Broken watch & Jiro-like ramen

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I went to Akihabara with Koba in order to eat ramen at a new shop.
We ate it at Ramen Kagemusha* (らーめん影武者) about 8:30 p.m.
Kagemusha is inspired by Ramen Jiro (ラーメン二郎) and serves a Jiro-like ramen.
(Click here to see all of my articles of the days I ate Jiro!)

Of course I chose large size (780 yen) as well as Koba.
It tasted rather good but was not Jiro; it was less oilier and plainer than Jiro.
And they should put pieces of ice in water pots on the table.
I would like to eat it again. I am glad that good ramen shops increases more and more at Akihabara.

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Large size I chose; optinal vegetables on another dish

I rendezvoused with him about 8:00 p.m.
At first I bought next week's Weekly Shonen Junp (週刊少年ジャンプ) vol.7 and Kami nomi zo Shiru Sekai (神のみぞ知るセカイ) vol. 7 by Wakaki Tamiki (若木民喜) there.
And Wakaki asked us on his blog* where we bought his manga book.
Ok, let me answer you. I bought it at Melonbooks (メロンブックス), Akihabara.
(It was Oct 18, '09 that I bought Kami nomi vol.6 maybe at the same store. )

After eating ramen, we went to Yodobashi Kamera in order to ask them my watch repair.
My watch is out of order and stopped running with remaining showing the date "(January) 12th."
This is the second time to ask Yodobashi my watch repair. The first one is almost just 3 years ago (I surely remenber that I asked them to do so at the end of the year 2006.)
This watch was given me from my father when I was a third grade high school student 7 years ago (2003) and he gave it to me a few days before I took National Center Test for University Admissions (センター試験).
I would like to use it for a long time because it is the gift from my father.
And there I bought a cheep watch (1000 yen) as an apology for my broken one.

by the way, today (Sat.) and tomorrow (Sun.) Center Test is carried out this year.

As is usual with us, after going out of Yodobashi we chatted at McDonald's, Suehiro-cho (末広町) until about 0 a.m.
We talked about nothing special. We chatted with reading Jump and net-surfing.

I love Ikebukuro Jiro

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I ate ramen at Ramen Jiro (ラーメン二郎), Ikebukuro with Rick.
You must know what size I chose. (It was L size.)
But now I am sick at my stomach. I might eat too much.


I do not reuse the same photo as I showed before!
This photo was taken of course today.

After left the shop, Rick said "that ramen did not taste good." (He is a gourmet!)
I was agree with him.
And I said to him that noodles might not have been boiled enough.

After ramen, we chatted at McDonald's until about 11:30 p.m.
Then he informed me that his girlfriend who is German and teaches German language at a university in Moldova would come to Japan and stay here from Dec. 30, 2009 to Jan. 14, 2010.
And he said that she wanted to eat ramen at Ramen Jiro so I answered that I would like to eat it with them.
By the way, she had taught it in Tokyo before and he speaks in it well because he had studied there for 1 year.
I have seen her once when she came to Japan and visited him last summer.

And I bought next week's Weekly Shonen Jump (週刊少年ジャンプ) vol.2 there.
According to it, Bakuman (バクマン。) by Ohba Tsugumi (大場つぐみ) aka Gamo Hiroshi and Obata Takeshi (小畑健) who both had serialized Death Note (デスノート) before is planned to be animated on TV next autumn.
It is more satisfactory than the news that Nurarihyon no Mago (ぬらりひょんの孫) will be made into an animated movie.

And it said that on Jump Square (ジャンプSQ.) Yabuki Kentaro (矢吹健太朗) who is the author of Black Cat and To Love Ru (To Loveる) will begin to serialize Mayoineko Overrun!* (Straycats Overrun!) (迷い猫オーバーラン!) which is a novel series originally written by Matsu Tomohiro (松智洋) .
Of all things, Jump Square...Yabuki, where will you go?

Jump in the rain

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It was rainnig heavily when I woke up at about 2 p.m.
I went to Akihabara through the rain about 7 p.m.
But it stoped raining while I walked around in Akihabara.

I bought next week's Weekly Shonen Junp vol. 1 in Akihabara. Opposite to major opinion Bleach is pretty boring because it is very lengthy.

And I bought Tona-Gura! (となグラ！) vol.10 by Kakei Hidetaka (筧秀隆) there.
I will read it after writing this.



By the way Kakei has changed his drawing style (former* (2004) ).
I prefer his former style to latest one.

Fire and Jump

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The TV news said that before dawn on today's morning there were some small fires to be suspected cases of arson near my house (see also here*).
I was not aware of that though I was staying up then.
I will keep a outdoor lamp of my house lighting with caution throught the night tonight.

