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Last minute I decided I wanted today to be my last shopping day. That said I wasnt looking forward to shopping. The last few times Saiyuki stuff has been sparse and it gets disappointing after a while when I'm specifically shopping for it.

Decided to check Ikubukuro again Otome road is pretty good with this stuff last time I found the Hakkai cell and was very very happy. I started at animate, they didn't have the DVD I was looking for :( or any CDs I needed but I was able to find hard luck finally :) and they had a section with all the books u could buy to get the book mark soon brought they ones I most wanted to be able to get another set <3.

Then it was onto k books DVD/cd/goods shop. When I asked to see the Saiyuki DVDs they said they had none but I did find a cd that I *think* I don't have. On my way around the shop (looking for Saiyuki stuff anyway even thou they said they didn't have any) I found the DVD I was bloody looking for - the first musical they had it in the front showcase....=_= how did the shop keep not know it was there???!! So expensive but it's cheaper than I've seen it online <3 brought it and then headed upstairs to the goods section. Did they have new Saiyuki stuff?... Yes they did :D they had lovely stationary paper with lovely pics of the boys an a Sanzo badge I brought for the lovely helliongoddess twas cheaper than I quoted and it's a nice badge :( none of Hakkai.

After that I happily trotted off to mandrake, just incase there was porn I had missed.... Oooo mmmm ggg again another example of of people showed me the saiyuki stuff how they'd get my money! So I found heaps of oujinshi that weren’t there last time! Brought all the goodies and then I moves onto the wondering around the store.

Now Hakkai’s face is carved into my brain so please keep this in mind.

I walked passed a stand with magazine and noticed Hakkai, in his cloth holding a lap on the cover of one. Into the basket along with a another two which I assumed would also have Saiyuki related stuff inside as the two I didn't take (already had em) did.

Then as that rack had been deemed lucky I searched it some more for more Saiyuki stuff, saw something silver down the back oh look at that more badges yay! What's that? Is that Hakkai’s face under shit tones of bubble wrap oh look at that it is... I think I found a clock!!! XD (seriously thou Hakkai himself wouldn't have seen his gave though the wrapper like I did!)

Then onto k-books the doujinshi section! Asked them in picture talking (eg waiving my hands about) to open the fucking expensive Minekura doujinshi for me to check if there was at least enough hakkai in there to justify me spending 20475¥ on the damn thing (couldn't find the same one cheaper anywhere!!!) oh.. It's expensive cause it's her first one... Oh there’s lots of Hakkai ^_^ Siigh thank god for visas (first time I used it in a shop lol) and then brought some regular doujinshi cause they also had gotten some more.

( Todays spoils! )

So well today I am very very happy ^_^

Had lunch at TGI Fridays again and that was nice but while I was relaxing and eating a really bad downpour started it wasn’t so bad at first but then it started to bucket down and I got drenched before I had a chance to buy an umbrella by the time I had brought one I was soaked and even with it my bag (full of goodies was soaked) so when I saw a taxi I grabbed one!

The thunder and lightning is really bad! I'm a little afraid of both >_< so taxi is a better option.

Link to a video of the thunder and lightning and rain – sorry for the angle.
http://s992.photobucket.com/albums/af46/rarticuno/?action=view¤t=IMG_0900.mp4

Tonight I had lots of energy horaah so time to go out for dinner! I went to the same little sushi restaurant I did last year. And got a sashimi platter and a sushi platter it was soo good!

( Dinner pics )

Now it's time for a little story my friends there is a story behind this sushi bar. However to save parties from embarrassment I am going to write this as a little fan-fiction of Hakkai/Gojyo (no funny business thou) in this story Hakkai is me. This is a TRUE story.

Please enjoy

Title: the sushi bar.
Rating: G

( The Sushi Bar )
Hope you enjoy the pics and the fic :)

Today started well with a bit of a pleasant sleep in and then onto my Tokyo morning tour. Today's weather is nicer so photos from the tower should be good today :)

I started out by speaking to the staff at the hotel lobby and discovering that they also have their own postal service <3 they don't charge any more than the post office does either... hehehehe this is wicked means I can relax buy a box tonight and slowly pack it making sure it's all perfectly fitting and then ship it only shelping my heavy items down to the elevator and across the lobby = better than a while down the street and stuffing around at the post office with non English speaking staff who always ask "figure?" then I show them a picture and they say "Ahhhh figure" lol.

