So I’ve been spending the better part of this afternoon trying to find the name of a specific hair accessory (and driving myself insane in the process):
I know I’ve seen it before outside of my own imagination, but I cannot remember where. It was either in a book about the Huns/Mongolia or something Norse adjacent and any search for braid rings/metal caps/hoops/other variation only yields stuff about box braids and whether Asians can wear them 🙄 (it’s HAIR).
So if there’s any hair historians/professionals/nerds/enthusiasts out there who can help me, please do!
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📍日本
OK,, SO STORYTIME (aka,, 2nd hand anime goods i found today ^^).
i was going to nipponbashi to find the snow miku nendoroid (now knowing the cost is DEADLY), but i looked inside almost eVERY SINGLE SHOP THERE, AND NONE OF THEM HAD HER. EVEN ANIMATE, THE BIGGEST ANIME BRANCH IN JAPAN (which was what my friend told me :p).
but i looked around surugaya shop on ota road, and found HER:
AN ICHIKA NAKANO FIGURE SOLD AT 2.4K YEN WEARING THE PRETTIEST, PASTEL-EST KIMONO E V E R. i literally couldn't believe that she was being sold for THAT price. i saw an itsuki nakano figure wearing the same themed outfit, but ichika just looked cuter in my opinion (plus, itsuki was being sold for 3.1k yen, so no thank you :p).
i don't plan on displaying ichika because one, i don't have anywhere to put her (like a glass case or shelf). and two, i prefer playing with her like little girls do with their barbie dolls. i'm going to make her cups of fake tea, set up a doll house, and buy a pink lambo. HAH !!! i will definitely be careful doing so, though.
next up, i bought:
A YOTSUBA NAKANO PLUSH. (*^▽^)/★*☆♪
there was actually a miku nakano one too right next to her, but yotsuba's cheerful expression won me over (and the fact that i generally just like her hair color more LOL).
m'gonna bring her around the airport and give her some airplane food so that she's well fed. :3
can't forget the smallest plush sold at a severely uNREASONABLE price:
A BABY KITASHIN KEYCHAIN !!!!
i already dangled him onto my bag, and he's going to smile at everyone in japan all the way back to my home country.
extra stuff that i wanna mention:
- the surugaya shop also sold some adorable toge inumaki stuff that i wanted to take home, but i think the three things above are more than enough. ^^
- i was going to get my brother a zoro plush since zoro is one of his favorite all-time characters, but it cost 2K YEN. brother, i love you, i just don't have enough for you. 😞
- like zoro, his other favorite characters are quite popular (ex. sasuke, vegeta, unohana), so their merchandise were pricey too. i asked our father if any character from "demon slayer" (his favorite anime) reminded him of my brother, and he said "the boar" (translation: inosuke). so i laughed while trying to find some inosuke merch. eventually, i found a little plush of him in makeup, and i was so ready to buy it because i had a feeling my brother would've laughed at seeing the thing, but the price was at a wHOPPING 1.5K YEN.
- i got a few gacha capsules for myself since my family and i spotted this little gacha machine pop-up in our train station, and i spent 800 yen on this beauty:
a plastic wedding nino nakano figure !!!! y'know, at first i was a bit irritated with the fact that when i opened the capsule, only the upper half of her torso was there, so i thought that i had to spend another 800 yen for her dress. then i realized her dress was actually the gacha capsule itself, which was really cool and convenient :D!!
bro, i had a BALL going around to shop (thank you dearly, oh mother and father, for the allowance which i wisely spent /hj) because the last time i went to japan, i only got sanrio plushies and not actual anime stuff. fueee. ( ´△`) . . .
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