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ghostferatuI haven’t really shared many entries here lately, or at all really. I have been busy playing the entire Yakuza/Like A Dragon franchise. The last time I posted an entry like this, I was still playing Yakuza 3. I’ve been playing all of the games all year, and am almost all caught up. I don't even have to worry about finishing Like A Dragon Gaiden before Infinite Wealth comes out, I just have to focus on finishing Yakuza: Like A Dragon, then I’m all set for the new game coming out in January. I’m really excited for it. I was worried I wasn’t going to like the turn-based combat, but I do. While playing Yakuza: Like A Dragon, I am constantly thinking about how its gameplay reminds me of Miitopia. Miitopia is one of my favourite video games of all time. I have both versions of Miitopia, and I have played both of them a lot. I don't think I actually finished the 3DS version of it, to be honest. I need to get on that. I do think I prefer the Switch version of it. I just wish I could have multiple save files because I would love to start a new game with new characters, rather than just adding the characters I like.
Halloween has also come and gone since my last journal entry. I was a vampire like I said I’d be. I didn’t do much on Halloween other than dress up, watch a few Halloween specials, hand out a bit of candy to trick or treaters, and play a bit of Dead by Daylight with some of my friends. I still had fun even if I didn’t really do anything. Now, it’s going to be Christmas soon, and I am excited for it even though it doesn’t feel like it used to. Family drama and stuff. I won’t get into it. But I still have fun, and I hope it will go okay. I am hoping to get some video games for Christmas, along with Hellsing stuff. On my list, I have Like A Dragon: Ishin!, Lost Judgement, Hellsing Ultimate (the complete series on Blu-ray), and the Hellsing manga. Even at least one volume of the manga would be good with me. There are a few things I never put on my list that I would have liked to add now but I think what I have on there should be enough. I want to add Vampire Hunter D Omnibus: Book One to my list. I checked it out from the library last month and only managed to read the first story before I had to return it, but I loved it a lot. I would love my own copy of it some day, but for now I will wait until the new year to check it out again and continue where I left off. When I returned it to the library, I didn’t get any new books because it is becoming that time of year where it will be hard to walk to the library, and I don’t have any boots for the snow. I decided to stop at the comic book store before heading to the thrift store, then the corner store. From the comic book store, I bought the first two volumes of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure. Phantom Blood, of course. I have already seen the first two parts of the anime and I do really enjoy it. I have been watching more of Stardust Crusaders lately too. I really like it a lot. I watched the first two parts in 2020, but stopped because my attention went elsewhere. But, I am watching it now. My favourite JoJo is still Joseph. I don’t see a lot of love for him, but I really like him.
Other than anime, and manga, and light novels, I have been listening to a bit more visual-kei lately. My top artist of the year on my Spotify Wrapped was BUCK-TICK. I am glad. I wanted it to be them. It felt right. The rest of my top 5 were Ghost, SEGA SOUND TEAM, Kazuma Kiryu (Takaya Kuroda), and Fall Out Boy. I had Kiryu in my top artists because of how much of the karaoke from Yakuza I listen to. My top song this year was actually 24-Hour Cinderella from Yakuza 0. I’m happy about that. It feels right. I can’t wait for the PlayStation Wrap-Up for this year. I hope that Yakuza 0 is my game of the year. I am getting quite a few hours in Yakuza: Like A Dragon though, and I don’t really want that game to be my number one. I want it to be Yakuza 0.
I really haven’t been doing much else. Only really playing Yakuza, watching JJBA sometimes, and talking to my friends. I need some more hobbies, or to start doing my other hobbies again. It has been a long time since I have drawn anything, I just have a hard time with it. I have stuff I want to draw, but I don’t really feel confident enough in my skills. I know I just need to keep practising, but I am horrible about being a perfectionist. I almost always end up abandoning art, and never posting it. Even if I like how my art ends up, I never really post it. I am too nervous. I should just post my art, regardless of how confident I am in it. The same goes for my writing, even if I am a bit more confident in my writing. I have gotten some really nice compliments on my writing. My fanfiction for Ghost has gotten the most compliments, and I am proud of it. I love to write fanfiction, I am just not very good at coming up with ideas. I have been wanting to write some Yakuza fanfiction some day, if I can come up with an idea I will try to write some. I also want to write more essays or just my general thoughts about things as well.
