I bet you thought I abandoned this little project of mine. Let’s just call it an extended break during which I did some first episode reviews 🙂
One of the aspects of anime that has always appealed to me is its tendency to feature women. Most anime have at least a few female characters among the cast, and there are many anime in which the main players are only women. That isn’t to say that anime series like this aren’t sometimes largely problematic in some way (*sigh*), since anime casts full of cute girls are often created by and for an assumed straight/male audience and don’t necessarily portray girls’ and women’s lives in a realistic way, but as an anime fan I’ve always felt that women in anime have been at least somewhat more variable in role and personality than a lot of the other Western cartoons and TV shows that I’d been watching as a kid and teen. And when your’e hungry for something, you tend to accept things that are flawed and tough to chew.