My tour guide picked me up today I was the only one from my hotel going <3 i love my hotel I don't care if it's expensive it's really nice and there's nothing I can't do (cept room service, but family mart and eating in takes care of that)

I'm on a bus which is really green and snot colored lol here -



See what I mean XD

These tours kinda shit me a little maybe because it always assumed all people are tourists >_< I'm not I'm a local... (kinda lol) this guide is very um well boring XD and repetitive. But talking to her one on one is good and she walks around with a pikachu on her guide stick.

When I asked if I could split of the group she was fine with it (yay) but where I wanted to go (the higher level) but according to the other staff there was to long a line. But when I told that to the guide later she gave me her spare ticket! So nice.

Check out the view!



( More photos of Tokyo towers day time view. )

So after Tokyo tower we headed for the outer garden of the imperial palace we didn't spend too much time their but it was nice. We saw a snapping Turtle. A bit one aparetly then we saw swans and a kabura bird (I think.) and some koi. ^_^



( More photos of around the palace )

Now we are off to a temple and a souvenir shopping area. <3

So I decided to spend the entire time at the temple and no shopping which was a good choice as I saw amazing things and took lots of photos to share with u.

Guess who's favorite goddess was at the shrine!!! ^_^ I got a photo with her, took photos and brought a nice scroll with her on it. I also brought a charm for those born in the year of the snake, I also donated a some coins for some candles and made a wish after lighting them.

I also tried my luck at a forte but got bad fortune even thou the number of the sick I got was 39 (figured it would be kinda lucky - but no 8 so I guess not :p)

Everyone else went to get the souvenirs but I stayed in the temple with the guide and we chatted she was really nice and her English was really good. She knew saiyuki a bit and I told her about my name and she was really impressed she laughed and said it was cool.

Me and the Merciful goddess


( More photos of Shrine and the Merciful Our Goddess <3 )

Days been good thus far and I'm off to go shopping now ^_^ back to akibahara but first I need food.

I didn't find food before I found shopping but I'm finally getting lunch eating at mos burger, it's one of those fancier burger places. It was nice now I'm full and full or energy (we hope!) more shopping.

Ok so not so much energy after climbing all those fucking stairs again fuuuurk common people elevator and escalator arent that expensive!!! Got I'm ready to passout lol.

Decided to head Back for today (tonight I will re visit TT and take night photos.) today I am getting a massage <3

Well after the message I was nice and relaxed and slept for an hr a half and had to wake myself up forcefully but it's alright. I think I'm a bit too tired to go out again, but thats alright, tomorrow i have decided to do a little something different. I found out today that there are Pandas in Tokyo zoo, and its very easy to get to! So i decided to go there. :) After the Zoo I will go to the Auqarium in another area :) and then *time/energy depending* rest and go to Tokyo tower at night.

There is only 1 more shop i want to go to in Akibahara and that can wait for Friday.

Had a nice dinner at the buffet and ate too much :P - night all.

Woke up at 6am had slept well though, had a strange dream of a friend from home giving me a legendary 2000¥ note (I've never seen one but apparently they exist *shrug*) I went online for a bit and then went back to sleep and had another weird dream this time about a dear friend of mine visiting me (she lives very far away) but in the dream she didn't look anything like herself it was very odd XD

My breakfast was subway today I had a third of a footlong and a melon soda I didnt want a big breakfast because I would rather be hungry for lunch at a reasonable time (this will decrease the likeliness of me wondering off for food at a convince store at 8pm and buying junk food lol!)

Oh, the japanese subway has a hilarious tag line!



Today is raining heavily and my umbrella is being a bit weird, I discovered after breaky it was actually broken XD gah so I brought a new giant clear Japanese one (have always wanted a giant clear umbrella we don't really do them in Australia!) and it was just 5 bucks which was good and it's probably going to keep me a lot dryer when my little shitty one!

Today I am off to the studio Ghibli museum! I'm very excited!

