Rahzel

Yeah man, Shipping is a hard job, having to drive the mail truck so far- wait, wrong kind of shipping

Started watching: 2000 with Sailor Moon (technically before with the likes of Tonde Buurin and Mach Go Go Go but lol let's count since when I knew "anime" or smt) 
 
1- Code Geass (S1 only) (before anyone goes LMAOOO LOL OL I'll let u kno I am rewatching it on Netflix now and it's as good as the other 5 times)
2- Clannad
3- Psycho-Pass (S1 only)
4- Barakamon
5- Ai no KusShiki
 
Honorable mentions: Honey & Clover ; newer Fate series ; (girls can have personal tastes!!) Free! ; Akatsuki no Yona ; Ouran Host Club ; Tamako Market (specials are awesome!) ; (literally only bearable long shounen) Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood ; (no idea if these will stand the test of time:) Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuu ; Tsurune ; Netjuu no Susume

Anything by Nickelback

Two new otome games coming to Switch~
https://www.siliconera.com/interview-learning-more-about-otome-visual-novels-piofiore-and-cafe-enchantes-localizations/

I've been working on this one for a few months now, adding whatever feature I felt I needed.
It's a never ending work in progress, but I'm pretty happy with how it is now~
 

Minimalism has become a bit of a trend in the United States with the rise of Marie Kondo's Netflix series about helping Americans tidy up their homes, several years after she took off in Japan with her two books and Fumio Sasaki's hit book Goodbye Things as well as the Minimalists documentary on Netflix as well. I've watched Marie's shows, watched the documentary, listened to the audio book and read Goodbye Things as well as the two Minimalists books, their podcast, Matt D'Avella' s YouTube channel and podcast (he directed the minimalist documentary and their sequel that's coming out next year.) as well as several Japanese youtubers like Shibu, Takeru, SHOPPIN, MIYOSHI and more.
 
Along the way I've gotten rid of hundreds of DVDs, CDs, at least fifty items of clothing, a few game consoles and all kinds of games and more and I've begun to read a lot more, listen to a lot more podcasts, movies and other things that I used to not have the patience for, so I suppose you could say to take a phrase from Jordan Peterson, I "cleaned my room" and my mind cleaned up with it. It makes sense because it's a proven fact that clutter can make you depressed, and over the course of several months my girlfriend and I have gotten rid of plenty of things we don't need, constructed a whole new cleaning routine and are enjoying each other's company and appreciating it more. I still have hiccups from time to time, but I haven't purchased a video game in probably six months, only splurged once on CDs, but I have had a few impulse buys; but it's a process. Over time I've also learned that you don't have to throw everything away because the point is to get rid of what doesn't have any meaning or value to life and replacing it with things you actually care about and bring joy and meaning to your life. Minimalism isn't the solution, it's a game plan and a template to becoming a happier, more fulfilled, and content version of yourself. Minimalist isn't your identity, just like your objects are not your identity either. The whole point is to find out who you really are when things are stripped bare and you remove all of these things that you THINK make you who you are. 😊
 
-I've attached a talk that Fumio Sasaki did for the New York City Japan Society in 2017 where he talked about his journey and his book.
 
 
 

compiling a vk playlist for a friend for when i visit but so many to choose from.......she's not very familiar with vk except for some bands that were big in mid 00s so i have no idea what she likes lol. don't think she listens to a whole lot of heavy music either for that matter so hopefully there will be something that she likes.

So because I do nothing with my spare time besides smoke and listen to visual kei bands, I devised a time wasting game. Vk has alot of common titles and common themes because duh but I figured why not make a game out of how many times you hear or see these phrases and lump them in several playlists.
 
