Full of Bias

 What determines if a meal will taste good? How fresh the ingredients are? How well the recipe was followed? Maybe the season or time of day you eat at? There's no question that all of these play a role, but our headspace while we eat is perhaps the biggest determining factor. If we're hungry, food always tastes better. If we've been looking forward to a meal all day, the payoff is miraculous. And when the food was cooked by a person we love just the way we like it, solely because they wanted to see us smile while eating it, that's when it tastes the best. Eating alone just because you have to eat to be alive becomes mundane. Even if it tastes alright, it's simply routine, performed mindlessly after taking the time to cook, which feels like a pain in the ass after a long day. The way that simply having another person there with you affects your meals is often taken for granted, but Koufuku Graffiti turns this joy into a heartwarming emotional experience you won'...

Major spoilers for Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, Juuni Taisen, I Want to Eat Your Pancreas, and Shouwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuu I've been watching The Rose of Versailles recently, and something that has struck me about the show is how it much it wants the viewer to know that things are going to go downhill really badly. For one, the series is a retelling of the events leading up to the French Revolution, so if you payed attention in history class you'll probably have a good idea of what's going to happen to most of the characters. We know what the French Revolution is like, we know who the big players are and what their roles are, and we know what happens to France and the palace of Versailles after the fact. But even if you didn't know this already, the series employs a narrator to let us know exactly what's going to happen in the future. They inform us of Marie Antoinette's tragic end, of Robespierre's role as a radical revolutionary figure, and of Count Polignac...