Culture Journal 2022 (English)

This is one of the best written things that I have found in a really long time, each episode was an huge emotional kick in the ass and it's one of the most cathartic experiences I've ever had with a work of art. I've always had my reservations with the show for the same reasons that I have reservations with practically all of adult animation, I feared that it was simply going to be something edgy and crude with a bit of an interesting subtext but not much more to it, and even though you could see some of the adult animation tropes in it I would never say it's edgy or just crude, it's a very... real show. It's like what I mentioned with Nana just a couple days ago but taken to the next level; if there was a little space in Nana to romanticize situations or present the characters in a bit more exagerated or pretty ways, in this show all of that is sent to the trash can and it presents all of the characters in a pretty nude way without much decorations, which is no

This is the most ambitious Pokemon game that there's ever been, and it achieves everything it sets itself to. Not only it is the most ambitous Pokemon that there had been upon it's release, but the most ambitious there's been since, and even when I have a couple of games left to play, just based on what I superficially know about them I can assure without a doubt that none of them reach the levels of ambition and vision that this game has. With 16 years from the first game in the franchise and 4 entire generations behind, with already 493 pokemon that had been introduced by that point, being the second generation to appear in a console that was not on its popularity peak anymore, even with all of that, Junichi Masuda and all of the team behind this game decided to give a 180 degrees twist to the franchise whilst trying to mantain all of the features that have made the saga the titan it was when it released, with 156 completely new pokemon and a region chockfull only of the,

This game was really good in an of itself, and it also managed to be one of those cultural products that are authentically good in respect to their general impact and the environment in which they exist. What respects to the game itself in a technical aspect is more than formidable. I haven't played the first one (Spider-Man PS4, 2018), but as an introduction to Spider-Man in a videogame it functions very well; the balancing system is a product of pure genius and traversing the city has to be one of the most fun and organic experiences that I've ever experienced with a controller, the fighting system is also incredible, it has a lot of possibilities and interesting ways to approach a fight, and that's not even taking into account how amazing you feel after kicking the ass of 4 dudes with a well-calculated venom punch. It's shorter duration seemed a good decision to me, it helped me to not feel overwhelmed and to enjoy a more contained an essential experience, that left

What a fucking beautiful series, in every possible and imaginable sense. The story is ridiculously simple, and it takes advantage of that to tell a tale that anybody with a heart can enjoy. I've never been much of watching LGBT+ media just for the sole fact of that but oh boi if this series was worth it. All the show has an escapist magic that's really beautiful; the characters, its environment that's relatively calm and how beautifully everything is recorded makes it so that the story, even on its more dense and sad points always feels like a more simple world to escape to, where the emotional roller-coasters, the personal discoveries and pure love are the protagonists. I loved it and enjoyed it as few things I've seen, it's probably the most warm and pretty series I've seeb since Hilda in 2020.

I think this is the definitive Pokemon game (or at least it has the potential to be). From the very first moments I had with this game, looking at how the day/night cycle came back in all of its glory and its vibrant spaces brought to life with that kind of rudimentary 3D from the DS I knew I was going to love it. After looking at how it already incorporated my favorite characteristics from previous games there was very little left to ask for this game, and even with my favour practically won, it delivers a really decent product. As I said in the beginning, it feels like the culmination of all the succesful ideas of previous games. It has the immersive and alive world of the Gen 2, besides bringing a couple Pokemon guests from the same gen and giving them evolutions, in general it kind of feels like a more direct succesor of everything explored in Gen 2, but with the visual and techinc advantages from Gen 3, making it a delight to cross its world in all aspects. It feels like the best

Holyshit... HOLYSHIIIIIIIIT. This is, by far, one of the best comic series I've read in my whole life, it's probably just one of the best stories I've read in my life. I feel like this will be one of those entries that are contradictorialy short because I loved this comic so much that I can barely find words to describe it (spoiler alert: it, indeed, was quite long). In general I can just say that is really good fucking written. Science Fiction is a genre with a lot of potential to make a deep introspection and sensible in really complex themes, and this story achieves it perfectly. A futuristic city in wich is illegal to feel emotion, and in which suddenly a violent crime takes place it's a really ambitious premise, and any less skilled writer definitley would have done a disaster with it, but Jemisin uses it in the best way to build a complex and hooking plot that  covers themes of power, inequality, revolution, manipulation, repression, justice and, evidently, emotio