#Hiroki Takahashi

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Humans are strange creatures: they seem to regain their senses momentarily before death takes them.

Hiroki Takahashi, Finger Bone (translated by Takami Nieda)

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Einsamkeit | Country From Where the Sun Rises, Zipangu

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高橋洋樹 - 摩訶不思議アドベンチャー! Hiroki Takahashi - Makafushigi ADVENTURE! DRAGON BALL - Opening Theme

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Hiroki Takahashi - ©Tricera.net "Milky Way and Mt. Fuji" watercolour 41x53 cm.

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Les jeunes pousses pleines de rêves avaient grandi et, à présent bien touffues, elles portaient les fruits trop mûrs de leur violence.

Hiroki Takahashi, Okuribi

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I love his fatherly instincts and how expressive he is! Hiroki did an amazing job voicing him 🗣️💗

All that's left is to wait for 2 years for his route to come 🥴

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ENSEMBLE STARS!! ES idol song season 3 Vol.13 Valkyrie

Release Date: May 31, 2023

CAST

⚙️ Shu Itsuki (CV: Hiroki Takahashi) ⚙️ Mika Kagehira (CV: Jun Osaka)

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Finger Bone, Hiroki Takahashi (tr. Takami Nieda)

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Title: Finger Bone Author: Hiroki Takahashi Translator: Takami Nieda Publication Year of Translation: 2023 Publisher: Honford Star Genre: fiction, historical fiction

This was a hard novel to read. As short as it may seem, it took me a number of days to finish this one, mostly because the emotional weight of this book was so heavy. Set in the Pacific halfway through WWII, the novel is narrated by an unnamed Japanese soldier observing day-to-day life at a field hospital, where he is recovering from an injury. What I found interesting about this novel was Takahashi’s decision to show the futility of war not in literal trenches, but, rather, primarily in a quiet environment for the injured and dying.

I will fully admit that I picked up this book with some skepticism, as it was from the perspective of a Japanese soldier during WWII and translated from Japanese. I had a sense that the atrocities committed by Japan during the twentieth century would not be covered, which… more or less was the case. It became clear as the novel progressed, though, that Takahashi had a somewhat different intention, which was to show how the soldiers were almost unthinkingly trusting a government that didn’t reveal the full picture to them. The soldiers were led to believe that their side was winning the war; they cheerfully discussed how the indigenous people of the island they were on (the Kanak) would have to learn Japanese to prepare for inevitable tourism once the war ends; and they were fed misinformation about how the Allied forces were doing. The narrator’s belief in his government wavered as morale dropped over the course of the novel, not so much because he believed his side was in the wrong, so much as it was to question the purpose of war.

I still can’t quite place my finger on what about this novel didn’t completely work for me, but, overall, it was interesting reading from a different perspective and at a less-talked-about location during WWII.

Content Warning: graphic depictions of death, war, violence, blood, medical content, references to suicide

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Moon Over Emei Shan | Excuse Me, I'm Sorry

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高橋洋樹 - ドラゴンボール伝説 Hiroki Takahashi - DRAGON BALL Densetsu DRAGON BALL - Insert Song