Not Your Best Girl

Not Your Best Girl is an anime podcast where its hosts Kim & Lee Anne attempt to tackle their watchlist challenges as well as their terrible taste.

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Episodes

butlers, bland boys, bops

Can we really tell Shinji to get in the robot if we, ourselves, won’t? This week, inspired by Lee Anne watching Neon Genesis Evangelion, we take some time to sit down and talk about what exactly makes a Boring Male Anime Protagonist. What do we mean by that? Listen and find out! Highlights: Kim thinks Emiya Kiritsugu should stop cheating on his wife, Lee Anne finds herself in the Ikari Shinji Defense Squad, and what even is Rainy Cocoa? * = spoilers Weekly Check-in : 00:40 - 16:50 Beastars - 00:...

Aug 04, 2020•1 hr 6 min•Season 1Ep. 4

sports, sports, sports

It’s sports week, y’all! What does that mean? Well, it means that when Kim is done being aggressively attracted to Waver Velvet, we take some time to dive (pun intended) into the various ways that our favorite sports anime handle the intersections between character development and athletic development. We promise, we’ve watched shows that aren’t Haikyuu!! - we just really, really love Haikyuu!! Highlights: Kimi ni Todoke and the world’s weirdest OVA, Lee Anne Stans Oikawa Tooru And It Shows, Kim...

Jul 18, 2020•1 hr 6 min•Season 1Ep. 3

rom-coms, fridged women, much needed segues

In this week’s episode, Kim & Lee Anne cover a lot of ground -- from the good cats to the joy of a simple rom-com after a long, hard day of mecha shows. We then get in deep on one of our least favorite media tropes - women in refrigerators. Where does it come from, and where can we see it in anime? What does it even mean to be “fridged” anyway? Highlights: Lee Anne makes a bold choice, Kim hates Code Geass chest physics, "Will Someone Please Buy Munakata A Segway???" (No), and Akane “ZeroEsc...

Jul 10, 2020•1 hr 11 min•Season 1Ep. 2

anti-imperialist mechas, #hotmamosummer, bad parents

In our first real episode, Kim & Lee Anne spend a lot of time discussing the what, when, how, and why of our summer challenge, the shows we’ve watched and enjoyed so far, and our personal lists of terrible, horrible, no-good-very-bad anime parents. Highlights include: Kim losing her mind over rakugo, Lee Anne gets into the complicated gender politics of Eureka Seven , and Kim says more than you ever needed to know about Antique Bakery ! Timestamps: Weekly Check-In 00:31 - 4:04 * = major spoi...

Jul 02, 2020•57 min•Season 1Ep. 1

Not Your Best Girl Introduction

Hello! Welcome to the very first episode of Not Your Best Girl , an anime podcast with A-tier hosts and D-tier taste. Join your hosts Kim & Lee Anne as we track our progress through any number of horrible anime challenges -- doing our best to learn something along the way -- and then assemble our newfound knowledge into something that’s more than the sum of its terrible, terrible parts. Will we be able to do it? Who knows! But here’s to trying. In this introductory episode, we offer a sampli...

Jun 24, 2020•29 min

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