Pop Culture Maniacs Podcast #22: Friends

A year of “Yuridemption”?: LGBTQ+ Representation in Animation in 2025 [Part 1]

In December of 2024, I published my post examining LGBTQ+ representation in Western animation and anime, noting that twenty-six anime with direct, or indirect, yuri themes aired. This included some of my favorites, with yuri subtext, like Dungeon Meshi, Girls Band Cry, My Deer Friend Nokotan, Mayonaka Punch, Pon no Michi, Jellyfish Can’t Swim in […]

Jack Ryan Season Two (Spoiler-Free) Review

I want to preface this review with a disclaimer: Jack Ryan isn’t my kind of show. And that’s perfectly ok. I don’t enjoy action movies all that much, and I found myself less than invested in the spy games going on in season two of the series. So, since I know this isn’t the kind […]

The Paper Review

There’s a (mostly) universal truth in the realm of TV criticism: If a new series is set for a certain release schedule and then, seemingly unprompted, the network changes it to a schedule where the entire series drops all at once (combined with a review embargo that drops within 24 hours of the show’s release), […]