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Mar. 13th, 2022 08:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dmxratedThe five of us went to Japantown yesterday to have lunch and look around.
For my drink, I ordered a bottle of strawberry ramune, and me, Marie, and Drew all needed a few minutes to figure out how to open it properly.
I never bought anything after looking around at stuff after we ate, but Marie did buy me, Drew, and herself each a mochi donut before we headed back out.
Went bowling, and I took a chance then to request a slightly bigger shoe size than my sneakers are. The alley we went to had such gimmicks as lights that gradually change color over the pins, and something called YouToons, where you make several different expressions as placeholders for various post-turn animations. Some of those included skydiving and landing in a haystack or in front of a cafe, a ninja botching an attempt to steal something and getting arrested, a set of Russian dolls followed by some guys dancing on a stage, someone climbing a ladder to place the bride and groom on a wedding cake and crashing down instead, an old lady barely able to cross the street until several cars crash, a wolf catching a sheep and dressing into its wool, and a knight catapulting himself to save a princess in a tower.
Drew won the game, I followed up, and Emily lagged behind the rest of us, having guttered half the time.
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For dinner, we ordered some Chinese food, but I wasn't very hungry. While awaiting our food, we watched a telling of Stregga Nona, something we saw from Children's Circle when we were little, although that version has not turned out to be available even as I sought it out this morning. (Still the same actual book, though.)
We also watched a couple of documentary clips of people living in Siberia and Ethiopia just before our food arrived. I wasn't very hungry, and only had myself a barbecued pork bun at some point, before deciding to set something up myself, settling soon for Kanon after initially failing to decide when Brian asked me what I was thinking of. (That was originally going to be to commemorate our first time eating (authentic) taiyaki, but even though we didn't find that, I figured we might as well watch it anyway, after already talking about it. There is a reference to its first episode in Lucky Star's third, though, so that might be another good reason to switch to that just briefly beforehand.)
I then ran past them that Lucky Star and Madoka might as well remain for on Long Island, since Brian and Emily have already seen those in full, and Asuka is too graphic for Emily, but Brian told me not to plan around him if those first two were what I planned on showing them in the first place, and we went on to watch another Lucky Star after all.
Marie then tried to put on another children's tale, The King and the Seed, but the first version she found was way out of sync, and the second before she gave up was put together very poorly and even stopped just short of the actual conclusion.
Brian took his turn to put on a music video he watched before, for Back That Ass Up by Juvenile, but it turned out to be a censored version, replacing "ass" with "thang" and muting several other words altogether.
And finally, I put on another favorite anime song of mine, the first opening sequence of New Game!, since that happens to be my current ringtone following Asuka's.
For my drink, I ordered a bottle of strawberry ramune, and me, Marie, and Drew all needed a few minutes to figure out how to open it properly.
I never bought anything after looking around at stuff after we ate, but Marie did buy me, Drew, and herself each a mochi donut before we headed back out.
Went bowling, and I took a chance then to request a slightly bigger shoe size than my sneakers are. The alley we went to had such gimmicks as lights that gradually change color over the pins, and something called YouToons, where you make several different expressions as placeholders for various post-turn animations. Some of those included skydiving and landing in a haystack or in front of a cafe, a ninja botching an attempt to steal something and getting arrested, a set of Russian dolls followed by some guys dancing on a stage, someone climbing a ladder to place the bride and groom on a wedding cake and crashing down instead, an old lady barely able to cross the street until several cars crash, a wolf catching a sheep and dressing into its wool, and a knight catapulting himself to save a princess in a tower.
Drew won the game, I followed up, and Emily lagged behind the rest of us, having guttered half the time.
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For dinner, we ordered some Chinese food, but I wasn't very hungry. While awaiting our food, we watched a telling of Stregga Nona, something we saw from Children's Circle when we were little, although that version has not turned out to be available even as I sought it out this morning. (Still the same actual book, though.)
We also watched a couple of documentary clips of people living in Siberia and Ethiopia just before our food arrived. I wasn't very hungry, and only had myself a barbecued pork bun at some point, before deciding to set something up myself, settling soon for Kanon after initially failing to decide when Brian asked me what I was thinking of. (That was originally going to be to commemorate our first time eating (authentic) taiyaki, but even though we didn't find that, I figured we might as well watch it anyway, after already talking about it. There is a reference to its first episode in Lucky Star's third, though, so that might be another good reason to switch to that just briefly beforehand.)
I then ran past them that Lucky Star and Madoka might as well remain for on Long Island, since Brian and Emily have already seen those in full, and Asuka is too graphic for Emily, but Brian told me not to plan around him if those first two were what I planned on showing them in the first place, and we went on to watch another Lucky Star after all.
Marie then tried to put on another children's tale, The King and the Seed, but the first version she found was way out of sync, and the second before she gave up was put together very poorly and even stopped just short of the actual conclusion.
Brian took his turn to put on a music video he watched before, for Back That Ass Up by Juvenile, but it turned out to be a censored version, replacing "ass" with "thang" and muting several other words altogether.
And finally, I put on another favorite anime song of mine, the first opening sequence of New Game!, since that happens to be my current ringtone following Asuka's.