What is this place?

This is a beautification enforcement area. You are prohibited from disposing of litter in an irresponsible manner.

Sign reads: koko wa bikasuishin kyōka kuiki desu.

Seriously, though, I intend to write about various topics of my fancy, mostly of the cute or beautiful kind, or in which I happen to otherwise take some sort of aesthetic interest. For I busy myself, most of the day, doing Arithmetic, which, as we know from the Mock Turtle, consists of a good part of uglification. It is surely well-advised to try and compensate a little.

So what are those cute and beautiful things you're writing about?

Not myself, that's for sure. As you probably noticed, I can hardly deny being infatuated with all things Japanese (well, not literally all of them, but quite a few), and this is likely to be the focus of most entries. Mainly anime and other tidbits of popular culture, presumably. Other than that, I might occasionally write about mathematics, which do have a beautiful side as well (even though I understand this is not going to help building a readership), and perhaps (live-action) cinema, especially from East Asia.

In keeping with the slogan of `beautification enforcement,' I will try to refrain (and given my current posting drive, that shouldn't be too difficult) from writing about works I particularly dislike. Words of praise may be harder to come up with than witty pokes, but I like the idea of sharing the former better.

Note that this blog is officially trilingual: entries can be written in any combination of French, tentative English and beginner's Japanese, French being the most likely for obvious reasons.