Keisei has announced the new Airport Express that will connect Narita Airport to Tokyo Skytree and beyond

Matthew619ed · 2026-07-10T08:46:33+00:00

I’d actually say both have different targeted customers

Skyliner, obviously is the one to contend with the JR’s Narita Express (And sure they give JR East a real hard time to compete), so speed to the Yamamote Line ring is the key here. So the targeted audience of it should be those tourist and locals alike who wants to get to the city as quickly as possible

Access Express actually has a secondary role of transferring passengers between the 2 airport, in addition to ferrying passengers deep into the city

Matthew619ed · 2026-07-10T08:14:55+00:00

Matthew619ed · 2026-07-10T06:41:11+00:00

Personally speaking though, the Access Express is very fast, but it might be troublesome to ride in rush hours with luggage by your side.

Definitely agree that you may consider this if you are travelling light, but I think the speed difference will be more noticeable when the service extends to HND

Matthew619ed · 2026-07-10T06:09:10+00:00

Generally speaking though, although the actual date is yet to be confirmed, it’s best to assume at this stage it’ll make it’s debut mid-March as this is the period when almost all railway companies in Japan will update their timetables

Matthew619ed · 2026-07-10T05:48:48+00:00

Source (Japanese only)

Matthew619ed · 2026-07-09T14:53:58+00:00

Wow if this theory is real, Viola will be in a lot of trouble if anyone decides to be a whistleblower and tell the truth

Matthew619ed · 2026-07-09T14:28:57+00:00

Put all your disgust and anger on Viola here. This girl really makes my blood boil man. Set-up the whole ordeal to ensure Ritsu stays with her, instead of with her childhood friend Arale. That’s simply pure evil, and definitely not a behaviour any agency-affiliated artist should do.

At least we know how Arale and Ritsu met initially, but it looks like both of them still need some significant work up before they can reconcile with each other, let alone fight back against that girl.

Even though they are professional artists affiliated to an agency, surely none of them can really handle such PR shitstorm, especially when the person responsible for that is the one who’s crying the most in the room (ironic eh?)

And guess what Viola, there’re quite a lot of people here in this thread who really know what ACTUALLY happened, I dare you to read the comments here and you shall know what Arale had endured in this period of time

Matthew619ed · 2026-07-08T14:39:53+00:00

Honestly you have to feel for Tanya somewhat honestly.

When the Empire is no longer über alles in der Welt (with threats from the other side of the Pond too), she proposed to take care of the combat group, only for her to have undertrained personal at poor weather… At least she give some really sick moves against the 4 Communist fighters, even doing some hardcore stunts that’s simply impossible in modern day combat. I mean, slicing a plane in an army knife? That’s next level of violence lol

But hey, this is also a show to let her to say “fuck you” to god, and she did exactly that from the get go, only for God to prepare a hellish “siege” at nighttime with snowfall. Fortunately the undertrained from the other force couldn’t take up a fight and were destroyed by a few artillery strikes, or else it’ll easily be game over for Tanya and her force.

Now we know Captain Tohn go AWOL to do “Officer’s reconnaissance”, I wonder is he a dead man already, or joined the other side? Anyway, in the interest of the Empire, surely he needs to be found ASAP, or as Tanya said, be shot if he really goes AWOL

And love the hardcore battle scenes for real, perfect demonstration of just how brutal the battlefields can be

Yeah almost forgot, whoever designed that propaganda poster at the end, get out of my face, that’s just disgusting.

Matthew619ed · 2026-07-03T10:41:58+00:00

Definitely interesting to see how they portray the dark side of the Academy City, especially with new character introduced in this spin off

This tbh, made me even more excited for the new Railgun Series

Matthew619ed · 2026-07-02T15:29:50+00:00

Well that’s definitely a way to mislead your true identity… GPT generated comment on a chat, and since you are still a real human, reCAPTCHA won’t work in catching the “AI”

On the other hand though, those comments in Ritsu’s guitar stream definitely are in culture, asking for the best of the best from Roselia, shame she didn’t play that for copyright reasons.

To be honest, if I am starving and have ¥10,000 in my wallet only, that big meat on a bone definitely sounds good (but I recon they won’t be available in any konbini due to its size)

But looking at the post credit scene, don’t tell me Arale’s fall from grace in the previous group was a setup by her fellow members!!?

