#Makoto Oono

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The Official Certified Ψ Birthdays List™

If there's anything I missed or a character you'd like me to add, let me know!

January:

1.01 - Mineo Nobunaki (Saiki Kusuo No Ψ Nan) 6.01 - Kouno Jun (Our Hero Studies) 8.01 - Tadatsugu Takayuki (Mikami Case Files) 25.01 - Satou Hiroshi (Saiki Kusuo No Ψ Nan)

February:

14.02 - Rifuta Imu* (Saiki Kusuo No Ψ Nan) 22.02 - Saitou Marietta (Kanata Seven Change) 25.02 - Kouno Fukue (Our Hero Studies) 28.02 - Arisu Makino (Saiki Kusuo No Ψ Nan)

*Imu has two different birthdays in the manga and a later released guidebook, so she celebrates twice! The February ones comes from the guidebook, the April Date comes from the manga (likely outdated).

March:

2.03 - Hinoki Nozomi (Our Hero Studies) 3.03 - Kurusu Yayumi (Our Hero Studies) 3.03 - Daigo Domon (Kanata Seven Change) 4.03 - Teruhashi Makoto (Saiki Kusuo No Ψ Nan) 7.03 -Jaga Yokota (Saiki Kusuo No Ψ Nan) 3.10 - Kimura (Our Hero Studies) 24.03 - Saiki Kumi (Saiki Kusuo No Ψ Nan) 25.03 - Saiki Kumagoro (Saiki Kusuo No Ψ Nan)

April:

10.04 - Shinoda Takeru (Saiki Kusuo No Ψ Nan) 12.04 - Takahashi (Saiki Kusuo No Ψ Nan) 12.04 - Koriki No.2 (Saiki Kusuo No Ψ Nan) 13.04 - Imu Rifuta (Saiki Kusuo No Ψ Nan) 15.04 - Mera Chisato (Saiki Kusuo No Ψ Nan) 24.04 - Mikami Aiko (Saiki Kusuo No Ψ Nan)

May:

5.05 - Ikari Keinosuke (Kanata Seven Change) 9.05 - Nendou Riki (Saiki Kusuo No Ψ Nan) 13.05 - Saiki Kuniharu (Saiki Kusuo No Ψ Nan) 14.05 - Saiki Kurumi (Saiki Kusuo No Ψ Nan) 19.05 - Kongou Tsuyoshi (Saiki Kusuo No Ψ Nan) 24.05 - Yoshida (Our Hero Studies)

June:

6.06 - Iridatsu Yuuta (Saiki Kusuo No Ψ Nan) 8.06 - Oono Ishio (Our Hero Studies) 10.06 - Haganeno Ken (Our Hero Studies) 10.06 - Yarizaki Hideo (Our Hero Studies) 11.06 - Yumehara Chiyo (Saiki Kusuo No Ψ Nan) 14.06 - Kouki Sawakita (Saiki Kusuo No Ψ Nan) 16.06 - Saiki Kuusuke (Saiki Kusuo No Ψ Nan) 18.06 - Hairo Kineshi (Saiki Kusuo No Ψ Nan) 19.06 - Zolbe (Saiki Kusuo No Ψ Nan) 27.06 - Nakanishi Kouta / Chouno Uryoku (Saiki Kusuo No Ψ Nan)

July:

7.07 - Kanata Aoki (Kanata Seven Change) 7.07 - Ruchi Shizuru (Kanata Seven Change) 7.07 - Holy Lance Academy Headmaster (Our Hero Studies) 12.07 - Cafe Mami Manager (Saiki Kusuo No Ψ Nan) 29.07 - Nakanishi Shinya (Saiki Kusuo No Ψ Nan)

August:

6.08 - Teruhashi Kokomi (Saiki Kusuo No Ψ Nan) 16.08 - Saiki Kusuo (Saiki Kusuo No Ψ Nan) 24.08 - Shuuji Murata (Saiki Kusuo No Ψ Nan) 28.08 - Suzumiya Hii (Saiki Kusuo No Ψ Nan)

September:

