About as well as Christmas 2025, forever in our memories [*] xddddd
December 30th, 2025
- 153 reviews on WaniKani
- 15 lessons on WaniKani
- 1 review on Bunpro
- 3 stories on Satori Reader
- Book: 成瀬は天下を取りにいく, 73%->100%
- Podcast: 45m of JELLY JELLY RADIO
- Podcast: 15m of ちっち邸のゆるっとゲーム雑談
The fun word I found today when getting through the book xdd
Today’s Jelly Jelly Radio was a top3 celebration including different digital and board games of the year, and they called SETI the board game of the year:
I saw a box of this game in Thalia, but I never ended up playing it, maybe next year ^^
I found it funny that when せんな was talking about video games of the year, he named “Escape from Tarkov” as one of his favorites, and when describing the game, he described it as PvPvE: player vs player vs envament ^^
For some reason, my headcanon when I was listening to せんな was that his English was really good, but さきこ was the one who studied abroad and she was able to understand what せんな was talking about and say 環境, so fun episode ^^
ちっち邸のゆるっとゲーム雑談: the host speaks even faster than さきこ when she’s fired up, I found them through a Spotify recommendation algorithm and hoped they’d cover Pokemon and Switch video games, but in the episode i listened 15 minutes of, they didn’t get to any video games yet ^^
Reading challenge
- 日本語:
- Book: 成瀬は天下を取りにいく by 宮島未奈 - p277/p277
- Manga: 下弦の月 by 矢沢あい - p276/p276
- Deutsch:
- Book: Abroad in Japan by Chris Broad - p350/p350
- Manga: Gokinjo Monogatari Volume 1 by Ai Yazawa - p310/p310
- English:
- Book: Dallergut Dream Department Store by Miye Lee - p259/p259
- Manga: 86 -Eighty-Six- Volume 3 by Asato Asato - p208/p208
- Polski:
- Book: Dziewczyna, którą chcę zabić by Lee Kkoch-nim - p271/p271
- Book: Oczywiście, że cię… by Kkoch-nim - p223/p223
- Manga: Idol Escape Volume 1 by Kira Ito - p210/p210
- Manga: Tokijskie Singielki i ich tęgie rozkminy by Akiko Higashimura - volume 4/4
I DID IT :DDDDDDDDD
The moment I finished the book, my strongest emotion wasn’t “excitement”, it was “relief”, that I don’t have to read it anymore and that it’s no longer on my bucket list and 積読: today’s reading felt pretty stressful, because I was in a car and even with noise-cancelling headphones and lofi beats at full volume, I couldn’t filter out the sounds of radio (that my mom needed, because there were reports about collisions, spoilers for life btw xdddd)
But as the time from finishing the book went on and I started doing more research about 成瀬: I realized how influential that title is, and that I was succesfully propagandized by a manga about a girl who’s outdoors and likes her home place pretty much xddd
Consider this a 成瀬 special, at 6am in the morning the next day C:
The series has three books right now, the last one came out fairly recently:
And the series has sold multiple mililon copies, which alone in itself is pretty crazy
but when I was going through the Amazon reviews, this is when I started having the WAIT A MINUTE moment:
As it turns out, the book promoted the city of 大津 to the point that they prepared an actual map of places mentioned in the book you can look at, including the ミチガン boat trip I mentioned in the last post!
Not even that, there is going to be a manhole of 成瀬 that is about to open up in a month in 大津:
The author of the books, 宮島未奈, even made it to the meeting with the town council to promote both her book and the local culture as well!
Iconic picture xdd
膳所から世界へ！
The more I started looking into this, the more I started grinning, it’s so cool that the book made it so big, and the feeling of “I DONT WANT TO JAPANESE EVER AGAIN” got replaced with “uuu, that’s an interesting news article” xddd
Suddenly I want to visit 大津市 myself, so the propaganda did work on me xddd
Life
Gdańsk, Poland!
It’s actually a part of an urban area called “Trójmiasto”, tricity, between Gdańsk, Gdynia and Sopot, but today only Gdańsk was visited ^^
Today it did actually snow, and snow is pretty rare in Gdańsk, which brought a beautiful aura to the city C:
It’s the harbor city of Poland, known for really pretty building facades, tall buildings, as you would see in Western European cities, and was a big point of contention for the Second World War ^^
Look at those beauties C:
Another thing that Gdańsk is known for is that it’s a city of amber, and you can both buy the cheapest and the most expensive amber you’ll ever see in this city as well - that’s where all of my amber jewelry is from ^^
We went for a flat visit for the friend of a family, and it was pretty wholesome C:
But on the way back, there was a HUGE traffic accident and we stood in a traffic jam for almost seven hours, here’s a news story in Polish
Adventure bit though, police gave us some free drinks, that was really nice of them C:
Problem being, the snow never stopped falling and kept falling and falling, so when we finally were let go from this huge jam after 4am, there were still a few inches of snow and you couldn’t see asphalt anywhere that you were going
That time, we still had 100km away from Ciechanów, and… it’s 6:25am and we’re standing behind a flixbus that we absolutely cannot do anything about. Mom went to sleep and I might have to switch in for her if the Flixbus starts… but it won’t start for a while.
Our train to Berlin leaves in less than five hours.
We’re 40 kilometers away from Ciechanów.
It’s freaking scary xddd
I’m making this one extra long not to fall asleep, but this is a good point to finish this post, so see you tomorrow, wherever we end up tomorrow xddd