<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>Culture on Das Schwarze Loch</title><link>https://thoughts.schwarzgeist.com/tags/culture/</link><description>Recent content in Culture on Das Schwarze Loch</description><generator>Hugo -- 0.144.2</generator><language>en-us</language><copyright>2025 - 2026 schwarzgeist.com | Anthony Walker. All rights reserved</copyright><lastBuildDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://thoughts.schwarzgeist.com/tags/culture/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>2025.04.18 | 槌の子 （ツチノコ）</title><link>https://thoughts.schwarzgeist.com/journal/2025.04.18/</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://thoughts.schwarzgeist.com/journal/2025.04.18/</guid><description>&lt;p>As part of my diet for learning Japanese, I&amp;rsquo;ve added Japanese manga and anime to my language-learning regimen. It isn&amp;rsquo;t possible to understand the Japanese language or modern Japanese culture without knowing the country&amp;rsquo;s manga or anime.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>I have come across some manga and anime that I&amp;rsquo;ve enjoyed. &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Slump">Dr. Slump&lt;/a> made me laugh out loud several times. After finding success reading Dr. Slump, I felt brave enough to try reading the new, more modern &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dandadan">Dandadan&lt;/a>. I had a newfound awakening of respect for anime as I cried like a baby during Dandadan&amp;rsquo;s &amp;ldquo;Acrobat Silky&amp;rdquo; character&amp;rsquo;s origin story.&lt;/p></description></item></channel></rss>