#herein ''original'' means anything that was active during 2023. doesnt matter if it started or ended or whatever

[diamondsandlemons]

Tulip's best of 2023

by which I mean, my Top 5s of stuff that I experienced for the first time during 2023. sorry this is just a list and I don't really expand on my thoughts abt any of these, just narrowing down my choices took me all day to do. on the plus side though I do enjoy making graphics:

MOVIES 2023 originals:

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Kaguya-sama: Love is War - The First Kiss That Never Ends

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves

Suzume

Nimona

belateds:

Knives Out (2019)

Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022)

Glass Onion (2022)

Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio (2022)

The Big Lebowski (1998)

TELEVISION 2023 originals:

Frieren: Beyond Journey's End

Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake

Scavengers Reign

The Owl House

Scott Pilgrim Takes Off

HONORABLE MENTION: ★☆SPARKLE ON RAVEN: The Life of DrillGirl☆★

belateds:

The Tatami Galaxy (2010)

Lycoris Recoil (2022)

Yuru Camp (2018)

Seinfeld (1989)

Gunsmith Cats (1995)

BOOKS 2023 originals:

Jo Firestone - Murder on Sex Island

(…that’s the only new book I read this year. kinda surprised I even got one to be honest. Helps that it was a free audio book. I like Jo Firestone’s voice)

belateds:

(yeah I won’t bother ranking within a series. anyway here’s all the books I read this year)

Tamsyn Muir - The Locked Tomb (Gideon the Ninth (2019) and Harrow the Ninth (2020))

Jennette McCurdy - I'm Glad My Mom Died (2022)

Nagaru Tanigawa - Haruhi Suzumiya (most of the books in the series, from Boredom (2003) to Intuition (2020))

COMICS 2023 originals:

Ryoko Kui - Dungeon Meshi

Tamifull - How Do We Relationship?

Winona Powers - Girls With Horns

Cam Marshall - Ethernet Cable Girlfriend

Sumito Oowara - Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!

belateds:

Cam Marshall - Matchmaker (2021)

Masaoki Shindo - Ruri Dragon (2022)

Hitoshi Ashinano - Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou (1994) Deluxe Edition (2022)

Tatsuki Fujimoto - Chainsaw Man (2019)

Aki Hamazi - Bocchi the Rock! (2019)

(dates refer to when a series started, but volumes depicted are the ones I’ve read most recently. sorry if thats confusing)

VIDEO GAMES 2023 originals:

Pikmin 4

Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective

Hellscaper

(that’s all, sorry gamers)

belateds:

Pikmin 2 (2004)

Super Lesbian Animal RPG (2022)

Pikmin (2001)

Ace Attorney Investigations 2 (2011)

Kirby: Planet Robobot (2016)

ALBUMS 2023 originals:

smiling broadly - smiling broadly

Rebecca Sugar - Spiral Bound

Louie Zong - Hurricane Louie

beatrix quinn - Susan Taxpayer Demo OST

Claudi Martinez - Monster Roadtrip OST

(can you tell I don’t go out of my way to find new music? lol)

belateds:

Yoeko Kurahashi - Tokyo Piano (2004)

The Beths - Expert In A Dying Field (2022)

A crow is white - Himitsu (2015)

Yorushika - The Summer Grass is Getting in My Way (2017)

The Orion Experience - Cosmicandy (2006)