#naoki ono

[almostarts]

"Puddle"

The flat, translucent vessels are each organically shaped the way a puddle of water might spread out over a surface. The water is contained within a ledge just 1.5 mm high.

There’s a tiny needle in the middle where you can insert a single plant stem. You just have to pour water over the needle to fill the vessel with it.

Created by Japanese design duo YOY (Naoki Ono and Yuki Yamamoto).

[goalhofer]

2024 olympics Japan roster

Archery

Nakanishi Junya (Okayama)

Saito Fumiya (Gifu Ichi)

Furukawa Takaharu (Aomari Ichi)

Noda Satsuki (Kitakyushu)

Athletics

Higashida Akihiro (Nara)

Ota Tomoki (Hamamatsu)

Kasai Jun (Aichi)

Ogawa Daiki (Shizuoka)

Koyama Naoki (Saitama Ichi)

Hamanishi Ryo (Osaka)

Koga Yuta (Fukuoka)

Yamamoto Shouma (Osaka)

Nishi Yudai (Tokyo)

Yoshizu Takuho (Tokyo)

Takahashi Kazuki (Iwate)

Abdul Sani-Brown (Sakado)

Sakai Ryūichirō (Toyonaka)

Uzawa Towa (Miyagi)

Iizuka Shōta (Omaezaki)

Ueyama Koki (Matsusaka)

Satō Fūga (Tokyo)

Satō Kentarō (Tokorazawa)

Nakajika Yuki (Tokyo)

Izumiya Shunsuke (Yokohama)

Rachid Muratake (Matsuda)

Takayama Shun'ya (Hiroshima)

Tsutsue Kaito (Kumamoto)

Toyoda Ken (Tokyo)

Miura Ryūji (Hamada)

Aoki Ryōma (Kuki)

Akasaki Akira (Ōzu)

Ōsako Suguru (Machida)

Ikeda Kōki (Hamamatsu)

Kiryū Yoshihide (Hikone)

Yanagita Hiroki (Tokyo)

Kawabata Kaitō (Matsusaka)

Kawano Masatora (Hyūga)

Akamatsu Ryōichi (Gifu Ichi)

Shinno Tomohiro (Hiroshima)

Hashioka Yūki (Saitama)

Roderick Dean (Kobe)

Goshima Rino (Kanazawa)

Kokai Haruka (Myoko)

Morimoto Mariko (Osaka)

Tanaka Nozomi (Ono)

Goto Yume (Kakogawa)

Yamamoto Yuma (Nagoya)

Kabasawa Wakana (Maebashi)

Takashima Yuka (Hōfu)

Fukube Mako (Hiroshima)

Tanaka Yumi (Osaka)

Ichiyama Mao (Izumi)

Suzuki Yuka (Daisen)

Fujii Nanako (Nakagawa)

Okada Kumiko (Ageo)

Yanai Ayane (Fukuoka)

Hata Sumire (Yao)

Kitaguchi Haruka (Asahikawa)

Saitō Marina (Mito)

Ueda Momone (Itoshima)

Badminton

Kōdai Naraoka (Aomori Ichi)

Nishimoto Kenta (Ise)

Hoki Takurō (Yamaguchi Ichi)

Kobayashi Yūgo (Sendai)

Watanabe Yūta (Suginami)

Yamaguchi Akane (Katsuyama)

Ōhori Aya (Aizuwakamatsu)

Matsuyama Nami (Kitakyushu)

Shida Chiharu (Hachirōgata)

Matsumoto Mayu (Sapporo)

Nagahara Wakana (Akita Ichi)

Higashino Arisa (Iwamizawa)

Basketball

Yoshii Hirotaka (Osaka)

Togashi Yūki (Shibita)

Tajon Jacobs (Los Angeles, California)

Kawamura Yuki (Yanai)

Hiejima Makoto (Fukuoka)

Kai Toews (Kobe)

Hachimura Rui (Sendai)

Watanabe Yūta (Miki)

Yūdai Baba (Toyama Ichi)

Josh Hawkinson (Shoreline, Washington)

Keisei Tominaga (Tokyo)

Hugh Hogland-Watanabe (Honolulu, Hawaii)

Stephanie Mawuli (Nagoya)

Evelyn Mawuli (Nagoya)

Takada Maki (Toyohashi)

Yoshida Asami (Tokyo)

Machida Rui (Asahikawa)

Motohashi Nako (Asaka)

Yamamoto Mai (Hiroshima)

Hayashi Saki (Itoshima)

Miyazaki Saori (Saitama)

Miyazaki Yuki (Yokohama)

Todo Nanaka (Sapporo)

Akaho Himawari (Kanazawa)

Boxing

Harada Shudai (Tokyo)

Sewon Mensah-Okazawa (Kanoya)

Breakdancing

Ono Hiroto (Tokyo)

Nakarai Shigeyuki (Sapporo)

Yuasa Ami (Kawaguchi)

Fukushima Ayumi (Kyoto)

Canoeing

Tanaka Yuuki (Tokyo)

Haneda Takuya (Toyota)

Okazaki Haruka (Tokyo)

Yazawa Aki (Iida)

Climbing

Narasaki Tomoa (Utsunomiya)

Anraku Sorato (Yachiyo)

Mori Ai (Mito)

Nonaka Mihō (Tokyo)

Cycling

Arashiro Yukiya (Ishigaki)

Ōta Kaiya (Okayama)

Obara Yuta (Hashikami)

Nakano Shinji (Hanamaki)

Nagasako Yoshitaku (Kasaoka)

Imamura Shunsuke (Ukiha)

Hashimoto Eiya (Gifu Ichi)

Kuboki Kazushige (Furudono)

Nakamura Rimu (Kyoto)

Kawaguchi Urara (Hyogo)

