K-On! Monday! 28

Alright welcome back to K-On! Monday! 

Since I’m in Japan right now, this week I’ll just be showing off some the K-On! Stuff I’ve bought. 

I also got a ic card, so I need a holder for it.

That season one blu ray set I’ve been looking for ages. It means that I’ve finally completed my Japanese blu ray set. Though I may still go for the original individual sets. Though they are still too expensive for me. I’m in Kyoto right now so I took a trip down to the music store seen in the show, I got some K-On! while I was there.

I got another one of those stickers

I realised I didn’t own a copy of don’t say lazy, so I was really happy to see the store had a new copy of it. In other news I’m off to Toyosato again tomorrow, I’ll be sure to post photos tomorrow night, or the day after (we’ll see). I’ve also released some stuff about myself, so I’ll need to write about soon. Lastly I’ll post all the stuff I got that isn’t K-On! related when I get back home. Have a great week all.

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K-On! Monday 27

 Hello all, welcome back to K-On! Monday!

Well, it's been nine weeks since K-On! Monday! XVIII, can't believe it, It's time for another K-On! manga volume. 

Past the halfway point!

Vol 3! Now we're in the second season of the show! Well, let's be honest, it's like 1/4 of season two.

Honestly, kakifly, some of this art, man.

Like last time, kyoani added so much more stuff to the show.  Mostly stuff about leaving school and Azusa's arc, I'll go into it more later. 

The Kyoto arc!

It's kinda funny about this arc, mainly in the show though. Most of the locations kyoani uses for K-On are based in Kyoto, see here, but then they go on a trip to Kyoto in their third year. Not the studio's fault or anything, this arc was probably released when the show was mid-development. As I've already said before, it's fun to read but it isn't my cup of tea. The show is much better at telling a concise story. 

Well, that's it for another K-On! Monday, and another K-On! volume. I might post something later tonight, I'm actually writing on Sunday, about my Japan trip tonight. Really exited, I will be posting photos later this week. 

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Autism

I've had this post on the docket for a while now, I think since I started the blog, I wanted to write about Autism. Originally this post was an essay about Autism as a whole, the modern perception of it, and the "autism community." But I couldn't bring myself to write it, it was just too negative. While I do have grievances about people treating autism more as a social status, I didn't want to spend any time on it. Instead, I want to talk about myself, and how it has affected me. Now this isn't some sort of sorry fest. I mainly wanted to get my fears for my own future, and autism will play into it, off my chest. 

I think the older I get, the more autism affects me. It's kind of funny that way, isn't it? Most people when they think about autism, myself included, always think about the person's school life, forgetting that they'll spend most of their lives outside school. I'm at the point now where I have to think about my place in the world, and how my autism will play into it. I've already ruled out most stressful work environments, not because I'm lazy or anything, I just won't be able to handle them. Yeah, a school environment, like high school or uni is relaxed enough, but you know what the real world is like. I don't know how I should feel about it, should I try and push myself? Or is it not worth it? Would it be a massive waste of time? Well, not a waste of time. Look, I think the first thing I need to do is accept the obvious. I won't have the "standard" life I've been sold by life. Luckily, these days I'm able to do these things. 

I don't really know what else to say about it without winging. Getting pulled out of class in primary school sucked. I hope future autistic kids are helped more during school, with stuff like the NDIS I hope. I could go into the whole "autism is just the funny obsession thing." This may be true in some cases, but I think it's very immature, and in some cases dangerous. But I don't want this to be negative.

All in all, I'm fine really. Worrying about the future is just standard stuff for everyone my age, it's just amplified because of my autism. Anyway! Tomorrow is finally the day, I'm off to Japan again! I'm very lucky to be in the position to be doing this again. I'm a very lucky person, plus I didn't get any time off during my study break haha. Well, see you all tomorrow for K-On! Monday. 

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Finally got this one done

Loneliness

You know I've realised something, I'm lonely. Maybe it's the 1am talking, but I just keep coming back to this same constant theme in my life right now. It's my own fault, I'm fully aware. I have always had a hard time making friends outside of school. I remember always losing contact on school holidays, I used to worry about what my post-school life would be like. How I wouldn't keep in contact with anyone, and I couldn't find any new people to chat with. Look, I know I'm no different to anyone else, and this isn't some sob story either. My life is great outside of this, my Japanese exam went well, I hope. I also got my history essay back, and I did pretty well. I'm fine. But it doesn't stop me from worrying about my future, and my present. I feel like I'm missing out on something, like not going out and enjoying the twilight years of my youth. I already feel like I didn't make the most of high school, and now I'm scared I'm doing it again. I can't barely sleep anymore, I'm always awake thinking this. This blog probably doesn't help either, it's just fuelling my isolationist personality and my ego. I cover up my feelings by talking about K-on constantly, like some child. This stupid self-depressing, self-doubting, self-obsessing crap isn't going to help. I don't know what I need to do. 

It's been about one year since I first watched K-On, it was either the 14th or 15th, I can't remember. Somethings I would what would be different if I never fell into watching anime like I do now, would I feel the same way? or would it be worse? I'll never know, all I do know is that I'm still a lot happier now than I was then, and isn't that all that matters?

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It's 1:17 am and I'm running on five hours of sleep

I need to sleep more. 

K-On! Monday 26

Alright, so this is something I found while I was in Japan last year. It was a bonus that came with another item I bought. 

It's a guitar pick!

As you can tell, it has Azusa on it too. It was part of my K-On Vol 4 book. You'll see it in K-On! Monday 36. I wasn't planning on getting any of the K-On manga while I was in Japan, however, I saw this and just had to get it, especially when I saw the eBay price. It's 46 USD! To be fair, it was in perfect condition. Still, idk who would pay that kind of money for it, I mean K-On is great and all, but 46 us? Really? 

This is the cardboard it came in plus a bit of plastic

I'm an idiot too, I unwrapped the plastic before seeing its going rate, I could have sold the thing! In other news my Japanese exam is tomorrow, so wish me luck. Plus I'm hoping to get at least two posts up this week. I want to start doing 10 monthly posts again, like in April. Well have a great Monday,

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They had this poster at the store where I get the manga too.

K-On! Monday! XXV!

 25! 

How did this happen, I'm already up to 25 posts! Who would have thought that I'd make it this far! 

Ok, so this week I'm showing off a K-On! Come with me!! live! blu ray, (what a mouthful). This is the second K-On live show back in 2011. Quite the long event too, it comes on two discs! 35 thousand people attended the event too. 

disc one, plus the pamphlet

and disc two

I'll do a second part of this post to show off the pamphlet and back cover. I might even try and load the Blu-ray up if I can. We'll see,

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