#Tetsuko Kuroyanagi

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Madogiwa no Totto-chan - Dir. Shinnouske Yakuwa - Dec 8, 2023

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[The hotel we stayed at is also revealed!] Tetsuko's summer vacation Bangkok travel diary!

Tetsuko Kuroyanagi talking about Perfume topics during her travel vlog in Bangkok when staff noted Perfume is going to perform in Bangkok. She was joking she was going to perform on Perfume's stage in Bangkok and was stopped by the staff because most of the audience aren't japanese and wouldn't know her.

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Totto-Chan: The Little Girl at the Window

窓ぎわのトットちゃん (2023)

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Neither before nor since did any grown-up listen to Totto-chan for as long as that. And, besides, it would have amazed Mother and her homeroom teacher to think that a seven-year-old child could find enough to talk about for four hours nonstop. Totto-chan had no idea then, of course, that she had been expelled and that people were at their wit's end to know what to do. Having a naturally sunny disposition and being a bit absent-minded gave her an air of innocence. But deep down she felt she was considered different from other children and slightly strange. The headmaster, however, made her feel safe and warm and happy. She wanted to stay with him forever. That's how Totto-chan felt about Headmaster Sosaku Kobayashi that first day. And, luckily, the head-master felt the same about her.

(Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window by Tetsuko Kuroyanagi)

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Weekly Update (16/9/2024)

Hey hey! Man, I'll never make any promises about anything I say, ever. As always, I couldn't finish Lain nor write a review on it. I'm almost done with it, but life gets busy...

Anyways, I did finish something!

I finally finished the book, and I think I'll watch the movie adaptation with my best friend this week! I cried during the last chapters,,, such a beautiful book.

Other than that, I barely watched or read anything, as far as I remember.

I started helping out with a new PT-BR translation project and I got so hyperfocused on that that I haven't done anything else lol

[japanesedoramaandanimelover91]

In today's episode of "I Love Minna Doubutsen" Celebrities who love animals😻 will appear one by one ❣ ❣

📍 #Timondi #tetsukokuroyanagi 🐼 at Maeda's house. 📍📍Ikezaki's house is full of cat-loving actors (who could it be 🤔?). Hiromi joins #aibatrimming once again!

The exciting 2-hour SP🐶🐱 will take place on. Saturday 17 February at 19:00⏰.

The episode will be shown at 11:00 European time. Don't miss it!

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Shuji Terayama

Tetsuko Kuroyanagi

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🌬Mother Earth’s Message for Children of the World ♦︎ Timeless Pick A Card

Astrologically speaking, beginning this year a number of generational planets were moving either into Aquarius or Pisces. You know that Aquarius represents the Divine Masculine in its best form and Pisces represents the Divine Feminine in its best form. Earth’s temperatures are changing especially with Pluto finally dipping its toe in Aquarius. All members of Humanity are being asked to elevate their intelligence���both spiritual and cognitive—and become keen on the patterns of lies and abuse in the world.

We as a collective are entering a new era of true abundance and joy. Sure enough, echoes of the terrible Reality of the past are still heard but they are echoes at best. If you notice everything around you crumbling to the ground, these are withdrawal symptoms; but if you look within yourself, you will find that you’ve grown stronger and surer of your place in this completely Brand-New World. As they put it, you are the Chosen Ones.

What the hell does it mean to be a Chosen One? Are there only 144,000 Chosen Ones within this Matrix? Of course not. We have collectives of 144,000 working towards the same goal. And those collectives really bleed into each other as we share knowledge and assist each other. So in essence, there are millions of us Chosen Ones working together holding the Frequencies of Light, assisting the birthing of a completely new paradigm of real Paradise.

Be excited, o Holy Ones~ Many of you have grown up without ever abandoning your pure inner essence as Holy Children and Stewards of Gaia. Your time to shine is NOW. Revive your memories, recall your power back to you, redefine what it means to be Human, and rediscover your true motivation for being alive on Gaia at this passage of time.

There is a dream, or two, you’ve always felt important since you were a child. You’re entering a brand-new chapter of being fully immersed in your Mission. The next 3 years on Earth are the final years of the CHANGEOVER—if you know what this means, you know who you are ;P The years after 2027 will be the years of your greatest achievements, abundance and blessings, but most importantly, a phase of intense clarity as to your purpose for being here on Earth at this time.

