Now that I am out of Japan and under the legal system of a different country, I can admit that I was the one who took a dump so big in the only cubicle in the Shibuya Don Quijote mens toilets and flooded the place.

I forgot to check what Sunday morning trains to Edinburgh are like when I booked @lovesanimation.bsky.social tickets and the first train in gives me breathing space of... zero minutes.

Please tell me I haven't just broken my right foot for the third time in ten years.

Someone should do a psychological study on why anime fans laugh much more frequently and loudly in cinemas. Often at bits that aren't that funny, or not meant to be funny. It has baffled me for years.

This is Steve Brule.

I'm seeing the annual Muppets Christmas Carol posts start already. We need some kind of official grassroots campaign to get people watching other Muppets movies. There are eight and they're all great! ...OK, I forgot about Muppets From Space for a minute. They're mostly great!

Nintendo ruining Metroid Prime 4 with a "Well, that happened" robot sidekick is one of the funniest ways this could have gone because nobody could have predicted it. I hope he's voiced by @jjjacksfilms.bsky.social

bluesky banned the rat from ratatouille

Does anyone else find it weird that a cough is movie code for "This person is going to die in the third act"? Coughing is like... completely harmless 99.9% of the time.

Paledusk are releasing their debut album in... 12 days?!

Democrats: here are three emails that prove Trump is a pedophile. Republicans: Counterpoint, here are 20,000 emails unrelated to Trump. Explain that.

Too many anime fans look like Chris Chan and don't realise they're leaning into it. At least I hope they don't.

Something about the art style of the Mario movies retroactively looks like it's AI-generated, which makes me wonder if Sora has watched the movie a million times or something.

If Trump is suing for 1bn over the BBC speech edit, wait until he finds out about YouTube Poop.

Had a dream that Rowling installed trap doors for trans people in Universal Studios.

Made it 7AM to 10PM without falling asleep. Is the jet lag defeated?

Think this little sad metal cat is my favourite thing I picked up in Japan.

Sarah jessica parker is an anagram of Sarah jerassic parke

Trying to stay up until at least 9PM in an attempt to finally beat this jetlag. It keeps sending me to sleep at 6PM.

Tried to align my body clock yesterday but I fell asleep at 6PM and now I'm wide awake at 1AM.

It's silly but one of my regrets about my Japan trip is the SEGA store were either sold out of or had discontinued the Sonic 2 variant of these cool box art acrylic tiles.

I was wondering what this Disney-branded anime that appeared on Disney+ was... turns out it's an adaptation of an ikemen gatcha game loosely inspired by Disney villains. Didn't know what I expected but it wasn't that. Also it's never going to leave my "Continue watching" list.

Sailors' Wisdom

Yeah but nobody would want to go to a security gallery, would they? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Japanese guy on the plane in front of me was watching a movie with Milet as lead actress. When did she start acting?

Failed in my mission to spend all my cash before leaving Japan. Six yen left.

In Japan they're out here frying their fried eggs.

Less than a month later and it's announced that Jennifer Lawrence and Emma Stone are making a Miss Piggy movie.

I can't imagine how many times I've said "Daijoubu desu" in the last two weeks.

I want to watch Haha You Clowns so bad but I don't think it's available anywhere in the UK yet. Adult Swim stuff normally ends up on Channel 4, right?

I knew she was aloof this whole time

Why am I only just learning Mifune was in a spaghetti western?

Visiting Japan is always great but I always leave struck by how I would never want to actually live here. Everything is so complicated and obtuse. Examples:

Godzilla -0.0 is a very silly and very Japanese name. But it will be incredible regardless.

Perhaps the most Japanese thing I've seen on this trip was at Ghibli Park yesterday when a staff member had to call in a crisis repair job on... a plate of plastic ham and egg.

Why is it that these far-right politicians are always married to an immigrant or minority?

Wiktionary's visual aid to demonstrate what the Swedish word for "funny" means

Glad they finally got out of Cardiff

Being in Japan feels like a constant battle to get rid of one yen coins. I was down to a stable two yesterday but somehow I'm back to 15.

Ghibli Park tomorrow. Can't wait to get up at 5AM to make the 150km journey in time for opening.

The Andrew Formerly Known As Prince

A smiley Japanese lady handed me this and I instantly thought "Oh, this is definitely a cult thing". Went to their site and lo and behold, I was right. Ripped YouTube content sandwiching spiritualist nonsense.

Was just served cold takoyaki. Wtf. I didn't even think that was a thing. Takoyaki is meant to send you to the hospital with third-degree burns. I want a refund.

I went to the Asda George website and it's weirdly designed to prompt you to go to a different Japanese store if you access it from Japan. I can't imagine there are many people who are going to George and expecting they'll ship to Japan...

The main thing I miss about back home is not being allowed to backflip off the toilet seats.

I love that the public toilet cubicles in Japan have little baby chairs so that your child can watch you taking a dump.

A big combined parcel from Japan I've had on order for months has finally just shipped. I'm in Japan right now. I've seen everything in that parcel bar one item while I've been here. It's going to be sitting on my doorstep until I come home. Ironic!

Every so often you remember the American Sonic comics used to be like this and it feels so weird.

Man it feels so good to be able to sleep normally at the end of the day again. I'd forgotten how much jetlag sucked.