I decided to make a playlist for every song that has the following criteria, songs of the same name like "Higanbana" or "xxx"
- Songs that have the "KIEROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" staple in them
- All of Kyouki's "SEI YAI YA YA" or "ITAI ITAI ITAI" or whatever
- A playlist of songs that use the same bridge 
- Playlists full of songs that are re:recorded 
- A playlist of songs where the vocalist says "Daruma San Ga Koronda, or XXX Ga Koronda"
- A play list of songs where censored parts are replaced by the unicode x x x x x 
-Songs named Rengoku
- Songs about Rabbits/Usagi 
- Songs named Sakura, Sakura No Uta or have Sakura in them
- A play list of songs called THE END or starting with THE
- Songs about Dolls/ that includes doll in the title. Kairai counts aswell
 
 
 

Man, they're playing some mind games in Ryo's English placement test. 😂
 
 

man this is such a loaded discussion but since it is top 5 "favorite" here are mine in no particular order.
 
Shouwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuu
Sakurasou no Pet na Kanojo
Hajime no Ippo
FLCL
3-gatsu no Lion
 
That was legit hard as fuck, if you were to ask me to do it over next week it would likely be completely different (except FLCL, that shit will always be a fav). oh btw I started watching anime in 1999 when I was around 7 years old.
 
now i will include what I consider to be top 5 of all time, there's a important distinction between the two;
 
Dragon Ball
Kidou Senshi Gundam
Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu
Cowboy Bebop
Ghost in the shell
(would probably throw evangelion in here somewhere as well as Akira if we are doing movies)
 

Loving the stuff being posted here. I'm slowly making my way through all the MVs
 
Wanted to add some more of my faves. A lot of MVs nowadays focus more on the singer showing off their face and outfits, so it can get a bit boring. What do we expect from the age of instagramses and tiktoks tho. It's not always necessarily a bad thing
 
Even if the focus is the band/singer, I prefer it when they're having fun, like this paiotsu PV where we get to see them  without make up and wearing just shorts and tank tops. It has a really nostalgic feeling.
 

If this was a Fortnite dance, I'd probably actually play the game just to make everyone look at it.
 

The Ace Attorney trilogy's on sale for Switch right now so I thought why not. Never did get the chance to play it as a kid so I was pretty excited to get it!

My predicitions:
The Gazette will have a scandal ( like Uruha hates blacks or Jews or something)
Trump Kei will be a thing (J rockers in Orange face)
Dog in the PWO will disband
Kiryu will disband/go on hiatus
Takemasa (Kiryu) will be a daddy
Men-Men (Codomo Dragon) will finally win a Guinness book award for something
Babykingdom will be more popular than royz due to music releases
Daizystripper will come out with an album, release a single with a video and then disappear until next album
Micro 4headed ear phones will get a new lead singer and disgrace all XGen rockers
Miyavi and Melody will divorce
Kisaki will continue being an old bitch
Kaito will release a video mocking the gazette (pre or post scandal)
and lastly, someone will get in trouble for sending dick pics to minors.
 

Today I wanted to post a hard rock band form my ventures in Sweden which I spent 2 years as a household for the sightseeing in the Netherlands it was very fun and unique lots of friendly people and thats where a friend recommended 
 
 
Amarenthe a five piece girl fronted hard metal edm and electro genre band
With male backing vocals currently I wanted to show Massive addictive since as I've been expanding genres from obscure bands to more known from every country 
 
 
While it sounds more generic it's not sullied and over produced 
While I still try to warm up to some bands half my day is spent what should I share but little steps will take the way 
 

@Chell, let me recommend you some other Polish bands worth trying out:

Abraxas
 
 
 
Quidam
 
 
 
Egrimonia
 
 
Riverside
 
 
Circle of Bards
 
 
 
Beltaine
 
 
Svann (side project of Abraxas' members, featuring Anja from Closterkeller)
 
 
Madame
 
 

Ooh what a nice topic. I made something like this a while ago on some other forums I frequented and found a lot of great music from other countries. Gotta admit my hearing sucks right now so no idea if these hold up to my first impressions, but some guy made me convinced that Polish music is perfect. lol.  Wish someone could point me to good Swedish music though, hard to study without music 😢
 
Poland 
 
 
 
... so while we're at it I listen to a lot of brazilian music as well, but much of it is like "sung poetry" and not so rich/interesting instrument/rhythm-wise IMO so not sure what to rec ??
 