Keep the vision, Sisters and Brothers of the Light. All of us in our own unique ways are reclaiming Gaia as the Paradise Planet of Blue and Green Sheen. Namaste—I honour your Light, fellow Stewards of the Planet~

‘To have the feeling of wanting to care for someone. It’s simple, that’s all. I don’t mean that it’s insignificant. Just…you don’t need a reason.’ — Shiroma in Chocobo’s Dungeon 2 (1998)

BOOK: Totto-chan's Children: A Goodwill Journey to the Children of the World (1999) by Kuroyanagi Tetsuko

MOVIE: Tokyo Godfathers (2003)

SONG: Aishiteru by Nakashima Mika

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Pile 1 – Go Forth Towards All Your Spiritual Rewards!

Soul-deep motivation – VI The Lovers

You, for sure, came into this world with a BUNCH of Soul Family and Tribes. It’s a given; you’re meant to ‘open up shop’ together and be of such great service to Mankind. Some of you reading this probably already met some of your Soulmates from a young age and you will continue to meet more of them as you go along; but for the majority of you, this is a lifelong journey—a discovery—that could’ve left you feeling quite lonesome when you were much younger.

Well, it’s ironic, right? Now that connectivity is this easy. But for the most part, this ease in technology could feel more like a nuisance and a breach of privacy rather than an actual sense of belonging. If you’ve ever felt deeply lonely and divorced from the rest of Humanity, I’d like to assure you that such feelings naturally arise from your Soul knowing that you’re meant to have a beautiful relationship with like-minded, like-souled people. Because you’re eager to meet them you can feel quite impatient about it, and this causes anxiety and sadness to some degree XD

Truly, you possess a Soul-deep motivation to connect with people of similar values. Life is most beautiful when people of similar values and goals work together to create good things for the community. You ain’t talking about values in terms of how we identify with religions, races or political views though—you’re so much more transcendent than that! You’re so much purer than that~

your Co-Creational prowess – Ace of Wands Rx

You and your Soul Tribes definitely will come up with some crazy-ass creative solutions for many of the world’s problems. I really can’t imagine a person with your type of consciousness being confined to an office cubicle 9-5 hahah But since the workforce is changing rapidly, it doesn’t seem a problem in the near future. Still, I feel most likely you will jump into very unusual types of jobs like a forest ranger or something related to the healing and protection of wildlife XD

Perhaps some of you will want to be involved in politics or journalism or something on the periphery of those segments of society, because you’re seeking justice for those who don’t have the power to seek justice for themselves. Perhaps in a sense, you will create a true crime podcast revealing all the dark and corruption of some industries and stuff like that. Basically, what you and your Team Mates are meant to do is something that could be considered quite ‘scandalous’…to the establishment LOL

What you do may not be the most original thing in the world, but your Soul Mission ain’t about that; what you do and create will have a very refreshing impact on your audience nevertheless. You will become very popular with whatever endeavour or movement you will be championing with your Soul Tribes. I see that you could be involved in more than two projects that could be related to one another. When you’re fully immersed in your Soul Mission, I promise you Life is going to get exciting again and the greatest reward of all is the sense of positive Human connections you’re able to foster along the way.

turning wishes into Reality – 9 of Cups

Since you’re doing so much good on the Planet and the effects are positively felt by a large group of people, you bet the money is there as well. I imagine someone like Sadhguru for some reason? He does a very spiritual thing and his teachings have touched the lives of so many people, although in a sense what he does is ‘business’ so he’s smart enough to know how to expand his exposure, influence, and wealth. This isn’t evil, of course, and I think you know that already XD People are deserving of financial rewards for all the good they do for the world, right?

And if you’re still unsure, try to understand that getting the money for your spiritual work will allow you to continue to do more of that spiritual work, and that is ultimately what’s good for all of Mankind—if you believe in what you do. Right? Right. So, Mother Earth and the elements of nature want to shower you with a great abundance of material wealth that corresponds with the spiritual happiness you gain from making other people’s lives better.

If when you’re reading this you feel that you’re not fully immersed in your Spiritual Mission yet, it’s going to happen this year, babe, so get ready! For the majority of the peeps tuned into this Pile, it’s gonna start happening this summer, end of the year, up to mid 2025, or maximum the next couple of years for some, OMG!!! Are you ready?? Are you ready?!? Why am I more excited than you?!?!? XD

MAKING A DIFFERENCE IN THE WORLD🔻💗

YOUR WORLD – Priestess of Opulence

COSMIC ANCESTORS’ SUPPORT – Red Astrologer (William Lilly)

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Pile 2 – Your Duality that Resembles Mother Gaia Herself

Soul-deep motivation – Queen of Cups Rx

The spirit of service, of nurture, was something that was already embedded in you from a young age. Perhaps it was nature; perhaps it was nurture; either way, you’ve always wanted to be of some kind of help to the world at large. You’re someone who has a charitable Soul. You were the kind of kid who’d nurture a sick stray animal back to health; you were probably the weird kid who’d be so gentle to worms whereas other children would squish them to mush; you were also likely the kind of kid who weren’t afraid of getting dirty to help someone find something valuable that had gotten lost in a gutter or something.

