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GKIDS has announced that anime Look Back is finally getting a physical release. The 2024 film adapts the 2021 manga of the same name by Chainsaw Man creator Tatsuki Fujimoto. Pre-orders for the special collector's edition are now live and expected to ship this summer.

Distributor GKIDS announced the release during this year's Anime Expo in Los Angeles. Look Back follows the intertwining stories of Fujino and Kyomoto, two young artists both pursuing their dreams. The two start as rivals but grow into something more. As it's by Fujimoto, the story contains unexpected, emotionally devastating twists that further complicate the duo's lives. The movie, like the manga, is a beautiful dissection of the drive to make art for one another. The collector's edition is priced at $99 (but currently on sale for $65.99) and comes with both the 4K UHD and the Blu-ray of the film and a number of bonuses, including a 160-page book.

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GKIDS' release of Look Back will ship on Sept. 8.

Look Back is actually one of four movies from the GKIDS catalog that are getting new 4K UHD and Blu-ray releases. The other three films are Angel's Egg, Linda Linda Linda, and Love & Pop. While Look Back is the most recent release of the bunch, the rest are classics in their own right (if somewhat underrated).

1985's Angel's Egg is a cult classic due to the involvement of legendary Final Fantasy artist Yoshitaka Amano. Amano collaborated on the film with Ghost in the Shell director Mamoru Oshii. This one is a highly philosophical feature that benefits from the use of Amano's distinctive art to communicate some of the heady themes. The physical release costs $65.00 (on sale now for $49.99) and includes a talk by Amano and a new booklet. It will ship on Sept. 22.

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Linda Linda Linda is the platonic ideal of the "teenage girls finding themselves" movie. The 2005 film follows high school students Kei, Kyoko, Nozomi, and Song as they prepare to play in the school concert. The film is wonderfully shot with a soft eye that documents the realities of high school life in all its pain and joy, all of which feels like the most important thing in the world when you are in it. The title song is also a delightful earworm. The collector's edition costs $65.00 (on sale now for $49.99) and includes a behind-the-scenes featurette. Linda Linda Linda will ship on Aug. 25.

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Last, but not least, is Love & Pop. This cult 1998 film follows a group of high school girls who go on dates with older men for money. The main character, Hiromi, spends the film trying to earn enough money to buy a piece of jewelry before the mall closes. The handheld digicam cinematography of Love & Pop is incredibly unique and makes it feel squarely like a product of the '90s (in a good way).

Most notably, however, is the director and co-writer of Love & Pop: Hideaki Anno. The film marked the live-action directorial debut of the Neon Genesis Evangelion creator, and it was also his immediate directorial follow-up to the anime series he is most known for. The collector's edition costs $29.99 (and is not on sale). It includes a bonus feature titled "Hideaki Anno: Evangelion and Love & Pop." It will ship on Oct. 6. %!s()

Jay-Z’s months-long campaign commemorating the 30th anniversary of Reasonable Doubt and the 25th anniversary of The Blueprint has indeed resurfaced the rapper-turned-mogul’s success story. Reasonable Doubt, released in 1996, positioned Jay as not only a resonant voice in hip-hop but also in the increasingly lucrative business around it. After major labels passed, the album was released independently through Roc-A-Fella Records and Priority Records, setting the tone for Jay’s career as a business…man. 

And in the full-court press campaign around this summer’s anniversaries, culminating in this weekend’s trio of performances at Yankee Stadium, Jay’s business acumen is again at center focus. You’d be forgiven for throwing around buzzwords like “multichannel” or “cross-platform” to describe the slate of festivities. There’s the upcoming 8-part docuseries on HBO; there was a Spotify-backed takeover of the J and Z trains; custom JAŸ-Z30 subway maps and a Google Maps guide; commemorative Brooklyn Public Library cards; and most recently Bowery Station and DUMBO pop-ups with archival footage and merch. (That these Yankee Stadium shows come on the heels of Taylor Swift’s wedding at MSG suggests some sort of mega-rich takeover of cultural institutions, but let’s leave that one for another day.) 

