/jp/ meetup

[Anonymous No.]

So who is up for a trip to Nakano Broadway tomorrow?

[Anonymous No.]

Is there a point of going to Nakano Broadway if there is Akiba?
While the stores in Akiba are also cramped, you are at least out in the open as soon as you leave them, whereas in Nakano Broadway it's always cramped, no matter where you go.

Didn't you say you'd leave on the 4th?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8356402
We can go to a different place if you have one in mind; Akiba again could also work.
I'm leaving on the 7th

[Anonymous No.]

Nakano Broadway is shit.
I always thought the Mandarake at Nakano would be best but boy am I wrong. Only go there if you like sega ufo prize shit.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8356416
Do you know who's still around? I was thinking about going to Akiba/Maid Cafe tomorrow evening anyways, might as well meet up somewhere.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8356436
If you're not the one that e-mailed me about another meetup, then there is at least one other person.

How about 5PM outside the Gundam cafe?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8356471
I should get some work done tomorrow and it takes me a little while to Akiba. I think I could be there around 7PM, or just catch up with you guys if you tell me where you are.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8356505
Alright then; 6PM at the Gundam cafe then 7PM outside the bar from last time?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8356516
The Nagomi one?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8356528
The one with the western look

[Anonymous No.]

>>8356531
Sorry, I left after the maid cafe last time, so I don't know which one you are talking about.

[FurudeKomuro No.]

>>8356604
It's the place we tried going to first but they didn't have enough room for us.
http://rg-daiichi-kunn.at.webry.info/201101/article_12.html

[Anonymous No.]

>>8356630
Ah, okay. Let's hope I find it again...

[FurudeKomuro No.]

>>8356712
Go to the Gundam cafe at 7 if you can't find it;
we will stop by there before going somewhere.

[Anonymous No.]

what is this? why are you guys talking like you are somewhere.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8356748
Would you prefer we were talking like we were nowhere?

[FurudeKomuro No.]

>>8356748
Because we are?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8356761
I really dont like you

[FurudeKomuro No.]

The hanko-ya finally opened again after new years so I had one hand-crafted with the name 古手(furude)
I'm so changing my bank signature to this; it's so much easier to forge a signature than to sculpt one out of wood.
Actually, I should think of a way to write "fuck you TD Canada" on a hanko and use that.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8357094
>Actually, I should think of a way to write "fuck you TD Canada" on a hanko and use that.
I don't usually like 'namefags' but you seem pretty cool

[Anonymous No.]

Wow, another /jp/ meetup? I will be there!

[FurudeKomuro No.]

>>8357100
I take it you have dealt with TD bullshit before?

[Anonymous No.]

Does anyone know where they sell doujin music CDs they don't have at Toranoana/K-Books?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8357358
The internet.

[FurudeKomuro No.]

>>8357364
Brilliant!

[Anonymous No.]

>>8356761
>pony tunes

[FurudeKomuro No.]

>>8357436
He may very well have the only copy of that doujin, ever.
Be sure to ask very nicely if you want scans for reaction images.

[FurudeKomuro !VXm1qKQDCo No.]

I have apparently evolved to 'namefag' so I'll start using one of these tripcode things to avoid identity theft.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8356761
You scare me sometimes /jp/, I hope you only bought pony tunes as some sort of joke.

[FurudeKomuro !VXm1qKQDCo No.]

>>8357569
He did buy it as a joke; you guys freak out way too easily..

[Anonymous No.]

Do any of you guys have phones/emails that you can check in real time? I have work until like 7:30 or so, but I'll head out to Akiba afterward since it's a Friday after all.

[[e-mail] No.]

>>8357758
Yeah I got a local line number.
send me an email

[Anonymous No.]

>>8357771
Sent.
I will email you again tomorrow I guess to find out where people are meeting up.

[FurudeKomuro !VXm1qKQDCo No.]

>>8357758
I'm not sure what my cell number would be here...
It's 514 (Montreal area code); then 240_5968. Avoid calling me since Rogers somehow charges $3 PER FUCKING MINUTE.
*514_240_5968* If you manage to figure out how to dial that in Japan then text me.

Post something on Furude.net since I'll check there from time to time.

[FurudeKomuro !VXm1qKQDCo No.]

I'm going to sleep now;
the meetup is outside the bar we went to last time at 7 PM.

For anyone that want's to join us and wasn't there last time:
Meet me outside the Gundam cafe for 6 PM at Akihabara station and I'll bring you there.
Look for the gaijin with long blonde hair.

[Anonymous No.]

A question for the guys who went to the Comiket this year : how good is your Japanese language and how long did it take to attain that level?

[FurudeKomuro !VXm1qKQDCo No.]

