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