May, as per usual, started with Golden Week. This would be my fourth, but like last year, I was pretty much stuck where I was. With State of Emergencies continuing to be instated in multiple cities…
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Japan Diary: May 2022
While my first few days of May were very uneventful, Golden Week was about to kick off properly.
Japan Diary: November 2021
Usually, my November diary would start off with anniversary celebrations marking the day I moved to Japan for the first time, but things didn’t really play out like…
Japan Diary: July 2021
I started this month with the mindset that I would treat myself more.
Japan Diary: December 2021
In the start of December, it was time for me to get organised. Yes, I’d barely slowed down since October, but I still had one last push before…
Japan Diary: October 2021
In my last diary post, I predicted that October was going to be busier and I was certainly right. However, a lot of that ‘busy-ness’ was behind the…
Japan Diary: September 2021
While the first of September saw the kids go back to school, it wasn’t exactly the return we’d imagined.
Japan Diary: August 2021
After a few days in Shizuoka Prefecture, I returned to Kanagawa with a vast stretch of summer holiday ahead of me.
Japan Diary: April 2021
The start of April saw me back on the road again, taking the opportunity to have a spontaneous, yet cautious trip further south.
Japan Diary: June 2021
After a pretty uneventful May, I was determined to make June busier, even if just a little.
Japan Diary: February 2021
When I said I didn’t see much changing this month, I was swiftly proven right with an extension to the State of Emergency. After already spending a month…
Japan Diary: March 2021
Well, another month has passed of mainly staying at home, going to work and restarting the same cycle the next morning. I can’t pretend that I haven’t been…
Japan Diary: January 2021
Okay, so technically I’m starting this diary in December 2020, but considering that New Year’s celebrations usually span across two days, I think you can let me off.…
Japan Diary: February 2022
As much as I was hoping that February would bring more positivity… that didn’t exactly happen.
Japan Diary: November 2020
After an October which felt like it lasted all of five minutes, November came around much quicker than I’d anticipated.
Japan Diary: June 2022
June started off the best way I know how: with plenty of opportunity to socialise.
Japan Diary: October 2020
After September saw my routine almost return to ‘normal’, October was spent trying to find the right balance.
Japan Diary: December 2020
So… I’m going to be honest. The first two weeks of December were a complete write-off.
Japan Diary: July 2022
The start of July called for more organisation than I’m used to, but I was determined to hit the ground running. Time was running out to get things…
Japan Diary: January 2022
At the end of my last diary post, my positive COVID test had completely ruined my plans to fly back to Japan as scheduled. All of a sudden,…
Japan Diary: March 2022 {2/2}
After the earthquake on the 16th, it was back to life as normal.
Japan Diary: August 2022 {1/2}
Usually I’d be starting this at the beginning of the month, then updating as things happened, but here I am, 6:30am on August 30th, typing my first sentences.…
Japan Diary: March 2022 {1/2}
I may live in Japan, but that doesn’t mean I let British holidays go by unobserved. So when Pancake Day fell on March 1st, I made a deliberate…
Japan Diary: August 2022 {2/2}
Two days after visiting the Ofuna Kannon, I went to collect my last two stamps from my favourite temples in Yokohama.
Q&A: May 2021
With Jump off during Goldenweek, Nik & Chris wax about British stereotypes, manga cereal, and recap series as 80's slasher movie victims.
May 2021 Monthly Favorites
Welcome back to my little corner of the internet where I gather some of the gems I’ve come across the past month! It’s going to be an interesting…
May 2021 Anime News
2020 was a whack year, but 2021 has blessed us with countless anime adaptation announcements, new movies, and some truly unexpected sequels. And of course, some fantastic yuri…
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[Editorials Update] May-December 2021
This is the second batch of 2021 editorials which I posted on my blog as well as other sites devoted to Asian cinema and dramas. As I have…
Yuri News Update: May 2021
No disrespect to the other things on this month’s News Update, but it might as well only be about Madoka★Magica~ Yes, the sequel to Rebellion has FINALLY been…
Hachette design interview, May 2021
A conversation commemorating the extension of the Making Space Battleship Yamato 2202 series Aiming to create a “full-scale” model Junichiro Tamamori (series supervisor) & Ken Sato (Hachette Collections…
Author Journey (May 3, 2021)
Hello productivity, my old friend, I’ve come to talk to you again! That’s right, even in the midst of all this chaos and unpredictability, I have managed to…
Weeb Reads Monthly May 2021
Another month, another delve into the light novel hole! Just for the record (which applies with all of these), the stuff I cover is less than 1% of…
Author Journey (May 17, 2021)
I’m still here! However, after almost two weeks doing basically nothing, I’ve eaten into a lot of my forward planning and now find myself playing catch-up while trying…
Author Journey (May 31, 2021)
I’ve put together a nice run where I’ve written at least one blog post every day for the last eight days. They’re a good way to ease back…
Author Journey (May 24, 2021)
I’m working my way back to full strength and raring to get back to work. I’ve got stories to write, editing to do, plotting to revise, and posts…
Author Journey (May 10, 2021)
Well, it would appear that I have hit yet another roadblock and by roadblock, I mean the mother of all roadblocks, which, unless you’ve been living under a…
Films: Japan 2021
by Jeremy Clarke. So, Scotland Loves Anime is over (save a few stragglers at the Film House) and you’re wondering where you can see more Japanese movies. Today,…
Japan Top Weekly Video Game Ranking: May 6 – May 12, 2024
The weekly hardware sales for the week saw Switch consoles steadfast in its position, maintaining its Number 1 spot with total market share at 64.4%. The total units…
Japan Top Weekly Video Game Ranking: May 13 – May 19, 2024
The overall total hardware sales for the ones listed on Famitsu’s chart has shown a 16.71% drop over previous week’s performance with the Xbox Series leading in terms…
Japan Top Weekly Video Game Ranking: May 20 – May 26, 2024
Hardware sales are overall healthier when compared to their performances the week before. The PlayStation 4 marked the most increase in terms of percentage gain, 147.17% more than…
May 2021 manga releases worth reading
With lots of manga being released this month, let's jump in and see which of the May 2021 manga releases are worth reading!
News Update - Mon, 3 May 2021
Cell of Duty: Blood Ops. Well, we are going in again. Literally, as Allen assigns himself Cells At Work: Code Black, a darker, grimmer version of an already kinda…
Light Novel Debuts for May 2021
Here are the light novel series that are making their debut during the month of May 2021.
News Update - Mon, 24 May 2021
Re:(In)Ception? Allen takes a look at Re:CREATORS and finds it a fascinating study in "what if your main character in that terrible fanfic you wrote when you were a…
News Update - Mon, 31 May 2021
Tencent Princess. Well, at least Allen thought Psychic Princess thought was kinda alright. I know I haven't exactly been very... nice... to Tencent's earlier efforts, so it is at…
News Update - Mon, 10 May 2021
Skyscraping The Bottom of The Barrel. So yeah, Allen watched High-Rise Invasion, and he can hardly be accused of masking his disdain with the show. And that's our lot this…
Kio Shimoku Twitter Highlights May 2021
Tweets of interest from Kio Shioku’s official Twitter for May 2021: This past month saw the unfortunate passing of Miura Kentaro, author of Berserk. “Whaaaaaa?!” “I can’t believe…
May 2021 Jon’s Creator Showcase #TheJCS
The Jon’s Creator Showcase for the month of May is finally here!
News Update - Mon, 17 May 2021
Breaking a Leg Or Two For The Love Of Your Life. Allen takes a look at Tonikawa: Over The Moon For You, a show about two people starting their…