Want... More... Manga....

Yesterday I had my big kanji test for my kanji class going over all 120 or so new kanji that we learned. I think I did pretty well. There were 100 points and then 20 bonus points on the test. I estimate that I got a 90% or so after totaling everything. After my class I was done for the day so I decided to head off to the bookstore again. This time I went to the one near the engineering campus. It is a bit larger than the one near the Waseda-eki, but a bit smaller than the Takadanobaba one. When I was browsing the manga I stumbled upon Maison Ikkoku almost in it's entirety. I skipped through the second volume and decided that it would be a good read once I mastered a few more kanji. I picked up volumes 2-13 for 1155 yen. Pretty good deal as that price would be the equivalent of 1 manga in the states. The only bad part is that I cannot start the series until I find the first volume, bummer. Afterwards I decided that I had to be close to the station between Shinjuku and Baba (the name escapes me at the moment) so I continued down Meiji-dori towards Shinjuku. I ended up walking all the way to Shinjuku station, passing a couple good looking restaurants along the way. I went home, wrote up my Translation Studies essay, and read Ranma for the rest of the night.

Today I woke up pretty late to go to Asakusa. Vaso, Keaton, Shoko, and I planned to meet at 1pm at the Kaminari-mon (lightning gate), but it turned into a meeting at 2pm instead. I went together with Vaso from Shinjuku to get there. Upon arrival, Keaton and Shoko were eating so Vaso and I decided to do the same. We ate at this Chinese all-you-can-eat buffet near the station. It was only 980 yen (cheaper than a lot of the set meals around.) After meeting up, we wandered around as per usual, getting snacks along the way. It was not as exciting as when I showed my mother around, but was still fun. Finally, once again at the end of our trip, we showed up in a coffee shop to chat. Oh Shoko... You and your coffee...

We parted ways and I headed to the bookstore again. This time my target was the Takadanobaba one. I picked up more Ranma (up to 8) and some Deathnote. My Deathnote collection is almost finished!!! Only 2 more and it will be the first set to be completed!