Tokyo, Tokyo

[fatima]

Tokyo is...same old, except with some difference. They have mostly banned public smoking now, which makes me want to sing hallelujah. Some shops I like have closed or relocated, though. Heading to Kansai tomorrow on Shinkansen.

The cold is still here. It got really bad yesterday, so I didn't get to go to Odaiba...and no Kamakura for me today, either. My roommate Caryn, whom I just met when I got to Tokyo, took care of me when I came back around 11PM and crashed. (Yay for nice people and my ability to meet them!) Aside from a short trip to (central) Tokyo and Ikebukuro, I plan to stay mostly indoor today.

A quick report about doujinshi: Hetalia/Gintama are probably the hottest stuff right now. The Naruto portion shrunk significantly, as did One Piece. I am not too sad about the former, but the latter makes me want to cry. Especially because I watched the newest OP movie Strong World with alexwish2005 and Aki, and it was just awesome. (OMG LUFFY! ZORO! CHOPPER!)

I found a DS9 doujin about Julian Bashir for dissociate, but there was NO Star Trek doujin to be found ANYWHERE. I raged and raged about that, until alexwish2005 presented me with two GREAT little XI K/S books AS IF BY MAGIC. Oh Spock. OH SPOCK. :DDDDDDD

Oh and, Mandarake actually had a small section on Supernatural. Except...95% of it was Sam/Dean. 4% was Dean/Sam, and the last percentage? John/Dean. I was very sad. Very, very, sad. It was like, "GET ON WITH THE PROGRAM, GIRLS"....we are on Season 5 now!!

Last but not the least...

eldariel translated my tribble fic into Russian! :DDDD I'm quite elated to see there are Russian K/S fans who like it, too.

http://never-parted.diary.ru/p92602517.htm

If you scroll down you can see a fanart done by a Ms. Ayumi Lemura. It's really very, very cute. <3 So yay, thank you, eldariel and the Russian K/S fans, for giving me that fuzzy feeling when my head is spinning from a cold!

Comments

[deeply-spaced.livejournal.com]

Wow, a DS9 doujin about Julian Bashir? Where can I get one? My brother lives in Koriyama City. I live here in Louisiana in the U.S. and I do not speak Japanese. Can you help? Thank you!

- Sheri

[snowlight.livejournal.com]

Hi, I found my copy in a Mandarake store (http://www.mandarake.co.jp), which mainly deals in second-hand doujin and other anime/manga related merchandise. Coming from the U.S., your best bet would be to check out their online shop (http://ekizo.mandarake.co.jp/shop/en/). They do ship overseas, though it can be quite expensive. Star Trek stuff there is very rare as it is, but if you really, really want something like that you can check back periodically to try your luck.

I will also mention this to dissociate to see if she would be willing to scan the book when I get the book to her (some time in Feb I guess). I have no idea about the quality of the book, though, because it comes in a sealed plastic bag.

Glad to see you getting better

[alexwish2005.livejournal.com]

I was worried that you may lose your mind on the way to hotel...

BTW, about ST XI doujinshi, the same auther just announced that the two books I gave you had been sold out XD
Besides, she also released 4 new books including 1 cute K/S, 2 Pike/S and 1 RPS....I guess the KS one should be cute...You could see the sample at ttp://rapd.hacca.jp/

Re: Glad to see you getting better

[snowlight.livejournal.com]

为毛她家的Pike/S如此地……不萌？？为毛？？

[uminohikari.livejournal.com]

Ooh Gintama? Strange, it doesn't seem that popular here

[snowlight.livejournal.com]

Not that much worse than Hetalia in terms of popularity, I'd think....

[asukajude.livejournal.com]

为何剩下那一啪会是驸马＋驸马爹？
这也太诡异了，我发现我完全不懂霓虹人民的喜好。真的，很久以来，他们票选最受欢迎的配对都是我的雷……

[snowlight.livejournal.com]

我倒不至于到处被雷，但是真喜欢的却也少……而且本来觉得还不错的都会被弄成不太有感觉的……比如OP的ZS。

至于SPN里面的CP问题，我还是觉得这是前面几季某公主没有出来的缘故……

啊杯具~by noc

[(Anonymous)]

难道就米有可以败的卡受？？？！！！
米有的话东京对俺的吸引力就打个八折啦。。。

Re: 啊杯具~by noc

[snowlight.livejournal.com]

的确比较悲剧………………总体而言是HY已经在同人圈过气的原因吧。因为不只是卡受缩……