I bought next week's Weekly Shonen Jump vol. 53 at Akihabara.
It said that it was decided to animate on TV Nurarihyon no Mago (ぬらりひょんの孫) (Grandson of Nurarihyon) without further information in detail.
Is this manga really so amusing that it is animated?
(I think it is amusing but not so to be animated.)

And I read also Kanata Seven Change (彼方セブンチェンジ) again though last week I wrote that I did not want read it any more.
This week's Kanata is a little funnier than last week.

Bored new manga

It was about 2:30 p.m. when I woke up today...

In the morning on the way to come back home from Rick and Kaz's dormitory I bought Weekly Shonen Jump vol. 52 at Ochanomizu station.
Weekly Shonen Jump is sold on Monday every week but it is sold on Saturday, two days before Monday, when Monday is a holiday.
And Monday (day after tomorrow, Nov. 23) is also the holiday next week in Japan.

A new gag manga has begun on Jump since last week: Kanata Seven Change (彼方セブンチェンジ) by Aso Shuichi (麻生周一) who serialized on Jump a gag manga Boku no Watashi no Yusha Gaku (ぼくのわたしの勇者学) in the past.
I read its episode 2...How terrible! Very bored!


Weekly Shonen Jump vol. 51, 2009

His main Character Aoki Kanata (蒼希彼方) is a handsome TV star in the setting of this manga.
I cannot understand at all why Aso will draw a handsome character though he does not draw so much.
According to its episode 2, Aso seems to be aware of his not-good-so-much drawing.
And I do not think that his gag sense is very funny.
I will not keep reading this manga after next week.

The serialization of a bored manga on Jump could result in being broken just 10 weeks after from the start.
The title of this manga is Kanata Seven Change but Kanata is going to be changed into another manga 8 weeks after.

Legacy from years before 2005

My friend Canon gave me 2 manga books when we saw each other the other day.
The Japanese love romance manga Yubisaki Milk Tea (ゆびさきミルクティー) (whose title is a little hard to be translated into English in nuance) vol. 8 and 9 authored by Miyano Tomochika (宮野ともちか).

I hate love romance while I love love comedy.
(I cannot explain that reason easily here.)
I have hated this genre since 2005 and have not started reading new manga of this genre.
But I have started reading this manga since 2003, the year before 2005.
Now this manga is the only one of this genre that I have read since years before 2005.

(Below was added Nov. 12, '09)
As far as how much I hate love romance, I had not been able to watch live-action TV drama Hachimitsu to Clover (ハチミツとクローバー) (Honey and Clover) whose original manga is illustrated by Umino Chika (羽海野チカ) starring then 15 (now 17) year-old actress Narumi Riko (成海璃子) as heroine Hanamoto Hagumi (花本はぐみ) who is my favorite actress.
Although I am a big fan of her and I have already watched almost all of her starring movies and TV dramas and this TV drama starred her, I was not able to watch it.
This made me realize clearly how much I hated this genre.

And I am a little sorry for Canon that I have not finished reading these 2 manga books yet which he gave me.

Jump

I bought next week's Weekly Shonen Jump (週刊少年ジャンプ) at a certain book store, Akihabara.
Usually Jump is sold on every monday in Tokyo.
But certain some book stores sell next week's Jump on every saturday of previous week, 2 days earlier.

Every week all I look forward to is only reading Jump.
Jump and ramen and heavy metal are all of my favorites.

Lost in Akihabara

I went to Akihabara with my friend Koba in the evening.



At first I bought a manga Kami nomi zo Shiru Sekai (神のみぞ知るセカイ) (The World God Only Knows) , vol. 6. serialized on Weekly Shonen Sunday (週刊少年サンデー) by Wakaki Tamiki (若木民喜) at a book store, Melon Books (メロンブックス).
I love a love comedy!

Then we ate Suta-don (すた丼) at Densetsu no Suta-don (伝説のすた丼) (legendary Suta-don) at evening meal.
Suta-don stands for Sutamina-don and is a rice bowl with sauted pork seasoned with soy sauce, spice and garlic flavor.
I have eaten it at Waseda and Kunitachi city but this was the first time for me to eat it at Akihabara.


*Right is Suta-don; left is Miso soup and above is a raw egg.

At last we went to McDonald's at Suehiro-cho (末広町).
We chatted there about Heavy Metal and Rock and Roll music with listening to, for example, METALLICA, KING CRIMSON, DREAM THEATER, PARADOX, and so on with my Gigabeat and ultra-mobile laptop.
We were there until almost 0 a.m. next day, the time to get the last train.