This blogpost covers the day of February 5th, while in Sapporo, Japan.
Woke up at 8 AM, and my usual routine. Twitter, wash-up, Azur Lane, Blue Archive, etc. Went to a nearby Konbini to eat simple breakfast. Desired to lightly explore the area, something to which I would accidently stumble across a Susukino Ice World display. It was great I had done so, it’s a great sight!
Basically spent my day exploring various festive attractions, KanColle Arcade (on two occasions), Odori Park, Tram spotting for 1 hour (even if it was highly awkward), and simply trying to see things I hadn’t seen previously. Exploring, letting my guard down, and just enjoying everything.
Japan Trip 2024:
[Day 1] – [Day 2] – [Day 3] – [Day 4] – [Day 5] – [Day 6] – [Day 7] – [Day 8] – [Day 9]
Searching up MM101 tells me the flight is an Osaka to Sapporo flight. They flew from Osaka to Sapporo just to be here, and early in the morning at that. This reminds me of my 2023 Japan trip requiring to take an Osaka-bound flight to Sapporo just to visit Sapporo. Nostalgic. I can remember the flight from back then of having flown through a dense cloud cover.
At last! The Snow Miku 2024 tram goes by! Nice! I waited roughly an hour for this Miku tram to cycle back on the route. A bit stupid, yet it’s something I chose to do to make note of the various trams in Sapporo’s transportation fleet.
Satisfied, I went to a nearby Konbini to purchase some warm food to eat up. A quick meal. Spicy chicken and some nice warm (Winter Limited) lemon tea. I finished my food, threw my garbage in the inside trash bin, and was thanked by the Konbini staff for being respectful.
In hindsight, I should have ventured into that Sapporo McDonalds for the Godzilla burger. My loss.
My original plan was to enter into, what I had assumed at the time, to be a mall with the Bavarian Nikka sign was placed on it. Disappointed, confused, I simply went across the street to where I had initially been to see the Snow Miku on the advertisement sign. Checking out Daiso, and other relevant retail outlets. I would eventually find myself having purchasing numerous Anime-related merchandise.
Tried to venture to Taito Station (as I had in 2023) to play some KanColle Arcade. It was both full, and other KanColle Arcade machines were being used. Couldn’t play.
Seeing the KanColle Arcades broken, pre-occupied by others, and just in a rough shape, I decided it would be best to head to the Winter Festival grounds. Just prior to reaching the area I sat on a nearby bench to open a pack or two from the Gundam Seed card deck. Was highly curious.
I noticed a sheltered booth assuming I could go into it. I sat down, plugged in my charger, and charged my phone. Moments later a kid (with his mother) were curiously exploring the area, to which the kid started noting how I was in the booth, and how I wasn’t allowed to be in there. He kept saying that over and over again. I was genuinely concerned. Alarmed, I gradually packed up my things and continued exploring the area. It wasn’t locked, nor were there any ‘no entry’ signs. I guess I wasn’t allowed to be in there. Disappointed, I continued to explore Odori park.
A “brief” ranting vent relating to snowman, and how it reminds me of both positivity and negativity at the same time. It’s honestly a great shame my mind is now clouded with negative thoughts in now knowing gay people can be highly vicious, condescending, crude, abusive, and constantly rude. They hold insane amounts of grudges willing to shove you aside from your own casual interests, hijacking your own beloved hobbies for their own goals by pretending it was theirs. They openly noted how other foreigners (of the fake LGBTQ kind) ventured into Japan to be deceptively happy, something which is highly depressing on all fronts for those who genuinely admire Japan on in both touristic naivety, and at face value. Hijacking Japan’s culture and tradition for political gains, falsified gender ideologies, and other intellectually dishonest nonsense. I genuinely desire to respect people, they however bite your hand whenever you say something they dislike, or in general, making me hate them more and more with each passing abusive behehaviour for their crude, vulgar repulsive nonsenses. They won’t respectfully warn you, they however go rabid, feral, and display disturbing non-human traits. Yelling at you on Discord for hours on end in berating mannerism, even if you’ve openly noted you’re feeling down and depressed for them to leave you alone. They continue to berate you, and not just “gay” people. It’s also fake political activists, and people brainwashed by toxic corrupt idiocies. Just outright vulgar nonsense. I’m at the point I simply have to be politely rude of genuinely dishonest people. I’m not going to play your stupid delusional games when you intentionally behave feral, vulgar, and behave similar to a disease, a rabid creature, devoid of any braincells. Only idiots post about you on Reddit, and make Google Documents about you to slander, dehumanize, and degrade you. I don’t do that, I admire Japan more to worry about doing such. I desire to focus on Japan more for its actual creative creativity and far more noticeable intellectual mannerisms. They can falsely label me “transphobic”, or other false negative terms all they desire, it means nothing when all people do is play pathetic professional victims.
