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hoagecko (he/his), hoagecko@sh.itjust.works

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I am Japansese. I’m not good at English. Mastodon: @hoagecko@fedibird.com

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I generally only review Place as a place where I purchased artwork, often as an add-on to a review of the artwork itself.

Specifically, this includes reviews of bookstores for novels and record stores for music.

An exception would be my reviews of public libraries, where I focused primarily on the place itself.

The collections of a town’s public library often succinctly reflect the town’s cultural policies and characteristics, making comparisons interesting.



If you’re looking for RSS feeds, I recommend the website RSS Parot.


Sleaze: “Mon Papa” by Kenichi Enomoto, Teiichi Futamura (1931)
Depressing: “Inverted Type” by Sympathy Nervous (1980)


Drama: Oshin (JP, 1983-1984)
Animation: Shaun the Sheep (UK, 2007-present)
Kids: ETV 0655&2355 (JP, 2010-present)
Special program: TV’s TV (JP, 1987)

Of these, the one I particularly recommend is “TV’s TV."
This is a program in which 100 TV channels each contain small video content, which is randomly introduced within a single TV program, an idea that was around 20 years ahead of YouTube.

There’s also an anecdote that Satoshi Tajiri, who would later create Pokémon, was involved in the production of this program.


Johnny Kitagawa’s child sexual abuse was confirmed in a trial over gossip magazine reports.

Johnny & Associates, which continued to have him involved with minors for over 15 years, engaged in organized child sexual exploitation and should be defined as a mafia.

Therefore, all organizations that did business with the company, including ISPs, universities, UMG, and Nintendo, should be defined as affiliated with the mafia.


The only independent search engines that support my native Japanese are Google, Bing, Brave, and Yep.

Of these, I generally search using Brave, and if I’m not satisfied with the results, I search again using DuckDuckGo.
I don’t use Yep because of its strict bot restrictions.

Also, on the rare occasions when I need to do an exact match or a search using site:, for some reason, Brave and DuckDuckGo are useless, so I reluctantly use Google, which is a shame.
As someone living in Japan, I do not recommend QWant, which is recommended in this comment section.

As I’ve commented before, this is because the service geoblocks countries that have non-Western languages ​​as their official languages.


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  1. Music: Hoagy Carmichael - Ole Buttermilk Sky (1953, 1946)
  2. Manga: Osamu Tezuka - The Ant and the Giant (1961-1962)
  3. Light Novel: 激辛寝具 - TSアル中悪役令嬢は破滅を御所望です (2021)
  4. Game: Nintendo - Splatoon 2 (2017)
  5. Animation: Aardman - The Coconnut - Shaun the Sheep Season 3 (2012)

Qwant has been blocking access from countries that have non-European languages ​​as their official language since around 2020.
It is still not available in Japan and other countries.


The search engine that respects your privacy
Thanks for your visit
Unfortunately we are not yet available in your country.
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XユーザーのQwantさん: 「Some of you have reported difficulties using Qwant in several countries around the world. It is a difficult decision but we have decided to close access to our services in certain countries where we don’t believe to provide the expected quality of service. Our apologies for this.」 / X

I recommend using Stract and Mojeek, which builds its own index independently without relying on Bing or similar services.

EDIT: Add mojeek.



The article introduced by OP overlooks a crucial fact regarding the description of the event held at Yasukuni Shrine.

According to an official statement from The Pokémon Company, the event in question was organized by “an individual certified for the Pokémon Trading Card Game,” and the company stated that this was mistakenly posted on its official website due to insufficient verification.

イベント告知に関するお詫び|株式会社ポケモン|The Pokémon Company

This was therefore a prank perpetrated by a malicious individual. It is incorrect to assume this event was officially organized by The Pokémon Company.


Currently, in Japan, it is a major issue that her party’s video has been viewed 160 million times on YouTube. Of course, the majority of those views are thought to have been for advertising purposes.

She is a far-right politician who advocates “countermeasures against foreigners,” but she paid a large sum of money to Google, a foreign tech giant, to win the election.

At the very least, online election advertising will likely be an issue for discussion in the upcoming Diet session.


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I generally only review Place as a place where I purchased artwork, often as an add-on to a review of the artwork itself.

