37 Sexual menace and slapstick comedy 27:00 What do clothes mean? 28:51 The Critical Catch 22 34:37 Karl la Marx 35:57 Feminist themes? 37:47 Ryuko and Satsuki 40:37 Next six episodes 46:28 Changing the person to fit the clothes 50:00 Miranda surprises 51:20 Takeaways 54:24 Outro Amelia: twitter.com/actuallyamelia Vrai: twitter.com/WriterVrai Miranda: twitter.com/HavokRose AniFem Patreon: www.patreon.com/animefeminist AniFem Twitter: twitter.com/AnimeFeminist AniFem Facebook: www.facebook.com/animefem/ Recorded Saturday 10th February 2018 Music: Open Those Bright Eyes by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Amelia, Dee, and Peter check-in on the Winter 2018 season. Winter 2018 Premiere Digest: https://www.animefeminist.com/winter-2018-premiere-digest/ Winter 2018 Three-Episode Check-in: https://www.animefeminist.com/roundtable-winter-2018-three-episode-check/ 0:00:00 Intros Anime was a Mistake 0:01:19 The Ryou's Work is Never Done Pit of Shame 0:01:36 Killing Bites Red Flags 0:01:47 Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody 0:03:07 After the Rain Yellow Flags 0:09:42 Beatless 0:09:54 KOKKOKU 0:10:04 Maerchen Maedchen 0:10:24 Ms. Koizumi Loves Ramen Noodles 0:11:28 Slow Start 0:11:35 Katana Maidens ~Toji no Miko 0:13:04 Hakata Tonkotsu Ramens 0:16:52 DARLING in the FRANXX Harmless Fun 0:20:17 Hakumei and Mikochi 0:21:18 How to Keep a Mummy 0:22:24 IDOLiSH 7 0:23:55 Junji Ito Collection 0:26:43 Karaki Jozu no Takagi-san 0:27:13 Mitsuboshi Colors 0:27:38 Pop Team Epic 0:28:10 School Babysitters It's... Complicated 0:31:13 citrus 0:35:03 Devilman Crybaby Feminist Potential 0:35:19 Laid-Back Camp 0:40:12 Violet E

Caitlin, Amelia, and Dee discuss Miss Hokusai. 0:00:00 Intros 0:00:51 Background 0:02:52 Impressions 0:09:34 Emotionality and style 0:12:02 O-Ei and sexuality 0:18:04 Adult professional shipping 0:22:18 Prostitutes and fantasies 0:28:06 Day-to-day life in Edo 0:30:17 Mr. Hokusai 0:40:38 O-Ei and O-Nao 0:47:07 The dudes 0:54:12 Miss Hokusai 0:57:36 Historical context 0:59:37 But is it feminist? 1:10:40 Outro Caitlin: twitter.com/alltsun_nodere Amelia: twitter.com/neutralfemale Dee: twitter.com/joseinextdoor AniFem Patreon: www.patreon.com/animefeminist AniFem Twitter: twitter.com/AnimeFeminist AniFem Facebook: www.facebook.com/animefem/ Recorded Saturday 26th November 2017 Music: Open Those Bright Eyes by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

The 10th and final part of the multi-part watchalong of Fushigi Yugi with Dee, Vrai, and Caitlin 0:00:00 Intros 0:01:46 Miaka used as a narrative tool 0:07:00 Chichiri overcoming a tragic backstory 0:17:16 Can friendship always survive? 0:18:58 Scars as shorthand for "damaged" characters 0:21:45 The ultimate threesome 0:23:31 Tamafauxme 0:29:45 Respecting Miaka's choices 0:33:37 Eikoden exists 0:36:10 Punishing female agency 0:40:02 Pregnancy narratives 0:47:03 Mayo as a stand-in for Miaka 0:53:07 The thing Eikoden did right 0:58:30 Reincarnation in Fushigi Yugi 1:04:13 Closing thoughts 1:10:42 Outro Dee: twitter.com/joseinextdoor Vrai: twitter.com/WriterVrai Caitlin: twitter.com/alltsun_nodere AniFem Patreon: www.patreon.com/animefeminist AniFem Twitter: twitter.com/AnimeFeminist AniFem Facebook: www.facebook.com/animefem/ Recorded Sunday 3rd December 2017 Music: Open Those Bright Eyes by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License creativecommons.org/l