You’re such a gentle Soul, but sometimes you do feel a little misunderstood or even underappreciated. In some manner, you could’ve gotten taken advantage of quite a bit for your generosity. You’ve felt like, when you extend some help, sometimes you notice how people take your help for granted as if they expect you to do whatever it is you’re helping them with naturally—as if, you’re a maid or a henchman or something—and they’re not even that appreciative in the end. Like it’s expected. Like your entire existence is just for serving them. Ugh, yuck.

That’s crazy and massively annoying because deep down you’re a super self-respecting person who can be a bit of a bitch when you let loose, but you make an effort to present your best face forward and be helpful always, so it’s only natural that you expect to be treated with appreciation and grace. That’s just basic. At the core of your being, you believe in a world where people show deep and genuine appreciation for what’s truly good in this world. Genuinely good and helpful people are rare in this world, you’d be a little happier if the world would show more respect and gratitude for rare qualities like these.

your Co-Creational prowess – Knight of Pentacles

Due to your charitable and generous nature, it is possible that this feeling of being treated like some kind of an underappreciated maid is a theme surrounding your childhood or young adult years. But as you grow up and grow into your power, sooner than later people will notice what a grandiose character you are. You’re just naturally gentle and sweet and helpful, but when you stand still you exude a strong charisma just from your regal quietude. Well, depending on many things in your birth chart, this charisma and quiet power could attract admirers or enemies. At the end of the day, you just need to know how to play your cards right XD

So you can see, you have a natural charm about you that can gather many enemies, all for your learning of how the Devil ticks. If this is the case, best believe when you’re older you’re going to swash so many narcs, bullies and unveil the tricks of the truly negative people in society. If your natural charm attracted many admirers since you were young, very likely when you’re grown up you’re going to continue to serve as a humanitarian or philanthropist or whatever it is that you do to help the less fortunate.

Your path is one that’s filled with learning, careful planning, baking ideas and experimenting with new ways of doing things. Perhaps that is why you’ve had to deal with difficult or annoying—even frustrating—human interactions from a young age. It seems like that whole ordeal was necessary for you to understand the variety of human psychology. This will serve you greatly when you’re on your Mission, gathering different types of people in a team, battling different types of losers and psychopaths on the way.

turning wishes into Reality – 4 of Cups

Hahah, before jumping into your main real Soul Mission, you could’ve felt that Life is so boring. No matter how glamorous it could look to outsiders, no matter the money you have, no matter how grateful you are that your everyday is fulfilled and you can eat whatever you want, you could still feel like nothing that you do is truly deeply importantly meaningful. In the years leading up to your spiritual breakthrough, you will be itching for something more. You may not necessarily understand what ‘more’ means but it’s just a nudging feeling that there should be…more to your whole existence.

At some point in your spiritual awakening phase, you will be tempted by the Universe to choose from amongst a few options or paths to take seriously for the continuation of your existence. Weirdly wildly enough, even if you can’t really explain why, you will choose one thing and one thing only: your Highest Intended Destiny. You may not necessarily know exactly what it means or how to get there, but you’ll choose wisely. This isn’t something you could mess up, trust that. If the Universe is tempting you, it is more for you to see for yourself just how badly you want this. And if you want it, you will have it~

By the time you’re reading this PAC, I think it’s obvious you’re mere months away from fully embracing your truest highest intended Soul Mission. Months…could mean up to 2 years or so hahaha But babe, Mother Gaia is saying, your Life is going to get even more abundant than now (if you’re already quite abundant) but more importantly, that extra abundance is going to come from endeavours that are truly exciting. Your Soul will sing again when it happens~! Since this is a general reading, I can’t pinpoint exactly what’s coming into your Life soon, but your intuition already knows this, right? Keep the vision! Expect the best! Because it’s really coming to hit you like a silly UFO!

