Doing my expenses like a responsible corporate employee.

Me in 2023: Oh, time to buy a new performance car! Me in 2025: Oh god, brake replacements cost more than a normal used car. (exaggerating, but not much).

An acquaintance went to an unofficial Reddit Anime NYC after party 😂

It's 2025 and we still get these emails.

I like this on so many levels

Ramen for lunch.

Time to play Pokemon. Are these cards any good?

Boiled pork womb. 😋

Suburban Tokyo is a real wasteland.

Today's food.

I was told this is the most interesting shrine in this part of Tokyo.

Someone gave the Buddha a coffee as an offering. (this is actually not that uncommon)

I'm still in Tokyo.

Funny aburasoba menu. English to Japanese translation: Small -> Regular Medium -> Large Large -> Double Serving X Large -> 10,000 person serving XX Large -> Trillion person serving

Leiji Matsumoto exhibit at Sky View in Roppongi Hills.

Tokyo weather: Excessive heat warning last week, typhoon warning this week.

Meow...

Riding 3 stops from Shinjuku to Shibuya and realizing that you are literally going from the world's busiest train station to the world's second visited train station...

Ok, I want this... Only 300,000 yen. Doesn't show in the photo, but it's embossed with 32 layers of paint (or something like that)

Trying to figure out why my expense report is several thousand over budget. I think i found the culprits...

Afuri ramen 😋

I did not expect this video to feature Jinx and Ekko, I thought it would be Vi and Caitlyn. Either way, it's beautiful and The lyrics are perfect for the show. If you're a fan, you should definitely look up the translation. (And listen to more Stromae, he's awesome) youtu.be/j-RpvIuazmc?...

Terrible anime journalism of the day. screenrant.com/kadokawa-dra...

I'm sure you all have Google Translate, but briefly, he put together this "starters list" dedicated to animated cinema and the list grows by a few names every day. Message him if you think you or your organization belongs on the list.

Taste test.

Unboxed some more manga. Removed the American comics and one figure to make space. Will definitely need to remove more. Today's violent realization: "Wait, where TF are my Maison Ikkoku?!"

I find it interesting, and also somewhat sad, that most of the founders of the North American anime industry are no longer active. There are many companies and people that were the foundation of the industry when I was a younger fan, but are barely known by today's fans.

Trumps first few weeks in office seem like a class bully picking fights with every other kid in class at the same time. One on one he may have the upper hand, but ultimately the other kids may start working together and gang up on him.

Shou Shou made a Chinese language video about Kevin Penkin that cites ANN and was kind enough to ask permission and share it with us, so please check out his work (It's subbed).

Late night reading.

It keeps getting better. I heard about the possible return of the V8 a few days ago, but flat plane crank? Take my money AMG! I have a 2015 C63 (& a '13 C63 before that), but I refuse to get the current model. I love the 4 in the A45, but the V8 is the soul of the C63. www.motor1.com/news/751574/...

Unpacked my manga to the new shelves. I need to buy book or shelf ends, and I still have a few more series in storage that I'll have to dig out. Will definitely need more space for my manga.

ANN broke our record for unique visitors (as counted by our CDN, Cloudflare), in January: 11.1 million. Up from 10.3 million set in January 2023. Historically January has always been one of our strongest months for traffic.

My new manga shelves. 22m of shelf space (about 73 feet). Hopefully it's enough for my manga collection.

In an interesting side-note, the Taiwanese Centers for Disease Control reports that demand for influenza vaccines has surged since Hsu's death. focustaiwan.tw/society/2025...

So there's a rumour circulating on Chinese social media and chat channels (eg: WeChat) that there's a super virus circulating in Japan right now. I first heard about it 2 days ago, but a Chinese acquaintance brought it up to today and mentioned "the actress died on vacation in Japan," [1/...]

I have seasonal allergies; thanks to global warming, allergy "season" is now early January to late December. www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/01...

lol, CBR's legal team sent ANN a DMCA takedown notice claiming copyright infringement because we published the same press release they published (press release issues by a 3rd party).

I haven't decided yet if ANN will continue to post to tiktok. Need to see what % of our TikTok traffic was outside the USA.

I went to see the "Art Golden-Gai" exhibition yesterday. As far as i can tell, it had nothing to do with Golden-Gai (it was in Ebisu). It was pretty cool. There was a really heavy NFT push though.

Yummy. Afuri ramen in Ebisu.

Edo-Kitty.

I went to the GBL store in Takeshita. It has some really nice merch. I didn't buy anything this time, but in the past I've spent quite a bit of money here. #ghibli

Yakitori at one of my favorite restaurants in Tokyo recently:

Nerdy way to say I like fast cars: All my cars need z-rated tires.

On a non-anime note, I'm seriously considering buying myself a nice watch as a "Christmas gift." I know it would be better to put that money in my retirement fund, but I wannnmmt it. It would be the first expensive watch I buy myself in over a decade.

Head into the forums to nominate Best Villain, Best Anime OST, Leading Man, Leading Lady, and Most Underrated Anime Series of the Year!

When you pay a high price advisory firm to identify film studios for investment and they do zero research at all: (this is an email I received; obviously their "research" identified ANN as a movie producer).