Today's report

[telophase]

OK, after the squeeing of my last post, I'll give a better report of the day. Rachel and I started slow, going to the Cafe Colarado nearby for lunch (er, we got up late), where lives the Cappucino Nazi, who declares that Racxhel can ONLY stir her cappucino with a cinnamon stick, and not a spoon. But it's good cappucino.

Then we did laundry, and attempted to find the Japanese equivalent of an Ace bandage at a pharmacy since my ankle is still hurting. We failed, finding athletic tape instead. Ah well.

Then in the afternoon we headed out for Good Day Books, and English-language used bookstore. Afterwards, we met sho_sunaga and bravecows at Shibuya, near the statue of the loyal dog Hachiko, thus engaging in a Tokyo tradition shared by millions of other people. The Hachiko experience is to join a bunch of lots and lots of people milling about the statue, cellphones to ears, shouting "Are you here? I'm here! You need to move thirty meters west! What? You're there? I don't see you!!"

We then went to Book First, a six-story bookstore and pored over manga. (chomiji, can you give me (a) the name of Samurai Deeper Kyo in Japanese and (b) the name of the publishing company who prints the tankoubons?) Then we went to Mandarake and dropped lots of money on doujinshi and OH YEAH THAT THING I MENTIONED IN MY PREVIOUS POST BOO-YAH!

After that we went to an izakaya and geeked the hell out over lots of things, trading stories of how we got into fandom and recommending books to each other and probably horrifying anyone nearby with our loudness, especially if they understood enough English to catch the words GAY PORN.

And lastly, we're now in a manga kissa (manga cafe), online and posting to LJ, enjoying free (non-alcoholic) drinks and ice cream. And if we wanted to read manga, we could, but we're all posting to LJ now because we are all GEEKS.

(ETA: Go read rachelmanija's report of the day!)

Comments

[tirwen.livejournal.com]

Quick check around... looks like Samurai Deeper Kyo is done by Kodansha (if that helps)... It looks like the title's actually written in English on the cover (judging from the Japanese DVD covers)

[tirwen.livejournal.com]

Closer look says it's actually Shonen Magazine Comics, but the title does look to be in English and Japanese (講談社コミックス)

[chomiji]

Thanks for answering this! It was a crazy weekend in RL, and I didn't get online much ... .

[urbi-et-orbi.livejournal.com]

The Hachiko experience is to join a bunch of lots and lots of people milling about the statue, cellphones to ears, shouting "Are you here? I'm here! You need to move thirty meters west! What? You're there? I don't see you!!"

AHAHAHAHAHA! That station has huge amounts of people all the time. What do they all do!?!?!?

re: Samurai Deeper Kyo

[estara.livejournal.com]

According to baka-updates manga.

Associated names for Samurai Deeper Kyo:
サムライ ディーパー キョウ
鬼眼狂刀

Original Publisher:
Kodansha

Serialized In (magazine)
Weekly Shonen Magazine (Kodansha)

http://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=500

Keep up the updates. I enjoy living vicariously ^^.

Re: Samurai Deeper Kyo

[chomiji]

Thanks so much for getting telophase that info! I have been offline most of the weekend due to busy RL ... . (And I might not have been able to come up with the Japanese for the title anyway ... .)

Re: Samurai Deeper Kyo

[estara.livejournal.com]

^^ as always with the net, you have to know the right pages to search on, heh. I hope the info from tirwen and me came on time.

It worries me some that his/her kana and my kana info look different, though.

[azure-reverie.livejournal.com]

You guys seem to do a lot of laundry (this is the 2nd time?). Are you using coin laundry or does the hotel you are staying at have a washing machine?

The "Hachiko experience" sounds awesome.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Third time. I've got 4 shorts and 4 pairs of pants, and it's hot here, so when walking around you sweat a lot and it's much nicer all around if you wash them frequently. :)

[celestriad.livejournal.com]

knowing the randomness of the english phrases that people learn, i bet at least some people picked up on the gay porn part. XD;

Thanks! ありがとう！

[sho-sunaga.livejournal.com]

If and when you can read this,,,,
Thank you for your help and advice with LJ.. I found my friend from my college days. She has an LJ, too.
OH and I made a huge post about us meeting up and uploaded the cover of the books I was talking about...

Re: Thanks! ありがとう！

[telophase.livejournal.com]

You're welcome! :D I'll go read it as soon as I can!

[chomiji]

Eeek, I'm glad estara stepped in with the SDK info - I've had a busy weekend, so I haven't been online, and might not have been able to come up with the Japanese anyway. The publisher looks right. And if you're doing what I think you're doing, I have to update my PayPal account ... .

>HUGS!<

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Well, don't get *too* excited - it's been out for a few months and therefore may not be in regular bookstores. :D I found it in the manga cafe, but that doesn't do *you* any good. We'll be checking used bookstores too, though.

Although I did find at least 2 Saiyuki doujinshi that I think can be safely enjoyed by the entire family, although BRAIN BREAKAGE may occur. Alas no Gojyo/Hakkai, though.

[chomiji]

OK, PayPal should be all cool now!