American Gaijin
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Thoughts on Idols
I mentioned a couple of posts back about a video by Sakura Gakuin, where they were singing a song called “Graduation Toss” and where they pretty much were finding it impossible to hold it together. You could see it on their faces throughout the song. One girl was just about one word away from completely…
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Losing
I admit it. I play a waifu game. These are a form of “gacha” games – of which “Raid: Shadow Legends” is perhaps one of the more artificially famous varieties. Except the characters are all very beautiful women, most of whom have very large breasts. I mean, very large breasts. One character has what I not…
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Magic
As a child, the world was magic. When you’re a child, you don’t know how anything works, and generally, even if someone explained it to you, you wouldn’t really understand. I remember a few things as a child. I remember in first grade they played a video of two alien puppets in what was supposed…
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Yui Mizuno: Unfinished Business
For those of you who are unfamiliar, Babymetal started with three singers: Nakamoto Suzuka, Kikuchi Moa, and Mizuno Yui. At one point, Yui had to leave the group for unspecified health reasons (which are none of anyone’s business, if we’re being blunt about it) and hasn’t been heard from since. Many fans miss her a…
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Graduation Toss
So lately I discovered a song by the (now defunct, iirc) group called Sakura Gakuin called “Graduation Toss”. In particular, a live, extremely emotional version where nearly all the girls are on the verge of crying throughout the song, and people seem to take a rather unhealthy interest in exactly who’s near tears and when. …
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Thin-Skinned Japanese People: One Mystery Solved
So, last night, I had a question answered that’s been bugging me for years. On YouTube, one of the major things I tend to watch is Japanese or Japanese-oriented content. One channel I currently follow is a guy who reacts to random Japanese videos as a “try not to laugh challenge”. I remarked that the…
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Playing to My Talents
So here’s something I bet you didn’t know: the concept of a “talent” is actually a biblical concept. Specifically, in the times of Jesus, a talent was a large block of silver, maybe 80 lbs or so. They were very, very valuable. Today, it would be just over $4,000. The concept of a talent being…
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On Writing Lily
So I’ve mentioned before my project that I call the “Lily Project”, over at https://lovelylilylives.com. It is a work of serial fiction, about a sixteen year old girl who has lost her memories and is trying to make her way in the world with that significant handicap – or is it a blessing? It’s told…
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Shut Up and Dance
If there’s one thing I’m sick of right now, it’s celebrities thinking they have anything useful to say on any political topic. They don’t. By and large, their opinions are uninformed, ignorant, and even stupid. They gained an audience or fanbase by doing whatever art they do (and maybe even competently) and then try to…