Notices by mcc (mcc@mastodon.social), page 2

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)

What if Andi but smol

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)

some World

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)

Pictured: EXTREMELY HAPPY DIANA WYNNE JONES FAN

Relaxing in the garden

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…

Signage for yokai

Photos I like for reasons I can't quite vocalize

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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

Two 50 yen coins, overlapping in four dimensional space. To capture this phenomenon Miguel proposes the term "Hyperyen"

Note: If you like the posts above from my visit to the Tower of the Sun, you may also like Miguel's thread on Bluesky with his own photos from the day. Miguel paid extra to be allowed to take photos inside of the Tower (above described as "Him") above the first floor (they appear to be very concerned about people dropping their cameras and make you rent a lanyard) and so got some shots I was not able to

https://bsky.app/profile/spookysquid.bsky.social/post/3l7pbc3vtlt26

Cubeset

Photography is a way of seeing

Public service poster on the Osaka subway admonishing the reader not to play Pokemon Go at situationally inappropriate times

I just… I saw them, I was getting something at the pharmacy by the subway station and I saw them, and I thought "do I want one of these?" and suddenly the thought hit me, a lightning bolt of absolute certainty, that no, no what I want is *four of them*.

They are posable.

I concluded my day by making… making what what may have been a very unwise purchase.

Or maybe it will turn out to have be the wisest purchases I have ever made. It is too early to tell

I started writing some body horror about dropping Kirby in your bathtub and it turns out he's a bath ball and he dissolves while smiling the whole while, but everything I came up with was too horrible to post

Vending machine from the Osaka subway labeled "FEED ME ORANGE" which has a bunch of whole oranges on a hopper and when you pay it pulls one, squeezes the juice out of it, and serves you just-made fresh orange juice