One of my favorites!!!!!

Awwwwww! I’ll share video with my cat too. I’m sure she’ll enjoy it!

Omg amazing!!!!

Ahahahahaha if all the cat accounts migrated over I’d be here full time! I will hang out over here now that you’ve reminded me!

Omg!!!

Yay! The onigiri really makes it special!

They are quite charming!

How about this goofball?

I rented サスペンスfrom the shady video store in little Tokyo and had those on constantly when I was at your stage. Whatever it takes! You can do this!

Ahahahahaha! Well at the time Hollywood was just farmland! But yes, totally ironic.

Oh man, that’s rough. But also, how is he so big already! Didn’t I just see him like last year??? Oh wait was that like five years ago???

Just followed! The only A+ of my life was for a paper I wrote in grad school on Tolkien (I do modern Japan normally but couldn’t pass up the opportunity when I got the go ahead from my prof). The more granular the better!

I’ve got a whole list of fun immigrant kanji isms! My absolute favorite is 聖林 for Hollywood. Get it? It’s both a play on words and a literal translation. They were so creative!

Sorry, I just reread and realized this person is a native English speaker. Things like Nanka are terms that have been passed down in the Japanese American community even though most descendants didn’t learn the language. Like Rafu. So lots of ways they could have picked this up!

南加 and 北加 are both old abbreviations for southern and Northern California. 加州 is how they used to write California. I don’t hear recent transplants use these as that often but they’re still used in writing in the local Japanese language media.

I just started listening to the podcast last week! I can’t wait to listen to your episode!

Yay!

What onsen heaven!