April 29th, 2026
Yep, I was on the airplane, how did you guess xdddd
8 or 9 hours of Japanese today.
So starting from the top, レシピにたくした料理人の夢, it’s a light novel I got from the Japanese-German center after the marathon last month… and I forgot to extend the borrowing out period, I gave a call to the center and the woman in there was a little disappointed that I called a few days after the book was due and asked to extend it, but she did agree to extend it until I’m back in Berlin, so I’m trying to read things!
レシピにたくした料理人の夢 is a weird book. It’s a coming of age (like, literally, they go through the entire adolescence) of a boy whose mom had a genetic disease that she passed over on him, and early in the book he also accidentally chopped one of his toes in an acciDENT AND THE DESCRIPTION OF IT IS VERY GRAPHIC FOR SOME REASON xddddd
As far as I’ve read (2/6 chapters done), it’s a story about processing grief and airing anger, though judging by the cover and the title, later there will be some overcoming of it. I find the pacing really bizarre, the angst of the descriptions of his feelings pretty messy, but because it’s messy I’m engaged because I go like „omg I literally can’t predict what comes next“ xdddd
Compared to other books I’ve read this year, this is probably a bit harder than the one in the Spring marathon, but I understand about the same amount of stuff and I go back to reread sentences a bit less, so hoo C:
CONAN! Episode 1060! You’d think it’s very random and right in the middle, but no, the airline was able to secure a few episodes that mark a self-contained arc, and this is the first one of it. At the beginning of this episode I had really big troubles understanding the accents of the characters in the show, but as the episode went on, it became a bit easier to listen, aND IT ENDED ON A CLIFFHANGER??? WHY??? xddd
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I understand very easily why Japanese dramas are not as popular as the Korean ones and 真相を話しします is a great representative of that xddd
It’s really bad xdddddd
The acting is very artificial, the plot makes you roll your eyes, not to mention that there are four stories told over the course of this movie and by the time i was through the third story, I noticed that a woman was violently abused in every story until that point, and then a fourth story came around, and a woman was violently abused in the story, and then the outcome of the fourth story was a woman being violently abused in the studio. WHATS WRONG WITH YOU xddddddd
And I’ve got really good things to say about トモダチコレクションワクワク生活! I do understand the complaints of people saying that the game is pretty light on content that used to be staple, but with the things that are available, the polish is really high and the game is a lot of fun C:
I made some WaniKani people on the island, and 4 hours is nowhere close to make the people get along with one another, but I’ll sample a few people I am pretty happy with already! So I’d like to showcase シャンノン, マイトラック, マリンカル and クインオザゴーズ (character space limits) xddd
D-definitely not based on the actual WaniKani people xddd
I made up Miis for them not knowing how half of them look like, tried to add character traits and so on, and here’s the character cards!
First up, シャンノン and マイトラック, as soon as I saw the outfit in the shop I was like „yep, that’s perfect for シャンノン“ and I made her wear this xddd
I’m pretty happy with how the Mii came about as well, it’s pretty representative!
And as for マイトラック, I had it a bit harder because I don’t know if Mitrac ever revealed Mitrac’s pronouns on WaniKani, not even they/them, so I tried to make マイトラック as androgynous as possible and made them non-binary (at the same time customized all of my Miis to also be attracted to non-binary characters so that it wouldn’t feel like マイトラック is left behind) xddd
Subject to change, I’m definitely interested in hearing what pronouns Mitrac uses, but oh well xdd
マリンカル was an easy one, I know the guy, I know the character of the guy, just have to stay canon and we are landing this ship ^^
And クインオザゴーズ was one of the last Miis I’ve created (~10th?), but I accidentally made her very chatty and she started getting along with everyone and her level started increasing really quickly
I don’t know if this is how queenofthegods looks like, but I was trying to go for something pretty athletic and pretty country bumpkin and pretty nerdy and even if she doesn’t look like that, I think the Mii came out really cool at least xddd
You can also spot some guest appearances by the lists of Miis they’re friends with, yes, シツレイ and a few other people also are work in progress and you can be too if you let me know I should be playing with your lives ^^
So some characters started hitting on one another already xdddddddddddddd
So far I’ve just clicked "no, don’t try to get into a romantic relationship“ because I’m ace and also because it’ll feel really awkward if I started shipping real people in a video game, so let’s just, you know, be friends and have fun xxdddddddd
That’s the longest Japanese update I did in a while and the longest Japanese update I’ll do In a while xdddd
Life
So here’s a fun story.
I’m flying through Frankfurt and Taipei to Osaka, and I’m writing this just about to land in Taipei ^^
The airport in Frankfurt has three terminals, the first one is the busy one, one of the biggest airports in the world, all traffic happens here, we stan!
My plane was flying from Terminal 3, which Is a new terminal, and in order to get there, you need to walk a lot, take a train from Terminal 1 to Terminal 2, then walk a lot, and then take a train from Terminal 2 to Terminal 3
Terminal 2 is a deeeecent bit smaller, I was being like "at least they have a coffee place here, and maybe some souvenirs“…
…by the time I got to Terminal 3, it was DESOLATE. ALMOST NOBODY WAS THERE. xdddd
And, gotta give credit where credit is due, China Airlines is really a well stuffed airline, the food is tasty, the displays are high resolution, and sOMEBODY AHEAD OF ME EVEN PLAYED PLANTS VS ZOMBIES ON THEIRS
But yeah, having a 1h flight, and then 2h of waiting, and then a 12h flight, and then 2h of waiting, and I’m still not in Osaka, really sets a specific rhythm to your day.
One that has a lot of Japanese study, so I should be happy about that ^^
And as in October last year, I really like the Taipei airport, have been roaming around, snacking different things ^^
The airport has a lot of decorations and attractions themed after the culture of Taiwan…
Basically every gate has something different, so I just walked from one end of the airport to the other one ^^
And I’m sorry, but after playing through 1000xRESIST, I no longer take chances, of course I needed to get a Taiwan souvenir xddd
MALINKAL SPOTTED, TWICE
(we can let one of those be Maurice ^^)
And one last one, from the phone, in case I ever decide to learn this beautiful language, I got myself a book with stories for 1st, 2nd and 3rd graders in Mandarin, and look, it even comes with the Chinese version of furigana ^^
Ehhh, 2030 ^^
See you from Osaka in like, eee, I don’t know, 16 hours? Less? Because I haven’t slept at all? Xddd
(hopefully not anymore 
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and hopefully you won’t have such experiences anymore 
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German series that every German kid would’ve known of, including a weird Dutch ripoff of Ducktales called Alfred J. Kwak ^^
Ending ^^
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but yes very androgynous in a pleasant way and omg so cute, love the art in this one
yay