>>8358128
I can translate text but my spoken Japanese is shit.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8358128
My Japanese is shit.

But you can quite happly attend Comiket and get what you want without knowing much Japanese at all.

[Anonymous No.]

Everybody got home alright?

Hopefully that one guy survived the night. It would haunt me forever if he had died there, alone, somewhere on the streets of Akihabara.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8364704
What.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8364719
/jp/ meetups are serious business

[FurudeKomuro !VXm1qKQDCo No.]

>>8364704
I got home fine minus the hangover.
Thanks for another epic /jp/ meetup!

[Anonymous No.]

>>8364704
Made it just in time for the last train at 1215.
I hope you guys got wasted after I left and slept on the street and I hope that pony faggot miss his flight.

[FurudeKomuro !VXm1qKQDCo No.]

>>8367187
One guy puked all over and went missing...

[Anonymous No.]

I wish you had all committed group suicide.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8367216
I wish I had one million dollars.

Truly, life is cruel.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8357358
If you're meaning like the original music kind of thing, instead of touhou arranges. Then DJ Chucky's shop is king.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8367187
>I hope that pony faggot miss his flight.
Must be a weird feeling to see people talking shit about you online after a meetup.

Assuming he was part of your crew, that is.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8367273
You only use nickname on your friends silly!

[FurudeKomuro !VXm1qKQDCo No.]

Did I get a yen bill over 1000?
I vaguely remember having one but can't find it...
Hopefully I didn't forget my money somewhere.

[Anonymous No.]

I've forgotten a lot of things about last night, but I'm pretty sure I didn't died.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8367362
*didn't die.
I've forgotten english too it seems.

[FurudeKomuro !VXm1qKQDCo No.]

Alright correct me if this is wrong guys
-Had 10,000 bill, got food, had 9,000 left
-Paid guy to ship hanko so now 8,500
-Used credit card for drinking place, should have gotten 12,000, so total 20,500 yen
-I don't remember what happened after that but I have 10,000 yen -.-

>>8367362
Are you the guy that puked at the bar?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8367399
Yeah...
I just took a taxi home in a brief moment of awareness.

[FurudeKomuro !VXm1qKQDCo No.]

>>8367430
Awesome, we got worried after a while when we couldn't figure out where you went.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8367430
Good to hear you made it back okay. We thought you might have passed out in some alley or something.

>>8367399
You paid at the karaoke place too right? When we left karaoke, I remember you thought you had already paid for some reason, but we hadn't paid yet. Then we all gave you cash and you went and paid... but I can't remember if they took your card or not, so maybe you paid using the cash at that point?

But yeah, /jp/ meetup was fun. My throat is really sore from karaoke though.

[FurudeKomuro !VXm1qKQDCo No.]

>>8367582
I just found the receipt for that and I did pay with the cash...
Fucking derp

[Anonymous No.]

Kinda unrelated but there is no better thread to ask this in
How is life in Moonland for you people who are actually there ?

[Anonymous No.]

How much did you guys save for the trip?

Would 3k be enough? That being the total amount, including money for airfare and a hotelroom.

Or am I just too poorfag?

[Anonymous No.]

You guys suck each other's cocks as a form of greeting in one of these meetups?

[FurudeKomuro !VXm1qKQDCo No.]

>>8367582
Wait, how much did you guys give me at the karaoke?

>>8367689
3k should be fine

[Anonymous No.]

>>8367689
I will give you an estimate price of how much the shit cost in comiket and akiba.
The average price of 1doujin in comiket - 500yen
Outside of comiket prepare to pay slightly more.
Now we move on the more expensive stuff, stuff from the corporate booth.
Merchandises typically cost around 2000 to 5000yen for shirts, keychains, poster and other special tie in.
For example Toranoana calendar and artbooks are 1000yen each.
Doujin CDs are usually 1000yen each.
Dakimura range from 3000yen to 10000yen.
1500yen/day on food would be more than enough.
Flight and hotel price, you can find them yourself from the internet.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8367722
Late as hell, but thanks anon.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8367679
I've been living here a long time, and I like it. If your hobbies are /jp/ related, and you're willing to put in the effort to learn the language well (which actually isn't really that hard if you live here and don't have any non-Japanese friends, which is the case for me), I think it's a fine place to live. I'm not sure if any of the other Anons who came to the meetup are living here long term though.

>>8367706
I'm not sure. We were all too sleepy/drunk to figure out the tab after we finished karaoke I think. But I feel like it was 2k per person + drinks, and we all ordered 1 drink, so you should have been getting like 2.5 - 3k from each of us, I guess?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8370019
What are the chances of finding a place to live for a few months in Tokyo? I like it here way too much to just leave again after a few months.
I've got a one year visa, gaijin card and bank account, so finding a place to stay is more or less the only problem.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8370346
You basically need someone who lives there to cosign a lease for you, and a landlord that will take gaijin.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8367187
Nope, fuck sleep.

