i was _not_ excepting that mafuyu lalalala jumpscare SDFFKSKAJALD loved this deep dive colleen! lala has housed some of my all time favourite manga, both past and present, so it’s wonderful to see them highlighted here!
The part about how hard it is to find LaLa's English licensed titles is SO TRUE!! I was lucky enough to find all my Land of the Blindfolded volumes local for a decent price, they're my prized possessions. I've got a couple more titles I'm trying to track down, but unless you want to dish out $$$ to scalpers it seems almost IMPOSSIBLE 😖
Ugh I'm close to getting all of Land of the Blindfolded now, but still some of those volumes are hard to find.... PLUS I'm trying to collect Natsume's and haven't been able to get my hands on 14 for about a year now 😭
@@ColleensMangaRecs My friend is collecting Natsume's too and I just found them 14 and 15 a couple weeks ago! I had never seen any Natsume volumes out in the wild before that. What volumes of LotB are you missing?
Broke: "Despite their long, illustrious history of publishing famous Shoujo manga, Hakusensha also publishes Berzerk, one of their only Shonens." Woke: "Berzerk is a Shoujo."
He only was inspired by classic shoujo like Rose of Versailles and Kaze to Ki no Uta and started putting more introspective emotion into the series because of this. From that same interview where he said this at least, there's no indication that he considers the series to be anything but seinen still.
Your anthology videos are some of my favorites! I'm always curious about what series are in the magazine, and I find it really interesting to learn the history of the anthology as well! The skit at the beginning of the video is your best yet, in particular I like how you used it to show off different camera angle techniques!
I love your anthology videos ❤ I really need to get more LaLa titles. I think I might be able to find some in German or French. I recently catalogued my whole collection in a google sheet and sadly only 2 of 81 titles (80% of them shoujo/josei) are from LaLa. KareKano and Snow White 😭 I do have a grainy fansub version of Star of Cottonland. I knew it was a shoujo but didn't know it was from LaLa as well. Truly a great magazine! Thank you for showing us more of it!
If you are interested in Mizutama Honeyboy, that one is available in German. It was published by Kaze Manga which has now fused with Crunchyroll. Which is a pain in the ass when you just want to look at their release catalogue, because it always directs you to the streaming site. Carlesn actually bought Fruits Basket back in a big collection recently and they are releasing Another right now. I am on Hopium for Ouran. If they bring Ouran back in huge bundled volumes we might finally have a chance to get our hands on that series. But only if they bring Ouran back.
I do like your anthology videos a lot, because it's like get into the history of shoujosei, which I always found interesting while mixing with some recs as well that there is variety of genres, we just have to research a little to try to find more. A lots from Lala and Lala DX I have read as well, some of these you mentioned I recognize as well and some didn't know, that I might take a look
I love your channel and I love your content! I'm from Brazil, and I find it very difficult to find Japanese content creators who provide information as rich and detailed as you do. Thank you for being so informative and for continuing to create content about Japanese anime/manga media. I learn a lot from you!
I had to keep pausing the video to write all the titles down, my tbr has just gotten so much longer 😅 Thanks for the video! Your channel is so helpful for non-experts on the genre
I've super enjoyed your channel since I found it! Thank you for shining a much needed light on shoujo. I've followed some of your recommendations and they've been great! Currently obsessed with Snow White with the Red Hair/Akagami no Shirayuki-hime and I look forward to your videos. Thanks Colleen! :D
I actually heard about this magazine from the Maid Sama afterwords. Maid Sama was published by Carlsen here in Germany. Mizutama Honey boy is actually available in Europe. In German. From Kaze Manga before they fused with Crunchyroll. Maybe I should read it after all. And one interesting thing you might not know Colleen, is that Tokyopop is not bankrupt. At least I think they aren't. They just became German. Yona of the Dawn and Snow White with the red hair are being published by Tokyopop here in Germany. When I was younger I got my dad to buy Rocking heaven for me. A series from Mayu Sakai published by Tokyopop. Two of my favorite Tokyopop series are Buddy Go and Ouji to Watashi wo Akiramenai. I believe that is the title. I was trying to look into Sparkly Lion boy and got the second one instead. Buddy Go is a fun story about dancing and the idol undustry. It even got an OVA. And if you are wondering why Tokyopop is German now, I have no idea. I didn't know that they used to be American. Btw, Ouran was also published by Carlsen but is very much out of stock. Because it's so old. I am snorting copium and hopium right now for a bundled rerelease just like Fruits Basket. I'd love it if they brought back more older titles. America should do that too actually. It is working great here in Deutschland.