Stare at the snowman and re-evaluate your life. Stare at those snowman to be reminded of when we desired to naturally see them in Rising World, not the overly toxic, and corrupted fake political ideologies, ones which are constantly crumbling in the real world. Time to wake up from the fantasy world.
Prior to this whole negative political farce within the Rising World gaming community we both viewed Japan’s snowman (normal and tiny) as positive. We both desired to have little snowman as natural objects in the ‘Rising World game, something I wish we could have positively kept up to this day. Sadly, that whole point of view is now corrupted by how insanely abusive ‘gay people’ (also Political Activists, and fake LGBTQ people) are when they desire to corrupt, destroy, and harass people out of other people’s zones of interests. Western people morally corrupted by false ‘LGBTQ’ narratives are vicious, cancerous, and a major disease. Japanese people are seeing this, they hate it. Japanese people, of the real variety, hate fake Western garbage. They’ve stated this time and again on Twitter/X, yet it’s always the fake accounts always spewing fake positivity in false support over this movement. Real Japanese people do NOT support Femminists groups, they appropriately see it as a farce. These same political activists eventually resort to doxxing, stalking, open harassment, and even DM’ing (Direct Messaging) other people to spread lies and slander about who they are attacking. Just look at Aloe Mano from Hololive, for example, or even Coco. They resort to tantrums, intentional berating, and abuse. They’re willing to break the rules to see you hurt. They care more about false ideological movements (or false LGBTQ) than they do about being legitimately happy about the hobbies, games, or interests they allegedly claim to admire. They’re even cancerous in Japan (now Osaka). It genuinely saddens me to see how intellectually dishonest political activists are; How vindictive CursedExistence is/was in the forums (and his friends), and may still be doing so by actually playing the real “professional victim” role. Even fake tourists clout-chasing with Japanese fads, etc. It peeves me off to a high level to the point I have to constantly jump ship to more Asian games over American & European games. I have to find more and more Asian made games to play actual genuine games to avoid American corruption in American games (Western corruption in Western games). How much hatred, how much anger they (political activists) hold, and how disingenuous they are in the real world is constantly surprising, even shocking. What they say isn’t what they mean, and they know that for 100% for a fact. They desire to see natural forms of mediums destroyed. They would proudly defend those violating Japan by supporting those urinating on Japanese Shrines, or Chinese people kicking Nara deer, among other vulgar acts and behaviours.
Japanese people I interacted with were normal, and hopefully still are. They’re actual normal, breathing, human beings. They pride themselves on Japan, or so they have shown me. They care more about the real world than they do about the fantasy world. If they do care about fantasy, it’s solely related to Anime and Japan, or maybe even a fantasy American culture.
[Source – Chinese Male urinates & spray paints Japanese Shrine.]
[Source – Chinese Male violently kicks and slaps Nara deer.]
[ Source – Female Tourist sits on Hachiko Statue in Tokyo.]