2.09 - Kuboyasu Aren (Saiki Kusuo No Ψ Nan) 5.09 - Akechi Touma (Saiki Kusuo No Ψ Nan) 5.09 - Takeuchi Riki (Saiki Kusuo No Ψ Nan) 7.09 - Aiura Mikoto (Saiki Kusuo No Ψ Nan) 8.09 - Saiko Metori (Saiki Kusuo No Ψ Nan) 10.09 - Toritsuka Reita (Saiki Kusuo No Ψ Nan) 21.09 - Matsuzaki (Saiki Kusuo No Ψ Nan) 23.09 - Soul Shout (Saiki Kusuo No Ψ Nan) 26.09 - Kazuya Ikemi (Saiki Kusuo No Ψ Nan) 29.09 - Kase Hinako (Kanata Seven Change)

October:

3.10 - Kaidou Shun (Saiki Kusuo No Ψ Nan) 10.10 - Tanaka Akio (Kanata Seven Change) 14.10 - Mrs Kaidou (Saiki Kusuo No Ψ Nan) 24.10 - Madouichi Jou (Our Hero Studies) 24.10 - Nendou Midori 25.10 - Mikami Mei (Mikami Case Files)

November:

13.11 - Hitori Shuu (Our Hero Studies) 29.11 - Anpu (Saiki Kusuo No Ψ Nan)

December:

3.12 - Itano Yoriko (Saiki Kusuo No Ψ Nan) 4.12 - Watsuki Madoka (Our Hero Studies) 8.12 - Ibaraki Muchiko (Our Hero Studies) 26.12 - Asou Shuuichi-sensei

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2023 Reads!

Thank you to everyone for joining me on my book journey! I'm looking forward to another year of good reads! If you have any recommendations, please let me know.

Without further ado, here are my reads for this year!:

Howl's Moving Castle, Castle in the Air, and The House of Many Ways by Diana Wynne Jones

California Plants: A Guide to Our Iconic Flora by Matt Ritter

The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood

Look Alive Twenty-Five by Janet Evanovich

It Happened One Summer by Tessa Bailey

I Am a Cat Barista (Volume 1) by Hiro Maijima

Koe no Katachi/A Silent Voice (Volumes 2-6) by Yoshitoki Oima

Karakuri Odette (Volumes 1-5) by Julietta Suzuki

Komi-san wa Komyushou Desu/Komi Can't Communicate (Volumes 23-26) by Tomohito Oda

Cannery Row by John Steinbeck

Horimiya (Volume 1) by Hero

Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku (Volume 5) by Fujita

Kakuriyo: Bed & Breakfast for Spirits (Volume 1) by Waco Ioka

Kiki's Delivery Service by Eiko Kadono

Skip & Loafer (Volumes 1-3) by Misaki Takamatsu

Skull-face Bookseller Honda-san (Volumes 2-4) by Honda

Toshokan no Daimajutsushi/Magus of the Library (Volumes 3-5) by Mitsu Izumi

Blasphemy: New and Selected Stories by Sherman Alexie

Strange Weather in Tokyo by Hiromi Kawakami

Saint Young Men Omnibus (Volume 1) by Hikaru Nakamura

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

Insomniacs After School (Volume 1) by Makoto Ojiro

Kubo Won't Let Me Be Invisible (Volume 1) by Nene Yukimori

The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert

Twisted Love (Twisted #1) by Ana Huang

Wind/Pinball: Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball by Haruki Murakami

Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future by Elizabeth Kolbert

Killing Floor (Jack Reacher #1) by Lee Child

Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas by Megan Shepherd

Muffin but the Truth (Bakeshop Mystery #16) & Catch Me If You Candy (Bakeshop Mystery #17) by Ellie Alexander

A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of Four, A Scandal in Bohemia, The Red-Headed League, A Case of Identity, The Boscombe Mystery, The Five Orange Pips, The Man with the Twisted Lip, The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle, The Adventure of the Speckled Band, The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb, The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor, The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet, The Adventure of the Copper Beeches, Silver Blaze, The Yellow Face, The Stock-Broker's Clerk, The Gloria Scott, The Musgrave Ritual, The Reigate Puzzle, The Crooked Man, The Resident Patient, The Greek Interpreter, The Naval Treaty, and The Final Adventure by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks (audiobook)

Gokushufudō/The Way of the House Husband (Volumes 1-3) by Kousuke Oono

Grand total: 90

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*2022年5月30日再入荷しました。

2021年7月12日

【新入荷・新本】

Still Life, Same Paper, 2020

246 pages. 210mm*270mm*24mm. Edition of 900 Copies. CMYK Four Color Printing. Codex Binding Paperback with PVC Jacket.

