My brain and body have wanted to do *nothing* today.

I spent like 5 hrs farming bosses and grinding alchemy in Atelier Sophie and watched a few THE MAKANAI episodes.

Now I just need to gather the spoons to make some pad thai for dinner.

#food #VideoGames #JRPG #AtelierSophie #TheMakanai

#TheMakanai on Netflix is fascinating to me because I'd already watched the #anime adaptation of the same story, available as #KiyoInKyoto on Crunchyroll.

It's a sweet, gentle series that gives a rare glimpse into the world of geisha. But mostly I'm in it for the food. It's never anything fancy, just depictions of Japanese comfort food, but watching it feels like getting a warm hug.

I finished The Makanai on Netflix tonight and I'm not sure how I feel about it from a shipping perspective.
From an entertainment perspective, it was great. A+ twee Japanese expressing your feelings through food, lots of cute characters, loved the maiko/geiko arts/dressing/beauty I got to look at.

The shipping is like...the show ships it, I think(?) but is kind of aggressively nonsexual about it?? I would love to hear what other people thought of it. #theMakanai

My #Starling friend enjoying the cooking at the maiko house (very niche post).

#TheMakanai #Manga #BackyardBirding #Oregon

If #TheMakanai gets an English-language remake, it will be about a knife-wielding girl detective who infiltrates a ballerina cult in Neo-Tokyo (shot on location in Vancouver)

(P.S. If you are ever asked to greenlight such a project, please don't)