Yuri to Boushi to Hon no Tabibito

A Shoujo ai centred Weblog

Love’s March watching habits

So while Mr Yuribou has been off gallivanting I’ve been stuck at home, working, in Coventry. Hmm. This does mean however that I’ve been keeping up with all the things we’ve been watching this season and here I’ll give a quick sum up of my choice of what is now last season’s anime. Mostly I’ve [...]

Day 26 – Useful Japanese Slang

I thought I would share with you faithful readers the fruits of trying to decipher the ultra-fast talking of (mainly cardiology) residents, with a helpful bilingual translator. Soon it becomes clear that a lot of words used in everyday speech are not to be found in many textbooks of the language. Therefore here is a [...]

Day 25 – Miscellany – because some things don’t have topics.

Yeah, it’s a miscellaneous day today. Sorry about that.
I think the first thing I noticed that was different about Japan when I arrived this time (as opposed to last time when I came in the height of summer) is the huge number of people wearing facemasks in the street. You can buy these in the [...]

Day 19 – The Legend of Japanese TV (日本テレビの伝説)

Sorry, I didn’t fulfil my promise – Have been randomly busy with cardiac arrests and such – so been an interesting but fairly depressing week.
For most Westerners such as myself, it is very difficult to get a mental hold on what Japanese actually watch on TV – most people would think it is something between [...]

Day 16 – Short Nikko post

Went to Nikko over the weekend, so short post today because had a long day and am knackered:

Nikko is a tourist town
Nikko has more buildings rusted to hell than most of the small towns I’ve been to
Nikko is a very sleepy place – everything shuts at half 5 except the restaurants which shut at 8. [...]

Day 11 – Food glorious food. Hot…erm. coffee and ochazuke

I thought I would take a break from talking about serious stuff and really get into what probably a lot of you are passionate about – Japanese food. I’m going to skip over all the boring stuff that gets gone over a million times in eating guides and such, though. Here’s a list of all [...]

Day 7 – Addresses and Communication failures.

So I went to Tokyo this weekend. Stayed in a capsule hotel in Asakusa (North central Tokyo, by the Sumidagawa) and somehow managed to get up in time to see the end fo the tuna auctions in Tsukiji. But that’s material for another post…
Firstly and most importantly, I have to admit that I was wrong [...]

Day 5 – Japanese health system and stuff. If this bores you, DETEITE~~!!

So it’s my 5th day here in Japan and my third day working at this hospital – the Kameda Medical Centre in Kamogawa (Chiba-ken – apparently people only know it because there’s a place 5 miles down the road called “Kamogawa Sea World”) so I thought I would do my inevitable post about my views [...]

Day 2 – Start of work proper and more on Akiba…

So,
Here I am in the Kameda medical centre computer room, attempting to type fast on this stupid Japanese keyboard (the spacebar is so short I keep hitting the keys either side…and I don’t know what they do. And apostrophe is SHIFT-7. WTF.) Today has been not a particularly fruitful day on the sightseeing front. Woke [...]

Day 1 – Free day. Topic: General Japan ramblings and Akiba madness…

So, I’m in Japan.
You probably knew that by now. I’m writing this from a rather nice PC in the hotel lobby (the hotel isn’t in such good shape, but I’m not complaining) after a rather satisfying (if not fruitful) day out in Akihabara. As soon as I arrived here in Japan, a few things came [...]

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