A review by psykobilliethekid
かくかくしかじか 5 by Akiko Higashimura
5.0
This series is exactly what I needed to read at the time in my life I needed to read it the most. I've been having trouble with making video games. I have my own passion project, but I've had the hardest time trying to get my code to work, dealing with trolls telling me my coding sucks, and being told by someone I love that "making games in a waste of time."
All of this has caused me to come to a shuttering stop in doing anything game related outside of playing games after work.
But reading this series, which broke my heart at points and hit too close to home at others, made to remember something from my childhood. When I was growing up, my grandfather, my PopPop, was the father figure in my life. When I would cry and say I couldn't do something, he would say "Stop saying you can't. You can! If you believe you can, then you can!"
Reading this series makes me feel like he was my own sensei. Even though he died when I was 6, I can still remember his voice saying those words. "You can! If you believe you can, then you can!" In a way, it's my own version of "Just draw."
So I'm going to stop thinking that I can't code my games. I can code them. I believe I can, so I know I can! And if I get stuck, there's TONS of help out there that can show me the way through.
Thank you PopPop for being my sensei. And thank you Higashimura-san for writing this. It's the perfect start to a new decade.
All of this has caused me to come to a shuttering stop in doing anything game related outside of playing games after work.
But reading this series, which broke my heart at points and hit too close to home at others, made to remember something from my childhood. When I was growing up, my grandfather, my PopPop, was the father figure in my life. When I would cry and say I couldn't do something, he would say "Stop saying you can't. You can! If you believe you can, then you can!"
Reading this series makes me feel like he was my own sensei. Even though he died when I was 6, I can still remember his voice saying those words. "You can! If you believe you can, then you can!" In a way, it's my own version of "Just draw."
So I'm going to stop thinking that I can't code my games. I can code them. I believe I can, so I know I can! And if I get stuck, there's TONS of help out there that can show me the way through.
Thank you PopPop for being my sensei. And thank you Higashimura-san for writing this. It's the perfect start to a new decade.