We had presentations for like 3 hours of class, which was completely unexpected, because what the hell are you gonna talk about for that long? It was just a presentation of groups on the places that they visited. I thought I was gonna fail, but we ended up winging it. I think the professor doesn't really expect that much from us. After all, we ARE in a foreign country.
So we finished up class and there were plans to go to Shibuya to go watch the Rurouni Kenshin movie (for an upcoming project in our anime/manga class). Or so we thought.
It turned out that the movie theater that was showing the movie was in Ikebukuro. But we didn't figure this out until Josh told us when we GOT to Shibuya. This was the start of some confusion and frustration.
So the only reason we went to Shibuya was to get the all you can eat sukiyaki that we had before around a week ago.
Unfortunately, we got there, like, literally 5 minutes late before they closed until 5 PM. Some people were about to flip their shit. The only choices were to either come back after 2 hours of doing whatever, or we could go to somewhere else to eat. It seemed like the second option was the best one because some people were so hungry that they didn't care.
Kevin decided to lead us all to another place to eat. It was Shakey's. Mostly we were lured by the "all you can eat" pizza and stuff.
Hands down, worst pizza I've ever had. Worse than Pippin pizza.
After a failed lunch, we wandered around some more. Some people were getting frustrated at Kevin because he was just whimsically leading the group around and going into stores. It proved to be a very easy way to get people separated from each other.
We ended up losing a couple of people cuz we couldn't find them.
Demetri, Eric, and I decided to break off from the main group for several reasons.
Eric was getting fed up with Kevin.
Demetri wasn't down to wait 4 hours to go to the movies and he wanted to go see a movie right then.
I was just a little frustrated that things weren't really going as planned.
We pretty much followed Demetri around, since he was the one with the city map and compass (lol). He scouted out several movie theaters and we had to ask around for one with the film we wanted.
We finally found it.
It wasn't a bad theater.
It looked super nice in the lobby.
Tickets were 1500 with the student discount.
And concessions were fairly cheap compared to the US.
After a failed lunch, we wandered around some more. Some people were getting frustrated at Kevin because he was just whimsically leading the group around and going into stores. It proved to be a very easy way to get people separated from each other.
We ended up losing a couple of people cuz we couldn't find them.
Demetri, Eric, and I decided to break off from the main group for several reasons.
Eric was getting fed up with Kevin.
Demetri wasn't down to wait 4 hours to go to the movies and he wanted to go see a movie right then.
I was just a little frustrated that things weren't really going as planned.
We pretty much followed Demetri around, since he was the one with the city map and compass (lol). He scouted out several movie theaters and we had to ask around for one with the film we wanted.
We finally found it.
It wasn't a bad theater.
It looked super nice in the lobby.
Tickets were 1500 with the student discount.
And concessions were fairly cheap compared to the US.
Eric and Demetri being retarded.
The theater inside was nice as well.
The seats were nice and comfy, and there was a hook in front of each one that we could hook our bags on.
The theater inside was nice as well.
The seats were nice and comfy, and there was a hook in front of each one that we could hook our bags on.
Like I said before, we were there to watch an animated film to prepare for an upcoming project in our anime/manga class. We chose a movie called Guskou Budori no Denki.
I thought 15 minutes of unsubbed Studio Ghibli was bad.
This was like 1.5 hours of not understanding what the fuck was going on.
This is the movie, by the way
This is what I gained from the movie [don't read if you don't want spoilers]:
First of all, this is a world of cats, so everyone's a cat. Budori was blue for some reason. He was living a happy life with his family when all of the sudden shit went crazy and the weather started going bad. His father left for whatever reason, and then shortly after his mother left, I think to go find him. His sister was really sad and all of the sudden this fucking crazy motherfucking magic cat comes and takes her away. So now Budori is family-less and has to go somewhere so he goes to some factory making silk balls where cats fly everywhere and shit and child labor is enforced. After stuff goes down at the factory he moves on to a farm where he meets this fat cat who's overly happy about everything. For some reason, he pours oil on his crops. After like 20 min of that stuff, he goes off on a train to go find some professor and he sits in on his class in college. He gives the professor his homework assignment and the professor goes like "WOW" and sends him off to a laboratory where he goes to study lava. During this whole time I guess he forgot he had a family until he had a dream about his sister and all of the sudden he was like, "Oh yeah, I have a family." But it didn't matter cuz he woke up and went back to work as normal. A volcano they were studying was about to erupt, but they pumped electricity in that shit and BOOOM. And for some reason they were all really happy about that. Then the magical cat who took his sister away takes him away. And then the movie was over.
