I'm judging you.

Today was IKEBUKURO DAY!!

So, this morning we had boring seminars, and then around 2:30 the roomie and I ducked out into the crowded Tokyo streets in search of the nearest Tully's (yes, the very same one Tuti touts :D). There was actually one in the next building over, so we went in and had sandwiches, mmm. Could have done without EVERY OTHER CUSTOMER SMOKING, but meh :/ what can ya do?

At 4 I ran to Shinjuku station again and met up with the lovely kudasaru who promised to take me down the famed Otome Road. We hopped the Yamanote line and got off at Ikebukuro and the first thing that greeted me was a lovely Animate *________*

So yes, we went into 5 or 6 stores, and she managed to buy way more than I did XD Perhaps that's because all the stuff *I* wanted was way too expensive for me to shell out right now 8D As it was I bought 2 doujinshi, both of which I intend to sell (soooo if anyone is interested in the K2 OoKiku anthology or Ruru's anthology, let me know :D Flist gets first dibs!).

What struck me, though, going into all these K-Books and Animate stores and Mandarake was that WOW. TENIMYU AND BURIMYU ARE REALLY. REALLY. POPULAR.

Every store was playing either DVDs on TV screens or blasting TeniMyu/BuriMyu over the speakers, walls of bromides and pamphlets, DVD box sets, CDs, autographed signboards, it was amazing! I had no IDEA these guys were that popular! There was even a BuriMyu SECTION of doujinshi in Mandarake and K-Books *_____________* It was considerably smaller than the TeniMyu one, granted, but it was there!

And I found, I must admit, the WEIRDEST doujinshi I've ever seen. And actually, I think it was just a novel, but still.

THERE IS NO REASON THERE SHOULD BE YUZAWA KOUICHIROU/TSUCHIYA YUUICHI SMUT IN EXISTENCE OUTSIDE OF MINE AND KY'S HEADS.

I shit you not it was THERE. The cover was Tuti tied up, dressed in a sailor girl's uniform >_> WTF. We JOKED about Yuzawa sexing up Tuti from their days in BQMAP together. IT'S NOT SUPPOSED TO SIGNAL TO SOME PSYCHIC FANGIRL IN JAPAN TO WRITE IT.

At a crepe on the way back to Ikebukuro station--Chocolate Almond Custard *drools* SO GOOD *_____*

And then we stopped at a vending machine to get liquid refreshment, and there were these two older Japanese guys taking a break beside them. We politely ignored them, til one of them got up and leaned over to talk to us.........what.

He had pretty good English, really, I was impressed. And asked innocent enough questions--what were we doing in Japan, how did we like Tokyo, etc. He told us he hoped we had a good time, and we left him. Wow. XD Most people are scared out of their wits to talk to us, so to be approached like that just because someone wanted to practice their English was... XD kinda gave me a little thrill~

....good god, amazing, everything I hoped it would be. Huge buildings amazing skylines, traffic XD;;; everything a good visit to a big city SHOULD be. I really wish we had more time to explore, but alas. Anyways, so far today (i.e. the past 24 hours) I've:

--spoken Japanese with two high school teachers from Hikone
--spoken Japanese to a Chinese girl at Starbucks in Detroit during the layover, thoroughly embarrassed myself
--nearly wet myself with the Johnny's-level pretty thing that checked my passport at customs in Narita
--asked for directions for the first time in Japanese (with no recourse to English, I mean)
--was fanboyed in Japanese by a 40+ year-old doorman (after I asked him the directions)
--ordered in Japanese (McDonald's, and yes I DID ask for a "potato no L" ala Burger Shop--fun fact, while Japanese DRINK sizes are smaller, their fry portions are not! Or at least, the large here is the same as in America o____o plus, their Coke is made with real sugar, so it tastes different *___*)
--flown through Michigan, Canada, Alaska, and some Russian airspace

SO tired (been up since 4 after 4 hours of sleep, slept very little on the plane over here, and now it's, for my body, 8 AM _o_ Jet lag you are no friend of mine.

Over the next few days I'll be wandering the hotel from seminar to seminar in the day and stalking Gain and Shinjuku-eki (minami-guchi, of course!) at night~ WISH ME LUCK!!

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GUESS WHO HAS A JET INTERVIEW.

If you guessed "fencer," "Courtney," "you," etc, YOU ARE CORRECT SIR.

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