Yonamine Eri (Osaka)

Sato Mina (Chigasaki)

Ōhta Riyu (Ageo)

Kakita Maho (Kitakyushu)

Ikeda Mizuki (Ōnojō)

Uchino Tsuyaka (Fukuoka)

Kajihara Yūmi (Saitama Ichi)

Hatakeyama Sae (Yokohama)

Diving

Shō Sakai (Sagamihara)

Tamai Rikuto (Takarazuka)

Mikami Sayaka (Yonaga)

Enomoto Haruka (Utsunomiya)

Arai Matsuri (Itami)

Equestrian

Kawai Mike (Valkenswaard, The Netherlands)

Ōiwa Yoshiaki (Münsingen, Germany)

Tomoto Kazuma (Motosu)

Kitajima Ryūzō (Kobe)

Tanaka Toshiyuki (Fukuoka)

Shibayama Haase-Takashi (Kobe)

Satō Eiken (Ogawa)

Sugitani Taizō (Izumi)

Fencing

Kanō Kōki (Ama)

Minobe Kazuyasu (Echizen)

Yamada Masaru (Toba)

Iimura Kazuki (Kyoto)

Matsuyama Kyōsuke (Tokyo)

Shikine Takahiro (Ōita Ichi)

Nagano Yūdai (Ibaraki)

Yoshida Kento (Morioka)

Yoshimura Miho (Tokyo)

Azuma Sera (Wakayama Ichi)

Miyawaki Karin (Tokyo)

Ueno Yūka (Hita)

Emura Misaki (Ōita Ichi)

Fukushima Shihomi (Munakata)

Takashima Risa (Ōmuta)

Ozaki Seri (Sapporo)

Field hockey

Nakamura Eika (Tochigi)

Asai Yū (Hiroshima)

Suzuki Miyu (Gifu Ichi)

Nagai Yuri (Kakamigahara)

Nagai Hazuki (Kakamigahara)

Oikawa Shihori (Tokyo)

Kozuka Miki (Nikko)

Kobayakawa Shiho (Matsue)

Mori Kanon (Hiroshima)

Toriyama Mai (Tokyo)

Tanaka Saki (Morika)

Urata Kana (Osaka)

Shimada Amiru (Ōtsu)

Omoto Sakurako (Iwakuni)

Hasegawa Miyu (Matsue)

Ogawa Rika (Gifu Ichi)

Golf

Matsuyama Hideki (Sendai)

Nakajima Keita (Saitama Ichi)

Yamashita Miyū (Neyagawa)

Sasō Yūka (San Ildefonso, The Philippines)

Gymnastics

Hashimoto Daiki (Chiba Ichi)

Kazuma Kaya (Funabashi)

Oka Shinnosuke (Kamakura Ichi)

Sugino Takaaki (Kamakura Ichi)

Tanigawa Wataru (Funabashi)

Nishioka Ryusei (Higashiosaka)

Kishi Rina (Toda)

Nakamura Haruka (Osaka)

Okamura Mana (Yokkaichi)

Ushioku Kohane (Nagoya)

Mori Hikaru (Tokyo)

Handball

Nakamura Takumi (Fukuoka Ichi)

Yasuhira Kosuke (Takaoka)

Sakurai Tomoya (Mito)

Okomoto Daisuke (Yamaguchi)

Fujisaka Naoki (Fukui)

Takano Sota (Tokyo)

Sugioka Naoki (Kariya)

Yoshida Shūichi (Wakayama Ichi)

Adam Baig (Fukuoka Ichi)

Tokuda Shinnosuke (Iwakuni)

Watanabe Jin (Ōita)

Motoki Shida (Mito)

Tamakawa Hiroyasu (Tokyo)

Yoshino Tatsuki (Misato)

Judo

Nagayama Ryuju (Bibai)

Abe Hifumi (Kobe)

Hashimoto Soichi (Tokyo)

Nagase Takanori (Mito)

Murao Sanshirō (Tokyo)

Aaron Wolf (Tokyo)

Saito Tatsuru (Osaka)

Tsunoda Natsumi (Yachiyo)

Abe Uta (Kobe)

Funakobu Haruka (Fujiyoshida)

Tashiro Takaichi (Tokyo)

Niizoe Saki (Kashihara)

Takayama Rika (Tokyo)

Sone Akira (Kurume)

Pentathlon

Satō Taishū (Aomori Ichi)

Uchida Misaki (Kumagaya)

Rowing

Furutu Naoki (Tottori)

Miyaura Masayuki (Mito)

Arakawa Ryūta (Yokohama)

Hirouchi Emi (Kyoto)

Ōishi Ayama (Nagoya)

Rugby

Ishida Taiga (Kumamoto)

Ishida Kippei (Amagasaki)

Tsuoka Shotaro (Fukuoka Ichi)

Matsumoto Junya (Kagoshima)

Josua Kerevi (Viseisei, Fiji)

Fukushi Moeki (Hyogo)

Taninaka Kippei (Hyogo)

Noguchi Yoshihiro (Tokyo)

Ueda Kazuma (Hyogo)

Maruo Takamasa (Tokyo)

Okudaira Yu (Hyogo)

Koga Yoshiyuki (Tokyo)

Yoshizawa Taichi (Tokyo)

Utsumi Hanako (Yokohama)

Ōtani Mei (Kyoto)

Kajiki Marin (Fukuoka Ichi)

Saegusa Chiaki (Sapporo)

Tanaka Emii (Uozu Ichi)

Tsutsumi Honoka (Ureshino)

Nakamura Chiharu (Yokohama)

Nishi Arisa (Tokyo)

Hara Wakaba (Niigata Ichi)

Hirano Yume (Tokyo)

Matsuda Rinka (Fuchu)