I just bought a Lala magazine volume 1 with Yuki, Kaname, and Zero on the cover! It's the anime of my childhood, which I realized was problematic after years, hahaha, but that's it.
I'm new here. Not only do I appreciate the information and recommendations, chickens are my favourite animal, so the rooster painting and figure are delightful.
Honestly this videos are a help to find new stuff, I would like to see your take on a video to a shonen manga, and can we talk about how is such a hard thing to find a Lala magazine on bookoff 😂
First, I wanted to say- why are you like this? Second, I wanted to say this video has the best intro you've ever done- or at least, my favourite. And third, I wanted to say dont ever stop being like this.
I didn’t know so many series I like are from Lala. I’m actually planning on getting the French version of Mizutama Honey Boy on my next book buying spree. My excuse is that it’ll help me practice my French 😂
I hope you’ll cover Hana to Yume next! (This is not just because I want to hear about Skip Beat from a Japanese prospective but it sure is a large reason)
I love natsume yuujinchou/natsumes book of friends so much!!! It's my all time favourite and can recommend it to everyone. It's so good 😭😭😭 Also the fandom is so wholesome and chill
Great video! Your manga magazine vids are super interesting. Have you considered doing a video on Dessert? I think they're the current big thing in the English shoujo-sphere (probably helps that the magazine manages to get consistent licenses 🙃) and they have two anime adaptations on the way.
Coleen and her comedy reminds me of Miisha Paullin and her work. Miisha is a Producer on "The Jimmy Dore Show" - which is worth checking out. Colleen even has the same smile (these are all complements btw)
Oh man, have you watched the Library Wars anime?! I haven't read the manga yet, but watched the anime to itch the scratch until I get my hands on the manga. It...wasn't all that great. 😅😅 Definitely deserved better!!! I need to read the manga so I can compare. And YAS! Natsume!!!! (And the anime is getting another season! Eeeep!) Can I read Japanese? No. Do I want a Lala magazine with Natsume or Snow White covers? YES. 😁🥰🥰
There's.... NOVELS?! 😱 The main thing I had issues with was their military strategies. Like, I know it's manga, but man. I found some of the military strategies to be questionable 😂😅😅
"...despite the fact that European settings just aren't much of my thing." I'm sorry, I burst out laughing at the irony of this being said in a video with an EU manga shipping sponsorship -- that's so funny (in a cute way!) to me lol. But more seriously, this was a nice comprehensive overlook at the magazine, so thank you for all the information! Also, as someone whose only exposure to Cipher was indeed that OVA, I have to give it props of SOME kind, because when you started describing the manga itself, I definitely had a, "Wait, is this the manga for that weird OVA I saw once? It SOUNDS like it might be..." moment mere seconds before you confirmed that it was. I guess the OVA managed to convey.... something that stuck in my psyche as definitively identifiable all this time later, so there is that.
😭 I just don't like royal settings that are like vaguely European lmaooo If it's explicitly Europe then I could get down but they're almost always just very vaguely in Europe And it's funny because I read Cipher first but when I was watching the OVA I was like "will ANYONE who doesn't know the series understand what is happening"??? I almost made a full video about it but the OVA is just too much lol
This was such an amazing video!! I know very very little about Japanese shoujo magazines and super appreciate your deep dive into LaLa Magazine! I definitely learned a lot and hope we get some of the series you mentioned in English as well!
@@ColleensMangaRecs I actually do love your stuff! But I couldn't think of anything to say hah. Tldr: ty for your content you have changed the way I engage with manga. I started my manga journey with Haruka Fukushima's shoujo manga (translated into Finnish) at the age of like 7-8 and your channel made me realise that I don't have to force myself to like shounen that liking shoujo and josei is nothing to be ashamed of. Also your 7Seeds rec got me to read the whole thing and now it's my favourite manga ever.
Nooooooo I didn't know Ryuuou no Kagehime was ending....I was looking forward to it someday getting translated...I really hope this end was planned and not because the manga wasn't popular enough ;; But some copium, AnS was supposed to end with Tanbarun arc so...MAYBE! Maybe! maybe...! theres hope ;; Anyway! I loved the video, I've always wanted to know more about LaLa so this was great! Also that interview with the Hakusensha president was really interesting, based president. Thanks again!