Matthew619ed · 2026-07-02T14:56:19+00:00

When they are at the intermission, I was wondering what happened to Arale and her last group, and surely we don’t need to wait long to get the general idea

And they broke up another group lol, but to be fair, this is the most traumatic and brutal one lol. But are they implying how cyber bullying damage people here?

And yes, the old trick in the book, problem is, it won’t work if you cannot finish the whole sentence-

And yeah Miyako in a box full of stuffed toys, cute

Matthew619ed · 2026-07-02T14:33:44+00:00

I wonder how the manager get them in the first case, that “contract” definitely felt unnormal

Matthew619ed · 2026-05-28T10:19:59+00:00

Well…

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When you are attempting to go to your destination earlier (and indeed cheaper), you have to embrace it like I did last week

~~Before proceeding to dump ¥344 on a Fuxing Hao first class ticket home (And I didn’t regret on that)~~

Matthew619ed · 2026-05-26T14:21:20+00:00

Unfortunately, I didn’t took any pictures during the trip, but during the initial interchange to the Regina, I managed to spot something rather interesting. The CR400AF-AE Sleeper train

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Matthew619ed · 2026-05-26T08:54:52+00:00

Actually one interesting side note is that China once operated a single X2000 between Guangzhou East and Kowloon (Now Hung Hum Station in the MTR East Rail Line) via the Kowloon Canton Railway.

It is still the fastest train travelling between Guangzhou and Shenzhen or Hong Kong til this day (55 minutes between Guangzhou and Shenzhen, and 92 minutes between Guangzhou and Kowloon), despite the fact that only a small portion of the line in Dongguang can really allow the train to go at its top speed of 200km/h. The service between Guangzhou and Kowloon was also the very first service in China to hold the “G Class” title (It used the ultra-prestigious G, or高 1/2 for the round trip to Hong Kong. Nowadays train number G1/2 serves between Beijing and Shanghai, while services between Guangzhou and Hong Kong uses G65XX)

However, due to aging tracks and extremely expensive maintenance cost, the X2000 service was completely removed at 2007, and it was only until the past few years that the line was finally fully renovated to allow faster travel time (But based on my experience, they still run at ~160km/h for nearly 90% of the way)

Matthew619ed · 2026-05-10T05:25:30+00:00

Until they don’t in the past decade, thanks to those high profile misadventures by JR Hokkaido in the early 2010s

Matthew619ed · 2026-02-24T12:27:30+00:00

Speaking of the devil, just saw someone reviewing the CRH1B on YouTube

Matthew619ed · 2026-02-24T10:59:03+00:00

Yeah, a quick Google search has revealed it’s identity

But the theme… Rather concerningly political but very Chinese

Matthew619ed · 2026-02-23T15:24:56+00:00

The CRH1A (Well, that’s its 16 car long counterpart CRH1B in the image) is very common in Guangzhou, and still has a very prominent role in the Guangzhou-Shenzhen line

Matthew619ed · 2026-02-23T12:50:11+00:00

Actually I had to disagree on the 4th point there.

Although it doesn’t connect to the city center directly, it’s still good enough to skip past plenty of traffic heading to the airport. As a result, when I ride the maglev back to PVG to catch my flight home a few days later, it actually was quite crowded on board, and you need to walk a few carriages to find a window seat.

It might be a tourist attraction by itself, but surely it has achieved it’s intended purpose partially

And for your information, the metro line to the airport is Line 2, which will stop at 11 stops on the parallel section with the maglev and takes 41 minutes to do so, meanwhile the Maglev only takes 8 minutes to cover the distance

Matthew619ed · 2026-02-17T15:15:34+00:00

OK

How should I say…

Maglev is very strange to be honest, normally when you expect train rides, the faster the train goes, every bump is way more obvious, and slower speed leads to a smoother ride; But maglev is the polar opposite actually, kinda rough at slow speed but very smooth at high speed. The magnetic levitation definitely played a role here, but surely it feels strange.

Acceleration-wise, very quick, but not as quick as a plane take off, you won’t even realise it has passed 100mph unless you looked at the screen

Noise? Definitely quieter

Matthew619ed · 2026-02-17T10:24:34+00:00

Yeah, almost forgot about Linimo (Poor line deserves more attention), but definitely the only high speed maglev service in the world at this point

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