O, Tokyo!

Flew back into Japan on the 6th, only to be stranded in Tokyo due to lack of train service to my prefecture thanks to the record snowfall. (I made it back three days late by taking a long train detour. Got to be pretty good friends with the Akihabara Midori-madoguchi'in as they schemed and head-scratched on how to get me home during my repeat visits.)

But the delay was all well and good because I got to meet up with mitsima, who was lovely in person (and a complete saint while I went and bought a long sleeved jacket, having sent all my clothes home when I still thought there I would be going there myself). Much talk of writing and Life in Dai Nippon ensued.

Grabbed the 2nd Saiyuki Gaiden, February Ichi Raci and Reijin in Akihabara. The latter contains the magazine's most solid set of yomikiri in months, including the ever-wonderful Naono Bohra (my future wife!) and an adorable story by Sakurai Shu3 (also my future wife!).

Then on the interminably long return trip, who should I run into but demeter918! すごい偶然だな, and rather ironic given the fact that I'd been considering calling her and seeing what she was up to over the long weekend, but didn't because I was stranded in Tokyo. Where, of course, she was as well.

We both bemoaned the fact that we hadn't made it to Ikebukuro, squeed over the year's release line-up, and took what was probably the same side in an argument(?) over Brokeback Mountain and its Implications For Fandom. And then I discovered that Bohra's new tank had been released that Saturday, and I had not purchased it. And there was a wailing and a gnashing of teeth.

So, all in all, a good trip.

これで以上です。