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08/13/2001 Entry: "Wheeeee"

Okay now we are getting somewhere, as soon as I figure out how to use this keyboard things will be okay. I can`t believe that I`ve been in Japan for a week. We are 133t since we figured out the Yamanote line. ^^; The yamanote line is a train that runs a big circle around Tokyo which is good sinced we stayed close to downtown Tokyo. Our biggest enemy here is the heat and humidity in Japan. Its like swimming in water! Because of that we had to cut back on some things and there are a lot of stairs and walking (which I don`t mind.)

We got to know Family Mart really well. We nicked named them Fairy Mart after the Fairy Mart in funfun factory. I should post a small review section on the different onigiri I got to try while staying in Ikeukuro. Ikebukuro is really busy there are like 6 banks surrounding the hotel. Its crazy. Now we`re off to Kyoto. We stowed our luggage away and now we`re waiting for 2 pm so we can go down to Kyoto!

Osaka was really grey and hotter than Tokyo. But it was amazing and worth it to see Clamp art work. It was gorgeous, all the detail it took to draw each sakura petal and the lace, there are some things that you`ll never notice in the reprints. For example Mokona seems to really really like textures, nearly half of her art is textured, which sort of translates poorly in the reprints. Also she is a big fan of gold paint. Its on a lot of her art. =)

Right now we`re at the Tokyo Cultural Center which is a nice place that lets people use computers for free. =) Its really hard to find a place that will let us use computers for this long for free. To be honest I wish we could do more things but heat and time seemed to have gotten to us. I zonk out at about 10 pm and wake up at 6 am which is good and bad since nothing opens till 9 ^^;;

Emi will probably blog her experience but so I`ll skip that. Japan as Eileen said is pretty random. On the way to the K-Books in ikebukurou a Japanese guy confessed to me ^^;; I chalk it up to him not knowing much Japanese since he figured out that I couldn`t understand much Japanese and that I was american. He spoke Japanese a bit then said `I love you.` ^^;;;; Oh and I nearly won a Sanyo cell phone. We were returning from Animate and we were snookered into pulling little papers from a box in front of a pachinko place and I won a phone. The pachinko guy got really excited and hopped up and down but I wasn`t a resident so I got Japanese tea instead ^^;;;.

TamaTama: I have Pretear soundtrack and vol 1 & 3 luckily for you they were used and in very very good condition. I will probably pick up the other two vols since 4 recently came out and 2 seems to be very popular.

Alana: there are rows and rows of ST dj but not Sumire and Sakura (Ironically there was pairings for everything else ^^;;;) to be honest there was a lot of stuff that didn`t really interest me at Comiket. There were some really good cosplayers and many cross-players ^.~

We missed friday`s comiket since there wasn`t much we wanted to see, and we caught the tail end of saturday, piece of advice go between 12 and 3 anytime before or after that time you either get crushed or you missed out on a lot since a lot of circles close up early. =(

Btw I now own ALL of Chie Waseda`s published works. XD (Steph does the happy dance.)

Posted by sakura @ 03/01/2002 07:38 AM PST

Oooops ^^;;; Oh well its ebay-able XD Omg I found a place that is open 24 hrs, Book-off, 100 yen a manga O_O its so scary b/c the hotel was across the street from it and we could see it from the hotel window, all lit up like a christmas tree. Kowaiii

Posted by Steph @ 08/16/2001 03:15 AM PST

WAI! Pretear! Except I already have #1......

Posted by TamaTama @ 08/15/2001 06:32 PM PST