Anime Impact: The Queerness of Akira
Monti Velez reflects on Akira and how the storyline between Kaneda and Testuo helped her understand her own queerness growing up.
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Anime Impact: Heaven’s Design Team excels with trans representation and education
Heaven’s Design Team doesn’t just have great trans representation, but excels with being both entertaining and educational
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Aggretsuko Season 4 perfectly sums up toxic work culture
Season 4 of Aggrestuko does not mess around and is a perfect example of what happens when the culture surrounding work becomes toxic.
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Words Bubble Up Like Soda Pop makes me question how I spend my time
Monti Velez looks at Words Bubble Up Like a Soda Pop, an anime that makes her question just how she spends her time.
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Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time is both an ending and a beginning
Monti Velez reviews Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time and explores the series handling of its characters and themes throughout the years.
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Anime Impact: Doukyusei (Classmates) embraces the euphoria of your first love
Doukyusei Classmates is a cutesy, anime that was adapted from a popular boy-love (BL) manga that looks at first love between two students.
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Anime Impact: Promare remains a visual masterpiece – but is it queerbait?
Are you ever in a mood to watch something a bit artsy? A bit different…
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Anime Impact: Yasuke is the Black Samurai anime that transcends traditional anime storytelling
This week Monti Velez looks at the anime Yasuke, an anime from Netflix that focuses on a real, historical Black samurai.
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Anime Impact: Twittering Birds Never Fly is a severe look into how trauma affects romance
This week Monti Velez looks at Twittering Birds Never Fly and how trauma affects people and their relationships – romantic or otherwise.
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