Taylor Glover has gone to Uma hell.

Report: Nearly 30% of Japan’s Restaurant Managers Work 60-Hour Weeks - Unseen Japan A new report finds that one-third of all restaurant managers are so busy that they're at risk of working themselves to death.

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literally anything but training #umamusume

Remember to be considerate tonight while trick-or-treating!

For those on computers using Spotify...

μ's Snow halation is track #368...

Toradora's Holy Night is track #189...

back number's Christmas Song is track #79.

HIGHLY SUGGEST YOU SHUFFLE.

You may thank me later. ;)

P.S. whenever hallmark does a christmas movie in japan, i'll be there

(20/20)

That's it from me! Get yourself hyped up with anime, gaming and Japanese culture this Christmas season and may your days be merry and bright!

Don't forget to get some chicken from the Colonel!

(19/20)

I found out recently that Japan takes down everything Christmas by the time Christmas Day ends to make way for New Year's celebrations.

To respect that, I chose December 25th, 11:59 PM PST so that the weebs in America can listen to everything they can before the night is over.

(18/20)

Since this is the holidays, we celebrate the coming of the new year as well.

There are a couple of songs about that on there too.

However, you might want to make your own private playlist with those songs yourself, because...

(17/20)

For gaming, Nintendo has its own music streaming app that's for Nintendo Switch Online members. They have plenty of Christmas music I could've added too.

There's quite a few already, didn't do too much Mega Man, and kept things above a minute at least.

No anime OST. Too few to choose.

(16/20)

I couldn't include "Starlight Prologue" by Liella!.

Despite the scenes being set in the wintertime... I just can't see this as a Christmas or winter-styled song.

What do you think?

(15/20)

On the full version, there's one exception for "balancing purposes." Hope you can find it. ;)

(14/20)

Oh, and some J-Pop songs seem to be about winter, but actually, it's not, and you won't see them on there.

Like "Everything" by MISIA. It was released in October 2000 for an unrelated TV drama (that's on Netflix), but the MV is set in winter for artistic reasons.

(13/20)

Didn't want to use any Korean K-Pop because there's an official Spotify playlist for that already, and it might ruin the purpose of this playlist if I put them here.

You can always switch to a K-Pop Christmas playlist for that if you want to change the vibes.

(12/20)

Well, this can be interpreted in many ways.

You can use this playlist as a soundtrack to your anime or Japanese culture-based store (full version).

You can make this work for your anime-styled Christmas party with your friends (short version).

Maybe use either for your own Xmas vibes?

(11/20)

And, there were like very few Japanese Jazz Christmas pieces that could be used.

I think 80-85% is literal J-Pop not based on any anime. If you're only looking for anime material and nothing else (like you don't care for J-Dramas), what's the purpose here?

(10/20)

Plus, there are anime Christmas songs that aren't available for legal streaming, especially the ones from the original Sailor Moon (not the remake), Hetalia, Uta no Prince-sama and Martian Successor Nadesico. Heck, even Digimon isn't really on there.

And we know why SDFM isn't here...

(9/20)

NOW FOR SOME REAL TALK.

This playlist was a little hard to make, and I might tick some certain fandoms off for this.

On the anime side, there's just not that much Christmas music in the scene anymore. I didn't want to put the Pokémon Christmas Bash there, because it's based on the dub.

(8/20)

Both versions of this playlist WILL BE UPDATED with any Japanese Christmas or Winter songs that are officially AND PROFESSIONALLY released in the year of our lord 2025.

So watch this space.

(7/20)

If you're overwhelmed by what I've done, I've also done a short 101 or 102-song version of this playlist here.

spotify.link/yWKbcoPMUXb

music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

(6/20)

Games I've added include...

Several Sonic games, a couple of Mega Man games, Minecraft, Final Fantasy, Genshin Impact, Undertale, Persona, Kingdom Hearts, even Friday Night Funkin', and more!

Yeah, some are made outside Japan, but we all love video game music that shows our weeby side!

(5/20)

J-Pop artists included are some you may have heard in anime before (maybe plenty of times) like...

HYDE, T.M.Revolution, Hikaru Utada, AiNA THE END, PornoGraffiti, Stray Kids, Sukima Switch, L'Arc-en-Ciel, BUMP OF CHICKEN, LiSA, ClariS, Ikimonogatari, and [Alexandros].

(4/20)

Anime and multimedia projects include... Love Live!, Toradora, Umamusume, BanG Dream!, TenSura (yes, Slime), Macross F, PreCure, Detective Conan, iDOLM@STER, and surprisingly... Di Gi Charat (and I mean a lot of it).

All Snow Miku songs are there too, as well as some other Vocaloid hits.

(3/20)

Ended up with 500 songs on the Spotify playlist and 484 on the YouTube Music playlist. Some aren't on Spotify or YouTube as of this moment.

Most of it is indeed J-Pop (some in English), with some Anison, gaming, J-Idol, K-Pop in both ENG and JPN, City Pop, covers and a bit of J-Jazz.

(2/20)

It's November 1st in Japan! That means this Japanese / J-Pop / Anime / Gaming Christmas playlist is now live!

November 1st Midnight JST to December 25th 11:59 PST!

Read below for everything you need to know about this!

spotify.link/patgGHILUXb

music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

(1/20)

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This is one of those "little kid sells lemonade to pay for mom's cancer drugs" news stories. Yes, it's good to see someone trying to help, rising to the occasion, but the situation is obscenely dire & inhumane in the first place, only being mitigated by the work of people who should be our leaders.

The 19 best horror anime ranked, from 'Vampire Hunter D' to 'Death Note' Here are Entertainment Weekly's picks for the best horror anime ranked, from cult favorite series like 'Death Note' to profoundly influential films like 'Perfect Blue'.

Man, look at all those titles you could also own on BD from Discotek that they only bother to mention streaming as an option to watch.

And these same outlets will later write articles going "What ever happened to physical media?"

ew.com/best-horror-...

This is a great discussion on some of the more interesting anime dubs we've gotten over the years, but gotta knock some points for bringing up Glitter Force witout paying the proper respect to this god tier line

Happy Halloween, trainer! 🎃
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Elijah Wood crashed a wedding that was taking place on the Shire set from 'The Lord of the Rings' 💍