This has been a strange year. In January, my flatmates fled the country to return to their home, obviously sensing just how serious the new virus would become. In February, I went overseas to catch…| HOT CHOCOLATE IN A BOWL
As some friends would know, the final year of this decade has seen me formally enter the industry as a translator. To be precise, I work as a localisation project manager and translation editor for…| HOT CHOCOLATE IN A BOWL
“Anime of the decade” posts seem to be all the rage these days, as we count down to the 2020s, but I was honestly debating whether I wanted to do this or not. After all, I’ve all …| HOT CHOCOLATE IN A BOWL
I am sure it escaped no one’s attention that I have spent more time at this cafe then I probably should have. In fact, if I’d spent less time (and money) at the two Banana Fish cafes ov…| HOT CHOCOLATE IN A BOWL
Liz and the Bluebird was, hands down, my cinematic highlight of the year. But…I still cannot tell you why it affected me so much. It may be because Liz didn’t feel like an anime, it felt like…| HOT CHOCOLATE IN A BOWL
I debated about whether I should include this or not, considering that it’s not anime-related per se… But in the end, a certain figure skating anime was what set me on this path, so why…| HOT CHOCOLATE IN A BOWL
Part of the reason I postponed this piece is that I hadn’t quite finished this particular event as of yesterday. The Card Captor Sakura 20th Anniversary Commemorative exhibition was actually …| HOT CHOCOLATE IN A BOWL
Hang on! you say. Why is a mobile game on this list? It’s meant to be all about events in Japan, right? Well…you see, mobile games have “events,” too ^^; And Uta Macross was…| HOT CHOCOLATE IN A BOWL
I…am not going to tell you just how much I’ve spent at this cafe. Let’s just say, “A LOT.” But it was totally worth it, if only because of the Japanese friends I made,…| HOT CHOCOLATE IN A BOWL
Unfortunately, I didn’t tweet about this one either — was I just not feeling up to covering the events I was doing that month? So thank you to Dee for staying on top of it! And do you k…| HOT CHOCOLATE IN A BOWL