I’m honestly highly peeved off with fake, deceptive, and highly vindictive people always going around corrupting, destroying, and degrading everything simply because of mainstream corruption telling them everything is perfectly fine to be vulgar, destructive individuals. They side with groups desiring to violate little kids, to corrupt children by telling them it’s fine to be sexually devious, and to activaly violate females, or be someone who you genuinely aren’t. I can’t even trust my fellow Canadians, Americans, and other foreigners as much with how two-timing they tend to be. Double-faced, slimy, fake, deceptive…. This even goes for a user named ‘CursedExistence’ in the Rising World gaming community, though I don’t expect you to know them, they’re however one of the numerous morally corrupted individuals who I dislike with how constantly disingenuous they are about many things. One moment people are kind, the next they openly state how they desire to see the world burn, spread openly false destructive nonsense, and support abusive behaviours meant to destroy society. Supporting other people to berate, gaslight, degrade, and dehumanize normal people, including myself. It’s sickening. We could have easily had a nice bonding moment over snowman (and a buoy conceptualizing idea prior to that), yet it’s sad how deceptive political activists people are. Can’t even trust them, not even a tiny bit. They’re willing to have their games (Rising World included) destroyed over political ideals instead of allowing games to simply be neutral, honest, and genuine (like Palworld). Always constantly lying, pretending things are “-phobic”, and highly disingenuous through-and-through. Always catching them in one lie after another. Debunking them, even after the fact. I highly dislike people who are fake as silicone implants on a female’s body. This is why we can’t be nice to people pretending to be someone they’re not.
My point to all this is still ties in with snowman, and how people are happy with betraying other people over fake political ideologies. We both admired Japanese snowman, yet betrayed by false Western ideologies ruining everything for everybody, including the Japanese side of things. I admire Japan for Japan, and I have long desired to stay in Japan for as long as financially possible. Sure, one month in 2023, and a little less during this 2024. If I could stay for 3 months, or more, I would. I wish I could have stayed in Japan for lengthier amounts of time, especially away from morally corrupted political activists. This is why I “idolize” Japan the way I do when I constantly meet people who are friends with you one day, a vulgar troll the next willing to burn you alive over false accusations in Western societies, yet tend to be friendlier in Asian nations. Maybe it’s Japanese ‘Face’, I however view that as more genuine than pretending to be ‘Gay’ for clout and false political pressures. Fake people treat you like a witch at a stake, genuine people treat you human through-and-through. I’m well aware Japan isn’t perfect, it however was far better than the various ‘Western’ experiences I’ve constantly had to deal with. Japanese people willing to show off their nation and culture to those who are actually true and honest with themselves. I respect the Japanese for their honesty, even knowing they’re highly patriotically proud of Japan with how they were raised. That is what makes them honest.
I’m always going to be forsaken by people, and I’ve come to terms with that on numerous occasions. I always expect people to pass me over for some fake clown on social media over someone who actually admires Japan, their hobbies, and other games. I’m however overly grateful to each and every individual who has chosen to be genuinely kind to me, such as the various Japanese folks who have guided me throughout Japan, or have stuck with me on Twitter/X through thick and thin. I’ve always have been thrown under the bus, and it won’t stop, but that gave me an interesting perspective in life to see things as they are, not for what they aren’t. Being forsaken and betrayed by people does indeed takes a toll on you, I however can still admire the art provided by the Japanese to further interact with Japanese folks. Sometimes in Canada as well. I’m aware people shall always throw me under the bus, that’s what people do. People shall always gaslight the actual reasoning. Clout chasing, fad chasing, pretending to be who they aren’t, and just being highly untrue, berating actual individuals doing their honest things in life. They’re envious, needing to sabotage normal individuals for what they can’t have in their own life. They’re pretending to be fake LGBTQ for clout, gaslighting, or highly vulgar individuals. As for Japan it’s more of social and academic pressures, or so I’ve been told. That’s also why Japan has a high suicide rate. Japan folks do it to themselves as well. Even so, I admire Japan for being truly Japanese, even if it was briefly in the time I was there. Thanks for being kind, respectful, and for your kind hospitality. Thanks for having me, even if it was a short time. I’ll always remember Japan being awesome. I may be bias towards Japan, but I’m also aware of the negatives of Japan while hyping up the positives. This may have been a long-winded thought, I however had to explain it in full. Moving on.
