Fun fact: eating bee larva is common in the mountainous areas in Japan, which includes Nagano prefecture, the hometown of Aonuma and Takizawa. (it's eaten after being properly cooked and seasoned, though.) (it won't be put into the wiki as the influence is not confirmed.)

the funniest thing in the Vaati trilogy is that the humanoid Vaati acted like he's a store-brand Ganon (compliment) and he actually was indeed, but his first appearance in Four Swords was acutually totally unhinged like bro what's wrong with you

Korean and Japanese have similar grammar and even share some vocab, but somehow Google translation really sucks at translating Korean to Japanese (it just gives up and turns a whole post of text into one sentence and calls it a day)

chuffed.org/project/1556... I post donation links instead of making a ko-fi account

chuffed.org/project/1213... I post donation links instead of making a ko-fi account (kr 5,152 for medical expenses; kr 282,991 is the goal)

chuffed.org/project/1342... I post donation links instead of making a ko-fi account (￡329 for land rent until Jan 2; ￡7,893 is the goal)

www.gofundme.com/f/wy8da-help... x.com/isaokodesu/s... I post donation links instead of making a ko-fi account (€700 for medical expenses and more for treating malnutrition; €19,435 is the goal)

me when a decade-old Creative Suite works fine

x.com/isaokodesu/s... chuffed.org/project/1485... i'm sick and can't add a decent caption but here's a donation request

just found out my new beanie looks exactly the same as the Starb*cks bear cup's cap that people call ugly😭

x.com/isaokodesu/s... i'm sick and can't add a decent caption but here's a donation request

just saw a non-Japanese-native person and a bunch of people who reacted to their post genuinely think a clip of a random kid counting numbers in Japanese is that "two numbers meme" bless their hearts

me as an editor: ZW has a clear rule regarding the characters' pronouns which are confusing in official media so it's easy to follow me as a tired fan: only people who consumed Smash Blonde Girls™ fem slash and never played the original game address Sheik as "her"😭😭😭

the current need is €180 for meds and €469 for a tent

I post donation links instead of making a ko-fi account www.gofundme.com/f/wy8da-help... x.com/isaokodesu/s...

those all self-claiming Japanese nationalist otaku desu~ accounts getting exposed as fakers on the former bird app...😘👌 (the "real" ones should go away too tho)

Li Kotomi, a trans lesbian Taiwanese and Japan-based Japanese-Chinese bilingual novelist, is under attack for suing a co-founder of a "pro-hate" "anti-human rights" website, an American woman who lives in Kyoto. x.com/Li_Kotomi/st...

I dug up a lot of interviews and finally connected all the dots that tell how Tingle came to life...

Japanese media: overtourism needs to be stopped me: we should spread the fact that we don't have strawberry matcha drinks here

people: having a high bar for the new game me: wow, they didn't make an off-screen female character in the main game a bubbly and jumpy anime girl who looks like a cameo from the DoA series? that's a huge progression for them

I was right www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYpL...

www.gofundme.com/f/6hnut4-sup... www.gofundme.com/f/wy8da-help... chuffed.org/project/1493... chuffed.org/project/1491... I post donation links instead of making a ko-fi account (they're evacuating now) (every link I post is verified by people who directly contacted them)

I post donation links instead of making a ko-fi account www.gofundme.com/f/6hnut4-sup... (for debt, €11,535 in less than 24h is the goal) chuffed.org/project/1361... (for necessities, €6,743 is the goal)

"Was there any inspiration for Tingle?" "I referenced some EAD staff's caricature... I can't name them, though. (laughs)" "I heard that they had a friend who nicknamed Chinkuru (Tingle)." the idea that someone is immortalized as Tingle's inspiration is a new genre of horror

Takano once lived in the office for months is one of the wildest crunch episodes I know

some people are like "things didn't take much time to make back in the days! they got lazy" and sometimes "being lazy" is just working like normal people (still busy)

#Linktober 7: Undead Aonuma on never getting a break and his family's feelings about it, 2013. Source: USgamer #Zelda #TheWindWakerHDQuote, #ALinkBetweenWorldsQuote #AonumaQuote www.notion.so/bd8ea2c85ef2...

waiting for people who thought Labubu was secretly Pazuzu to find there's a cake called Paiman (pie-bun) in Japan and think it sounds like Paimon

a Warrior series buff explained Rauru as "he fights with a spear like Guan Yu and shoots lasers like Zhuge Liang" youtu.be/VjGDANt8ZsE?...

I don't like how the idea of wholesome nose-nuzzling could be weird and awkward in the wrong way for people who have typical Eastern Asian facial features

(repost from ZW Discord server ) fun fact: Fujibayashi confirmed TotK Ganondorf is designed to be hot www.ndw.jp/totk-intervi...

people are like "kitsune is a yokai!" then proceed to put the "kitsune" (ew) in a shrine and have no clue what they did wrong.

every time a trailer starts with a scene of a tropical island, I hope someone went nuts and decided to remake the SFC Marvelous

mentally preparing for a new AOI trailer

Dishes in Breath of the Wild (and Tears of the Kingdom) have some cultural references🍛🍙🍚🦀 #The_Legend_of_Zelda #TLoZ #Breath_of_the_Wild #BotW #Tears_of_the_Kingdom #TotK

I post donation links instead of making a ko-fi account chuffed.org/project/food...

I post donation links instead of making a ko-fi account donorbox.org/hedaya-s-plea

they really need to stop relying on something you can find on TCRF and fan translation pages (with no proofreading) to pump out dodgy videos or I'd start to call them "human ChatGPT"

making "groundbreaking new secret" (a.k.a. just an unused concept or an invalid headcanon of official staff) bla bla videos with fancy editing and Lazy Translation of the Source™️ is a perfect equivalent of skipping the leg day

I didn't know witnessing matcha used for aura farming as if it's a new Buddhism and yoga could be this stressful...

people who grew up with Japanese entertainment (for kids) when they're asked why bad guys explode after getting defeated

it's your daily dose of shitpost

a local ice cream parlor near my house offered a "shrimp-flavored soft serve" and it tastes exactly like what you imagined in the worst way

people who only know the vague meaning of the word "氏" that it can be an equivalent to "Mr." simply replace the SUFFIX with the prefix😭😭😭

x.com/Nature/statu... free circus of brainrot people online

Aonuma's son (about ten years old at the time) once told his friends that his dad is making Zelda, but everyone just thought "he gotta be kidding" is my favorite sad-funny kids moment and a totally unimportant episode I learned from old Nintendo Dream interviews.

(Really curious about if people who refer to whoever game characters "Name Franchise" would unironically call the most popular Mario "Mario Mario")

Doraemon for Japanese creators is like Greek mythology for Western creators