>>8367689
If you want an idea of how much I spent, I spent (in USD) 1400 on airfare, 1800 on hotels for 2 weeks (this can be like $23 a night if you are willing to share a room in a hostel), brought 4000 in cash and still had to use the ATM a few times. I'm sure exchange rates are fucking me over, but depending on how much shit you buy, the money goes pretty fast.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8367362
Good to see you didn't die in a pile of garbage. Puking Madotsuki indeed.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8370346
I had a place in the middle of Shinjuku for many years for about 60,000 a month plus utilities. I went on and off between working odd jobs and going to school, and had a couple fairly long periods of being NEET. Had to leech a lot of money from my parents back in the US, but it worked out alright.

>cosign a lease
Right, I remember this being a bit of a pain. When I first came here, I lived in a dorm for the college I was attending. The apartment I lived, I still belonged to the college (even though I was skipping class and looking to quit), so they cosigned for me. When going back to school (which requires the same kind of cosigner) a few years later to get another visa, I got some random guy from a small family owned English school that I'd done work for a couple times to sign for me. Basically, if you have a job or a school, get someone from there to sign. If not, I do know that there are outfits that will cosign for you, for a fee.

>a landlord that will take gaijin.
I don't think this is really a problem? I've gone through many apartments searching for places to live over here and I never heard of anyone not accepting gaijin as long as you have a cosigner. Maybe if you were trying to live in some backwater town or something.

>>8372167
Hahaha oh wow, the irony of the fact that he was the only guy to obtain that doujinshi just hit me.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8372162
goddamn i am going to have to save up more money if i go to comike

[Anonymous No.]

It sounds like that last meetup was fun, I almost regret travelling down to Osaka and missing it. I'm home now though, and pretty screwed from all the alcohol and lack of sleep. At least customs just waved me through, so I didn't have to make some awkward explanations.

[Yutanpo !1DeKKAi00Y No.]

was there a couple weeks ago and saw the Ashinano Hitoshi YKK artbook for 5000 yen, but didn't have enough money..
Nakano Broadway is great. Also there's a maid bar in Nakano with a girl who speaks English.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8374538 At least customs just waved me through, so I didn't have to make some awkward explanations.
On my last day in Japan I brought one of the Touhou new year’s lucky bags from White Canvas thinking it would fit in my luggage, but it was far too large for luggage and I had to hand carry it on the outside everywhere. The bag looked like so (pic) and I got lots of smirks particularly at Narita Airport while carrying this around, I was pretty embarrassed.

I too am just happy that customs let me pass through avoiding any potentially embarrassing moments (even though everything I had on me was at most PG rated).

Anyway, it was really nice to meet you all. Who would have thought that a /jp/ meet up could have been such a success? All my initial intuition told me that it would turn into a shit shambles but of course it didn’t. Would like to do it again sometime.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8356761
i like bum gloves, will simply cutting fingertips on old gloves work, or there is some magic to prevent them from raveling out to be done?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8374805
Hey what is inside the white canvas lucky bag? I didnt buy it because I was expecting the ugly cirno 9 blue jacket in it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8374878
Agreed, they allow you to mess with a cell phone or whatever in the cold. Those ones were designed like that though, I think normal gloves would unravel if you just cut the fingers off.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8374946
if you look in girls sections of gloves you can find tons of mittens that fold back to reveal fingers

[Anonymous No.]

>>8375076
Waiting warmly.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8374919
I still haven't opened the bag yet. Will soon and post its contents.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8375079
Here's what's inside. It was the 5K yen bag and there was supposed to be at least 14K yen worth of stuff. I think it's ok. I like the Reimu wall scroll the best. Thankfully the Cirno doujins were tame and just cute.

[Anonymous No.]

That Remi jingsaw puzzle is nice.
Damm I should have bought it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8375211
Yeah, that Reimu is kawaii as shit. And the Yuuka fumofumo isn't half bad either.

I'd say it's worth it. Now you can look forward to assembling your jigsaw puzzle.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8375211
what else you get?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8374805
Customs waved me through when I came through today too. Glad they didn't want to check my stuff since the loli doujins might've caused delays and missed connections.

I was hoping they would let me take the Kishida Mel tapestry I got at comiket on the plane, but I had to check it in to oversized luggage. Luckily, I was smart enough to take the tapestry off and only check in the poles because the airline shipped those poles to the wrong place. So I'm still awake, after being unable to sleep on both flights because babbies all around and not sleeping the night before because of the meetup, waiting for the airport to deliver my plastic poles to me sometime in the next couple of hours.

