Frame Arms Girl Collaboration Campaign - Akihabara Fullscratch Love

Go Go! Gourai-don from Yakiniku-don Tadon

900 yen- A Korean bibimbap-style beef kalbi donburi. Pretty good, but the other stuff on the menu looks really good too so I'll definitely be going there again.


Ao's Special Gourai Birthday Cake Parfait and Stiletto (drink) from Guild Restaurant The Granvania

Parfait- 950 yen, drinks (seven kinds, ordered Stiletto)- 756 yen. Not bad but really overpriced. The pineapple and chocolate on the parfait feels out of place.

Shiro's Stamina-boosting Yanagawa-nabe Set from Koedo Funachuu 

Set consisting of Yanagawa-nabe (stewed loach, onions and egg), rice, chicken salad and miso soup. Pretty good.

Sti-ko's Girl Power (?) Pancake Set from Mango Terrace Cafe & Dining

Sad pancakes.

Ordering the collaboration menu stuff gets you a postcard and luncheon mat (a coaster if it's a drink from Granvania).

Also the 10/1 Gourai is on display at Kotobukiya Akihabara.

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 Architect's Errand Pork Steak Set from Suzuya

Tonteki (pork steak) set. Pretty good.

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Jinrai's Sengoku-don from Yakitori/Kushiba Ichie

A yakitori-don set.

Base's Shiny Omelette Rice from Suda-chou Shokudou

It's literally just omelette rice.

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Hresvelgr's Greatest Victory Beast Abura-soba from Roast Beef Abura-soba Beast

 Abura-soba with roast beef and coriander (coriander's been weirdly popular over here lately so this is keeping with trends, I guess),

Kuro's Grind Circle Curry from Curry no Shimin Alba

 Alba's usual beef-based curry, topped with breaded fish and chicken.

This week's loot (4th June 2017)

My reading binge continued and I finished Haganai #9-11 (I'd already read 9 when it first came out but read it again since I'd totally forgotten what was going on in the story) and Eromanga-sensei #1-8 by Wednesday night, which means I read 18 books in one week. I think that's a new record for me.

Since then I've started on Saenai Heroine no Sodatekata and also started re-reading Hirasaka Yomi's Nekuroma.

This week's loot (28th May 2017)

So I was in Kyoto last week and only just got round to uploading the Uzumasa Moe cafe photos I took. I'll probably get round to uploading other photos next week or something. Can't be bothered to do so now, at least.

I just finished reading Imouto Sae Ireba Ii #7. It should be noted that I started on #1 three days ago. This series is good.

I haven't been reading light novels a lot at all for the past few years- It's not that I lost interest or anything like that, it's just that I had a lot of books built up in my backlog that I never got around to reading and didn't feel it was appropriate to buy more when I hadn't read those, but ended up on this series purely on a whim and here we are. I'd been reading Hirasaka Yomi's stuff since around the time Haganai first started, going back to previous stuff like Nekuroma and Ranobe-bu as well, but I kind of got busy around the time #10 came out and though I did buy it and #11 never got round to reading them, or pretty much anything else since then (up till now the only Japanese novels I can recall reading in the past 2-3 years or so are Strange Fake and a couple of doujin releases by Kiduki).

But yeah I started this on a whim, and it was good, and it's got me wanting to read more and I went and grabbed the first three volumes of Eromanga-sensei and Saenai Heroine no Sodatekata (digital as usual, of course). I did ultimately end up reading all of Oreimo (Eromanga-sensei's Fushimi Tsukasa's previous series) and I've always loved Maruto Fumiaki's games.

If I do get round to catching up with those I'd been meaning to look into Date A Live (I loved the writer's debut series, Soukyuu no Karuma) ever since it started (which means that, yes, I've been procrastinating on that for six years). Also it turns out that two new volumes of Cop Craft completely managed to slip under my radar, and I STILL haven't gotten round to reading the latest volume of Seikai no Senki yet.

Unrelated: Thanks to all the reading I've been doing I still haven't finished that Barzam.

Uzumasa Moe Cafe

This week's loot (21st May 2017)