trip alert: ‘bot going to Tokyo
Scheduled to be there in late March for a work trip, and I will be attending TAF 2008. Yes, that’s right , the Tokyo Animation Fair. I’m not really sure what to expect, but I know I gotta do a few things that are really important.
1) Learn to eat raw fish. Yes, I know I’m one of like 3 assholes who doesn’t do it yet, but I can’t help but not love the texture. I gotta learn FAST how to enjoy this.
2) Do some research with some serious anime nerds about how I can seem like one of them. I mean, I’ve seen Trekkies like a zillion times, but I’m not sure that knowledge really converts to anime. Man, that’s so ignorant. It’s like calling a Korean Japanese. ….
3) Make sure I know what Japanese people really look like.
4) Attempt to re-kindle that Japanese I took like 6 years ago in undergrad. Yeah, the one where I was more interested in understanding the Tekken Game character names than the courtesy greetings.
5) Familiarize myself with Japanese culture and business etiquette. I found this video from Honda which I really explains a lot.
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