I don't even really know if i like Tendou Family or not. The main character has a really sad life and backstory (literally nobody deserves her 😭) but then the ml is like so mean but also not really? I dropped it a while ago bc I wasn't seeing much romance development 😔
This has been a very insightful video. Since I really don't know older shojo manga minus the really popular one. Also man CMX manga brings back so many memories. Also Library Wars is amazing and should be discussed more. Since I feel like no one reads it
Ugh, I'm so sad I can't get into Tendou-ke Monogatari, I've read 27 chapter and haven't felt anything from it... I wanted to love this manga so much because the premise is so good and FL has very interesting motivations and personality, but still there is just something wrong with the pacing and the style of storytelling that prevents me from having "badum" moments...
It really depends on what worse is to you hahaha like business wise TP was atrocious and is the reason some companies didn't trust American publishers but CMX went under with some AMAZING manga so like... lol
i can’t believe titles i love are from lala 🥹 thanks for teaching me something new colleen! awesome job on your videos ✌🏻 also i totally didn’t forget about the sketch 😭 i really wanted to see how you’d call back to that
As someone with a crippling fear of the ocean (or any large body of deep water) I appreciate that PSA at the beginning.
i was _not_ excepting that mafuyu lalalala jumpscare SDFFKSKAJALD
loved this deep dive colleen! lala has housed some of my all time favourite manga, both past and present, so it’s wonderful to see them highlighted here!
when editing I would forget that I added it in too 😭
....that PSA opening is giving me 80s flashbacks.
The skits get me every time 😂
Thanks for the PSA
Also I’ve read/watch a lot of Lala’s titles 🤔 but I’ve never heard of them. Thanks for the info!
Lmaoo thank you man
And right?! Lala has sooooo much and I think a lot of it just comes from them actually getting anime for their manga
The part about how hard it is to find LaLa's English licensed titles is SO TRUE!! I was lucky enough to find all my Land of the Blindfolded volumes local for a decent price, they're my prized possessions. I've got a couple more titles I'm trying to track down, but unless you want to dish out $$$ to scalpers it seems almost IMPOSSIBLE 😖
Ugh I'm close to getting all of Land of the Blindfolded now, but still some of those volumes are hard to find.... PLUS I'm trying to collect Natsume's and haven't been able to get my hands on 14 for about a year now 😭
@@ColleensMangaRecs My friend is collecting Natsume's too and I just found them 14 and 15 a couple weeks ago! I had never seen any Natsume volumes out in the wild before that. What volumes of LotB are you missing?
Broke: "Despite their long, illustrious history of publishing famous Shoujo manga, Hakusensha also publishes Berzerk, one of their only Shonens."
Woke: "Berzerk is a Shoujo."
Didn't the creator of Berzerk consider it as being more similar to shojo than shonen himself?
He only was inspired by classic shoujo like Rose of Versailles and Kaze to Ki no Uta and started putting more introspective emotion into the series because of this. From that same interview where he said this at least, there's no indication that he considers the series to be anything but seinen still.
"For funny!" got me
Your anthology videos are some of my favorites! I'm always curious about what series are in the magazine, and I find it really interesting to learn the history of the anthology as well! The skit at the beginning of the video is your best yet, in particular I like how you used it to show off different camera angle techniques!
Thank you very much 🙏🙏
I love the anthology videos ! Always comes with good reccs ! Will try the tendo family manga since I enjoy toxic family manga lol
Hope you enjoy it!
11:30 This is why you don't mess with Colleen. She has the POWER!
I love your anthology videos ❤
I really need to get more LaLa titles. I think I might be able to find some in German or French.
I recently catalogued my whole collection in a google sheet and sadly only 2 of 81 titles (80% of them shoujo/josei) are from LaLa.
KareKano and Snow White 😭
I do have a grainy fansub version of Star of Cottonland. I knew it was a shoujo but didn't know it was from LaLa as well.
Truly a great magazine!
Thank you for showing us more of it!
