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Shirai wrote:I was at Dotonbori two days ago, nighttime is excellent for taking pictures there.
And the Okonomiyaki place is pretty good. (Not Tsuruhashi Fugetsu)

I'll keep Ame-Mura in mind, haven't been there yet.
I think I have seen most of Osaka by now though, Namba, Abenobashi, Dotonbori, Den Den Town, the harbor district with Kaiyukan, been up the ATC, and even wandered around at the end of random metro lines.

I'm kind of running out of ideas and still have a week to spend here after the WCS.

Ah well, for now I'm enjoying Laputa on YTV. ^_^

Then take a train out of town Do it while the air is 'local' and not 'China Quality'. Go to the nothernmost part of Japan, see that marker that the guy in that anime went to when he was trying to find himself. Go to Okinawa wearing a T-Short (not a misspelling) captained "I'm a US marine!" Locally, there's that place that rents out rooms based on your weight...

YTV ehh? Be sure to count the number of channels... when you get home you can gob-smack those who think Japan is all that.

Sugami wrote:I don't watch Highschool DxD, I'll watch shoujo-anime but not that crappy BL stuff

DxD is definitely not yaoi or BL or anything remotely appealing to fujoshi , it's like that Samurai Ryokkan or the usual harem anime, about as close as you can get to hentai without being it.

There is another 'Highschool Boys' anime though. That one I liked, 'Daily Lives of Highschool Boys'. The DxD is not this. Even though I like the VAs in DxD... I couldn't watch more than the pilot episodes.

Yeah I was referring to Free! and the other one about the BL Highschool DxD looks pretty dodgy, had already been running a bit when I found out about it so didn't bother with it.

I've given up on season 2 of Hakkenden, one of the more interesting shoujo-anime but I sadly don't have the time for it.

Asphe wrote: Then take a train out of town Do it while the air is 'local' and not 'China Quality'.

Yep, having a resting day today because WCS wrecked me over the weekend but need to get myself a second suitcase so I can bring back the stuff I bought here.
Tomorrow I'm going to make a trip to a ryokan with a couple of friends and stay there overnight.

Then when I get back to Osaka I'm going to have to start packing, I leave on the 11th but I have to make another trip to Tokyo on the 9th for the A-nation Island Anison generation concert in Harajuku.
And the 10th I'm either climbing the Sky tree or if it's cloudy I'll go to Comiket and make some pictures of the Gundam at Daiba.

Go to the nothernmost part of Japan, see that marker that the guy in that anime went to when he was trying to find himself.

Hokaido is still on the planning, but for another time, but when I go there I have friends I can stay at so that will be an entirely different vacation altogether.

Go to Okinawa wearing a T-Short (not a misspelling) captained "I'm a US marine!"

Been there, in August 2009, I melted... aside from that they appreciated my T-shirt saying that I am a Dutch person a lot better.
As in, most locals gave me "The eye" until they read what was on my T-shirt.

And aside from the Yonabaru Tug of War matsuri I found Okinawa quite boring to be fair...

Locally, there's that place that rents out rooms based on your weight...

What would they charge for a guy that weighs about 100KG?

YTV ehh? Be sure to count the number of channels... when you get home you can gob-smack those who think Japan is all that.

You mean those 5 standard channels I have at the hotel here?
I was glad to sometimes see the Hanshin Tigers play (and lose ), to see Laputa was a real big surprise but the commercials every 5 minutes kind of ruined it...
Sure there's a decoder box as well, but the only thing the catalogue has is porn, porn and even more porn, all scrambled by blocks of lego too.

Considering that though, I have over 110 channels at home and usually there's crap on all of those as well. But it came with the package so I can't complain.

The only thing I use my TV for is sports, games, and netflix/movies. I don't even know why I have over 800 channels, but that was the cheapest package I could get.

Over 1/2 are PPV and many of those have content infrequently. If you have a package like mine close to 50 are radio, not TV.

Then there are all the shopping channels. They pay your TV provider to get included. Television's shovelware.

Mystiana wrote:The only thing I use my TV for is sports, games, and netflix/movies. I don't even know why I have over 800 channels, but that was the cheapest package I could get.

Yeah, I have that same luxury problem...
I went to the site of my ISP (I have cable) and saw they had a new high speed and went to call them how much it would cost me to upgrade.
They're like, ok you have: this speed, with telephony, basic digital television and a subscription to HBO for 98 Euros per month.
The new package will give you: more speed, the Royal digital television package with a free DVR and a huge free selection of vod, your subscription to HBO, a free subscription to Film 1, an extra decoder for my bedroom tv and unlimited telephony to landlines and mobile phones within the Netherlands and 0.10 per call in Europe for 85 Euros per month.

Just taking the seperate Internet line would be 53 a month + 15 for standard cable tv (34 channels).

Yeah, my ISP is wacky...

(Derail here too... sorry...)

Gatchaman Crowds...

GatchaMAN~!

Probably the WTF series of the season and one of the most interesting as well. Also has Mamoru voicing the bad guy, yay~!