~*THE JAPAN POST*~
Ok, it's nothing exciting, really, just several pics and some scans of shop photos and some tl;dr stuff on what happened each day. (And, fyi, I STILL HAVEN'T STARTED WORKING ON THE JEXCHANGE FIC. RAISE YOUR HANDS IF YOU THINK I'M GOING TO DIE.) My dad stole my camera for most of the trip. Some of the pictures below the cut were taken by him.
So the first day I arrived at Narita Airport at about, uh, 4pm, and by the time we got to the hotel, which was in Shinjuku, it was already around 5:15pm and we just spent that night wandering around Shinjuku. We looked around in Tokyu Hands (which is a really cool shop aslkdjflkj the creative things that the Japanese think of are amazing) and then we had sushi for dinner and I discovered MY PROFOUND LOVE FOR EEL HOMG, THIS IS EVEN BETTER THAN SALMON, AND I LOVE SALMON.
I watched Arashi's Shukudai-kun that night. Eeeeee this is a fun show. It's so funny how everyone kept telling Aiba to shut up. Lol ilu Aiba. ♥
And then the next day we went to Harajuku. We basically wandered around the place for one whole day until my feet hurt. We went to this mall called Omotesando Hills, which was quite small but pretty cool, and here is this really ~*bright and colorful*~ representation of the mall:
We had the most delicious curry ~*evar*~ for lunch. And then I bought this awesome bracelet, IS IT NOT INCREDIBLY SHINY? :D!
Anyway random insert of the Louis Vuitton shop in Harajuku becase homg sparkly blinding bright lights. I MEAN, WHAT IS A POST ABOUT JAPAN WITHOUT RAINBOW COLOURS.
Didn't go to the JE shop that day because, well, by the time we'd finished walking around Harajuku, it was nearly 6, and the JE shop closed at 7. I thought there was no point in queuing at that time, because HOMG LONG QUEUE WTF. By the time I finish queuing the shop would have closed. So yeah, we just decided to walk round some more and then we had sushi for dinner again, and MORE EEL YESSSSS. ♥
That night I got back to the hotel JUST IN TIME for HanaKimi, it was such a fantastic ep, YAY FOR BEACH, YAY FOR SUMMER, YAY FOR NEKKID BOYS. :D :D :D!!! And I love that guy who's in love with Nanba, he is so adorable, he nearly made me cry when he talked about how it was enough to be next to the person you love and see them smile and laskjdlakshf I KNOW IT WAS CHEESY BUT I TEARED UP ANYWAY. Nakatsu was also love as usual, YAY FOR NOSEBLEEDING. \:D/
On day 3 I went to Disneyland. I swear this is my third time going there. No pictures because. Well. There wasn't anything special. The queues were long but the rides were fun, and SO MUCH BETTER THAN HONG KONG DISNEYLAND, GOD. I am so ashamed of Hong Kong, why is your Disneyland the crappiest in the world.
That night I watched cKT and it was such a wonderful episode, YAY FOR KAME BEING A PERVERT, I ALWAYS KNEW IT. I am worried about Jin's brain though. ); I checked out the Nounai Maker myself, with both my English and my Chinese names, and guess what? BOTH OF THEM TURNED OUT WITH TONS OF H. H H H H H H H H H H H H. AHAHAHAHAHAHA THAT IS SO HILARIOUS, SO I REALLY AM A PERVERT. And also lust. Lots of it. This is the most wonderful invention in the world, oh Japan ilu and your random things. With my Chinese name, though, there was also a bunch of 'secret' and 'play'. SO MUCH LULZ.
On day 4 we planned to go to Yokohama, but, uh. I had the worst period cramps ever and I was literally dying, we were on the train to Yokohama and the train ride was waaaayyy too long and I was standing because there were no seats, and that obv wasn't helping. It got worse and worse and I was about to faint when we arrived at Yokohama at bloody long last, and I just sat there at the platform for ages whilst my mum went off to search for medicine and it was excruciating. But anyway my mum came back with the medicine and I took it and felt slightly better and we decided we should go back to the hotel and I slept for about 2 hours and I woke up feeling so much better. So then we went to Harajuku to go to the JE shop. This guy gave me a slip of paper saying 'come back at 17:30' and it was only 3pm so we walked around Harajuku AGAIN. But Harajuku is so big, I guess you can never see everything. So yeah.
