Culture Journal 2022 (English)

This manga is a bit of everything I need in a story right now. It gives me off the same energy that a lot of studio ghibli films have in the way that it romnticizes so may aspects of everyday life and makes things like going furniture shopping or looking for an apartment to be an exciting and fun adventure, and that's always a really beautiful thing to do in fiction, but I feel this one is closer to something that can help me in my actual moment in life because even when the situations and surroundings are defenitely romanticized, I don't feel the characters are as much. Stressing in the "as much", because their mistakes and hurts are still a bit exagerated in a way, but even then they feel a bit more real, because sometimes I feel like ghibli characters end up being romanticized even in their flwars (even though it might be just my altered perception because of all the aesthetic screenshots where they show the serious problems from the characters just as pretty quote

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,