Mizutani Sakura (Mie)

Sailing

Tomizawa Makoto (Kashiwazaki)

Okada Keiju (Kitakyushu)

Iitsuka Shibuki (Yokohama)

Tanaka Misaki (Higashiura)

Nagamatsu Sera (Ōita Ichi)

Oura Nishida-Capiglia (Mie)

Yoshioka Miho (Fujisawa)

Shooting

Okada Naoya (Tsuyama)

Yoshioka Dai (Kyoto)

Nobata Misaki (Ōita Ichi)

Skateboarding

Nagahara Yuro (Hakuba)

Onodero Gin'u (Yokohama)

Shirai Sora (Sagamihara)

Horigome Yūto (Tokyo)

Hiraki Kokona (Tomakomai)

Yosozumi Sakura (Iwade)

Kusaki Hinano (Tsukuba)

Yoshizawa Koko (Sagamihara)

Akama Rizu (Sendai)

Nakayama Fūna (Toyama Ichi)

Soccer

Leo Kokuba (Chiba Ichi)

Suzuki Kaito (Shizuoka Ichi)

Nishio Ryūya (Osaka)

Sekine Hiroki (Shizuoka Ichi)

Kimura Seiji (Chiba Ichi)

Kawasaki Sota (Kōfu)

Yamamoto Rihito (Yokohama)

Joel Chima-Fujita (Tokyo)

Fujio Shota (Osaka)

Saitō Kōki (Tokyo)

Hosoya Mao (Ushiku)

Nozawa Taishi (Naha)

Araki Ryotaro (Kumamoto Ichi)

Mito Shunsuke (Yamaguchi Ichi)

Takai Kota (Yokohama)

Ōhata Ayumu (Fukuoka Ichi)

Hirakawa Yu (Kashima)

Keiji Sato (Tokyo)

Uenaka Asahi (Fukuoka Ichi)

Yamada Fuki (Minakuchi)

Uchino Takashi (Chiba Ichi)

Yamashita Ayaka (Tokyo)

Hirao Chika (Matsudo)

Shimizu Risa (Kobe)

Minami Moeka (Yoshikawa)

Kumagai Saki (Sapporo)

Takahashi Hana (Kawaguchi)

Tōko Koga (Osaka)

Kitagawa Hikaru (Kanazawa)

Hasegawa Yui (Sendai)

Miyazawa Hinata (Minamiashigara)

Seike Kiko (Tokyo)

Nagano Fūka (Tokyo)

Momoko Tanikawa (Nagoya)

Fujino Aoba (Machida)

Hayashi Honoka (Uji)

Ueki Riko (Kawasaki)

Tanaka Mina (Kawasaki)

Hamano Maika (Takaishi)

Shū Ohba (Fujisawa)

Moriya Miyabi (Nara Ichi)

Ishikawa Rion (Akita Ichi)

Chiba Remina (Tsukuba)

Surfing

Inaba Reo (Ichinomiya)

Connor O'Leary (Cronulla, Australia)

Kanoa Igrashi (Huntington Beach, California)

Matsuda Shino (Yokohama)

Swimming

Matsuyama Riku (Saitama Ichi)

Takehara Hidekazu (Munekata)

Taniguchi Taku (Hyogo)

Terakado Genki (Mito)

Murasa Tatsuya (Nagoya)

Mano Hidenari (Yokohama)

Matsumoto Riku (Tokyo)

Minamide Taishin (Kainan)

Matsumoto Katsuhiro (Iwaki)

Watanabe Ippei (Tsukumi)

Hanaguruma Yu (Sakaide)

Mizunuma Naoki (Moka)

Honda Tomoru (Yokohama)

Seto Daiya (Moroyama)

Matsushita Tomoyuki (Utsonomiya)

Kanagimoto Kōnosuke (Imari)

Higa Moe (Hiroshima)

Kobayashi Uta (Nagano)

Shimada Ayano (Mie)

Wada Ami (Nagano)

Yasunaga Mashiro (Tochigi)

Sato Tomoka (Tsukuba)

Kijima Moeka (Hakusan)

Yoshida Megumu (Nagoya)

Ebina Airi (Sapporo)

Matsumoto Shiho (Shizuoka Ichi)

Hirai Mizuki (Kariya)

Ikee Rikako (Tokyo)

Suzuki Satomi (Onga)

Aoki Reona (Tokyo)

Tanigawa Ageha (Osaka)

Narita Mio (Tokyo)

Kobori Waka (Nara Ichi)

Mitsui Airi (Yokohama)

Makino Hiroko (Tokyo)

Ōhashi Yui (Hikone)

Igarashi Chihiro (Yokohama)

Shirai Rio (Takarazuka)

Ikemoto Nagisa (Nara Ichi)

Masuda Aoi (Kurashiki)

Table tennis

Shinozuka Hiroto (Nagoya)

Harimoto Tomokazu (Sendai)

Togami Shunsuke (Tsu)

Hayata Hina (Kitakyushu)

Hirano Miu (Numazu)

Harimoto Miwa (Sendai)

Tennis

Nishikori Kei (Bradenton, Florida)

Taro Daniel (Bradenton, Florida)

Naomi Osaka (Los Angeles, California)

Uchijima Moyuka (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)

Aoyama Shūko (Osaka)

Ena Shibahara (Rancho Palos Verdes, California)

Triathlon

Kenji Nener (Perth, Australia)

Odakura Makoto (Tokyo)

Takahashi Yūko (Mitaka)

Volleyball

Nishida Yūji (Inabe)

Ōnodera Taishi (Natori Ichi)

Fukatsu Akihiro (Hiroshima)

Miyaura Kento (Kumamoto Ichi)

Ōtsuka Tatsunori (Osaka)

Yamauchi Akihiro (Aichi Ichi)