Part 9 of the multi-part watchalong of Fushigi Yugi with Dee, Vrai, and Caitlin 0:00:00 Intros 0:01:44 Artist value (or lack thereof) 0:04:11 Oni 1 0:11:11 Omakes (extras) 0:18:08 Oni 2 themes 0:22:40 Taka and age-gap relationships 0:33:49 Parents 0:41:40 Siblings 0:54:36 "I'm a guy, after all" 1:04:49 Outro Dee: twitter.com/joseinextdoor Vrai: twitter.com/WriterVrai Caitlin: twitter.com/alltsun_nodere AniFem Patreon: www.patreon.com/animefeminist AniFem Twitter: twitter.com/AnimeFeminist AniFem Facebook: www.facebook.com/animefem/ Recorded Sunday 3rd December 2017 Music: Open Those Bright Eyes by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Vrai, Peter, and special guest Dawn discuss Masaaki Yuasa's Devilman Crybaby! 0:00:00 Intros 0:00:54 Devilman history 0:05:17 Production 0:07:59 Spin-offs 0:11:23 Continuity 0:14:37 Timeloops 0:19:31 The first half 0:21:18 Plot confusion and original writing 0:27:05 Yuasa additions to the story 0:28:21 Miki Kuroda 0:32:08 Demons are young/old people 0:34:23 Ryo or Satan is Tyler Durden 0;43:38 Miki's mixed race 0:45:05 The death of hope 0:53:40 Yuasa's contribution 0:54:42 Your mileage may vary 1:04:35 Outro Vrai: twitter.com/WriterVrai Peter: twitter.com/PeterFobian Dawn: twitter.com/bunnycartoon AniFem Patreon: www.patreon.com/animefeminist AniFem Twitter: twitter.com/AnimeFeminist AniFem Facebook: www.facebook.com/animefem/ Recorded Saturday 20th January 2018 Music: Open Those Bright Eyes by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Vrai, Dee, and Peter look back on the Fall 2017 season. Fall 2017 Premiere Digest: www.animefeminist.com/fall-2017-premiere-digest/ Fall 2017 Mid-season Check-in: www.animefeminist.com/podcast-chatty-af-31-fall-2017-anime-mid-season-check/ 0:00:00 Intros 0:02:05 Blood Blockade Battlefront & Beyond 0:04:59 Mr Osomatsu 0:05:41 Hozuki's Coolheadedness 0:07:26 Classicaloid 0:08:32 Food Wars! The Third Plate 0:11:44 Konohana Kitan 0:11:52 GARO -VANISHING LINE- 0:13:42 Juni Taisen: Zodiac War 0:19:41 BLEND-S 0:26:24 Anime-Gataris 0:30:27 Just Because! 0:35:27 Black Clover 0:37:10 URAHARA 0:40:35 Kino's Journey ~The Beautiful World~ The Animation 0:45:21 Girl's Last Tour 0:50:08 Recovery of an MMO Junkie 0:58:05 Code:Realize 1:03:38 The Ancient Magus' Bride 1:18:56 Land of the Lustrous 1:31:44 Outro Vrai: twitter.com/writervrai Dee: twitter.com/joseinextdoor Peter: twitter.com/peterfobian AniFem Patreon: www.patreon.com/animefeminist AniFem Twitter: twitter.com/AnimeFeminist AniFem Facebook: www.facebook.com/a

Part 8 of the multi-part watchalong of Fushigi Yugi with Caitlin, Vrai, and Dee! 0:00:00 Intros 0:02:16 Tomahome's identity crisis 0:10:41 Mitsukake 0:18:41 Hotohori 0:24:15 Tsuboshi 0:26:57 Good beats 0:34:54 Yui's redemption 0:43:42 Nakago's backstory 0:49:17 Nakago and Akio (Utena) 0:52:05 Miaka's wish 0:54:34 The Post credits 1:00:48 Personal experiences 1:10:43 Comparisons to other series 1:15:10 The future 1:17:37 Outro Caitlin: twitter.com/alltsun_nodere Vrai: twitter.com/WriterVrai Dee: twitter.com/joseinextdoor AniFem Patreon: www.patreon.com/animefeminist AniFem Twitter: twitter.com/AnimeFeminist AniFem Facebook: www.facebook.com/animefem/ Recorded Saturday 7th October 2017 Music: Open Those Bright Eyes by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Part 7 of the multi-part watchalong of Fushigi Yugi with Dee, Vrai, and Caitlin! 0:00:00 Intros 0:01:00 Another breakup 0:07:19 The one true love trope 0:12:12 Sources of romantic drama 0:14:28 Plot-sensitive intelligence 0:17:13 Where they definitely do talk about Nakago 0:23:06 Soi's unearned sacrifice 0:25:33 The boys are back in town 0:28:08 Anime-original content 0:32:24 Miboshi 0:34:13 Chiriko 0:40:38 Miaka and Yui 0:47:53 Seiryu is summoned 0:50:58 Hotohori's back 0:55:04 Watase's perspective and era mentality 0:57:04 They (don't) bang 0:59:09 Sex in shoujo 1:01:37 Back to the real world and Keisuke 1:06:00 Miaka's fictional boyfriend 1:08:42 Yui's first Seiryu experience 1:15:14 Outro Dee: twitter.com/joseinextdoor Vrai: twitter.com/WriterVrai Caitlin: twitter.com/alltsun_nodere AniFem Patreon: www.patreon.com/animefeminist AniFem Twitter: twitter.com/AnimeFeminist AniFem Facebook: www.facebook.com/animefem/ Recorded Saturday 30th September 2017 Music: Open Those Bright Eyes by Kevin MacLeod (in

