An unfamiliar christmas gift was delivered to me and I have no idea why it came. According to the invoice with no price it's painted by the original illustrator for TowaTsugai. What?! What happened? May I buy one for the Owl/Flamingo pair if it exists?

Every christmas I become a repeated listener to Christmas Album of Maria Watches Over Us (マリア様がみてる). Religious anthems in english sung by original japanese voice actors of the anime being my bible—I'll never find anime-related music exclusively targeted to me as much as this again in my whole life.

Without thinking I grabbed a desktop calendar of Peanuts in a box in my office that next year's calendars given by clients as promo gifts were thrown into and employees took one of them from. "Wow why you love Snoopy to such an extent," questioned my coworker. Shut up. It's my nature.

Which is true?

Thanks to a wonderful afternoon I spent at Ishikawa Prefectural Library—probably with my friend but not sure since he was asleep somewhere—last sunday, I bought a book I discovered there: A Beginner's Guide to Japanese Tea. Reading it makes tea delicious! www.tuttlepublishing.com/japan/a-begi...

As a christian who wants to be responsible for what I speak (half) as far as I can, I take extra care not to say merry christmas to non-christians in Japan. But there are many friends and coworkers who say it casually. Ha ha, ironically it looks as if I am the only non-christian here.

You dislike HarryPotter? No problem. You have a right to do so. You force others not to read HP and even behave in an aggressive way toward them? Stop it. The fact that JKR is discriminating is never an excuse for your discrimination. No one is righteous in denying my childhood fascinated by magic.

One of the moments that I'm disappointed to realize Bluesky is nothing special but an average american company who doesn't understand the world outside the US is full of multilingual speakers:

Without Hasunosora Fantasy I would have never been able to meet a kutani ware of my ideal design that I had searched for years at Ishikawa Local Products Center (石川県観光物産館) last sunday. Woody and Buzz greatly bring out the charm of kutani's colorful beauty, right? I've made a good buy.

My japanese friend cocked his head when I said that 吟子[giꜜŋko](Ginko, a character from Hasunosora) and 銀行[giŋkoː](bank) sounded pretty similar. Thinking twice, japanese speakers strictly distinguish pitch accents and vowel length whereas we anglophones don't. The earth is still diverse.

Thank Ishikawa Prefectural Museum of History (石川県立歴史博物館) for accepting Hime and motivating my visit. This tiny yet neat museum fulfilled my appetite for knowledge. Only one thing to note is that the gift shop isn't located at the end of the route but in a free area outside. I should have known it!

Izumi welcomed me last saturday at Shiinoki Cultural Complex (しいのき迎賓館), during the period of Hasunosora's stamp rally version 4. One year ago Kosuzu was here for version 3. It was Tsuzuri here for version 2. Do the manager of this community center and I share a brain?

韓国の友人が｢韓国人は"SamsungやLGの製品が世界中で使われK-POPが愛されているのはそれらが優れているからであり韓国が好かれているからではない "と分かっているのに、日本人は日本のコンテンツや日本人が世界で評価されると"日本が好かれている"と認識するから奇妙だ｣と話していた。自分も全くそう思う。

My heart is always with Dollchestra.

"やあ"

Revisited the confectionery Matsubaya (松葉屋) last saturday. Hmm they're indeed a radical Mira-Cra Park fanatic as their usual... Wait, is Hyakuman-san shrunk and trapped in a jar by an evil warlock in the "Hasunosora Fantasy" world?

Was I that crazy yesterday?!

Accomplished Hasunosora's stamp rally version 4 titled as Hasunosora Fantasy at Ishikawa Prefectural Library (石川県立図書館) yesterday. Bibliophiles can spend a whole day here thanks to the attached cafeteria serving perfect lunch dinner to fuel them, and I'm not the exception. I love it here.

The word "commutation" is a typo of communication. How irritating iphone's predictive input is to mistake in a way that I would've never done if typewriting were handwriting.

Participated in a workshop of kutani ware (九谷焼) and created a tea cup on a pottery wheel for the first time in my life all thanks to Hasunosora's cross-promotion. This is what Ginko has wanted us to do. Come try it at Yunokuni no Mori (ゆのくにの森). Action speaks louder than words.

"その高さはなんと13.7メートル!" —it's the only building in the world that I know its height to a decimal place.

Construction vehicles at Komatsu no Mori (こまつの杜), aside Komatsu station: kids do love this kinda big machines, right?

In contrast to MOIW2025 day1 last saturday which was heavenly stimulating, day2 last sunday was rather a calm delightful time for me except a few exciting exceptions such as Straylight performing Ray of Light in chorus with The Kogado. Re-recognized that my interest was quite a bit SideM-centric.

Are you going to launch the holy grail war?

