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I 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.

This is my first entry on this website. I have never really used a site like this before, I never had anything like it. I am sure it will be an easier place for me to journal, rather than using HTML on my website like I usually do. I might post some of my old website journal entries here if I can. I do like having a journal on my website, I think it's fun, but I also did a lot of work on it and it would be a waste to just get rid of it.

I don't know if I will use this for anything other than journals. I could really write about almost anything and share it here. I could write reviews, or do some short essays on things that I find interesting. Maybe even share some short stories if I can come up with anything. Anyways, I have had an account here for a few days but I am finally going to try to post an entry here.
I also notice that people post fanfiction here. I think I will stick to my usual site for that.

Lately I have been watching more movies. I have a nice streak going, I've been watching at least one movie a day. I have been doing that since the 5th of this month (though I did miss a movie on the 9th) and it has been fun. I have been keeping it generally spooky for October, but on the 12th I saw "Stop Making Sense" in theatres. I had never seen it until then, and I thought it was really good. Other than that, this month I have watched both of the Orphan movies, Totally Killer, Malignant, Re-Animator, Over The Garden Wall, Jason X, and today (so far) I have watched Twitches. Most of those are first viewings, everything except for Re-Animator and Over The Garden Wall. I have really enjoyed all of the movies I have watched so far. I don't know what I am going to watch next, I will have to look around. I should probably finish that one movie I started the other day but never finished but I don't know. I kinda feel like watching Disney movies today. Maybe I will re-watch Hocus Pocus or maybe find something I have not seen before.

Other than movies, I have been keeping it generally spooky this month with the book I've been reading. Other than getting the first issue of the Dead by Daylight comic book, I have been reading a book I checked out from the library. It's "The Final Girl Support Group" by Grady Hendrix. I am really enjoying it so far. I have been trying to read more and this book has been really fun to read. I don't usually get lost in a book too often but this one had me really immersed this morning. I will try to read more of it tonight because it is due on the 18th and I am only a little over halfway through. If I have to renew it, I will. If I can. I don't want to be rude and keep it too long.

The only thing I have not been spooky with this month is video games. I have been playing so much Yakuza still. I played a ton of Yakuza 3 yesterday. I went from Chapter 6 to Chapter 9 last night. The story is really picking up. When I am really into the story of Yakuza games, my focus goes from substories to the main plot. It happened to me during Yakuza 0, I felt such a sense of urgency in that game when there really wasn't any. I guess I got really immersed into the story. Out of all of the Yakuza games I have played so far, Yakuza 0 is still my favourite. I think my least favourite is probably Yakuza Kiwami. I thought the story was the weakest, and the only thing that really kept me playing was seeing all of the Majima Everywhere encounters. Majima made that game really fun until I had to run around and hope that I run into the encounter that I was looking for.
I really liked Kiwami 2, and not just because of the Majima Saga or the new game engine, but I thought the story was at least a bit more interesting than Kiwami.

The music I have been listening to lately is the Yakuza soundtracks, mainly the karaoke but even the actual music from the games is really good too. I am someone to listened to video game soundtracks to begin with, so it's nothing new to me, but I just really like the music from these games. Other than Yakuza soundtracks, I have been listening to so much BUCK-TICK and they have quickly become one of my favourite bands. They are certainly my favourite Japanese band. I just love the sound of their music. My favourite album of theirs so far Juusankai Wa Gekkou, their 2005 album. I love so many songs on that one, Diabolo -Lucifer-, seraphim, Gesshoku, Romance. So many songs on that album are just amazing to me. I highly recommend it. I still have a lot of albums to listen to, I am listening to their album Memento mori right now. On this album, I really like the song Suzumebachi. This album is really good so far. I love the sound a lot. Their album prior to this one has a few really good songs, but I'm not to fussy on it to be honest. They start off really strong, but a lot of the songs are pretty "same" to me. Maybe I need to give it another chance later, or hear more of it. Maybe it will grow on me. Only time will tell.

I don't think I have anything else to talk about. I will figure out what movie I am going to watch next, or maybe see what I can do about posting my entries from my website onto here. If not, it's no big deal.
Have a good day/night, whoever reads this.