Monthly recap (January 2026)
Summer makes it too hot to do anything at home and it's too pathetic to be spending my weekends at the office. I've just been wandering around carparks and documenting how nice their rooftops are instead but that's hardly any better.
Mr. Fuzzby: Let's just cool off with a ginger bear...
Most of the month just faded into nothing, but here's a couple of good things I can remember:
- Made the art for Mummers Mayhem, a 48-hour Global Game Jam game. Play it here!
- Lot of my parent company staff have been bringing their kids in for the school holidays, so I left out some crafty stuff like colored paper and sticker paper for them. I was happy to see that they used them to make nameplates and nice messages for the employees I didn't know.
- I reconnected the P1 A button of the arcade machine at work! So I've been playing a lot of Puyo Puyo and Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo. I also played The Ninja Kids with one of the employee's son.
- Went to a social boxing class which was harder than I expected. Pretty fun though. Hope to go again when their slots aren't filled.
- I received a Christmas present from my Chilean friend Teku! He drew Genbu for me!!!
Art log
I was like "Yeah I'll try my own grayscale color palette challenge!", drew one sexy lady in a bikini, and did nothing else.
Outfit log
ā§ indicates thrifted or second-hand item.
- Shirt: reyn spooner ā§; shorts: Kathmandu ā§; shoes: Puma
- Shirt: Radiac Wulcosa ā§; tie: Sail Amsterdam ā§; jacket: Dickies; pants: unlabled
- Shirt: Chisel; braces: unlabled ā§; pants: Dickies
Media log
- Eiji Otsuka - MPD Psycho C1-27: Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service is my favorite horror manga, so I thought to check out Eiji Otsuka's previous work. First of all, the artwork is unbearably ugly. Secondly, the story seems interesting but it's stupid difficult to follow and the only likeable character
becomes a domestic terrorist and kills a fuck ton of people after zero build-up prior to the chapter that focused on him going crazy. To be fair, the slow reveal of his backstory over that chapter was one of the only really interesting parts of the comic. In the end, I found it hard to continue after finding outthat Eiji Otsuka was a leading force of the lolicon movement in the 1980s. I can't stand how the younger sister is portrayed when I know about that. - Alien: Looks absolutley incredible and the story is a masterpiece too. It taps into male fear of penetration so well.1
- Muneyuki Kaneshiro - Kamisama no Iutoori C1-18: One of my goals for the new year was to be more discretionary about what media I choose to consume so I regret the time I wasted on this. The art is good and comedic timing pretty fun at first but it quickly devolves into a senseless mess and by the second arc it's utterly unreadable. What kind of death game increases in characters over time? For a worldwide phenomenon it's very Japanese culture-centric and that seems strange until you find out that
the 'god' is just some random flop dojinshi artist who was given powers by a megagod living in another world. The sequel seems to be a full-blown cosmic sci-fi horror that I really do not care to read. I will say it made me appreciate Homestuck a lot more. - David Byrne - Drivers License: Hello?
- Hosana Tanaka - Holy Corpse Rising V1: Catholic monk with a harem of sexy witches who are obsessed with licking his blood and tears. It's designed specifically for me.2
- Shin-ichi Sakamoto - #DRCL V1: Absolutely fucking incredible. I was flipping back to previous pages every 2 minutes in amazement. The art is astoundingānot just in how detailed and realistic yet beautiful every image was, but also in its panelling.
At an early point in the story I thought it strange the author didn't make use of full page art for impactful scenes, and then I got hit with the double-page of Dracula's eyes. The story is very interesting as well and I will be continuing this once I can acquire the other volumes from the library. You simply must read it physically! - Solar Sands - Before FNAF: The strange beauty of Scott Cawthon's other games
- Folding Ideas - This is how you get JARHEAD sequels
- Casey Aonso - A definitive ranking of 2025 pop culture moments: Happy to say that I am now chronically offline because I don't recognize the majority of these.
- Yama Wayama - Let's Go Karaoke: Very funny and loved the art and story, but I was on edge the entire time reading this by god. It's not a BL manga, but it comes so close to that I find it hard to recommend given the age gap. Still, it is a fantasy manga for my 14 year old self. If I had read it then I know it would have been as influential to me as Oresama Teacher and Yakuza.