If you are interested in Mizutama Honeyboy, that one is available in German. It was published by Kaze Manga which has now fused with Crunchyroll. Which is a pain in the ass when you just want to look at their release catalogue, because it always directs you to the streaming site. Carlesn actually bought Fruits Basket back in a big collection recently and they are releasing Another right now. I am on Hopium for Ouran. If they bring Ouran back in huge bundled volumes we might finally have a chance to get our hands on that series. But only if they bring Ouran back.
That given jump scare took me out
I do like your anthology videos a lot, because it's like get into the history of shoujosei, which I always found interesting while mixing with some recs as well that there is variety of genres, we just have to research a little to try to find more.
A lots from Lala and Lala DX I have read as well, some of these you mentioned I recognize as well and some didn't know, that I might take a look
Yes! That intro sketch
🤭🤭🤭
Thank you so much for making this video! I love learning about the different magazines, and all the history of shoujo! It's really so cool!
My pleasure!
Another banger of a video you're one of my favorite channels ❤
Also the skits just keep getting better and better
Appreciate that so much!!
Thanks for this video, I'm off to add a bunch more manga to my tbr
Of course!!
I love Last Game, cried at the end :') And Mizutama Honey Boy! Lala has such good series
I love your channel and I love your content! I'm from Brazil, and I find it very difficult to find Japanese content creators who provide information as rich and detailed as you do. Thank you for being so informative and for continuing to create content about Japanese anime/manga media. I learn a lot from you!
I had to keep pausing the video to write all the titles down, my tbr has just gotten so much longer 😅 Thanks for the video! Your channel is so helpful for non-experts on the genre
Enjoy! There's close to 0 misses in this magazine 🙌🙌
This video just reminded me to go read last game again. I love it too much
I really love Tendou ke monogatari, really hope it gets an anime sometime.
I’m so glad you mentioned Kawaii Hito! It’s one of my favorites!
I've super enjoyed your channel since I found it! Thank you for shining a much needed light on shoujo. I've followed some of your recommendations and they've been great! Currently obsessed with Snow White with the Red Hair/Akagami no Shirayuki-hime and I look forward to your videos. Thanks Colleen! :D
I actually heard about this magazine from the Maid Sama afterwords. Maid Sama was published by Carlsen here in Germany. Mizutama Honey boy is actually available in Europe. In German. From Kaze Manga before they fused with Crunchyroll. Maybe I should read it after all. And one interesting thing you might not know Colleen, is that Tokyopop is not bankrupt. At least I think they aren't. They just became German. Yona of the Dawn and Snow White with the red hair are being published by Tokyopop here in Germany. When I was younger I got my dad to buy Rocking heaven for me. A series from Mayu Sakai published by Tokyopop. Two of my favorite Tokyopop series are Buddy Go and Ouji to Watashi wo Akiramenai. I believe that is the title. I was trying to look into Sparkly Lion boy and got the second one instead. Buddy Go is a fun story about dancing and the idol undustry. It even got an OVA. And if you are wondering why Tokyopop is German now, I have no idea. I didn't know that they used to be American. Btw, Ouran was also published by Carlsen but is very much out of stock. Because it's so old. I am snorting copium and hopium right now for a bundled rerelease just like Fruits Basket. I'd love it if they brought back more older titles. America should do that too actually. It is working great here in Deutschland.
I just bought a Lala magazine volume 1 with Yuki, Kaname, and Zero on the cover! It's the anime of my childhood, which I realized was problematic after years, hahaha, but that's it.
I love your videos focusing on specific magazines!!
i think this is the only video on yt thats talking about LaLa in depth
Check out my friend Manga Muse who also did one!!!
I'm new here. Not only do I appreciate the information and recommendations, chickens are my favourite animal, so the rooster painting and figure are delightful.
That's so funny. We just so happen to have all this chicken stuff because my bf's mom passed it on to us lol
Honestly this videos are a help to find new stuff, I would like to see your take on a video to a shonen manga, and can we talk about how is such a hard thing to find a Lala magazine on bookoff 😂
Also lala had Haruka: Beyond the Stream of Time such a good one but rare to find in the states
i love your videos! i love so much that i get SO HAPPY that you're having sponsers!!! LOVE FROM BRAZIL!
that's so sweet 😭😭 thank you very much
Wow, so many interesting titles! I didn't know Last Game was published in Lala, didn't even know it was shoujo!