MAKING A DIFFERENCE IN THE WORLD🔻💙

YOUR WORLD – Priestess of Beauty

COSMIC ANCESTORS’ SUPPORT – Silver Astronomer (Galileo Galilei)

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Pile 3 – You Have Everything in Your Power to Create Your Very Own Peace and Calm

Soul-deep motivation – 3 of Cups Rx

You’re somebody who has a tough outer appearance. It’s probably your optimism and confidence, but for some, it could also be your resting bitch face and aloofness. At any rate, most people would never guess how sensitive and fragile your heart really is. That at the core of your being you’re such a lovely person who would be extra gentle and friendly towards animals and children. It's probably some kind of a paradoxical existence that you can understand through the lens of astrology :D

You’re definitely an Old Soul who has experienced many past incarnations on Earth before, and thus you possess this level of complexity to both your psychology and worldview that most people can’t even grasp. I know that Human beings tire you for the most part if you’re honest about it. Though I sense, many of you tapping into this Pile are still such sweethearts that you still make an effort to be accommodating and understanding! What can you do? Humans are infants in the grander scheme of cosmic events XP

You came into this world carrying Soul-deep motivations to smoothen out friction in society, mitigate cultural conflicts, dissolve hatred born out of differences, etc etc… Isn’t it crazy that people can hate and even destroy each other due to ‘differences’ when at the core of everything, we’re all really just Humans riding on the same ship—Planet Earth?

You, are essentially an ambassador of Peace. If you’ve chosen this Pile as your main pile, know that you have a very important role to play on the world stage. This is defo my ‘celebrity pile’ hahah

your Co-Creational prowess – Knight of Cups Rx

The majority of you tuning into this reading probably have significant Pisces/12th House placements—followed to varying extents by Scorpio, Capricorn or Aquarius. In simple terms, I’d say you don’t immediately look like a ‘spiritual’ person and depending on what kind of industry you’re in, your true sense of OG spirituality could well be hidden, or that you could’ve needed to struggle quite a bit to let your more spiritual side shine. Due to this paradoxical background, when you speak on the world stage, you’re going to offer the world some of the most fascinating perspectives on what it means to be a spiritual being having a Human experience at this passage of time.

No, baby, you don’t understand; you’re going to be super fascinating! The elders who are currently doing their thing on the Internet can’t even keep up XD And of course, we’re not talking about being in a competition with our wise elders who are already doing their Lightwork. This is just acknowledging your brand-new highly elevated perspectives that could change the world for sure. And to be sure, we acknowledge that we’ve learnt a great deal from the elders, too, right?

In that sense, you could also be the type of person/persona that bring back knowledge or speeches from old—even ancient—esoteric texts. Whoa, those are some highly intelligent writing/speeches—kids of today can’t keep up what with their brains rotting every day from TikTok LMAO You have this power to glue together aspects of society, history, or Life itself, that don’t usually work on paper, but you can make it happen because you’re FUTURISTIC as fuck!

turning wishes into Reality – 4 of Wands Rx

It’s very clear to you that there’s no going back when it comes to the trajectory of what Humanity is becoming. The problem is, most Humans aren’t even aware of what they’re being herded towards becoming. And you want to be that force that halts this train to hell and inform the passengers of all the details of their journey as a collective. What you can do for yourself and Humanity is to enlighten with your words/speech—to wake the people up from their mass delusions.

Humanity has been living under a bad spell for far too long. I think you’re the type of person who understands that the first step in removing black magick is to first be aware of its existence. The power of black magick lies in deception and sneaky movements. As long as the mass can be aware of it, its effects weaken naturally; that’s the thing with black spells, you know that? And this is why your perspectives matter. When you speak the quiet part out loud and help the mass realise some kind of a blind spot.

Your words are very much needed by this world. You’re going to be some kind of a prototype that gets emulated by others in the decades to come. You’re going to be blessed by so much ease and abundance as you continue courageously to walk this path of a trailblazer. Your good karma, essentially, really comes from your walking this lonesome and challenging path of a spiritual rebel—a spiritual gangster, even LMAO

MAKING A DIFFERENCE IN THE WORLD🔻💜

YOUR WORLD – Priestess of Innocence

COSMIC ANCESTORS’ SUPPORT – Silver Magus (Merlin)

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l'aventure de canmom à annecy - épisode DEUX - mercredi

Wednesday! I've posted a little about it already but here's a slightly more detailed account while I wait for a morning crêpe in front of the giant lake. (La France, c'est bon ici.)