Anyway we returned to the shop at the right time and I went in while my parents decided to keep walking around Harajuku. I am a total dumbass. I also cannot really read Japanese. So basically I had no idea you were supposed to use one sheet of paper for each group. I used the same sheet of paper for KAT-TUN and K8, and then finally after putting down all the photos I wanted I realized that I was doing the wrong thing, AND I HAD TO START ALL OVER AGAIN ALSKJDALKSJG MY LIFE. I am a complete moron and failure. Anyway during this process of starting over again I missed out this JunDa photo which was MEGA ADORB and I wanted it so much. I forgot about it until long after I'd left the shop and returned to the hotel, and I wanted to cry when I remembered. Now I have no JunDa photos, because that was the only one. (WHERE IS THE JUNDA LOVE, PEOPLE? CRIES.) Oh woe is me.
But let's forget about that. I AM HAPPY BECAUSE I GOT 50 SHOP PHOTOS ANYWAY. :D :D :D Here be scans. I didn't scan all of them, of course, because quite a few have already been scanned by other people. But I scanned the ones I thought were of particular note and also the ones that, well, no one else have scanned. Not that I know of, anyway.
I LOVE RYO HERE, this is the only brown-haired!Ryo pic I bought. He is cute here. I love him. *squishes* (YAY VERY VISIBLE MOLES. YAY EXPOSED NECK.)
I. Well. This is the only pic that I bought of a K8 member other than Ryo (stfu I am obv biased), and it's Yasu. IT'S YASU BECAUSE I ADORE HIM. He is cute. He is too cute. How can anyone be this cute? And there were so many adorable pics of him god it was hard to choose just one, but the CUTEST ONE OF ALL WAS SOLD OUT GODDAMIT. So I bought this one. I also love what he's wearing. I wish I owned his clothes.
Oh and interesting moment, this fangirl next to me was talking to her friend, and she pointed to this pic of Ryo and Yasu sitting together and she said, "EEEE I LOVE THIS ONE", and her friend was like, "It's not particularly cute or anything" and then the girl replied, "YEAH BUT I LOVE RYO AND YASU TOGETHER AKSJDKAJSD!!!" Looks like I found a RyoYasu fangirl (or YasuRyo? idk), ahahaha. I actually think I quite like this pairing too.
Moving on to KT, NEW SHOP PHOTOS. I'm sure you'll have heard from the KT comm. I don't think there's been any HQ scans of the Jin photos yet, but I'm not sure. Anyway I only bought one of Jin's new shop photos (because I totally did not have enough money, I only have 8,000 yen left and GOD I SPENT ALL OF IT IN THIS JE SHOP). This is the one I thought was especially adorable and I couldn't resist. I love his laugh, I LOVE HIS NEW HAIR, I want to hug him. He looks so delightfully boy-ish.
One of Junno. Because whoever says this boy is not adorable is going to get kicked.
AND NOW. UEDA LOVE. UEDA LOVE BECAUSE NO ONE GIVES UEDA LOVE. AND I DO NOT GET WHY THAT IS, BECAUSE UEDA OBV DESERVES LOVE. Just. Look. Look at how wonderful he is in the following shop photos. I couldn't stop buying his photos because lakjsldkajsd HE KEEPS BEING SO ADORABLE. I really don't think anyone has actually scanned his photos, but I may be wrong because I am often blind. Correct me if I am wrong. Even better, LINK ME TO SCANS. *___________* I want moar Princess. *paws*
Yes that last one is KameDa. YAY KINDRED SPIRITS. I love this pairing a lot more recently. They are both adorable. WHY NOT.
And I realize that there are HQ versions Kame's shop photos already, but that person uploaded to MU and MU hates me so I thought I'd scan some of mine myself. Here are four of mine. I bought more than 4 (well, if you only count the new ones, I think I bought like, 8? or is it 9? idk. but overall I have 13 of Kame only, and 16 if you include Kame with other people, 18 if you include the ones with the whole of KT-- but that's cheating-- BUT HOMG THIS GIRL IN FRONT OF ME IN THE QUEUE BOUGHT 27 OF JIN ONLY, TWENTY-SEVEN, now that's pretty amazing), but these are the ones that I thought were the cutest.
