It's kinda hard to believe that the Bandori franchise started with a happy-go-lucky 10th grader stumbling upon an ESP Random Star while following a trail of golden star stickers.

Now in the fifth anime season (two in-universe years later), we are treated to a scene of Mutsumi undergoing a complete personality change in the most horrific way possible. Even the ghost that haunts one of the schools in the franchise wouldn't touch this scenario with a long pole.

There's something satisfying about listening to your own music on streaming services.

Someone needs to give Mutsumi a hug.

Also, massive props to Akane Yonezawa for her voice acting as Nyamu. It's her first ever acting role (VA or RL) given her day job as a professional drummer, but she makes for a great "villain" in a high school setting.

Thank goodness for this two-day respite from the heat.

Someone please give both Sakiko and her father a hug. They need it.

https://youtu.be/GjCdZNBi7I4?si=XjGeLg_ghgLHGDSI

My band's new song is finally out! It'll be up on music streaming services within the next 24 hours or so, but for now, I hope you'll enjoy it!

My band's new song is almost ready for public release, and I honestly can't wait for you all to hear it. If it can bring a little bit of light and hope to these trying times, both my fellow songwriter and myself will be more than happy.

A bit late, but Happy New Year, everyone!

Season's Greetings, everyone!

If I were to ever move overseas again, I'd legit consider getting myself a GMKtec mini PC.

The Japanese translators working for Celtic FC in Scotland are genuine mad lads for being able to decipher the Scottish accent when switching between English and Japanese whenever one of the team's Japanese players gets interviewed.

So anyway... My band is currently working on our newest song, and things are looking fairly ok on my end. Once construction is done on my street (this week), I'm aiming to record my vocal parts.

I've also recorded my bass track, but I'll give that another go once I've gotten fresh strings on my Rockbass Corvette $$.

Yes, I can hear Glenn Fricker getting ready to rant at me for the implied meaning behind that.

Thank goodness the weather will be a bit more pleasant tomorrow.

Busy trying to get the correct version of Wine to run on my AntiX machine so that I can actually use VSTs on it.

Now that I've got some time off work (until the end of January), I might as well as get a few personal projects started.

Just rebuilt my website using Publii - there were compatibility issues between node.js and Hugo after I updated the theme code.

It's pretty interesting so far.