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1. mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Nov-2024 20:33:31 JST mcc

   Thanks, Google Translate

   • mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Nov-2024 20:33:23 JST mcc

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     Graaaaaaa

   • mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Nov-2024 20:33:23 JST mcc

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     Okay so those last photos were from a tiny area themed after "Whisper of the Heart", so it kind of had one side that was just a totally ordinary chunk of suburban Tokyo where the protagonist lives (a bus stop, a mailbox, a phone) and the other side was the fantastic world from her fiction she wrote after school. The bus stop was covered in kids' graffiti. Can anyone translate the bits in the last photo here? Google translate does bad on handwriting IME.

   • mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Nov-2024 20:33:23 JST mcc

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     • Miguel 🦑 Sternberg

     You exit the "Whisper of the Heart" area through this tunnel which shows up in the film, when the protag has a dream where the creative process is mining glowing gemstones out of a deep cave ( pictured, me and @spookysquid ) https://mas.to/@spinningmind/113417983508031546

   • mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Nov-2024 20:33:24 JST mcc

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     90% of my communication on this trip has consisted of nodding

   • mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Nov-2024 20:33:24 JST mcc

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     Imagine if you were a cat and a fox living in a tiny house and big terrible humans kept stomping around peeking in the windows and taking photos because your living situation is "cute" and "magical". Terrible.

   • mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Nov-2024 20:33:24 JST mcc

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     Dudes chillin

   • mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Nov-2024 20:33:25 JST mcc

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     In Osaka Station on Friday I saw a diaper vending machine. Frick!! That makes so much sense!! Why is this the first time in my entire life I have ever seen such a thing!!

   • mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Nov-2024 20:33:25 JST mcc

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     WE'RE HERE!!!

   • mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Nov-2024 20:33:26 JST mcc

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     Going for some slightly aggro fashion choices tonight

     I was like "hmm my hair's a little out of control tonight… might as well lean into it"

   • mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Nov-2024 20:33:26 JST mcc

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     Okay this is maybe a little too specific to ever come up but if anyone ever wants a recommendation for an Indian restaurant in Nagoya, Japan, I have you covered

     (Fluffiest naan I have ever eaten in my *life*, it was incredible)

   • mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Nov-2024 20:33:26 JST mcc

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     Fusion of humans and technology

   • mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Nov-2024 20:33:27 JST mcc

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     Walking through the Osaka rail station I saw a dude in his late 40s wearing an open button-down under which was a T shirt reading "FOLLOW YOUR FUCKING DREAMS". I am telling you this because I wanted to post the below image but it did not seem like enough of a post by itself.

     But I do like this image

   • mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Nov-2024 20:33:27 JST mcc

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     Trains Gender

   • mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Nov-2024 20:33:27 JST mcc

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     To follow up on my post above (Quote: "Beans") Miguel just posted a thread of his photos from that event on bluesky, and he got a photo of the projection mapping monoliths half sunken in the lake

     https://bsky.app/profile/spookysquid.bsky.social/post/3l7wvq7r6dd2y

   • mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Nov-2024 20:33:28 JST mcc

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     Ran into Toby Fox in the basement of a mall in Osaka

     (the location these were found for sale implies these at some point were in a gacha machine)

   • mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Nov-2024 20:33:28 JST mcc

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     Spiffy is cool. Tuxedo Sam. Tuxedo Sam always turns up in the middle of everything. Being spiffy and cool is easy for a little blue penguin.

   • mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Nov-2024 20:33:28 JST mcc

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     When you get tired of femme moding and you decide today you will just fall back to comfy Robot

   • mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Nov-2024 20:33:29 JST mcc

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     Dotonburi River, Osaka at night. This image has not been postprocessed

   • mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Nov-2024 20:33:29 JST mcc

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     Immediately following taking this photo I waited 20 minutes in the rain outside a tiny six seater Izakaya meaning to politely step in when someone stepped out, thought maybe I should actually check they were accepting customers at all, found out they weren't, stepped in a puddle and drenched my socks, got completely lost and wound up at Crab

   • mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Nov-2024 20:33:29 JST mcc

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     Emotional French Toast

   • mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Nov-2024 20:33:30 JST mcc

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     Sorry I didn't mention this detail earlier

   • mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Nov-2024 20:33:30 JST mcc

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     What was interesting about this temple (Kiyomizu-dera) was it was really more of like… a complex? There's a part built in the 8th century, and a part built in the 1600s, but then there's just all this other … stuff, all around the site, which seems to be its own thing with its own individual history, some of it very mysterious if you can't read Japanese signage (attachment #2: why are there dogs? why do they look so friendly? are they meant as guardians? or are they just happy to see you?

   • mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Nov-2024 20:33:30 JST mcc

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     Anyway if you choose to drink from the waterfall whose water possesses mystic powers, it turns out they dealt with the sanitation problems inherent in this by storing the ladles used to capture and drink it in a machine that constantly sterilizes them with UV light. Japan has this religion thing down to a science (spoken approvingly)

   • mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Nov-2024 20:33:31 JST mcc

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     We passed by another of those "Feed Me Orange" juice-squeezed-while-you-watch vending machines (see upthread) but this time I just looked at it and was like… well, actually I could really go for some orange juice right about now.

     So I tried it and… okay!! It was actually some really good orange juice!!

   • mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Nov-2024 20:33:31 JST mcc

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     Okay wait re: last post I just realized if I'm going to post about the orange juice robot machine I PROBABLY should have mentioned the reason I was by this vending machine in the first place, was because it was on the street outside a gorgeous, UNESCO-World-Heritage-recognized 1200-year-old Buddhist temple overlooking on one side the entire city of Kyoto from above and on the other side a literal magic waterfall. That's probably relevant

   • mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Nov-2024 20:33:46 JST mcc

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     Anyway it turns out Totoro is real, we met at Ghibli park, chatted a bit, he said I should come visit the bar in Nagoya where he works as a side hustle, it was a chill experience

   • mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Nov-2024 20:33:47 JST mcc

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     Photos I like for reasons I can't quite vocalize

     (Alt text contains context)

   • mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Nov-2024 20:33:47 JST mcc

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     Signage for yokai

   • mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Nov-2024 20:33:47 JST mcc

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     So they built in incredible detail this entire office in a little hut near the exit to the "Ghibli Warehouse". But if you go back down and around to the lower area, and look back up at it…

     Kuba Orlik repeated this.
   • mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Nov-2024 20:33:48 JST mcc

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     Relaxing in the garden

   • mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Nov-2024 20:33:48 JST mcc

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     Pictured: EXTREMELY HAPPY DIANA WYNNE JONES FAN

   • mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Nov-2024 20:33:48 JST mcc

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     There was a combined Kiki + Howl's Moving Castle area and it was great because the Howl bit actually had references to things that were in the book but not in the Ghibli movie:

     (The whole area also had Diana Wynne Jones books stuffed in whenever a room had bookshelves. Complete Japanese sets of the Howl and Crestomanci serieses with really cool Japan exclusive covers but also some deep cuts, an English edition of Archer's Goon was in there. Also some Ursula le Guin. One copy of The Hobbit)

   • mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Nov-2024 20:33:49 JST mcc

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     some World

   • mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Nov-2024 20:33:49 JST mcc

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     Ghibli Park is great because it's absolutely for the sickos. Do you like Totoro? Okay whatever there's an area with like one statue and kids can take pictures inside his mouth. Do you like The World Of Arrietty? Ok you just hit jackpot because YOU get a COMPLETE REPRODUCTION OF THE HOUSE AND THE ENTIRE GARDEN AREA OUTSIDE COMPLETE WITH THE LITTLE NOTE STASHED UNDER A STYROFOAM CUBE (it ruled)

   • mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Nov-2024 20:33:49 JST mcc

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     What if Andi but smol

   • mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Nov-2024 20:33:50 JST mcc

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     • Miguel 🦑 Sternberg

     They had the meeting house from Princess Mononoke, inside they had a little activity where they walked you through grilling your own mochi, which seemed somewhat arbitrary but was extremely delicious.

     (Note, last photo is @spookysquid 's, his mochi turned out better than mine visually, mine was delicious but too embarrassing to show)

   • mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Nov-2024 20:33:50 JST mcc

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     You can buy the hat!

   • mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Nov-2024 20:33:50 JST mcc

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     Okay so when you see this statue at the entrance to a space is that good or bad and should you eat the food Y/N

   • mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Nov-2024 20:33:51 JST mcc

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     • Miguel 🦑 Sternberg

     Here's me hanging out with the spite spirit made of the selfish hunger and thoughtless negativity humanity pumped into the world through its drive to control and organize. Yeah, we're buds now

     (photos by @spookysquid)