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lizard64wizard

🧶Reading my way through life. 🌱☕️🪴 Gardening(“attempting”😔🥀), crafting🪡🧵, boardgames 🎲, and traveling🛸 (for food 🍜)are my other passions.🎮

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  • The Healing Hippo of Hinode Park
    lizard64wizard
    Apr 22, 2026
    3.0
    Enjoyment: 3.5Quality: 3.0Characters: 3.0Plot: 2.5
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    Sometimes it’s just easier to talk to an inanimate object to confess how you truly feel. Helpful when it’s a cute hippo! 🦛

    In each story, a different body part is needing healing and only the hippo could help! But truly these characters were figuring out the solutions themselves.

    I am definitely seeing the patterns in several of the Japanese translations I’ve been reading in this style. Short stories, different protagonist, but there is an element tying it all together. Relatable that get our noggin to reflect on. Sometimes these stories are something we need to hear/read at the right time.

    I’m going to call my mom now ❤️‍🩹

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  • The Healing Hippo of Hinode Park
    lizard64wizard
    Apr 22, 2026
    3.0
    Enjoyment: 3.5Quality: 3.0Characters: 3.0Plot: 2.5
    👂
    🦵
    👀

    Sometimes it’s just easier to talk to an inanimate object to confess how you truly feel. Helpful when it’s a cute hippo! 🦛

    In each story, a different body part is needing healing and only the hippo could help! But truly these characters were figuring out the solutions themselves.

    I am definitely seeing the patterns in several of the Japanese translations I’ve been reading in this style. Short stories, different protagonist, but there is an element tying it all together. Relatable that get our noggin to reflect on. Sometimes these stories are something we need to hear/read at the right time.

    I’m going to call my mom now ❤️‍🩹

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    lizard64wizard
    Apr 22, 2026
    3.0
    Enjoyment: 3.5Quality: 3.0Characters: 3.0Plot: 2.5
    👂
    🦵
    👀

    Sometimes it’s just easier to talk to an inanimate object to confess how you truly feel. Helpful when it’s a cute hippo! 🦛

    In each story, a different body part is needing healing and only the hippo could help! But truly these characters were figuring out the solutions themselves.

    I am definitely seeing the patterns in several of the Japanese translations I’ve been reading in this style. Short stories, different protagonist, but there is an element tying it all together. Relatable that get our noggin to reflect on. Sometimes these stories are something we need to hear/read at the right time.

    I’m going to call my mom now ❤️‍🩹

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    LifeIsItsOwnQuest
    Apr 19, 2026
    4.0
    Enjoyment: 4.0Quality: Characters: Plot:

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  • THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU— VIVA LATINOAMÉRICA

    Thank you so much to everyone who voted for my Latin American Horror list to be made into a Side Quest and thank you to everyone who has already joined it!

    I am overwhelmed by all the love I’m getting from everyone and I still can’t believe that not only was my list nominated, but that enough people actually voted for it to be made into a Side Quest! I am so honored and I truly have no words.

    I never thought that making a little list would get me here. I’m from Costa Rica and I wanted to spread some love not only for Latin American authors, but for my favorite genre as well. To see that other people share my sentiment is so touching and amazing.

    I can’t believe how much love my Side Quest is getting— it’s making me so emotional, especially during these times when Latin American people have been getting so much hate in the U.S. and some people would love nothing more than for us to be ashamed of our heritage.

    To that I say: QUÉ RICO ES SER LATINO.

    Ps. If you want to see more Latin American Horror recommendations, please check out my 🔗list that inspired this Side Quest. I am planning on keeping the list alive and adding more recommendations as I find them.

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