Art
Studies across music, film, manga, anime, and visual art—treating each medium as a system for decoding emotion, culture, and rhythm.
Movies
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Eddington
Set during the height of COVID-19, this becomes a showdown between Mayor Ted Garcia and Sheriff Joe Cross as they campaign through fear and misinformation. Aster dissects how left- and right-wing politicians perform for their bases, how each side is portrayed, and how surreal it feels that all of this happened barely four or five years ago.
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Joker
This alternate take on the Batman villain zooms in on what happens when a capitalist society refuses to support people who cannot support themselves. The Capitalism society sets the moral baseline, "good" becomes synonymous with earning, contributing, and keeping the machine running, even if it means abandoning empathy or a personal moral compass.
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Sinners
The most layered film of 2025 follows twin brothers in 1932 Mississippi confronting colonialism's cultural fallout. Choosing an Irish vampire, someone whose pagan roots were erased by Christian conversion, mirrors how Black Americans were stripped off certain aspects of their culture, music was deemed as the work of the devil, spirituality was seen as the dark arts as masses were converted to christianity. The film is less anti-Christianity, and more anti-colonialism, showing how religion gets weaponized and how it strips people of identity.
Animanga
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Hunter x Hunter
Gon Freecs heads out to find his father Ging and, more importantly, to understand why becoming a Hunter was so appealing that Ging abandoned his son without a second thought. Gon’s chemistry with Killua, Leorio, and Kurapika keeps shifting as the series moves through exams, mafia wars, and the election arc where Kurapika basically becomes the main character. It is wild how much tension Gon has with characters he never even meets, like Meruem.
The Chimera Ant arc is the peak. By humanizing ants, dogs, cats, flies, fish, and every other creature, Togashi exposes how hypocritical humans can be when we label someone else a villain for copying our worst habits. Isaac Netero’s showdown with Meruem is him fighting for his ego more than humanity, choosing to detonate a miniature nuke rather than live with defeat, and ending on his warning to never underestimate the bottomless malice inside the human heart.
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One Piece
The most enjoyable animanga ever still belongs to Monkey D. Luffy chasing the Pirate King title, cracking jokes, and stretching through every absurd island. Underneath the fun, Oda keeps dropping darker threads about government oppression, racism, human trafficking, and corruption, showing how the World Government keeps power by crushing anyone who even thinks about freedom.
Blackbeard, Donquixote Doflamingo, Katakuri, Imu, and the World Government sit in completely different corners of the sea, and yet each one forces Luffy and the crew to reflect on what their dream costs.
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Attack on Titan
Eren Yeager chases the same ulterior motive as Luffy, freedom, but this story hits harder because the conclusion is one of the best in anime. Eren becomes a slave to that obsession and to fate, designing his life from the future so he is pushed into the precise path he needs. Watching him willingly transform into the villain shatters the usual shonen growth curve.
Character dynamics carry the final stretch. Eren and Reiner, Mikasa and Eren, Eren and Zeke, every pairing keeps mutating as alliances flip, making the story feel grounded even when it jumps across timelines and nations.
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JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
No animanga matches JoJo’s variety of arcs, plot twists, and design choices. The Joestar family line runs from Jonathan to his grandson Joseph, to Joseph’s grandson Jotaro, to his “uncle” Josuke, to Jonathan and Dio’s son Giorno, and finally to Jotaro’s daughter Jolyne before the universe shifts into a parallel track.
Seeing each generation chip away at curses and trauma is just as fun as the wild Stands, outfits, and poses. It feels like watching a bloodline heal in real time while the art style keeps reinventing itself.
Music
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Punk
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NS+
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Whole Lotta Red
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Barter 6
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Beautiful and Brutal Yard
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Yeezus
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WZRD
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Man on the Moon: The End of Day
Graphic Design
I used to create sports graphics—logo flips, stat cards, and jersey concepts. You can find that archive on Instagram at @sbdsgns.
Visual Notebook
I'm getting into drawing on my iPad. Right now I'm blocking in colors for Gear 5 Luffy, experimenting with how digital brushes can mimic the energy of manga inks.