It’s that time of the year again!

Well, this one is a little bit different than the rest, it’s the end of the year AND the end of the decade!

So instead of just going back to January, we’re gonna go all the way back to 2009, feels weird when I think about it now, I was still in high school.

In the last 10 years, I started the website that would lead me to my closest friends in the world.

I started college.

And 9 years later, I finished! Haha.

I lost my mom, and I had to grow up really, really quickly. The world was a little more dark for awhile.

But out of that, I decided that nothing would stand in my way, no matter what I decided to do, no matter who was in front of me. That’s how my mom would have done it, that’s how she would have told me to do it.

I created a Youtube channel that led to me working in the anime industry. I’m now on an anime blu-ray release.

I got closer with my family. When you lose someone so important to you, you realize how important family is, and how much life is really worth living.

I moved into my own place for the first time with someone. Even though the relationship didn’t last, I learned that you should always be honest with yourself, even when it hurts.

Thanks to my channel I got to meet this pretty cool voice actor and friend, who, after going to a con and eating dinner, asked me to be in his movie.

Said movie is pretty sweet, and told me, “Now is the time to grasp the future.”

I told myself I would do two things this year: I was either gonna go to Japan, or I was gonna move to California.

Here I am in sunny Los Angeles.

Which, due to an amazing friend of mine having an amazing wedding this year, had me traveling a collective 10 thousand miles this year across the US. Nuts to think about.

I started a job at a company that has made my two favorite video games of all time, surreal.

I loved, I lost, and lost and found.

It’s been a pretty busy decade, now that I look back.

But most importantly of all, I don’t hate Pepsi anymore, it’s pretty decent.

Resolutions? I have a few, but none I wanna share here, haha. That’s all folks!

Here’s to 2020, a new decade, and some hope for the future.

Happy New Year everybody!

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Last night, my cat passed away at the age of 14. I was able to play with her a little last night before she died. This is some video I took a few years ago playing with her, she was a cool cat.

[New note: I miss Rainbow every day. When I see old pictures of her, I’m always reminded of how cute she was. Sometimes I wonder if it wasn’t because I left and moved to Columbus for two years that she stopped eating and got very sick. We took her to the doctor in the time between but the vet never found anything. Still to this day my brother and I playfully argue about who actually named her. I remember doing it, he remembers doing it when we found her.

We went to this animal farm, I’m not even sure what the right word for it was, but it was a mutual friend of my mom’s who lived out in the country. I remember it being wet and rainy and just really an abysmal atmosphere, and all of these animals were running around in this dirty pen that you’d expect to see livestock in. Back in the corner, huddled up and shivering was Rainbow. I knew she was the right one. I remember staying with her for days when we got her back because she would just cry and cry if someone didn’t stay by her, so I tried to stay by her as much as I could.]

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For all the pro wrestling fans who follow me, I’ve seen virtually every “best of match” that there is but New Japan Pro-Wrestling just put on a match that is so good it defies rating.

Okada / Omega 2 is the greatest match of all time. 6 star? No, this match proved that those guys (Omega especially) are on such a different level that they can TOP the greatest match which they themselves were a part of.

I just can’t even, Kenny Omega’s in-ring psychology is just so otherworldly….I literally can’t even. I would hate to see him end up in WWE, but if he did, he deserves a contract bigger than John Cena.

[New note: As history knows, Kenny did eventually when the belt in there fourth bout. NJPW, but more specifically these two wrestlers reignited my love and passion for pro wrestling. “Puroresu” as the Japanese fans would call it. So I want to at least make note of it here, that I saw them all as they happened, and you really had to be there.]

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First movie of the year? Princess Mononoke on the big screen! Absolutely beautiful film.

[New note: Like other releases of Miyazaki’s, this was a limited engagement, where the sub and dub were in theaters for only one day. I saw the English dub, which I almost always prefer. There were cool intro pieces done by now infamous John Lasseter.]

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Just got back from seeing Miyazaki’s directorial debut! It was great to see it on the big screen and see the extras at the beginning and end. I will say though, I much prefer the Manga Dub to the original Streamline dub that they showed tonight, but still awesome either way.

[New note: For those who may be interested, a Japanese with English subtitles release was released a few days prior. These were one day limited engagements. Aside from the voice differences, Lupin was named “Wolf” in the Streamline dub, because of the Maurice LeBlanc estate who owns the rights to the Lupin name. This has been a point of contention in the history of the Lupin III anime for a long time. Also the pronunciation of Cagliostro as “Cag-liostro”, which was a flub line the first line he says it! Dubs have come a long way since then.]

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