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Sophilautia ❤️‍🔥🌼 @sophilautia.northsky.social · 23/10/2026

This is amazing JP vs US box art comparison 🤣

Sophilautia ❤️‍🔥🌼 @sophilautia.northsky.social · 10/10/2026

Attended a PAX panel and was jumpscared by someone talking about Umineko for 30 minutes. I almost got pushed back at the door because the panel was too full, so glad I happened to make it as the seemingly only Umineko fan in the audience!

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Sophilautia ❤️‍🔥🌼 @sophilautia.northsky.social · 10/10/2026

Don't listen to people who say otherwise, I now have zero doubts that people can enjoy this as their first Toaru Anime. Everyone should go watch it! Enjoy the cyberpunk vibes of psychic girls of questionable character doing black ops missions in the city of science.

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Sophilautia ❤️‍🔥🌼 @sophilautia.northsky.social · 10/10/2026

The first episode of A Certain Item of Dark Side was fantastic! They created an anime original story for the first episode to introduce the setting and characters for new people getting into the series for the first time, and I thought it was really well written and animated too!!

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Sophilautia ❤️‍🔥🌼 @sophilautia.northsky.social · 28/09/2026

In video games, "mechanics" are the red circles that show where the boss is going to attack

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Sophilautia ❤️‍🔥🌼 @sophilautia.northsky.social · 25/09/2026

Yeah, he'll never surpass how fuckin shit it was

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Sophilautia ❤️‍🔥🌼 @sophilautia.northsky.social · 22/09/2026

Compare this to Engage, which is pretty much perfect. You have coloured directional lines showing each attack and how much damage is being dealt, as well as their current hp, how much they'll be at after combat, and the total damage dealt. Looking back this is SO much better. They really ruined it..

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Sophilautia ❤️‍🔥🌼 @sophilautia.northsky.social · 22/09/2026

I feel like this is just bad design. The three columns are Crit, Hit, 33? -21? Does that mean the attacker does 21 damage? No that's my damage? Then you click on the battle and the columns have changed to Crit, Hit, Atk. It's just weird to read, and I do find hard when I just wanna know total damage

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Sophilautia ❤️‍🔥🌼 @sophilautia.northsky.social · 13/08/2026

Treating myself to some delicious Uiharu tea for my birthday 😊🌸

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Sophilautia ❤️‍🔥🌼 @sophilautia.northsky.social · 04/08/2026

20 years later this is still stuck in my head.

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Sophilautia ❤️‍🔥🌼 @sophilautia.northsky.social · 30/06/2026

I loved looking through the guestbook and seeing messages from Umineko fans in every different language! I of course added my own message, which was quickly vandalised by Thenia's Lambda doodle 😂

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Sophilautia ❤️‍🔥🌼 @sophilautia.northsky.social · 30/06/2026

Yesterday I visited the Umineko Cafe Quadrillion with my friend @anthecorollaria.bsky.social! It was such a joy to experience.. They really went all out with designing the space here! So much love and care put in to every detail.

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Sophilautia ❤️‍🔥🌼 @sophilautia.northsky.social · 20/06/2026

I also found a guestbook here with messages from Toaru fans! I of course had to add a message.

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Sophilautia ❤️‍🔥🌼 @sophilautia.northsky.social · 20/06/2026

My final stop was this tea shop! Choosing between Komoe green tea or Uiharu black tea, I went with Uiharu. I was greeted by an old man working the store with a Saten badge on his shirt, who showed me that these are officially endorsed products of the Tachikawa Tourism Association. Wild!

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Sophilautia ❤️‍🔥🌼 @sophilautia.northsky.social · 20/06/2026

Then I visited Showa Kinen Park, and got these shots!

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Sophilautia ❤️‍🔥🌼 @sophilautia.northsky.social · 20/06/2026

I then took a stop for lunch. Got some really long potato fries and a "Kebab Sando" that's basically just a kebab :p

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Sophilautia ❤️‍🔥🌼 @sophilautia.northsky.social · 20/06/2026

Next, I found two more Toaru vending machines, one of them leading me into a Japanese sweets shop that sold Gekota Dorayaki! I picked up some Toaru prints here. Also, I noticed the number XIII on one of these. Are there really that many vending machines to find??

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Sophilautia ❤️‍🔥🌼 @sophilautia.northsky.social · 20/06/2026

Next, I found the Railgun girls leading me to Faret Tachikawa, a street filled with urban art! I guess the Railgun T was stealth Tachikawa tourism propaganda all along! Not that I'm complaining 😉

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Sophilautia ❤️‍🔥🌼 @sophilautia.northsky.social · 20/06/2026

Next, I found one of the many Toaru vending machines scattered around Tachikawa, and following the monorail tracks led me to this iconic view!

