BLOG -- Recap of March

Much of my time in March was spent playing Civilization VI and gathering my tax documents.

Outings / Events in March:

- A friend from the US mailed me a ton of things! I was very surprised but also very happy and appreciative. XD

- Set aside a weekend to do taxes. Make sure to do your taxes if you haven't done them yet!

- Watched Dune 2 in theatres with my sister, her husband, and my boyfriend.

- Had a lunch with parents from both sides for the first time (if you know that what means). I kept quiet while they talked amongst each other.

Exposures:

- (Boardgame): Let's Go! To Japan -- The learning curve felt steep in the beginning but after trying it out a couple times it was pretty straightforward. Overall, I find it fun.

Finished...

Watching:

- (Movie): I, Tonya -- Great acting but this was hard to watch.

- (Movie): The Wolf of Wall Street -- Well-shot but there was too much drugs and sex for my liking, among other things.

- (Movie): Dune 2 -- This was okay.

- (Movie): Rambo -- I enjoyed this a lot.

- (Movie): Rambo: Last Blood -- Not as good as Rambo.

- (Movie): Catwoman -- I watched it so I never have to think about it again. It was very cheesy.

- (Movie): 300: Rise of The Empire -- Pretty good.

- (Movie): Peppermint -- It was decent for the most part.

Playing:

- (PS4): Broken Age -- It was fun in the beginning but partway through it got hard and annoying. 

- (PS4): World Cruise Story -- I finished this in two days. This was too addictive for me.

- (PC): Civilization VI -- We have finished four playthroughs now, and have started a fifth. I enjoy playing as Eleanor of Aquitaine since I like taking cities without going to war. I'm currently playing as Wilfred Laurier.

Reading:

- (Book): Warren Buffett and the Interpretation of Financial Statements by Mary Buffett & David Clark -- This was interesting and informative. I'll probably refer back to it every now and then.

Currently... 

Playing (not all at once):

- (PS4): Dark Cloud 2

- (PS4): Skyrim
- (PS4): Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles Remastered
- (PS4): Moon: Remix RPG Adventure
- (PS4): Yakuza 6: Song of Life

- (PS4): Baldur's Gate I: Enhanced Edition

- (PS4): Dungeon Punks

- (PS3): Borderlands 2

- (PSP): Gurumin: A Monstrous Adventure

- (3DS): Phoenix Wright: Dual Destinies
- (GBA): The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Anniversary Edition   
- (Wii): Fortune Street 
- (PC): UnEpic  
- (PC): Higurashi no Naku Koro ni (When They Cry)

- (Mobile): Bloons TD 6

Watching:

- (TV Show): Criminal Minds: Evolution (Season 2)

- (TV Show): The Goldbergs (Season 5)
- (TV Show): Huff (Season 1 - Episode 10)
- (TV Show): Stranger Things (Season 5)

- (TV Show): The Boys (Season 4)

- (TV Show): Love Death + Robots (Season 1 - Episode 9)

- (TV Show): Bob's Burgers (Season 5 - Episode 6)

- (TV Show): Soul Land (Episode 178)

- (Anime): Log Horizon (Season 4)

- (Anime): Attack on Titan (Season 4)
- (Anime): Pyscho-Pass (Season 4?)
- (Anime): Kakegurui (Season 3?)
- (Anime): Basilisk: The Ouka Ninja Scrolls (Episode 2)

- (Anime): Gintama (Episode 13)

- (Anime): Tokyo Revengers (Season 2 - Episode 25)

- (Anime): Gurren Lagann (Episode 6)

- (Anime): Chihayafuru (Season 4?)

- (Anime): One Punch Man (Season 2)

- (Anime): Fate/Apocrypha (Season 2)

- (Anime): Junji Ito's Japanese Tales of the Macabre (Episode 5)

- (Anime): Demon Slayers (Season 4)

- (YouTube): StephenVlogs (Day 1061)

Reading:

- (Manga): One Piece by Eiichiro Oda (Volume ?? -- Chapter 1111)
- (Manga): Berserk by Kentaro Miura (Volume 2)

That's it for March. Here are some pics and screenshots I took this month plus a YouTube video.

All the stuffs that my friend in the US sent! I really love the Tonberry King cushion.

The Let's Go! To Japan boardgame.

This is my 4th copy. Only one more to go!

I had to reach pity (200 rolls) to get this character.