Seeing a Sapporo Winter Festival booth I decided to venture into the booth to obtain an ink stamp, or at least ask for where one was. I was in luck! I was overly kindly provided a seat, a leaflet of the event, what to see, where to see it, and even treated with high amounts of kindness. I’m thankful to the staff for being overly nice and helpful. There was even a lovely foreign white women/lady there admiring my ink stamp accomplishments, and equally my tired clumsiness by constantly dropping stuff. I struggled to hold onto things. I struggled to grasp onto things causing my ink book stamp to constantly slip out of my end.
The main info guide was highly polite towards me, I genuinely respect that. Highly thankful, grateful. He was overly surprised to see my various Hokkaido stamps from Hakodate & Sapporo. Even the awkwardly collected stamps prior to the trip in my travel log book noting what I had done, when I had done what. If I had my 2023 ink stamp book I could have shown him that as well, it’s however for the best I kept that safe.
Genuinely surprised me how polite the info staff were, how curious, and how amusingly curious the women was. She constantly chuckled at my clumsiness. Another victory, another happy memory, and I’m proud to have visited this event.
After I re-arranged everything in my bag, studied everything, and even made note of other things I thanked the staff and left to further explore the event.
Even if I may have Japan bias view-points, I still do strongly feel I can befriend people far more than I can in Canada. It’s easy to do, even if you know little Japanese. As long as you can connect via Japanese hobbies, share your hobbies in a neutral (yet positive) manner, you’ll be admired. Yes, you can make friends in Canada, that however has become far more difficult from 2017 onwards thanks to Western degradation. Males forced to go to Asia to pick up Asian girlfriends with how polluted and corrupted Western nations have become on every level. Japan is still “normal”, even if it has begun to be spun into a corrupted nation. Everything in Japan goes slower, and that may be a good thing in ways. You can still alter course to admire the beauty of Japan, culture, and the people.
Attempted KanColle Time:
Taito Station Arcade revisit.
I was given my 200 yen discount for next use. I accepted this, thanked them, and ventured off to a new potential area. I didn’t want to return to my spooky hotel room, hence why I roamed around a bit aimlessly seeing what else would catch my interest in the area.
Looped around onto the main street mall to venture underground. Yes, I looped back onto where I was prior. I ventured into an underground area.
I, genuinely, 100% did not want to return to my hotel room. No disrespect to the staff, I however felt highly uneasy, unsafe, and disliked the 1980’s vibe of my hotel room. The staff were friendly as can be, and they deserve all the praise they can get. The building however, that’s another thing. I genuinely felt highly uneasy, as if I was in a hotel in a discontinued, abandoned, or maybe even potentially haunted area of town. It’s an example, though I wouldn’t be surprised if my hotel room was genuinely haunted.
Seeing a familiar underground landmark in the tunnels I popped back up onto Susukino. Nice, but not nice. I need something to do, things to see!
Susukino Ice World 2024:
Checking out the nearby Ice Festival during the night, now with lights and events.
Satisfied I explored everything, now in the evening, I ventured off into the nearby game and arcade center to see what it contains. What gaming machines are available in this gaming center.
KanColle developers really, really need to make a PC Steam/DLSite version of KanColle Arcade for us to enjoy. Future-proof the game, allow us to have fun, and let us do things at our own pace. Attract a bigger, and wider audience, as Azur Lane had done. View both Silent Hunter 3’s level of world-exploration freedom, of PalWorld’s honesty and success of giving players what they desire, and just let us admire KanColle at its core. People have followed me for KanColle, and I wish I could have happily shared KanColle content with them. People have unfollowed me after I had stated I would play less of it, and that’ is the genuine reason of that. I favour Azur Lane over KanColle, and as do other various Japanese players. They migrated to Ume Musume, and other games. Japanese fanbase needs to unite, rally, and pressure KanColle developers to make a PC game to last a lengthy amount of time on PC, in 3D Format, to keep the KanColle spirit alive. You can’t even make fan games of KanColle and that’s agitating. How repulsive.
