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Lately, I've been wondering why I can't shake off fatigue even after sleeping. I thought, could it be because I stopped playing Pokémon? Last year, I made sure to go out on Saturdays whenever possible and kept Sundays free, or something like that. It's partly because I get tired easily, but I think I also had a strong desire to spend one day of the weekend playing Pokémon. However, freed from Pokémon this year, my interests have diversified, and even when I have weekends free, I don't have anything I want to do, so I started cramming my schedule, and as a result, here I am. The diversification of interests is particularly problematic. The fact that I went to the "Generative AI Exhibition" and the "Arabic Calligraphy Exhibition" this weekend says it all. What do I even want to do? I'll write about my impressions of these later, but for now, I'll write about my thoughts on Jump.
Contents: One Piece, Ao no Hako (Blue Box), Kagurabachi, Akane Banashi, Hima no Tentai (The Heavens of Hima), Roboco, Oteru no Koben (Oteru's Ordeal), Nue's Exorcist, Kemono Children, Nige Jouzu no Wakagimi (The Elusive Samurai), B no Hoshi Sen (Star Sign of B), Chojin X, Postscript
The feeling of anticipation as Luffy, Loki, and Hayrudin begin to move is amazing. Also, that thing that flips over, is that Othello? I wonder if it's more of a playful ability.
The resolution of love-related worries is high. It's a story I have no connection to, but I can tell it's something profound. But please don't involve Hina-chan in that. Can't Hina-chan just stay in the realm of pure fantasy?
This is too cool.
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The scenes that would mess up a kid's mind if they saw them are regularly popping up, it's intense. I recently learned that Socrates was sentenced to death for corrupting the youth, but if we're learning from history, maybe Ken Sonozaki should be executed. I was also shaken by the scene where he jumped into the air afterwards. I thought, is this the first head-on demonic blade showdown since the Kurumo battle? And then the subtitle "Fuchi Ten vs. Hiso" is just perfect. It was so hot this week, so please forget that I said last week that I thought there was no reason for Soimura to keep Shikiha alive.
Also, from the statement that "the nerves that have been fixed for 18 years are trying to return to normal," I feel a sign of Shikiha's demonic art revival.
Akane showed us what she wants to do! But it was a surprise failure. Well, that's what I was thinking while reading it. Metaphorically, revealing the trick here means she'll do something different in the real performance, of course. But if you steer in different directions within one story, from the viewer's perspective, it becomes unclear "what is this story about?" "how should I feel?" It's like showing off your ego in a bad way, or just wanting to show off your skills. It's amazing that she's still surviving, but how will she fix it before the main competition...
Kanna is so cute. Isn't Kanna being so calm when she's got her arms crossed and saying "Kanna-chan is so nervous"? Normally, you'd be distracted by the fact that your boobs are touching... But if she reacted like "my boobs are touching!", it would be too gross, so this is good. But if she can feel her heartbeat, then she must be pressing her chest against him pretty hard, right?
I laughed so hard at the Chrollo vs. Hisoka thing. It's not just blatant, but the way they stand is just like Hunter x Hunter, it's so funny. What is it about Hunter x Hunter-ness?
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The art is properly cool and good. There was a sense of satisfaction from achieving the goal, and the fact that Etopirika is properly surprised gives her a sense of having become stronger. Also, the phrase "between fire and ice" reminds me of Game of Thrones (since the original work is A Song of Ice and Fire). Honestly, I thought a country of lightning or something would appear along the way, but it seems like it will only be a confrontation between fire and ice.
I'm not surprised that Gakuro shined again, but I laughed at Nanatsuki, who was squinting next to him because it was too bright.
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So, it seems like parenting has begun. Yodama and Yokaku are too all-powerful. To think I'd see a development where they start raising children while fighting, other than in Pretty Cure...
The summoning pose definitely comes from the fox window.
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Please Google the fox window for the original source (as mentioned in the postscript). I plan to repost this blog on someone else's blog for a while, so I don't want to use images I found online... The fox window is (I only looked it up a little, so I don't know the details) a hand game that was popular around the late Edo period. It's supposed to be something like, if you look through a window made by joining your hands, you can see monsters. I thought it was a good setting, but I've never seen it in a manga before, but it seems like it's the first time I've seen it in Jump (apparently there were works with the same name, but I just didn't know about them). Anyway, I quite liked the art and setting of this chapter, and I felt good about the choice to respect the sister's personality and kill her. But I didn't feel much drama other than that, so I couldn't get excited until the highlight... It's a bit of a shame.