価格：6,050円（税込）

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混沌と不安の中にいると、何かをしたいという気持ちが強くなります。今年（2020年）のはじめに家の中に閉じこもっていたときの退屈さによって、この新しい写真集プロジェクト「Still Life」ははじまりました。2020年、どこにいようとも、誰もが似たような、しかし同じではない苦境を経験しました。現実に束縛されたり、退屈や不安との戦いに巻き込まれたりしたときに、写真を撮るというきっかけがなければ、写真家のレンズはどこへ向かうのだろうと考えずにはいられませんでした。「写真」というものはそれでも存在するのだろうかと。

そこで、わたしたちが注目している写真家に声をかけました。今回のプロジェクトでは、写真家たちが自由に選んだテーマに介入が加えられ、それぞれの写真家は限られた機材を使って室内でストーリーを作り上げる必要があります。その結果として、写真コレクティブの「Still Life」には、世界中のさまざまな写真家による13の作品が収められることになりました。

タイトルの「Still Life」は、西洋美術の主要なジャンルに由来しており、そこには「生命は静止している」という美しい意味が込められています。この写真集における「Still Life」は、この苦境の中で生き続ける状態のメタファーとして考えられています。パンデミックの文脈では、わたしたちは比較的静止した状態にあるのです。

When we are in chaos and anxiety, the urge to do something becomes stronger. So to speak, the boredom of being locked inside early this year prompted this new photo book project, Still Life. In 2020, no matter where we are, we all experienced a similar but not the same predicament. When photographers are constrained by reality, or caught in a battle with boredom and anxiety, we couldn’t help it wonder, without the trigger points of taking photographs, where would their lens go? Will ‘photography’ still happen?

We invited photographers we’ve been closely watching. In this project, an intervention has been imposed onto their freely selected topics, each photographer needs to create their stories indoors using limited equipment. As a result, the photographic collective Still Life includes 13 works from different photographers around the world.

The title Still Life comes from the principal genre of Western art, which was endowed with a beautiful meaning — life is still. Here in this book, ‘Still Life’ is considered as a metaphor for the state of continuing living in this predicament — in the context of the pandemic, a relatively still state we are all in.

Photographers: Antje Peters, Bobby Doherty, Caroline Tompkins, Charles Negre, David Brandon Geeting, Geray Mena, Harley Weir, Makoto Oono, Peng Ke, Sergiy Barchuk, Sophie Tianxin Chen, Thomas Albdorf, Xiaopeng Yuan.

Director: Xiaopeng Yuan Edit: Xiaopeng Yuan, Jiawei Liu Contributing Edit: QiuQiu, Yixin Design: Han Gao

http://www.samepaper.com/

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Houkago Teibou Nisshi - Blu-ray/DVD Volume 3 Illustration

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Queen of the Phantom Fist.

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Houkago Teibou Nisshi - Clear Files by Azumaker

Release: 21 August 2020

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The Best Oono faces <3

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Ep 3: (Houkago Teibou Nisshi)  

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Houkago Teibou Nisshi - Blu-ray/DVD Volume 2 Illustration

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BLCD Review: I’m Not a Robot but BL

Title: Android no Boku ga Super Darling ni Koishite mo Ii desu ka? (アンドロイドの僕がスパダリに恋してもいいですか？)

Release Date: 2021/05/28

Author: Brilliant Prin

Illustrator: Ise

Cast:

Shingaki Tarusuke x Amasaki Kouhei

Oono Tomohiro

Furukawa Makoto

Synopsis: Saikawa Tomohiro is in dire straits after getting fired from the cafe he was working at. Kariya, a regular, asks him if he was up to part-timing as an “android” for an entrepreneur, Hasumi Eito. Although sketchy, Tomohiro had no choice but to accept—the deal wasn’t exactly bad anyway, since the conditions were good, and he was going to be paid handsomely. However, as he naturally becomes drawn to Eito’s charm and kindness. They even begin to share a physical relationship, but Eito might not accept Tomo as a human. After all, Tomo’s just a stand-in for Eito’s deceased lover.

