I managed to cook something this morning but went back to sleep. Now I’m just so out of it. I need to buy survival items for a bit because we cannot just live on Grab Food alone (yes, I just discovered we have Grab Food here). I don’t know where and how I will get the strength.

I hate being sick.

I’m aching all over. 🤧🤕

Well, Twin A has a slight fever now but she’s negative for Covid.

It’s just a season for nasty flu. I’m still figuring out how I can shop for provisions for us for the next few days.

They have rebooted Rurouni Kenshin the anime series.

I wonder how much are they changing the anime series. Well for one, Kenshin will have a male seiyu now, unlike in the late 1990s version. I’ve read that this will be more faithful to the manga series. The first anime series meandered so much because they became ahead of the manga (because Shōnen Jump publication was slower), just like what happened to Fullmetal Alchemist.

The first Fullmetal anime series was ahead of the manga that the animation studio made their own narrative, deviating from the manga, hence, the storyline about the seven deadly sins and their involvement with Ed and Al’s father got screwed up. The Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood was more sane, in the sense it is more faithful to the manga.

Going back to Rurouni Kenshin, I now have misgivings about this knowing now that the author is a pedo that got away, not charged or anything. Japan has a convoluted justice system. No wonder there was so much grooming among the characters, like Aoshi x Misao and Kenshin x Kaori. The only pairing that made sense was Yoshi x Tsubame.

But I love Kenshin. I wanted to learn kendo because of this anime. But I later realized that kendo is useless; it’s kenjutsu that’s closer to swordfighting. I enrolled in an Asian Studies course in grad school because I wanted to deepen and formalize my education about Japanese history and culture. In the process, I learned about the East Asian culture as well because I broadened my scope. When my advisor asked me why I cross-enrolled in Asian Center, my glib excuse was my thesis may delve into cultural studies. 🤣 Which of course didn’t. I was targeting some scholarships in Japan but the only offering at that time was S. Korea cross program. That was attractive, too, since I was into K-drama at that time, too, but my priority was getting into a Japanese cultural program so I didn’t bother. A classmate bagged a Japan scholarship because she was a student at the Center whereas I was a cross-registrant, with no clear study direction 🤣

All because of Kenshin and my anime fangirling. At that point, I may have watched and downloaded hundreds and hundreds of anime titles.

But then, life got in the way. Oh well.