Instead I shall give a brief summary of how my trip went through a series of posts, hopefully looking through my photos will remind me.
がんばります！
First though a little update of the Japan related goodness I have been up to (quite) recently.
I have started going to my beloved animesoc again, and it answered something I had been wondering while in Japan
これは何だよか
These curious creatures were in plushy and keychain form all over the shops and arcades, I had guessed the label もやしもん was some contraction of 虫「むし」 the generic word for bug, and they also looked like some kind of video game character. They also reminded me of a product I had seen in cyberdog which with a bit of google foo i found to be known as GIANTmicrobes
Totally Kawaii representations of real life germs, in plushy form!!
However it turns out moyashimon is infact an anime series, based on a manga. At the anime soc meeting it was described as an anime about a boy who works on a farm and can see and talk to the bacterium and microbes around. It sounded really boring so I didn't bother voting for it, but when it appeared on screen with the cutest opening ever....
I instantly recognised the little guys, and it settled the wondering in my head. XD
The episode itself was nothing special to me though, think i watched the first 3 or so later at home then lost interest.
Here is a photo of one I took myself.
Yes it is in a Santa Hat, it was November!
Japan makes perfect sence ¬_¬
Also over the last couple months anime soc meetings I got to see the first episode of KeroroGunsou, everyones favourite commander frog from outerspace, for about the 10th time, and surprisingly it STILL made me laugh. I don't have the dedication to sit and watch my way through what is now (according to good old wiki) hundreds of episodes of the stuff though.
Keroro = cool nevertheless. I think my plushy of him would agree. ね？
The other anime I remember I liked enough to mention is dot Hack, a series I had heard of. and was vaguely curious about for years, didn't disappoint and I plan to slowly watch more episodes than the first 3 or so seen with animesoc.
Aside from animesoc, I also went to the give-it-a-go start up session of a new society, dorama-soku, or known to everyone else as fransoc after the girl who started it. It is very similar to anime soc, sit in a room and watch fansubs, only this time of Japanese TV drama series rather than anime.
I got to see the original super sentai or as known in the west "Power Rangers" episode in original Japanese without the American actors cut into it, it was really amusing, as it seemed to have zero budget and make even less sense! There was also a random episode from the Akihabara@Deep series, of which i have seen some kind of OVA/Movie thing in the past and love for all the sights & sounds of 秋葉原 as well as the general idea, which seems to be a group of otaku who fight gangs, they all have their own quirks and were somehow all united by a mysterious online persona ... bizarre but totally 楽しい
The best thing to come out of the meeting though, （aside from the free and 美味しかったケーキ）was my introduction to the series 花より男子 , I was hooked from the first 30seconds, and have managed to watch nearly all of the two series in just 3days! That is what happens when my job gives me so much time off work!
I cannot decide which of the male protagonists is my favourite as it seems to change every couple of episodes, the most gorgeous award goes to Oguri Shun as Hanazawa Rui at the moment, and even though i know it is just light fluffy romantic nonsense, with some really bad acting at places, the whole series warms my heart and I really really want a happy ending! :)
It reminds me a lot of Ouran High School Host Club, but with real life actors, so cannot possibly be a bad thing ^_^
My major anime news is the end of ガンダム00 s2, and the shock announcement of a movie, but I think gundam related stuff deserves a post of it's own sometime.
I think that is about it!
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