Round trip to Cambridge...
Nov. 12th, 2009 09:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
matrixrefugee...To see about getting yet more Hello Kitty tchotchkes for my mother, along with the just released DVD of the first Rebuild of Evangelion movie at Tokyo Kid, an anime stuff store, which was a delightful adventure indeed: I don't often take the T into Boston and the surrounding areas, so this was a major treat, especially now that they've upgraded the trains -- and washed the windows! One of my big complaints about riding the T was the all but opaque dirty windows (but then again, I usually go in the winter when it's snowy and sandy...).
I had minimal trouble getting in and out, aside from missing the North Station stop on the Orange Line on the way home and having to backtrack. In fact, it went so well, that when I arrived in Harvard Square (pronounced "Ha'ah-vuhd Skway'uh" in this neck of the woods), I was a bit shocked at how smoothly the trip had gone and I almost took a wrong turn finding the mall where the shop was located. This is the kind of shop at which I could easily overdraw on my checking account: every manga you can imagine (some in English, some in Japanese) a crazy amount of anime soundtracks, a floor to ceiling DVD section, action figures and oddball models -- including but not limited to a model Eva Unit-00 entry plug, complete with an itty bitty Rei Ayanami curled up in the cockpit. And then there were the "just damn weird" items, such as some obvious Ecchi-anime figurines and the body pillows silk screened with images of anime babes including Belldandy from "Ah, My Goddess!" (which, despite sometimes being relegated to the adult section, is actually a very cute and innocent romantic comedy) and Misa Amane from "Death Note"; this prompted me to mutter somewhat cheekily, "Come on, why not a body pillow with Asato Tsuzuki from (yep) 'Yami no Matsuei' for the gals and the gay fellows...?" I limited myself to, besides "Rebuild of Evangelion 1.0: You are (Not) Alone":
--A Goth!Hello Kitty mini-plushie (which I am so tempted to keep for myself)
--A Hello Kitty angel Christmas tree ornament and
--A box of Hello Kitty Pocky
I had minimal trouble getting in and out, aside from missing the North Station stop on the Orange Line on the way home and having to backtrack. In fact, it went so well, that when I arrived in Harvard Square (pronounced "Ha'ah-vuhd Skway'uh" in this neck of the woods), I was a bit shocked at how smoothly the trip had gone and I almost took a wrong turn finding the mall where the shop was located. This is the kind of shop at which I could easily overdraw on my checking account: every manga you can imagine (some in English, some in Japanese) a crazy amount of anime soundtracks, a floor to ceiling DVD section, action figures and oddball models -- including but not limited to a model Eva Unit-00 entry plug, complete with an itty bitty Rei Ayanami curled up in the cockpit. And then there were the "just damn weird" items, such as some obvious Ecchi-anime figurines and the body pillows silk screened with images of anime babes including Belldandy from "Ah, My Goddess!" (which, despite sometimes being relegated to the adult section, is actually a very cute and innocent romantic comedy) and Misa Amane from "Death Note"; this prompted me to mutter somewhat cheekily, "Come on, why not a body pillow with Asato Tsuzuki from (yep) 'Yami no Matsuei' for the gals and the gay fellows...?" I limited myself to, besides "Rebuild of Evangelion 1.0: You are (Not) Alone":
--A Goth!Hello Kitty mini-plushie (which I am so tempted to keep for myself)
--A Hello Kitty angel Christmas tree ornament and
--A box of Hello Kitty Pocky