It was a good meetup though, I would do it again. Thinking about going again next winter, but not sure yet.

Pic related. Trying to unpack when I got back, the piles of shit go around both corners...

[Anonymous No.]

>>8375286
Excluding the comiket stuff, a lot of junk Anonymous. Pictured are a few things I’ve photographed.

More usual stuff in that lot, includes:
- Stuff from the Madoka exhibition out at Ikebukuro.
- Shrine/temple stuff including a tengu charm from Hansobo Shrine (crow tengu everywhere there), lucky cats from Gotoku-ji temple and an “anti-evil” arrow from Tsurugaoka Hachimangu shrine that a couple of Japanese friends brought for me when we were out there for new year’s prayers. I apparently have to return the arrow back to the shrine next year for incineration.
- Galaxy Angel production sketches.

Excluding the stuff they got at Comekit, I’d be interested in seeing what some of the others also got.

[Anonymous No.]

Were there no girls at the meet-up?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8375588

But they're all little girls, Anonymous

[Anonymous No.]

>>8375588
There was like one at the start of /jp/ meetup... but she quickly ran away. Really I don't blame her.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8375211
I am kind of jelly over your Remi.
White Canvas wasnt selling it when I went there.
Got the 1/6 Volks Kenshin and GSC Horo for cheap when I went Akiba shopping during New Year Day.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8375625
What was she like?
What did she say?

[Anonymous No.]

god i bet you faggots were meme spount allover the god damn place. not only making 4chan and /jp/ look shittier than it already is but also the impression of the west as well. i wish i could have been there to kill you all to prevent this from happening

[Anonymous No.]

>>8375662
She didn't say much at all really. She was a friend of one of the other guys that attended. I'm guessing she took one look at us and thought something like "oh-no, this isn't for me".

>>8375626
I love your Remi plush. I was supposed to get one of those from the commercial area at Comiket but totally forgot.

>>8375645 i bet you faggots were meme spount allover the god damn place
No. You can sleep happier tonight Anonymous.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8375509
Aside from animu stuff in general, I mostly bought a bunch of clothes - New jackets and shirts and stuff.

I think I also got all of the K-Books new year's special items.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8375625
She wasn't from /jp/, at least as far as I know. I called them there because there were waiting for me somewhere else.
Some Anons were loudly speculating how to troll a maid by ordering one coffee for all of us when they arrived, which might have caused them to reconsider staying with us.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8375708
I don't think she was a /jp/-er anyway, so I wouldn't really count her as part of the meet-up to begin with.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8375742
>Some Anons were loudly speculating how to troll a maid by ordering one coffee for all of us when they arrived, which might have caused them to reconsider staying with us.

never change /jp/

[Anonymous No.]

The feeling on nostalgia this thread induces even though I've never been to Japan, thanks for the interesting read with pictures /jp/.

[Anonymous No.]

i got some isotoner smartouch gloves that have some material on the fingertips that allow you to use a smartphone with them on

[Anonymous No.]

>>8375362
Is that a gigantic stuffed shark or something off to the side??

[Anonymous No.]

>>8376691
i gotta know

[FurudeKomuro No.]

Just cleared customs; loli porn is secure!
I have a bunch of stuff to post when I get home.

[█▓▒░▒▓█ !a.SKhYCGZQ No.]

42 sages....

[Anonymous No.]

You bitches. I could have stayed in Tokyo over the weekend and been up for this, but after my flight to Singapore got canceled on Friday I said "fuck it" and took the night bus home instead ;____;

I did spend most of Friday at Ooedo Onsen Monogatari, though, so it's not a total loss, but still.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8377908
Yeah, it's one of the giant stuffed sharks I saw someone posted on here many months ago. I went and bought it and it takes up my whole couch.

[FurudeKomuro !VXm1qKQDCo No.]

Fucking babies keeping me awake and plane delays...

Here is the summarized version of the meetup; I'll post all the crazy aftermath tomorrow.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8378749
We have someone from Singapore or was it just a transit flight?

[Anonymous No.]

A burned AKB48 towel we found outside of the AKB48 shop/cafe.

>>8374013
Thanks. I was more wondering if it is possible to rent a place for a some months instead of the usual one/two year terms.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8381972
Oh, yeah, that's possible too, and you don't need a cosigner or anything. My parents rented a rental apartment for a couple weeks when they came to visit once a while back. It's considerably more expensive than renting a normal apartment, but less expensive than a hotel.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8381972
This made me laugh when we found it. It was tied to a handrail outside the cafe, and burnt. I imagine it's kind of like the way you might find a burnt flag outside some government office as a form of protest.