"Hidden cameras reveal how big banks are upselling you (Marketplace)" by CBC News.

Many years ago, when I didn't know much about handling my money, I was sold a number of mutual funds plus a personal line of credit (that I've never used). Recently I've been rectifying those accounts (i.e. selling them off).

Thanks for reading!

As usual, if you have any questions / comments about anything, feel free. 

Take care and until next time! Be careful of April Fool's pranks tomorrow! :)

BLOG (PERSONAL) -- My Thank You / Good-Bye to Akira Toriyama

When I found out about Akira Toriyama's passing a few days ago, I knew I'd be blogging about it. In some ways, I owe a lot of my childhood and teenage years to the Dragon Ball / Dragon Ball Z series. 

It was one Saturday morning in 1995 (I think it was a Saturday morning). It was maybe 7 or 7:30 AM. My child self was still sleepy but I noticed that nobody was using the TV. I excitedly took the remote and turned it on. Most times I'd be stuck watching whatever my grandparents were watching, but not this time! 

After flipping a few channels, I stumbled upon a cartoon showing a spikey-haired boy with a monkey tail talking to a girl in blue hair. I didn't know what was going on but I liked it. The animation style was cute, and I wanted to watch more. I tried to catch it every Saturday after that. Eventually I understood the plot. The idea of gathering dragon balls to make a wish was really interesting to me. Another thing I found interesting was how the episodes were serial, not episodic. I didn't want to miss any episodes or I could miss something in the story. It was my first time watching a cartoon like that (for anybody raging that I called Dragon Ball a "cartoon", please keep in mind I was very young and anime wasn't mainstream or known to me at that time).

When it looked like it reached the ending (all the dragon balls were gathered and a wish was made), I was surprised and sad when it wasn't on the next Saturday morning. I was hoping it would re-run from the beginning, like how other cartoons would re-run their episodes from time to time. I checked the following Saturday morning. And the next. And the next. I also checked at different times in case it changed timeslots. It was nowhere to be found. Where did the show go?

From that point, I had this desire in me, wanting to express how much I liked Dragon Ball. Not many kids at school talked about it, though, so I kept quiet most of the time. Through the years I would see various shops in Chinatown selling trading cards and stickers of many spikey-haired guys with monkey tails. I'd look at them longingly, having no money to afford them. Sometimes I'd ask my parents to buy them for me and they would -- sometimes. All the while my desire to know more about Dragon Ball grew and grew. I didn't know much about the internet back then so all I could do was sit idly with the desire.

It wasn't until high school that I joined an anime club and met somebody who also had a love for Dragon Ball. I tried to be calm, but inside I was thinking, Yayyy, another person I could talk to about Dragon Ball, kyaaa~~! XD We bonded pretty much instantly. From there, I would go on to experience a lot of firsts with Dragon Ball:

-buying my first manga (Dragon Ball, volume 1)

-buying my first bootleg VHS tape because I wanted to watch Dragon Ball in Japanese with English subtitles. It was some episode in the Majin Buu saga for Dragon Ball Z. The quality was verrry crappy and I didn't buy any more after the first one

-coming across a fan comic called Little Saiyalings, which was a delight to read

-realizing that websites could disappear when my favourite fansite, PlanetNamek, went down without any warning

-voice-recording one of my favourite English dubbed episodes on a cassette tape so I could re-listen to its audio every now and then. That episode was when Trunks showed up for the first time to give Goku a warning

-coming across websites that offered to record certain sagas of Dragon Ball / Dragon Ball Z / Dragon Ball GT if you mailed blank VHS tapes to them (imagine wanting to get the Freeza saga all on VHS)

-claiming a character as my "boyfriend" (hahaha XD)

In short, I explored becoming an anime fan -- something that's still a part of my identity today. And it was thanks to Dragon Ball.

Below are some Dragon Ball-related things I still have, after all these years:

Stickers!

Some more stickers!

Some trading cards. There was one card I really loved (the first card I ever got -- it randomly came out of a machine selling Sailor Moon cards), but I gave it away to a friend many years ago.

A cover I made for a container I and another friend used to lend each other manga. I think all the Dragon Ball characters were copied from different panels of the manga.

