The Anime Girl Renaissance of 2025: Inside Lazarus and Nukitashi’s Wildly Different Playbooks
INTRODUCTION One studio drew its women like loaded weapons. The other drew its women like punchlines with hearts. That’s the split running through 2025’s most talked-about line-up, and it’s why the phrase anime girl means something completely different depending on which show you’re watching. On one side sits Christine from Lazarus, a razor-sharp MAPPA production…