The piles of books that I had been steadily reading through this month felt under threat and called for backup, so now the backlog remains as looming as it was before. But I am also happy about book mail so…

Good but sad book mail after yesterday’s news. I will do my upmost to savour Guilt.

Felt I deserved a treat for going to to the doctors. Was frozen so I let it sit for a 10-15 minutes and it was absolutely delicious, sweet but not too rich. Never had Dorayaki before, will be on the lookout for them.

Playing Digimon Time Stranger since it’s out on Switch at last. Not sure if I should be concerned or admire the dedication of this paranormal streamer

Okay but it’s kind of adorable though—

JP books for the month. I split them into ongoing (left) and new (right) and a part of me thinks I should not be starting so many new series a month, but… Also broke my no LN ban to pick up Wistoria #2 and the Asato Asato’s new book. Will I read them this decade? Who knows!

“Human just so you know, I am starving away here while you’re ignoring me for work” So says the never ignored in his life little rabbit. And why do I suddenly hear the Attack on Titan theme…

Also picked some of this up while on my detour. Was hoping they’d have some of the bottled stuff instead, but alas. Still, hopefully will be nice!

The back is funny because it goes on about master blenders and I’m like cool???

Bored of what I usually drink so picked something new up to try. I don’t really drink fizzy or sugary drinks, so trying out some cold teas. I had a nice sparkling matcha tea from the Japanese supermarket yesterday and I’d really like to try a royal milk tea…

It sucks because they've clearly gotten very in trouble with the gov and are making everyone reverify under extremely strict regulations. Who even has half this stuff outside of Japan? I originally thought the law they're operating under had been adjusted, but I can't see anything...

The forwarder I use seem to have gotten themselves in trouble and are forcing everyone to reverify, which is fine in theory but the restrictions on what you can submit as proof of address are crazy. Previously you could use bank statements and rental agreements, which was way easier.

This is almost certainly way better for mass market sales (so I’m not complaining!), but I feel it’s a shame we lost the way more visually interesting JP cover.

March books in after the minor concern it would be tomorrow. (Shocked, honestly). Mostly a lot of LE stuff (so much Bungo Stray Dogs), filled the Tamon gaps and I got myself caught up with Hanako-kun and Nekokurage’s Apothecary Diaries.

I could start a series on Pokémon sleeping in the most uncomfortable of positions in this game.

Had to go to the doctors (I am okay) and so on the way home I thought I’d drop into my favourite comic shop and was delighted to find Wind Breaker merch! And despite being blind buys I did not get duplicates. Bought this tin of sweets from the Japanese supermarket that’s opened too :3

Family got me Lego primarily for my birthday, so will be building these for a while! Wasn’t expecting the plaza set at all since it’s always sold out when I’m looking, looks like it’ll be a really nice build. Looking forward to building Eevee too :3

One of these Pokemon is sleeping on the job and I don’t think it’s Pidgey 😆

Oh yeah I forgot to post earlier, but my Feb books arrived. Including a gigantic stack of Tamon’s B-Side (the anime did its job 🤣 ). Can’t really read that much of Tamon since Vol 3 & 8 are in next month order. I think I pulled pretty much every extra from the animate fare for it too lol.

In case y’all where wondering how life in Pokopia was going.

Book mail. This might actually be the thinnest Kafka Asagiri LN I have and will ever see. It’s a complete edition of a short story and barely reaches 100 pages. Kurumi Tokisaki not doing a lot to stand up to that brick of Lycoris Recoil either!

This little blot of jam is not really what I expected for something advertised as ‘jam filled’ lol.

January JP books arrived (with some other stuff). Silly one here finally remembered to get that volume of Phantom of the Idol I needed to bridge a gap. Also unusually for me picked up Witchriv despite already reading it weekly, was nice to find they included the colour pages.

Pages where you can absolutely hear their voices. Especially Dazai’s 「コラーッ」I love this cast

Reading a manga that I was already concerned about since there’s zero localisation credits, got 40~ pages in and found a really basic error. The MC has been getting repeatedly kicked out of his parties not the guild, the last of which happened 3 days ago. Japanese even uses パーティー

Nintendo 2025 year in review is out. Bit surprised my playtime was so low in Jan and Feb, but I guess I was playing Metaphor then 🤔

First JP package of the year~ (with some review stuff). Broke my hard rule of not buying JP light novels (because I don’t read them) since I figured I’m familiar enough with Blue Box where I probably will get through them. Plus Viz are very wishy washy on what they license novel wise for English.

Finished off my last two Gundam models while working through my radio show backlog. The legs on the Wing unit feel really loose despite being pushed as far as they’ll go :/

MyDramaList wrap is out, not terribly surprised by what's ended up in top rated (although I am surprised Marry My Husband isn't there, I guess I finished it too late).

Made the GQuuuuuuX Gundam kit. A lot more fiddly (and hellish stickers ;_; ) compared to Ariel’s kit from Yuri Gundam, but y’know I think it looks really cool. You can really tell it’s not an ordinary Gundam design when side by side with Ariel tho lol