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Sophilautia ❤️‍🔥🌼 @sophilautia.northsky.social · 20/06/2026

REALLY proud of this latter one, I even waited to get the train in view!

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Sophilautia ❤️‍🔥🌼 @sophilautia.northsky.social · 20/06/2026

Most of the shots I found were in the northern half of Tachikawa Station. Here I found the place where Touma fights Kanzaki in volume 1!

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Sophilautia ❤️‍🔥🌼 @sophilautia.northsky.social · 20/06/2026

Continuing my series of anime pilgrimages, today I visited Tachikawa, the city in Western Tokyo which served as the basis for JC Staff's depictions of Academy City from the Toaru series! Let's see what I found!

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Sophilautia ❤️‍🔥🌼 @sophilautia.northsky.social · 20/06/2026

LET'S FUCKING GO. I found a working F-Zero AX in Round 1, Asaka, Saitama! No sound but everything else seems to work! This holds up just as well as I remember it when I played it once as a kid. Still the most fun arcade game I've ever played.

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Sophilautia ❤️‍🔥🌼 @sophilautia.northsky.social · 18/06/2026

And that's my Shirakawa-go adventure! Here's what I came home with, including my unlucky Double Hanyuu and Double Tomitake 😅 Overall this was an awesome trip, I'm so glad I could make it finally 💖 I even found a Higurashi fan working at the Konbini that I made friends with!

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Sophilautia ❤️‍🔥🌼 @sophilautia.northsky.social · 18/06/2026

Lastly, on my way back to my car I managed to snap a photo of the murder bridge. It looks like it's inaccessible to tourists these days, so I could only get this long distance photo. You can see it's getting consumed by nature at this point.

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Sophilautia ❤️‍🔥🌼 @sophilautia.northsky.social · 18/06/2026

Back down to the village I found two more anime scenes

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Sophilautia ❤️‍🔥🌼 @sophilautia.northsky.social · 18/06/2026

Shoutouts to this peach water keeping my hydrated. I downed four of these today alone. Refreshing and delicious.

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Sophilautia ❤️‍🔥🌼 @sophilautia.northsky.social · 18/06/2026

At the top I also found more Higu merch, and Higu Ema blocks! Good to see they didn't get rid of them completely. Here I managed to find some U-soda, which I haven't drank yet.. I'll let you know. Apparently there was a Higurashi Cafe here at some point, but the area seemed to be under renovations

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Sophilautia ❤️‍🔥🌼 @sophilautia.northsky.social · 18/06/2026

Next was the long climb up to the observation platform. God it almost killed me. But at the top I was rewarded with that iconic view! Also I think this path was also depicted in the anime.

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Sophilautia ❤️‍🔥🌼 @sophilautia.northsky.social · 18/06/2026

Some more shots. Supposedly the latter two is where the "uso da" scene happens, but I couldn't get the angle right.

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Sophilautia ❤️‍🔥🌼 @sophilautia.northsky.social · 18/06/2026

I recreated another scene from Higurashi, then took a visit to the Hachiman Shrine, the basis of Higurashi's Furude Shrine!

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Sophilautia ❤️‍🔥🌼 @sophilautia.northsky.social · 18/06/2026

I love how they use flowing water to keep their drinks cool. From the rivers to canals to rice paddies to water wheels and flour-pounding devices, Shirakawa-go is a marvel of hydrological engineering. You're never far from the sound of flowing water here. And it might be the freshest water I've seen

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Sophilautia ❤️‍🔥🌼 @sophilautia.northsky.social · 18/06/2026

I then found a store with a shrine of Higurashi merch (not for sale) with a bunch of for sale merch below it!

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Sophilautia ❤️‍🔥🌼 @sophilautia.northsky.social · 18/06/2026

Crossing the bridge to the heritage village proper, I found another Higurashi scene!

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Sophilautia ❤️‍🔥🌼 @sophilautia.northsky.social · 18/06/2026

Next I checked out the open air museum. This lets you walk around and inside historical buildings to give you a glimpse of what life was like here before the industrial revolution. I even took a seat and relaxed in one for 20 minutes or so, basking in nature on a tatami mat.

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Sophilautia ❤️‍🔥🌼 @sophilautia.northsky.social · 18/06/2026

Next is the river where Higurashi's cotton drifting festival takes place!

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Sophilautia ❤️‍🔥🌼 @sophilautia.northsky.social · 18/06/2026

Here's a photo of my hotel room BTW. Next, I headed to the building that serves as Keiichi's house!

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