2023

Did/doing

Travel

  • Japan
    • Akita - Lake Tazawa
    • Chiba - Funabashi, Urayasu (Disneysea)
    • Hyogo - Kinosaki Onsen
    • Iwate - Morioka
    • Kanagawa - Kamakura, Yokohama
    • Kyoto - Arashiyama, Kyoto City, Kurama, Lake Biwa
    • Okayama - Kurashiki, Okayama
    • Osaka - Osaka City, Kawachigano
    • Tochigi - Nikko, Utsunomiya
    • Tokyo (Asakusa, Ginza, Koto)
    • Wakayama - Koyasan
  • New York, NY (again)

courses

comics

  • Blood on the Tracks, vols 12-13 by Shizo Oshimi
  • The Drifting Classroom, omnibus 1-3 by Kazuo Umezz
  • よつばと! volume 1 (again, 日本語で)
  • Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons (Black Label), books 1-3, by Kelly Sue DeConnick

non-fiction

  • Book of Five Rings, The by Miyamoto Musashi
  • Functional Programming in Scala, 2nd edition by Michael Pliquist, Paul Chusiano, Runar Bjarnasson
  • Social Physics: How Good Ideas Spread--The Lessons from a New Science by Alex Pentland
  • Spare by Prince Harry

video games

  • Ghost of Tsushima - Iki Island (in progress)
  • Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma

tv series

  • Alice in Borderland, season 2
  • Cyberpunk: Edgerunners
  • Rick and Morty, season 3
  • SpyxFamily, season 1 part 2
  • Succession, seasons 1-4
  • White Lotus, The, season 2
  • アッグ烈子 (AggRetsuko), season 1
  • 踏切時間 (Crossing Time), season 1
  • ちはやふる (Chihayafuru), season 1 (again), 2 (again, in progress)
  • 舞妓さんちの賄いさん (Makanai, The: Cooking for the Maiko House), season 1
  • 機動戦士ガンダム 水星の魔女 (Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury), season 1
  • 逃げるは恥だが役に立つ (Full-Time Wife Escapist), season 1
  • リラックマと遊園地 (Rilakkuma's Theme Park Adventure), season 1

movies and documentaries

  • Menu, The
  • Never-Ending Man: Hayao Miyazaki