SPIRIT's Diary

After the fierce battle between Henya and Yūsei Tatsuse of the Kenkaku Heiki, the Kenkaku Heiki fortress on Mt.  Hakodate was completely taken over by Aoshi Shinomori and his companions. “That was far too easy.” That is how Aoshi and the others seem to feel. If so, Tatsuse really made a serious blunder.  He impulsively killed the leader of the Yaminobu simply because he felt looked down on, throwing the Yaminobu’s chain of command into disarray and leaving the fortress defenseless. “The Kenkaku Heiki’s objective is to bring their supreme leader, Shōkun, to Hakodate.” If that is indeed their objective, then Tatsuse may have made an even bigger mistake than Udoku Honda did. Just then, a mysterious figure appears at the fortress. If he is the person “recommended to join the Kenkaku Heiki after Sako,” perhaps he is the third Kenkaku Heiki member to come from outside the region. When the stranger calls Kenshin “Battōsai,” Sanosuke grows suspicious of his identity. But the man’s tri...

After returning from Germany, without even my own goal, I've been adrift every day. I'm living out Sakuragi Kenji's saying below; “People will be prepared and proceed to accomplishment steadily if they can see own goal obviously. Inversely, they will become adrift and eventually have no vigor if they have no goal.” I have to make my own goal even tentatively. However, what field will I have to study. I've become failure to study both G Certificate and Financial Planner 3rd Grade. Are there any qualifications which can be activated to the pharmacist, investment and so on? With this thinking, after long time, I cooked again. I made mayonnaise salad spaghetti again. It was very delicious when I tasted it. Come of think of it, in my esophagus, I have chronic esophagitis. It can't be helped because I've drunk alcohol too much. However, are there possibilities that my benign esophagitis becomes malignant transformation? If it becomes so, like Mr. Tsunku, I'll have...

Ever since I returned from Germany, for some reason I’ve barely studied English at all. Instead, I’ve spent day after day guzzling alcohol. Even though I know I can’t go on like this, I just can’t resist the cravings and end up buying alcohol at convenience stores and elsewhere. I know full well that things can’t continue this way. At church yesterday, I prayed desperately to God, searching for what I can do and what I should do. The possibilities I see are these: •  At my current company, serve as a strategic adviser to the president, providing information on diseases, medications, and business strategy (although I still haven’t learned to make full use of AI tools such as ChatGPT). •  As an investor, provide capital to ethical companies that contribute to society, such as Ajinomoto. •  Work to promote Japanese culture, particularly Hakkenden (The Eight Dog Chronicles), although this hasn’t earned me a single yen. In any case, I need to learn how to use AI and truly mast...

Recently, Sumikko Gurashi: Omoide Album (Memory Album) was released. Hmm? “Memories”? Does that mean this is the end of the series? It’s true that lately Sumikko Gurashi seems to have been somewhat overshadowed by Chiikawa. “Every popular work eventually fades away and gives up its place to the next generation.” Is that what’s happening here? Still, it would be a shame. Half-jokingly, I’ve even found myself thinking,  “Why not bring together San-X characters—including Sumikko Gurashi, Tarepanda, and Rilakkuma—and make a versus fighting game?” The battles might not have much intensity, but perhaps that could be turned into part of the game’s charm. (Maybe the characters would waddle around, trading little, comical punches.) If a versus fighting game sounds too conventional, perhaps they could make an RPG instead. Then again, I wonder whether San-X has the know-how to make that kind of game. (I seem to recall Gintama saying something like, “Character-based games are a breeding ground...

I should learn many things from this German travel. However, I also have to pay miscellaneous expenses. Particularly, I hadn't thought that I need such much money for public restroom in Germany. I needed 1 euro each once using. It's thankful for me to use credit cards. And, in this month too, I couldn't suspend paying for PixAI too much. If I'm as I am, I won't be able to invest forever. Anyway, I'll need over 200,000 yen as the rest paying. Should I challenge the hedge selling more? In this month, I got about 50,000 yen by it. For the public good, I've intended to invest, but what a sorry state of affairs. And, recently, I can’t sleep very miuch. I may have to enjoy my job and my investing more.

  “Of course, ordinary people do not want war. But it is always easy to get the people to take part in a war. It is very simple. All you have to do is tell them that they are under attack and openly denounce pacifists as unpatriotic people who are putting the country in danger. This method works just as well in any country.” (Attributed to Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi Minister of Propaganda, although some say it was said by Hermann Göring, Reich Marshal of Nazi Germany.) “When the Nazis came for the Communists [Note 2], I did not speak out, because I was not a Communist. When they imprisoned the Social Democrats, I did not speak out, because I was not a Social Democrat. When they came for the trade unionists, I did not speak out, because I was not a trade unionist. When they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me.” (Martin Niemöller, German pastor) I feel that these two statements still sound a warning today. Yet the reality is that words simply do not reach some peopl...