I enjoyed Come and See. I admire the dense, textured sound design, the formal playfulness (here’s a POV long take, here’s a montage of propaganda and footage), and the cuts to small bizarre details that create that eerie surreal atmosphere

I’m reading KimiShinu and I’m not into it so far. I don’t understand the world-building at all. How are they in the middle of a 100+ year long war but their trainings still so hazardous? How is the MC as empathetic as she is towards the enemy considering this context?

Watched Super Mario Bros (1993) and I kinda dug it. Sorta. It’s a dystopian sci-fi movie with the barest flair of Mario names and props. The story is a string of barely held together cliches, from car chases to comic dance sequences. All among a set design conveying DIY grime and trash

Watched Rental Family (2025) which I thought was mediocre. Opens the door and gestures to interesting ideas (Fraser looking out from his apartment into his neighbor’s windows à la Rear Window, mentioning the role mental health plays in the demand for the rental family service), but shrinks back

The Moon on a Rainy Night is one of my favorite current yuri manga, though I hate the precocious younger sister character every romance manga has, and I’m so-so on the bully. I like the main leads enough to make up for it. Interested if the anime will be good.

When people call Chainsaw Man season 1 cinematic, I see them point to the episode 4 scene of Aki waking up. But that scene doesn’t feel cinematic at all. Random meaningless POV shots and extreme close-ups— it’s storyboarded like an anime. Due to visual language downstream of production practices

Literally on the first pull. My horse luck is too strong

I still like My Dress Up Darling, but making literally every character a good person and every conflict to deliberately end in anticlimax fundamentally goes against the point of the series. Gojo being open and vulnerable to others means nothing if there’s no danger.

I find a lot of the umamusume characters and storylines toothless (lack of actual antagonism in every rivalry hurts it), so I don’t think I’m pulling for another horse until next year for the Nice Nature New Years outfit

Chinashi's opening is the best pitch for Kamiina Botan, especially in its full & uncropped version. A series about college students mostly having a good time (and a good drink), framed with a handheld camera and so much preemptive nostalgia you feel like the cast ought to watch this many years later

I’m kinda interested in the idolmaster gacha game just because 1) the gameplay looks like umamusume and 2) the the hakushi hasegawa songs are too good

i think pretty much constantly about the scene in seven samurai where the villagers are eating millet because they need to save the beautiful delicious white rice for the samurai they want to hire. then i eat white rice and i feel like a king and i also feel a very great and deep sadness

With Hat Atelier is, no exaggeration, one of the most mesmerizing comics out there. Kamome Shirahama isn't "good at drawing" - she has great technical skill, yes, but she controls the flow like no one else, comes up with imagery that projects a world, and roots all of it in the themes of her series

My Nice Nature was neck and neck for the win in the last CM, but ended in 2nd. I failed you

Hearing about recent developments in Dandadan reminding me why I dropped it in the first place. First few chapters establish nice chemistry and even narrative weight between the two leads. But then it felt like the series started relying on cliches to shorthand its romance.

CSM ending was pretty interesting as an anti-superhero story. How can you heroically take your fate into your own hands? The premises are wrong to begin with.

God pull

Will eventually read Akebi’s Sailor Uniform to see if it goes from fetish manga (bad) to fetish manga (good)

Recommended manga reads of 2026 🧵 1. Girl Meets Rock Four girls form a band, but what sets this apart from other manga of its ilk is the pettiness of some of its drama, like bands breaking up over highschool crushes. It's full of teen angst, but from a perspective that's emotionally authentic

i'd recommend tsukumizu's manga to people that love reading subahibi blog posts

best discovery of 2025. anime/gacha/whatever music that is actually good youtu.be/VJk2etK8I1w

RIP Tatsuya Nakadai. Too many immortal performances to even summarize but nearly all of them are sharpened to an edge you can shave with. One of the tightest coiled springs in the history of movies.

A million laughs A million tears #gawrt

look back's approach to time, in its flatly default and almost-cloying "scene transition, years are passing; time for a montage! and with fortissimo!" made me think of the OP/ado music video ishitani did, which handled some similar themes, but in a much more delicate, adept way