Day 38 - Feb 13

Wow, I sure do write long posts... >_>

Well, I'll try and make today's short.

So today Li and I went to Akihabara (again), but this time with the goal of not going into any of the main-street shops.  This was for two main reasons: first, there are much better deals on the back streets and items that are a lot harder to find as well, and second, those seemingly infinite stores on the main-street can suck you in for hours, even whole days, at a time.

This trip to Akiba was rather fruitful.  We went to many shops and I saw so many Fate items that I had never seen before/didn't know existed/thought I would never get a chance to see.  I exerted SO MUCH self control today, which makes me very very sad, because in this trip alone I got more in quantity, volume, and price than both other trips combined.  Yea... I think there's something wrong with me...

After the first store (where I left with the biggest shopping bag I've ever seen in my life), I vowed that since I have yet to get anything other than Fate stuff since I've been in Japan, and I do like other things, that I would not get any other Fate stuff until I had bought something other than Fate.  Well, the harder I looked for anything that wasn't Fate, the more Fate stuff I found that I had never seen before.  This made that vow exceedingly difficult to hold.  Which I didn't.  I think I bought at least one thing from every store we went to.  Finally, after hours of searching, I found something from anything other than Fate that I actually wanted to get: a Horo wallscroll from Spice & Wolf.

So here's where the "something wrong with me" part makes itself completely evident.  Aside from the fact that I pretty much lose consciousness in these places and emerge with a lot less money and a lot more stuff, all of which is from Fate, I reached crack addict status with this wallscroll.  You see, it cost about 6,600 yen.  I only had 4,000 yen left on me (I had already spent close to 20,000 yen...).  Then I noticed that they had a Suica card (train pass) swipe at the register, so I could use some of the money on that card to pay for it.  Well, that still wasn't enough.  Also, that required me to wonder how far it was from Akihabara to Tamachi, where I could ride the train home for free (hint: extremely far).  Also, I was rather hungry at this point.  Now, the prospect of paying money for food had long since left my mind, but there was still the 100 yen Shaka-Shaka Chicken at McDonald's.  I was starting to wonder whether or not I really wanted to eat, and if not doing so would provide me with enough money...   Fortunately, after a while I noticed that they took credit cards (very uncommon), so thankfully that saved me from this most dire situation.

Every time I go to Akihabara it gets worse... 
I think I need to be deported from this country immediately... for my own good.


See my facebook for pictures of today's loot.