As I see myself buying more digital photobooks *giggles* (you're welcome Isobe Karin) while trying to ship more stuff in the other TWO batches which should be already here by now (lol), I really wonder if I could just make it with my spending if I were to not work for a bit. Haha yeah and that's ignoring the food delivery services my family have just been using for years now. *cringe*

Okay welcome back no more real life sh*t that stays out of the way, but I guess Anime and music are still kinda real life, and I still can't play my phone games on an emulator in Linux which I am at right now, so I guess real life just sucks. *laughs* Feel free to real my fanfic series this week though, I just felt like writing in Kyari-san and it DEFINITELY isn't because I'm prepared to write Ogura Yui two more times thanks to the development within. *wink*

Let's cut the nonsense because I'm bored lol, so let's Anime and music! I need a better slogan lol

Oh boy, I'm expected to see Hina-chan sad in this new episode (#AoNoHako24) and uh, in case you wondered why you watched a romance Anime spanning two seasons and there isn't a heartbreak yet... here you go. I don't think I have to explain much about what happened because I feel like I will anyways, but let's talk about the impact on this. Having watched Anime for more than a decade, I feel like this is as inevitable as it is also very staged. Like, of course Ayame is here to make sure these two have their own time for no reason lol. Like, of course they are going to bump into each other finding something that Ayame fetched from thin air. *laughs* LIke, of course they are going to just sit down and chat while being away from the others, as childhood friends as they are. But between Taiki being firm about his stance of making sure Hina gets the message instead of letting her own little girl mood fly around him talking about how much she loves him? Maybe this way of inciting him to make a decision would be the best trigger after all. Because really, I can't imagine if they weren't to settle this between themselves considering what happened to "Toradora!" lol OOF, so this is just that slow release we all hoped would happen, and I can only feel nothing else but pity for Hina-chan. Yes, childhood relationships are nothing even for so many years. Yes, Chinatsu is just cuter and Hina is just flatter- Wait. *laughs* My point is, as long as it's Taiki and his opinion of what he wants, I'm just glad he gets to the point somehow. Again, we know this is not going to last, this limbo. We know as we have seen so many romance stories, that a confession is either leading to a new arc of happiness, or someone loses out. In this case, it just took way too long to get to the latter. Not that it's not enough impact, but not like Ayame knows the seriousness of this and only thinking that she should support maidens in love which isn't much considering dude likes the other girl haha BRUH, but this is how the cookie crumbles, dude. I don't know how better to say this but SCREW YOU AYAME. You ruined all of this. *giggles* All in all... *sigh* I know right, we all knew this was coming. Bro, I was standing 12 episodes ago and seeing this and even though it's not satisfactory of a direction which I had hoped because honestly saying the argument here isn't strong especially for Hina, it's still sad. Yeah, Hina felt that. *sob* But I think the bigger issue here is that, Taiki might NOT get both sides at all, not from Hina to be friends yet again because why would you, and not from Chinatsu who might not even reciprocate his feelings back considering we are ONE EPISODE LEFT??? Alright this is NOT going to happen... right? Oh heck, at least give us one side of the shore to land on, please. We can't let more people drown in this sadness lol

[TL:DR; In case you wondered what the song was played when Hina-chan cried her face out, it is in the Anime's 2nd soundtrack collection released on Thursday the 20th. You're welcome.]

P.S. "I was fully aware that Taiki liked Chinatsu-senpai when I told him how I felt." Yeah but no. *giggles* Oh Chouno Hina you poor child "I was relieved because I didn't want our first kiss to be onstage." Oh that really did not happen. Hey, I wouldn't know, gotta see to believe, dude. *giggles*

P.P.S. "This must be what it feels like to be in an emotional rollercoaster." Uh, did we tell her about how this rollercoaster hasn't been maintained for years and is about to crash? *cringe* "Sorry, I'm going to touch you a bit." HELL YEAH haha "It went in deeper." THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID lol this is the rollercoaster you were talking about, Hina-chan? *dabs*

NO TATEISHI WE ARE GOING TO GET CANCELLED- *laughs* Yeah, just pay for it, and then punish your girl by banging her all night. *giggles* I wonder if he has that stamina- IN THIS NEW EPISODE WHERE ALL IS DONE lol (#KaishaNiSuki11), well you know what I mean, like, all their goals for the year has been completed, so it's reward time! How about a department transfer- Wait, what? *laughs* I mean, it's all rumours and stuff, but looks like Tateishi is getting rather annoyed at it. Well, it's likely not him nor is it likely going to be him considering he just got a new cert and is about time to get promoted among other things that can happen in one's career considering the company he is in is just times larger than wherever I work now lol *sob* but still, it's something to get worried about. Working so hard for so long only to just be manipulated by the company to move around and do things differently to even change your job scope? Still better than getting laid off like what those big tech companies have been doing. *cringe* We are likely not going to be proven wrong just yet, so somehow, they got back to the keeping a secret part of this series, remember the title? *laughs* It's not much, but referring to Mita-san and how he married his colleague from the sales department back then lol what is Shiori here even selling (LMAO) and that got him a family, and even then he is still doing new things like how he got everyone into camping with him in the mountains, he sure is an ideal man to look up to, considering the rest of the kids are not even close to these goals. *giggles* No, not talking about Hayakawa, we can give her a break. *laughs* From following along playing around the river and mountains, to just doing the BBQ, and even to help the mom prepare a birthday cake for Mita-san for his birthday, it's all around wholesome and you wish you had that life right about now. *silence* Still, which brings us to the real question, where Tateishi somehow decided on his own well I guess he did get the nod from the girlfriend, to talk about their relationship considering Micchan still thinks these two are at hammerheads at each other. They hid their secret too well they have to reveal it? Hey, Somei knows. *laughs* All in all... Oh what? They are going to leave this as the conclusion for the series?? Well, I guess so, just read the title once again why don't you. *giggles* So yeah, that's fun I suppose thinking that this is how it started and will end instead, I was legit expecting more of their alone time, but this is also a good way to end this. End the secret-keeping. *laughs* I mean, this is just going to be like they are trying to hard to hide but people found out haha again, they are called rumours precisely because they say it behind your back, so why would you even hear it straight from them? *wink* Ah, what a series. Too real on everything apart from the romance and I'm kinda sad we won't get to talk about Hayakawa's relationship with Somei because that'll require a lot more than just a couple can of beers, and they only brought a box of them. *laughs* We shall see as it happens.