While I focused on Dragon Ball in this blog, I did experience some of his other works while growing up. That smiley blue slime in the Dragon Quest games will always be cute yet menacing to me. I enjoyed the character designs for Chrono Trigger (I was one dungeon away from beating the game). I thought Cowa! was cute and funny. Thank you, Akira Toriyama, for all you have given to the world. May you rest in peace. *bows*

Many years back I blogged about writing a poem to Gohan as Videl back in my high school days. Below is the link to it if you'd like to read it!

https://ironixgirl.blogspot.com/2015/12/blog-using-my-joy-of-doing-nothing-cards.html

If you have any questions or comments, feel free.

Thank you, take care and until next time! *hug*

BLOG -- Recap of February

February moved fast. Maybe that's because I started playing Civilization VI partway through... it's so addictive!!

Outings / Events in February:

- Had a Valentine's Day outing with my boyfriend. We had sushi and explored a huge Asian supermarket.

- Had a game day with my sister and my boyfriend. It was pretty fun.

- Had a hang out with my sister and a friend. We ate lunch and chatted. It was very nice and relaxing.

- My boyfriend and I visited his sister's place to put together a lamp from Ikea.

- Visited my boyfriend's brother-in-law's parents' place to celebrate a birthday and to play with some newly born puppies.

- I tried cutting my boyfriend's hair for the first time. Clipping was fun, but cutting with scissors was stressful.

Exposures:

- Nothing this time.

Finished...

Watching:

- (Movie): Dumb Money -- It was thrilling.

- (Movie): Bombshell -- I enjoyed this a lot.

- (Movie): Sonic the Hedgehog 2 -- This was enjoyable.

Playing:

- (PS4): Nobody Saves the World -- I played this with my boyfriend and it was very fun!

- (PS4): Portal Knights -- This was also very fun. It was like a cuter version of Minecraft but without a hunger system and with some RPG elements.

Reading:

- Nothing this month.

Currently... 

Playing (not all at once):

- (PS4): Dark Cloud 2

- (PS4): Skyrim
- (PS4): Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles Remastered
- (PS4): Moon: Remix RPG Adventure
- (PS4): Yakuza 6: Song of Life

- (PS4): Baldur's Gate I: Enhanced Edition

- (PS3): Borderlands 2

- (PSP): Gurumin: A Monstrous Adventure

- (3DS): Phoenix Wright: Dual Destinies
- (GBA): The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Anniversary Edition   
- (Wii): Fortune Street 
- (PC): UnEpic  
- (PC): Higurashi no Naku Koro ni (When They Cry)

- (PC): Civilization VI

- (Mobile): Bloons TD 6

Watching:

- (TV Show): Criminal Minds: Evolution (Season 2)

- (TV Show): The Goldbergs (Season 5)
- (TV Show): Huff (Season 1 - Episode 10)
- (TV Show): Stranger Things (Season 5)

- (TV Show): The Boys (Season 4)

- (TV Show): Love Death + Robots (Season 1 - Episode 6)

- (TV Show): Bob's Burgers (Season 5 - Episode 6)

- (TV Show): Soul Land (Episode 102)

- (Anime): Log Horizon (Season 4)

- (Anime): Attack on Titan (Season 4)
- (Anime): Pyscho-Pass (Season 4?)
- (Anime): Kakegurui (Season 3?)
- (Anime): Basilisk: The Ouka Ninja Scrolls (Episode 2)

- (Anime): Gintama (Episode 13)

- (Anime): Tokyo Revengers (Season 2 - Episode 25)

- (Anime): Gurren Lagann (Episode 6)

- (Anime): Chihayafuru (Season 4?)

- (Anime): One Punch Man (Season 2)

- (Anime): Fate/Apocrypha (Season 2)

- (Anime): Junji Ito's Japanese Tales of the Macabre (Episode 5)

- (Anime): Demon Slayers (Season 4)

- (YouTube): StephenVlogs (Day 1061)

Reading:

- (Manga): One Piece by Eiichiro Oda (Volume ?? -- Chapter 1108)
- (Manga): Berserk by Kentaro Miura (Volume 2)

- (Book): Warren Buffett and the Interpretation of Financial Statements by Mary Buffett & David Clark

That's it for February. Here are some pics and screenshots I took this month plus a YouTube video.

The lunch I had with my sister and friend. It was pretty yummy!

The puppies we saw.

What I did for Valentine's Day. Chocolate-dipped gummies taste so weird XD

I got the character I wanted from Blue Archive. :)

I did the Valentine's Day event for FGO. I used Arjuna Alter for every battle.

