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bookshopping today
Ugh, I was bad. I think I need to go through old magazines and decide which ones to keep and which ones to get rid of somehow.
So today I went in search of the Spring 2009 college baseball Shube magazine with the season review, having read the Fall review and being like "Holy shit, this is really useful with all of this data and whatnot". Plus since Hosei won in the spring they'd have all of that in there.
My first stop was actually the Tokyo Dome shop, hoping to get the 2010 Fighters calendar. However, it doesn't seem to actually be out yet. The store clerk told me mid-December.
Then, Yamashita bookstore... where they had no college ball backissues, but what they DID have is all of the Fighters postseason photo books and Japan Series magazines, and the season review book, so I was bad and got 3 of those (the Season Graphic, the Postseason Graphic, and another Fighters victory magazine). I'm still of the opinion that looking back at these in a few years is going to be well worth the investment, as I love going through my old Fighters stuff still.
Onwards, lunch at the kaitensushi place by Suidobashi station. It has gone from being a somewhat expensive kaitensushi place with interesting/good food, to being a place where all the plates are 136 yen for the most part and the crazy/interesting dishes are gone. But what they did have was pretty good... and cheaper!
Walked to Jimbocho from there, through the Nihondai campus. Spent an hour or two scouring through used magazine stores. Found a LOT of interesting stuff, and also managed to find the 4th-floor sports magazine shop that Kusumoto showed me like, a year ago. Got an issue of College Base Heroes there, Spring 08, though they didn't have the actual magazine I wanted. They also had old Fighters yearbooks from the late 80's, which I couldn't look IN, but I could look at the covers, which were funny enough. Ah, Nishizaki :) I got College Base Heroes issue Fall 07 at Wonder, and then I vowed not to get any more stuff unless it was the specific issue I was looking for dammit. Sadly, Biblio was closed, that's the sports bookstore that I really want to go back to sometime. Seems Sunday is its holiday day. How stupid is that?
So, after ducking into a few more bookstores and poking around, I walked to Akihabara. The actual intent there was to buy some American laundry detergent at Don Quixote. Dumb, I know, but it made the most sense to go there given the path I was taking today, and I know they sell Tide and stuff like that. As a result, I also saw a huge crowd of kids playing DDR X2. I didn't actually know that was the DDR Location Test, but apparently it is. I was mostly like "There's a new DDR out already? Weird..."
I also got BBQ Pringles, and some Cherry Coke. Woooooooo for imports.
Went to Bookoff to see if they had my magazine, but get this: Akihabara Book-Off doesn't HAVE sports magazines. I guess it's not THAT big a surprise, but... anyway, I continued to Yodobashi after that, checked out a few photobook things (I'm going to make my 2009 book sometime before I head home), and then decided to get dinner since it was already 6:30pm by then. Went to Chabuya on the 8th floor and had some really yummy ramen, though I feel like an idiot for going to a place that specializes in tonkotsu ramen and getting miso ramen. Whatever.
Came home. Read my baseball magazines. Played Puzzle Pirates. I'm such a slacker. Baseball reading REALLY doesn't count as studying, I know. On the other hand, I read my kanji book on the train home and while walking up the hill I saw a sign that said 管理 and I'm like "Hey! That's kanri, it means management, I actually learned those from this book! Hooray!"
So today I went in search of the Spring 2009 college baseball Shube magazine with the season review, having read the Fall review and being like "Holy shit, this is really useful with all of this data and whatnot". Plus since Hosei won in the spring they'd have all of that in there.
My first stop was actually the Tokyo Dome shop, hoping to get the 2010 Fighters calendar. However, it doesn't seem to actually be out yet. The store clerk told me mid-December.
Then, Yamashita bookstore... where they had no college ball backissues, but what they DID have is all of the Fighters postseason photo books and Japan Series magazines, and the season review book, so I was bad and got 3 of those (the Season Graphic, the Postseason Graphic, and another Fighters victory magazine). I'm still of the opinion that looking back at these in a few years is going to be well worth the investment, as I love going through my old Fighters stuff still.
Onwards, lunch at the kaitensushi place by Suidobashi station. It has gone from being a somewhat expensive kaitensushi place with interesting/good food, to being a place where all the plates are 136 yen for the most part and the crazy/interesting dishes are gone. But what they did have was pretty good... and cheaper!
Walked to Jimbocho from there, through the Nihondai campus. Spent an hour or two scouring through used magazine stores. Found a LOT of interesting stuff, and also managed to find the 4th-floor sports magazine shop that Kusumoto showed me like, a year ago. Got an issue of College Base Heroes there, Spring 08, though they didn't have the actual magazine I wanted. They also had old Fighters yearbooks from the late 80's, which I couldn't look IN, but I could look at the covers, which were funny enough. Ah, Nishizaki :) I got College Base Heroes issue Fall 07 at Wonder, and then I vowed not to get any more stuff unless it was the specific issue I was looking for dammit. Sadly, Biblio was closed, that's the sports bookstore that I really want to go back to sometime. Seems Sunday is its holiday day. How stupid is that?
So, after ducking into a few more bookstores and poking around, I walked to Akihabara. The actual intent there was to buy some American laundry detergent at Don Quixote. Dumb, I know, but it made the most sense to go there given the path I was taking today, and I know they sell Tide and stuff like that. As a result, I also saw a huge crowd of kids playing DDR X2. I didn't actually know that was the DDR Location Test, but apparently it is. I was mostly like "There's a new DDR out already? Weird..."
I also got BBQ Pringles, and some Cherry Coke. Woooooooo for imports.
Went to Bookoff to see if they had my magazine, but get this: Akihabara Book-Off doesn't HAVE sports magazines. I guess it's not THAT big a surprise, but... anyway, I continued to Yodobashi after that, checked out a few photobook things (I'm going to make my 2009 book sometime before I head home), and then decided to get dinner since it was already 6:30pm by then. Went to Chabuya on the 8th floor and had some really yummy ramen, though I feel like an idiot for going to a place that specializes in tonkotsu ramen and getting miso ramen. Whatever.
Came home. Read my baseball magazines. Played Puzzle Pirates. I'm such a slacker. Baseball reading REALLY doesn't count as studying, I know. On the other hand, I read my kanji book on the train home and while walking up the hill I saw a sign that said 管理 and I'm like "Hey! That's kanri, it means management, I actually learned those from this book! Hooray!"