The Weekly Praegustator (6 - 12 July '26)

This week I consumed 12 manga, 16 anime, 1 film, 4 TV shows, 13 articles, and 2 podcasts.

6 July

Anime/ LIAR GAME Ep. 14 (6/10)

TV/ House of the Dragon: S03E03 (5/10)

Article/ Expressionless Robot Sex - Worst Boyfriend Ever (6/10)

Podcast/ Tyler Cowen on Never Crying at Art, Why Rap is Dead, and Quitting Writing Books (w/ Nabeel Qureshi) (6/10)

7 July

Anime/ Chainsmoker Cat Ep. 1 (8/10)

Anime/ THE GHOST IN THE SHELL Ep. 1 (9/10)

Film/ Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010) (7/10)

8 July

Manga/ Blue Lock - Chapter 353 (6/10)

Manga/ Gachiakuta - Chapter 171 (7/10)

Manga/ Shangri-La Frontier: Chapter 272 (8/10)

Manga/ WIND BREAKER - Chapter 222 (8/10)

Article/ A Stargate for Data - Will DePue (7/10)

Article/ Love, Labour, and Language - by Matt Boulos (6/10)

Article/ Quiet, My Exoself - by Kevin Kelly (7/10)

Podcast/ Why Leonardo was a saboteur, Gutenberg went broke, and Florence was weird – Ada Palmer (8/10)

9 July

Anime/ Chainsmoker Cat Ep. 2 (9/10)

Article/ how to stay awake to your own life - by maja (7/10)

10 July

Manga/ Berserk - Chapter 386 (7/10)

Manga/ One Piece - Chapter 1188 (10/10)

Anime/ That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime Season 4 Ep. 86 (7/10)

Anime/ The Drops of God Ep. 14 (7/10)

TV/ Silo (TV Series 2023– ): S03E02 (9/10)

Article/ #12: you disappoint me - by md - to be honest (6/10)

11 July

Anime/ Ascendance of a Bookworm: Adopted Daughter of an Archduke Ep. 13 (7/10)

Anime/ Daemons of the Shadow Realm Ep. 14 (8/10)

Article/ Hunter x Hunter Manga 413 (7/10)

12 July

Manga/ [#041] Someone Hertz (7/10)

Manga/ [#048] RuriDragon (9/10)

Manga/ [#090] Ichi the Witch (8/10)

Manga/ [#214] Akane-banashi (8/10)

Manga/ [#250] Blue Box (10/10)

Manga/ [#267] SAKAMOTO DAYS (10/10)

Anime/ Clevatess Season 2 Ep. 1 (8/10)

Anime/ Goodbye, Lara Ep. 1 (10/10)

Anime/ Goodbye, Lara Ep. 2 (7/10)

Anime/ Jaadugar: A Witch in Mongolia Ep. 1 - 3 (10/10)

Anime/ Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation Season 3 Ep. 3 (8/10)

Anime/ One Piece Ep. 1169 (7/10)

Anime/ Saga of Tanya the Evil Ep. 1 - 12 (9/10)

Anime/ Sparks of Tomorrow Ep. 1 - 2 (8/10)

TV/ Rick and Morty: S09E07 (7/10)

TV/ X-Men '97: S02E04 (9/10)

Article/ AI 2040: Plan A (3/10)

Article/ AI Security Institute on X: "Most AI agent evaluations boil capability down to one score. But that number hides a key choice: how much compute the agent was allowed to use. New work from our Science of Evaluation team shows why that matters. 🧵 (6/10)

Article/ Angel 🌼 on X: "ChatGPT's Personality Drives Me Crazy " (6/10)

Article/ diary of a thought daughter - amy's blog (7/10)

Article/ What America has meant to me (6/10)

Article/ Worst Boyfriend Ever and the plight of the ambitious woman (7/10)