"choosing classes for your party" by ProZD.

I knew who the sponsor was based on the skit. XD

I love that video game series XD

Thanks for reading!

As usual, if you have any questions / comments about anything, feel free. 

Happy Leap Year and take care!! :)

BLOG -- My trip to Japan V.4 -- EXTRA -- My down time in the hotel + at game centers

This entry will cover my down-time in the hotels. I didn't watch as much TV during this trip since my boyfriend often liked to drag me outside, but there were some days we'd retire to the hotels early because the weather was too hot or we needed a quick breather before continuing with the day. 

I will also cover some of the games we played at the arcades / game centers. We visited so many that I thought it would be best to have a section just for it instead of mentioning it here and there throughout my "Adventure" portions.

For my last entry about my down-time at the hotel, the link is below:

2018 entry

The strangest anime we saw on TV. Why is a girl looking at a vending machine in the middle of a forest?

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IN THE HOTELS

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Sumo Wrestling

I forgot when we watched this, but we flipped through the channels and came upon one showing a sumo wrestling tournament. It was very interesting! Sometimes the outcome of the match might seem obvious if a super huge wrestler was against a tiny one, but sometimes we were surprised. I think it'd be more intense to watch it live.

A clip of the sumo wrestling. You'll have to turn up the volume really high if you want to hear sounds because I suck at recording videos on my phone.

Music Station and other music shows

I wish I remembered to tune into Music Station more often during this trip. I like seeing live musical performances. We caught at least one episode of Music Station, and then a couple other music-related shows. One was a recording of a music festival called FNS Music Festival Summer, and another was a quiz show called Do-Re-Mi-Fa-Don! I really enjoyed the quiz show 'cuz I got to hear so many different songs. I also enjoyed seeing if I recognized any of the tunes.

A clip of Man With a Mission and Milet performing "Kizuna no Kiseki" (one of the opening themes for Demon Slayer) at the FNS Music Festival Summer. Again you'll have to turn up the volume really high (do this for almost all the videos).

A clip of Super Beaver performing "Hakanakunai" (the opening theme to Tokyo Revengers 2 live-action) at the FNS Music Festival Summer.

A clip of Do-Re-Me-Fa-Don! I liked testing my music knowledge. :)

Various anime series

Just keeping this here from the previous blog:

Maybe I just didn't have the right channels, but anime does NOT play every hour of every day, despite all the new anime series that come out every year. From my experience, I would often catch anime starting from around 8-9 PM on weekdays and only on about few channels. On weekends I caught some anime playing in the morning, but series that were targeted more for kids. 

A few of the shows we caught during our channel surfing were Reborn as a Vending Machine, Now I Wander the Dungeon, Liar Liar, some card-fighting game, and a performance from one of the D4DJ series.

When we got back to Canada, I was surprised to see that some of those series we caught in Japan were already on Crunchyroll.

I'm not sure what show this was.

From the opening theme to Liar Liar.

This is from the D4DJ series.

Miscellaneous

Below are pics / videos I took from various shows and other things.

This was some improv competitive show. There were 3-4 teams and each team would have a couple minutes to come up with a skit for their prompt. I didn't understand a thing but I watched it.

This looked like a detective show. Again I didn't understand it, but it looked intriguing and at times comical.

This was a random show that looped clips of a cat being cute accompanied by piano music. For some reason it only aired in the middle of the night.

Here's a clip of the cat and piano music.

A commercial for Pikmin 4!

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AT THE ARCADES (GAME CENTERS)

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It was a relief to still see arcades / game centers still alive and kicking. From our experience, Akihabara still has the most amount of arcades / game centers, but some of them are focused on the latest games. We did come upon one game center in Akihabara that focused on retro games, but if you want to try playing a variety of older games, you may have to visit arcades / game centers in other places like Shibuya or Shinjuku.

Rhythm games

We tried a number of rhythm games including Maimai and Taiko: Drum Master. A couple new exposures for me were Ongeki Bright and Chunitha Sun.

Ongeki Bright is a game where you control three characters and you move them while hitting / holding the notes corresponding to their colour. There are also side buttons to hit at certain times and things to avoid throughout the stage. The interface was all in Japanese so it was confusing when it came to selecting the song I wanted to play.

Chunitha Sun had a keyboard layout but also made use of sensors to pick up the hand flicking upwards or staying in the air (that is a prompt in the game). I thought this was more difficult to play well.

