{"id":78,"date":"2007-12-29T17:40:01","date_gmt":"2007-12-29T22:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2chan.us\/wordpress\/2007\/12\/29\/c73-day-one\/"},"modified":"2007-12-29T18:01:11","modified_gmt":"2007-12-29T23:01:11","slug":"c73-day-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/2chan.us\/wordpress\/2007\/12\/29\/c73-day-one\/","title":{"rendered":"c73 day one"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I set my alarm to go off at 6 in the morning so that I could leave right at about dawn to line up for day 2 (no homo), but despite my mind saying yes, my legs said &#8220;no fuck you sit right back down and don&#8217;t you dare use me, write a blog post or something.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So! Yesterday was the first day of c73, the second event of any importance that has occured since I touched down in Narita on the 28th. (the first was eating some great tonkatsu, and the nearly-second was going to see Kara no Kyoukai 1 but falling asleep at 8 instead. Good thing it&#8217;s still showing, thanks second-run theaters!) I woke up bright and early at 6 and started the trek over to the Big Sight right at about daybreak on a monstrously leisurely 10 hours of sleep, as observant readers will have noted. <\/p>\n<p>I live fairly close to the big sight, so the trip over took a little over an hour after a conbini stop where I bought some expired negitoro maki. I went over on the Yurikamome\/monorail from Shimbashi because I was going late enough for the thing to be running, and it was pleasantly empty. No pushing or shoving, and I even managed to get a seat (!!) without excessive harm to myself or others. A+ would ride again. I hope to in a few hours. After arriving at the con site, I stood in very large line for a very long time. They seemed to line everyone up at the front of the Big Sight today as opposed to next to the bay doors for the east\/west halls. Maybe I got there a little too late? Did anyone in the English-speaking world get there at 5 or earlier so that they could clarify? Anyway, I stood fairly miserably in a light drizzle with no entertainment for about 2 and a half, maybe a bit more, hours. Applauding at 10 am when the thing opens and not moving for the next 45 minutes is a morale-killer, let me tell ya.<\/p>\n<p>A timely (for me) aside: why didnt anyone tell me that Japan has mosquitos that are TEN TIMES BIGGER than the ones we have down south? God damn this place is scary.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, if you&#8217;re wondering why I don&#8217;t have pictures for you: sooo touriste, next to staring up at skyscrapers and walking on the wrong side of the sidewalk. Actually, I just don&#8217;t have a camera yet. <\/p>\n<p>Some highlights of my modest purchases:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Getting the second-to-last copy of one of two of Hinketsu Elevator (Ueda Hajime)&#8217;s new offerings. The other was sold out by the time I got through the line, despite me beelining straight there once I got inside the Big Sight. That&#8217;ll teach me not to run through the halls!\n<\/li>\n<li>A Rozen Maiden\/F1 racing crossover. Spoilers: Raikkonen gets Shinku-chan.\n<\/li>\n<li>New offerings by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercuriuslab.com\">MercuriusLAB<\/a>\/<a href=\"http:\/\/www.iconographica.net\">Iconographica<\/a> collective, definitely in my top five as far as doujin artists go. For all you American con-goers out there, I will here note that I saw &#8220;the white guy from Hen Da Ne,&#8221; whose real name is apparently &#8220;Andrew.&#8221; I will try to remember this in the future, as I hate calling people &#8220;HEY.&#8221; We talked for a minute or two, then parted ways.\n<\/li>\n<li>Things I didn&#8217;t buy out of embarrasment that I now regret: Rip Slyme yaoi. Pretty Cure kigurumi convention reports. Mononoke yaoi. Gatchaman yaoi. R-type fanfiction.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I finished up with most of my shopping at around noon, and instead of aimlessly wandering around the bemani section like I had originally planned, I met up with Chiku, who has no weblog so I cannot link you to his weblog. We ate soggy ten-don and wandered around the west halls and bought nothing. In fact, all he bought was a paper copy of the catalogue, and if he hadn&#8217;t done that I could call him a bad consumer of fan products. <\/p>\n<p>We met up with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heiseidemocracy.com\">Shingo<\/a> and a host of others at around 2:30 and talked for a while. We eventually made it over to Akiba and a izakaya in the area and had a jolly old time while knocking back some drinks, the first alcoholic beverages I have ever legally bought and consumed. Actually, I might have been the only one who consumed plural-s-drinks, an astonishing two. I almost ordered a moscow mule for a third, but the thing was winding down and I didn&#8217;t want to look like an alcoholic.<\/p>\n<p>While I was in Akiba I picked up ABe&#8217;s Gaisokyu for a measly 4800 yen, which considering the quality of the thing I would (although begrudgingly) pay double that price for, along with a second copy of Nazo no Kanojo X because I don&#8217;t remember what manga I buy. I also got a Maritan card that says &#8220;HAPPY FUCK&#8217;IN NEW YEAR.&#8221; I will take these words to heart.<\/p>\n<p>On that note, it&#8217;s already bright outside and I should start punishing my legs again. So in case I don&#8217;t do another update until 2008: HAPPY FUCK&#8217;IN NEW YEAR.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I set my alarm to go off at 6 in the morning so that I could leave right at about dawn to line up for day 2 (no homo), but despite my mind saying yes, my legs said &#8220;no fuck you sit right back down and don&#8217;t you dare use me, write a blog post [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,13,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doujin","category-japan","category-otakisme"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/2chan.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/2chan.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/2chan.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2chan.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2chan.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/2chan.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/2chan.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2chan.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2chan.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}