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All Anime Stats Anime Stats
Days: 270.2
Mean Score:
5.00
- Watching9
- Completed1,162
- On-Hold94
- Dropped64
- Plan to Watch362
- Total Entries1,691
- Rewatched71
- Episodes17,009
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Days: 248.7
Mean Score:
5.01
- Reading386
- Completed816
- On-Hold85
- Dropped66
- Plan to Read213
- Total Entries1,566
- Reread52
- Chapters30,874
- Volumes2,655
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https://twitter.com/Airabi000/status/1769295144552173766
Every year on 3/9, I send my IRL Miku friend all the cute fanart that I see on social media and Pixiv. Usually we hangout on this day (for me it's cute art galore and for her it's her play Project Diva and fangirl day lol), but she (and her bf) work remotely so they're digital nomads and traveling Spain right now. She uses FB Messenger and it doesn't have Twitter embeds, so I put them in three albums.
I'm sorry to hear you didn't get a ticket! Was the queue randomized or was it first come first serve. Some of these are brutal. Like for Hoshimachi Suisei they used a randomizing system to have a "fair queue" (literally why???) and also allowed people to enter with multiple sessions (like in incognito mode, on their phone, on another browser, etc.) so it was so so so hard to get a ticket and I had to go through a reseller. Obviously, IU is even more popular so I'm not too surprised but it's still really unfortunate! Also LOL at looking at the seating capacity, that's literally how I knew I was screwed for Suisei too. I don't even want to think about how much a resold IU ticket would cost... it must be over 1000 USD... Something in the same ballpark as a resold Taylor ticket...
I'm glad that IU is this popular! But I'm not glad that you're missing out! :(
Go look at the cute things I sent and watch some cute fancams of IU!
PS: I think you're the only person I know that actually watches fancams other than myself LOL
All that to say that I started this message to try and stay awake LMAO.
Over lunch, I met with another team lead and her son is in Grade 9 and she wants him to get into reading, but he likes manga (One Piece and Naruto). Apparently he isn't that "nerdy" but really likes video games (who doesn't these days) and sports, so I was like wait you have to take him to (insert anime manga store) to pick out some LNs (I'm not really a LN person though) and maybe get some volumes of Blue Lock! She also kind of fell into Asian beauty and kdrama, so I told her there's a Asian beauty and snacks store 2 minutes away from there haha. The store also has a bevy of crane games and other Asian arcade things, so I was like wait a second this would be such a cute outing for their family LOL. She's like in her Asian culture infancy, starting at dramas so I've been trying to enable her. I sent her a list of Korean restaurants to try with her husband and son, starting at Korean chicken since I feel like that's the most accessible LOL. It's just funny since I'm like an intermediate between my coworkers and their kids in age, so I know what they like and can try and help them connect a bit over this stuff. See! We can cling to this to say we're not boomed, Cat!
Anyways, chatting with her about that and other things over lunch made my day. My coworkers are all a bit older than me, so I appreciate when we're able to find some common ground and connect. In this case, she's quite extroverted (she's a bubbly latina lady haha) and once I'm comfortable I can talk a lot too. She's on another team, so I only get to run into her on days I'm in the office and we grab lunch together. Generally speaking, the chatty-softer-personality bunch aren't in my IT team regrettably! It's a bit of a double whammy since IT folk are a bit introverted but also a more male-oriented field, so without trying to sound too sexist or generalistic, it's a bit harder to break the ice and have fun personal conversations like these!
We've been discussing making a social committee (we used to have these before the pandemic) in light of CO-OP students arriving and I think I'll try to organize something with the lady I mentioned, so we can be a bit more lively!
At this point, I realize that you said "shorter" messages and I'm probably drawing out a long one again, so I'll try not to go on too much! I'll need another reply for your previous message about Disney, Romance 101, your weekend, and horoscopes! Honestly, there's so much I want to chat about there, so I'm looking forward to talking to you about those. :)
My week was okay, but I had a wonderful day today and am looking forward to getting a snack with my dad! I hope you're having a great week so far and that you have a lovely weekend! ♥
This is so much longer of a reply than I planned to send, so I'll leave it here but I do love Disney and I will message about it and the other things for sure soon! <3
Anyways, just wanted to clarify that since I typed it poorly haha. I'm definitely a story enjoyer and used to read through it religiously as it published for FGO EN, rather than reading ahead for JP. I totally empathize with you though, at some point I really fell behind for FGO, especially for event content and not "main story". Genshin story is a mixed bag. I think some of it is good, but a lot of it is pretty weak (or just average fare for a gacha experience) so it has a lot of people that just mash their screen (or mouse) to get to the rewards like you mentioned for pjsk LOL. I think a lot of the appeal for Genshin is the open world atmospheric experience, so the development time went into something like this or the first time you dive underwater. Like you said, relative to the amount of open world gameplay, there's not a lot of character to character interaction, especially with how the story is more about "traveling". In that way, I'm a little jealous to hear that Project Sekai has character stories that fit together, like what you mentioned for Mafusaki before. I haven't had that experience since I stopped playing FGO haha. For Genshin, I think a lot of it is fan created content that ultimately the developers give acknowledgement to (like a Keqing Ganyu pairing). But yeah! Cute girls! I enjoy Genshin, but it's much more of a social experience because of how fan content ties into it (than say FGO). Both in the sense that it's mainstream popular, but also that you can't really look to the developer or game itself always for fluff.