Review Proper

I wrote that goddamn synopsis myself and even said, “What is with Brilliant Prin and depressing original content?” I’m spoiling ‘cause it’s an original with no novels or manga. So, basically everything in the synopsis is true. It kinda felt similar to Sweet Delivery Boy in the beginning, especially since Tomohiro’s more or less a sex-worker because he also got paid to have sex with Hasumi-san. With that thought in mind, I went into this thinking that it’ll go the same route, and it did to an extent, until the point when Tomohiro got guilty over the pretending and him catching feelings for Hasumi-san, that is. 

I was screaming so loud at Tomohiro not to fall for that man CAUSE HE’S JUST AN OBJECT TO HIM DUHHH??? Kariya, Hasumi-san’s scientist friend and Tomohiro’s employer, was even supportive of his feelings for some reason, and even though I loved Kariya ‘cause he was so nice to this bb, I was just so confused as to why he was deceiving his friend like that??? And like, how much of an idiot was Hasumi-san that he just accepted every little human quirk Tomohiro showed??? Brah, there was this one time when Tomohiro let it slip that he worked at a cafe before to make ends meet, and Hasumi-san was just: “Oh, that’s cute. Kariya must’ve programmed that in you”???

Anyway, Tomohiro resolves to tell Hasumi-san the truth someday soon and leave for good ‘cause he loved him that much. IDIOT 😭😭😭 Before he could confess, however, Hasumi-san gets invited to a company party, and he decides that he’ll be introducing Tomohiro to everyone as his lover. A little nervous yet excited, Tomohiro agrees to go, and during the party, he finally meets Hasumi-san’s humpty-grumpy co-worker, Yuugi, that’s voiced by Makonyan. He showed no attempt to hide his diskust AT ALL. He was such an asshole, he straight up rubbed it in his face that he’s just a stand-in for Hasumi-san’s departed beau AND THAT HE’LL NEVER ACCEPT HIM CAUSE HE AIN’T HUMAN. AND THEN TOMOHIRO finds out that Hasumi-san's deceased lover was named Tomoya. THERE TOMOHIRO AND I WERE, THINKING THAT THEY JUST GAVE HIM THE NAME TOMO FOR A SHORT TOMOHIRO, BUT IT WAS TOMO FOR TOMOYA'S REPLACEMENT THE WHOLE TIME????

I WAS READY TO GO WAR. I WAS READY TO FUCK BOTH MAKONYAN AND HASUMI-SAN UP. MY BOY HAD NOTHING!!!

Tomohiro becomes depressy after finally realizing that he’s really just an object to Hasumi-san and takes a break from the party. Kariya goes to comfort my boy ‘cause he had a feeling that Yuugi would say what he did, but Tomohiro lies, saying that Yuugi didn't and he was okay, albeit a little anxious. Kariya gently calls him out on his bs, telling him that what he felt wasn’t anxiety but irritation. Realizing that this emotion is very much un-android-like, Tomohiro goes into a panic, but Kariya quickly de-escalates. “Tomo, you are an android. You have no control over your feelings, and Hasumi believes that you’re an android, anyway. You don’t have to think so hard about it and just say what you want to say—just like an android. Does he look like the type of man who’ll let you go just because of this?”

Like magic, Hasumi-san comes back to the suite and proposes to take him back to the party after confirming that Tomohiro was fine, saying that he ain’t gonna stop until everyone in the building accepts their relationship. OBVIOUSLY, THIS SENDS MY BOY TOMOHIRO INTO PANIC ATTACK NUMBER TWO!!! “Bro, I’m an android! I don’t need that shit! Just treat me like some toy or pet!” I was like, "Yeah! Throw him those bars!" Ngl, I really hoped that we was wrong about the Tomo=Tomoya thing, but when Tomohiro called him out for it, Hasumi-san choked AND I SWEAR I WOULD HAVE CHOKED HIM MYSELF AAAAAA

BUT THEN TOMOHIRO

TOMOHIRO MY BOY SAYS:

“Then I’ll tell you a lie too. I’m an android. I’m not human.”