My expectations for next week are off the charts. It's an episode I have no idea about, and even though he's a character I properly learned about in history, I don't know anything about Ashikaga Takauji. There was something strange about the corpse of Nyoimaru too, I wonder if Takauji's divine inspiration started from there.
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She's too big... I thought it was Director Agawa from Thank You Pitch. Was she this big? Well, she was always big-eyed, but I didn't hate the first half of this week's story, but it's all blown away.
It's over... I thought it would last this time, but the arrival of four new series was unexpected... It was interesting this week too, and I thought it was making a comeback recently. I laughed a lot at the revenge demon, and Pon-chan from the special selection group was cute and good. Also, the development of showing a future where they get married before they even become lovers is good. Now, about the cancellation, I think one of the reasons is that there was a clear period when it became less interesting, which is why I liked it. I think the start of the series was perfect for about one volume, and the Ban's first appearance in chapter 10 was a hot topic on Twitter as "the afterglow of the Heisei era"... I felt that the readers left because the hurdle was raised too high because the beginning was too good. However, it's been going on for about a year and a half, and there may be a judgment that it's easier to prepare new characters and a stage. I like Mr. Numa Shun, so I want him to come back.
Now, this week's postscript is a three-part series on "Generative AI Exhibition," "Arabic Calligraphy," and "EXPO'70 Pavilion" as the title suggests.
I have a friend I met on Discord who has amazing technical skills, and we went to see people who are doing interesting things using AI! Hoping to get some ideas! Overall, it was as I often hear, "AI wrote all the code," and I thought that the hurdle of development costs is getting lower. On the other hand, the people who were doing things that were interesting or likely to create value had obviously excellent ideas, so I got the impression that it's still not something that just anyone can do. I was quite impressed by the ones that created videos of characters dancing with super high quality using a single image and motion capture. In areas that I'm involved in, there's AI for predicting horse races (the one I'm having GPT read at random has only hit by chance once so far, but the people who were exhibiting had a positive return on that day's races). Also, the most relevant thing is that I was introduced to a multilingual translation blog. https://note.com/tomolld/n/ne10621be0b58 I talked to the exhibitor and it seemed interesting, so I'll be reposting it here for a while. I'm going to take my Yabuki-esque Otaku Diary international and conquer the world (currently this blog doesn't even get 500 PV per month).
It's an exhibition at the National Museum of Ethnology. It's in a space in the back of the permanent exhibition's original artwork corner, which feels like a special exhibition but isn't quite. The amount wasn't that large, but I ended up looking at it for about an hour and a half. First of all, I don't understand Arabic script very well, but the exhibition was structured to start with learning about it, and my friend is quite observant, so I was able to look at it while saying this and that. What I found most interesting was the numbers. It's well known that Arabic script is read from right to left, but numbers seem to be written in the order we usually write them. I was desperately looking at something that looked like a textbook for elementary school students, and the way of writing is familiar, with the digits increasing from right to left, but the way of reading is also from right to left, meaning you read from the ones place. It's like the Appraisal Team method. The Appraisal Team is good because it's entertainment, but I was very curious about whether it's difficult to grasp the scale if you don't read the largest digit first and go around. There were also exhibitions of sewing and buildings (I found it interesting that the person doing the sewing was very particular about the typeface. Japanese people also have opinions about which fonts are cool or uncool, but people in the Arabic-speaking world also have them). The calligraphy zone, which is the main part, was about a third of the exhibition, and it was nice that they were writing out passages from the Koran, and it was also just cool as writing. I thought it was similar to Bonji, which is also cool. There were also many types of pictures (like ships and moons) that combined simple figures, with letters written to fill in the figures. Calligraphy doesn't seem to have many fixed forms, and it was interesting that anything seems to be OK as long as you're writing letters.
I also went to the facility in Expo Commemoration Park, which is exhibiting the state of the Expo 55 years ago in light of this year's Expo. There were many interesting things, but the staff uniforms from the Expo were especially good. All of the costumes had a sense of the future at the time and were all cool. Also, I didn't know that there was a Christian pavilion or that the Soviet pavilion was 100 meters long, so there were plenty of interesting things. I was tired and only saw it roughly, so I want to go see it properly again. I'll end here. Next week will only be horse racing and tennis, so the postscript will be brief for the first time in a while. See you next week!