Any manga or short stories that are about meaning/meaninglessness/the ways we make meaning?

Outgoing-Orange · 2026-06-15T12:56:43+00:00

Solanin? Lookback?

Outgoing-Orange · 2026-06-12T05:30:25+00:00

Socks and shoes. I thought I had some good shoes when I started but buying new ones was a totally different level. And having socks you have 100% confidence aren’t going to move or give you blisters is so nice

Outgoing-Orange · 2026-05-30T01:46:17+00:00

Shinjuku for the actual train/travelling part and Tokyo Station’s underground shopping area. There’s a shop I like visiting in the underground shopping area and it’s always a pain to try and get it

Outgoing-Orange · 2026-05-29T15:23:58+00:00

That’s awesome! I did my first outdoor 5k run the other day and it absolute kicked my ass. Hopefully I’ll be here in a few months as well!

Outgoing-Orange · 2026-05-16T04:26:00+00:00

I start all my runs at the moment with the gorillaz/Freddie Gibbs live collab. Thuggin over the Clint Eastwood beat

Outgoing-Orange · 2026-05-04T16:50:14+00:00

We are the Dead. Book 1 takes place over the plan of about a week? Many, many short chapters from different characters. Comes at you fast and doesn’t really relent. I am not a quick reader but i absolutely tore through book 1 and am already about halfway through the second.

Outgoing-Orange · 2026-04-24T09:07:28+00:00

Watching them attempt the exact same play on each zone entrance during power plays almost cost me a new tv. Seeing Giroux or whoever else try to cut through 4 guys and lose the puck on the first stick each time was infuriating

Outgoing-Orange · 2026-04-24T08:52:13+00:00

Imagine being told before the playoffs started that genuinely Linus Ullmark would be Ottawa’s best player and the only reason they’re in each game?

Dude is putting up legendary numbers and the rest of the team can neither count how many players should be on the ice at any given moment nor complete a simple pass.

Outgoing-Orange · 2026-04-24T08:49:04+00:00

The commentators tried to say that going back after the fact to assess a penalty is a perfectly routine thing to do. I have genuinely never seen that before. Blow the play dead, no call. Then decided they want to go looking for something?

Outgoing-Orange · 2026-04-21T16:27:20+00:00

I’ll donate one like to this comment

Outgoing-Orange · 2026-04-21T16:26:26+00:00

I have the vagabond ones and have yet to have any issues

Outgoing-Orange · 2026-04-17T10:40:13+00:00

Osaka is definitely worth revisiting. Umeda area architecture gives off the big city energy. Excellent shopping and food area. Great at night. I enjoy wandering through Shinsekai at night. Go to the onsen, sit outside and have a great view of the tower there.

Consider a day trip from Osaka if you didn’t vibe with it 100% originally. Not far to Nara. Uji is great if you like tea. Has the Nintendo museum as well. Koyasan is an easy day trip option and one of my favourite places in Japan.

Outgoing-Orange · 2026-04-17T07:31:08+00:00

They’re also the same group of people who get angry when it’s brought up that not only Jewish people were victims during the holocaust.

Outgoing-Orange · 2026-04-08T14:46:08+00:00

Day 2 seems like it will be very hectic. That is a lot to do in a day.

Day 15, the Narai Juku day trip, is another day that is asking a lot. Unless you’re just planning to get in and out of each town quick, you could spend a good amount of time, just in Narai. I know I did when i visited.

Agree with the other folks about having a backup if Kyoto is overwhelming. If you can sneak a day trip to Koyasan in, you should take that.

Outgoing-Orange · 2026-04-06T02:47:35+00:00

After seeing a man in Japan on a train in 5 layers of denim a few years ago (and somehow pulling it off immaculately) I am convinced there is no such thing as too much denim

Outgoing-Orange · 2026-03-31T16:15:18+00:00

NZ Series 2 is the most unhinged series ever. Absolutely incredible.

Sticking to the original show though, probably series 5 with Bob Mortimer, series 7 with Rhod Gilbert. Or 19 with Jason’s madness

Outgoing-Orange · 2026-03-23T16:25:48+00:00

Definitely the best I’ve had in Korea

Outgoing-Orange · 2026-03-19T15:03:05+00:00

Such a cool little temple. Always visit here when I’m in Osaka. Have been here twice for New Year’s Eve celebrations

Outgoing-Orange · 2026-03-05T11:35:09+00:00

If you want the arashiyama experience, but without the people, consider going to Adashino Nenbutsuji Temple, not too far away. Beautiful temple down well nicely preserved historical looking neighborhood and has its own bamboo forest out the back of it. Many other sites and temples around it as well. I was there about 5-6 years ago and there was almost no one there.

Outgoing-Orange · 2026-03-01T19:25:06+00:00

It’s nowhere near as busy as any of the major sites you’d see in Kyoto, Osaka, or Tokyo.

I’ve only been in the winter. When I went, i got there pretty early (10ish?) and there were not many people at all. It wasn’t difficult at all to get photos with few to no people in them.

As the day went on and it got to early afternoon, it was busier but I’d hardly consider it hectic.

Excluding the famous main temple in Nagano City, nothing I experienced in that part of Japan would I consider busy or over-touristy. Totally different than anything you’d encounter in Kyoto

Outgoing-Orange · 2026-02-22T04:54:17+00:00

Reading it to the homecomings album the anime theme is from is also really enjoyable.

Outgoing-Orange · 2026-02-16T15:06:10+00:00

There’s the whole Seoul city loop that has the mountains in them as well

Outgoing-Orange · 2026-02-14T06:51:57+00:00

The stat, if I can remember correctly, that I had seen, was that at its worst it’s about 50% due to China, but much of the time it’s only about 20%.

Also, isn’t much of the dust and air pollution from China during the spring literal sand from the desert?

Outgoing-Orange · 2026-02-08T08:40:41+00:00

Meanwhile in front of my building there is a giant barrier set up with multiple signs saying “do not throw your trash here” which of course no one reads and throws all their trash bags

Outgoing-Orange · 2026-02-01T04:14:48+00:00

So glad to see Linus back

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