welcome to extrospection.

July 2, 2025, 9:52 AM

Yo.

Honestly I've been having a lot of thoughts lately so I've decided to make this section of the website so that my brain doesn't explode (or implode!). Everyone needs some sort of outlet (of the non-electrical variety) in their lives, so extrospection was made for that purpose.

So let me talk about some of the manga I've read for the past year or so and my general thoughts on them:

• Sailor Moon
• The first arc was really good! It establishes the characters quite well and the backstory of the lost lunar kingdom was introduced naturally! After the second or third arc or so it kinda fell off for me. Maybe I need to see the anime adaptation of it someday...
• Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
• As SOON as I saw the movie I knew I had to read it. One presidential election later and I got my hands on two beefy books that contained the entire thing. I highly recommend watching the movie before reading because a lot of the worldbuilding from it is changed and greatly expanded on in the manga. A lot of characters are also changed from the movie. Kushana's character is very different from it, for example. She's honestly more on the side of neutral leaning good in my opinion. The art depicting the post-apoc setting is also fantastic, as is expected. There's one spread in the second book I have of Nausicaa gliding over the herd of Ohmu that's one of my favorite-looking parts of the book. All in all, you should get it.
• No. 5
• This is a very interesting series of four books which I have. I'm honestly not sure what to make of it and it was kinda hard to follow at times but I dig the artstyle. In the second half of the series, I think the main character, the titular No. 5, takes a back seat to No. 1 which I found mildly dissapointing, but the ending of the manga feels like the ending of the game OFF in a way, though I feel that the world of No. 5 is in a much more optimistic trajectory than OFF's for obvious reasons.

I'm gonna have to make a separate entry for the entirety of Junji Ito's work because holy hell I read a lot of this man's work...

I suppose that's all for now... see you next time.

One more thing. I am EXTREMELY dissapointed that I used frickin markdown when coding this entry lmao...

July 3, 2025, 6:32 PM

Yo.

Have you ever had a moment where you're so focused on gaming that you forget about literally everything around you?

That happened when I played modded Terraria today. Made my way all the way up to the Devourer of Gods (who took the most attempts out of any boss to beat, though the pack I'm playing with is pretty easy given I'm doing expert revengeance). Anyways HOLY SHIT Wrath of the Gods has content! Solyn is a very neat character and I am very scared of the dimensional rift that is now blocking the sun and causing an ice age...

Also Fargo's souls is neat... maybe I'll use it with an Infernum playthrough next world... tho I am def removing Community Remix and the piss mod from the pack because they exist solely to be a menace.

I'm gonna get back to dtawing now.