The museum is amazing and that's to put it lightly you can see original animations and little snippets threw negatives and sketches and a shelf with all the different colour paints used to do each an every cell! You get to look at animation reels and roll them and sit in the life sized cat bus! There is a life sized duplicate of the spirited away food/open bar that turned the parents into pigs and you can sit there and the plates and chopsicks move *if u move them theyre not like the ones from beauty and the beast lol*! I felt the chicken/duck and it was soft and sqwishy :p! But it felt real!!! There was a duplicate forest from princess mononoke with those little cute white bobble head dudes. <3

The place is amazing! There was a spiraling staircase u could take up to the second floor and I was a little scared as it was really tight really clostraphobic and very long, but it did it anyway but i might've been a bit big lol (too tall as well hahah) I am sitting in line for the cafe now it's already nearly 1pm and I haven't seen the whole place yet (got here before 11)

Another thing we got were this original SG negatives that were used as a movie ticket to get into a cinema which shows original cartoons that aren't sold or shown outside the museum this was fantastic!!

The one I saw was about a boy and a rabbit, they found a cane and both wanted and had compitions to see who could get it, like racing and sumo wrestling! Twas awesome! They kept drawing though so the rabbit went and got his grandmother and asked her to decide when she saw the cane she said it was hera and was happy they found it. (they were a bit disappointed though) in the end they had tea and biscuits <3 it was cute!

Here is a picture from the book i brought



This would have been awesome to take my best friend with me as he is an animator he would've loved it! There was also replica work stations and collected pencils the animators used! As I write this I am getting closer and closer to being able to set lunch (hope there's an English menu lol)

Just before a pigeon was flying around and everyone was screaming, why are they scared of pigeons? Hmm who knows. In the first room there was this awesome figurine tree, with all these slightly moved figurines and then it got dark and it started to spin and a little light flashes and the figures became animated ooooommmmmggggg soooo coooool *____*

I know I'm going to through the museum shop and come out with heaps of shit! Yay nearly at the door <3 the sound of cicadas is incredible here! In line the children can read original picture books bit they're in Japanese so don't do much got me lol.

After lunch I will explore the rest of the museum I'll take photos of whatever outside thing is possible <3 inside the cafe (yes I finally made it after 20 minutes lol) it's nicely decorated with little hats and beautiful red windows. I'm sitting at the bar so I can see people cooking and making drinks and it's very cool! The straws they have are very thin as well. I order a ice cocoa, (Japanese Kind of iced chocolate but it's not really) then a sandwich and a slice of strawberry short cake which judging from what I can see is going to be a giant bloody slice!

Because I am polite (lol I am!!) I asked if I could take a photo inside they said no :( but they said I could take photos of food!

( Foood droools )

The sandwiches I got were even studio ghibilish they were yummy >_< and very filling the Japanese have a habit of not cooking bacon enough though :s.

Cake - look mum I'm eating fruit! Sorry bad joke but seriously omg the size of the thing!!! I have had a cake that big since I started my weight loss. Yes I did eat it all. Yes it was a good as it looked. Yes the strawberries were amazing. No I don't feel guilty... Yet :p

Looked around the rest of the museum and found the shop and the book shop. Brought 5 books, art books for howls moving castle and totoro for me. A spirited away art book for a friends bday (these are a bit too expensive for souvenirs but he's nuts for Japan stuff so even though his bday was in April he said he was happy to wait!) I also brought a book from the short animation o got to watch :) this made me happy it means I can show u guys little pics from it. I also brought the museum book which had an English bit as well :)

I then went to the other shop brought some badges, a little totoro plushie, a no face calendar which was going to be a souvenir for a friend but bugger them I want it hahaha...that's ok right? Lol

I got a little totoro jewelry box and when I was paying for everything I asked if they had Arriette in English they took a copy of the DVD (all writting in Japanese) and then said "it has English subtitles!" yay that's what I wanted (can't do dubs, even good ones!) I'm so happy ^_^ I plan to watch it tonight! (on the pc.)

( Heres what i could take of the museum )

Once I get back I'll relax a bit then head back out to go to Tokyo tower (period permitting ofcourse - last night I had terrible cramps so I wasn't going anywhere lol)

When I got out of the museum there were two men in uniform (not sexy before one of u ask) and they got me onto a studio ghibi special bus that did circles to the museum and station it had pics on it and I was able to snap a picture before we got on.

Studio Ghibili Bus



Boy I'm stuffed but today was good!

Got back my hotel at 4ish and headed out before five to look at Tokyo tower the weather was still bad so I didn't take many pics but I'll most the best ones when I'm satisfied with them (I'm going multiple times) when I was walking around TT I had cramps so I didn't stay long and ended up heading back to my room to relax.

