I’ve always thought this too, but Japan, and specifically Okinawa (where I live) are so reliant on fossil fuels. I figured we’d have solar panels on every home, offshore wind, and maybe even lead the innovation for tidal energy but nope.
Personally, the game also needs to be sold on gog, Nintendo, or PlayStation to avoid giving a cut to a us company.
Also DQ remake characters creep me out.
Rubber sole sommelier is great. Ill have to start using that.
I flew with them na flight to Cancun thirty years ago or so. Iirc we had to turn back to the departing airport because they forgot to refuel before takeoff lol.
This is probably why I can’t like K-Pop. I really think a lot of them are great singers and dancers but it’s such a creepy, hyper-capitalist, lookism-riddled medium. I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone talk about the intricacy or the artistry in the messaging of their songs or music (do any of them even play instruments? not that that’s a requirement). They only ever mention general things like they sing well, they dance well, they speak so many languages, etc.
Damn, I haven’t heard of High and Mighty Color in such a long time. They did an anime OP right? Can’t remember for what though… The singer is my cousin’s cousin. Not to sound like a creep, but she was incredibly pretty and charismatic when I had the chance to meet her.
I commend people who can genuinely like music they don’t understand the words to. Lyrics are such an important part of my enjoying of music because it evokes much more emotion than just the melody. So as someone who grew up speaking Japanese and English, US, UK, CA, JA songs are my favourites. I can’t enjoy French or German songs because I only understand at a surface level. I do enjoy orchestral music if it’s attached to some experience I’ve had like movies, anime, or videogame (I listen to the PSO: BB OST all the time because I spent thousands of hours playing that game in high school).
I get European as a status symbol but thinking any American products as a show of wealth and class baffles me. Maybe I’m just old, but I associate American goods with ruggedness, cool, or cheap.
According to a person in another thread, they’ve had 45 so far in 2026, so I think it’s actually like one a day. That’s crazy.
Seriously, I don’t mean to sound holier than thou, but the US has a mass shooting like every other day. There’s just simply no contest.
That’s really cool, I gotta give it a try.
They exist to exploit low wage workers in foreign dictatorships and regimes
The US left though.
His true family was the magats he found along the way. How heart-warming.
Yeah I’m saying they’re probably only known as that collectively. I can’t find anything even on the Japanese side of the Internet.
Rename it Trump bridge and invite him to the grand opening. Then just push him off the bridge and rename it to something with class.
I’m not seeing how that’s relevant. It’s bigger, yeah, but still an island nation with the same import cost issue that empireOfLove2 mentioned. Does being bigger and more populous somehow cancel that out?