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The moves come as nostalgia continues to drive a considerable chunk of the music industry’s profits. In an era when old songs can circulate infinitely on streaming platforms, gaining new life in the form of everything from samples to memes, and when superfans are willing to spend on physical goods, limited merch, and live experiences, album anniversaries have become their own product launches. Jay-Z’s Reasonable Doubt campaign is only the splashiest recent example.

No wonder, then, that Beyoncé already appears to be setting the stage for her own run of commemorations for the upcoming 20th anniversary of her album B’Day in September. Over the weekend, she released her first new song in two years, titled “Morning Dew (Donk),” to tease the upcoming reissue. According to Luminate, older music still dominates attention, with only 43 percent of U.S. on-demand audio streams in 2025 coming from tracks released in the previous five years. This is also one reason why vinyl and physical formats have seen renewed value in recent years, with the RIAA reporting that vinyl sold 46.8 million units in the U.S. in 2025, compared with 29.5 million CDs. Luminate says superfans are 20 percent of U.S. music listeners and spend heavily on live events and physical merchandise; 73 percent of these fans purchase physical merch, versus 26 percent of general music listeners.

In today’s industry, having a major anniversary is like having a new product to promote, a way to participate in an already thriving marketplace for nostalgia. The demand is visible well beyond official artist stores: Vintage concert tees now trade as collectibles, with one 1967 Grateful Dead shirt selling at Sotheby’s for $19,300 and rare rap tees treated as wearable archives of hip-hop history. Anniversary campaigns give artists and labels a way to reclaim that energy, turning the secondary market’s appetite for old symbols into new, officially sanctioned products.

Jay-Z’s official anniversary store turns that logic into a menu of objects: a $1,500 collector’s crate, a $300 cassette box, $400 Yankees jerseys, and four-figure varsity jackets. Of course, Jay is far from alone when it comes to legacy acts cashing in on nostalgia. He’s more like one salient example of a much larger wave of artists and promoters marketing anniversary products that includes the Smashing Pumpkins’ Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness 30th anniversary super-deluxe edition, My Chemical Romance’s Black Parade stadium tour, and the returned Warped Tour, among many others.

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Five years before Reasonable Doubt became the occasion for library cards and stadium shows, its 25th anniversary was marked by an NFT. In 2021, Sotheby’s and Roc Nation auctioned a one-of-one Derrick Adams artwork tied to the album, billed as the only official Jay-Z-authorized commemoration of the anniversary. Around the same time, Roc-A-Fella was in court over co-founder Damon Dash’s attempted sale of a Reasonable Doubt-related NFT, a dispute that ended with a judgment making clear that no shareholder could sell or dispose of an interest in the album — including through an NFT — without the company’s authorization.

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That ownership question is becoming harder to avoid as music enters the AI era, where the archive is not only something to reissue but something that can be modeled and trained on. Last week, SZA took to Twitter to express frustration with AI music company Suno, notably calling out Diplo by name as one of the company’s investors. “DO NOT GIVE AWAY YOUR VIBRANIUM !!! DO NOT TRAIN AI WITH YOUR GENIUS,” she wrote on Twitter. Her complaint was joined by Kenneth Blume, who said Suno’s workers were “stealing from countless struggling musicians.” 

For an artist with a legacy as impactful as Jay-Z’s, the current anniversary boom feel like the latest phase of a longer project of deciding who gets to turn hip-hop history into intellectual property. Jay-Z’s legacy deserves preservation; few catalogs have made a stronger case for it. But the more that preservation arrives through limited-edition objects, auction platforms, luxury merch, and authorized experiences, the more it has to answer a harder question: When does protecting the archive become another way of extracting value from it? %!s()

“There has been a total disconnection from the national electricity generation system,” the UNE power utility wrote on X, adding that it was investigating the causes.

“Living like this is agony,” said Meyboll Font, a 51-year-old self-employed social media community manager.

Font said that her Havana neighbourhood has been surviving on just “three or four hours of power a day” but that the blackout was worse because “you never know when it (electricity) will return.”

“We have no wifi, no electricity, we can’t work,” said a young software programmer working for a tourism startup in another neighbourhood.

