March 2026 media
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They Are Still Being Shaken This Morning: This is a goofy teen romance manga series with one of my favorite twists of all time: the point-of-view characters are not the two naive high schoolers crushing on each other, but three strangers who ride the same morning train as them and obsessively dissect their progress in the group chat. It’s an absolute delight and I’m so glad it was picked up for an official localization, which just began this month. I only wish they had done something a bit less literal with that title; maybe it sounds good in Japanese but it’s a whole lot of nothing in English, and I suspect a lot of potential fans will pass over it as a result.
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Framing Nature: Gardens and Imagination: Another special exhibit at the MFA Boston, about gardens this time. In addition to seeing some of the usual MFA favorites in a new context—artists like Monet, Sargent, and Hokusai, who are well-represented in the collection—I enjoyed being surprised by some of this exhibit’s showstoppers, like the Qing dynasty landscape painting spread across a dozen hanging scrolls or the massive seventeen-foot Flemish tapestry. I’ve become much more of an art museum person over the past few years, and while I mostly enjoy revisiting favorite galleries and seeing the gradual tweaks over time, I’ve come to appreciate these temporary exhibits as well.