I don’t know if anything else is really new with me. I plan on writing more of my thoughts on the Yakuza franchise soon. I might redo the first one some day, and make it more cohesive. It feels like it’s probably a bit of a mess. Oh well. I think that is all for now, I will be doing a few updates to my website, I need to add some more buttons from my new neighbours! It’s always nice to see who follows me, and to add their buttons. I hope everyone who is reading this has a good rest of their day.
Halloween has also come and gone since my last journal entry. I was a vampire like I said I’d be. I didn’t do much on Halloween other than dress up, watch a few Halloween specials, hand out a bit of candy to trick or treaters, and play a bit of Dead by Daylight with some of my friends. I still had fun even if I didn’t really do anything. Now, it’s going to be Christmas soon, and I am excited for it even though it doesn’t feel like it used to. Family drama and stuff. I won’t get into it. But I still have fun, and I hope it will go okay. I am hoping to get some video games for Christmas, along with Hellsing stuff. On my list, I have Like A Dragon: Ishin!, Lost Judgement, Hellsing Ultimate (the complete series on Blu-ray), and the Hellsing manga. Even at least one volume of the manga would be good with me. There are a few things I never put on my list that I would have liked to add now but I think what I have on there should be enough. I want to add Vampire Hunter D Omnibus: Book One to my list. I checked it out from the library last month and only managed to read the first story before I had to return it, but I loved it a lot. I would love my own copy of it some day, but for now I will wait until the new year to check it out again and continue where I left off. When I returned it to the library, I didn’t get any new books because it is becoming that time of year where it will be hard to walk to the library, and I don’t have any boots for the snow. I decided to stop at the comic book store before heading to the thrift store, then the corner store. From the comic book store, I bought the first two volumes of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure. Phantom Blood, of course. I have already seen the first two parts of the anime and I do really enjoy it. I have been watching more of Stardust Crusaders lately too. I really like it a lot. I watched the first two parts in 2020, but stopped because my attention went elsewhere. But, I am watching it now. My favourite JoJo is still Joseph. I don’t see a lot of love for him, but I really like him.
Other than anime, and manga, and light novels, I have been listening to a bit more visual-kei lately. My top artist of the year on my Spotify Wrapped was BUCK-TICK. I am glad. I wanted it to be them. It felt right. The rest of my top 5 were Ghost, SEGA SOUND TEAM, Kazuma Kiryu (Takaya Kuroda), and Fall Out Boy. I had Kiryu in my top artists because of how much of the karaoke from Yakuza I listen to. My top song this year was actually 24-Hour Cinderella from Yakuza 0. I’m happy about that. It feels right. I can’t wait for the PlayStation Wrap-Up for this year. I hope that Yakuza 0 is my game of the year. I am getting quite a few hours in Yakuza: Like A Dragon though, and I don’t really want that game to be my number one. I want it to be Yakuza 0.
I really haven’t been doing much else. Only really playing Yakuza, watching JJBA sometimes, and talking to my friends. I need some more hobbies, or to start doing my other hobbies again. It has been a long time since I have drawn anything, I just have a hard time with it. I have stuff I want to draw, but I don’t really feel confident enough in my skills. I know I just need to keep practising, but I am horrible about being a perfectionist. I almost always end up abandoning art, and never posting it. Even if I like how my art ends up, I never really post it. I am too nervous. I should just post my art, regardless of how confident I am in it. The same goes for my writing, even if I am a bit more confident in my writing. I have gotten some really nice compliments on my writing. My fanfiction for Ghost has gotten the most compliments, and I am proud of it. I love to write fanfiction, I am just not very good at coming up with ideas. I have been wanting to write some Yakuza fanfiction some day, if I can come up with an idea I will try to write some. I also want to write more essays or just my general thoughts about things as well.
I don’t know if anything else is really new with me. I plan on writing more of my thoughts on the Yakuza franchise soon. I might redo the first one some day, and make it more cohesive. It feels like it’s probably a bit of a mess. Oh well. I think that is all for now, I will be doing a few updates to my website, I need to add some more buttons from my new neighbours! It’s always nice to see who follows me, and to add their buttons. I hope everyone who is reading this has a good rest of their day.
