Sunday, February 15, 2015

Sabagebu Event

Today I went to the special Sabagebu event "ゲスかわ☆ガールズ JAPAN TOUR 2015 FINAL".



This was unplanned. My superior at work got sick and had tickets for both of today's events, so he gave them to me.
It's really sad for him that he couldn't go, because this event was fucking awesome.
This event was one of the greatest event I've been to in Japan.

It was my first time going to a special event for animes like these. The Seiyuus of the main characters were there, and performed songs, answered some questions, and read a new scenario live.
The questions led to pretty funny answers, and I think I was able to get like 80% of what was said.
On a side note, sometime I kinda stop thinking and just listen and then suddenly I realize "omg I understand" and at that exact moment, I stop understanding.... it's like, if I notice that I'm understanding, and then start trying to understand "manually" I can't anymore, this is frustrating...
The song were pretty nice, I liked the little effect they put on the big screen, especially during Kayo's song, there was some "magic" effects going out from her staff, looked nice.
But the best part was really the scenario read(acted) live. It was funny, and really showed how these people are pretty damn skilled at this.
The most surprising one was Urara's seiyuu, Ookubo Rumi. her acting skill was so great. loved her so much. I actually got inside there a Kayo fan and got out of there an Urara fan.
Touyama Nao, voicing Kayo, was also pretty nice to see live. She's one of my favourite Seiyuu, but her role in Kayo doesn't really make her shine since she's a relatively silent character, but still liked to see her, and she was pretty damn funny during the talking parts.

It's really hard to explain how awesome this event was, but I'm really glad I could go. I also made a new friend there! During the second show, the guy beside me lent me one of his light sticks, and after the show we talked while going back to the train station... all in Japanese! \o/

Overall super day.

Here are some other pictures I took (all outside the theater itself since we couldn't take pics inside)









Sunday, February 8, 2015

Getting Glasses in Japan

Hello, Here's a little post about something that might interest you. This could be useful information for anyone wanting to live in Japan, or even just visiting, in case something happens to your glasses.
I was pretty nervous about getting new glasses in Japan.
The eye exam was the most stressful part because I though a miscommunication error during that exam could be really bad for my eyes.
I check a little on the internet, and a lot of people gave their own experience, all pretty positive, about getting glasses in Japan. And it was really that easy for me too.

I went to Jins in shinjuku station, because it was the easiest to access for me, and Jins was recommended a lot on other websites. The selection in that shop was a little small, but I think the other Jins should be bigger than this one.

Took me about 20 minutes to decided which frame I wanted, then I went to see them and told them which ones I wanted. They brought me to the eye exam space, and made me do the classic eye exam things immediately. Instead of reading letters you had to tell where the whole in a circle was located, for example think of "c" as a circle, so you would have to say "right", and the circle became smaller and smaller.
There was 0 waiting time, and the exam went smoothly. They also had English speaking staff on place.
I bought the Jins PC lens, which are more expensive (2000 yen per lens). I'll make a review on those soon, after trying them more.
They didn't have my lens on site, so I had to come back about a week later, which was the only small bad point about all this. Beside that everything was super easy, no stress at all, quick  and actually pretty cheap.