November 8th, 2025
- 151 reviews on WaniKani
- 15 lessons on WaniKani
- 9 reviews on Bunpro
- 3 stories on Satori Reader
- Manga: 化物語第１巻（１８４ページ）
- Manga: 宇宙兄弟第３２巻（２００ページ）
- Visual Novel: Fate/Stay Night プロローグ (p155->p295, １４０ページ), 第１部終わり
- Listening: そこ⭐️あに, 第９１２、９１０回目 (~2 hours)
…aha. Speaking of burning out xddd
Nothing scheduled yet in terms of burning out, but I’ll probably significantly slow down next week again, the goal was supposed to be one chapter of a manga a day, so I’ll see if I can uphold it xddd
So, rapid fire:
I took a shot with そこあに, because I’m a little out of the anime market and I was curious what they’d be talking about, Zombieland Saga I was at least familiar with the premise so I checked on the episode:
It was about the movie coming to the cinemas now, and I learned a few things, but one thing I like about JELLY JELLY RADIO is even if I’m zoning out and I have no idea what they’re talking about, the hosts have a great chemistry and they bounce off of each other and it’s always fun, this episode felt like a readout of a Public Service Announcement xdd
Two guests have been invited, one would just go like うん、うん the whole episode, the other said a few sentences, but the main host absolutely was driving the show xddd
The other episode about the seasonal anime:
had a bit of a better chemistry, but I couldn’t focus on the contents because I didn’t have a reference point of what was being discussed, so I only listened to a few recommendations and nodded my head like うん、うん, at the rest of the episode xdd
Gnosia section I was a bit more in-depth in ^^
But in general, what queenofthegods said, 20-50% comprehension rate and a wide grin on my face xddd
So, 化物語!
It’s among my absolute favorite weeb intellectual properties from Japan next to Fate and 響け, I knew the manga existed and that it was drawn by a very skilled mangaka and you can see the heart in the illustrations, and some jokes are still there! This one made me snort ^^
But, I think that it’s a bit of a disservice to the series to try to condense it and to create a lore digest, especially since this is this one series that’s interesting as you go, but then when you get back to the very beginning, you can see the foreshadowing was EVERYWHERE, every few pages, and this manga doesn’t have it as much ^^
Then, 宇宙兄弟, where did that come from?
I was walking in Tallinn today and I found a manga/k-pop store that had exactly ~10 volumes of manga in Japanese, so I just decided to buy one, and I have Estonian manga (in Japanese) now xddd
Really, really engaging, heavy hitter C:
I was flipping the pages and going like “awww” C:
Biggest part is probably me being surprised at the fact that this is supposed to be level 28 manga, a physical one, and I’m like “yep, that looks like a level 28 manga, let’s read it physically regardless” xddd
Read the whole volume without a single lookup: I’m sure I must have missed a lot of things, but the BRING HER HOME storyline was getting me gripped xddd
Good stuff, it seems like me branching out to new genres is getting me into interesting places, I was really happy I found something of this caliber accidentally in Tallinn xddd
And final one,
額に角が生えるような錯覚。
背に羽が生えるような錯覚。
手に鱗が生えるような錯覚。
踝に水が満ちるような感覚。
……汗が滲む。
ザクン、ザクン、と体中に剣が突き刺さる
Now I get it why it’s level 40+ according to akatsukinoluna. it simply doesn’t make any sense xddddd
Also, @sanshoo introduced me to a banger track today:
I was walking with a suitcase today and bopping my head to this one, だよねぇぇぇ xddd
Life
Anyway, banger update today! I walked 43k steps and burnt 3900 calories today, so it was a pretty neat day C:
Hellinn… I mean, Talsinki… I mean, Helsinki and Tallinn xddd
It’s really dark in Helsinki this time of the year, I woke up and it felt like a really rainy, really dark day, even thugh it was just the usual weather outside 
I found the Fazer cafe and had my Dumle bar, as promised ^^
Walked a bit, hit the city center, went to the Moomins shop, the city center malls, I think I did everything I wanted to do in Helsinki regardless ^^
I found an amusement park that’s functioning mostly over the course of the year, but as the darkness proceeds and it gets closer, the opening hours become weirder, and the final few months had opening hours between 1pm and 5pm, which is pretty unusual xdd
It closed down for winter at the end of October.
And then, I took a plane to Tallinn and wHAT IS THIS TINY AIRPLANE I CANT AAA xddd
The flight took 20 minutes apparently, Helsinki and Tallinn are really close to one another, so that warranted the small flight. I only arrived at the airport 40 minutes before the flight, so, hey, didn’t waste that much time ^^
Bit of an unpaid product placement, but I have something wild to say about the airport: they had a dispensing machine that was handing over free Revolut payment cards.
As my previous card expired and I didn’t get any new one before, I just decided to get a new one, €0.00, doesn’t have any name on it, it can be paired with an account effortlessly and… it just works???
Never seen a vending machine like this one before
Aaand, Tallinn!
First thing to occur to me, the city acknowledges the Russian state figures that helped them regain independence… but outside of that, there are Ukrainian flags EVERYWHERE xddd
Here’s the state of the embassy of Russia, if anyone was curious xdd
There was one Ukrainian shop right next to the Russian embassy I decided to hit and buy myself a pin from, Odessa, some of the merch they prepare has been AI-generated, but hey, at least it’s something.
So back to the topic of Estonia then!
Tallinn does remind me of Poznań if it were in western Europe ^^
I found a sharky bubble tea place!
And one really cool thing: in supermarkets, they label Estonian foods, so you know you’re buying local when you’re buying things ^^
Apple of my eye, huh? ^^
I found a bookstore chain and looked at the Estonian books in there, and there haven’t been as much as I thought there would, the bookstore was split three ways, Estonian, English and Russian
Also, Russian Naruto goes hard, cc @taiyousea xddd
But there’s just no manga in Estonian at all, apparently there’s zero publishing company, so pick your poison: overpriced English or less overpriced Russian ^^
There’s a lot of lights in Tallinn at night, and it’s really pretty decorated C:
Aaand, here’s the Baltic sea! Welcome to the Baltic states!
I jumped on a bus at 8pm, after a whole day of walking and made it all the way toooo… Rīga! I’ll try to spend my whole tomorrow in there ^^
Only Rīga and Vilnius to go and I’m back to Berlin, I promise xddd
I’ll cut down on the size of the posts after I return significantly xddd
So good night and take care everyone ^^
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