Jared
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Hi Everyone! My name is Jared and I’m super excited for this trip! Are you?
From: Massachusetts (nowhere near Boston!)
What brings you to the tour?: Finding love in Japan. Just kidding! Okay so I’ve been into anime for about 15 years now and I also grew up on games from Japan. I’ve been on a tour once before with PacSet (Pawprint Pathways 2014 – the original!) and while that trip is amazing, there wasn’t a whole lot of Tokyo. So I’m excited for more city and more opportunities for photography and video stuffs. Also the culture is super interesting; just observing how things work in Japan is fun!
Looking forward to: Our tour guide Evan. ALSO shopping for cels at Nakano Broadway, looking for artbooks and prints, pencil boards, and other older merchandise from series long past, AND playing DDR at the arcades (I’ve seriously been practicing). Looking forward to searching out game and merch stores in Akihabara again, Anime Japan, and FOOD. I’m also really looking forward to taking more photos and shooting more video. The Chihayafuru movie is coming out on Saturday March 19th and I’m totes planning on going if anyone wants to go!
What’s on your desk?: Right now? Let’s see… I have coffee, a chocolate chip cookie, tablet, phone, receipt for new camera stuff I recently picked up, Spirited Away see through puzzle and frame I haven’t put together yet (it’s p cool), vitamin c drops to fight off getting sick.
Favorite Anime of all Time: In no order.. here we go! Escaflowne, Yu Yu Hakusho, Marmalade Boy, Cowboy Bebop, Chihayafuru, Spirited Away, Wolf Children, Wolf’s Rain, Evangelion, Whisper of the Heart, Last Exile
Favorite Anime from Fall 2015 and Winter 2016 Seasons: Fall: I think I’ll do favorite anime from the last few seasons because I kind of took a break for a little while. Erased, Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju (vocal theater anime!), Chihayafuru, Noragami, Nagi no Asukara, Shirobako
Anything else?: I’m really excited for this trip, to see Kippu again, and looking forward to the free day. I’m starting to plan a route that includes shopping and other stuffs, but it might all change to sight seeing and walking around, etc. I’ve been posting photos to my instagram account (symposiumforgeek) from the last tour and made a little series out of it.
