まっすぐな打撃との開始 (Start With Straight Shots...)

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If you thought bounenkai season was over and done with, well...normally you'd be right. But apparently the fine folks at Nikkei didn't get the message and decided to have their bounenkai damn near at the last minute. This marks the third bounenkai I've been to this year, and they've been getting progressively better as the season has gone on. That would make this, the final bounenkai, the best one of them all.

Why was the Nikkei bounenkai head and shoulders above the rest you may be wondering? For starters it was cheap, which is always music to my ears. 1500 yen is a small price to pay for a ton of good food and all the booze and Pepsi you can get your mouth on. And despite the low entrance fee the prizes were waaaaaaaaaaaaay beyond anything offered at my other bounenkais. There actually weren't any prizes at the first bounenkai other than my amazing presence of course, and the Hirayasu one had things like San-A gift certificates and hair ties. However, at the Nikkei bounenkai people were walking away with rice cookers, massage pillows, Wiis, PS3s, HDTVs, and trips to the resort at Okuma Beach. I myself was fortunate to get a big ass bottle of champagne, which you can rest assured is gonna get drunk up.

So to recap:

Bounenkai #1 (the small eikaiwa version) - held at the cafe also under the eikaiwa's ownership, cost 2000 yen for all you can eat and drink (food ran out super fast, so all you can eat is kind of misleading), and no prizes or performances to speak of.

Bounenkai #2 (the Hirayasu version) - held at Satto, a rather nice izakaya in Ginowan, cost 3500 yen for all you can eat and drink (eating part was actually a set that ended once the last plate came out), and had games in which you could win prizes (6000 yen for janken, and various prizes in a heated bingo competition)

Bounenkai #3 (the Nikkei version) - held at the Naha Grand Castle Hotel in Shuri, cost 1500 (that also got you a raffle ticket for later in the night) for all you can eat and drink (food was limited here too, but there was plenty of it), and there were prizes, performances, and money galore (the aforementioned high end electronics won during the raffle and someone one around 55,000 yen playing janken)

People are gonna have to step their bounenkai games up in the new year.