O, Tokyo!

[lebateleur]

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。

Comments

[firesign10.livejournal.com]

Yikes! You had a tough time coming AND going! Tokyo layover probably would have been more enjoyable if you had been able to be prepared for it ;-) Glad to hear you got back safely anyway :-D and hope the rest of your state-side visit went well!

[lebateleur.livejournal.com]

Thanks! The visit home was awesome, but too short. Tokyo would have been cooler if I'd been prepared, which is to say that I'd been anticipating it, and so not wasted so much time trying to decide what to do. But overall, it was very nice.

[lebateleur.livejournal.com]

Absolutely. I should probably be back in town in another month or so; there's only so much snow a soul can take. :-/ But thanks again for coming to hang out!

[gnine.livejournal.com]

So, I gotta ask, what Implications for Fandom did you guys see Brokeback Mt. having? (I have yet to actually see the movie, alas, the major disadvantage of being in Japan I suppose, keep missing so many movies). Curious if you're predicting good implications or bad in terms of fandom...the movie was pretty succesful, yes?

[lebateleur.livejournal.com]

Okay, dredging up the memories through the haze of jetlag and exhaustion, we were basically talking about how much of a ready-made fandom exists for the movie, how much of said fandom will actually pay to see the movie, and how many people will see it for the controversy and end up converts.

Dunno how successful the movie was; it will never make it to the hick town where my family lives, but on the other hand, several people I know have read the short story it's based on, so...

[amasugiru.livejournal.com]

New Bohra tank? Do tell?

[lebateleur.livejournal.com]

I can't, because I didn't know to buy it. ::wails::