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Christopher P. Hood
@hoodcp.bsky.social
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Academic and author.
Research on symbols, shinkansen, the JAL123 plane crash, death studies, disaster movies - with focus on Japan.
Also author of three novels so far & writing books about Frankie Goes To Hollywood.
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📰 Understanding the Hidden Clues in Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead

In the world of anime, subtle hints and foreshadowing can often go unnoticed until a pivotal moment brings them all...

🔗 https://animenewsdaily.us/articles/44342

#AnimeNews #Crunchyroll #Zom100BucketListOfTheDead
Understanding the Hidden Clues in Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead
November 27, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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My Music Banzuke (a ranking of my favourite bands and singers)

#Music #Banzuke #Ranking #FrankieGoesToHollywood #REBECCA #レベッカ #Roxette #PerGessle #Berlin #HollyJohnson #PetShopBoys #Propaganda #xPropaganda #ThompsonTwins #TomBailey

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My Music Banzuke
While I’m in Japan for my Japan Foundation Fellowship, based at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS), as well as doing my research about symbols and Visual Packaging Culture, I am doing…
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November 28, 2025 at 5:17 AM
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This week Slovenia rejected an Assisted Dying bill making our latest episode even more timely as we speak to Dr Jessica Young about the development of a legal framework around assisted dying in New Zealand

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Dr. Jessica Young on assisted dying, the New Zealand End of Life Choice Bill, culturally responsive research, end of life care and decision making, and sociological approaches
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November 25, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Is Japan Cheap? (And why exchange rates matter)

#Japan #Cheap #Prices #ExchangeRates

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Is Japan Cheap?
Further to my comments about ‘over tourism’ in Japan in the post Formal Prayers at Meiji Shrine, I am going to discuss another related issue; the price of things in Japan. The first thi…
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November 27, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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Cardiff University has done a short piece about the work that my PhD student, Emily Bush, is doing. The research explores ecocriticism through Japanese disaster narratives.

#Japan #DisasterStudies #DisasterNarratives #Ecocriticism

You can read the article here:
www.cardiff.ac.uk/stories/expl...
Exploring ecocriticism through Japanese disaster narratives
PhD student Emily Bush is exploring ecocritical perspectives in media about historical Japanese disasters.
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November 27, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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Sumo wrestler Hitachiyama, c. 1910, a yokozuna [grand champion] from 1903-1914 who did much to popularize sumo into becoming the national sport during the Meiji and Taisho eras.
Sumo wrestler Hitachiyama, c. 1910. | Old Tokyo
"Advocates of Hitachiyama's greatness were not content to leave it at a single assertion. Recurring evaluations of the origins and continuing basis of his fame almost invariably cited three things to ...
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November 26, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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If you see this, QTP with an anime that has an awesome theme song 🎶
#anime #promosky #animesky

#zom100 #BucketlistOfTheDead
November 25, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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The (TV Series) Zom 100: Bucket List Of The Dead (Season 1) is available today on (iTunes) (US) for $9.99 Cast: Shuichiro Umeda, Zeno Robinson, Bill Millsap, Makoto Furukawa, Yûko Sasaki, Jill Remez, Abby Trott, Kate Clarke, Jamieson Price, Nobuhiko Okamoto, Xander Mobus
November 26, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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After my Zom 100 meal, I took the shinkansen back to Tokyo. On it, I started & finished Vol 21 of the Zom 100 manga. I've read all 21 in the last 2 months of being in Japan.

But

The next one isn't due out until March 😢

I'll just have to get the English versions in the meantime 😂

#ゾン100 #Zom100
November 26, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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I went back to the Nagoya izakaya where Tendo's welcome party in Zom 100 is held. Not only did the manager let me sit at the same table (despite being by myself when the table seats eight), he said he could do me the same menu. So that's what I did. やったー!!

#Zom100 #ゾン100 #聖地巡礼 #ContentsTourism
November 26, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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Just finished dinner. One of the people working at the restaurant is from Sri Lanka and thought I'm Japanese. This is a good day for internationalisation in Japan in my books; view based on language and mannerisms rather than nationality or ethnicity.
November 26, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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You know the drill

#Japan #MountFuji #富士山
November 25, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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Looking forward to going to Aichi University of Education (for the second time this year). Today I will be doing a lecture/talk/workshop on 'Foreign Language Learning'.
November 25, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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On my way to Nagoya
November 25, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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That new Zom 100 chapter might have done of the coolest meta tie ins I’ve ever seen.

Still so insanely underrated as a manga.
a man in a green jacket stands in front of a crowd of zombies
ALT: a man in a green jacket stands in front of a crowd of zombies
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November 23, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Like I said, you can never have enough photos of Mount Fuji.

This time from Tama station on my way into central Tokyo.

#Japan #MountFuji #富士山
November 24, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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Further to my earlier post, I got back to Tokyo (the prefecture, rather than the city) early this morning to attend another REBECCA 'session'. At these sessions, singers and musicians from various copy/cover/tribute bands mix and match to play songs.
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Got up crazy o'clock this morning to get back from Osaka to Tokyo so I can have another fun day with REBECCA fans, listening and dancing along to the amazingly talented musicians and singers. Only going to be on my feet for 4 hours this time 😂

#REBECCA #レベッカ
November 23, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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In other music news, very excited to see Zard's greatest hits album will be released on vinyl. Shame it's coming out a few weeks after I return to the UK. Will have to pick it up on a future trip.
November 23, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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Got up crazy o'clock this morning to get back from Osaka to Tokyo so I can have another fun day with REBECCA fans, listening and dancing along to the amazingly talented musicians and singers. Only going to be on my feet for 4 hours this time 😂

#REBECCA #レベッカ
November 23, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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You can never have enough photos of Mount Fuji

#Japan #MountFuji #富士山
November 22, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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In case there are any other fans of the manga/anime/movie of Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead (ゾン100〜ゾンビになるまでにしたい100のこと〜) out there, I've created a Feed -
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I'll try to keep an eye on it and make sure it includes only the relevant stuff.

#Zom100 #ゾン１００
November 22, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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Got to Shin-Osaka earlier than needed this morning to give me time to wait and get a N700S series shinkansen. On the JR Tokai app they publish the details of N700S as it has better access for wheelchair users - I just want to use it as it's nicer than the N700A.
November 22, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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Mount Ibuki was looking amazing this morning as I passed on the shinkansen.
One of my favourite mountains in Japan.

#Japan #MountIbuki #息吹山
November 22, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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I wish JR Central would change their WiFi settings on the Tokaido Shinkansen so you don't have to sign back in every 30 minutes. Why not make it at least 3 hours so that you're covered for a Nozomi between Tokyo and Shin-Osaka?

#JRCentral #TokaidoShinkansen #JRTokai #東海道新幹線
November 22, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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You wait ages for a Central League Champions bus to come along, then three come at the same time.

Great to see many players close up, including my favourite - Morishita.

But organisation is poor. With players not moving, many fans left disappointed. Buses should have done a U-turn and come back.
November 22, 2025 at 3:34 AM