(hopefully other brazilian users won't see my recs or else Ill get cursed at for only listening to pop music  👀)

Today I picked Turkey 
Since I stayed for like 4 months there I warmed up to their culture as I made my way into Asia 
While pop and anatolian melody and folk music are their main attraction I mainly focused on their attempts on nu metal and alt metal and I picked from a band that I liked similariesd to Linkin park for their catchy and deep lyrics 
MaNga is a band in Turkey formed in early 2000 a 5 piece band which mixes genres both local and international (alt rock metal anatolian and folk) the reason they're called manga is that they wanted a name that would mean universal manga gained fame after their debut albums lead single called "bir kadin cizeceksin" (you will draw a girl) which it's lyrics are very deep in a manner that it focuses on main problems of many people in their reaccuring moments in life and I really like it after their 2005 album in 2008 and 2009 they drop their sophomore album which was a massive success with singles as cevapsiz sorular (unanswered questions) and dunyanin sonuna dogumusum (born at the end of the world) their success caused them to be nominated in the eurovision contest before it went shit they were placed 2nd place with countries like UK and france placed their nominations on Turkey for their first ever English spoken song "we could be the same" 
 
 
"Unanswered questions" 
Was a mysterious song which was shot in Prague Czech Republic similar to Linkin parks numb where they shot the entire video in Prague to 
The acoustic guitar and piano followed by cello and faint violins give a drafty feeling as if being swept away by a breeze that doesent exist the songs lyricism speaks of solitude and loneliness as if no one share a thought like thyself
The song is listed above 
 
"bir kadin cizeceksin" (you will draw a girl) 
 
Their lead single in their debut album which is a personal favourite 
To understand this song an obvious translation is required which I'll do my best if anyone wants 
The song is massive to its instrumental manners and the lyrics with genres and techniques that would sound cheesy but nailed quite surprisingly (rap nu metal anatolian etc) 
But I have no idea to this day what the animation is supposed to mean
 
"dunyanin sonuna dogumusum" (born at the end of the world) 
 
My favourite next to unanswered questions 
Think this song as a continuation of the 1st album but more layers 
The lyrics are about the cycle of people in their own make belief worlds and constant need of consuming (pornography, fashion, attention etc) while not explicitly related the lyrics semation is as one the world isint what we knew once was that everyones has their own degeneration if anyone asks I can translate it roughly 
 
We could be the same 
 
The eurovision song that frankly deserved to be 1st place half of the 1st world European countries agree so why not 
As a way of gratitude in a short time span the vocalist learned English so he could compose the lyrics 
 
This is one of the bands that cought my eye in Turkey which I'm glad I gave any attention at all but finding a effort worth of this bands early days was really hard so I just gave up halfway instead I just decided to be a actual tourist and look around the country 

No limits just go cray cray 
I don't care if you like teletubby ost 
As long it's your fav

I start school this winter and can't help but be really nervous, not really cus of covid, I would've been taking online classes anyway, it mostly has to do with my ability to do well. I won't let my brain scare me away but it's hard just to get out bed most days, and that's especially been the case this year. There's just a lot going on and I hope school with work and all this other shit won't take too much of a toll on my mental health. I generally manage my anxiety quite well but when it comes to stuff like this.. thinking about the future... it gets me super neurotic .. I know that's normal for anyone around my age but I just want to be prepared.
 
I think I'll be okay and that I can handle it, just need to stop ruminating on these catastrophes I've made up in my brain.

