2024

What I've done or am doing in 2024.

travel

• England
  • London
  • Bath
  • Stonehenge
• Japan
  • Fukuoka
  • Kobe (again)
  • Kyoto (again)
  • Nagasaki
  • Osaka (again)
  • Tokyo (again)
• New York, New York (again) x2
• Portland, OR

video games

• Horizon: Forbidden West
• Short Hike, A (日本語)
• Space for the Unbound, A
• Super Mario 64 (日本語)
• Yakuza: Like a Dragon

books - fiction

• Abaddan's Gate (The Expanse #3) by James S.A. Corey
• Babel by R.F. Kuang
• Blindsight by Peter Watts
• Caliban's War (The Expanse #2) by James S.A. Corey
• Churn, The (An Expanse novella) by James S.A. Corey
• Death's End by Cixin Liu
• Wool (Silo #1) by Hugh Howey
• コーヒーが冷めないうちに #1 (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #1) by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

books - non-fiction

• Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann (in progress)
• Effective Engineer, The by Eduard Lau (in progress)
• Essential Effects by Adam Rosien
• How to Master Japanese: A Linguist's Guide to Fluent, Functional, Marketable Japanese by Shane Jones (in progress)
• Souls of Black Folk, The by W.E.B. DuBois

comics

• Blood on the Tracks, vols. 15-16
• Mobile Suit Gundam: the Origin, vol. 4-6 by Yoshikazu Yasuhiko
• SPYxFAMILY, vol. 1
• おやすみプンプン (Goodnight Punpun), omnibus vol. 1 by Asano Into
• ハイキュー！！(Haikyu!!) vol. 1 by Taku Kishimoto
• 君に届け (Kimi ni Todoke), vol. 1
• よつばと！vols. 4-5 (again, 日本語で)
• ルックバック (Look Back) by Tatsuki Fujimoto

tv shows

• Black Mirror, seasons 4-5
• Foundation, seasons 1-2
• Devil's Plan, The, season 1
• Kamen Rider GEATS, eps. 1-8
• Pachinko, season 1
• PLUTO, season 1
• Scott Pilgrim Takes Off, season 1
• 異世界おじさん (Uncle from Another World), season 1
• 神の雫 (Drops of God), season 1
• 逃走中 Battle Royal (Run for the Money), season 1 Netflix
• キャロル&チューズデイ (Carole & Tuesday), season 1
• コタローは1人暮らし (Kotaro Lives Alone), season 1

movies

• I, Tonya
• John Wick
• John Wick 2
• John Wick 3
• SpyXFamily: Code White
• Super Mario Bros. Movie, The
• 雨を告げる漂流団地 (Drifting Home)
• 詩季織々(Flavors of Youth)
• 東京物語 (Tokyo Story)