This is also an editorial style of Japanese publications in general. You can see this in how some people write blogs too (titles for tech blogs will be “I tried

This is also an editorial style of Japanese publications in general. You can see this in how some people write blogs too (titles for tech blogs will be “I tried out Rust!”). It’s an extremely conversational style that is easy to read. I think the nearest equivalent is “oral history” articles that are the rage recently