I enjoy the game a lot, it's become my casual enjoy the scenery game haha. Like the characters in Romance 101 (I'll reply another time about that), I mostly play multiplayer esports titles and it's a totally different competitive vibe LOL. I think most of my friends like playing Genshin alone, but I really enjoy messing around with my little cousin or my IRL friends that pick up the game and showing them where stuff is haha. Games are always best played with friends I think (or at least in a way you can chat with others about them).
PS: I'm glad my hazukashii Monday Afternoon gif (she's so cute in it) reached you on a Monday. That's just perfect timing LOL
And then there's me, who has a habit of typing full sentences and the only difference is that when I IM or text, I hit enter everytime I'd normally use punctuation or pause when speaking IRL. Anyways, that means that I write LONG spammy walls of text sometimes and the younger folk always reply me with the gif below which is too real! LMAO I can't change the habit now
For concert tickets, I would love to go but they're so expensive on top of traveling! Honestly though, the problem isn't the money part for me but that I kind of prefer traveling with people. I've never really been the sort to go on a trip alone or go to a concert alone, which ironically I did when I went to NY for Suisei (albeit I ended up meeting a Discord friend after deliberating and I think I enjoyed it more for that reason). I kind of like doing and seeing things with people? Like the memories and experiences with others are what stick with me, well that and probably I tend to be a bit shy initially (the opposite of when I'm comfortable since I'm pretty chatty and open once given the chance).
One of my best friends lives in Chicago and IU will be performing there on my birthday, but she's so busy that I don't think it'll be possible. NJ is really easy to drive to or fly to for me, but my IRL friends aren't really into kpop much so it'd be a solo adventure. California would be lovely, but yeah same problem. LOL You get so many fun events over there, I'm jealous! I know YOASOBI, Miku, and LE SSERAFIM will be at Coachella soon too.
Are you planning on going to IU (or the others)?
Hope you have a great week and I'll reply to the other message (your wincing still makes me LOL) soon! Actually writing this one just fit the duration of one boring meeting haha. Take care and talk soon! ♥
I've whaled a lot over the last few gacha games I've played when they were launched, but usually over time with dutiful planning, always full clearing all content, and religious gacha rituals I've been able to make it F2P in the end LOL. In my friend group, I'm actually known for being notoriously lucky (on top of whaling) and I'll attribute that to the latter: for Genshin right now, I often do silly things like building housing in game that the banner character would like or rolling gacha while having my active character being a romantic love interest or best friend of the banner character... LOL
Sleep well and have a nice weekend, Cat! Let's chat again soon!
Our timing is too funny. The part about Seasons of Blossom made me crack up. Yes, you're in fact not wrong: I actually did read it in like twelve hours and proceeded to write a journal entry to you on it LMAO. I swear I slept! I slept after I cried a bit though because that was like right after Hamin's chapter so it kind of messed me up... and I don't mean in a bad way. It hurt me, then it healed me! As an aside, I just thought Somang was so cute there! Her and Bomi were too much for me, truly adorable female MCs. The whole cry then nap a few hours was like true binge experience for me anyways, like that was me with My Mister and Reply and many other kdrama, manga, etc. I'd just marathon the last parts of them before work, cry, then show up (back then I wasn't working remotely, so I'd have to present myself in person) a bit emotional with red eyes LOL. I wonder what my coworkers thought of that sight LOL
And also, yes my sleep schedule is all over the place, as you can see by my reading/watching hours... and my reply hours! I try to fit in all my responsible adulting after work, so the only two things that can give are multitasking at work and my sleep schdule D: I swear I actually do sleep though LOL. WFH really helps on that end, so I can take a nap here and there :')
Oh god, Coin LOL. I can just hear the I don't look no look no look part in my head and I can just imagine it tempting me to spend LMAO. The card set is so cute! The middle one (Airi I think from recognizing from fanart) is also another design I think that is adorable! I wish you all the luck for White Day, let me know how your gacha goes! And you're good! I'm happy to chat about anything, I mean I've played WAY too much gacha too to not understand the feelings behind this topic and these messages. After all, pjsk's a game that tempted me... and still tempts me sometimes LOL