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6:57 p.m.
2001-07-11
When I said that I was getting eightteen Rurouni Kenshin manga books from Toru, well, he forgot how many books he actually had and ended adding ten more books to that - 28 books from one guy! I was absolutely stunned! And when he said that he'd give them to me, I had probably been talking with him for about thirty minutes at the most. I hardly knew the guy! Later, I met up with a girl who's nickname was "Ichiro" (I never really learned her real name) and she was part of the manga club at Gakugei University (where I was for two months) and she gave me two manga books as a gift on the last day I saw her - the last Cardcaptor Sakura and the most recent Hunter x Hunter. I hardly know anything about Hunter x Hunter so I have no idea what's going on in it, let alone being able to read it - but I am learning hiragana. This fall I want to start Japanese classes. That way I won't need subtitles with my purely Japanese anime! I can't wait! I hardly had any time to draw in Japan and I really missed it. I did do maybe two or three drawings while I was away, but two were on the plane back. I was trying to get an original character for a fiction/fantasy story I'm trying to work on and the sad thing is that he turned out to look like a love child of Ranma 1/2 and Matrix from ReBoot. I was about to cry (no, not really). I'm not very good at creating new characters. I really have to work on that. There was so much anime in Japan (duh!). It was amazing! I was in absolute heaven! On my first day in Shinjuku, I went to Virgin Records with a small group I was with. I had never been or heard of this store - it was basically like an HMV - four full floors of it. In the basement was the Playstation/Nintendo and DVD/VHS movie stuff. I went to the gaming section and the walls were plastered with Final Fantasy X posters. They looked amazing and there was a bin with some rolled up posters in it. I checked it and couldn't find one. I really wanted one so I went up to the counter and asked very politely if I could buy a Final Fantasy X poster. I pointed to one , but the guy didn't understand me. He asked if I could write it down (I've heard that Japanese can read english, just can't speak or understand it) and when I wrote it down, he brought two posters from under the counter. I couldn't decide which one I wanted so I asked "How much?". To my surprise (and delight) he told me, "Present." He was giving them to me for free! I couldn't believe it! And apparently they were the last two posters they had! I feel special! Shortly after, we went to a big shopping mall (twelve floors!) and went to the IMAX theatre. When we got there, we found out that with our Canadian student cards, we could get the student discount of ¥1000 instead of the full ¥1300. We had just arrived in time to see "Cyberworld"; a fully CGI movie viewed though 3D glasses. I was on an animation high that no one could bring me down from. It was completely awsome! I think that I've been running on and on a bit long so I'll write another day. ~AW~ "Ph33r my l4ck of b33r!" - Largo (Megatokyo)
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I'm back in Canada (for about three weeks) and I'm feeling good. Japan was definately awsome! I miss it already and I want to go back. I have so many friends there now. I might even want to live there. Who knows in the future?