Umechan

Yes, we should have expected a price rise when we've had some of the worst inflation in modern history this decade, but there's also the declining yen. One dollar was worth 114 yen the week the Switch launched. It is currently worth around 145 yen. The British pound also increased from 140 yen to 184 yen, and the Euro from around 122 yen to around 160 yen. That's around a 30% increase for all three currencies, which for the UK at least is almost enough to offset inflation.

Obviously the yen could possibly quickly recover in the next few years, but I don't think inflation is the only thing you should consider if you're going to talk about how fair the price is in western markets.

Isn’t the woman who played Rita dead? And the yellow ranger dead? And the green ranger dead? And the blue ranger refusing to do any power ranger media?

Yes, although the season 1 Rita was taken directly from the Japanese version of the show and dubbed over by an American voice actor who is still alive (but likely retired).

上下左右 (じょうげさゆう). Means "top, bottom, left, and right". It isn't used very often, but it's useful for talking about web design, which is how I first encountered it.

拘り (こだわり) when used for food. It's easier to translate it as a verb (拘る), which means to be particular about something. 玉子に拘っている can very simply be translated as "We're particular about eggs", but 拘りの玉子サンド is much more difficult to translate. In this usage, it means that lots of care, thought, time, and/or work has been put into getting it right. There are a few translations you could use, but I don't think any one of them had quite the same nuance. Jim Breen dictionaries translate them as "speciality", but I don't think it captures the original meaning at all. You could translate it as "artisanal" or "finest", but that gives it more of a high-end or luxury sounding nuance. "Meticulously crafted" is also close, but that sounds like something very complex or elaborate, whereas the original can be used for simple things.

Try googling food label vocabulary. Here are some I found.

http://www.survivingnjapan.com/2012/04/ultimate-guide-to-reading-food-labels.html?view=flipcard https://cotoacademy.com/japanese-food-label-vocabulary-guide/ https://kokorocares.com/blogs/blog/reading-labels-in-japan-labels-for-fresh-food

There's no evidence that it made them gay. Maybe the demon provided a matchmaking service for closeted medieval queers.

Is it really that bad? I've been living in Asia for 10 years, and although it seems like there are some desperate bottoms in rural areas and smaller cities, it doesn't really feel like things are that easy for tops. There's actually been plenty of times when other tops have wanted me to bottom for them.

Yes. I'm not married, and I'm sometimes shocked at how some men seem to use marriage as an excuse not to learn basic life skills, especially in an age when you can learn almost any non-professional skill for free on YouTube.

My dad always did his fair share of housework, but he rarely cooked. Once I was old enough, I would cook for him whenever my mother was away. During her first trip away after I got my first job, my dad got really drunk because he didn't feel like waiting for me to get home and make him dinner before going out. He was born in the 1940s, so I accept that his generation were raised to see cooking as feminine, but we should have moved on from that.

Both characters have the same meaning in this case, so it probably doesn't matter. I think 花金 is more common.

It's a pointless move, but it helps them in their aim of adopting America's anti-woke culture war rhetoric.

I think trimmed beards can be very attractive, but I'm not going to judge anyone who's clean shaven. I don't have a beard because they don't suit me, so not having one isn't a deal-breaker.

I was once wondering around a neighborhood in Tokyo and passed by a group of friends who were saying goodbye to each other. I heard one of them say "お疲れヤマ". I stopped, wondering if it was some strange kind of slang or regional variation, but she then started laughing and said "お疲れマウンテン".