Girltaku Podcast by Anime Trending

Anime has produced more than enough tear jerking series throughout the years. Join Gracie, Isabelle, and Agnes as they discuss the noteworthy anime series that have managed to reduce them into puddles of tears. There are spoilers discussed in this episode, and one of the girls ends up breaking into tears just talking about the anime that made her cry!

One of the best parts of anime are the morally grey scenes and characters they have introduced. Join Gracie, Isabelle, and Agnes as they dissect 4 morally grey scenes and characters from anime, talk about why these moments are so complex, and explain where they stand in regards to these moments.

Time to explore some iconic voices in the anime industry! Join Gracie, Isabelle, and Agnes, as they discuss their favorite Japanese voice actors and some of the roles that their favorites were responsible for! Did they pick any of your favorites?

The Ladies of Anime Trending take a big risk this week by choosing some of the most popular anime within the community and deeming them as "overrated". Join Gracie, Isabelle, and Agnes as they discuss why they find certain anime to be overrated and listen to them debate amongst each other as they share their dissenting opinions with each other.

This episode is Throwback Thursday, because the ladies of Anime Trending explore some older romance anime that they used to die over and discuss their feelings over those anime today. Join Gracie, Isabelle, and Agnes as they cringe over their teenager thirsting and talk about the romance anime they enjoy now as adults.

There's always anime characters you find relatable and anime characters that remind you of your friends. Join Gracie, Isabelle, and Agnes as they talk about anime characters that resemble themselves the most. Then laugh as they assign anime characters to each other. Please share the anime characters that you think resembles you the most in the comments!

There's so many anime series that comes out every year, certain ones tend to fall by the wayside when it comes to recognition. Join Gracie, Isabelle, and Agnes as they discuss anime that they love but never see any love for from the anime community. They highly suggest checking at least one of them out! 

We loved talking about our favorite anime couples so much, we just had to do another episode about it! Join Gracie, Isabelle, and Agnes as they talk about seven more anime couples that just make their hearts go doki doki.

Everyone has anime series whose endings either disappointed them, made them upset, or made them flat out rage. The ladies of Girltaku are no exception. Join Gracie, Isabelle, and Agnes as they discuss the anime that they enjoyed before the endings slammed right into their guts. LOTS OF SPOILERS because of the topic!

Last week, the ladies of Anime Trending discussed their favorite bromances, but for this week, they analyze sisterhoods in real life and how it's reflected in anime. Join Gracie, Isabelle, and Agnes as they discuss their real life experiences with their own sisterhoods and how accurate they think anime is in portraying them.

Bromances are one of the staples in anime, and the girls at Girltaku always love a good friendship. Join Gracie, Isabelle, and Agnes once more as they explore some of their favorite bromances in anime and why they love them so much. PLEASE NOTE: THIS EPISODE WAS RECORDED BEFORE THE LATEST SK8 INFINITY EPISODE

Everyone loves a good masculine character, but those that exude nothing but positivity are the best ones around. Join Gracie, Isabelle, and Agnes this week as they discuss some of the best anime characters they've seen in portraying positive masculinity in anime and talk about why these characters are so important!

Everyone has had their anime crushes, and some still dream about dating anime characters. In this week's episode, Gracie, Isabelle, and Agnes explore the different character types in anime that they would love to have as boyfriends and why they feel that way. Bonus - there's a mini fangirling session over one of the girl's real life dating scene too!

There's always plenty of bromances and sisterhoods to be found in anime, but hetero-platonic relationships, especially those that start off platonic, are a lot harder to come by. Join Gracie, Isabelle, and Agnes as they share some of the most iconic hetero-platonic couples they could think of and why these relationships are just as complex as romantic ones.

There's so many tropes in anime, and Damsel in Distress is one of the most popularly seen one! Join Gracie, Isabelle, and Agnes as they discuss a variety of different damsel in distresses in anime, and why they either lend themselves well to the anime or why they don't.

Gracie, Isabelle, and Agnes tackle the difficult topic of sexism in this week's episode. They explore not just cultural and historical context within Japan but sexism present in anime and by extension the community. TRIGGER WARNING: Due to discussing real life events in Japan, cases of rape and sexual harassment are divulged.

What comes with popularity in the anime community also comes an outcry of how the anime is "overrated". In this week's episode of Girltaku, we explore such overrated anime and explain why we love them despite all the outcry.

Happy 2021! Girltaku returns this week with an episode discussing their favorite anime female protagonists in anime. Join Gracie, Isabelle, and Agnes as they dissect why they find these female protagonists badass and why some might disagree with the other choices.

Girltaku celebrates its 10th episode by releasing a topic they love to talk about - ships! Join Gracie, Isabelle, and Agnes once more as they dive into their favorite romantic couples in anime and talk about why they love these ships so much. All fangirls and fanboys are welcomed aboard!

The ladies of Girltaku have decided to tackle a really important topic of the anime community - Yaoi/BL/Shounen-ai history, stories, their fandoms, and their personal experiences with all 3. Join Gracie, Isabelle, and Agnes as they share interesting facts, their own perspectives on the fandom and the anime that has come out. 

We all have our waifus and husbandos, but we also got the character types we HATE to see in anime. Gracie, Isabelle, and Agnes explores their personal grudges against the types in anime they dislike and explain why they feel that way.

We critiqued Shounen anime - now it's Shoujo's turn! Join Gracie, Isabelle, and Agnes as they tear apart flaws within shoujo stories and anime as well as talk about which stories manage to do it right!

The ladies of Anime Trending are having a deep discussion with anime's portrayal of violence. Will NOT be discussing sexual violence in case anyone's worried, but other than that, everything's on the table!

The ladies of Anime Trending decide to tackle some of the most popular anime in existence...and critique them! All sorts of topics discussed - including the inevitable fillers and nakama power

Join the girls as they dive deep into the many creative ways anime have portrayed human bodies. Tagged explicit this round because yes, we WILL go into detailed discussions about breasts and muscles. Climb aboard the boobs and abs talk!