The blackout is the eighth on the island of 9.6 million people since late 2024.

The state has imposed increasingly draconian power cuts across the country – over 24 hours at a stretch in parts of Havana and over 70 hours in some rural areas – in an increasingly desperate attempt to conserve fuel.

Power outages have been a feature of life for years on the communist-run island, where the electricity generation system, composed mainly of ageing Soviet-era plants, is in shambles.

The pace of blackouts has accelerated since the fuel blockade began, however, with authorities citing a lack of fuel to run the generators that support the creaking national grid.

Since January, Washington has only allowed one oil tanker, from Russia, to dock in Cuba.

The blockade, coupled with a flurry of sanctions on the Cuban state and foreign companies that do business with it, have tipped the country closer to the brink of collapse. Food, drinking water and medicine are in increasingly short supply, prompting the UN to warn of a humanitarian emergency.

The government has invested heavily in solar energy to try to alleviate the electricity shortages but solar power, while increasing, still represents just 10% of the energy mix. %!s()

However, real-world losses could be even bigger for owners who opted for the pricier W12 that later joined the V8 for the 2021 model year along with a plug-in hybrid — especially because almost nobody bought a Bentayga without options. Across all three trims, CarEdge estimates that an as-equipped 2021 SUV that cost $224,333 new now has a value of $122,094. That means that a typical first owner of a high-spec 2021 Bentayga watched more than $100,000 evaporate over the last five years. Meanwhile, iSeeCars says the Bentayga sheds 42.7% of its value over five years — roughly in line with the 43.6% segment average. However you slice it, that's a six-figure hit — catastrophic for the first owner. But is it an opportunity for you?

Why did the 2021 Bentayga lose so much value?

The high-end luxury SUV segment has always been defined by steep initial prices and options packages that rarely translate to the second-hand market. Two years ago, we covered a story of one W12 Bentayga owner paying $2,300 per month in depreciation alone, and the car in question had almost $60,000 in paint and options. Bentley's own First Edition package — which bundled the Naim audio system, Touring Specification, and Dynamic Ride — pushed the V8 Bentayga's MSRP from $177,000 to $219,430 – a $42,430 premium. The Mulliner Driving Specification alone added $15,515. 

The thing is, someone ordering a brand-new, high-spec Bentayga isn't sweating dollar amounts the way a second-hand shopper is. As iSeeCars Executive Analyst Karl Brauer explained in Forbes' coverage of the firm's depreciation study, "the used car market doesn't prioritize those traits to the same degree." A used buyer of a five-year-old Bentley faces servicing costs — nearly $2,000 a year on average, according to CarEdge — without the safety net of the three-year factory warranty.

The Bentayga has also been Bentley's best-selling model year after year, accounting for 40% of the brand's global sales in 2021,  which means it isn't rare, and abundant supply drives used prices down further. Not to mention, the competition within this segment is strong, and the Bentayga shares plenty of hardware with the Audi Q7 and Porsche Cayenne – a fact that doesn't sit well with buyers paying Bentley money — which further drives prices down as the vehicles age.

Is a used 2021 Bentayga V8 worth it now?

While buying a brand-new 2021 Bentley Bentayga wasn't exactly a sound financial decision, buying one with five years' worth of depreciation already in the rearview mirror is a different proposition. CarEdge even rates the 2021 model year as one of the better values in the Bentayga range, since the steepest part of the depreciation curve is already behind it.

When we asked our readers which new cars are great value options, we also noted that value is relative. The Rolls-Royce Cullinan is often viewed as a Bentayga competitor, yet it costs twice as much when new. In 2026, there are used 2021 Bentaygas with asking prices under $100,000 listed for sale — almost one-fifth of the price of a new Cullinan. Suddenly, the numbers are starting to look somewhat more bearable. Whatever you do, go in with your eyes open. The factory warranty is long gone, and while purchase prices have gone south, running costs move in the opposite direction as the car ages. A single out-of-warranty repair on an SUV this complex can sting. Smart money buys the cleanest, best-documented example it can find and lets the first owner's $100,000 pay for the badge. %!s()