Sekita Masahiro (Tokyo)

Takahashi Kentarō (Yamagata)

Takahashi Ran (Kyoto)

Yūki Ishikawa (Okazaki)

Kai Masato (Tokyo)

Yamamoto Tomohiro (Ebetsu)

Uchida Akiko (Tokyo)

Ishii Miki (Fujisawa)

Kojima Manami (Sendai)

Fukudome Satomi (Tokyo)

Araki Ayaka (Tokyo)

Wada Yukiko (Tokyo)

Tominaga Koyomi (Komae)

Hayashi Kotona (Osaka)

Sarina Koga (Saga Ichi)

Mayu Ishikawa (Okazaki)

Nanami Seki (Funabashi)

Inoue Arisa (Maizuru)

Nichika Yamada (Nagoya)

Miyabe Airi (Kobe)

Water polo

Watanabe Taiyo (Kyoto)

Ogihara Daichi (Kagoshima)

Kai Inoue (Los Angeles, California)

Date Kiyomu (Osaka)

Nitta Ikkei (Kanazawa)

Nishimura Towa (Kyoto)

Tanamura Katsuyuki (Ishigaki)

Adachi Seiya (Kakamigahara)

Suzuki Toi (Yamagata)

Takata Mitsuru (Hiroshima)

Inaba Yūsuke (Toyama)

Ōkawa Keigo (Tsuchiura)

Araki Kenta (Fukuoka Ichi)

Weightlifting

Miyamoto Masanori (Naha)

Murakami Eishiro (Toyama Ichi)

Suzuki Rira (Shiroi)

Wrestling

Sogabe Kyotaro (Matsuyama)

Higuchi Rei (Ibaraki Ichi)

Kiyooka Kotaro (Kōchi Ichi)

Takatani Daichi (Kyōtango)

Ishiguru Hayato (Tokyo)

Fumita Ken'ichirō (Kōfu)

Kusaka Nao (Takamatsu)

Susaki Yui (Matsudo)

Fujinami Akari (Yokkaichi)

Sakurai Tsugumi (Kōchi Ichi)

Motoki Sakura (Saitama Ichi)

Ozaki Nonoka (Tokyo)

Kagami Yuka (Yamagata Ichi)

[rggdriptournament]

HEAT #1

#001: tsuyoshi nagumo vs yuta usami

#002: mikiko sadamoto vs kaoru sayama

#003: takayuki yagami vs masayoshi tanimura

#004: nick ogata vs christina

#005: shintaro kazama vs osamu kashiwagi

#006: keiji shibusawa vs koichi adachi

#007: saori shirosaki vs makoto makimura

#008: makoto date vs makoto tsukumo

#009: joon-gi han (y6) vs fumiya sugiura

#010: daisaku kuze vs hiroki awano

#011: shusuke kenmochi vs seong-hui

#012: daisaku minami vs rikiya shimabukuro

#013: saeko mukoda vs eri kamataki

#014: masaharu kaito vs yuya

#015: yasuko saejima vs jin kuwana

#016: kazuki vs tetsu tachibana

#017: tashiro vs daigo dojima (y2)

#018: naoki katsuya vs the lingerie thief

#019: satoshi shioya vs masaru watase

#020: dd vs mitsuru kuroiwa

#021: hana vs yuki

#022: producer kiryu vs american boy mitsuo

#023: yoshitaka mine vs akira mabuchi

#024: jun sadamoto vs yu nanba

#025: ai uehera vs hibiki otsuki

#026: chika arimura vs saki hatsumi

#027: the areshi brothers vs etsuko

#028: toru higashi vs shun akiyama

#029: shinada vs shrimpnada

#030: ryuji goda vs daimu akutsu

#031: sohei dojima vs masumi arakawa

#032: reina vs yayoi dojima

#033: ryo aoki vs hiroaki arai

#034: jo sawashiro vs jun oda

#035: futoshi shimano vs akira nishikiyama (y1)

#036: masaru sera vs tsukasa sagawa

#037: shigeki baba vs joon-gi han (y7)

#038: shinji tanaka vs takeshi kido

#039: nishida vs taiga saejima

#040: tesso vs akira nishikiyama (y0)

#041: goh hamazaki vs wen hai lee

#042: homare nishitani vs sosuke komaki

#043: miss tatsu vs mirei park

#044: bacchus vs sotaro komaki

#045: ono michio vs kamulop

#046: haruka sawamura vs kyoko amasawa

#047: goro majima vs the florist

#048: toranosuke sengoku vs kazuma kiryu

#049: yoko sawa vs yumi sawamura

#050: gary "buster" holmes vs andre richardson

#051: tianyou zhao vs takumi someya

#052: ichiban kasuga vs daigo dojima (post y2)

#053: masato arakawa vs masato aizawa

INTERIM #1

BONUS ROUND: dead souls costumes

BONUS ROUND: wildcard qualifier

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2022 in Books: Fiction Edition

literary fiction published 2015-2022 (based on publish of english translation!)

breasts and eggs by mieko kawakami (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

heads of the colored people by nafissa thompson-spires (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐) - a perfect short story collection. so witty!

the hole by hiroko oyamada (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

larose by louise erdrich (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

i will die in a foreign land by kalani pickhart (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

the house of broken angels by luis alberto urrea (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

less by andrew sea greer (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

there there by tommy orange (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

at night all blood is black by david diop (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

beautiful world, where are you by sally rooney (⭐⭐⭐)

weasels in the attic by hiroko oyamada (⭐⭐⭐)

joan is okay by weike wang (⭐⭐⭐)

a tiny upward shove by melissa chadburn (⭐⭐⭐) - one of the most upsetting books i've ever read :( lots of merit but good lord is it rough

open water by caleb azumah nelson (⭐⭐⭐)

earthlings by sayaka murata (⭐⭐⭐) - competing with a tiny upward shove for most disgusting difficult book to read. this one i almost couldn't complete

kim jiyoung, born 1982 by nam-joo cho (⭐⭐) - this is so overrated. it's not a novel. it's an essay pretending to be a novel.

