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Last travel post!

My path back to Australia took me via Japan, and given the time of year, why not stay a couple of extra days and see some cherry blossoms?

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CONSIDER THIS TICKED OFF THE BUCKET LIST.

( Mostly just photos of flower and bonsais under the cut )

One last post about Japan! (Although not the last travel post. You're stuck with those for a bit longer yet!)

So, one of the highlights of my time in Kansai turned out to be Toei Eigamura aka Toei Movie Park.

Look, yet more Detective Conan VS Lupin the III promotions!

( Toei Eigamura, Nijo Castle, Arashiyama, Dotonbori and more )

Okay! I'm on my last few days in Japan, but my sleeping schedule is all messed up so here's another travel post!

I noticed my hotel (and a lot of other places too) often place bottles of water near all of the entrances to the building. Asking around about it, it appears to be an attempt to scare off stray cats. ...I cannot imagine how, but there you go, there's something kind of interesting, bit of an old wives' tale maybe? (Or a tiger rock...)

( Festivals, Kyoto, Kobe, Nara, oh my! )

Yosh! Time to finish off the tales of my time in Kanto! Wow I'm already so far behind, this is stuff from last year already. I would apologise for the photo spam, but it would be lying.

Although the exact timeline of what I got up to has already blurred in my head, one interesting journey I made was to Jimbocho!

( Comiket, New Year's Eve, and a bunch of other random things around Tokyo )

It has been a while! A lot has happened since the last Japan post.

One standout was meeting up again with

dokuganria and heading to the Capcom Bar!

( Capcom Bar, Enoshima, Kamakura, Nikko, more Tokyo, Christmas! )

And so continues the merry chronicle of Sin's adventures!

The weather was completely pants today so I wound up spending the majority of it inside away from the cold miserable sleet/rain and catching up on internet and generally watching a lot of fairly bad Japanese TV. This has had the weird side effect of tricking me into watching a lot of Detective Conan since it appears to be featuring heavily in reruns at the moment, and it is a singularly frustrating show. I mean, I know it's a kid's show, but it bothers me that Conan's go-to trick is to knock someone unconscious and impersonate their voice and no one ever notices that hey, that person is actually sleeping and not even moving their lips or anything. It's exactly like that whole 'how the hell does Lois Lane not notice Clark Kent is Superman' thing.

Also it has the weird thing going on where it's so incredibly aimed at kids, yet there's this weirdly dark and adult angle to the premise where hey, Conan is actually an adult shrunk down to kid size because of attempted murder via experimental poison. And the show is full of murders and dead bodies everywhere. I kind of wish I was a kid again so I could fully enjoy it actually, it reminds me of all those glorious 80s/early 90s cartoons that dealt with strangely adult subject matter in hilariously unbelievable ways.

It's also had the strange side effect of hooking me on Magic Kaitou, and seriously, Detective Conan is the spin-off that got it cancelled? Kaitou Kid warrants his whole own series! I am irrationally upset that Kaitou has been reduced to an (albeit awesome) supporting character in Conan. Which means that yeah, I have maybe spent most of today reading Detective Conan and Magic Kaitou fanfiction and lamenting the fact that I'm in a foreign country getting sucked into a weird love/hate relationship with yet another Shonen Jump fandom.

...What was I talking about? Oh, right, Japan!

( Lots of photos under the cut )

You know how normally people say the worst part about a trip is the unpacking? Untrue. So far I've spent this evening sorting out the last of my souveniers from Japan. MY BOOKCASE IS NOW COMPLETE!

Ryoma is from last year, Hitsugaya is new from K-Books. *___* I'm very proud of it for some illogical reason, so wanted to show it off.

I mostly brought back soundtracks and CDs from my travel, but among the prizes still hidden at the bottom of the suitcase was one other cool piece of merch - KATEKYO HITMAN REBORN TOWEL! \o/

I can now dry my body with the Vongola Guardians. Good times.

I'm curious - what's the one piece of merchandise you've always wanted but doesn't exist? Drop it in the comments! I've always wanted a Luma cushion (those stars from Super Mario Galaxy). Or anything Bokurano. I'd settle for a poster of that.

Last part! Here we go.

( More Gundam, more cats, more movies, more desserts! )

And so, the tale of the Tokyo trip continues.

Saturday

Cicadas were out in force, and even though it wasn't that hot, somehow gave the illusion of it being sweltering. Also, Japanese cicadas are surprisingly LOUD. Must have been registering around 80 decibels at a guess. o__o

First order of business on Saturday morning was Books Kinokuniya in Shinjuku. It is 9 stories of books. Spent most of the time in the artbook and design section, came away with a Kusanagi artbook and now deeply regret not purchasing the Summer Wars book when there. Did some window shopping in the ritzy department stores too. Window shopping is a lot more fun when you have displays like this one:

( Movies, cats, cafes, shopping! )

So, haven't posted for a while, because, as most of you already know, I've been having adventures in Tokyo. Back now, obviously, once again thoroughly depressed by our lack of weird beverages, crepes, anime merchandise and giant robots. TIME FOR PIC-SPAM AND STORIES!

I’ll skip everything from the first day, since most of that was spent on a plane and a good chunk of the evening was used up hanging around Narita airport for a variety of reasons. Let’s just head into the story of the most awesome day of my life.

( Gundam and Tenimyu and Friends )

Just to jump on the bandwagon, I loved the new Star Trek movie to pieces. But let's not forget that Star Wars is still cool!

I'll do a proper post again soon, promise. Just as soon as real life has stopped being such an attention-whore. :3

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