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Growing up is realizing that you'll never be enough, nor will you have time, to achieve all the things you ever wanted to achieve, with the most likely outcome being failure and disappointment.

Group of girls with no experience take over the school band Introduction Somewhere in Yamagata prefecture, a group of girls take a supplementary math course in their high school building, besiged by a schorching sun.

Favourite tracks: "凡庸VS茫洋", "スピードビート", "リズム", "あたし、ギターになっちゃった!!!!!"

Story of an unlikely friendship between a frill-loving lolita and a punk biker girl in the early 2000s rural Japan Momoko Momoko is a high-school obsessed with lolita fashion, rococo France and embroidery.

Favourite tracks: "EMBRACE", "CLOUDS", "SHADOWS", "LILIACS", I recently heard a song that really reminded me of Pastel Ghost's style, so I decided to go back and listen to Abyss again.

In April 2026 I went on a trip to Japan.

Favourite tracks: "Only Shallow", "When You Sleep", "Come in Alone", Even though Loveless is widely considered as one of the shoegaze classics, if not an album that actually made the genre take off, I've never actually took time and listen to it in its en…

Favourite tracks: "Swallow Your Tenderness", "Grooming My Lovely Cat", "Strawberry Lust" is a self-titled album of a shoegaze band from China.

Favourite tracks: "Tere-to", "Jigoku Sensei", "Shinaku Kakumei", "Shinagawa Number", This is Soutaiseiriron's debut album.

Favourite tracks: "all of them honestly", I'm surprised I haven't mentioned MOTFD earlier.

Favourite tracks: "手を振って", "hades in the dead of winter", "I think about Mary Poppins", "incarnation of pessimism", "yurikago kara hakaba made", First of all, the name of the album is straight-up fire.

Favourite tracks: "恋の駆け引き", "そばにいたいの", "真っ赤な夕焼け", "噂のあの娘", "彼女が暑くて腐ったら", One of the few joys in my life is discovering some obscure foreign bands in the corners of the Internet.

I'm making this post just to reiterate what I had already written on my GitHub profile and for archival purposes.

Favourite tracks: "Cindirella", "Miss Parallel World", "Jinkou Eisei", "My Heart Hard Pinch", "Kininaru Ano Ko", "Synchroniciteen" is a Japanese rock/pop classic at this point.

Favourite tracks: "shadow where it doesn't disappear", "watashi no aishita manatsu no shinigami", This album was my introduction to "my dead girlfiend", found in the depths of youtube recommendations, and holy noise, I loved it immediately.

Deep and traumatizing tale of school bullying The book's protagonist is a teenage boy with a lazy eye, attending a middle school where he meets relentless bullying from Ninomiya and his friends.

A re-telling of stories and historical events surrounding the Luddite rebellion in early 19th century England, and how the struggle of workers replaced by automation continues to this day.

Favourite tracks: "catalogue", "feminine adornments", "piano instrumental", I just discovered julie this year but holy shit, they make the best punk music I've heard so far.

Scrap pays well in the world past climate catastrophe "Ship Breaker" is set in a universe where Earth has mostly succumbed to global warming, with most cities submerged, deadly cataclysms running rampant, polar ice caps melted and most of the world covered

Would've been a great chapter of a grand historical novel, if that one ever came to be I should preface this review by mentioning that I had skipped a few chapters in this novel (especially in "Polly and Rachel", along with most of their plot), since I co…

Extremely fun and charming time travel story Shortly after the filming of their amateur movie wraps up and a group of rotten college students take shelter from a sweltering heat of an August day in the only room with an AC unit at a decrepit student dormi…

The concept of the book fascinated me the moment I read about it for the first time.

An amazing, humorous, yet not-so-merry Christmas tale from a perspective of a delusional student in Kyoto, let down by love and life I was so lucky to have unintentionally read “Tower of the Sun” just before Christmas season, as its story follows the misa…

A theatre of absurd social norms, assumptions and bureaucracy K. arrives at a snow-covered village, enshadowed by a castle, hoping to start a work there as a surveyor.

The eternal magic of The Lord of the Rings The Lord of The Rings has been on my radar for many years.

Girls' Last Tour I recently watched an anime called “Girls' Last Tour” and it made a great impression on me.

Sweet love letters travelling through space and time Can love persist through multiple timelines; against devastating forces of all-powerful empires at war?

A mod for Portal 2 worthy of being an actual DLC Another year around the corner and there's still a total silence from Valve about the next Portal game, just like for the past 8 years?

A mom and her daughter (maybe 6 or 7 years old) were walking today in front of me.

Capitalist exploitation unmasked "Less is More" is an eye-opening book that goes in detail about the rise, mechanisms and threat of capitalism.

Science kid and his friends face a penguin mystery Aoyama goes to an elementary school in a small, but rapidly expanding town, with its back towards a mountainside.

Mostly accurate and helpful guide to reevaluating one's online and offline lives I think this book has a ton of valuable insights into how you can extract value from online services and improve your lifestyle, by setting rules in place about access to "new

You can tell from this album how potsu grew as an artist from his previous releases of "just friends" and "ivy league" (although I still adore them).

Favourite tracks: "Say Can You Hear", "Found Me", "Show Me How", "Poodle Of Mud", I've been a huge fan of Men I Trust for years at this point and this album of theirs is one that I hold really close to my heart.

I just can't help it.

Månegarm is a wonderful Swedish band that's mostly known for their dark metal music, interlaced with some folk.

An eye-opening book showing how the modern world is making us addicted to the constant flow of information, turning us miserable and constantly distracted I think Johann Hari did a great job at researching and covering the topic of how the way we currently

This album houses a really powerful and moving punk rock, which (along with Adrenaline) made me become a big WHYPD fan.

"Then what of me, all alone?

Introduction It's a story that I think is more and more common nowadays.

Kanonenfieber is my best metal discovery of 2024 and this EP doesn't disappoint, I just wish it was longer

A humurous outlook on student life, love and the choices we make Before reaching for this novel I watched the anime a couple of years ago (which is still one of my all-time favourites).

Starts off so well but completely falls apart in the middle I had high expectations for this book at the beginning.