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“Game Music Disk Guide 2”(ISBN:978-4-909483-69-0). It is supervised by Tanaka “Hally” Haruhisa, whom I impulsively bought at a bookstore this past May. This book is written in Japanese, and no English translation exists.

Compared to the first volume, which strictly focused on works released on physical media as a “disk guide,” this second volume also covers works that have never been released on physical media. Consequently, it features music from Amiga and C64 games, which are relatively unknown in Japan. This is precisely why I made the impulse purchase.

Having finished reading it, I was deeply moved to read the review in my native language of Tim Follin’s work. In conclusion, this impulse buy turned out to be a huge success for me. I’d like to express my gratitude here to the bookseller who stocked this title.

As a native Japanese speaker, I primarily use the following three online dictionaries:

• Eijiro, an English-Japanese and Japanese-English dictionary
• Kotobank, which contains specialized content primarily in Japanese
• e-words, a dictionary specializing in information technology terminology

Antoha MC and KUKIKODAN.

The former, Antoha MC, is a Russian rapper who I like for his dark atmosphere and melodic accompaniment that complements his humming raps.

The latter, KUKIKODAN, is a Japanese band whose lyrics and music seem to reflect on the everyday passing of daily life.