#chihayafuru

[callmebreenotaubree]

i love when shoujo's have male characters that actually have a personality and their own motivations outside of the love interest

[mikyapixie]

𝙷𝚊𝚙𝚙𝚢 𝙱𝚒𝚛𝚝𝚑𝚍𝚊𝚢 𝙼𝚊𝚖𝚘𝚛𝚞 𝙼𝚒𝚢𝚊𝚗𝚘!

[yixaun]

千速ちゃん💚🏁

[orcagami]

[prokkoli]

i don't want it to ever end!

[chaztalk]

The end to 2025 is here for some of us while also really near for the rest of us. In this year, watched 130+ anime. Here are my recommendations:

[redsamuraiii]

9 Japanese Coming of Age films I enjoyed

If you like lighthearted and uplifting stories of a bunch of misfits thrown into a school club that nobody else wants to join, this is for you.

They're all about high school clubs except :

Ito (bottom left) - is about a dying maid cafe she's trying to save. Sumo Do, Sumo Don't (bottom right) - a University club.

[alexanderwales]

I watched Chihayafuru, and while in some sense it's just a sports anime with a love triangle, I think it's the first time I've watched a "special interest" anime where the intense special interest of the main character (Chihaya) is so autism-coded. It's something that I would have thought I would come across more often.

I was a little surprised to find, after finishing the third season, that there's not widespread agreement on this aspect of her character. It was the thing that I liked most about the show, and I cannot imagine that it was done without intention, because Chihaya having social difficulties and a different lens of viewing the world is one of the major things the show is about. She's set in contrast to other people, and a lot of that is autism coding, and ... I don't know. It felt like this was the one true correct way of interpreting this character, something that was done deliberately. And people somehow disagree with my reading? How rude.