Mermaid off the port bow!
I saw the second DeathNote movie! Ariel from my Japanese classes had an extra ticket, so I got to go with her, Cassie-for-real, and Ariel’s homestay Mama to a theatre in Osaka. Coolness. The building was only wide enough for 1 theatre per floor, so there were 10 floors. You choose your seats at the ticket booth, so when you get to your theatre you don’t have to hunt for seats together. And there were no ads or strange “Clap your hands if you like tofu” slides before the previews. Also, no historically inaccurate hula performances like in theatres at home. *pouts* Are there any good movies showing over Christmas break? I want my hula dancers and waves crashing and burning rocks with the Consolidated icon in them!
Anyway. The movie was such an ego boost! I think I got most of what was happening - mostly thanks to having read #s 1-5 before - but I get the feeling that if I watch it with subtitles, I’m going to be all, “What? No, that’s new! They added that! They didn’t say that in theatres!” ^_^;; Now I need to own these movies in a region-friendly format, with subtitles, and watch them again and again and again. L makes me smile so much.
And, thanks to having met Ariel’s Mama on Monday, I got to go over tonight and wear a kimono! Mama is a kimono teacher, so she has a HUGE closet filled with kimono, nagajuuban, obi, and all the other fiddly bits that I know not the names of yet. And now I must make kimono for the boys, only they’ll end up being women’s kimono, so Kei wouldn’t wear them… Blarg.
Sitting up that straight hurt my back -_-;;
Me and Ariel
Mama and me
The view from their balcony. Pretty….
And behold the cuteness that was Ariel’s dinner! It’s a Kitty-chan inari-zushi! The rice inside was pink.
And dude, Mama is just like my Grandma regarding food. She fed us banana bread (made by Ariel, it was yum) and tea before teaching us how to put on kimono. After changing out of the kimono was dinner - the sushi packs, udon with cabbage, shiitake, chikuwa, and other green things in it, white rice, salmon sashimi, ikura, mentaiko-like stuff I didn’t quite catch the name of, roast beef Mama made herself, juice, water and green tea. O.o Too many plates and bowls and cups, I didn’t know what to do with them all. And then came dessert. Weird pastry-like thing with kurumi (walnuts?) on top, plus more tea…Okay I’m done taunting you now X3
Oh, and because it’s amusing, on the train ride over to their house, Ariel and I were in a car with a bunch of highschool boys. Funny stuff X3 Three of the ones I saw were wearing/putting on dangly, colorful, shiny, girly earrings of the sort I’d expect McV to wear. And one of the boys had fingernails to rival Tall One’s. He was holding hands with another boy for a while. XD Oh Japan, how I love your girly boys. ^_^
Anyway. The movie was such an ego boost! I think I got most of what was happening - mostly thanks to having read #s 1-5 before - but I get the feeling that if I watch it with subtitles, I’m going to be all, “What? No, that’s new! They added that! They didn’t say that in theatres!” ^_^;; Now I need to own these movies in a region-friendly format, with subtitles, and watch them again and again and again. L makes me smile so much.
And, thanks to having met Ariel’s Mama on Monday, I got to go over tonight and wear a kimono! Mama is a kimono teacher, so she has a HUGE closet filled with kimono, nagajuuban, obi, and all the other fiddly bits that I know not the names of yet. And now I must make kimono for the boys, only they’ll end up being women’s kimono, so Kei wouldn’t wear them… Blarg.
Sitting up that straight hurt my back -_-;;
Me and Ariel
Mama and me
The view from their balcony. Pretty….
And behold the cuteness that was Ariel’s dinner! It’s a Kitty-chan inari-zushi! The rice inside was pink.
And dude, Mama is just like my Grandma regarding food. She fed us banana bread (made by Ariel, it was yum) and tea before teaching us how to put on kimono. After changing out of the kimono was dinner - the sushi packs, udon with cabbage, shiitake, chikuwa, and other green things in it, white rice, salmon sashimi, ikura, mentaiko-like stuff I didn’t quite catch the name of, roast beef Mama made herself, juice, water and green tea. O.o Too many plates and bowls and cups, I didn’t know what to do with them all. And then came dessert. Weird pastry-like thing with kurumi (walnuts?) on top, plus more tea…Okay I’m done taunting you now X3
Oh, and because it’s amusing, on the train ride over to their house, Ariel and I were in a car with a bunch of highschool boys. Funny stuff X3 Three of the ones I saw were wearing/putting on dangly, colorful, shiny, girly earrings of the sort I’d expect McV to wear. And one of the boys had fingernails to rival Tall One’s. He was holding hands with another boy for a while. XD Oh Japan, how I love your girly boys. ^_^