In the least ‘back in my day’ way possible, I miss anisongs and not ‘pop song used as anime OP’ that’s more common now

Want to say I went with friends to 二丁目 last night, and after we hung out and yapped for ages and got very drunk, the main thing on my mind was to call family at 2am my time once I was home (mid-afternoon for them) specifically to see the dog Who looked mildly unimpressed I disturbed them

When you’re a foreigner living in Japan

This is the thing! If you WERE trying to convince people about AI, sounding like a human when convincing people it’ll benefit humans seems like a first step

I love being ‘equipped’ with ‘cognitive amplifier tools’, it’s so relatable, very human

Honestly it’s more wet and sleet than snow but it’s a rare kinda-snow in Tokyo!

契約してください🥰 Contract? #まどかマギカ #魔法少女の祈り展

🎍Happy New Year🎍2026 #pixelart #ドット絵

The way I made this my first movie of the year because of a rather amazing second-hand find on NYE

Been busy with friends most days since Christmas so taking it slow today at home for new year rather than going out That being said 良いお年を！HAPPY NEW YEAR

It’s become an odd tradition of mine to make these long year-end social media threads for… over 10 years now A chance to reflect on what was good, what wasn’t, look forward. I can’t say 2025 was a bad one personally, but it was a weird one, and leaves me both excited and a bit trepeditious for 2026

I note it for English-language fandom because the state of anime in Japan shifts that a bit. Far from people always assuming anime was the mainstream in Japan it was popular, but beyond Ghibli, shonen and a few hits, kinda remained an otaku thing, and parts in the mainstream elsewhere still hit that

Was talking about this a bit with someone when trying to pinpoint how anime has changed with the mainstreaming internationally, and it's the lack of curiosity in fans Specifically, fans pre-2017-or-so would have their 'pet anime', some show no one cared about but held a strange obsession for

It’s not worth changing the inner mod, and getting a new back housing will take both time and require messing with the headphone jack to fit when I get it so idk if I would This does, however, mean I have a 3000mAh battery I can’t use rn and don’t particularly want lying round

Got a biggest possible battery to upgrade that part of my modded iPod, but since a friend did the mod and I thus didn’t know it was the SOLO flashboard rather than the QUAD, turns out the battery won’t fit unless I got a new back Which is a shame but hey, it was good to open and know the mod more

This is a Christmas/New Year miracle, happened upon this without knowing it was a thing while in a conbini after bowling with friends and I had to get it It’s super nice too!

I say this with zero irony: if you are even tangentially a part of a retro video game community, it is your civic duty to push back against this company and shun anyone who doesn't. This is fascism tapping gently at the door and as soon as you let it in, it's going to invite its friends.

Y’all. There’s something new for the Coolish thread

Y’all, the Castlevania: Awakening In The Moonlight musical by Takarazuka Revue is available legally on VOD with subtitles starting today until the end of March, this is a great adaptation and the women in this show are so good, PLUS this is a rare experiment globally Please see it if you’re curious

I went to La Goon and everyone knew you

I was planning to go out anyhow but I went out two hours earlier because a malfunctioning fire alarm in my building was going off for 30mins straight even after confirmation of the ok and no one could get it to go off They’re calling someone out but I felt I was going insane with the ringing

What a goal too It's actually a good time supporting Sunderland at the moment what's going on?

Also, not me considering braving Winter Comiket this coming Tuesday and Wednesday when I don't even have an AM ticket and would need to enter PM as they sold out Just so I can grab this doujin bag (and to look around, but I'm more bothered about next Comitia since I haven't been to one in a while)

Ruridragon from KyoAni is as cool as it is 'oh no, people who don't understand are going to beg them to adapt every popular manga from Jump from now on' When as the thread notes, they likely worked on this mainly because they like the series (and dragons, it's a running theme) and have that pull

冬コミ新刊の表紙イラストです🎠

Who could’ve guessed!

merry christmas! 🌲 as is tradition, biannual charity speedrunning event RTA in Japan has is live on twitch 👉️ twitch.tv/rtainjapan the event runs from dec 25 to 31 & is always a delight to watch! they're accepting donations for doctors without borders here 🎁 tracker.rtain.jp/ui/donate/rtaijw2025

Sacrilege it took until a few days after Christmas to get to the movie at last, but it had to be done Brought the 4K back back with me from the UK when I visited at the start of the year

Another neat thing tho in my occasional ‘this is neat’ series: I found an original pamphlet for Disney’s Beauty and the Beast just before Christmas for 400yen, and I adore all the cool layouts with straight-from-the-negative screenshots A few essays in here too, and you can’t not love that cover

My socks have eyes and magnetic hands that will grab one another with magnets if close but I can’t show them because I’m not putting feet pics online, it’s a painful world

🦋可愛い～

The Christmas-New Year purgatory has begun. Time is not real. Everything and nothing happens, and the days merge...

The anime スナック me and friends were in last night just gets it when it comes to what actual good anime look like

セイウンスカイさん

Bluesky after having two posts go viral here in the space of 24 hours does numbers to your notifications

Presents for friends I’m seeing later 👀

KFC and pizza Christmas with friends last night (and a bit of Glühwein) Exhaustion hitting now but so much fun

Got off like a stop too late coming back from my party on last train, but in an ‘I wasn’t paying attention and by the time I realized it hit my station the doors were closing and I could only watch it march forwards’ kinda way Leaving me a slightly longer walk home But it was fun!

Y’all, the Castlevania: Awakening In The Moonlight musical by Takarazuka Revue is available legally on VOD with subtitles starting today until the end of March, this is a great adaptation and the women in this show are so good, PLUS this is a rare experiment globally Please see it if you’re curious

Christmas🎄

Struggling to find a movie that fits in the gap and allows me to make it in time for said party too, argh, this was already pushing it but the party was planned later and I noted I’d be slightly late and can’t repeat that with something new I book now Argh, alas again

I’ll share my Christmas theater pic from seeing Angelic Lie on Christmas Day last year to mask the sadness of the cancelation I even brought my Santa hat to do the photo again this year!! Alas

So… I WAS going to have a Christmas theater trip like I did last year and was off to see the Prince of Legend Takarazuka show But just an hour before start they canceled the show for health of the main cast Which is disappointing I won’t lie, hoping everyone’s ok though

Merry Christmas from Japan! 日本からメリークリスマス！！

🤍 🤍 🤍

Is this hard? I think it’s one of the best Christmas songs

Merry Christmas from Japan! 日本からメリークリスマス！！

Doing a good bit for Christmas the next two days, including parties each day with friends, so I’m having an easy Christmas Eve: a Yule Log from the conbini, and Home Alone 2 Also gotta wrap some presents so it works out