very nice by marcy dermansky (⭐⭐)

true love by sarah gerard (⭐⭐) - ever wanted to shake some sense into a character before?

spark by naoki matayoshi (⭐⭐)

people from my neighborhood by hiromi kawakami (⭐⭐)

the doll by ismail kadare (⭐)

literary fiction published 1971-2014

sexing the cherry by jeanette winterson (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐) - i have never highlighted more lines in a book. prose got me in a chokehold.

love in the time of cholera by gabriel garcia marquez (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

norwegian wood by haruki murakami (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐) - i don't wanna like murakami as much as i do but damn he doesn't miss

midnight's children by salman rushdie (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

less than zero by bret easton ellis (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

woman at point zero by nawal el saadawi (⭐⭐⭐⭐) - read this if you want to get homicidally angry :)

lion cross point by masatsugu ono (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

post office by charles bukowski (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

dept. of speculation by jenny offill (⭐⭐⭐⭐) - if i'd ever had to fight for a relationship this would have been a 5 star.

the dangers of smoking in bed by mariana enriquez (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

woman hollering creek and other stories by sandra cisneros (⭐⭐⭐⭐) - cheat code: read this aloud. prose drips off the tongue.

the ten loves of mr. nishino by hiromi kawakami (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

kitchen by banana yoshimoto (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

the divorce by cesar aira (⭐⭐⭐⭐) - 4 stars on the merit of the first part. the rest is probably a 3 star

if you kept a record of sins by andrea bajani (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

love by hanne orstavik (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

too loud a solitude by bohumil hrabal (⭐⭐⭐)

the factory by hiroko oyamada (⭐⭐⭐)

a feather on the breath of god by sigrid nunez (⭐⭐⭐) - good for what it is but a bit lightweight? maybe too critical because i loved 'the friend' by the same author

the white tiger by aravind adiga (⭐⭐⭐)

sleepless nights by elizabeth hardwick (⭐⭐⭐)

the story of my teeth by valeria luiselli (⭐⭐) - cool concept. unsure about the execution.

interpreter of maladies by jhumpa lahiri (⭐⭐)

battles in the desert by jose emilio pacheco (⭐⭐) - should have been a novel not a novella. it ends right as it starts to gain steam

literary fiction published start of time-1970

the passion according to g.h. by clarice lispector (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐) - favorite book of the year!!!! an existential crisis on paper!!!!

japanese tales of mystery & imagination by edogawa rampo (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐) - the 1st short story in this is insane! insane! the chair! i'm screaming!

miramar by naguib mahfouz (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

we have always lived in the castle by shirley jackson (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

the blind owl by sadegh hedayat (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐) - pinnacle of slow descent into madness fiction...or it's not that slow i guess

pedro paramo by juan rulfo (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

the turn of the screw by henry james (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐) - would have been 4 stars, but i read an edition with lit crit essays in the back and it was so fun to read the "but are the ghosts real?" discourses that i had to give it that extra star

i am a cat by natsume soseki (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐) - if soseki ever described my physical appearance in writing i'd promptly perish. he eviscerates people. dear god.

giovanni's room by james baldwin (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

the old man and the sea (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

the interpreters by wole soyinka (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐) - i don't even know what i like about this book. bad characters, no plot, confusing prose. and yet...it's got a rhythm. it possessed me.

pocho by jose antonio villareal (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

the living is easy by dorothy west (⭐⭐⭐⭐) - one of my fave protags of all time!

yesterday by juan emar (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

naomi by jun'ichiro tanizaki (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

passing by nella larsen (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

wide sargasso sea by jean rhys (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

bartleby, the scrivener: a story of wall street by herman melville (⭐⭐⭐) - tell you why i didn't give this more stars? i'd prefer not to.

season of migration to the north by tayeb salih (⭐⭐⭐)

everything and nothing by jorge luis borges (⭐⭐⭐) - i read this with a migraine. i was not in the right mindset. i'll give ficciones more attention someday.

portrait of the artist as a young man by james joyce (⭐⭐) - listen i'm not proud of this rating either. joyce isn't 2 stars. i'm just a 2 star reader.

genre fiction from all time

the fifth season by n.k. jemisin (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐) - STUNNING

the invisible life of addie larue by v.e. schwab (⭐⭐⭐⭐) - i usually don't care for fantasy and hated the other v.e. schwab i read, so this was a nice surprise. it lost me at points but ultimately regained me. deals with the devil are my kryptonite.

a court of mist and fury by sarah j. maas (⭐⭐⭐) - i get the hype. hard to criticize because its faults are what make it so good to others. i liked a lot of it.

how to stop time by matt haig (⭐⭐⭐)

the goddess chronicle by natsuo kirino (⭐⭐⭐)

never have i ever by isabel yap (⭐⭐⭐)

almond by sohn won-pyung (⭐⭐⭐)

once more upon a time by roshani chokshi (⭐⭐⭐)

sea of ruin by pam godwin (⭐⭐) - i thought this was a pirate romance. it is smut. pure smut. i was blushing on audio book. not a fan.

city of refuge by kenzo kitakata (⭐⭐)

nothing but blackened teeth by cassandra khaw (⭐⭐) - bizarre ending. like it could have been ok but it missed the obvious homerun for no reason.

velvet was the night by silvia garcia-moreno (⭐⭐)

colorful by eto mori (⭐⭐)

plays

millennium approaches by tony kushner (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

a doll's house by henrik ibsen (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

the inspector general by nikolai gogol (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

waiting for godot by samuel beckett (⭐⭐) - listen i'm just a dumb dumb. i know it's good. i just didn't like it.

