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Truth, but also: Now you know how the Japanese feel about James Clavell’s “Shogun”

That shot over the city was when I realized “oh this Azuma guy is the real thing technically” back in the day

“Lo chiamavano Trinità.” So classic

my bru check out Mel Tormé’s version.

“The Moon Reflects My Heart”. Apparently with the assistance of the katakana, my Chinese is good enough that my friend Sun took a video to send to his grandma. If they ask for something by an American I do this:

It’s ABSOLUTELY Trinty. The bean scene became a big meme on Japanese YouTube around the time this chapter came out.

Looking back at these, I am starting to realize why his next series is a magical girl comedy

Homestarrunner dot net : it’s dot com!

I would like to take this opportunity to remind you that Koiwai Yotsuba is named after the two largest dairy co-ops in Japan. Koiwai is based in Iwate and Yotsuba in Hokkaido.

Saw “Pulp Fiction” in a big theater in Sapporo couple years ago. Good experience. Interesting crowd. Several expressions (including mfer) were subtitled “ファック野郎” which I thought was quite good but don’t get to use often

the thousand-armed tanuki Actually there’s a pretty famous folktale about tanuki imitating buddhas and boddhisattvas, it’s in one of Lafcadio Hearn’s collections

YAISAHO But yeah if you can do this quality at this speed that’s awesome

So yeah. Not Kojiro, but it’s relevant. Don’t get attached to this theme, other truly magnificent bullshit is coming

Delightful

OR DID I?

Gyaru truth drug.

closed space?

OK so for conext then. This volume was released in mid-2009. He was having pretty significant success with nichijou but still before the anime

@anri_haglund so is pg 3’s footnote in the original or is that editorial

This feels like an 80s premise/vibe but the visual style is modern (Not that rural jp isn’t stuck in the 80s tbh)