phreak said ...

Btw Sin: Please let me know if you see some of the stuff I mention is incorrect. Odds are I misinterpreted A LOT. lol

Yeah sure thing. Im sure you will be right on what you say

btw, pics of the Ghibli museum and the Shonen place... makes me really want to go!!! Will have to plan for that myself now. thanks haha!

Wolf101 said ...

Japan certainly knows how to nurture its geek community.

Yeah to a degree. Things like OP are not really nerd community in Japan though.

Sinncross said ...

phreak said ...

Btw Sin: Please let me know if you see some of the stuff I mention is incorrect. Odds are I misinterpreted A LOT. lol

Yeah sure thing. Im sure you will be right on what you say

btw, pics of the Ghibli museum and the Shonen place... makes me really want to go!!! Will have to plan for that myself now. thanks haha!

Wolf101 said ...

Japan certainly knows how to nurture its geek community.

Yeah to a degree. Things like OP are not really nerd community in Japan though.

Yeah, from what I could tell One Piece is really dam popular in Japan. Ads for it on the trains, tvs, ect. One Piece merch at tokyo tower, One Piece merch at mt Fuji, ect. It's everywhere. lol

J-world has jump anime theme songs playing the entire time. While we were eating this came on!

And instantly everyone in the tour group stops eating and started singing along. I'd say about 90% of the group are massive One Piece fans. We all know this song by heart. lol!

That J World looks freaking awesome!!!!

What other nationalities where in your tour group, Phreak?

Wolf101 said ...

What other nationalities where in your tour group, Phreak?

The entire group came in from the UK. Me and Felicia were the only ones from another country.
Cool bunch of people. All anime/manga fans so everyone got along and had lenghy anime discussions.

Real life anime discussions!

Jealous!

Visit to the Meji shrine in Harajuku

Btw, don't walk in the middle of the huge path here. That belongs to the gods. That's their part.











Sake barrels.


Wine barrels gifts from the french hundreds of years ago.



Some people like to purify themselves before entering:



Other pics of the shrine now:

Some of these are really close to anime...
Always wondered how much of anime is exaggeration...

Tebulot said ...

Some of these are really close to anime...
Always wondered how much of anime is exaggeration...

Dunno about that, but the trip was everything I imagined and more.

After quite a few people asked me, I will be putting up waaay more pics of J-world up later. It's on my phone and I don't have a usb cable with me right now. But will upload them later. Promise!

Thanks for sharing, it looks awesome! Very jealous.

Ikebukoro at night. Was when we were on our way to J-world













Ultraman statue!

Bunch of awesome dancing bikers with ponpadour haircuts in the park in Harajuku.

phreak said ...

Bunch of awesome dancing bikers with ponpadour haircuts in the park in Harajuku.

Like a boss

Tebulot said ...

Some of these are really close to anime...
Always wondered how much of anime is exaggeration...

Japanese usually take their culture really seriously. As much as an anime can be exaggerated, the environments (and societal actions in some cases) are pretty accurate, unless the context of the world is clearly fictitious.


@Phreak
what time did you see the Harajuku cosplayers? I have been there on 2 separate Sundays but always appear to miss them.

Sinncross said ...

Tebulot said ...

Some of these are really close to anime...
Always wondered how much of anime is exaggeration...

Japanese usually take their culture really seriously. As much as an anime can be exaggerated, the environments (and societal actions in some cases) are pretty accurate, unless the context of the world is clearly fictitious.

What about the whole "getting a cold" scenario? In pretty much every anime ever, somebody gets a cold and it's pretty much the same as Ebola. Or somebody gets splashed with 10ml of water and everybody panics because "Oh Noes! U will Getz a cold!" Are colds that bad, or is it just a running joke?

Sinncross said ...

Tebulot said ...

Some of these are really close to anime...
Always wondered how much of anime is exaggeration...

Japanese usually take their culture really seriously. As much as an anime can be exaggerated, the environments (and societal actions in some cases) are pretty accurate, unless the context of the world is clearly fictitious.


@Phreak
what time did you see the Harajuku cosplayers? I have been there on 2 separate Sundays but always appear to miss them.

It was on a sunday. Can't remember the time..sometime after 13:00.. but there wern't that many. The biker guys were still there dancing though. Which was pretty cool.

Tokyo Tower! What a view