Here are my thoughts on Tōmawari Suru Hina, the fourth volume of the Kotembu/Hyōka series. Just finished reading the book today, so I'd like to write down my thoughts while they're still fresh. Spoiler alert if you haven't finished the series, though I haven't seen the anime yet so I'm not sure if anything's different.

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I went to the Capcom Bar around the beginning of the year, but was holding off on writing a blog post about it because one of the other people I went with was taking a bunch of pictures and I wanted to wait until I could get them from him. He just uploaded the pictures the other day and wrote his own blog post about the experience, so I'll just ( Read more... )

So, I played through To the Moon tonight. Spoilers lurk beyond the cut, so read at your own discretion.

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At the beginning of December, my school organized a trip to go see a traditional Japanese performing art known as bunraku. Simply put, bunraku is a form of theater that involves a narrator, musical accompaniment in the form of a shamisen, and large puppets that require three people to operate on stage. In addition to the narration, the narrator ( Read more... )

A couple weeks ago I had a week off of school, so a few friends from school and I decided to go down to Akihabara for a day. It was my first time going since 2009, so I was looking forward to it. By coincidence, the day we decided on going was Halloween, so one of my friends who's into cosplay dressed up as Marisa from Touhou. We met up around ( Read more... )

(Note: I forgot to take my camera with me on this trip, so I'll be borrowing pictures taken by the school and one of my classmates ( Read more... )

All right, here's my overdue report on TGS, otherwise known as Tokyo Line Show ( Read more... )

So, gonna start off with something I've put off for way too long, which is posting some pictures I took last weekend. Last time I showed pictures from the area around my apartment, but now I'll show you what the area near the IUC is like.

Right outside the Sakuragicho subway station is this big plaza-type thing. If you go straight forward in that ( Read more... )

Sorry for the lack of updates; wasn't really doing anything interesting things while waiting for classes to start. Also, forgot to take my camera with me today, so no pictures this post. I'll take some for future entries, though ( Read more... )

Since the blog has been lacking them so far:

The front of my apartment, the Yokohama Weekly Apartment
The front door
What you see if you turn left from the previous picture

The subway station is about a five-minute walk from my apartment. Along the way, there's a bridge that runs over a small river that goes through the neighborhood. You can ( Read more... )