So the morning began with the anime film Totto-chan: The Little Girl in the Window by Shin-Ei! This is a lavish adaptation of the autobiographical novel about the childhood of actress and TV personality Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, published in the mid 80s. In her childhood, she was loud, inquisitive, and considered a problem by her teachers. The film depicts her childhood after she is taken to an alternative school called Tomoe Academy, run by the radically permissive, neurodivergence/disability accepting policies of its headmaster Sosaku Kobayashi.

But of course this is the 1940s; behind the idyllic escapades of Totto-chan is the looming fascism and war. Totto-chan's family become suspect for their western fashions. Moreover, Totto-chan's best friend, Yasuaki, is disabled by polio and, ultimately, doesn't have that long to live.

I think it would be easy to apply cynical readings to Totto-chan. You could say surely Kobayashi couldn't be as saintly as depicted, or observe that Totto-chan and her family are definitely quite well off and this is surely a private school. The Heidi-like style of the impossibly cute Totto-chan and friends could be overbearing, or you could call the depiction of Yasuaki sentimental.

But, I actually don't feel like making any of those moves. What this film makes me think of is how my mum used to work as a teacher before I was born, staying up late at night to write personalised curriculums for the kids, letting them talk, and generally going well out of her way to reject the strictures of the school system. And - to hear my mum tell it anyway - the kids loved her for it. She tells a story about how when the head teacher came to inspect, she asked them all to be quiet just this once - and he was amazed because they wouldn't be that quiet for anyone. And also how they tried to give her stolen tvs when she left the school to give birth to me lmao. The point is that it actually is possible to do a lot better than the overstretched, disciplinarian status quo of those times. and while i don't know how modern schools operate, back in the 80s, that was essential to say.

While most of the film focuses on Totto-chan and her relationship with Yasuaki, we do get many glimpses of Kobayashi's principles. At many points, Totto-chan does things that would get her scolded at another place, like dredging the cesspool for a lost wallet - but ever mild Kobayashi just tells her to put it back when she's done and helps her get clean after. At another point, he scolds the other teacher at the school for making a joke that came across as being at the expense of the other kids. It is a - perhaps idealised - depiction of how a school should work.

Of course there's a war on. The outside world becomes more hostile, and this is a place it really benefits from being a film, because it can show us the things that Totto-chan doesn't understand - the changing clothes and expressions of the adults, the increased militaristic imagery. In one deeply impactful sequence, Totto-chan runs from Yasuaki's funeral through a military parade and passes children playing at war with rifles. At the end of the film, the school is destroyed by firebombs - the deployment of the bomb portrayed in a lavishly detailed sequence. The real Kuroyanagi (Totto-chan) narrates how Kobayashi simply asked what kind of school they would build next - but there is an undercurrent of pain that this thing could be so fleeting.

One thing anime really excels at, I think, is making a small gesture become something freighted with a lot of emotional significance. In this film, this is the scene where Totto-chan helps Yasuaki climb a tree - trying different ladders, and eventually just physically pulling him up. (Totto-chan is the strongest kid in the school; another scene shows a rare moment of anger from Yasuaki when she lets him win an arm wrestling contest after beating the other kids; he is so desperate to participate). He in turn is an avid reader, and lends her a copy of Uncle Tom's Cabin and dies before she can return it. Each of them is going a great effort to invite the other into their world. I don't know how much Yasuaki is based on a real person, but there is something striking to me in going to such effort to commemorate the brief life of a boy with polio, in defiance of the sentiment that a disabled person's life is less valuable.

Of course, you could say such a message is undermined a little by how elaborately, constructedly cute it makes all the children. These are more like dolls than real people. But that's anime I guess! There's something funny about this idealised little girl now being an actual real living person who narrates the beginning and end of the film.

The character animation in this film is excellent. It isn't flashy most of the time, but simply very naturalistic and characterful. The designs, which use soft reds around the lips, take a little getting used to but they work. And while I haven't read the original book, this arrangement of the story is compelling. I def cried a little, this film got me harder than I expected. Very worth a watch - when it hits the torrents I'll def Animation Night it!

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Madogiwa no Totto-chan - Dir. Shinnouske Yakuwa - Dec 8, 2023

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Perfume thanks family on "Tetsuko's Room" after 11.5 years, reveals near miss with Kuroyanagi in Thailand in pre-recorded video.

