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This is also how it's written in Chinese, and no, 橋/桥 doesn't sound like 'bridge' in Chinese either!

The person who invented the video game joystick has disappeared, they down right up and left.

Terminology Management 101: Yes, you need a term base! Let’s talk terms. Anime, manga, game, and light novel translators, we need to talk.Y’see, there’s something very, very important a lot of ya’ll aren’t in the habit of …

Today's terminology management tip: a word or phrase is not a term because of its FREQUENCY in the text; it's a term because of its NATURE.

Even if a character only shows up once in the volume, their name is still a term! You never know when they'll show up again!

(Link: my guide to term bases.)

Title: Just in time for Mother's Day: Classic literature with added Mums Panel 1: Moby Dick "Ahab! Moby! Enough of this nonsense. Apologise to each other and if you can't get along, stay apart." says Ahab's mother, standing in a little boat and looking sternly into Moby's eye, while her son sits chastened behing her. Panel 2: Casino Royale. "Vodka martini, shaken not stirred... And a sweet sherry for my mother." says James Bond. His mother calls over feom their table "Just a little one." Panel 3: The Lord of the Rings. "You can look for your ring after you tidy your room and walk the dog, Sauron." says Sauron's mother, holding out the dog lead to her son, who replies "Aw, mum!".

A cartoon reminder that it’s probably Mother’s Day tomorrow unless you are in the UK.

Bullet Train Explosion: This was quite a decent go at this sort of movie, with interpersonal and rescue-related hijinks and explosions. I enjoyed my time with it.

Shiroi Kyoto (2003) was soooo good. I loved the way they developed the story and characters. They also managed to end nearly every episode on a cliffhanger of some kind 😱

Currently watching:

Hot Spot (2025) ep 9
Anpan (2025) ep 10
Mikami-sensei (2025) ep 4
Ryomaden (2010) ep 26
Ruroken (2024) ep 20

Finished:
Shiroi Kyoto (2003)
Shinkansen Daibakuha (2025)

Another slow month for watching stuff.

long stretch of worked roman stone on Hadrian's Wall.

If you ask someone today to name the builder of Hadrian's Wall, they would give you a funny look. But historical memory is odd, and right up to the 1800s we forgot who built it.

Until in 1840 John Hodgson, an obscure Northumbrian clergyman, published the LONGEST footnote in history... 1/22

Thanks for sharing the vid! Loved the car singing scenes, and it was nice to see the gang again in this version

Wakamonotachi: When I saw the rest of the cast list, I was like, this is an auto-pick.

It didn't disappoint.

It went into heavy topics but the liveliness of the family and some comedic situations leavened it. Excellent character work as well.

Orange Days: Loved it. Brilliant writing and likeable cast.

Went on a hunt for other shows with Tsumabuki Satoshi, and...

Yamato Nadeshiko: Rather bemused slash frustrated by this. FL wasn't written to be very likeable (and in some ways this applied to ML too?) and I never ended up rooting for the leads to get together. Cast somewhat carried it, which led me to finish the show, but overall it kind of fell flat for me.

Kujaku no Dance: Windup was good, payoff was mixed. I felt some of the character beats landed well but the mystery's resolution was so-so.

A bit of writer's block recently so I slowed down on posting over the last month.

I also spent some time on playing Trails in the Sky FC and am enjoying it (heard it's slow; taking it slow; 50 hours for half the game so far).

OK, some mini-reviews: 🧵

Currently watching:

Hot Spot (2025) ep 9
Anpan (2025) ep 7
Shiroi Kyoto (2003) ep 9
Mikami-sensei (2025) ep 4
Ryomaden (2010) ep 26
Ruroken (2023) ep 16

Finished:

Kujaku no Dance (2025)
Yamato Nadeshiko (2000)
Wakamonotachi (2014)
Orange Days (2004)

Anachronym Challenge xkcd.com/3075

Really enjoying this classic Sesame Street segment, two minutes of freestyle jazz riffing on saxophone factory footage

It's signposted in various places online that this drama features an affair. However, that turned out to be one of the subplots rather than the main story, and was handled relatively well, I think.

Overall it's a recommend unless cheating stories are a hard no.

The newsroom is very lively, with a great cast of colorful characters.

The editor, (played by Sasaki Kuranosuke) and Kurokawa (Kate's boss) stand out amongst the supporting cast.

There's whitewashing of what tabloid press do, but also exploration of the impacts some of these reports can have.

Shiranakute Ii Koto (2020):

Was interested in this drama because of Hikaru Kimi e.

It shines in its portrayal of reporters working for a weekly magazine (shukan), hunting down scoops etc.

Yoshitaka Yuriko plays an intrepid journalist and Emoto Tasuku a cameraman who happens to be her ex.

Wait, I forgot. Managed to squeeze in Ichikei no Karasu (2021) and a rewatch of Nodame Cantabile (2006) as well (!!)

Both shows were a good time.

I'm kind of interested in watching Hero (the 2000 one) now.

I enjoyed it overall.

The foreshadowing and parallels were awesome, as were some of the characters (writing and acting).

But I found some aspects of the writing rather unbelievable too. And I had to google the ending. My interpretation was the "right" one but I felt there were too few clues...

Nemureru Mori (1998): It was already on my to-watch but got bumped up because someone commenting on Kujaku no Dance mentioned it.

The suspense/mystery angle got its hooks in me and I pretty much watched it as quickly as I could, which took more than a week.

Currently watching:

Hot Spot (2025) ep 4
Mikami-Sensei (2025) ep 4
Kujaku no Dance (2025) ep 5
Shiranakute Ii Koto (2020) ep 4

Slightly behind on the new shows, it's just been that kinda month.

I did finish Nemureru Mori (1998) in the meantime though.

Inside the doping deal for tennis' world number one How did Jannik Sinner’s drugs ban deal come about and where does it leave the fight against doping in tennis?

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“Forget the problematic doping decisions, the crazy new balls, the abusers, and all the rest. You know what change tennis needs? The addition of another Grand Slam.” said no #tennis fan ever

Screenshot from a comment in a Discord server, the text reads “It’s so sad hardly anyone is making good point and click adventure games anymore. The Dig, Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, Grim Fandango, these are all etched into my soul.

I see people saying this sort of thing often, and quite frankly it makes me sad. The truth is, more people are making good adventure games now than were ever made during the “golden age” of the 90s. For example: 🧵

Mock foreigner speech and the reification of mediatized (white) foreignness in Japanese media This article examines the metapragmatics of ‘Mock Foreigner’ speech and its associated characterological figure in a Japanese popular media context. M…

My article on Mock Foreigner speech is now available open access at Language and Communication! In it, I build on the mock language framework to explain what's up with the linguistic features used to invoke (white) foreignness in a Japanese media context.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...