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I am sitting in a manga kissaten (manga cafe), side by side with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
telophase, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-syndicated.gif)
bravecows, and sho_sunaga, all of us typing away on our respective LJs. It is a great moment in the history of geekdom, especially since it is the culmination of a day which also included manga-shopping, doujinshi-shopping, and a dinner in which we regaled each other with tales of how we discovered slash, fic, and fandom.
Meetingbravecows and sho_sunaga was definitely one of the best bits of Worldcon for me. I think some of you know the former already, but the latter is newish to LJ; she is a Japanese fan who is into manga, SGA, Supernatural, Sentinel, Star Trek,, and fic.
Today, after a brief stop at an English used bookshop, Good Day Books in Ebisu (where Stephanie was briefly trapped in the elevator), we met up at the statue of Hachiko the loyal dog at Shibuya station, along with approximately one thousand others attempting to meet friends at the same coordinates.
We went to a bookshop, where I bought several copies of Saiyuki Gaiden 3 and was irritated that many ofsho_sunaga's favorite manga have not yet been translated into English, and where telophase bravecows bought bilingual Tale of Genji manga.
Then we went to Mandarake, a massive doujinshi shop, wherebravecows talked me into buying a mysterious doujinshi with the subtitle "The love between an animal and a plant," from the RPS section-- I think it might be Russell Crowe/Paul Bethany. telophase made an astonishing find, detailed on her LJ.
Then we proceeded to an izakaya, where I had a lychee soda, and we all had a fantastic appetizer of Vietnamese/Japanese/California spring roll sushi-ish thingies, before proceeding to sashimi, fried chicken wings, soup with noodles and cabbage, and oyakodon (chicken and egg over rice). It turns out that me and both had original Trek as one of our first fandoms, and discovered slash when searching for it online.bravecows, the baby of the group, began with Hanson fic at the tender age of ten!
sho_sunaga showed us some downloaded manga she can read on her cellphone (which also connects to the internet.) When it gets to the rape scene, the phone vibrates!
telophase, bravecows, and sho_sunaga, all of us typing away on our respective LJs. It is a great moment in the history of geekdom, especially since it is the culmination of a day which also included manga-shopping, doujinshi-shopping, and a dinner in which we regaled each other with tales of how we discovered slash, fic, and fandom. Meeting
bravecows and sho_sunaga was definitely one of the best bits of Worldcon for me. I think some of you know the former already, but the latter is newish to LJ; she is a Japanese fan who is into manga, SGA, Supernatural, Sentinel, Star Trek,, and fic. Today, after a brief stop at an English used bookshop, Good Day Books in Ebisu (where Stephanie was briefly trapped in the elevator), we met up at the statue of Hachiko the loyal dog at Shibuya station, along with approximately one thousand others attempting to meet friends at the same coordinates.
We went to a bookshop, where I bought several copies of Saiyuki Gaiden 3 and was irritated that many of
sho_sunaga's favorite manga have not yet been translated into English, and where telophase bravecows bought bilingual Tale of Genji manga. Then we went to Mandarake, a massive doujinshi shop, where
bravecows talked me into buying a mysterious doujinshi with the subtitle "The love between an animal and a plant," from the RPS section-- I think it might be Russell Crowe/Paul Bethany. telophase made an astonishing find, detailed on her LJ.Then we proceeded to an izakaya, where I had a lychee soda, and we all had a fantastic appetizer of Vietnamese/Japanese/California spring roll sushi-ish thingies, before proceeding to sashimi, fried chicken wings, soup with noodles and cabbage, and oyakodon (chicken and egg over rice). It turns out that me and both had original Trek as one of our first fandoms, and discovered slash when searching for it online.
bravecows, the baby of the group, began with Hanson fic at the tender age of ten!sho_sunaga showed us some downloaded manga she can read on her cellphone (which also connects to the internet.) When it gets to the rape scene, the phone vibrates!![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
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Can you email me your plans when you know what they are, so we can meet you somewhere if we can make it?
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Can I entice you to....dive into Otaku world?
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Soo Tokyo Touristing a la "Lost in Translation" Style?
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I already have it as a comic but downloaded a sample. If you are in Japan and have a cell phone samples are free... try it. It's too small(the screen) for my taste but you can at least see what's inside before you buy the manga at a book store.
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It looks like that manga ("Love Prism"?) has been scanslated into English! No vibrating, though. I'd never heard of it but now I'll have to try it.
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Have fun in Kyoto!
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Um, yes. Haven't got to the vengeful ghosts yet, but I'm sure they will be!
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Genji Manga
http://www.amazon.co.jp/%E3%81%82%E3%81%95%E3%81%8D%E3%82%86%E3%82%81%E3%81%BF%E3%81%97%E2%80%95%E3%83%90%E3%82%A4%E3%83%AA%E3%83%B3%E3%82%AC%E3%83%AB%E7%89%88-%E6%98%9F%E3%81%AE%E7%AB%A0%E4%B8%8A-%E8%AC%9B%E8%AB%87%E7%A4%BE%E3%83%90%E3%82%A4%E3%83%AA%E3%83%B3%E3%82%AC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B3%E3%83%9F%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF%E3%82%B9-%E5%A4%A7%E5%92%8C-%E5%92%8C%E7%B4%80/dp/4770027001
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>> When it gets to the rape scene, the phone vibrates! <>:
It is indeed a wondrous age in which we live ... !
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Oh, same, same! Only, um, the other way around. Meeting you guys totally made my WorldCon x1,000,000 times more awesome than it already was! ♥
Do post about "The love between an animal and a plant". I thought it was lotrips, but your suggestion that it's Crowe/Bettany makes me even more excited.
Also, cough, I actually discovered fanfic through Gargoyles* fandom at the age of 10, from where I went on to Star Trek: The Next Generation. I read Hanson fic at 11 because fanfic had become the only way I knew how to enjoy fandom. *is/was dork*
*Disney cartoon. You may not have heard of it? It was AWESOME.