Did see this thou, yay more tacky diamond encrusted stuff! XD



Around 8pm I had dinner at the hotel buffet (which discounts late eaters by quiet a lot) so dinner which was;
Sushi tuna, salmon and prawn x 2 prepared in front of me!
Croquettes (potatoe) x 2
Beef stew x 2 (I don't eat enough red meat and it had mushrooms <3)
tempura mix x 2
Grilled fish x 2
Dumplings x 3
Piece of cake
Little donutty shapes dipped in choc (they had a choc fountain!! *___*)
Mixed fruit.
That was all ¥1000 wooo!

But OMG the food wasn't the best thing in there I had a bad FANGIRLING moment when one of the waiters looked like Hakkai. Now it wasnt just a little it was everything his hair, his voice his body he had glasses OMG every time he came near me I grinned like a dick and flush and he was dressed nicely and and and OMG I want to marry him and have his babies cause of how much he looked like Hakkai... I love the real thing more let that be stated and if he asked me to I would marry hakkai and do whatever he said for eternity! But... Boy was this man hot! Siiigh... He's probably not interested in me though ah well back to Hakkai :p

Lastly spoils for Ghibili ( under here )

Today i needed to take it easy, i just needed a clear head space day with no running around shopping and no annoying tours - i even had an afternoon nap which was brilliant!

My day started in Osaka but i went to Kyoto to see the shrine i Missed while i had food poisioning. I spent some time in the beautiful main room of the shrine which had lovely artitecture (sorry i know thats spelt wrong) but wasnt able to take any photos of the inside sorry.

( Here are ther photos i could take )

The room was covered in Tatami mats and was lovely though very calming and there was incense there too.

I sat there for a while and cleared my mind which was good the horrid thing needed clearing. Once i had done so i felt good and wondered around the parts of the temple i didnt see last time, including a sort of art gallery. On the way to the gallery there was lots of awesome quotes which also helped with the mind clearing and clear decision making. :) quotes like

"The only life you have is the one you live now" stuff like that (thats close to but not on of them lolz)

After that i wondered around Kyoto buying Souvanirs for my team at work! GO THE PROVFESSIONALS!! I got them little calm Buhda statues lol we need calm in our team we get a bit anxsty with the ammount of work we pick up which would have been avoided had someone done their bloody job properly hahaha XD.

I got me and my Fellow Senior big clam Budha and the other guys little Buhda, my Team leader gor a angry warrior though because hes Asian and very Buhda like already so wanted something that was totoally not his personality XD



After that i went back to the Usagi Shop and spent sooo long deciding what to buy! XD Got some stickers and a dairy in the end cause they were sooo cuuute!!!





Then i trundled back to Osaka had a burger for lunch (sorta at a Mcers kind a place but WAS NOT MACCERS!!!)

Then headed back to my room where i comtemplated a massage but then went againest it and then had an afternoon nap instead - OOOO that felt good! A lazy saturday <3 that was so nice. Dreamt of Hakkai <3 Yay! Got up intime to post and have dinner ;) perfect.

Had a slow day today which was nice. Had a late breaky and then an early lunch. Wondered around osaka station for a bit before my tour.

( Lunch )

I was the only from my tour coming from Osaka so I had a private tour guide to take me to Kyoto (not that I needed one lolz) but she was really nice and we talked a lot and she will meet me back at Nara station to take me back to Osaka which will be good lol. Look at what she showed me, some Artwork of all Osakas Sister citys, and Camberra from Australia is one of them!





It's a one hour drive to Nara from Kyoto. Which is kinda weird since it's closer to Osaka (Nara) lol.

So now I'm on the bus and listening to the tour guide in one ear bang on about alcohol and have my music in the other year lol. There will be lots of photos today. Our first stop is Nara deer park!

Oh deer, (pardon the pun!) when I heard about deer park I expected a couple of deers. They're fucking everywhere man XD!!

I tried to feed them and instead they feed of my fucking skirt XD oh deer!!!! Ah well a bit of soap and water at the bathroom later. I did buy deer biscuits for them but when I tried to feed them they all came at me at once so I freaked out and threw the biccies at them and just feed one separately lol.

I am enjoying dango mmmm dango and yummy melon slurpie <3 yummy! I'd never had dango before but it's very very nice :) so that will keep me going before dinner.

The temple was amazing a giant bronze budha statue the largest on the whole world in the largest wooden building in the whole world! There was lots of other budhas with the main one maybe one of them was the goddess of mercy maybe.

