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The art immediately betrays the hand of Soul Eater's author, while the plot looks like a linear battle shōnen in the vein of Fairy Tail and reveals its crazier side only over time, on a slow burn that takes two or three seasons to show that nobody is entirely right. Compact episodes, handy for an evening, for a perfectly ordinary series that offers a bit of carefree fun.

At last there is a clear thread with no plot holes and none of the political complications of the previous Superman, making for a classic, nice and enjoyable action film that never goes further. The visuals are still top-notch, while the soundtrack is once again repetitive. Many panned it because of a bad trailer, but you do not judge a book by its cover.

In July 2026 Italy's tax collection agency announced around 11 million payment notices, and behind that number lies Article 72-bis of Presidential Decree 602/1973, a 1999 rule that lets the tax authorities order a bank directly to pay, with no hearing and no judge. What is new is not the rule but the volume. The account is reached at the end of a chain of acts, from the payment notice through the sixty days to the order to the bank, and seizures have precise limits linked to the social allowance: on the account the last salary payment is protected, on wages the brackets of Article 72-ter apply, and pensions are untouchable below 1,092.48 euros. Besides the account there are vehicle seizures, mortgages, foreclosure and the blocking of public payments, and upstream sits the register of financial relationships, where the GDPR battle is fought.

You defend yourself by checking the notification, which is valid even if the envelope was never opened, the limitation period, the legal challenges and above all instalment plans; a foreign account escapes the order, but moving money to evade it is a crime. Hence the point of view: eleven million notices are about cash, not tax justice, and they hit people with two thousand euros in the bank, not large fortunes, in a state that hands out blanket discounts when it needs consensus and forced collection when it needs liquidity. The surprise is that people keep finding out from their bank statement rather than from the Official Gazette.

The world explores cultures and conflicts, such as the one between the Rauatai and the Huana, the plot is tighter, the dialogue more concise, and abilities, spells and pacing are finally intuitive. What remains is limited music and some reused assets. It is a clear improvement over the first game, and I recommend it to all fans of old-school cRPGs.

July 2026 put four dossiers on the lawmakers' desk which, read together, tell where the country is heading. INPS presents itself as a "welfare workshop", but behind the slogan pensions rely more and more on general taxation, with a gap of about 77 billion a year between benefits and contributions. Differentiated autonomy is back on track, with the Senate approving the preliminary agreements despite the Constitutional Court's cuts and the referendum declared inadmissible, while the accounts and the issue of the essential service levels remain open.

The "Stabilicum", passed at first reading by the Chamber, brings closed lists without preference votes and a fixed majority bonus at 42%, with constitutional doubts already on record. The "save-Roggero" rule in the Security bill, which denies compensation to anyone injured while committing serious crimes, would not even save Roggero and raises an equality issue. All but autonomy are still proposals, and they should be followed by telling the announcement from the law and the law from its real effects.