[sakuwsker]

Opus.COLORs’ Birthdays

JANUARY:

由羅 大樹 YURA DAIKI (Okamoto Nobuhiko)     1/6

FEBRUARY:

多岐瀬 結愛  TAKISE YUA (uncast)              2/2

多岐瀬 響  TAKISE KYO (Ohsaka Ryota)     2/10

榊 知陽    SAKAKI CHIHARU (Furukawa Makoto)  2/14

MARCH:

御来屋 楓    MIKURIYA KAEDE (Nakajima Yoshiki)   3/9

APRIL:

月見里 和哉    YAMANASHI KAZUYA (Uchida Yuuma)   4/20

MAY:

中静 理央    NAKASHIZU RIO (Konishi Katsuyuki)    5/4

JUNE: 月見里 直輝     YAMANASHI NAOKI (Fukuyama Jun)   6/10

都築 純     TSUZUKI JUN (Hanae Natsuki)     6/30

JULY: 月見里 朱莉    YAMANASHI AKARI (Nazuka Kaori)    7/20

織堂 優一     SHIDO YUICHI (Nakamura Shugo)        7/31

AUGUST:

登世 康平       TOSE KOHEI  (Yamashita Daiki)            8/8

難波　道臣      NANBA MICHITAKA (Toyonaga Toshiyuki)   8/17

SEPTEMBER:

��島 伊織            HAIJIMA IORI  (Umehara Yuichiro)       9/24

OCTOBER:  桐乃江 麻秀        KIRINOE MASHU (Suzuki Ryouta)          10/9

八柳 真             YANAGI MAKOTO (Ono Daisuke)               10/27

NOVEMBER: 由羅 拓海         YURA TAKUMI (Shimazaki Nobunaga)        11/3

  多岐瀬 統梧        TAKISE TOGO (Toriumi Kousuke)           11/23

DECEMBER:  斑鳩 杏寿             IKARUGA ANJYU (Yashiro Taku)              12/12

source: https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2022-12-01/opus-colors https://www.opus-colors.com/character/

[funanimezone]

Release Information For Liar Liar Episode 10!

The previous thread in the series was a mind-boggling chain of events gripping viewers’ attention. With so much being spilt to the viewers, they have been speculating about the new release for a long time. 

Liar Liar Episode 10 Release Date is now official. This Japanese anime series has won millions of hearts worldwide. The main characters have gripped the viewers’ attention for quite a long time. Adding onto the compelling storyline, the illustrations of the anime series have been quite captivating. Directed by Satoru Ono and Naoki Matsuura, the series has received commendable responses from its viewers since episode 1.

Liar, Episode 9 is highly anticipated. Undoubtedly, this series is one of the most popular shows of the production house in Japan. It received immense popularity just after the release of the preview and has garnered tremendous attention from the global audience. With breathtaking visuals, this Manga-adapted anime is ruling the minds of its viewers. For more information about the release date of this anime you can visit the theanimeupdates website.

[nhacaitangtienvip]

Soi kèo nhà cái hôm nay Shonan Bellmare vs Yokohama FC, 17h ngày 24/2/2023

Soi kèo nhà cái hôm nay Shonan Bellmare vs Yokohama FC, 17h ngày 24/2/2023 tại nhà cái tặng tiền vip. Dự đoán tỷ số bóng đá giữa Shonan Bellmare vs Yokohama FC, 17h ngày 24/2/2023.

Yokohama FC hành trình đến Sân vận động Lemon Gas Hiratsuka vào thứ Sáu cho trận đấu tại J1 League với đội chủ nhà Shonan Bellmare.

Để xem tất cả dự đoán trận đấu, thăm dò ý kiến trước trận đấu và số liệu thống kê cho Shonan Bellmare v Yokohama FC, hãy cuộn xuống (cộng với tỷ lệ cược trận đấu hay nhất).

Shonan Bellmare đang hy vọng giành chiến thắng một lần nữa sau chiến thắng 1-5 tại J1 League trước Sagan Tosu.

Trong trận đấu đó, Shonan Bellmare kiểm soát bóng 37% và thực hiện 19 lần dứt điểm, trong đó có 12 lần trúng đích. Cho Shonan Bellmare, các bàn thắng được ghi bởi Yuki Ohashi (3', 36', 60'), Taiyo Hiraoka (45') và Kosuke Onose (64'). Ở đầu bên kia, Sagan Tosu có 9 lần dứt điểm trong đó có 2 lần trúng đích. Yuji Ono (45') ghi bàn cho Sagan Tosu.

Những bàn thắng gần đây hơn của họ thực sự minh họa cho điểm mà chất lượng đã được thể hiện rõ ràng ở hậu vệ Shonan Bellmare. Shonan Bellmare đã chơi tệ ở phía sau, dẫn đến số bàn thua mà thủ môn của họ phải ghi trong sáu trận đã qua của họ là 4. Chúng ta sẽ sớm xem liệu xu hướng đó có tiếp tục diễn ra trong trận đấu này hay không.

Bước vào trận đấu này, Shonan Bellmare đã bất bại trong 4 trận sân nhà trước đó.

Sau khi nếm mùi thất bại lần trước trước Nagoya Grampus trong khuôn khổ J1 League, Yokohama FC sẽ hy vọng sẽ xoay chuyển tình thế tại đây.

Ở trận đấu đó, Yokohama FC cầm bóng tới 71% và thực hiện 14 lần dứt điểm, trong đó có 1 lần trúng đích. Ở chiều ngược lại, Nagoya Grampus có 7 lần dứt điểm và 3 trong số đó trúng đích. Kasper Junker (4') là người ghi bàn cho Nagoya Grampus.

