rkold | This is going to be long (Reply)

So until I need to get moving, which is in about 20 minutes, I've decided to work on a LJ entry about Tokyo. Most of this will be old news to

muscatlove but that is what comes from texting and being on AIM. :P Pictures will follow, at some point, I am just too lazy to edit.

Contrary to what was said on the Asiarooms website, my hotel most certainly did not have internet. And while something like that is OK for a single night, it REALLY sucks for 3. That and while the location was great for Doll Show, there really just isn't anything else to speak of in Hamamatsucho. I mean yeah, you can walk to Tokyo Tower, but it's not really a hot spot of restaurants and internet cafes. In fact, when asking about the internet I was referred by the hotel to Kinkos. ~.~

Fortunately, I decided to do a little research for my ficlet in the previous entry and try the Gran Cyber Cafe in Ikebukuro. XD;;

KAC had moved from its location from whence it had been when I went with

kurokoon and

sumeragiskank all those years ago. I hadn't really looked up how to go back there since, as I generally prefer used doujinshi rather than new doujinshi at higher than event prices. However, I was curious to see if Tokyo KAC had Copics at the same amazing low price as Osaka KAC. With a lot of help from poor

muscatlove I did make it to KAC, but they were not having their sale. No matter, thanks to Animate, I now have a lot more colors. ^^;;;

Animate was also having a special where if you spent 3000 yen on Seed media, you got a "free" Shinn/Kira poster. As you mnight know, I thought I was rather lucky to be in Japan for this promotion (it ends the 18th) and could not resist. I feel like I went to K-books, Mandarake, and Kings Kings more times than I count while trying to track down some doujinshi, and I might possibly be right. I made the lovely discovery of a Fujicest doujinshi I actually didn't own, by a circle I mostly like as well as finding the new Jet Monster June book and a really cute old Jet Monster june book. Oddly enough the new one with the porn was the cheaper of the two.

I also accidentally bought some omake Loveless comics. I had thought they were just cute mini notebooks with pretty art on the cover, and for those who don't know, I love mini notebooks, but instead they were actual omake comics! Too lovely.

I found out there actually *IS* a NY Doughnut Plant in NYC! (there were photocopies of an article from the New York Times and the Daily News up at the store) I suspect the owner in NY is either vegetarian or kosher, because the sandwiches on offer there are also vegetarian. lol I felt so lucky, the special for the week I was in Tokyo was Arugula and Mushroom. And then, after buying 2 I was horrified to see they were slathered in mayonaise!!!!!!! GAH!!!!

I also availed myself of quite a few visits to Starbucks and realized I really really don't know how to do centimeters at all. This was painfully clear at Odakaya, where I was trying to buy some items without spending a small fortune.

I also finally own a copy of Harry Potter 06, which I spent the train trip flipping through. And wow, it's so much better than book 05, which I STILL can not finish lol After reading the ending, I think my father's belief that Harry is a Horocrux is somewhat misplaced. Though I stand by my firm belief that Dumbledore wants Snape to kill him and that is what he is saying "please" about. Speaking of HP, I found a HarryxSnape doujinshi with smut! hehehehe

Anyway, I am getting ready to go to Sato and Kyoto, so Doll Show will be in part 2.