I wasn’t planning on going down there (I had a ton of work to do) but I got a text from Jessie and Sonnya asking me to stop by and I figured something like this only comes around in a blue moon, so I tossed on something presentable and jumped a train.
The downstairs area had a few people in costumes walking around, enough that I thought the cosplay Q & A that Renee and Sonnya was doing *might be in the back of the place. But I soon learned it was up the escalator on the third floor.
At the end of a sea of what looked like teenaged girls and some unusual men I found them. The turn out was huge and people could barely move on the top floor. Jessie and Peter waved me to the front and I scraped by a crowd of soul reapers who were violently opposed to deodorant.
It was interesting. There was a Japanese television crew there, a Japanese radio program did a thirty minute broadcast with them. Tons of cameras. Everywhere… cameras.
Sonnya was given a hybrid of two things she loves, cake and Spider-Man. Afterward we went for some Katsu and that was that.
I did like the bookstore. Kinokuniya has a good setup and I’d like to visit more often. They also carry art supplies and other things that you might not think to look for. I was actually very surprised about the bottom floor. It was like a Japanese Borders. Hardcovers, cook books, it was interesting.
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