We went out earlier in the day to pick up some medicine for Cinnamon, since her stomach was still bothering her. Nothing is quite as frustrating as trying to find medicine in a different country where you're not very proficient in the language. She ended up buying some pills whose box had a picture of someone with their hand over their stomach, so we figured it's as good a shot as any. (I could only read enough to see that it said something about stomach pain).
After that, we came home and had a small meal. I ate my nikuman, which wasn't too bad. The filling tasted similar to gyoza, and the outer "bun" part was kind of springy and chewy. It wasn't quite what I had been expecting, but I'd probably eat it again.
We spent a few more hours bumming around our place, waiting for Cinnamon's medicine to hopefully take effect, because we were going out to see "Rock Musical Bleach the Live, Bankai Show Code: 003" later on. (Those of you reading this who work at Barnes and Noble, yes, it is a musical based on the Bleach manga).
No, I'm not making this up. If you're curious, you can check out the promo video on their website here. It's very entertaining!
This just shows where our seats are. We were on floor 1, row O (or 15), seats 14 and 15. Not too bad, really!
My friends had gone to see it the previous night at 7pm, so I just assumed that's when the show started. We had planned on leaving around 5:30 to get to the theater by 6:00 so we could buy goods and find our seats well in advance.
Well around 5:30, as we were just gearing up to go, Cinnamon says to me, "Why do the tickets say 17:00 and 18:00?" It always takes me a minute to convert things from 24-hour time, but I quickly realized 18:00 (the time the show starts) wasn't 7pm, but 6pm. Uh oh.
Now it was time to panic. It would take us at least 20 minutes to get to the theater. So we hurried to Akebonobashi station and hopped the Toei Shinjuku line to Shinjuku staiton. From there, we just had to take the Oedo line to Kokuritsu-kyogijo station and walk another 10 minutes to Nippon Seinen-kan Hall. We were breathless and cold, but we made it just as they were making the "please put your cell phones in manner [vibrate] mode" announcement.
I won't bore you with details from the show, because you definitely wouldn't be able to appreciate it if you didn't know the story, the characters, or the actors. (Fun fact: last time we were in Japan, we saw a lot of shows and events by the theater group *pnish*. Two of the members of that group are in the Bleach Musical, and at least 3 other cast members have been guests in one of *pnish*'s shows.) Needless to say, the show was a ton of fun, and I'm glad we're going to see it again on Monday for the very last performance.
Once the show had ended, my friends whom we had met up with were going to go out for yakiniku! If you don't remember this from our last trip, it's meat you grill yourself at your table. Cinnamon decided to take a pass this time and go home and rest, but the four remaining members of our party continued on to Den Yakiniku in Musashi Sakai.
That's Jamie (from Michigan) on the left, and Courtney (who lives and works in Tokyo) on the right.
Here we have a plate off delicious (if still raw) meat, a bowl of rice, and a dish of sauce.
Courtney's in charge of putting the meat on the grill and turning it when necessary. At one point, I was accused of being a "backseat chef" because I told her when to turn a few of the pieces over.
We're cooking rosu and karubi. Rikaichan, my handy in-browser Japanese translator, tells me rosu is sirloin, and karubi is beef ribs. I don't know how accurate that is, but either way, it was still very tasty.
Lindsay (who's from Nova Scotia), is anxiously waiting for the meat to finish cooking. We were all pretty hungry! It's a good thing this restaurant offers tabehoudai, which basically means "all you can eat." Of course, there's a limit of 90 minutes so you can't take advantage of it.
Courtney is goofing off and pretending to eat the raw meat. Sometimes it's okay to play with your food.
After that, we headed home, our bellies full, but our bodies awfully cold in the night air. I finally got back home around midnight, and my computer said it was 34 degrees with a windchill of 27. At least the insane 30mph wind from earlier had died down considerably.
Tomorrow, I'll tell you all about the first live we went to. (A live is like a small concert). We've been keeping busy! Tomorrow we have to go to Laforet (a store in Shibuya) and pick up some flyers for the *pnish* show/event (called *pnish* room vol. 7) coming up in two weeks, and then we'll be back at Nippon Seinen-kan Hall for the Bleach musical finale. After that, we get a little break in our activities for about a week. What will we spend them doing? Stay tuned to find out!
[I found a crude fix for my blog layout problem. I'm not very good with html code, so you'll just have to bear with a few oddly placed blue lines running through the middle of the posts. Sorry about that. If I knew how to fix it, I'd have done it already.]
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