08.09.25

new week new stuff, i think at least. i recently started reading Dragon Ball and its great! i decided to write down a list of what manga to read and what i was interested in (there's 43 titles right now) and Dragon Ball was the most interested so i decided to start there first, im only 3 volumes in but its amazing! i love how the characters interact with their surroundings and each other. its very funny but also very dated but it works really well that way. im super excited to finish it tho! i think after that im going to read.. hm.... let me pick in real time. drumroll please (pretend theres drumrolls here) Mob Psycho 100! i might change my mind but i wanna take a break before returning to DBZ (im scared of its length) but i might read something else shonen jump too. ive been on a shonen jump kick as of late so who knows, i just wanna finish Dragon Ball first though. im glad i started reading manga because wowww it feels semi rewarding when you finish a series, at least to me. its kinda cool to know like... wow i read a lot already. im not particualy interested in all the biggest ones but the list i have right now im pretty happy with. i dont know if i wanna get to the big series yet (large # of chapters, not popularity) but i feel i wont regret it when i do, i really wanna read gantz too so i honestly might read that soon. Dragon Ball Z is tempting but, again, if we count both the original run and Z, that's over 500 chapters and i really don't wanna read that right now. i might honestly start Blade Of The Moon Princess. i'm really into Tatsuya Endo's character designs and i really love the story to Spy X Family so far so i'm definitely interested in seeing what else he's done. i wanna read the light novel and the Four Lives Remain, which is a collection of his works pre Spy x Family. i really love looking at those, i have the two for Chainsaw Man and they're both really great to flip through. i should probably read the full thing at some point lol. yeah im probably going to start Blade of the Moon Princess. wow, i already changed my mind like 4 different times just from writing this post. how convenient. surely i won't change my mind yet again! i think thats the problem, i tend to overthink every little aspect of my life when i should and its killed me (i really need to go to therapy) so many time. so many quick decisions and so many other things because i always choose by what im thinking at the current moment and not in the longrun. i was working earlier today when it just hit me like... i can just read this stuff later. im a 20 year old for god sake, i should be able to read stuff properly and not panic because there's more than one option, and hell, i won't even feel this way tomorrow morning! thats what i hate about overthinking but... eugh forget it. i talk so much about these problems but don't fix any of them, let's talk about what i love but dont talk about! i wrote a post on tumblr not too long ago outlining a lot of the stuff i dont tend to talk about usually but still have a strong love over. it should come to very little surprise that i have a fondness for earthbound, i mean its a pretty funny and cool game, i love how unique it is and how out there it is. i mostly love the art style and the color choices. the brightness of Onett is a clear example of what im talking about because its just SO bright and colorful and it pleases my eyes a bunch. the green grass and the blue water, the sidewalks and building colors.. ooooooh so so good. i haven't played it in a long long time but i dont think i'd have the time for it now, at least to beat it in the manner i want to. there's this youtuber named MonkeyNess that makes AMAZING videos about the game and is what sparked my interest in the franchise again. my favorite video about earthbound he's done is about earthbound's development and cut content because im an absolute sucker for those types of videos. he also does really great videos analyzing the game too and his most recent one about poo and summers is my most favorite. incredibly well done. another thing i love a lot is Yakuza. i just love love LOVE yakuza, it's probably my favorite game series of all time (speaking of which i need to finish Y5 after... 2 years... welp.) and each game is so stunning in their own right. i have a lot of fun memories with the series and i just LOVE exploring every single crevis of each city and interacting. it should come to no surprise that i am quite fond of the karaoke minigame, its my favorite one, and i keep trying to grind baka mitai until i get 1,000 points (im at 990) but i will ge there eventually. talking about this reminds me of winter 2022 for some reason. the games are really, really fun though. wow 2022 was 3 years ago, huh. weird. i also love bowling! it's quite possibly the greatest sport maybe ever. i am absolutely awful at it but it's just so much fun. the 2019 LOONA vlive where they bowled is such a huge inspiration to me that i sat down and watched the full thing. it has got to be one of the most important pieces of art within the last decade. i just get a thrill looking hitting the pins, if a game im playing has a bowling minigame, i grind it heavily (yakuza 5 has one i really like). i really love rhythym games too. ive been playing DJ4D and Taiko a lot lagtely and its just SO MUCH FUNNNNNN. i cant stress it enough. it's fun being in rhythm. the only other thing i can mention right now that i have a strong love of is Japanese movies. some of my favorite movies of all time are Japanese (no surprises) and it kinda shows. some of my favorites are The Happiness Of The Katakuris, House, Love Exposure and Audition. these are all great in one way or another but I prefer comedy musical horror movies so my favorite is Happiness Of The Katakuris. 

second time i fell asleep writing a blog post ughhh. i gotta stop. thankfully i was running out of things to write about so it was probably for the better. hope everyone is doing well!