As I was on a 0.01 second high, I didn't realize that he climbed the ledge of the balcony??? And he says that since he was an android, it wouldn’t matter if he breaks ‘cause they could just fix him??? And I was like, boy??? YOU’RE HUMAN OMG, GET THE FUCK DOWN??? THEY TRIED CONVINCING TOMOHIRO TO COME DOWN, BUT AS HASUMI-SAN’S MONOLOGUE ABOUT HOW GREAT IT’D BE IF HE REALLY WERE HUMAN WAS TOO LONG, TOMOHIRO FUCKING SHORT-CIRCUITS AND FALLS OFF THE BALCONY???!!!

HE

REALLY

WAS

AN

ANDROID???!!!

So, apparently, after Tomoya died of illness three years ago, Kariya made Tomohiro as a stand-in for him. Since Tomohiro was programmed to think that he was human and could absorb all the info (includes feelings) around him to become human-like, Kariya explicitly warned Hasumi-san not to let Tomohiro experience such emotions as inferiority and irritation 'cause he wouldn’t be able to process them, and they may cause him to malfunction. Now broken and his chances of repair slim, Hasumi-san begs and even threatens Kariya to fix him. Although he couldn't bear seeing his friend suffer over losing his deceased lover, which prompted him to make Tomohiro, I loved how Kariya also high-key treated Tomo like family and even stood up to Hasumi-san. "Tomo believed he was human because I programmed him that way. And humans don't get a "next time". I'd let him die a human if I were you. That'd be the ultimate act of love." Kariya does agree to fix him on the condition that Hasumi-san allows Tomohiro recognizes himself as an android, however, and Tomohiro wakes up half a year later as an android. The end.

We also get a bonus track of how Hasumi-san met Tomoya that nobody asked for. Damn, I didn't know what I expected Tomoya to be like, but I didn’t think he would be that hoe. So, Tomoya really did work at a cafe, which is probably why that cafe thing was programmed into Tomohiro's memory, and Hasumi-san comes to that cafe often to flirt with him. Anyway, after Tomoya and Hasumi-san get caught in the rain and Tomoya suggests Hasumi-san to dry off at his place, Hasumi-san confesses then things get jiggy. Hasumi-san is obvs very happy, but he was afraid he wouldn't be able to get his hands off him if Tomoya allows him to get serious.

Tomoya: "Be serious, then. And I don't hate this either."

Shingaki: "That's all?"

Tomoya: "Well, if you turn out to be good in bed, then maybe I can fall in love with you."

Hasumi-san: "You're definitely falling in love tonight."

Y'all think this is funny, Brilliant Prin??? I came here for I'm Not A Robot But Sweet Delivery Boy, BUT THE AUDACITY OF Y’ALL TO GIVE ME SHORTCAKE NO ICHIGO NI WA SAWARANAIDE, HONEY, AND NIGHTS BEFORE NIGHT WITH SPICY DIALOGUE???

All that spice and he just dies in the end, turning Hasumi-san into a lonely, delusional man. I still hate him tho.

I haven't even discussed the technicalities yet, but this review is already a novel long. Anyway, just know that the voice acting was excellent (save for the way Shingaki screamed when Tomohiro fell). Amasaki Kouhei voiced Tomohiro and Tomoya so differently from each other. I was just shocked. What a man. It also was a little reminiscent of Shimono Hiro's performance in Honey. 👀

This drained me emotionally what the fuck? But I highly recommend this to all you sadomasochistic hos. I haven't listened to the first Brilliant Prin original which also had loss, but I will say that this is the most dramatic so far (Pheromone Tantei might be more similar to Cendrillon). This also doesn't have that high of a Japanese requirement, so it'd be good for those who have intermediate Japanese. As for similar dramatic CDs with plot twists, again, I'd like to recommend Shortcake no Ichigo ni wa Sawaranaide and Yesterday wo Kazoete (suffer lmao). Funny how I listened to this right around the time I came out with Miike Romuco's Ginga. *plays The Beatles' Code theme