First, I wanted to say- why are you like this? Second, I wanted to say this video has the best intro you've ever done- or at least, my favourite. And third, I wanted to say dont ever stop being like this.
I think 40mins is the perfect video length. Not every video essay has to be one hour plus. Engaging from beginning to end :)
Thank you for the incredible work that you do for the shoujo community! Love your anthology videos
Thank u Colleen, very epic 👍
This was a well done video as usual Colleen.
Wonderful video thanks so much for sharing this video i really enjoyed it. I'll check out this Magazine and give it a read.😁
this video is so amazing I NEED a video about mars now omgg
Kamisama kiss, fruits basket, Yona of the dawn are one of my favorite anime and manga 😊
Another banger by colleen!!! thank you for another wonderful video
I didn’t know so many series I like are from Lala. I’m actually planning on getting the French version of Mizutama Honey Boy on my next book buying spree. My excuse is that it’ll help me practice my French 😂
I hope you’ll cover Hana to Yume next! (This is not just because I want to hear about Skip Beat from a Japanese prospective but it sure is a large reason)
OMG. YOU DID NOT WITH THE MAFUYU LALAS!!! 💀😂😂😂
I'm not even a shoujo reader but I really like your videos , great skits! (And hair)🤣❤️
I love natsume yuujinchou/natsumes book of friends so much!!! It's my all time favourite and can recommend it to everyone. It's so good 😭😭😭
Also the fandom is so wholesome and chill
The intro to this video LMAOOOOOO
I love this series of videos. Such a fun watch/listen. Especially when I'm going through a burnout with anime/manga.
another banger video with banger recs and that cottonland manga looks cute and really interesting
Thank you! I've read a little bit of it through rough scans and I've been enjoying it 🙌
thanks for all the recommandations of good, good shojo manga
Great video! Your manga magazine vids are super interesting.
Have you considered doing a video on Dessert? I think they're the current big thing in the English shoujo-sphere (probably helps that the magazine manages to get consistent licenses 🙃) and they have two anime adaptations on the way.
Love these videos! Would love to see Hana to Yume next possibly ❤
Shirayuki is getting an art exhibition?!? Do you k ow the dates? Maybe this year?
It's happening right now in Japan!!
@@ColleensMangaRecs ooooh, until when?? I’ll be in Japan in September
Coleen and her comedy reminds me of Miisha Paullin and her work. Miisha is a Producer on "The Jimmy Dore Show" - which is worth checking out. Colleen even has the same smile (these are all complements btw)
Oh man, have you watched the Library Wars anime?! I haven't read the manga yet, but watched the anime to itch the scratch until I get my hands on the manga.
It...wasn't all that great. 😅😅 Definitely deserved better!!! I need to read the manga so I can compare.
And YAS! Natsume!!!! (And the anime is getting another season! Eeeep!)
Can I read Japanese? No.
Do I want a Lala magazine with Natsume or Snow White covers?
YES. 😁🥰🥰
I've watched it! The anime is actually closer to the novels then the manga adaptation lol it was good but definitely not the same
There's.... NOVELS?! 😱
The main thing I had issues with was their military strategies. Like, I know it's manga, but man. I found some of the military strategies to be questionable 😂😅😅
i love your videos on mangazines!
This intro has me dying 😂🤣
"...despite the fact that European settings just aren't much of my thing."
I'm sorry, I burst out laughing at the irony of this being said in a video with an EU manga shipping sponsorship -- that's so funny (in a cute way!) to me lol. But more seriously, this was a nice comprehensive overlook at the magazine, so thank you for all the information!
Also, as someone whose only exposure to Cipher was indeed that OVA, I have to give it props of SOME kind, because when you started describing the manga itself, I definitely had a, "Wait, is this the manga for that weird OVA I saw once? It SOUNDS like it might be..." moment mere seconds before you confirmed that it was. I guess the OVA managed to convey.... something that stuck in my psyche as definitively identifiable all this time later, so there is that.
