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Joe
@josephl64.bsky.social
I like Nintendo, Spice & Wolf, Garupan, & Alicesoft. Nice to meet you!

https://josephl64.carrd.co/
Get you to watch *Slow Loop* and you'll disappear on long fishing trips.
November 17, 2025 at 4:16 AM
A bit late but got Z-A thanks to a friend, picked up the latest Akane, and got a couple extras too.
November 7, 2025 at 10:34 PM
I noticed something strange about my activity log, and surely I must've done something.

Both the demo and the game for Octopath Traveler have 2 entries with different time stamps.

Did I...redo everything but in Japanese when I was first swapping over? I must've been insane.
November 6, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Pretty heavily first party on the Switch and games like "Blaster Master 0" are too short to show this high up.

(Yes, I beat Pokémon Quest F2P)
November 6, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Part of me feels like Shiho not winning or even placing in the top 5 of the survey asking for who should get new costumes is something of an upset.

That being said, maybe people feel like she has plenty already, or that the whales prop her up.

Congrats to Maho & Miho for beating mom.
October 23, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Tsukasa to this day is wholly representative of my phone typing speed.

Apologies to everyone.
September 22, 2025 at 2:26 PM
It took me a bit, but I finally caught up with "Fuuto Tantei". I love it, but it did take me longer than I'd like as I haven't read a longer work in Japanese in a while.

That aside, "Kamen Rider W" was my first Kamen Rider. It's weird to think that I'm now "current" with it as an ongoing series.
September 12, 2025 at 6:20 AM
I recently played "7 Days To End With You". It's interesting from a language learning perspective as you break down an unknown language via context

Story is fine,but not the focus. I find myself wishing grammar played a larger role, but at that point we're talking making a conlang. I'd recommend it
September 8, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Swung by Kino today and picked up a few things.

"Akane Banashi" 16&17
"Owaru Sekai no Shuugaku Ryokou" 2&3 (story finishes digitally)
"Ganbare, Douki-chan" 2&3

WSJ #36-37 & #39 (thanks @spaceshinji.bsky.social)

Missed out on the Akane one for #38, but them's the breaks.
September 7, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Holo has arrived!
August 13, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Actually picked up some manga for the first time in quite a while. Not sure how much I'll import either in the future given recent developments.
August 9, 2025 at 11:47 PM
My plan now is to just sit on Carats until the Halloween vampire Rice Shower comes out, and then just spam them all to hopefully get ☆ ups as well.

It's just me playing the long game.
July 24, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Bounced off "Uma Musume" before because I usually drop gacha, but it finally stuck.

I'm all about Rice Shower, but I have pretty dismal luck managing her mood.

Re-rolled legacies specifically for her (McQueen/Rudolf/Hayahide) and used the SSR ticket on Rice.

Lucked into max Kitasan Black as F2P.
July 24, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Shizuka looks good, but this is definitely one of those figures that will feel incomplete if you don't get Rin alongside her. We haven't seen her yet, but it feels pretty evident that's the case.
July 22, 2025 at 12:16 AM
I happened to drop by the Demo Caravan for Hololive OCG a week ago or so.

Game is fun, and easy to get used to since it's so similar to Pokémon. Well, except for how they streamlined how you get "energies" which works like Pocket in a sense

Managed to pull one of my 2 oshi from the promo pack too!
July 21, 2025 at 11:51 PM
I wanted to say that play time was only recorded locally on the Switch family of systems since my playtime got reset after playing Pokémon Scarlet on Switch 2.

However, the phone app tallies up by adding my Switch 1 & 2 playtimes together.

It'd be nice if that was also the case on console.
June 11, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Completed my playthrough of "Pokémon Scarlet".

This is everything save for a living dex which I might do at some point

The Switch 2 experience was a massive improvement. There's still some ridiculous pop-in, but that's just inherent to the game

I really hope we get gym badge scaling in the future
June 11, 2025 at 7:07 AM
I picked up "Pokémon Scarlet" again. Starting from scratch, and it really does perform like a different game now.

I'm catching everything I see so this might be a new 100% playthrough.

I chose the cat since last time I played as the fire-type alligator Pokémon.
June 7, 2025 at 7:11 AM
I've heard rumblings of a Mirror Mode, but I completed the main 2 modes for single-player that I have access to.

Free Roam isn't a priority for me, but maybe I'll collect the stuff there in the future.
June 6, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Got my unit at launch.

Will probably be mainly playing everything that I missed in the last several years, and of course *Mario Kart World*.

Should be a good time.
June 5, 2025 at 5:36 PM
I looked at my most played Switch games, and yeah that tracks.

They were all from the same general period of time too.
June 4, 2025 at 3:30 AM
2025 Media: Anime 3-4

Kingdom season 1 has rough animation, but being current with the manga, I wanted to do the same for the anime in time for S6 in fall. Voice cast is solid, and S2 already feels miles better.

Love Kamen Rider W. I didn't expect more after the anime, so I'm pleasantly surprised.
May 29, 2025 at 4:46 AM
2025 Media: Manga 47

"Owaru Sekai no Shuugaku Ryouko"

I realized vol 4 was never coming out & would be digital-only a while ago, but I finally finished it more recently. A post-apocalyptic romp with an alien friend. Similar thematically to series like "Girl's Last Tour" based off of what I heard.
May 29, 2025 at 4:40 AM
I really underestimated how much I'd read. Maybe I should've left it for end of year or done screenshots of lists of works, but here we go. Skipping R18 here too.

First was every Weekly Shonen Jump work which debuted in 2020. Putting it all in one.

3 additionals too.

2025 Media: Manga 15-46
May 29, 2025 at 4:27 AM
May 29, 2025 at 3:31 AM