Well, this is new.
After going back and forth on it longer than I should’ve, I made a tough call on something that actually means a lot to me as an anime fan: I’m skipping Anime Expo (AX) this year.
Typing that out still feels weird.
For the longest time, AX has been automatic. No debate, no overthinking—it just happened every summer.
Continue reading “Breaking the Streak: Why I’m Skipping Anime Expo This Year”There are some anime you fall in love with immediately, and some you just can’t get behind no matter how many times you try.
And then there are the ones you almost drop completely…only for them to come back later and completely take over your life.
The Love Live franchise was definitely the third one, because when I first watched Love Live! School Idol Project, I just didn’t get it.
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There are two ways to plan a Japan trip:
Outsource the stress…or become the stress.
Or, if you want to sound more professional about it:
Book a tour and let someone else plan everything…Or become a full-time project manager of your own vacation.
Naturally, I chose chaos. Not reckless chaos, but the kind where you’ve got multiple tabs open, a running notes app, and just enough structure to convince yourself everything is under control.But I didn’t start there.
Continue Reading →Lost in the shuffle of planning Dragon Con and my upcoming Japan trip is a milestone that completely snuck up on me.
A special anniversary. No, not a relationship anniversary…well, not in the traditional sense anyway.
This year marks 15 years since I started cosplaying regularly, which is honestly wild to think about. Somehow a decade and a half has gone by since I decided to jump headfirst into one of the most fun, chaotic, and occasionally wallet-destroying hobbies out there.
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Japan.
The land of the rising sun, ancient temples, neon-lit cities, and the birthplace of anime. For a lot of us otaku, it’s less of a vacation and more of a pilgrimage — the kind you spend years saying you’ll take someday.
And after more than 20 years of saying “someday,” it finally looks like that someday might actually be happening this year, which means, naturally, I’ve decided to plan the entire trip myself.
Because apparently I enjoy stress.
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