Today we got up earlier than usual. We went to the Touhou convention - Reitaisai.
Godd, the line was so huge. When we got into the line it practically didn’t move at all for 40 minutes, and I really started getting worried that we are never gonna get in there. But suddenly we started moving fast, and fairly quickly we got inside.
There was a lot of cool stuff, but… I’m not really a fan of Touhou in the first place. I saw a lot of familiar artists, and an incredible amount of beautiful art, but nothing really caught my attention for me to want to buy it.
I suddenly remembered about a cool artist being there, and I made the single purchase for myself. I really really like it.
I also wanted to get a fumo, but my God the line to get one was so insanely long and I literally couldn’t even figure out how do you get into it. So I didn’t.
After we were done with the main hall, we’ve went to the Itasha and Cosplay building. I’m so mad about this. I needed to buy some photography pass to be allowed to take photos, but I couldn’t figure out where. And I’m also too shy to ask people… in Japanese… if I can photograph them. So I ended up taking zero photos of cosplayers with my cool ass camera…
Overall, I left with very mixed feelings… I felt like I was supposed to buy more, to photo more, but didn’t… My friend said that if I got out with a single good item, it’s already a success, so maybe it’s not too bad…
We saw a lame robot and ate tasty tsukemen ramen. Very good, but too little broth.
Also ate matcha ice cream, which was very good. After this we split up and went to chill to our hotel for a bit.
Sky got incredibly beautiful, so we walked around for a bit. We wanted to meet █████████████ again tonight, but he said he wants to finish dissertation, so we didn’t. We ended up going to Shibuya, back to the cool skyscraper rooftop.
We spent some time there, talking to our families. Got told to leave, because skyscraper was getting closed. After this, we started looking for a place to eat, but couldn’t really find anything good in Shibuya at night (oddly).
There’s a Japanese guy (█████████████) that I’ve been sometimes talking with occasionally for the past 3 years. He’s been nice and wanted to help me move to Japan, even back when I still lived in Ukraine. We kinda stopped talking for some time, but I told him that I’m in Tokyo, and he really wanted to meet. Our schedules weren’t really lining up, and █████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████, but I’ve decided to give it a try. I told him if he knows any nice place to go to in Shinjuku, and he searched up a place.
We walked around Shinjuku, and got to the place. Ended up waiting for him for around 20 minutes. Not gonna lie, I was super worried about how it’s all gonna go. He practically doesn’t know English, while I practically don’t know Japanese, and I didn’t know if he’ll be fun to be around with or it’ll be just super awkward.
He suddenly appeared out of nowhere, super quick! He instantly recognized that it’s us, we recognized that it’s him, despite us never seeing each other, and got into the Izakaya. I instantly got relieved, he seemed like a super fun person to be around with.
We got our table and ordered drinks and food. My god, it was super fun. Thankfully I had █████████████ with me, who could help with translating things around. We spent the next 2 hours eating random food and drinking. It wasn’t awkward or bad in the slightest.
We ordered pizza, and when it arrived I got almost shocked at how small it is, lol. But it was genuinely one of the tastiest pizzas I ate, I don’t even know how that happens. I also ate fried squid and oysters for the first time. All of it was super good.
We left at like 11:50 and went to the station. Our last trains would leave soon, so we hurried a bit. We said the goodbyes, and separated.
It was very fun.
