Today’s deck is The Path of Horror.
It’s so edgy it’s kinda cute. Every card is full of grotesque imagery and blood and skulls… but it tries SO HARD that it somehow wraps around to just being funny.
Like oh my God thy use Skulls instead of Cups because of the whole drinking from skulls thing, come on.
Today’s reading reflects a fear. A fear that being stubborn might’ve made me lose an opportunity.
Plenty of things come to mind for that, so I doubt it’s limited to a single situation.
Woke up not feeling the best, not quite cash money. Not AWFUL but I did chug ibuprofen just in case.
Checking videos while eating breakfast I did see that Exits Examined posted a video about Deltora Quest and I actually remember that one!
The anime, that is. I was actually thinking about it the other day because I was remembering how the opening theme song Heart Beat by girl band Maria HAS an actual heartbeat motif. If you pay attention the drums keep a heartbeat-like rhythm through it.
Deltora Quest is part of this very specific period of my life. I BELIEVE it was early in college or at the very least late high school and early college.
We had this really… crappy CATV service where as time went on they started having less and less channels but also we stopped paying YEARS ago and they always forgot to cut it so hey.
Anyway, in that period the only anime I had ready access to was on Canal ZAZ since Cartoon Network only had Dragon Ball by then and the others didn’t have any that I was aware of.
That’s actually how I saw Eyeshield 21 the first time. It also had Deltora Quest, Inazuma Eleven, Kenichi The Strongest Disciple, YGO 5D’s and this anime by Madhouse called Kiba.
Ok, I just looked it up while writing this, not only did I remember the lineup right, it was during 2009-ish which means yeah I was still in High School.
Any memory pre-2021 is super mushy due to what I can only assume is my entire sense of self being reconstructed from the ground up, and I was confused because… basically I used my TV as an alarm to wake up and so there’s two periods of my life. One where I woke up with that selection and another one where I woke up to reruns of Married with Children and The Nanny.
Basically I remember facts and all of that but the timeline of them gets confusing… also, sometimes I confuse vivid dreams from the period with memories. There’s recurrent locations I see in my dreams that now I can see as just a mix of a bunch of places I’ve been to but they’re so vivid and recurrent I get confused sometimes.
Like this “memory” of a train station I can look down onto that takes me to a beach and as I break it down it’s basically a mix of Umeda Station and a beach in Margarita. That’s why whenever I explore and I find a spot I haven’t been to since at least 2020 my brain starts making grinding noises as it realizes “ok this spot was not from a dream, good to know”.
Also if the period is indeed 2009 it’s kinda nuts because that means Deltora Quest was probably translated right after it ended, probably.
Also apparently the publisher of Deltora in Japan also brought Goosebumps and The Nightmare Room to the country, which is interesting.
Which brings me to today’s title. Apparently the manga adaptation of Deltora was made by one Makoto Niwano, and looking him up shows up that he worked on Bomber Girl…
…correction, he worked on The BOMBER GIRL which was a Shonen Jump manga of the early 90s, and while my dissapointment was reaching immeasurable levels, I then saw the cover.
“The series is about Emi Rashomon (羅生門エミー, Rashomon Emii), a bounty hunter who uses her sex appeal to defeat enemies. Guy Kurosaki (黒崎 ガイ, Kurosaki Gai) is a police officer who initially opposes Emi’s methods.”
Sure, I’ll take that.
Also, apparently Makoto Niwano was also the mentor of Takeshi Obata of Death Note fame, which is a wild association to run into.
After that I was thinking about packing up for the trip and in a rare momento of foresight I decided to double check when my booking was AND THANK GOD I DID BECAUSE I LEAVE ON MONDAY NOT SUNDAY.
Had I not checked you would’ve seen me start tomorrow’s entry with “so I’m in Izu with no hotel……”
I should still pack up early, but you know what I mean.
By the way, those that remember me talking about getting Finasteride pills a while ago, I waited to see if they would send me more pills but in the shuffle of everything I kinda forgot. So I called and… yeah, I gotta call them when I run out, my bad.
The weird blehness I was feeling (which was shaping up to be a migraine apparently) wasn’t going anywhere so I decided to try going out and finally obeying that craving for JS Burger, but I decided to shake things around and instead of Lalaport like last time, I went to Harborland in Kobe.
You know, I’ve been to Ashiya and Sannomiya, but I’m realizing I haven’t explored as much of Kobe and the place definitely has a different air from Sannomiya.
There’s apparently an Anpanman museum in the area and I wondered if that’s why I was seeing SO MANY kids around… but nah, there were waaaay too many of them.
The area is super interesting, I’m definitely coming back later to explore intead of getting lunch and turning back.
Speaking of lunch I had to wait for a bit, but the real kicker is that the burger had cheese.
You see, in the other three JS Burger places, cheese wasn’t a default with that specific burger so I assumed I didn’t need to ask for clarification.
After one bite I decided to just enjoy it and brace for the consequences later.
“Later” turned out to be “a couple of minutes later as I’m heading out of the mall”.
Basically my whole digestive tract starts feeling… sore is the way I’d describe it, it’s super uncomfortable. Not only that but I then get really sleepy because I guess my body just exerts itself trying to digest something it can’t.
Regardless, I make it back and oh would you look at that the migraine isn’t gone yet. Let’s just call it a day.