I liked that some of the songs from the Hatsune Miku: Colorful Stage game were part of the song selection for all of these rhythm games.

My boyfriend playing Ongeki Bright. If your volume was still turned up from watching the previous videos, you'll want to turn the volume down for this. It's loud in the arcades!

This is the tutorial screen for Chunitha Sun.

My boyfriend trying Gitadora. He had no idea what he was doing.

House of the Dead: Scarlet Dawn

Out of the shooting games we tried (House of the Dead: Scarlet Dawn, The Walking Dead, and Time Crisis 4), we concluded that House of the Dead: Scarlet Dawn was the "fairest" in terms of how long we lasted on one play. So... we decided to set aside one afternoon and beat it! It was my first time beating any arcade game, so I was excited.

We set spending limits in case the game got really cheap later on. There were some surprise mobs here and there, and many of the bosses seemed impossible to clear without continuing. In the end, each of us continued three times, meaning each of us spent 800 yen in total. For over 30 minutes of entertainment, it's not so bad!.

The title screen. I'm so excited!

I just wanted to take a pic of the game. There was English voice-acting.

We saw the credits!

Our ranking in the end.

Proof that we cleared all the chapters.

Miscellaneous

Here are some pics of other games we tried out.

My boyfriend trying out Mobile Suit Gundam: Extreme vs Overboost 2. He enjoyed his experience.

My boyfriend trying out Mobile Suit Survival 2. Playing this involved purchasing a specific card from a vending machine. He used Google Lens to translate as much of the instructions as he could but didn't really know what he was doing. He still enjoyed the experience.

My boyfriend playing some Street Fighter.

We played Bubble Symphony, which is apparently Bubble Bobble II. We died pretty quickly but it was fun.

I saw this and we had to try it out! I wondered 'Are we gonna be trying to type out Japanese characters?' We were able to type out Romaji (English phonetics of the Japanese words).

Nothing beats Pong. It was interesting to play, but my side had lag when moving the paddle.

And that is it for my Japan blogs for this year! I am done! XD If you have any questions or comments, as usual feel free to comment.

If you have read from the beginning all the way to the end, thank you so much! Thanks for sticking through the long pauses between some of the entries. I really appreciate it *bows*

Will I go back to Japan in the future? Most definitely! I see need to see the cherry blossoms falling ^^

Take care, stay safe, and until next time!

BLOG -- My trip to Japan V.4 -- RANDOM THOUGHTS + SWAG / PURCHASES

So in this blog, I'll be listing any miscellaneous thoughts or observations I had while in Japan. Then we'll go into my swag / purchases. That section is kinda photo-heavy, but not as photo-heavy as in my earlier entries. Since I'm trying to be more minimalist, I used tons of willpower and resisted many, many temptations from many shops. This doesn't mean I bought nothing for myself -- I just had to be super picky. 

If you want to jump straight to the purchases section, do a search for "swag/purchases" (make sure there are no spaces between the "/").

I should note that some items I bought aren't shown here, since they were gifts. Annnd some items that are shown I don't have anymore, since they were given away as gifts, and I'm too lazy to do re-takes. I'll mention in the captions what I don't have anymore, lol.

If you wanna read my previous entries to see what thoughts / observations I had before, here they are:

2018 entry
2016 entry
2014 entry

MY MISCELLANEOUS THOUGHTS OR OBSERVATIONS

- Almost everything is Individually wrapped. I've noticed this before but never thought to mention it. While I think having almost everything individually wrapped shows care for the product, I also think it can be wasteful at times. I think for a box of chocolate sticks or a bag of cookies, I'd be fine with there being no individual wrapping.

- Tons of deep fried dishes. I never really thought about this before but Japan offers a variety of deep fried foods. There were days where I had to think about what I wanted to eat if I ate a lot of deep fried dishes the past couple meals.

- Too much gacha!! This is currently one of my pet peeves in Japan. It felt more manageable in the past with it often being limited to 100-500 yen gachapons and some randomized mini-figures and such, but now I think it's gone overboard. There were some plushies and T-shirts I was thinking of buying, but the only way to get them was through gacha (as in you buy a box or a covered container and the contents inside are 1 out of maybe 7 or 9 different options). I understand why more products are sold this way these days: 

1-it's designed to nab more profits if the customer didn't get what they originally wanted and possibly spend more to get another chance.