Happy birthday Megu-chan—at a hotel room together with my clanmate using my phone to take this picture

Came back to Kanazawa friday night after four months. The Hokuriku shinkansen I see every day has brought me where my heart is.

Escaped from bonenkai, a japanese company's semi-mandatory sabbath, to go to my favorite weekend resort Kanazawa and its vicinities. I don't live life for work; I live for my own journey. ¡Hasta la vista!

Without a convenience store's cross-promotion I would have never felt like eating sweets selling there. Thank Hasunosora's snow fairies for improving my nutrient diversity. Btw it seems my favorite idols are always colored in blue or purple somehow. My penchant?

The hotel where I stayed last weekend happened to be located near a model train gallery of Osaka metro upon its station. A real train running beyond the window and its model trains can be seen together—nice design, isn't it?

Namba Yasaka Shrine (難波八坂神社) was another place appeared in the Nijigasaki movie where I visited last monday, pretending as if I were just an Idolmaster P returning from its concert and knew nothing about Nijigasaki—oops my hands mistakenly took a photo of their poster.

Followed the traces of Rina/Mia in the Nijigasaki movie at Umeda Sky Building (梅田スカイビル) last monday. Thanks to the souvenir shop right under the rooftop selling their heavenly acrylic standees I managed to take pictures with them. Farm-to-table photography?

One of the highlights in MOIW2025 day2, last sunday: a person behind me in stands in Kyocera Dome, which meant he stood on a tread higher than where I was, said it was first time in his life to experience a view blocked by a head though he was in a higher position. Don't blame me!

This is me last night who didn't want to end my trip to MOIW2025, the all-Idolmaster concert and raised a magical plate to turn my home ground into Osaka forcibly.

Our stars gathered together in Osaka until yesterday have gone—no, departed for their next destination. Wish them a happy journey.

"I Like Hamburger" and "Apple Pie Princess" —the titles of the songs performed in MOIW2025, the all-Idolmaster concert on 13–14 december 2025

Are you surely a supermarket? Not pachinko?

This stupid guy has repeatedly said "the final Idolmaster concert to go to" recently. He must be having multiple finals and encores.

Tbh I had silently set my mind to let this weekend's MOIW2025 be my final Idolmaster concert to go to—until the first song yesterday, Ready!!, stirred my blood to remind what was my igniter as an otaku. Every single moment was so exciting that I even felt just one song in the early part was

Thanks to the Idolmaster multiband concert this weekend in Osaka I've gained a chance to listen to an audible of AveMujica in a shinkansen train. How sweet Uika's voice is... Ahem. Calm down. I swear I'll transform myself into an Idolmaster P in a few hours.

Touma, here's your sponsor Kiyoken's bento. Dear bento, here's your legendary idol who collaborated with you...

Took four nights to finish watching the streaming of last sunday's Hasunosora concert by dividing it to one hour per day. It was my sickness that ruined my schedule, but ironically I wouldn't have time to watch it before traveling to Osaka today if I didn't catch a cold. Life is too busy.

600 yen of time-limited bonus made me decide to import my icoca card to my iphone. Now I'm a super rare resident in Japan who has suica, pasmo, and icoca altogether in one mobile device.

Feel quite well. Thanks to the strongest medicine my symptoms are finally getting the most minimized within one month. Bravo antibiotics.

Enjoyed the sequel to There's No Freaking Way I'll Be Your Lover! Unless... at a theater. Chapeau! Wanna clap hands for a breakthrough that an anime series doesn't have to be dozen episodes to be aired weekly for a quarter year. Lol'd it's also challenging ethically in the end. It's Renako's fault.

Surprised that I've already won a 1k-yen movie voucher for three times in a sweepstakes offered by the readymade salad pack manufacturer Fujicco (フジッコ). Do people not apply for such prizes as punctually as I do? Thanks Fujicco, you made me enjoy a movie today.

The AssaultLily stage reading I saw yesterday was acrobatic, spectacular, and far beyond my imagination. Lol'd when Tomoshibi kicked the huge script projected onto the back wall. Wasn't it a stage play? Stage reading? Neither of them. It was exactly another dimension as they said. Wanna come again.

Wait, is Coco performing as a drummer for MyGo today though I'm going to see her in the AssaultLily stage reading tomorrow? Does she have two bodies?

Replaced a damaged microwave oven that heated food in only 1 in 4 chance with a new one to function in 1 in 1 chance. I'm overwhelmed by the sharply increased probability.

I've known Tokyo Medical University Hospital for almost two decades. Whenever I come here to run an errand—never for my own sake—I want to make it a last visit, yet I've never succeeded in such a mission. A hospital has never been a place to heal me; it's a pit to drag me into.

I didn't know phở was a smelly food. I need to be careful not to bring it to a friend's house, too. m.youtube.com/watch?v=Es9D...