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yeah no the crocodiles are doing pretty well

I was wondering about her granddad

Don Corleone! You can’t refuse these prices!

Yaaaaaaaki-imooo🎵 I’ll buy from a vendor not just for the convenience but for the “they’re way better at roasting the potatoes than I am” effect

I think what we feel is missing is a couple scenes where the mc perceives the change in himself. Like his decision to invite Ninomae out feels sudden. I think if we had read it one month at a time, where there’s a pause after his realization that they’re not in the same class, it wouldn’t feel...

I need BEAR THE BUDO merch

@net2005 thanks for putting this back up

OK I laughed at the Egyptian soldier. Must be getting old

So specifically recognizable as Magnet

aOOmorrrrrrii!

Up north it was more like, a 3.8 stars on tabelog is excellent, a 3.3 stars is a disaster.

It’s a famous style! Sapporo style is miso ramen with butter and corn! It’ll raise your core temp a couple degrees, it’s good solid pioneer food. Dad knows what’s up

Mead’s a great idea. So! Japanese gods definitely accept wine! I recognize it’s a little bit of a special case(enshrined spirit of once-human emperor and empress), but at the Meiji-Jingu there’s a huge wall of offered European wine (and another of Japanese nihonshu ‘sake’). And in the...

I’ve seen the haunted doll in Hokkaido, where supposedly her hair grows. She’s kept at a little countryside buddhist temple. You’d expect a spooky experience but in fact it was a beautiful summer day and little country temples like that are just family homes. They were having a picnic, scallops...

Marx, Adam Smith and what - keynes?

In Izumo they call in kamiarizuki. Still, have you ever heard of anything more Japanese? The gods have a professional conference

Kitsune mask joke is good

yup although in my experience when people say “shōwa jidai” they usually mean postwar. For a little mountain village, those houses could be 70s

Greet your neighbors!! It’s how they know to dig you out when the building falls down in an earthquake. In the 1994 Hanshin earthquake, many casualties were students and foreigners! People without a local network

You can also watch the movie KWAIDAN dir Kobayashi. Has “Hoichi” and the Yuki-onna and two other youkai stories. It’s gorgeous, iconic movie