A special holiday episode in which Vrai, Dee, and Peter rewatch Satoshi Kon's Tokyo Godfathers! 00:00 Intros 00:40 Tokyou Godfathers and Satoshi Kon 03:15 Experiences with Kon 10:13 Miyuki 13:49 Importance of family 17:04 Hana 24:05 The causes of homelessness 28:32 The assassin 34:49 Gin 39:05 Sachiko 43:28 Happy endings 46:35 Bad translations 53:09 Hana is good 59:20 Outro Vrai: twitter.com/WriterVrai Dee: twitter.com/joseinextdoor Peter: twitter.com/peterfobian AniFem Patreon: www.patreon.com/animefeminist AniFem Twitter: twitter.com/AnimeFeminist AniFem Facebook: www.facebook.com/animefem/ Recorded Saturday 10th December 2017 Music: Open Those Bright Eyes by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Part 6 of the multi-part watchalong of Fushigi Yugi with Caitlin, Dee, and Vrai! 0:00:00 Intros 0:01:48 The badlands 0:07:48 Miaka's trauma 0:13:54 Tomohome's not so bad 0:15:10 Punishing Miaka's agency 0:22:28 Seiryu Seven (the Riff Raff riff) 0:27:25 Yui's plight 0:30:02 The good(?) stuff 0:33:04 Visual novel time 0:41:56 Back to the bad 0:45:27 Virgin narratives 0:49:10 Seiryu weakness 0:54:47 Everything bad about Fushigi Yugi 0:57:50 Outro Vrai: twitter.com/WriterVrai Caitlin: twitter.com/alltsun_nodere Dee: twitter.com/joseinextdoor AniFem Patreon: www.patreon.com/animefeminist AniFem Twitter: twitter.com/AnimeFeminist AniFem Facebook: www.facebook.com/animefem/ Recorded Saturday 24th September 2017 Music: Open Those Bright Eyes by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Part 5 of the multi-part watchalong of Fushigi Yugi with Caitlin, Dee, and Vrai! 0:00:00 Intros 0:02:06 Miaka and Tamahome Codependency 0:10:32 Existential crises 0:13:09 Sympathy for Yui 0:14:06 Female villain 0:19:29 Tamahome 0:21:30 Gender essentialism 0:25:53 Punished feminism 0:28:17 Keisuke: Good boy 0:32:23 Nuriko 0:36:42 More gender essentialism 0:49:11 Nuriko's light novel 0:52:24 Character and context 0:56:47 Going forward 0:58:26 Translation pronouns 1:06:14 Salt 1:08:11 Outro Vrai: twitter.com/WriterVrai Caitlin: twitter.com/alltsun_nodere Dee: twitter.com/joseinextdoor AniFem Patreon: www.patreon.com/animefeminist AniFem Twitter: twitter.com/AnimeFeminist AniFem Facebook: www.facebook.com/animefem/ Recorded Saturday 17th September 2017 Music: Open Those Bright Eyes by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Vrai, Caitlin, and Peter check in with the top 17 anime of our Summer 2017 premiere rankings. Listen to find out our biggest surprises, disappointments, and guilty pleasures of the season along with our top recommended sequels! SPOILERS: for most of the shows named 0:00:14 Intros 0:01:47 KONOHANA KITAN 0:07:35 Garo -Vanishing Line- 0:10:48 TWOCAR 0:12:59 Juni Taisen: Zodiac War 0:20:25 Infini-T Force 0:20:34 Blend-S 0:22:27 Anime-Gataris 0:31:07 Tsuki-Pro 0:31:22 Just Because! 0:33:32 Dynamic Chord 0:33:32 Black Clover 0:38:41 URAHARA 0:44:41 Kino's Journey 0:51:54 Girl's Last Tour 0:58:22 Recovery of an MMO Junkie 1:08:08 Code:Realize 1:14:15 Land of the Lustrous 1:26:09 The Ancient Magus' Bride 1:13:24 Outro Vrai: twitter.com/writervrai Caitlin: twitter.com/alltsun_nodere Peter: twitter.com/peterfobian The Anime Feminist Fall 2017 premiere digest: http://www.animefeminist.com/fall-2017-premiere-digest/ AniFem Patreon: www.patreon.com/animefeminist AniFem Twitter: twitter.com/AnimeFeminist AniFem Face

Part 4 of the multi-part watchalong of Fushigi Yugi with Caitlin, Dee, and Vrai! 0:00:14 Intros 0:01:36 Tasuki hates girls? 0:07:48 Miaka's suicide attempt 0:11:28 Hotohori is a creep 0:16:40 Noble sacrifices 0:23:21 The Love Triangle that isn't 0:30:40 Meeting Fushigi Yugi halfway 0:35:10 Summoning ceremony / Sorry, homie 0:42:32 Chiriko joins the cast 0:49:42 Taiitsukun's frustrating subplot 0:57:12 Chichiri's advice corner 1:05:47 Yui's tightrope 1:10:49 Dead toddlers 1:20:04 Outro Caitlin: twitter.com/alltsun_nodere Dee: twitter.com/joseinextdoor Vrai: twitter.com/WriterVrai AniFem Patreon: www.patreon.com/animefeminist AniFem Twitter: twitter.com/AnimeFeminist AniFem Facebook: www.facebook.com/animefem/ Recorded Saturday 10th September 2017 Music: Open Those Bright Eyes by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/