It’s been a quiet five years for Omokage Lucky Hole[1]Now technically “Only Love Hurts,” but whatever. since their last show in 2019. Admittedly timing wasn’t great, as that aforementioned last performance just happened to immediately precede the onset of a pandemic. While they did manage to put out a...

It’s fair to say that many fans of Japanese pop culture get into it via either anime or manga, or even video games to some extent. After that initial hook some may venture deeper, exploring music, film, fashion, or many of the other granular facets of the culture. I’m...

In an attempt to dust off this blog and get some content up, I’m going to fully embrace the early-2000s era approach to blogging by “reporting” on “news” from over a week ago[1]Or, about a century ago in current internet time. However, I am doing this because the topic...