I genuinely desire to play KanColle, and I still may do so in overly light mannerisms. I may test play here and there, especially when I belatedly stumble across HMCS Haida, IJN Shinano, among others. I may occasionally return for the nostalgia.
What I would give to have a proper KanColle free-roaming game on PC Platform to grow and expend at my own style.
So, why do I only play practice mode? I’m a tourist, and Libeccio is another reason why. I can obtain other shipgirls this way, even if it costs me tons of money, time, and effort.
Left the ‘Round 1’ arcade. I went back to a Konbini to stock up on supplies (drinks & food), to then eat in the freezing cold hotel room. Drawer slowly opening up whenever I move the chair, washroom piping gurgling, and just an outright eerie, and uneasy mood. The drawer opening gradually genuinely spooked me the first time. Everything was spooky in that room. I felt genuinely vulnerable. I even requested a room change earlier, something I was in the process of. I had to wait a night, or so to do so. I had to wait till 11 AM, something I was highly eager to do so. I even planned to stay up the night to sleep in the day. I was ready to do so.
I was genuinely feeling highly uneasy. Restless, moody. I desired to stay up the night at the gaming arcade. I found out they would close shortly just as I left, at 10 PM. I left minutes prior to their closing. I was now forced to stay in this hotel room, agitated, frustrated, restless. Heater turning off halfway into the night (the night prior) and everything simply being annoying.
And, as I’ve noted a few times already, who knows if this place is genuinely haunted or not. The feeling alone is enough to give night terrors. I might as well be sleeping in some rundown room in North America in an unsafe ghetto area of Canada, or something.
I vented about how uneasy I felt on Twitter/X, and I do not regret it. I wished I was back in a more modern-appearing Hakodate & Ueno APA hotel, not this frustratingly ancient, and nearly decrepit structure. It needs a re-modernizing effort.
I always noted everything Japanese makes me happy, and it does, for the most part. I’m always happy about the food, the other hotel rooms, the kindness of the Japanese people, the hospitality, the great scenery, efficient transit, and how neat Konbini. My only major gripe with Sapporo stay was my hotel room, and I hate it with almost every fiber of my being. Yes, everything is clear in hindsight. And yes, I should have booked months in advance. That one on me. I failed. Everything was however still in motion preventing me from fully solidifying my stay. What saddens me about Japan is how I can’t stay openly connected to those who have unfollowed me on Twitter/X because of me playing KanColle less. I’ve constantly vented my frustration on many things, including KanColle, causing people to part ways. I state things as I see them, and I’m not shy about doing so. I share other things more than I do KanColle. I prefer a far more accessible Azur lane over KanColle, though still strongly respect KanColle for solidifying the shipgirl genre. I don’t really hold the unfollowing me from social against them, it however becomes depressing because I’m used to people simply shoving other people under the bus, being vindictive, abusive, or gaslighting other people. It’s just sad (or depressing) falsely motivated people gaining more recognition over genuine people who genuinely admire Japan. I still do admire Japan, I’m however also reminded there are people who also admire the fake sides of Japan, such as political activists willing to harm their fellow Canadians to become #1, even praised by naïve Japanese professionals praising them for their fad-chasing behaviours, such as LittleVMills for Deer Song, etc. Or how you have deceptive people pressuring Japan to be fake LGBTQ to violate females and sexually abuse little kids, as had been done in Western society time and time again. They’ve openly stated time and again in how they desire to mentally and physically corrupt little kids, especially in New York, yet “somehow” being normal, common sense, and traditional is allegedly “transphobic”. Political activists are screwed in the brain. People aren’t allowed to be human.