2-it provides some kind of excitement you wouldn't normally get if it was a regular purchase

However, I'm getting so tired of it. It's one thing when there is gacha for small-ish things or digital goods that hopefully only uses somebody's disposable income. It's another thing when there is gacha for higher priced physical items that might be needed or take up more space. I don't want to spend 2000 yen on a chance to get a T-shirt design I want. I also don't want to be stuck with a bunch of T-shirts I didn't want just because of "bad luck". Granted, this wasn't happening everywhere, but seeing it does give me concern. Just how much further will the gacha system extend to? :(

- Much fewer public trash bins. There never were many public trash bins to begin with, but after the pandemic it seemed there were much less trash bins around. We found a couple in Sunshine City in Ikebukuro, and in the Aeon Malls in Saitama, but outside most of the trash bins were for the vending machine drinks.

- Sushi is using one ingredient with rice and seaweed. My boyfriend pointed this out to me when he said he missed the sushi back at home that had multiple ingredients. There were some sushi places that had California rolls and other rolls with a multitude of ingredients, but in Japan, sushi is largely made with one main ingredient and the rice and seaweed. This is not to say that California rolls and such are better -- just to be aware there is a difference and adjust expectations if needed. I love both types of sushi so I understand having a longing for one or the other.

MY SWAG/PURCHASES

A SINoALICE gacha charm, and a Hatsune Miku: Colorful Stage wafer snack with a gacha card. I sent that SINoALICE charm away to my SINO partner-in-crime. :)

This is what I got from the Hatsune Miku: Colorful Stage wafer snack. The card quality was pretty decent.

From top to bottom: Super Mario-themed cookies, Harry Potter-themed chocolates, two power-up bands, and that 1-up soap-tasting chocolate. If I were to recommend any of these, it'd be the cookies and the power-up bands.

From top to bottom, left to right: A mini-chair, a tiny foldable poncho, some clear gift bags, some trash bags, a wooden bowl, shades, fancy envelopes, empty card container, a pair of socks, a black tie, and a black bowtie. All of these were from Daiso (100-yen shop). Many of these I don't have anymore.

From top to bottom, left to right: A Kurama figure, Mikey mini-figure, a three-level stand, and a box of Demon Slayer gacha charms. I don't have the mini-figure nor the charms.

Napstablook mini-plushie charm and a keychain for my boyfriend. The Napstablook mini-plushie is currently on my purse.

What I got from one of the gachapons. It's Azami Mochizuki from Sakura Wars (I've only watched the original anime series and I don't think she's in that one).

A gacha mini-standee from Cafe Roanapur. It's not shown here, but I got Balalaika.

A pen and a ruler from the Parasite Museum. My boyfriend bought these for me. :)

A go board!

Our amateur attempt at playing go.

From left to right: a bunch of gachapon goodies, an Attack on Titan cat-themed gacha figure, a Zhongli standee, and a Hatsune Miku: Colorful Stage-themed notepad.

A Shin Megami Tensei Alice mini-standee and a Junji Ito-themed gacha. I don't have the latter anymore.

A Mitsuru card, Persona 5-themed notepads, and some Shin Megami Tensei-themed bookmarks. This was my way of spoiling myself.

Cost of Swag / Purchases (in Yen) (NOT counting what I gave to friends)
Hatsune Miku: Colorful Stage wafer with gacha card: 165
Power-up Bands (2): 8400
The various things from Daiso (that I kept): 770
Kurama figure (from one of those "shops"): 1800
Three-level stand: 1500
Napstablook mini-plushie: 500
Sakura Wars gachapon: 300
Cafe Roanapur mini-standee gacha: 800 (I am happy to get Balalaika)
Go board: 630
Zhongli standee: 1430
Hatsune Miku: Colorful Stage notepad: 550
SMT Alice mini-standee: 1250
Persona 3 Mitsuru card: 500
Persona 5-themed notepads: 1500
SMT-themed bookmarks: 700


Grand Total (excluding gifts for friends): 20795 yen

This time I didn't need somebody else to declare my goods, nor did I have to mail anything away. For once I had no worries when it came to declaring my goods. :)

Thank you so much for reading!! For those who have celebrated Lunar New Year yesterday, Happy late Lunar New Year! XD

 One more to go and the Japan blogs will be done!! Take care, stay safe, and until next time! :)