P.S. "I have been working for six years now." OOF because SAME- Where's my girlfriend though? *laughs* "And all of us have been gradually changing." As in libido or... what? *laughs*

P.P.S. "After all, there are many rumours during this period." Timely too, because this time of year is also Japan's transition to the new financial year where, shall we say, companies start evaluating their spending? OOF haha

[Okay just a little from the camping trip because we don't have beaches lol sad]

(*Links to Apple Music Japan, in English where applicable, of current year unless specified)

Hmm I listened to these while not at my seat at work so I don't call this ideal (lmao), but I did get some surprises listening to Anime "Hyakkano" image album which is essentially a character song album so I'll call it that instead. I did share on social media so I'll keep the summary short here: Ede-chan singing a love song is all I've wanted for and I love you fantasizing about me (lol), Seto Asami's first character song I've heard of (SCREW YOU SASAKOI lol) is actually rather dope she could be the next Hikasa Youko and I really respect the production only making her say phrases just to make the Anime episode relevant to her character but give us a proper song, and Shizuka-chan wins. *laughs* Okay not really, I think Meme-chan wins by singing such a matured song, I legit thought it wasn't Takao Kanon behind the microphone. Amamiya Sora, eat your heart out. *laughs*

FIVE NEW OLD is just the same feels when I listen to them every time so no surprises there, but I did get taken to a journey to the past even if they aren't re-recorded for some reason I ended up liking some of them just casually listening to these now at my seat lmao, so yeah, you're welcome, guys. Never again. *laughs*

(*From Twitter/X; Information accurate as of writing)

Hmm this is not much for this week I know, I filtered quite a lot of Anime announcements and stuff that I don't consider as part of this list because artists I follow just don't release new songs on their own now, they just write for other more popular artists. *sob* I don't even know if talking about an artist I don't know singing for an Anime's re-broadcast is any worth talking about tbh. The last time we did this for "Yojouhan" at least I still know Scenarioart but this time... I don't know.

Then again, Aqua Timez' is not a surprise to me because I'd like to believe half the reason for their revival is because of "BLEACH" anyways I'm also going to bet even till now that ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION singing a theme song will be around the corner, but I'm just coping now. *laughs*

I'm pretty sure if I didn't put the brackets to show it's a best album, you would wonder why I am typing the same word twice. *laughs* But yes, this will be quite a nostalgia trip when it's out in a few days and somehow she is still the regular artist in Klassic Note that has the best standing so far in terms of recent releases, so I can't wait to feel sad again on social. *giggles* I mean, the last time we had to do this was what, 2018? That was quite a while lol

This weekend was AnimeJapan in... Japan lol, and looks like we have much news happening, not that I don't know of but I'm watching a lot of sequels next season and I'll talk about the preview next week I guess, but still, less confusing than what I want to try in Linux which is like, build an extension for gThumb and since I don't know sh*t about it, with the help of ChatGPT. It's going well. *cringe* Haha it isn't, and not like I have all day to do this because holy heck I won't even be doing the above if that happens. Yeah, I need a month's leave. *laughs* See you guys next time again then, next week's going to be rough if the package(s) want to drop by my doorstep anytime soon lol I shall spoil no more, and then maybe I'll talk about how much I love to delay things just because it's imported from thousands of kilometres away from another country. *silence* Haha I'm done.

P.S. I did think about what if I had to pick up more than the maximum 5 shows I do for Anime so far, but I think if that's the case and we have time on Monday nights then I will still do 2 parts going forward, maybe raise the limit to up to 8 shows and watch 3 of them on Mondays. We shall see, I might not tbh I feel like watching in smaller doses like these is less harsh on the time spent on making thumbnails and stuff imo

P.P.S. I did deliberate on whether to watch the movie "Kimi ni Iro" this week or next week and uh, well, if you didn't see it above then it's next week. *laughs* Along with the next season preview and I know some of the sequels premiere air date, looks like we won't have a week's break off Anime this time around. Oh what the heck, what is hype anyways. *giggles* There is a public holiday the following Monday next week though, so that'll be a good time to conclude all the Anime I watch this season and watch this considering the following week also had no new music releases so... yeah, by then I guess. I'm not going to do this a season later, we have waited long enough. *giggles*