an otaku fan of all things moé
This one’s for the Tribes fans. I don’t actually get this joke
Now that I’ve had a decent rest and recovery from the flight back (cursed travel sickness), I can post a Comiket follow-up. I’ll start off with questions that were submitted in the last post.
There’s not a lot of pictures to show, mainly because my hands were usually full with bags, but I’ll post some “look how big these crowds are” photos later.
My trip wasn’t to be all fun and games and baking in the punishing sunlight. I was off to meet a compatriot this morning, since I wanted to get in touch with another branch of the multinational company that pays my food bills.
Japan conspires to wake me up at odd hours of the day. This morning it started with a gentle shaking at around 5 AM. At first, in my sleep-addled state, I thought “Oh it’s probably just a truck passing by.” As the shaking increased, my first thought was “This is Japan, so… earthquake! OhGodOhGodI’mGonnaDieeeee”. The rational part of my brain kicked in surprisingly quickly and scribbled a cue-card: “They engineer buildings here to withstand this sort of stuff, settle down.” The other scattered bits of my brain set up a committee, took a vote, and settled on the motion that experiencing this geological phenomenon without being flattened was, as the kids say these days, “fully sick.”
The alarm clock in my phone woke me up at the ungodly hour of 4 AM. After a quick cuppa tea, checking I had all my gear and loading it in the car, it was off to Domestic Terminal for the first leg to Cairns.
In a few days’ time I’ll be flying to Japan, to partake in the gruelling festival that is Comic Market 76. There’s a few things I still have to buy, and of course packing hasn’t started yet, but I’m mostly set.
In any trip overseas, spending money is something that has to happen regardless of it being on food, transport, and even shopping for goods/souvenirs. Throughout the entirety of my Japan trip I recorded everything that I spent in a notepad I carried with me everywhere. It’s good to record these type of things to know how much of your budget you are spending but it can also be used for future references. No doubt my trip was pretty epic in many ways I’m sure people want to know exactly how much I spent. Anyway hit the jump to read a breakdown report on my daily expenditure for my Japan trip.