I really have to watch this movie again with subs, once the subs come out.
What the hell did I watch?
Anyways, we were done with the movie, we had no further obligations so we started to head back.
But Demetri wasn't satisfied.
He figured that we were already in Shibuya so we might as well walk around and see wsup.
Shibuya wasn't really my kind of neighborhood and I was kind of tired.
But eventually he convinced me and Eric to go walk down the street a little before coming back to the station.
We stumbled upon a little store called Tower Records.
If you don't know what that is, that's ok. I didn't know what it was till Demetri explained it to me.
Apparently all the Tower Records in the United States shut down. And this one in Shibuya is supposedly the last Tower Records on Earth.
So we went in.
This place had so much music.
My mind blew all the way to China.
Instantly we all started to look for things we would recognize. This place was around 6 floors.
First we went down to the basement.
There was a set of closed doors and a man standing by them. Rock music was blasting from behind the doors.
We asked the man what was happening and he told us that Sambomaster (Naruto OP 5) was playing in there at that moment! Freaken awesome!
Anyways we couldn't get in there cuz we didn't have tickets for it.
So we went back up.
I tried to look for familiar artists like Perfume, Dir en Grey, Asian Kung-Fu Generation, The Pillows, and stuff like that.
With no real luck, we decided to come back later and ask where it was.
And we went up further.
There were floors dedicated to American music, European music, jazz, rock, and all sorts of genres.
Eric wanted to go to the floor with K-Pop.
Fuck.
But we went anyways.
On the way up, we passed by this handprint belonging to Michael Jackson.
So we went up to the K-Pop floor.
Eric bought Sistar and IU and got free posters with his purchase which made him a happy man.
Ok, now this NEXT SECTION is for everyone at home.
Yes, everyone.
Because I know every single one of you loves K-Pop to death.
And although it pained me to take these pictures, I did it for you guys.
Because I luv u a lot.
Don't take that too seriously.
Here you are...enjoy.
While we were up on that floor, we met up with Teresa, Valerie, and Kevin. Apparently, they told us, they were waiting for us at the Hachiko statue at 6:30 (when we were in the theater). Demetri felt bad, but I didn't cuz they wanted to go off on their own. So be it.
They left early and we kind of stayed around in the store.
Anyways, we got the hell out of there and I went to go look for the things I wanted.
Workers there helped me find Perfume, Dir en Grey, The Pillows, and Asian Kung-Fu Generation.
All the albums are EXPENSIVE.
They were like 3000 yen.
There was no way I was paying that much.
So we went back down to the first floor where we sampled music for a good 30 minutes.
The first floor had a bunch of albums on display and a bunch of headphones where you could listen to the CDs. Very Japan-like.
A lot of the things that we listened to were actually pretty damn good.
Demetri bought an album by Baby Metal.
It's hilarious, look it up.
So the day ended on kind of a high note, which was good for us.
And we circled around and headed back to the station.
The whole way back was just Eric and Demetri talking about politics and me standing in a corner.
Fun fun fun.
The rest of the night was pretty much just more shit talking with the guys and playing Advance Wars.
Kevin and I surrendered to Eric.
And so begins the 3 day weekend.
In Japan, we get Monday off because it's a national holiday here.
I think they call it Marine Day.
There were plans to go to Kyoto this weekend, but they ultimately failed.
I think Demetri is planning to go by himself.
Lali and some others might also be planning to go as well.
Me?
I decided that I wasn't prepared enough.
And I wasn't down to spend that much to go there.
Cuz it's pretty expensive.
Although I did want to see the Steins;Gate cafe in Osaka.
And the KyoAni studio in Kyoto.
Oh well.
I thought 15 minutes of unsubbed Studio Ghibli was bad.
This was like 1.5 hours of not understanding what the fuck was going on.
