Weekly summary: May 17 - May 23, 2026

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Happy Sunday! I have safely returned from my weekend anime convention trip! I'll write separate posts about that later. Instead, here's what I have to share from the past week (which feels like a million years ago now)

Music stuff!

A new song from Matenrou Opera: Scar
I really liked it! I haven't paid much attention to the music video tho so I have no comment on that

And... somehow D'espairsray has returned. They originally disbanded in 2011!! Crazy! Their new song is Rapture (there is also a music video but I didn't like it so I'm not linking it)

And speaking of music, TsuPro released info on the opening theme and soundtrack composers for Ultraman Teo. You can read about it here

I love that the name of the new group performance the opening is "Astro Donuts" 😂

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My weekly TV reviews are here

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Fic stuff!

One rec for The Librarians this time: a fic featuring Ezekiel and Jenkins

Also I got my intoabar assignment, and I'll be writing The Librarians for the first time 👀 Very exciting. I think this will be the only thing I work on in June. (Okay that is probably a lie)

Also, even though I was traveling, I got a chance to read my gifts for the Tokusatsu Girls Remix exchange. They were fantastic!
☆ The Drums and the Brush of Steel (Kamen Rider Zeztz, Minami & Nem)
☆ Victory Lap (Power Rangers in Space, Cassie & TJ)
☆ Playback (Kamen Rider Zeztz, Nem/Baku)

I can't wait to get a chance to browse through the rest of the collection this week!

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As for offline life, the whole week was spent preparing for my trip to Animazement (mostly scrambling to get work done ahead of time). This is the first time I've gone for the whole weekend in years, and it was definitely worth it. I had a blast! My posts about it will be very rambly. I took lots of notes 😂

But I am also exhausted now lmao

I hope to catch up with everything soon. Wishing everyone a fantastic week ahead!