( Here's so photos of what I mean (deers & shrine) )

At the next place we went to a shito shrine with 3000 lanterns. It's was alright not as special as the last two places but OMG OMG OMG OMG SNAKE!!!!!

( Photos of snake & shrine <3 )

I looove snakes and was born in the year of the snake so feel especially close to them hehehe this one was sooo cute! So unpoisoness too!! Which made a huge difference <3 I wanted to pick it up but the tour guide was freaked as she was lol. I hope seeing a snake there will be a good sign for me!

After that we went to a souvenir shop and I picked up some incense :)



They then dropped me at Nara station where my guide was waiting for me :) on the way back to namba station we talked and I showed her the photos of my trip so far she really enjoyed it :) after we got to namba we spilt up but she brought me this lovely usagi postcard set >_< cause I said I liked rabbits how nice is thaaat!!



I then ate my dinner which was amazing the tuna melted in my mouth (this is what tuna sashi should do just melt, if it isn't melting it's either not good quality or they cut it wrong!)

( Read more... )

Time to post this and then head for the shower! Wanna wash off all the deer germs.

Today (yesterday) has thus far been amazing I'm feeling great! Something I've also realized is that on the two days I felt like crap I didn't get a proper walk in. I'm writing this at lunch I've walked around 2.5hrs already and have a lot longer to go :)

The area around Fuji is beautiful and I'm walking around the lake. I stared off going on a cable car up the second highest mountain and boy did I get some good pics :) after getting to the top I hiked (yes I hiked) a further kilometer up the mountain to the top point where there was a small shrine I put some money in the money box and made a wish! Also snapped a picture of the top fuji he's being a bit of a shit and hiding behind clouds but I managed to take 2 shoots of him when he came out of hiding mwahahah! Go me! The hike up was really steep and a little worrying but there was a few other people climbing so I knew of I fell I wouldn't be totally isolated.

At the top of the mountain (before the shrine hike) there is a large love heart shaped bell and u ring it and make a wish so I did XD lots of wishing today hahaha.

The view from the top


( Pics of the top here )

Back down and onto a boat cruise again more photos lol that was nice as it was the first time I'd sat down on a proper seat.

( Pics from cruise )


After that I began my walk around to the other wise I'd the lake, it's a bloody long walk and I am impressed with myself for doing this lol. Eventually I got hungry and saw a cafe open for lunch and prayed Ot had an English or picture menu, it had an English menu yay! Oh this place is Yakiniku! I'd never done Japanese Yakiniku and as nothing else in my day had been saiyuki'd I figured why not this lol! There was 3 lunch sets 2 with pork and one with sirloin steak. I don't often eat steak cause it's usually cooked wrong for me and I dislike large chunks of red meat... But i didn't want pork.... O M G best choice ever! Lunch was IMO expensive but it wasn't really expensive for what I got and I figure that I'm not spending much at the moment anyway so who gives a shit. The steak yakaniku style was incredible no wonder our boys love it!! For the 3000¥ it cost me I got, 10 pieces if meat, soup, salad (a good amount too) some veggies, a bowl of rice, iced oolong tea and ice cream with cream and corn flakes...Wtf

( Pics of Lunch- yum yum )

I've also seen two skinks today and some eagles looove eagals! I've seen a billion dragon flies and butterflies. (no photos to hard to take)

I walked around the lake to the otherside boy or boy is that a good/long walk christ. I then found the music box museum it wasn't the one I wanted to go to bit I figured why not and went in. This wasn't for me, it would've been more fun with my grandmother (Bubbi) or my friend Paul. (he would've loved it) either way I took heaps of photos. My ankle hurts now but I a really enjoying walking so I'm currently resting it an have taken some pain killers to get me back to the the other side :).

I just finished at the museum I did want to go to. It was a beautiful museum filled with artwork buy a children's writer/illustrator the artwork isn't anime but is very nice and pretty to look at. I brought an artbook from the museum I think I'll give it to my best friend as a present of he likes it. (he's hard when it comes to getting art cause he's an artist)

At the cafe attached to the museum everything has strawberry in it... They even had a strawberry coffee XD I don't drink coffee but that sooo doesn't sound good lol.

( Musuems, my dessert and pics from this side of the lake )

I am now back home after 45 minute walk :) the walks been great! It's nice no people no trains no crowds today's been really different. I hope I can do another day like today again. My ankle managed through the walk and I can see I've managed to correct most of my penguin foot on my right side so for the first time in forever I walk with straightish feet. At my moment I'm sitting topless (with bra) fanning myself under the air con im very hot, today was nice thou cool winds.

