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[linsdoods]

Mewri is my job

[animefeminist]

Anime Feminist Recommendations of Spring 2023

Hurting for summer shows? Your backlog’s about to be spoiled for choice.

How did we choose our recs?

Participating staff members can nominate up to three titles and can also co-sign other nominated shows. Rather than categorizing titles as “feminist-friendly” or “problematic,” they are simply listed in alphabetical order with relevant content warnings; doing otherwise ran the risk of folks seeing these staff recommendations as rubber stamps of unilateral “Feminist Approval,” which is something we try our hardest to avoid here.

The titles below are organized alphabetically. As a reminder, ongoing shows are NOT eligible for these lists. We’d rather wait until the series (or season) has finished up before recommending it to others, that way we can give you a more complete picture. This means we also leave out any unfinished split-cour shows, which we define as shows that air their second half within a year of the first.

Because it aired late in June, and because this season was so packed with good titles, Ooku: the Inner Chambers will be considered as part of the summer recommendations.

Read it at Anime Feminist!

[emchovy]

If you're looking for a yuri manga rec, Yuri Is My Job is SO GOOD. You gotta look past the title, because this series is good in every way. The art is beautiful, and the way it both leans into and subverts yuri tropes, is fantastic.

[animefeminist]

What Role Are You Playing? Communication, queerness, and neurodivergence in Yuri is My Job!

Content Warning: discussion of ableism and queerphobia

Spoilers for vol. 1-5 of Yuri is My Job!

Miscommunication is one of the oldest and easiest narrative devices in fiction. The tragic lovers die because of a miscarried message; the protagonist becomes convinced that they’re hated because they didn’t stay to eavesdrop for ten seconds longer; the reveal of a minor misunderstanding suddenly has the power to torpedo an entire relationship. For some, the concept is so overused that it’s automatically linked with contrivance and bad writing—and no genre faces this criticism more than romance. That’s what makes Yuri is My Job! so refreshing. In the process of building a will-they-won’t-they story, it explores the gendered, neurotypical, and heteronormative expectations that are built into social interaction.

Read it at Anime Feminist!