- Adam Ferrier - Stop listening to the customer... Try hearing your brand instead: I was quite engrossed at first because preserving brand tone and attitudeāeven if at the cost of professionalism and convenienceāis something I think matters in making a company stand out from its competitors. After the mid-point it became rather self-aggrandizing (I suppose for good reason) so I skimmed the rest. The appendix was weirdly sexist.
- Planet of the Apes: Very impressive special effects and solid story. The straight romance side plot pissed me off though.
- Shin-ichi Sakamoto - The Climber C1-100: Really unique! There are many manga that tackle loneliness and depression but I haven't seen any others do it while focusing so heavily on another subjectāin this case, climbing. It provides the same informative action as any other sports manga, but also goes deep into the main character's mind to the point of psychological horror. You understand why he's so lonely and why he needs to climb K2 solo to feel alive. It's so tense and stressful and the way it depicts his feelings towards sexual temptation are insane. Highly recommend!
- Pinkpanthress - Stateside + Zara Larsson: Loved this MV! The dual aesthetics are amazing.
- Nami Samo - Migi & Dali: I liked Sakamoto-kun as a kid and from the first few chapters I expected this to be the same sort of gag-only manga but the story is insane. It's also unlike anything I've read before. I enjoy many comedy-drama comics, but Migi & Dali stands out. First, it doesn't use reactive straight-man humor for the most part, but especially in serious scenes, so you've got a climax where a guy
pushes his mother off a railing while wearing nothing but a baby diaper and none of the other characters point out how weird that is. The absurdity speaks for itself! Secondly, the central mystery of the story is so serious. It sets the whole tone for an almost American-gothic story about parental abuse, mental illness, and preserving appearance for reputation at a cost. - MandaloreGaming - The Mystery of the Druids: A Bizzare Adventure Game: Halligan sucks so bad. I adore him I'm afraid.
- Big Joel - Beast Games: An autopsy:
- Necrobioarchetype - First observation of flexible use of a tool by cow: Everyone MUST watch.
- Ai Yazawa - Nana V1-2: I've read these before but forgot what happened until now. Christ, the first volume hit hard. But what do I need to say about Nana. It's the girl's manga.
- Arthur Conan Doyle - Silver Blaze, The Cardboard Box, The Yellow Face, The Stockbroker's Clerk, The 'Gloria Scott': The Yellow Face was quite sweet. I liked the mystery behind Silver Blaze as well.
- Todd in the Shadows - The Top Ten Best Hit Songs of 2025: Faaar out #1 was unexpected. Very happy with #2 though IKTR.
- The Beatles - Please Please Me, With the Beatles, A Hard Day's Night, Beatles for Sale, Help!, Rubber Soul, Revolver, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, The Beatles: I fear that I get it now. It's difficult for the modern casual music listener to process just how significant the Beatles were until you actually listen to their music in full. There's the hours of teenybopper love songs that brought about the Beatlesmania, so significant and formative to the pop and boyband genre that they were already bigger than Jesus then. But it's only after they stopped touring that they produced absolutely insane boundary-pushing music that played a massive role in the 60s counterculture. The last few albums give Beatles the reputation of being safe, family-friendly music but man, A Day in the Life and Revolution 9 are so fucking ahead of their time. This is just about the music but the story of the people behind it all is even crazier. So I get it so bad how people are still obsessed with the Beatles today. I really think they're the Osamu Tezuka of music in that they were such massive influences in both 'casual' and 'serious' art and neither contribution should drown out the other. I feel emotionally overwhelmed by it all! My favorite Beatle is Paul and these are my top songs so far: Blackbird, When I'm Sixty Four, Back in the U.S.S.R (sorry).
- Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo: Super fun and gorgeous graphics! I've played this on PlayStation before but there's nothing like arcade. Donovan is a tough nut to crack.
- Puyo Puyo: I haven't gotten past the third level. I think I'll switch to playing the sequel since it's more popular.