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I have not told you all about the MOSTEST AWESOMEST model that I picked up from a convenience store in Japan. You see, next to all the anime figurines at one conbini was a selection of cylindrical squat boxes, with pictures of stuff Leonardo da Vinci had designed all over them.

rachelmanija encouraged me to get one, and it turned out that I purchased a scale model of a war machine of some ilk. I had not shown it previously because I broke it while I was unpacking it, and it required some epoxy to be able to show it off properly.

( Step this way... )

And now, for one pic of Kenpachi and Yachiru, my new electronic toys...

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And now my upstairs neighbors appear to ahve removed whtever was making their washing machine go off-balance, and go THUNKA THUNKA THUNKA THUNKA so I can actually go to bed.

So while in Japan, I apparently purchased or stole or whatever a packet of packets of ... something. I assumed it was tea, from the drawing of a tea cup steaming merrily away on the outer package, and therefore that it was for the boy (who is a tea snob), but when we opened one of the smaller packets, it ... didn't seem like it. It seemed more like a packet of spices than tea. But what do I know? Hrm. I just have no memory whatsoever of acquiring it.

So here's a couple of blurry photos, taken with the boy's new toy, er, iPhone, one of the large outer packet and one of a smaller sheet of Japanese text that came with it. The smaller sheet of Japanese text is way too blurry to read, but I just want to know if it looks like it might be instructions or a recipe or something like that, because if it is, I can scan it and post a much better copy.

ETA: Given to me! Probably by

m00nface, as it's from Kanazawa! Why I can't remember the gifts she gave me, I have NO IDEA and I feel horrible about that. Check the comments for more info on it. :)

( Pics this way... )

Finally! The Promised Crack! And this time, I won't just link to them, I'll post the images! Don't y'all feel speshul?

( Cut for images and NOT BRAIN SAFE although mostly work-safe )

The last batch of doujinshi! Except for the Zaraki-as-schoolgirl, because I think it merits its own post, in an attempt to draw the dramatic tension out as long as possible.

As always the scans are crud, because I scanned them at low resolution and didn't want to break the spines.

To look through them, go to http://magatsu.net/doujinshi/ and pick the proper directory. To get the ones I scanned and uploaded today, click twice on the Last modified link, and it'll sort the ones dated November 2 to the top.

( All Bleach, but these bring the crack! )

Next post: Zaraki Kenpachi, Highschool Girl!

I have taken advantage of the sleeplessness tonight caused by sleeping 14 hours earlier today by scanning more doujinshi from the Japan trip. It's all Bleach except for one Death Note.

If you just want to look trhough them, you can go to the main directory at: http://www.magatsu.net/doujinshi/ and click on the subdirectory you want. To easily look at the ones I scanned tonight, once you click on the subdirectory, click on the heading link that says Last modified twice. This sorts the most recently uploaded files to the top - tonight's doujinshi scans are dated November 1.

( And a few pointed out... )

That's it for now as I'm actually getting sleepy and my cold is sending me down again. I'll try to get the rest scanned tomorrow (er, today, looking at the time): and I do promise you Kenpachi Zaraki in a schoolgirl's uniform in the third and final batch! I bet you can't wait!

You may or may not remember me mentioning in the Japan trip reports that someone - I think it was

m00nface - mentioned early on to us that you could get Hello Kitty phone charms that were specialized for different regions of Japan. So I started collecting them, because they were silly and packed small.

Well, my Kyoto box with the rest of my souvenirs got here today, so I've taken some photos. :D Most of them are still in the packaging because I've forgotten what a couple are and wanted people who read Japanese to translate them for me because I have no idea where I got them. XD

But the Genji ones I got in Kyoto are unpacked! :D

( My Hello Kitties, let me show you them )

I've just received the box o'souvenirs I mailed myself from Tokyo. Woooooooo, 20 pounds of doujinshi! (Well, ok, so paper's heavy)

Also a 350 ml bottle of Pilot drawing ink - the kind only sold in Asia, for some odd reason - that cost all of 2100 yen. And several location-specific Hello Kitty phone charms, and some books, a mysterious package of ... probably tea, but I'll have to scan the little sheet that comes with it and see if a Japanese reader out there can tell me what it is. I don't actually remember purchasing it.

rachelmanija: can you tell me why I ended up with a phone charm that's a small bottle filled with gold leaf? I vaguely remember something about it, but not what or why I bought it. :/

I also have my Ichigo and Hitsugaya from the Bleach: The Styling figurine series. And two packages of small, flimsy, square cards depicting scenes from the recent Ge Ge Ge no Kitaro anime that I remembered I intended to send to

lady_noremon only after I opened the packages. :D

These are from Rachel's digital camera. She took some of them, I took some of them. The first album from her camera is on the lower right corner of the first page of the gallery, and the rest are on the second page of the gallery.

If you want to jump forward to the photos of the mysterious kitsune shrine, you can find it right here. From reading in The Fox and the Jewel, I suspect it's an Inari shrine, but Inari is sort of the one-size-fits-all of deities, worshipped under many different names, with many different responsibilities, and in many, many different ways. So there's no telling aobut this one - to find out more about it, we'd have to find someone who actually worshipped here and ask them. But that mysterious door in the back of the shrine is still driving me insane...

WHY IS THIS SHIRT TAKING ITS CAT FOR A WALK?

( Did you believe our story where we saw the shirt and the cat? )

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