Bwahahaha relaxing in my room cooling off and watching the anime channel and it's got dragon ball z on and it's the episode where they say it's over 9000!!!! I got the line even in Japanese!

When I went to have a bath today i noticed a scale and figured even thou I've eaten it'd be a good idea to weigh myself I was 106-107kg... That's after eating...that's almost 3-4kilos in less than 2 weeks!!!

Hi flist,

posting is hard at the moment although i have a access to the net its minimal and the keyboard o thi pc is dodgy and tping certain leters is ard as u ca see from this post. this is me typig very hard too.

anyay
fuji @pst will have to wai til osaka but i am writing t up o m phone.

if anyone wans to ask m quyestion feel free to do so bt i usualy have long posts and this will make typing it painful.

peace out from Japan

Rachel

Thanks all for the hugs Im feeling better and less homesick today!

After a bit of browsing the interwebs i discovered that Mandrake (porn oclock shop/shit tones of saiyuki rares) has a website...

An ENGLISH website...

and it has maps...

To ALL its stores...

there are 2 i didnt know about in Osaka... :D lucky im going back there right?

Because i didnt spend much yesterday today i have a lot of Cash...

Im going to Nanako broadway which have had said has English speaking staff to help tourists find what theyre looking for...

The only bad thing about Mandrake is that it doesnt open till late gaaah XD

EDIT: But animate opens at 10 so that should be good will go there first! Take care Flist speak soon!

hehehehehehehe mwahahahaa shoppping!!!

Expect Shopping spoils photos tonight!!

Dear F-list... this next most may not be coherent like my last ones... alot of things happened today some good some not so good... but... after lunch things picked up... a lot and thats when things became less coherent.

the first part of this post was written on my iPhone as per usual as my day went...

It's 2am when I'm writing this, I had a weird dream about buyin to much stuff and that it gave me acid reflux and woke up with bad acid reflux. Went to the loo, fell tired and bluer. Then I heard the wise words of a dear friend, telling me when I feel sick I should try and be sick, better out than in sorta logic right? Well that didnt work and now I do feel sick but not going to be sick sigh. Had a sit down shower to try and relax myself and I'm now pretty tried after writing this. Goodnight again.

When I woke up I didn't feel as bad but I used my durama charm to wish myself a healthy trip and once I woke back up after a nap I felt better. I then wrote some post cards and moved onto the - waaaaaaah!!!! I just saw mount fuji! (or Fuji san as Hakkai calls it in Urasai!)

I'm actually on the bullet train as I write this lol, just finishing mailing postcards and my latest box :( box count is lowish ATM *_* Tokyo should fix that! While sticky taping my box I cut my thumb quiet badly it was bleeding everywhere good thing I have lots of bandaids with me! this train is an express which is good :)

EDIT: took the bandaid off my thumb now, no wonder it bleed! it actully sliced a 5millemeter by 3 millimeter hole in my skin so i have a whole in my thumb the shape of a rectangle... :S

Jesus bullet trains are awesome Japan itself is awesome! U see so many awesome things it's not possible to capture them all!

Oops lol when I showed the conductor my ticket he told me I wasn't allowed on this train eep oh shit! He says he's coming back in a bit but I don't understand what's going to happen XD...

He came back with a peice of paper and told me I'll need to get off at the next station and to catch the train he had written down ;_; he didn't even charge me for being on the wrong train and when I asked he said "because u missed the train" the Japanese are so kind!!! In Australia I'd be slapped with a fine and kicked off quicker then u can say sorry!

Yay now I can technically can say I've been to Yokohama (station). Got to Tokyo and then my hotel in Ikebukuro hadn't eaten was hot and it was already 1pm comiket closes at 4pm and it takes an hr to get there will not go today will instead spend day shopping. This is a good idea *nod nod* not feeling very happy though...

Although a part of me is disappointed I think I'd be more disappointed if by the time I got there I could only spend 2 hrs looking around. Tomorrow I will try and get there early and even if I have to wait in line a bit at least I'll be there. Somehow I am now in a tgi Friday because I really felt some something didn't have to worry about eating lol. Yay chips :p haven't had them in aaages but I'll be shopping soon so I need my strength!

