manga
i recently finished futari escape, a lighthearted comedy manga about a mangaka's daily life and her roommate/girlfriend(?) who helps her destress by being unemployed and funny. really good manga, a bit yuri bait-y until the last volume where it gets very explicit that these two have already confessed, done their whole passionate love stage, and just live together in the more calm part of a relationship. was a really fun read and is both very cute and has a bit to say about the nature of escaping the capitalist productivity grind by asserting your will through really frivolous and stupid trips at times you really shouldn't. inspired me to visit my friend in another state randomly one day, which was fun. B+
just started reading yokohama kaidashi kikou, a manga about a robot girl whose owner has left her in charge of a cafe in a post-apocalyptic world. it's really fucking good, and it has a lot to say about climate change and the ways in which humanity can be granted to robots. i'm only 16 chapters in, but it has incredibly breathtaking art given that it's black and white lines on a page. seriously so impressive. also gay robots, so it's really easy to read it as a trans yuri narrative. so far, A simply for the art and what it's had to say. apparently it also has an OVA, which i plan on checking out at some point. maybe i'll make a post about it.
hope yall r good at parrying because im dueling you all to the death, fox only, fin destination