Each year, we here at the lazy sundays blog like to compile a wrap-up of the media we found most impactful to us for the given year. These wrap-ups comprise of a grid where each participant places an image representing one of their favorite pieces of the year. The lists have been transcribed and are presented below.

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Jenny Leidig

Top 9

• Kota Hoshino - Evergrace II OST (2001)
• The Surfer (2024)
• Mismatched Couples (1985)
• Half-Life (1998)
• Lil Ugly Mane - volcanic bird enemy and the voiced concern (2021)
• By Storm - Double Trio 2 (2025)
• Jodi - Untitled Game (1996-2001)
• Model/Actriz - Cinderella (2025)
• Angel's Egg (1985)

Honorable Mentions

• Unofficial Homestuck Collection (2020)
• Demonschool (2025)
• Keith Rankin - Unreleased (2025)
• DJ Rozwell - NONE OF THIS IS REAL (2013)
• Black Orpheus (1959)
• Andie Nordgren - The short instructional manifesto for relationship anarchy (2006)

Luke Clark

Top 9

• Weatherday - Hornet Disaster (2025)
• Deltarune (Chapters 3 & 4) (2025)
• Hollow Knight: Silksong (2025)
• Hanif Kureishi - The Buddha of Suburbia (1990)
• Haruki Murakami - The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (1994)
• Haruki Murakami - Hard-Boiled Wonderland and The End of the World (1985)
• Cereza and the Lost Demon (2023)
• The Outer Wilds (2019)
• Dancer in the Dark (2000)

Honorable Mentions

• Gene Wolfe - Peace (1975)
• Haruki Murakami - 1Q84 (Pronounced "cue-teen eighty-four") (2009)
• Tangerine (2015)
• Haruki Murakami - Killing Commendatore (2017)
• what is your name? - the now now and never (2022)
• Farewell My Concubine (1993)

Evan Sooklal

Top 9

• Dark (2017)
• To Be Hero X (2025)
• Hollow Knight: Silksong (2025)
• My Hero Academia: Final Season (2025)
• One Piece - Egghead (2024) (Season 21)
• The Outer Wilds (2019)
• Pierce Brown - Red Rising (2014) (Series)
• Severance: Season 2 (2025)
• Sinners (2025)

Honorable Mentions

• Andor: Season 2 (2025)
• John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023)
• Sally Rooney - Normal People (2018)
• "Attack on Titan" - Beyond the Walls World Tour (2025)
• Superman (2025)
• The Pitt (2025)

Cool Albums

• Anika Nilles - Pikalar (2017)
• Shadow Academy - Prisms (2025)
• Linkin Park - From Zero (2024)
• Hozier - Unreal Unearth (2023)

Neill Johnston

Top 9

• Via Luna - Seasons Collection (2014 - 2025)
• Totorro - Sofa so good (2025)
• Enemies - Valuables (2016)
• Sarah Wynn-Williams - Careless People (2025)
• Ninajirachi - I Love My Computer (2025)
• Dimension 20 - Fantasy High (Season 1) (2018-2019)
• toe - the book about my idle plot on a vague anxiety (2005)
• Cusp - You Can Do It All (2014 - 2023)
• Lorn's Lure (2024)

Honorable Mentions

• Folding Ideas - In Search Of A Flat Earth (2020)
• Mogwai - Ten Rapid (1997)
• Pretend - Bones in the Soil, Rust in the Oil (2009)
• Dimension 20 - Never Stop Blowing Up (2020)
• BobbyBroccoli - The $21,000,000,000 Hole in Texas (2022)
• Sam Kriss - Numb at Burning Man (2025)

Arsh Siddiqui

Top 9

• Celine - éte 2026 (2025)
• W. David Marx - Ametora: How Japan Saved American Style (2015)
• Chungking Express (1994)
• Hyein Seo - Fall Winter 2022, "Nausicaä" (2022)
• Anthony Bourdain - Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (2000)
• My Dinner With Andre (1981)
• Karthik Research - Fall Winter 2025, "Amdavad" (2025)
• John Higgs - The KLF: Chaos, Magic and the Band Who Burned a Million Pounds (2013)
• Infernal Affairs (2002-2003)

Honorable Mentions

• Sacai - Fall Winter 2025, Men's and Women's (2025)
• Haruki Murakami - Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (1985)
• American Ivy - Articles of Interest (2022)
• Hodakova - Spring 2026 (2025)
• Sayaka Murata- Life Ceremony (2019)
• The Divine Comedy - Rainy Sunday Afternoon (2025)

Kieran Siek

Top 9

• Vulfmon - Dot (2024)
• Flow (2024)
• Casiopea - Mint Jams (1982)
• Galaxy Burger (2024)
• Peak (2025)
• Mononoke The Movie: Phantom In The Rain (2024)
• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (2025)
• Bo Burnham: Inside (2021)
• Asteroid City (2023)