Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. I’m currently writing this on election day as the votes are being tallied, an occasion that could signal either the ebbing of the MAGA tide or the end of the United States as we know it. I have hope, though; American voters are for the most part simple, tribalistic creatures only vaguely aware of external stimuli, but the one-two punch of pointless tariffs and pointless wars has inflicted enough economic own-goals on our country that I think they may actually correlate causes and effects for once. That nightmare aside, I also finished up the altogether slight but generally charming Sparks of Tomorrow, and am thus once again on the hunt for outstanding 2026 anime to accompany my slow savoring of Scenes from Awajima. It’ll be time to actually get cracking on my year in review post soon, but in the meantime, let’s run down the week in films!

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