My hotel is very close to otome road which is where k books/mandrake/animate and where that giant saiyuki gaiden sign was posted :) should have stuff to buy there :) I think I would've pushed onto comiket if I would've had access to my room when I got there or if the taxi driver had actually driven me to the hotel rather than yelling at me and pointing at bic camera XD ah well can't go wrong with shopping can u?

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Dear f-list at this point in my day the following had not occurred.
- shopping
- seeing my room
- relaxing

I was honestly feeling a little shit. :(

But then....
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Sooo I went to mandrake, fuck i love mandrake and came out with lots and lots of porn so much porn mostly Hakkai mmm porn. (doujinshi mind u but its still porn) Even found a couple of really good circles for Hakkai Gojyo and Hakkai Sanzo!!

In mandrake there were a lot of people which was surprising because i thought Comiket was on starting today (maybe i was wrong?) and there were two people cosplaying in the store one as tiger and one as bunny, but i couldnt get a photo of either which was fine but they both did it really well (both girls)

Happiness level 6/10

Then i went to K-books, up to the doujinshi level... ooo found more Minekura original doujinshis and yes it does have a topless picture of Hakkai awesome!! it was very expensive though and there was a second one there i wanted to buy but it was 20,000yen!!!!!! :| dont get me wrong... i will... try and justify it somehow, its uber old and has Goku on the front, but if it doesnt have at least one good Hakkai pic its a bit meaningless to me other than for collecting purposes.



Then found lots of normal Saiyuki doujinshi too and mind you there were heaps of girls going through the same section but i managed to get all the Hakkai/Gojyo ones :D hehehe. Again surprised at how many of these girls werent at Comiket the DOUJINSHI convention! Nah well.

Happiness Level 8/10

At this point my bags are very heavy filled with books and I didnt want to go to too many more shops before i went home as i can always go back in the next few days :) but then i figured id go to Animate (never got there btw because youll soon find out why)

I then saw the other Kbooks, u see, in otome road the Kbooks are split into 4 different shops. Id got to the general one, and the two doujinshi ones and was on my way to the CD/DVD and goods one. So i asked them as normal did they have saiyuki goods, and to my great surprise they said yes but not many. (this one fine i was happy to see what they had...)

HOLLY FUCKING CHRIST ON A PIECE OF TOAST NOT MUCH MY ASS!!!!!

THEY MIGHT NOT HAVE HAD QUANTITY BUT THEY MADE THAT UP IN FUCKING QUALITY OMG I CANT BELIEVE I NEARLY MISSED THIS BY GOING TO COMIKET...

AWESOME ITEM



RARE AND EVEN AWESOMER ITEM




OMGFUCKINGGODWTFISTHATDOINGTHEREWHYHASNTSOMEONEBROUGHTITMINEMINEMINEMINE



NOW, THAT IS A FUCKING ORIGINAL CELL FROM THE ANIME I HAVE CHECKED IT THERE IS NO DOUBT IN MY MIND BECAUSE I HAVE SEEN THESE BEFORE AND THEY GO FOR SHIT TONES OF MONEY AND ARE NEVER AS NICE AS THIS ONE...

IT WAS $50... I fucking kid you not...

....<3333333333333333333333333333333 i have a Hakkai Cell... gods

Happiness level over 9000!!!

I then got back to the hotel with my goodies ready to share and found out the wonderful following.

- Breakfast is FREE no cheap FREE :D (i had money put aside to pay for it!)
- FREE wireless in the Lobby!
- FREE Ethernet in the room :( to bad dont have a computer, but wait...:O u can rent one for what i was going to pay for breakfast!!! A LAPTOP (i love laptops) YES FUCKING PLEASE!!!!
- Room is so epic its unbelievable... bathroom is amazing... hotel is amazing... Im close to a post office... and Otome road... ;_; (tears of joy btw) Kyotos shitty day of being sick has been replace but one wonderful day of finding all of my Hakkai love.. all of my Tech love and all of my comfort...

( Pictures of my hotel room and why its cool )

Im not going to take photos of all the Doujins... theyre too many.

But here is a run down. (bear in mind unlike our ridiculously over price for doujinshi these are 2-6 dollars each only one or two over 10 dollars)

Hakkai x Sanzo = 18
Hakkai x Gojyo (OTP) = 26 in (name of the rain, another one from aya and one from another circle i like)
Hakkai X ??? = 7

Good day! Lets hope my footy teams wins tonight to top off the epicness!!