This is the movie, by the way
This is what I gained from the movie [don't read if you don't want spoilers]:
First of all, this is a world of cats, so everyone's a cat. Budori was blue for some reason. He was living a happy life with his family when all of the sudden shit went crazy and the weather started going bad. His father left for whatever reason, and then shortly after his mother left, I think to go find him. His sister was really sad and all of the sudden this fucking crazy motherfucking magic cat comes and takes her away. So now Budori is family-less and has to go somewhere so he goes to some factory making silk balls where cats fly everywhere and shit and child labor is enforced. After stuff goes down at the factory he moves on to a farm where he meets this fat cat who's overly happy about everything. For some reason, he pours oil on his crops. After like 20 min of that stuff, he goes off on a train to go find some professor and he sits in on his class in college. He gives the professor his homework assignment and the professor goes like "WOW" and sends him off to a laboratory where he goes to study lava. During this whole time I guess he forgot he had a family until he had a dream about his sister and all of the sudden he was like, "Oh yeah, I have a family." But it didn't matter cuz he woke up and went back to work as normal. A volcano they were studying was about to erupt, but they pumped electricity in that shit and BOOOM. And for some reason they were all really happy about that. Then the magical cat who took his sister away takes him away. And then the movie was over.
I really have to watch this movie again with subs, once the subs come out.
What the hell did I watch?
Anyways, we were done with the movie, we had no further obligations so we started to head back.
But Demetri wasn't satisfied.
He figured that we were already in Shibuya so we might as well walk around and see wsup.
Shibuya wasn't really my kind of neighborhood and I was kind of tired.
But eventually he convinced me and Eric to go walk down the street a little before coming back to the station.
We stumbled upon a little store called Tower Records.
If you don't know what that is, that's ok. I didn't know what it was till Demetri explained it to me.
Apparently all the Tower Records in the United States shut down. And this one in Shibuya is supposedly the last Tower Records on Earth.
So we went in.
This place had so much music.
My mind blew all the way to China.
Instantly we all started to look for things we would recognize. This place was around 6 floors.
First we went down to the basement.
There was a set of closed doors and a man standing by them. Rock music was blasting from behind the doors.
We asked the man what was happening and he told us that Sambomaster (Naruto OP 5) was playing in there at that moment! Freaken awesome!
Anyways we couldn't get in there cuz we didn't have tickets for it.
So we went back up.
I tried to look for familiar artists like Perfume, Dir en Grey, Asian Kung-Fu Generation, The Pillows, and stuff like that.
With no real luck, we decided to come back later and ask where it was.
And we went up further.
There were floors dedicated to American music, European music, jazz, rock, and all sorts of genres.
Eric wanted to go to the floor with K-Pop.
Fuck.
But we went anyways.
On the way up, we passed by this handprint belonging to Michael Jackson.
So we went up to the K-Pop floor.
Eric bought Sistar and IU and got free posters with his purchase which made him a happy man.
Ok, now this NEXT SECTION is for everyone at home.
Yes, everyone.
Because I know every single one of you loves K-Pop to death.
And although it pained me to take these pictures, I did it for you guys.
Because I luv u a lot.
Don't take that too seriously.
Here you are...enjoy.
While we were up on that floor, we met up with Teresa, Valerie, and Kevin. Apparently, they told us, they were waiting for us at the Hachiko statue at 6:30 (when we were in the theater). Demetri felt bad, but I didn't cuz they wanted to go off on their own. So be it.
They left early and we kind of stayed around in the store.
Anyways, we got the hell out of there and I went to go look for the things I wanted.
Workers there helped me find Perfume, Dir en Grey, The Pillows, and Asian Kung-Fu Generation.
All the albums are EXPENSIVE.
They were like 3000 yen.
There was no way I was paying that much.
So we went back down to the first floor where we sampled music for a good 30 minutes.
The first floor had a bunch of albums on display and a bunch of headphones where you could listen to the CDs. Very Japan-like.
A lot of the things that we listened to were actually pretty damn good.
Demetri bought an album by Baby Metal.
It's hilarious, look it up.
So the day ended on kind of a high note, which was good for us.
And we circled around and headed back to the station.
The whole way back was just Eric and Demetri talking about politics and me standing in a corner.
Fun fun fun.
The rest of the night was pretty much just more shit talking with the guys and playing Advance Wars.
Kevin and I surrendered to Eric.
And so begins the 3 day weekend.
In Japan, we get Monday off because it's a national holiday here.
I think they call it Marine Day.
There were plans to go to Kyoto this weekend, but they ultimately failed.
I think Demetri is planning to go by himself.
Lali and some others might also be planning to go as well.
Me?
I decided that I wasn't prepared enough.
And I wasn't down to spend that much to go there.
Cuz it's pretty expensive.
Although I did want to see the Steins;Gate cafe in Osaka.
And the KyoAni studio in Kyoto.
Oh well.
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