Well, I’ve kept my promise. Here is a new episode. Recorded this month. This time, we took notes during the recording session, which I will post them here. Let us know if you like this format for show notes going forward. I’m still too lazy to add time stamps to all of this, but it’s all in order: Show 153 This week’s hosts: Laven – @LavenVoth Kenny – @sakoku_otaku   Where the fuck have we been!?   (Hey, Shinzo Abe died)   What has changed in our lives in the last few months? Have we done anything exciting? Laven’s super Japanese summer Fireworks display in Nagoya A tangent! Co-op food delivery is starting to push Oden, a traditional Fall/Winter food. Universal Studio Japan! So hot Super Mario World — timed and queued entry like the Star Wars place at Disney/whatever Kessenuma, Miyagi, Japan Kessenuma was devastated by the 3/11 triple disaster Former coworkers started a brewery in Northeast Japan, and was connected to the city through a sister city relationship Laven visited in Spring for a… Spring Fest! Food, beer, music, and fun. This sparked a memory with Kenny — eating at a food festival in Katsuura, Chiba. If you ever go there, get the Katsuura Tantanmen. Adventures in Cooking! Laven and Kaori are mastering Mexican cuisine. Kenny pitched an idea for… Hello Fresh but for Japan! But he’s definitely too late. CookingBros! Baking Spouses! Kenny joined a Sister City organization for Salem-Kawagoe Group arranges visits and exchanges between the cities Using this as an avenue to engage with Japan that isn’t just anime/manga   From the detour Kenny went to Hawaii on his 10th wedding anniversary Kona, visited Hilo   What have we been watching? Reading? Doing? Laven Tried watching (Spring and Summer) Anime about a traditional confectionery shop in Kyoto. Conflict between the son who abandons his family business and the adoptive daughter the takes it over. Yofukashi no uta Did watched Birdy Wing Thermae Romae F Spy x Family Am Watching Isekai Oji-san GeGeGe no Kitaro (Detective) Conan — watching as new episodes they come out Kenny Watching, technically a present tense verb Birdy Wing Spy x Family Oishinbo Read and reading Don’t toy with me, Miss Nagatoro by Nanashi ‘Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World’ by Matt Alt ‘First Person Singular’ by Haruki Murakami Doing Gunpla! 3D Printing Kenny’s wife got a dog! Molly. Video games?   Other Recommendations: White Lotus (HBO), a fun mini-series about people on vacation The Big Hit Show, Season 4, a podcast on the Pokemon takeover of American pop culture — season 4 of some other podcast “The Big Hit Show”   Leave us a review on Spotify! Or Google something. Subscribe to the RSS.   Buy your albums on Bandcamp, kids!         https://anibroscreative.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Podcast153-Summer2022.ogg   Download Audio File Here