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Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 7:29 am
Tadai-ma~
Hi y'all! Ah just got back from Japan this weekend! Ah spent a week in there doin' business meetins and a whole lotta sightseein'!
After all the jetlag, Ah just wanted ta share with ya a couple things that stuck out ta me in relation ta Azumanga Daioh!
-For one thing, NecoConeco actually exists! Ah didn't really believe the dvd insert until Ah saw the real thing... But it's actually a symbol of two black cats. A larger cat carryin' a smaller cat is what it is, and they both have creepy lookin' yellow eyes. It's called Kuroyamaneko or somethin' similar, and the company is a shipping company.
-Remember how there was a lotta vendin' machines in Azumanga? There's like a vendin' machine every block in Japan! They usually sold stuff like tea and flavored water, but sometimes they even did cold AND hot drinks (iced or hot coffee, for example). There was one vendin' machine that sold hot dogs and hot foods, right next to a Haagen Dasz machine! And yeah, those automatic cup-filling ones are awesome! Unfortunately (or really, fortunately) Ah did *not* have a stuck-cup incident with my vending machine like Tomo, so yeah~
-Uniforms far as the eye can see! No matter how cold it was (though it was only like 50°), girls would wear their skirted uniforms. The uniforms Ah saw were exactly like anime portrays it, it was kahnda cool yo. Most of them were navy, and if ya weren't in a uniform, ya'll would be dressed in crazy but casual fashion!
-There were people that handed out flyers with tissues! Ah took one just cuz Ah wanted to feel like Osaka when she took a bushel of tissues that one tahme!
Ah gotta get ta class, but if y'all have a question about what Japan was like (at least, what Ah saw in a week's time...) then feel free to ask, yo. Ah'd love to talk about it.
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Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 11:19 am
You're really lucky! I want to go to Japan.
Did you find God's vending machine!? (From PaniPoni Dash)
What's Haagen Dasz???
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Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2007 12:41 am
YukihiroOtani You're really lucky! I want to go to Japan. Did you find God's vending machine!? (From PaniPoni Dash) What's Haagen Dasz??? Japan's great, but it's *creepy mode* veeeery expensive! We got to stay in 4-star hotels and get roudntrip airfare and a week-long rail pass for lahke... $2000.00 See? Expensive! But don't let that keep you from tryin'! You'll get a cheaper deal, Ah bet! Hm, nah, Ah aint seen PaniPoni Dash, nor God's vendin' machine. But if Ah did, Ah bet Tommy Lee Jones would be on there! His picture was on just about everythin' vendin'-machine related. Haagen Dasz (ha-gen da-zu) is the ice cream place and ice cream company that (at least in the U.S.) is usually around in the supermarkets and bigger cities and towns. They claim ta use only natural ingredients and ingredients that people can find around the kitchen. It's gourmet ice cream, and it's real oishii (delicious). It's just realleh somethin' to find hot and cold things in a vendin' machine--especially food! In one o' the rest areas, Ah got this strawberry milk tea from a vendin' machine. It automatically plopped the cup down and poured and even sealed it! Suteki (fantastic)!
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Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2007 7:19 pm
Yeah, I see, that is expensive.
Oh, ok. I don't think they sell Haagen Dasz in Oregon, or at least I've never seen it.
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Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 7:58 pm
Oh mah heart! Oregon? That's pretty far away!
But ya know, Ah bet it'd be much cheapah ta fly out ta Japan from there, since y'all're on the west coast.
Haagen Dasz is pretteh darn awesome. Y'all should try it out sometime.
Mayan Chocolate is a very popular flava up here on campus. It's lahke, chocolate with dark chocolate chunks... Ah love butter pecan though.
Unfortunateleh, there weren't maneh flavas in the vendin' machines. But at least they have 'em!!! *scowls at United States vending machines*
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Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 9:37 pm
Where do you live?
I'm not really a fan of chocolate, but if I find any Haagen Dasz, I'll try it. Do they have a mint chocolate?
Yeah, I wish our vending machines were cooler.
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Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2007 9:06 am
Oh totalleh! Ah live in the midwest, lahke Illinois. So it onleh makes sense that Ah'm Osaka ^_-
Actualleh, not all midwesterners talk lahke this. Ah just lahke the way Osaka speaks in the Engrish dub.
Anyhow, yah, Haagen Dasz has mint chocolate. That's mah favorite next ta Butter Pecan! Wait, Ah think they had Butter Pecan in the Japanese Vends...
Lemme give y'all a tip with the Japanese vendin' machines. If you're really thirsty for somethin' cold, don't push on anything with the red button. That means hot! Lahke, duh, right? Well here's another. Make sure ya know what that drink is! Ah pushed this one drink (red button) that looked lahke tea, and Ah wanted it cold. So Ah opened it up and tried it. Not onleh was it hot, but it was "Plum and Kelp" flavored tea! It was salty!!
Be sure y'all know what you're drinkin~ Pocari Sweat is lahke a Gatorade, only it's more lahke crazy-flavored water. That one's in lahke, every vendo.
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Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 8:31 pm
Plum and kelp!? Ew!!! That must have been a bad experience.
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Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 12:49 pm
It wasn't too bad. At least it wasn't served cold! That woulda been real bad.
It was kinda salty and had this strange texture to it. It's one o' those things that y'all should try someday. Same with Strawberry Milk Tea, that's great!
If ya wanna try plum n kelp, be sure ta have it in traditional tea packets. At least that way it's fresh and not preprocessed and gross~
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Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2007 2:06 am
I don't like plums... Strawberry milk tea sounds good.
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Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 9:51 pm
They've got beer vending machines too.
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Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2007 12:30 am
They have entire stores devoted to vending machines! Nothing but vending machines with a lot of stuff!
We didn't find any vendin' machines with beer, but we weren't really lookin' in the right places, Ah bet. Just hot food and ice cream. Ah know they exist, though. Ah also recall a while ago they had vendin' machines with stuff like schoolgirl panties and GameCubes. Weird stuff yo.
We also found this vendin' machine with strawberry, mint, and tea flavored cigarettes. They got crazeh stuff.
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Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 1:22 pm
xd I want to go to Japan NOW!!!
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Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 11:34 pm
Ah want to go back too T__T take me with ya!
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Posted: Fri May 04, 2007 6:53 pm
My mom said I can go next year!! ... Can you wait till then? eek
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