r/Tomora

Greetings, any friendly companions here who understand Japanese? See, TOMORA keeps perpetuating this idea that their name translates to "friendly companion on earth", I want to fact-check that. At first I thought it was simply "friends".

I am not familiar with Japanese, just out of curiosity I tried to look at some basics, and this is the impression I managed to glean:

TOMO is the root word for "friend", and a common pluralisation is TOMODACHI, except that Japanese doesn't have plurals in the same way as in other languages. RA is allegedly also a common sort-of pluraliser, but it isn't used with TOMO, as the little I understand (or is it?). No idea how "earth" could come into this.

So it would be lovely to know if there is something to that claim, and if so, if there is a way to explain how it works to somebody who doesn't know Japanese.

Ash has spoken

It’s the song I’d choose if I could magically make it happen.

🙏

I’ve loved Aurora ever since her Nobel peace concert. That was like 11 years ago, and I’ve regularly followed and listened to her ever since. I loved her ethereal voice and alt style music. I just can’t seem to grasp how this is better. A lot of people are glazing this album and that’s completely okay, there are a few songs I like on it too, but this just isn’t it for me. I know this is going to be downvoted because it’s on the Tomora subreddit. It just sounds like somebody using Aurora’s beautiful voice and adding house music to it as if Tom was a soundcloud artist. Can somebody help me understand why people like it? This is the first project ever in over 10 years of following Aurora that I just can’t vibe with.

I’ll follow the subreddit bc I love Aurora and I won’t post again after this, I just don’t get it.

Looks like the UK store has a sweatshirt, shirts, the glasses, etc. while the US store has more limited options. Would it be dumb to buy the sweatshirt from the UK store? I want to get it while I can!

I don't know if this was done before. But I'd like to know what are your thoughts on the TOMORA project overall.

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