Specifically, this includes reviews of bookstores for novels and record stores for music.

An exception would be my reviews of public libraries, where I focused primarily on the place itself.

The collections of a town’s public library often succinctly reflect the town’s cultural policies and characteristics, making comparisons interesting.



If you’re looking for RSS feeds, I recommend the website RSS Parot.


Sleaze: “Mon Papa” by Kenichi Enomoto, Teiichi Futamura (1931)
Depressing: “Inverted Type” by Sympathy Nervous (1980)


Drama: Oshin (JP, 1983-1984)
Animation: Shaun the Sheep (UK, 2007-present)
Kids: ETV 0655&2355 (JP, 2010-present)
Special program: TV’s TV (JP, 1987)

Of these, the one I particularly recommend is “TV’s TV."
This is a program in which 100 TV channels each contain small video content, which is randomly introduced within a single TV program, an idea that was around 20 years ahead of YouTube.

There’s also an anecdote that Satoshi Tajiri, who would later create Pokémon, was involved in the production of this program.


Johnny Kitagawa’s child sexual abuse was confirmed in a trial over gossip magazine reports.

Johnny & Associates, which continued to have him involved with minors for over 15 years, engaged in organized child sexual exploitation and should be defined as a mafia.

Therefore, all organizations that did business with the company, including ISPs, universities, UMG, and Nintendo, should be defined as affiliated with the mafia.


The only independent search engines that support my native Japanese are Google, Bing, Brave, and Yep.

Of these, I generally search using Brave, and if I’m not satisfied with the results, I search again using DuckDuckGo.
I don’t use Yep because of its strict bot restrictions.

Also, on the rare occasions when I need to do an exact match or a search using site:, for some reason, Brave and DuckDuckGo are useless, so I reluctantly use Google, which is a shame.
As someone living in Japan, I do not recommend QWant, which is recommended in this comment section.

As I’ve commented before, this is because the service geoblocks countries that have non-Western languages ​​as their official languages.


The search engine that respects your privacy
Thanks for your visit
Unfortunately we are not yet available in your country.
Would you like to know more about our actions?

XユーザーのQwantさん: 「Some of you have reported difficulties using Qwant in several countries around the world. It is a difficult decision but we have decided to close access to our services in certain countries where we don’t believe to provide the expected quality of service. Our apologies for this.」 / X


  1. Music: Hoagy Carmichael - Ole Buttermilk Sky (1953, 1946)
  2. Manga: Osamu Tezuka - The Ant and the Giant (1961-1962)
  3. Light Novel: 激辛寝具 - TSアル中悪役令嬢は破滅を御所望です (2021)
  4. Game: Nintendo - Splatoon 2 (2017)
  5. Animation: Aardman - The Coconnut - Shaun the Sheep Season 3 (2012)

Qwant has been blocking access from countries that have non-European languages ​​as their official language since around 2020.
It is still not available in Japan and other countries.


The search engine that respects your privacy
Thanks for your visit
Unfortunately we are not yet available in your country.
Would you like to know more about our actions?

XユーザーのQwantさん: 「Some of you have reported difficulties using Qwant in several countries around the world. It is a difficult decision but we have decided to close access to our services in certain countries where we don’t believe to provide the expected quality of service. Our apologies for this.」 / X

I recommend using Stract and Mojeek, which builds its own index independently without relying on Bing or similar services.

EDIT: Add mojeek.



The article introduced by OP overlooks a crucial fact regarding the description of the event held at Yasukuni Shrine.

According to an official statement from The Pokémon Company, the event in question was organized by “an individual certified for the Pokémon Trading Card Game,” and the company stated that this was mistakenly posted on its official website due to insufficient verification.

イベント告知に関するお詫び|株式会社ポケモン|The Pokémon Company

This was therefore a prank perpetrated by a malicious individual. It is incorrect to assume this event was officially organized by The Pokémon Company.


Currently, in Japan, it is a major issue that her party’s video has been viewed 160 million times on YouTube. Of course, the majority of those views are thought to have been for advertising purposes.

She is a far-right politician who advocates “countermeasures against foreigners,” but she paid a large sum of money to Google, a foreign tech giant, to win the election.

At the very least, online election advertising will likely be an issue for discussion in the upcoming Diet session.