[Miscellaneous] A Group to Support Applicants for the note Creative Awards (Second Edition)

As I mentioned in my tweet the other day. Thank you very much.

Realizing that the chirping sound coming from deep within the forest of note is reaching more of you than I imagined, I am deeply moved by how amazing the world of the internet is.

To begin with, the reason I started this is, of course, as I wrote in my previous article, because I felt that there might be articles that haven't received many 'likes' but deserve more recognition.

However, the reason I actually decided to take action was because I was inspired by Capybara-san, the 'King of High Praise,' Nanako Imaeda.
Capybara-san recently launched a project like this.

Unless you are strictly a reader, you tend to focus solely on writing your own articles. Even if you read other people's articles, I think many people find themselves reading their own articles repeatedly even after posting them. I know I do. I'm sure everyone is the same. We are all narcissists screaming in our hearts, 'Come, read, praise me, and give me a like!'

In the midst of all that, Capybara-san reads other people's work thoroughly, refers to their other articles to understand the author's personality, and gives them high-quality, glowing praise.

Is this what they call a selfless heart, a spirit of altruism? Inspired by Capybara-san, who seems not just to have entered the priesthood but to have achieved enlightenment, I picked up a megaphone to support everyone as well.

Those who wish to join the Capybara faith and go worship Capybara-san can do so here.

So, before I introduce them... I'll post my own entry for this time as well. Come, read, praise me, and give me a like (a bundle of worldly desires).

Also, I'll post my first support article here too. Come, read, praise me, and give me a like (I'm not... exercising self-restraint).

Now then, here is the 'Chick Selection,' picking out entries from the #note Creative Awards All-Category division.

A protagonist who has been having a streak of bad luck kicks a Jizo statue on the way home, and after that, things get a bit strange. They talk to the Jizo in a dream, but the Jizo has a nasty personality. It has a foul mouth. The protagonist, who shows no remorse, ends up being punished by having their head squished.
I'm not very good with horror, but there are many kinds of horror, aren't there? The horror that Shippo-san writes is like a nightmare. It's a feeling where the characters try to proceed logically in an unrealistic world, but the logic itself is naturally broken.
The development proceeds at top speed until the end, and I don't really get it, but they win. Or rather, what does 'winning' even mean?

This is a food essay. It's a piece that will make you want to eat all sorts of junk food if you read it while hungry.
You know, sometimes you just have an irresistible craving for old-school ramen. The kind made by a grumpy, Yoji Tanaka-esque owner behind a rattling sliding door with a red noren curtain. It only has counter seating, it's a bit greasy, and you order from a menu posted on the wall. The bowls have that classic red swirl pattern around the rim, and you eat in silence using disposable chopsticks taken from a holder that's stuffed as full as it can possibly be. I'm envious of anyone who has a place like that in their neighborhood.

The year is 2023. The world's smartest doctor, in the middle of his research, contracts a disease that current medicine cannot cure, so he enters a cold sleep device he built himself. When he wakes up, the world has flying cars. When he asks Pipi-Hachi, the android who took care of him, how many years he's been asleep, the answer is unbelievably short. It's a story about what on earth happened while he was sleeping.
To be honest, I'm not great with sci-fi, but this is a work that is easy to read and satisfying without any difficult jargon or settings. I like Pipi-Hachi, who has surpassed the brilliant doctor's intelligence in the future, for his surprisingly mean-spirited personality.

There is no waste on Kono Island. Buildings fit together like puzzle pieces, and many people live packed tightly together. They hate any room or margin for new changes to enter. In Kono Island, where every second is precious and not to be wasted, I was drawn to Ano Island, which is full of margins. And on Ano Island, the annual 'King's Soup Festival' is held. Between 6:00 AM and 11:59 PM on the King's birthday, a representative from each family must deliver a soup they've devised to the castle. What kind of soup will I bring?
As described above, this is a fantasy, but it's a work with metaphorical implications. The residents of Kono Island are cramped, stressed, and irritable. It seems like there are many people in the world who have become like residents of Kono Island due to family, work, parenting, or caregiving. So, when they see the sparkling lives of the residents of Ano Island, they get angry, calling it unrealistic or ridiculous. Margins are important.

This is a picture book for small children. It's a story about Obi-chan, a white cat, helping bees collect flower nectar. It's also cute how they travel from flower to flower on a honeybee train.
The illustrations are cute, but the fact that it's animated and moves is very fresh and nice. There are gimmick picture books made of paper, but I received a fresh sense of surprise and emotion at the benefits of creating picture books online as one way of presenting them. I know others who post GIF animations (is that the right term?), but I didn't realize there were such wonderful ways to use them.

……I'll introduce a GIF animation with the exact opposite direction.
Last year, I was ranked as one of the creators I read the most, much to my chagrin, so I've been trying to avoid looking at them as much as possible this year, but I end up opening them due to their mysterious addictiveness. It's frustrating.

So, I have introduced 5 works + alpha this time as well.
And once again, there are several good works that I only took notes on and pushed back to the next introduction. I'm worried that if I post them all at once, it will end up being harder for people to actually visit the links, so I will introduce them periodically, about five at a time.
I hope this article leads to new encounters between Noters.
Please take a look at the links when you have time.

The previous article and articles from the third one onwards can be found here.