Culture Journal 2022 (English)

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.

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...

This was one of the most emotionally complex pieces that I've ever encountered. I entered this knowing very little about Kendrick Lamar outside of To Pimp A Butterfly, and that was plenty enough for me to have my expectations real high already for this one. And oh my God it did not fail to meet them at all . It's a really similar album to TPAB actually, in many different ways, the more raw and personal approach on a lot of songs and the sort of narrative that it has throughout the 2 discs that it encompasses, but while TPOAB looked mainly into the bigger picture of society and how it connected to Kendrick's personal struggle, and this one does that a bit too, but it's so much more personal, and that's amazing. It really feels like the type of project and artist does for themselves, being driven only by the impulse of self expression, where every sound, word, and creative decision is what feels best to the artist, not what would "work better" in a technica...