ISN'T HE THE MOST ADORABLE THING EVER, I AM PROUD TO SAY THAT I AM BIASED. I also bought a Kame uchiwa. :D :D I so wanted to buy Ueda's, which was ULTRA ULTRA ADORABLE, but because it was so adorable it was actually sold out. I was so upset. And I wanted Ryo's, but I was already broke so I couldn't. DOES ANYONE OTHER THAN ME FIND IT UTTERLY OUTRAGEOUS THAT ALL OF NEWS' UCHIWAS WERE SOLD OUT APART FROM RYO'S? I find that fact disgusting. Where is the Ryo love? WHERE WHERE WHERE. Why is Ryo's the only one which isn't sold out? Why?
SIDE NOTE:
The JE bag says this on the side:
It's always best in Johnny's entertainment world.
Enjoy yourself and have fun! fun! fun!
I AM ENJOYING MYSELF VERY MUCH, THANK YOU JE. ♥
The next day we managed to go to Yokohama successfully without me nearly fainting on the way. YAY YOKOHAMA. I saw these Rohto ads of KT at a pharmacy and took pics:
Anyway if you didn't know, Yokohama is where KT filmed that KAT-TUNx3 episode with the dates with Megumi. I was walking along a bridge and looking around and suddenly it hit me like WHAM that this was it. I was so full of glee when I realized that, HOW PATHETIC AM I. After rewatching the beginning of that video, I also realize that I stood exactly where Kame did while waiting for Megumi. I ACTUALLY DID. Anyway, pics taken from the bridge:
I honestly tried to look for the shop that Kame went to with Megumi to make the T-shirts, but I couldn't find it. We were in World Porters for ages, with me walking like three times around each floor in search of that shop. (I really am pathetic.) Maybe I was blind. ); Or maybe the shop no longer exists. It was disappointing, but anyway the good thing is I found a NEWS ad at a clothes shop:
And here is one separate shot of Pi (there was also one of Shige but I didn't have time to take a picture of that because my dad was dragging me out of the shop):
I also bought some funky new shoes. They're called 'crocs', apparently, and it seems that they're the latest trend in Japan:
And I also bought myself a new outfit, which I think is really nice:
That night I watched YamaTaro and that was a good episode, especially the end where Sho is like THE AWESOME GOD WHO GIVES WATERMELONS. Or something like that. Great drama. I still love HanaKimi more though.
Then we left on day 6, and we didn't do much on that day. But while I was flying back to Hong Kong I flipped through Popolo (I bought both Popolo and Myojo September while I was in Japan, BOTH ARE SO MUCH LOVE LASKDJFLKAJSDF) and I read through the KT pages and ohmygod I CRIED. I actually cried. I am not kidding. I read it back to front (so the ai-iro page first, the Kame page last). This is what the ai-iro page basically said (forgive if this is all utter rubbish, my Japanese skills are almost non-existant) that KAT-TUN were each a colour of the rainbow because of their personalities, and then it went on to say:
"But, the rainbow has 7 colours."
"Oh yeah, what should we do with the remaining one colour?"
"... How about, 'blue' is our love?"
The six people thought the same thing:
"That's rubbish."
They all laughed out loud.
This year, a summer with these six people once more have begun.
I teared up after reading that. THEY ARE SO CUTE, THE SIX OF THEM. THE SIX OF THEM. I love KAT-TUN, honestly, I can't imagine where I'd be without them. Then I read the bits about each member's colour. Junno's was ULTRA CHEESY but it made me grin and tear up just that little bit more.
Junno talking to KA-TUN:
"When you guys are going through tough times, I'll be your sun."
OHMYGOD JUNNO I WANT TO HUG YOU.
And then, Kame's. Kame's. Nearly had me sobbing. I am not kidding. Very vague translation, please do not think it is accurate because it is most probably not:
Red is the person who is like passion incarnate.
Always serious.
Never wants to lose in games.
Never ever wants to lose.
But, when with those five, he's always smiling a lot.
Smiling always like an idiot.
Like a child,
Smiling really really widely.
A person who's more passionate than everyone else.
A person who has a really cute smile.
And then that reminded me of this new shop photos and I just started crying. I. Uh. Have no excuse. I just love him too much. I love KAT-TUN entirely too much.
Japan, I miss you already.
♥
And that, flist, is the end of the Japan post. Now I am finally off to concentrate on the fic. THE FIC. I AM DOOMED, UTTERLY DOOMED. Wish me luck. I'll need it.