Stuff 4 - Horse Manga Fall - 09/10/25

Trying out a digital garden style rolling update for stuff - Maybe that means I’ll shit out more of these, or maybe it means the rss feed will be super annoying

Stuff that's neat:

Uma Musume: Cinderella Gray (Sugiura, Kuzumi)

Horse Manga Fall.

Uma Musume: Star Blossom (Monjuusaki, Hotani)

Horse Manga Fall will continue until morale improves.

Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure: Steel Ball Run (Araki)

Horse. Manga. Fall.

Higurashi Chapter 8 - Matsuribayashi Or like, Higurashi in totality (07thExpansion)

Is Higurashi one thing? Two things, Questions arc and Answers arc? Eight things, each chapter a full game worth interrogating in its own right? Or one thing, different from the first thing, that's stretched over more or less for two years of me, interrupted but ongoing, a background buzz of a cicada’s cry?

Higurashi posits that the questions a story offers are often more important than the answers, but goddamn if they don’t have Answers for you anyway.

A thing - two things, eight things - that have constantly kept me guessing, kept me going, and kept me rooting for the mitt-handed kids of Hinamizawa.

Blade II (del Toro)

Not as good tbh. I think its a better, like, sick cool movie, but its also a less interesting sick cool movie. Del Toro’s sensibilities give it all an even visual look - that sort of tarnished, gilded excess he loves is out in full force here - but there’s nothing as heightened as the blood sprinkler rave. The rave here is just in a dope looking abandoned church in Prauge - fuckin laaaaaaameeee, comparatively. It’s a cool time capsule of del toro and donnie yen and norman reedus, but it kind of feels like playing the hits, long before they happened.