What happened in 2021? In this post I present some highlights of the last year, I've been gathering these throughout the whole year. Some of these were hard to miss, while other events are somewhat specialized to my interests. Continue reading
At least according to the Unicode standard. The character is called kurikaeshi and used when one has to write down the same kanji twice, like in さまざま. By using the kurikaeshi you can just write 様々 instead of 様様; the kurikaeshi is more or less pronounced the same way as the kanji it repeats. Continue reading
I discovered this title by accident when I checked the Coalgirls' webpage, hoping they haven't given up fansubbing/releasing for good. Turned out one bored encoder did some releases and Majo no Tabitabi was one of these. Judging by the cover and the AniDB summary it seemed like a simple, easy-going anime so I downloaded it. It took a couple weeks to watch the entire season though. Continue reading
A little more than a year ago I mentioned I was working on a Doujin music aggregator that would also be able to parse torrent files. I'd sorta given up on that project because the site had other issues that required attention and my first EE MSc semester has started, to name a few excuses. But what really kept me from picking up this side project again was that I no longer saw its usefulness - I often end up discovering that nobody has those rare albums I wanted. DoujinAggregator would've aggregated music from sources like TLMC, some RuTracker and Nyaa torrents and VKontakte releasers - these sources usually contain releases from well-known circles. Continue reading
Eterna Musik (えてるなむじーく) is a comparatively old doujin circle led by Kotono. The circle formed in 2000, but some of their songs were written in late 90's. This was in an age where doujin music wasn't that widespread: the new Touhou series and Vocaloid, two franchises that did some heavy boost to the doujin music scene, were still years away. I'm not particularly well-knowledged about that era, but based on what I've read I think Key arranges and other moe songs were popular those days: Kanon and Air were released in 1999 and 2000, respectively. These two games must have been very influential at that time. Continue reading
