International Party Shibuya

Wow, such a tough day, ran circles around Tokyo before the international party in Shibuya.  First my morning started off with teaching some Eikawa for Elementary School students.  Of course being the funny guy I am I like to mess with my students.  Our topic for today was "What`s for dinner" and I had them choose the food out of a pile of cards.  As it was boring enough, I decided to not just use the food cards, but ALL of the previous cards from other lessons, things such as cameleon, ladybug, and cheese, but this was by far the funniest conversation.

"What's for dinner?"

"Baby sister....."

".....Do you want baby sister?"

"..........Yes, please."

Of course, they bursted out laughing, and baby sister became the butt of many jokes (It was actually even more hilarious, as the little girl looked like the one in the exact same dialog in the book, and she actually dissapears mysteriously on the next page of another skit in the exact same household.  I wonder what happened to her?

Anyway, after that I was going to meet my friend Naoto in Kinshicho to see the new Japanese release of Life of Pi because I had seen a commercial on TV.  But by the time we got there, it was sold out, along with Ted.  Oh well.  We screwed around and went to Akihabara until the party.  Once we got to Shibuya, I was starving, and on the way to the party, we see a freakin Sbarro.  This was the first time I had seen one in Japan, and I was eager to eat some real American pizza, not that fake crap that everyone claims to have.  I enjoyed some real NY style pizza for the first time in a year, I'm certainly going back there just for that... but anyway, I reccomend it.

Once the party rolled around I was joined by another oen of my Japanese friends, Tasuku(he's a hot blooded otaku) and we wandered around for a bit until we found the party.  Once we got there it was very small and cozy, but a little too cozy as there were very few people, compared to the usual(about 30 people, compared to the 200+ parties I see in Roppongi).  However the drinks weren't bad, and afterwards we went to karaoke.  We started off the night with some Pokemon and Inuyasha, lol I guess everyone else had no clue what we were singing to they just sat back and watched the foreigners sing, and one girl called me マイケル, lol.

However we stayed too long and wouldn't make it back to Chiba on the last train.  My otaku friend Tasuku said he's treat us to a place that he's been wanting to go to for months now... an all night Cosplay Bar in Akihabara.  Me and my friend were'nt getting home anyway, so we said why not! 

When we got to Akihabara it was eerily quiet.  My friend Tasuku commented that he's never seen Akihabara this quiet before.  At 1am in the morning, it's an otaku ghost town.  When we finally got to the hole in the wall bar, we were greeted with a cloud of smoke and cosplay girls.  They seated us down and we ordered food and drinks.  The drinks had the wierdest names such as "~that~" and "little devil."  The complimented me on my ability to read the kanji, but I only could because I play too many games as it is.
The food menu was pretty standard for a bar, but a few entries had a twist, like the tower of onion rings.  They wouldn't let us pick the sauce, we had to roll a die to determine what sauces we would get.  Luckily, we ended up rolling cheese, barbecue, and chili sauce.

 I picked up various conversations about anime and junk, and Comiket.  I was actually interested in the most on the conversation about Digimon.

"Are you going to pick up the new Digimon game?"

"Yeah, I'm getting it tommorow!"

While I'm a fan of Digimon myself, blowing almost 7000 yen on a new PSP game(Especially Digimon!) is a heinous crime.  Bandai is obviously trying to suck every last dime out of the people who still actually like Digimon.

Anyway, by the end of the night, we were passing out and finally got around to ordering our check.  We staggered back to the train station, and I headed back to Chiba.  What a crazy night, huh?