This is day 5, I believe. I'm currently waiting to finalize my rental agreement and then I move in on the 7th. It looks as though I'll be scoring a fridge and washing machine off my uncle and an assortment of plates and cups off another uncle. I'm not used to having so many generous family members nearby so it's been quite nice. I still need to figure out how to get my hands on a decent drafting table and a TV. There are plenty of second hand stores around so I'll check those out in the coming days I suppose.

So, yeah. All that aside, things have been pretty low-key. Been doing some interesting reading and studiously doing research on the side. I've been sorta overwhelmed at the amount of good reads available since I was last here. I'm currently hooked on Asano Inio's It's a Wonderful World. Google it and check er out. Unfortunately, I don't foresee a translated version for NA any time soon. I see there is a French version, though.

Besides comics, I took a trip to Yasukuni Shrine yesterday. It's been the source of Japan's political and PR strife for the past few years. Especially with the rest of Asia and China specifically. If you read the wiki page you'll get the jist. There is an accompanying museum outlining Japan's military history nearby so I check that out as well. I'm no history buff but I DO know WW2 paved ground for how the country is now and even helped comics become the force it is today. It was just interesting to read an un-American POV of how things started and ended. I'll leave it at that. You'll have to come and digest the writing yourself to understand.

Oh, Sean. Yeah, you, McKeever! Thanks for the shoutout on your site, man. I tried posting on your board but I've totally forgotten my login and password.

That's it for now.

TAK