In the past couple of days, despite speaking entirely in Japanese in all these encounters, I've been interrogated about if I can speak Japanese, I've been treated like an idiot child, and now a new one: spoken to in strictly katakana-go lmao. It would've been easier to understand in Japanese!

I made a bar promise to play me Tatsu's Christmas Eve when I returned tonight, I'm serving up a festive red Marlboro Adventure Team jumper over a black Mitsubishi Ralliarts (with Marlboro sponsor patch) team shirt, I've got presents for everyone call me Smokin' Santa lmao

Because I'm feeling wild and generous on Christmas Eve, some more of my Patalliro fan art. Ink and watercolor. 1999

I can probably guess the answer(s) but like damn, why are salarymen such assholes lmao

It's a Bossa Nova Christmas here at the curry stand let's go lol

It's a bit odd being somewhere physically you've only ever seen in a video game lol

This movie is one the best ever made, start to finish a sumptuous feast of color and music, and the hair just speaks for itself doesn't it

This is the cover art I did for NOVA, a manga zine from the 1980's. I was a huge fan of Patalliro, and had the albums, laser disc film, and most of the manga. I don't keep up with it anymore, but I really loved the unique art style.

Love to be reminded of this, a video that always leaves me in tears ahahaha

bing search how much estrogen is a fatal dose

At a local place in Nihonbashi that's absolutely a 会社じじ haunt, the owners were incredibly rude to me when I showed up (I even said to them when they looked at me and shouted 外人, "聞こえるよ 🙄"), but out of spite I decided to press on and the food was actually quite good all things considered lol

Found a kissa first opened in 1926 in an alley that's mostly strip clubs and girl bars, the interior is period except the GIGANTIC sound system they have playing classical music. Pretty full house but no talking, just listening. No words holy shit.

Christmas comes early 🎄

This game is very cool if a bit obtuse, I just saw the sequel I didn't know it had in Akiba the other week going for over €100 lol

One very underrated thing about Japan: you can basically go anywhere and get an iced oolong tea which for me personally is heavenly

This would look so fire on the most tsundere anime girl you could find like, slap this on Asuka Langley Soryu ASAP lmao

Thread and, once again, Rick Steves shows that he was, is, and will remain the greatest of all time

1998

Love is real and it is so powerful 💖😻💖

Perché non entrambi?

Waiting in a long line, in the rain, for tonkatsu or tenpura could never be me lmao bless you mostly empty Sichuan restaurant 🙏

Requested this at a bar, they pulled out the 7" and I was so gagged

Let me write KOTOR III

Summoning the gurls for a ki

"Money Can't Buy It," Annie Lennox. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBL5...

Finally found an actual arcade after mostly just finding massive crane game megaplexes, got some classic DDR in and frankly I'm chuffed (and sweaty)

Had to explain Ea-Nasir to my therapist

I have been finding Shōwa era Kissaten and each one I go to just gags me so it's wild. Currently I'm in one, alone, where the elderly woman who runs it is playing Coltrane and I got a iced coffee, toast, and a hardboiled egg for ¥500. The level of class and taste, inconceivable.

Mark Twain had many words for the type of times we’re living in. He called them “super fucked up” and “a real shit show”

"i can't explain trans people to my child!!" oh so you're stupid AND bigoted? pick a struggle bitch

Grouchy due to travelling and not enough nicotine, solution? Hong Kong lemon tea which I thankfully stumbled upon in Osaka 🙏🍋

Japanese House cover of White Christmas, arguably better than the chintzy Christmas songs they're playing at the conbini but my goodness lol

Wendy's is doing a Collab with AKB48 and ok the special menu is...pasta??? I am not brave enough/hungover and need a spicy chicken burger since you can't get it in Europe lol, but more power to the Wendy's pasta pioneers

Honestly I'm shocked that I was able to spend many hours in a bar speaking both to the staff and guests in Japanese about music. Having studied the language 15~ years ago with little practice in between, frankly, I'm absolutely gagged

alien dj + dancing capybaras

Smoking inside a 7-11 is truly an odd experience

The Epic of Gilgamesh is historically significant as the world's first Yaoi

Arrived in Japan and immediately felt like I had recovered from a head injury like, I can read and talk again 😂

Catching up on @boontavista.com walking around Shanghai and, extreme contrast of my surroundings and the double whammy of the recent main and bonus aside, I just want to say that chastity keyblade is now my cellar door thank you love the show

If girls are so great, why isn’t there a—

Cabbie just screaming bloody murder at a cop just patiently waiting for him to finish and like, sure, maybe China isn't "free" in the western sense (lol) but where I live they'd beat the shit out of you for that and where I'm from they execute you on the spot so, y'know, maybe not so bad haha

Textless version of my cover for Volume 2, Issue 1 of @giantrobotfm.bsky.social's Giant Robot Fan Magazine! It was a joy getting to return for The Big O II. It was an honor to share the space with such wonderful artists as Deux and the always exceptional @bellvonartsy.newgrounds.com!

why was he serving so much cunt

Shanghai is somehow both the Dubai and Dallas of China, and I am starting to lose it lol

how do people still not get this

I have no idea how no one in this hotel has noticed that the same song has been playing on loop for hours, I am about to have an extremely awkward interaction via AliPay lmao