I combined some of it into one picture so it will fit all in this post.
1. Luca’s grandmother is a part of the ice cream enthusiast gang now with the lesbian grannies.
2. Alberto might have became a lifeguard now. Protecting kids from drowning when they were swimming in the sea. A fitting job for him, the best swimmer.
3. Luca’s first experience watching movie in cinema. I wonder what movie they were watching to make Luca looked so scared while Giulia was having the best time of her life.
4. Luca being brave enough to come out as sea people to his classmates + and even feeling comfortable to pose for Giulia’s mother painting (she is a painter!! ) as his true self.
5. Luca’s parents just adopting kids on the street left and right to play with them. Also they brought the statue stone that Luca’s made to fool them to the surface and replace the scary statue of people hunting sea monster with this harmless cute statue.
6. Alberto takes the turtle to live with him and Massimo. The cat was about to throw hands because he was eating from his bowl lmao
7. I bet that the cat didn’t like the turtle at first but soon enough warming up and becomes best buddy. They name the turtle Caligola and the grumpy cat name is Machiavelli. + Alberto brought the vinyl player over and it seems like Machiavelli is getting attached easily to this machine lol
8. Luca finally got to use bigger telescope to see the stars.
9. Luca being a precious nerd that got so excited at the sight of so many thick books.
10. I bet the dog likes Luca immediately in their first meeting, also now I understand why Giulia was dressing like that, she is copying her mom style lol + Luca and Giulia sending letters from Genova to Portorosso.
I love Luca credit arts so much because they show the progress of Luca and Alberto relationship after the movie end. Like Luca keeping his promise to write letters and we also could see how happy Alberto is living with both Luca’s and Giulia’s families.
I clean it up a bit. Just to appreciate it Even more.
1. Luca Writing letter to Alberto with “Caro Alberto ( Dear Alberto)”
2. Alberto reading the letter from Luca hanging upside down on his bed (he has a bed now ) . This is peak gay “reading letter from your crush” attitude. (Also Machiavelli seems like he didn’t want leave Alberto’s side anymore lol how far they have come from this cat basically being suspicious at him and attacking him any time he got the chance to always staying by his side now).
3. He showed the letter to Luca’s family and even brought Massimo to Luca’s house with that suit lmao
4. Calling each other on the phone while all family listening. Also Luca’s grandmother might know about Alberto’s feeling toward Luca by the way she looked at him.
5. Luca getting the letter back from Alberto and reading it with Giulia’s and her mom
6. Massimo celebrating Alberto’s birthday and giving him knife as the gift He loves his fish son so much. Massimo is the best dad. I am so glad that Alberto got the better dad that will not abandoned him now and I think Alberto is the son that Massimo also secretly wishes he could have. Now they have each other.
7. Doing the same thing even a part. Alberto with his growing enthusiasm to learn about vespa, all those books about “motor” and “velocita” scattered around him ..also Luca has a dog now
8. Luca’s and Giulia’s family together lmao Alberto just sipping the espresso from his tiny little cup while Luca’s mother lost her mind over her husband’s antic (I bet it’s the espresso effect, it’s too much for their fish heart ) Massimo and Alberto days must be so chaotic with luca’s family visiting them so often lol
9. Also The grumpy cat is a dad now with eight kittens (they show how they meet too at the after credit Sketch.)
10. Alberto and Massimo wearing matching pajamas. And I bet this is just Luca’s parents coming to their house without any notice and just make themselves at home cooking breakfast for these two
They really become one big family at the end. This movie is seriously so heartwarming .
Day 25: Caravan (again) and fireworks on the beach!
So I started my day by going BACK to Caravan, for lunch this time. Same deliciousness…I just got a smaller portion, because I’m not made of money. There were many cons and other events skipped over the previous year to save for my trip.
He didn’t have the Portuguese flag printed, and the Swedish flag was flipped, but the effort was still appreciated by all.
Now I had all sorts of plans of things to do, places to see. But I wanted a picture with chef with our YOI banners (well, mine was a banner…his was a towel), and he didn’t have time to pose for pictures until after lunch was over.
And then immediately after, we were invited to a BBQ (again, huge thanks to chef for the new, not common experience!), so there just wasn’t time to do anything I had pre-planned.
And it was 1000% worth it!
One of the girls was dressing up as Yuri, and another was dressing up as Mila, and while I didn’t really have cosplay clothing specifically, I think I made it work. I had just gotten my Yuuri glasses (prescription lenses already in in less than 24 hours after ordering…thank you Japan), so I just dressed in Sagan Tosu gear, since that doesn’t show my hair much.
And to the beach for a Yuri!!! on Ice BBQ we went!!
The music we listened to in the car was YOI.
The music we listened to at the actual BBQ was YOI.
The decorations were all different YOI nendoroids/nendoroid heads.
There was even a banana boat!
The food was incredible.
The view at sunset was gorgeous.
There was even a small surprise birthday celebration.
And yes, the cake was brought out by Coach Victor.
Then the best part of the night.
Fireworks!
Sparklers, to be specific.
Since you can’t really say you’re doing a trip re-creating parts of the show if you don’t have 5 different phones and one bluetooth speaker playing You Only Live Once on repeat while you run on the beach with sparklers.
Now, just as a heads up. I know many people (especially Americans) don’t often consider sparklers the same as the fireworks that fly up into the air and go boom, but Japan does. Fireworks of any kind (at least in Karatsu…I don’t know details about other cities) are not allowed without first submitting a request with the city and getting approval. So even though you can buy packets of sparklers, it’s not something you can just light off. And again, I don’t know everything because my Japanese comprehension is spectacularly sub-par, but arrest was thrown out as something that would happen if there was no city permission first.
So the fact that we got to do this, thanks to Chef or whoever else submitted the request, was unique, and I will forever be grateful for the experience.
…..I’m not nearly as graceful…..
Then once everyone was settling down and started to leave, we discovered we were invited to the after-party that ended up being at Diro’s.
It was after midnight. The Yu(u)ri’s were sleepy…
Ai-san, the one that was dressed as Coach Victor, was also there…
…and then he changed…
…don’t ask me why, I don’t know. Needless to say, everyone got a good laugh.
It was a magical night, and I will always remember it.
So Chef, I know you probably won’t see this, and even if you did, idk if you’d be able to read it, but thank you for everything you included me in! You and everyone else in Karatsu that was friendly and did their best to accommodate the one person that couldn’t speak Japanese means the world to me!!
