this is my favorite place in Osaka

He admires the Umeda skyline and says he would live there because it is cheap, beautiful, and sentimental. New fencing and cleared grass alter the riverside; he watches an unidentified weasel-like animal pull a large dead fish from the water. The private-room restaurant feels exciting, but disappointing food earns 2/10; he calls ¥4,000 yakiniku tabehodai too expensive.

Nostalgia increasingly idealizes Osaka as home while everyday disappointments and Chihiro- linked routes persist.