My Birthday Continued

I turned 45 yesterday. It was a lovely day, except for the crushing headache I had all day. The weather was great and my family (actually my parents via a birthday check) treated me to a day at Barnes & Noble where I bought ALL THE MANGA. The thing I wanted the most was Bakuman #17 and I read it right away. I also picked up BLEACH #25, 27, and 40 (Mason wanted to skip ahead to see the name of Ulquiorra's 2nd release translation, turns out? It's called "second release." One of the many times these things seem cooler in Japanese. Can't imagine the American/English voice actor who had to shout, "Second Release!" and try to make it sound nearly as awesome in Spanish/Japanese.) Then my family spent the rest of the money on other books we'd been looking for, including a new drawing pad for me.

Quite the haul!

Mason and I had wanted to have a Bleach marathon, but my headache didn't cooperate. So today we went to the import store to stock up on Japanese candy for a full day tomorrow of Bleach. Our local mall, Rosedale, has a "Tomodochi.us," wherein we bought:



OMG. THEY HAD EVERY BURGER!!! Yes, hamburger flavor candies. Why would you not love something like this???? Also pictured are Ice Cream flavored KitKats (sorry, Karin, no green tea flavor, I checked.) We also picked up Meiji Gummy Choco (muscat flavor) and Konpeito Sugar Candies (various flavors,) and a Litchi flavored carbonated drink whose brand name I can't actually read.

Also, for Bleach fans out there, I did not see ANY Soul Candy. I checked everywhere... perhaps behind the counter? Also, no freeze dried squid covered in chocolate. I got excited when I saw a squid a package of something, but the contents did not seemed to be squid flavored. Perhaps just a mascot...? I also found a lot of flavors of gum, but nothing garunteed to increase my breast size, alas.

My birthday... the gift that keeps giving.