I always thought shipping real people is gross, even when I was younger. I do like to see band members with strong, healthy interpersonal relationships though. You know, being able to make edgy jokes, sharing food and going out to eat, working through roadblocks like sickness or multiple side projects. It's fun to watch behind-the-scenes stuff where they're clearly comfortable with each other and are great friends. A good inter-band relationship adds a lot to the band because even if you have an absolutely legendary but soulless, only-here-for-the-money group they're still gonna be less of a fun show than some noobs jammin' out together. Nothing sucks more than having a member who looks like he'd rather deep-throat his own guitar stock than be in the same room with the other guys (and I have seen guys with that look/body language, multiple times).

Uhm, this topic is pretty old but just to add to what has been said (particularly by these 2 last commenters, don't think I could have put it better - love yourself too!) in case anyone else is mulling over the same stuff - yes, in my opinion there is such a thing as wanting to "be in love with someone" but not "love someone". Being in love with someone means having an insurge of chemical substances that make you feel good swarming in your brain when you see or talk to your "crush" or whatever, and it's not really a sin to want to feel that just not "learn to love and make a life together" in the long term or whatever it is that people say. It is also okay to want rex (👀) but not to love or be in love with the one you're having it with IMO. And, furthermore, it is okay to be "in love" with someone and then once things do work out want to/learn to do the "love someone" thing and "building a happy life together" and whatnot too. Don't think any of that is too unusual.
 
If there is an invitation for me to get personal lol personally I want to be "in love" sometimes but wanting to "love someone" is a lot more convoluted and harder, in general. So what I think about it is more along the lines of "well, that'd be maybe nice (but is it even possible for me?)". Also, I am what kids nowadays call "romantic asexual" (meaning I don't hate the romance part, though it seems that I have been hating it more and more as of late, but I really don't like the "feeling someone else's body heat/saliva/whatevers" part of romancing) ... which is sort of how I ended up being a crazy bandom/kpop fangirl (tm) - being in love with celebs is just nicer, you can buy a hi-touch/m&g and they won't look at you weirdly as if you're someone they want to dominate or cause any drama if they realize you're happy over headpat/chatting as they get this 50 times a day on average. (this sounds tremendously bitter but i'm 100% srs) There are definitely many different ways of feeling and, well, no matter what "society" or other people may say it's really not a sin as long as you're not hurting anyone (which by the way you're more likely to do if you're faking it anyway).
 
As for joy and depression, well, not sure other people feel joy every day of their lives either. Sure I don't however considering that around 30% + of the world population are likely to suffer of an anxiety disorder (most likely depression) at some point in their lives and I've been prone to it forever I'm probably not a good example but I can tell you the same goes for most people I know. Maybe you're just in the "unlucky half" and some medication/meditation/therapy/life changes or whatever could do good, but it's not uncommon to not feel much joy either. (Not feeling any joy however can be a problem, sure, and for that there's whatever other commenters said!)

Love and relationships are a pretty complicated topic, but in my opinion you're better off doing things you love rather than trying to find someone to love. This way you will learn to grow yourself and be able to "love yourself" which is the most important person you need to love! If you can't make yourself happy you can't expect anyone else will be able to. And by doing the things you love and growing as a person, you're natural confidence (Even if it's quiet confidence, I don't mean you have to be arrogant and cocky to show confidence as that definitely ISN'T attractive) will attract people and if you're taking part in hobbies you enjoy, perhaps you'll meet someone who enjoys the same things and boom, you click and start building your relationship from there.

Then they changed it to something even worse - GzNDLH (pronounced Gandora!)

Honestly, I am such a science nerd that I check out all bands with science names and came to like BFN because of that! 🤣
 
My bacteria heat island is also a band I checked out because of their name. Lol. 
 
I am still waiting for "Yersinia pestis" or "E.coli" 😂😂😂😂😂
 
Kaitou Sentai is also super annoying since there is a sentai show in japan that's called kaitou sentai, too....
 
Also this "chewing gum costs 100.000¥ fine in singapore" band has a stupid name!