Cho thấy họ yêu thích những trận đấu hiệu quả, chúng ta đã có 21 bàn thắng trong sáu trận đấu trước đó mà Yokohama FC tung quân, đạt trung bình 3,5 bàn thắng mỗi trận. Đối th��� của họ đã quản lý được 10 trong tổng số này.

Nhìn lại các trận đối đầu gần đây nhất của họ kể từ ngày 25/06/2017 cho chúng ta thấy rằng Shonan Bellmare đã thắng 3 trong số các trận này & Yokohama FC 2, với số trận hòa là 1.

17 bàn thắng đã được ghi giữa họ trong những trận đấu này, với 8 bàn trong số đó của Shonan và 9 bàn cho Yokohama. Đó là con số bàn thắng trung bình mỗi trận là 2,83.

Lần gặp nhau trước đó giữa các bên này là trận đấu J1 League ngày 33 vào ngày 23/10/2021 và tỷ số kết thúc là Shonan Bellmare 2-1 Yokohama FC.

Ngày hôm đó, Shonan Bellmare kiểm soát bóng 62% và tung ra 9 cú sút trúng khung thành với 4 lần trúng đích. Những người ghi bàn là Yuki Ohashi (78') và Naoki Yamada (89').

Ở đầu bên kia, Yokohama FC có 8 lần dứt điểm trong đó có 3 lần trúng đích. Yusuke Matsuo (63') là người ghi bàn.

Trọng tài là Akihiko Ikeuchi.

Người quản lý của Shonan Bellmare, Satoshi Yamaguchi, không cần lo lắng gì về thể lực trước trận đấu này nhờ có một đội hình hoàn toàn khỏe mạnh để lựa chọn.

Nhờ có một nhóm cầu thủ chủ yếu có sẵn, chỉ có một vấn đề về thể lực mà huấn luyện viên Shuhei Yomoda của Yokohama FC phải lo lắng. Saulo Mineiro (đứt gân Achilles) sẽ không thi đấu.

Suy nghĩ của chúng tôi là Yokohama FC sẽ có thể ghi bàn vào lưới đội hình Shonan Bellmare này, mặc dù số bàn thua đó có lẽ không nhiều bằng số bàn thua mà họ có thể để thủng lưới.

Đá gà trực tiếp Campuchia cho rằng đây sẽ là một trận đấu rất sát sao với tỷ số 2-1 nghiêng về Shonan Bellmare trong cả thời gian thi đấu. Hãy xem những gì xảy ra ở đây.

[specialability]

2022 Reading

So it seems that my total is ~41 books read, although it's difficult to count. Thirty-eight different titles, although the web novels are often 3-6 volumes worth each. Manga is even harder to pin down, Naruto alone is 72 volumes and there are a lot of manga I read and don't keep track of or are ongoing. I don't remember what I was doing in June, I must have been reading something. Links are to novelupdates for webnovels and some to the publisher if they might be slightly harder to find.

January

Dune by Frank Herbert (reread)

Children of Dune

Dune Messiah

February

Hikaru no Go by Yumi Hotta & Takeshi Obata (reread)

Cried at the end, as one does. Recommended for fans of sports/trading card/proxy battle fans but also fans of dramatic men who carry hand fans.

March

Bu Tian Gang by Meng Xi Shi (web novel, DNF)

Qiang Jin Jiu by Tang Jiuqing (web novel, on hold)

Unseen Immortal of Three Hundred Years (web novel, translation stalled)

Spring Trees and Sunset Clouds by Wei Liang (web novel, Exiled Rebels translation)

post I made about these

April

Female General and Eldest Princess by 请君莫笑 (web novel, melts translation)

post about this great sweeping yuri romance

May

Otherside Picnic Omnibus Vol. 1-3 by Iori Miyazawa

I had trouble falling asleep after reading these they were so freakin scary. In a very good way. The yuri is also excellent and falls within the category of 'fucked up people finding love in a fucked up world'

Scum Villain's Self-Saving System Vol. 1 & 2 by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu (Seven Seas trans.) post about it

Stray by 年终 (web novel, Kinky Translations)

Interesting unusual danmei in a more western fantasy setting. Post about it.

Monster by Naoki Urasawa (reread)

July

Tai Sui by Priest (E. Danglars trans.) If I had to pick one, this would be my book of the year. Post at chapter 66 and the end although I think it would take a full year of a university level course to pick this novel apart properly.

August

Smiley's People by John LeCarré

I read a bunch of LeCarré last year and had this one laying around that I hadn't gotten to.

Bleach by Kubo Tite (reread, yes all of it)

Jujutsu Kaisen by Gege Akutami (reread, only some volumes)

Naruto by Masashi Kishimoto (reread, all of it)

September

The Millennium Trilogy by Stieg Larsson (reread)

The girl with the dragon tattoo

The girl who played with fire

The girl who kicked the hornet's nest

A Most Wanted Man by John LeCarré

October

all Pushkin Vertigo editions

Detective Kindaichi Mysteries by Seishi Yokomizo

The Honjin Murders

Death on Gokumon Island

The Village of Eight Graves

The Inugami Curse

The Decagon House Murders by Yukito Ayatsuji

Probably one of the best mysteries I've ever read, and I didn't even realize that the author was the same as one of my favourite horror light novels, Another. (He is also the husband of Fuyumi Ono!) I think it depends on the person whether you will enjoy the ending or not, but I very much did. This and a number of the other murder mysteries I read after it are all by members of the Honkaku Mystery Writers of Japan club who were part of a new wave of "fair play" mysteries based on golden age classics. From there I transitioned into reading more classic mysteries that were referenced in these novels.

