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RIP Shinichiro Sato, the drummer for The Pillows. Most people know them for their contributions to the FLCL anime, but they were one of the most consistent rock bands in history. 20 studio albums over 30+ years, not one of them bad. Here's four of my favorites.

Rest in peace.

A math rock band formed in Kyoto in 2018. The lead vocalist plays insane tapping riffs while singing—with a completely calm face. Unreal impact. Suichu Spica / Hakudo 水中スピカ / 拍動

超エロカッコよアクション

You ask, we deliver. From Mortal Kombat to Jackie Chan, a 4K Miike classic to an underrated Aussie hit - June 2026 is a big one. Which are you most excited for?

Same director as Hathaway’s Flash btw. Genocidal Organ shares the most DNA with it among Shukou Murase’s works, particularly in its focus on the moral ambiguity of terrorism and police-states.

17歳の時につげ義春先生の作品に出会っていなければ自分は漫画家になっていなかったと思います。一度直接ご挨拶ができたのは一生の思い出です。ご冥福をお祈りいたします。

RIP Yoshiharu Tsuge ;___; (1937-2026) news.web.nhk/newsweb/na/na-…

Beth A. Hathaway and Brian Steele (in the suit) behind the scenes of 'Creature' (1998).

The opening title drop for BROTHER is so good

SAYONARA

His final week with us was something we treasured very dearly. He hadn’t been himself that week, and we gave him all the love we could give. What started as an eye infection, turned into an aggressive form of cancer. It happened so fast. I hope he was happy in his last moments.

Silly little guy

This is Kenji. The right photo is our first photo together of our first goodbye after we first met. My family stopped by my university home the day they picked him up. The left is our second goodbye before returning to uni. He wasn’t a small pup anymore in our second meeting.

motoko kusanagi #攻殻機動隊 #ghostintheshell

For more than two thousand years, a single woman has carried the blame for everything that went wrong in the world... In Greek mythology, that woman is Pandora. The familiar version of the story is simple: Pandora opens a jar—later mistranslated as a box—and releases suffering into the world. Disease, grief, hardship, and misery escape, and humanity is forced to live with the consequences. Her mistake becomes one of the most famous cautionary tales in Western storytelling. But the deeper details of the myth tell a very different story. Pandora did not create the evils inside the jar. The gods did. The story begins with a rebellion. The Titan Prometheus steals fire from the gods and gives it to humanity. Fire means warmth, technology, knowledge, and power. Zeus, king of the gods, sees this as a dangerous shift in the balance between gods and mortals. Human beings are becoming too capable. So Zeus decides to retaliate—not by taking fire back, but by designing a punishment that will follow humanity forever. He orders the creation of the first woman. The gods craft Pandora deliberately, each contributing something to make her irresistible and complex. Aphrodite gives beauty. Athena gives skill. Hermes gives cleverness and persuasion. She is named Pandora—“all-gifted”—because she carries the combined offerings of the gods themselves. But alongside those gifts comes the trap. Pandora is sent to earth with a sealed jar. Inside it are all the hardships that will define human life: sickness, labor, jealousy, sorrow, aging, and pain. The gods themselves placed them there. Pandora’s only role in the story is the moment she eventually lifts the lid. When the jar opens, suffering floods into the world. In horror, Pandora quickly closes it again—but by then almost everything has escaped. Only one thing remains inside. Hope. And from that moment forward, Pandora becomes history’s scapegoat. Prometheus, the male figure who defied Zeus and stole fire, is remembered as a daring hero. His punishment—eternal torment—is portrayed as noble rebellion. Pandora, meanwhile, becomes the warning: the woman whose curiosity doomed humanity. Yet the structure of the story raises a troubling question. If the gods created the punishment… if they filled the jar… if they sent it to earth… why is Pandora the one remembered as responsible? Ancient Greek poet Hesiod, writing in the 8th century BCE, described Pandora as a “beautiful evil” sent to plague men. In his telling, the very existence of women is framed as a divine punishment for humanity. Seen through that lens, Pandora’s story becomes less about curiosity and more about cultural anxiety—about knowledge, independence, and the fear of what might happen when control slips away. And still, one detail remains quietly powerful. Hope stayed behind. For thousands of years scholars have debated what that means. Was hope preserved for humanity? Or was it trapped inside the jar, another thing withheld from the world? Either interpretation leaves us with the same haunting truth: even in a story meant to explain suffering, hope sits at the center of the human experience.. What do you think—was Pandora truly responsible, or was she simply the easiest person to blame? © She's So Cool #archaeohistories

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on a mission to watch every girl band movie out there