This will be Perfume's second appearance on "Tetsuko's Room" after 11 and a half years since March 2013. This time, at their first performance in Thailand this year, they talked about how they were surprised to see the audience, who didn't speak Japanese, humming along with their latest songs. The girls are particular about dancing in high heels, but when they perform live in various places around the world, they often encounter harsh conditions, such as being slippery due to outdoor humidity or rough desert sand.

TV Asahi “Tetsuko’s Room” Tuesday, November 12, 2024 13:00-13:30 JST

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Promotional poster for 24 Hour Television Love Saves the Earth, 1978

This 24 hour TV light entertainment / telethon program was first broadcast from 8pm Saturday 26 August to 8pm Sunday 27 August 1978. It was planned as part of Nippon Television Network's 25th anniversary with the concept that it was to expose television viewers to the realities of how the elderly on welfare, people with disabilities, and those in developing countries lived. In part it was an adaptation of the previously televised Labour Day Telethon which began in 1975.

Most of the Japanese industry's top talent turned out to perform on the show and it also included appearances by Tezuka Osamu, C3-P0 and R2-D2, Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, Godiego, professional wrestler Dick "The Destroyer" Beyer, and a lookalike President Jimmy Carter. As you can tell from the poster, Pink Lady also performed and was the program's headline stars.

Now in it's 43rd year, the program continues to broadcast at the end of August annually.

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Totto-chan decided to sit next to the girl who had come after her that morning because the girl was wearing a pinafore with a long-eared rabbit on it.

(Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window by Tetsuko Kuroyanagi)

[randomingoftherandomness]

What are your favorite books?

Ooo… this one’s a toughie.

Off the top of my head, I am a big fan of the Lacey Flint series by Sharon J. Bolton (her books are just an auto buy for me when I see them in the bookstore), but my favourite books of all time are the Chrestomanci series by Diana Wynne Jones. I have been collecting them since I was 10 and I’ve reread every single book in my collection numerous times through the years and it is because of these books that sparked my desire to write. I still feel like the world lost something wonderful when Diana Wynne Jones passed. They hold a very special place in my heart.

On that vein, I think I own every edition of The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman out there. So.

For this sake I also have to say the very controversial statement of Ghibli fucking ruined Howl’s Moving Castle. HOW DO YOU FUCK OVER SOMETHING SO PERFECT AS IS. That’s one of my most precious books and that story DID NOT NEED ANY CHANGING OR “FIXING” MIYAZAKI FUCKING RETIRE ALREADY. SOPHIE HATTER WAS PERFECT AS IS. fucking ruined a good character is what they’d done. It is because of this that I have never and will never watch a Ghibli project idc if this makes me sound insane.

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak is something I read when I was 19 and I can remember just setting it down when I finished and I stared at my bedroom wall for a good hour just trying to process.

Another book that was an unexpected pleasure is The Memory Painter by Gwendolyn Womack. Til this day I cannot listen to Florence and The Machine’s Queen of Peace without thinking about how I had it on repeat while I was reading this book.

I have two quotes from Call Me By Your Name by Andre Aciman tattooed on me and frankly speaking, I think I left my heart somewhere in Northern Italy in the 80s.

There’s also something magically poignant and bittersweet about Totto-Chan: The Little Girl at the Window by Tetsuko Kuroyanagi and When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit by Judith Kerr, and the point in my life when I read them. I think these books shaped a part of how I viewed certain things about the world.

As for graphic novels, my heart will always belong to Batman’s Court of Owls run. That was an experience and one day I’ll pluck up enough courage to own the omnibus that I’ve been eyeing since I was in Uni.

In terms of web novels, I’m big on Married to a Salted Fish Thrice (cried like a baby and I honestly have been haunted by the experience; 10/10 recommend), Loneliness (also cried; the smut was very good 👍🏼), Special Fondness (my heart twisted so good), After I Married the Disabled Tyrant (bear with me I know the title is a bit tetchy but it’s good! I promise!)

Can’t have a list of Recs without Lord Seventh, Golden Stage, Sha Po Lang, 2Ha, and SVSSS. There’s a reason why people love these.

There’s probably a lot more that I haven’t mentioned haha

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The Totto-Chan: The Little Girl at the Window Anime Film Wins an Award at Annecy 2024

The 2024 Annecy International Animation Film Festival has announced its winners, and Totto-Chan: The Little Girl at the Window won the Paul Grimault Award for feature films. The other anime that competed in the feature film category included Ghost Cat Anzu, The Colors Within, and The Imaginary. Totto-Chan: The Little Girl at the Window is Shinei Animation’s anime film of Tetsuko Kuroyanagi’s…