The Tokyo Zodiac Murders by Shōji Shimada

Murder in the Crooked House Shōji Shimada

The Master Key by Masako Togawa

The Lady Killer by Masako Togawa

November

Honeymoon to Nowhere by Akimitsu Takagi

The Tattoo Murder Case by Akimitsu Takagi

Death Among the Undead by Masahiro Imamura

Another modern mystery novel that stands out for it's original premise: a locked room murder mystery with the characters all trapped in a cabin in the woods in the middle of a zombie outbreak. Personally I think the romance could have been done without, and a female narrator would have been stronger, but overall very compelling.

The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett Turns out the movie is very accurate to the novel.

The 8 Mansion Murders by Takemaru Akiko

Hollow Man by John Dickson Carr

One of the golden age mysteries repeatedly referenced by some of the newer mysteries and genuinely a bit scary at points.

December

Golden age detective stories ed. by Otto Penzler

Currently working on this short story collection. The intros to each story putting it in context are very interesting.

[dezainnet]

雑誌「広告」が特集“著作”のvol.414を刊行 同時に価格の安いセルフ海賊版も販売 (kohkoku.jp)

[cavesalamander]

Oh man, I’ve been sitting on this cast for SO long, not having pinned down everyone’s design. But finally... finally I have them all. It’s been like 3 years in the making.

Mini bios coming soon so you’ll be seeing this art again + some fun and interesting facts about these dweebs. I did the art myself, but the characters themselves are a collaboration of @mootablemimic and I working together, with some design input/critique from @medi-melancholy and other friends.

[thesoulbonder]

♣️Clubs Royal Family♣️ (Part 1)

Next is the Méihuā Family!

Reminder: These beautiful babies belong to @arty-e and her amazing series, Cards! Please go and check out her profile and go through the other Cards posts!

But without further ado, here’s the green guys!

Naoki Méihuā, Meilin Méihuā,

River Méihuā, Nuo Méihuā,

Hyeon Méihuā, Peony Ono-Méihuā,

Eben Méihuā, Ruomei Vadas-Méihuā,

Yukio Méihuā,

[rggdriptournament]

HEAT #2

#054: chika arimura vs ai uehera

#055: bacchus vs dd

#056: joon-gi han (y7) vs joon-gi han (y6)

#057: yumi sawamura vs haruka sawamura

#058: goro majima vs everyone's idol goro majima

#059: akira nishikiyama (y0) vs ichiban kasuga

#060: tetsu tachibana vs makoto tsukumo

#061: makoto makimura vs saeko mukoda

#062: seong-hui vs miss tatsu

#063: rikiya shimabukuro vs shinji tanaka

#064: yu nanba vs takayuki yagami

#065: wen hai lee vs taiga saejima

#066: jun oda vs masaharu kaito

#067: hana vs etsuko the obatarian

#068: koichi adachi vs masumi arakawa

#069: ryuji goda vs gary "buster" holmes

#070: nick ogata vs naoki katsuya

#071: yoshitaka mine vs hiroaoki arai

#072: mikiko sadamoto vs yasuko saejima

#073: ono michio vs shrimpnada

#074: reina vs watase masaru

#075: kazuma kiryu vs akira nishikiyama (y1)

#077: american boy mitsuo vs tsuyoshi nagumo

#078: shintaro kazama vs shun akiyama

#079: homare nishitani vs tianyou zhao

#080: masato arakawa vs daigo dojima (y2)

INTERIM #2

BONUS ROUND: wildcard qualifier

[fagopiro]

press F for Daichi cause he is twenty-two year old boomer

[torabisutouchdown]

some twitter doodles from yesterday. 

[leenaevilin]

[Pics] ミュージカル『新テニスの王子様』 The Second Stage (musical shin tennis no oujisama the second stage)

main visual ↑↑↑ & visuals update under the cut^^

Cast:

Junior High Selection Member (中学選抜メンバー)

Imamaki Hikaru as Echizen Ryoma (越前リョーマ)

Yamada Kento as Tezuka Kunimitsu (手塚国光)

Masunaga Takumi as Akutsu Jin (亜久津仁)

Takahashi Ryouta as Atobe Keigo (跡部景吾)

Yoshida Tomoro as Sanada Kenichirou (真田弦一郎)

Kurata Naoki as Niou Masaharu (仁王雅治)

Kawamoto Kouki as Marui Bunta (丸井ブン太)

Nagatsuka Takumi as Kite Eishirou (木手永四郎)

Hiramatsu Raima as Tooyama Kintarou (遠山金太郎)

U-17 Selection Member (U-17 選抜メンバー)

Sasaki Takashi as Byoudouin Houou (平等院鳳凰)

Akisawa Kentarou as Tanegashima Shouji (種ヶ島修二)

Ookubo Keisuke as Duke Watanabe (デューク渡邊)

Izawa Yuuki as Echizen Ryoga (越前リョーガ)

Ono Kento as Tokugawa Kazuya (徳川カズヤ)

Okamoto Yuuki as Oni Juujirou (鬼十次郎)

Aiba Hiroki as Irie Kanata (入江奏多)

Yasue Kazuaki as Irie Kanata (入江奏多)

Hatakeyama Ryou as Oomagari Ryuuji (大曲竜次)

Kashizawa Yuuta as Kimijima Ikuto (君島育斗)

Teruma as Toono Atsukyou (遠野篤京)

Sonan Kei as Ochi Tsukimitsu (越知月光)

Maruyama Ryuusei as Mouri Juzaburou (毛利寿三郎) Coaches (コーチ)

Murakami Kouhei as Kurobe Yukio (黒部由起夫)

Shindou Gaku as Tsuge Ryuuji (柘植竜二)

Matsuyama Takashi as Echizen Nanjirou (越前南次郎)

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