😭 I just don't like royal settings that are like vaguely European lmaooo If it's explicitly Europe then I could get down but they're almost always just very vaguely in Europe
And it's funny because I read Cipher first but when I was watching the OVA I was like "will ANYONE who doesn't know the series understand what is happening"??? I almost made a full video about it but the OVA is just too much lol
New Colleen video my beloved ❤❤
oh the things I would do for an english translation of mari to shingo 😭
This was such an amazing video!! I know very very little about Japanese shoujo magazines and super appreciate your deep dive into LaLa Magazine! I definitely learned a lot and hope we get some of the series you mentioned in English as well!
hi izuru tokoro no tenshi is so beautiful, i love it and wish it was fully translated 😢 (it has a partial scanlation)
jyu oh sei also has an anime adaptation, it's pretty decent from what i've seen of it, not as pretty as manga tho
ouran in thumbnail my beloved
I looove your anthology videos, I found a few more titles to add to my tbr!
Excellent
I love magazine videosss
Thanks so much for this
Love your content (comment made to drive up engagement)
Appreciate it!!
@@ColleensMangaRecs I actually do love your stuff! But I couldn't think of anything to say hah.
Tldr: ty for your content you have changed the way I engage with manga.
I started my manga journey with Haruka Fukushima's shoujo manga (translated into Finnish) at the age of like 7-8 and your channel made me realise that I don't have to force myself to like shounen that liking shoujo and josei is nothing to be ashamed of. Also your 7Seeds rec got me to read the whole thing and now it's my favourite manga ever.
Another heater! Fingers crossed for Shio no Machi to get licensed I need it in my life please 🤞
We need more Kiiro Yumi manga!
i love your personality
why thank you
Nooooooo I didn't know Ryuuou no Kagehime was ending....I was looking forward to it someday getting translated...I really hope this end was planned and not because the manga wasn't popular enough ;; But some copium, AnS was supposed to end with Tanbarun arc so...MAYBE! Maybe! maybe...! theres hope ;; Anyway! I loved the video, I've always wanted to know more about LaLa so this was great! Also that interview with the Hakusensha president was really interesting, based president. Thanks again!
Thank you for the copium 🙏🙏🙏 but with AnS it went from DX to the main magazine so....
If you liked Honeyboy you would definitely like Otomen.
I don't even really know if i like Tendou Family or not. The main character has a really sad life and backstory (literally nobody deserves her 😭) but then the ml is like so mean but also not really? I dropped it a while ago bc I wasn't seeing much romance development 😔
I really enjoy it because the story is really interesting and dynamic between them is a little messed up which I like in stories heehee
Great video as always!! What is that Natsume’s print behind you?!?! I’m always dying to find Natsume’s merch
It's an artbook a friend got me from Japan!
@@ColleensMangaRecs thank you for letting me know!!
That bob do be bobbin
Hana to Yume dive next? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
If you or anyone want to know why cipher anime adaptation was kind of weird I would recommend Kyoto videos or KaiserBeamz take on it.
This has been a very insightful video. Since I really don't know older shojo manga minus the really popular one. Also man CMX manga brings back so many memories.
Also Library Wars is amazing and should be discussed more. Since I feel like no one reads it
im late but yippy new video
did you ever review or do a deep dive of the shoujo manga magazine called smile???
I haven't since that's an English one! I do want to make a video on Tokyopop at some point though where I can talk about that
Can you do Sho-comi, Nakayoshi, and Betsucomi, please? Thank you!!!🥰💖💖💖
Quick question, have you shared a list of the manga you own anywhere? It would be great for some inspiration 😊
Bulletproof shipping?! Wait?! Is that for reals? Someone tell me if that's real or not. If that's the case. I'd buy the manga just for the box.
Not the Titan skit! If only you could get a millionaire to pay you $250k/vid.
hey.... I may not say no
Ugh, I'm so sad I can't get into Tendou-ke Monogatari, I've read 27 chapter and haven't felt anything from it... I wanted to love this manga so much because the premise is so good and FL has very interesting motivations and personality, but still there is just something wrong with the pacing and the style of storytelling that prevents me from having "badum" moments...
Tendou ke monogatari, kawaii hito,
I didn't get a notification 🥲
16:33 💀😭
Cmx vs Tokyopop: Which one is worse?
It really depends on what worse is to you hahaha like business wise TP was atrocious and is the reason some companies didn't trust American publishers but CMX went under with some AMAZING manga so like... lol
the orcas will prevail.
🎉🎉🎉
Why did she run like that 😭
i can’t believe titles i love are from lala 🥹
thanks for teaching me something new colleen! awesome job on your videos ✌🏻
also i totally didn’t forget about the sketch 😭 i really wanted to see how you’d call back to that