I’m sorry for not playing KanColle more, it however needs to become more user-friendly, as Azur Lane is. It needs a PC game version, back to being openly playable on Android, and back to being its fun 2015-2017 self. It needs to do more than what it is doing now, and in a fun manner. But seriously, how am I supposed to hype KanColle up if it’s doing everything it can to sabotage itself?! Region-blocking, preventing others from playing it, making the game highly depressive, scummy, and degrading. I genuinely desire to play more KanColle, it however requires so much care and attention to the point it pushed itself outside of the meaning of “gaming” and “escapism”. Even if I’m venting, I still had a great time. I still do admire KanColle, it however needs to do better.
I still had a great time tram spotting, checking out snow & ice sculptures, window shopping in retail stores, and simply taking in the Sapporo settings and vibes. I’m always thinking of how polite, helpful, and friendly Japanese people are. Maybe not always, but mostly. I don’t blame Japanese folks for being warry of foreigners, I am as well. I constantly see how stupid my fellow “Canadians” are on a daily basis. They basically do what Chinese and Koreans do in Japan, maybe even in a more severe and vulgar manners. I have trust issues because of how vulgar and abusive “Western” people tend to be, and have been, making me miss the older generation of original Canadians. Then I think of times I’ve been treated like trash by my fellow Canadians over their own clout chasing and tribal mentality. Sadly, I also think of those who also have unfollowed me for undisclosed reasonings from Japanese social circles simply because I failed to play KanColle long-term. I play Azur Lane more than I do KanColle. It’s sad to have seen them go. Life is frustrating. There is pain, yet also beauty. Anime is there for escapism, and I can always connect with Japan via Anime, and there are tons of that in Sapporo’s Winter Snow Festival with Blue Archive, Delicious in Dungeon, Re: Zero, among others. The artistic escapism middle ground. I also do thank those who guided me throughout the trip to point me to where I needed to go, that’s highly, and much appreciated. I’ll always remember that. How genuinely curious locals were about my adventures, or how I’m a fan of certain Anime series they admire. It’s always nice to see other Japanese folks genuinely interested in their hobbies, something which is more of a clout-chasing hobby in Canada & USA. I respect the genuine sentiments in the Japanese hobby circles. They’re far more genuine in Japan, hence why I obtained Gundam cards on this day. Easier to connect with hobbies in Japan.
I’m happy about stumbling across the Susukino Ice World sculptures, day and night. Even surprised to have captured Snow Miku in tram and advertisement screen form. Re-exploring the snow sculptures at Odori Park was awesome, if I had a slightly negative experience with the snowman when reminded of vindictive gay people hellbent on destroying everything normal people admire (Rising World game, etc). The food was great, the staff’s hospitality was awesome, and I’m happy I have my own positive memories. I have more Anime souvenirs to admire, such as the Gundam SEED Freedom movie playing cards, among others. I was tempted in purchasing many, not having room to take it all back to Canada. I wish Japan was my home, would have made things easier.
The KanColle Arcade was a scuffed incident. It’s great when it works, it’s frustrating when it doesn’t, and I’m thankful to how kind the Japanese staff are. This is how I expect people to behave, not how other people behave in berating, abusive, and repulsive, rabid mannerisms. When Japanese folks get frustrated they do make it known, and I admire it when they make their frustrations known. The second arcade visit, the one near Susukino had what I desired, especially an eventually Busou Shinki Arcade visit, something other people refused to notify me of. I’ve been forsaken by people when it comes to certain Busou Shinki related stuff. I’m happy to have obtained Libeccio, and it’s also why I spam training more more than anything. Doing the map campaigns is more for those who are locals, not foreigners on a short visit.
The experience in Sapporo was a 90% satisfaction rating. I admire the numerous Japanese gimmicks, the simplicity, and the general vibes of things. The honesty, the festive vibes, and the hospitality. Thankfully, I would change hotel rooms in the late morning of the next day to allow me to be less unnerved in my hotel room.
Thanks for reading, and hope to see you in the next blog postings.