#katsudon
Hi, I’m starting in the fujoshi world and I want to read some good BL/yaoi manga, manhwa or manhua, preferably short or one shots, for fast. I loved YOI so much and I want to read something like that, please, what’s the closest thing you can suggest me?
The thing is, there’s a lot of BL/yaoi that I don’t like because is too aggressive. It’s like, most of yaoi I’ve read starts with a seme forcing an uke into sex. I’m not judging, I mean, I know it’s just fiction, I like Killing Stalking, for example, it’s such an awesome thriller. But if it gonna be about shipping and getting all excited about an OTP, I want to read something more like the Victor and Yuuri relationship. cute and natural and realistic, I also like 19 days and Free, but I’m looking for something more like Victuuri.
Anyway, thank you very very much, I hope I was not very picky, and sorry for the bad english XD
Day 26: Anime vs. Real Life - Official art, inside Karatsu Station, the beach, and Katsudon
Heeeyyyyy, so I’m back
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Please forgive my massive delay in finishing these posts. Lots has been going on, either to me or around me. Spinal surgeries, car accidents, conventions etc. It’s been wild. And I’m not gonna lie and say that I haven’t been a bit lazy. So without further ado…
More reasons why I love the people I met here:
They recreate with me!!
We headed back to the castle one more time so they could get last minute souvenirs for people.
And then we temporarily split ways. They had things they wanted to do as it was their last day in town, and I had things I had to do if I was to see everything I wanted to see and eat everywhere I wanted to eat before I left.
And yes, there’s a tree in front irl as well, but its right at the edge of the sidewalk, and it’s a main road, so I was not about to wander into traffic for a picture…
And I found the Makka. The collection of pictures is complete!
- Yuuri in Karatsu Station
- Yuri in Kyomachi shopping district
- Victor outside Karatsu Castle
- Makka at the animal clinic
Then I was off to lunch.
So some of the banners inside Ice Castle Hasetsu are real places. Food places to be specific. And today, I was eating at #1: Maki no Udon
I couldn’t get the same angle, cuz there were, ya know, people eating at the tables, so I just snapped a quick picture from the bar where I was seated.
After, I met back up with my peeps at Kyomachi for one last round of pictures.
Expectation:
Reality:
People were just walking by, staring at the group of white girls doing stereotypical white girl stuff, but we were laughing so hard it didn’t matter to us.
Once we finally got one of all of us in the air, we headed to the train station. There was, of course, more goodies.
And I finally got my inside comparison shots.
We rode the train a couple stops down, and got off and went to the beach!
We swam for a bit, tried to do the graceful backward hair flip out of the water, failed miserably, got touched by something unknown, freaked and scrambled out of the water, and then headed over to enjoy the showers.
Sadly, they had removed one handle from each shower head, so we could not do the shot with Victor ruffling Yuuri’s hair under the water. So we did just Victor.
I thought the water wouldn’t feel too bad after the cold ocean.
I was wrong…
It wasn’t super cold or anything…it just took getting over that initial shock of cooler water temp compared to ambient air temp…
And for anyone unaware of how the Japanese feel about tattoos, the shirt was not for temperature, but just to cover all my tattoos on my arms and shoulder blades.
…yeah…I’m no where near as graceful as Victor under that shower…
*hides in shame*
NOTE!! There is another set of shower heads further down the beach (about 2 blocks further away from Karatsu city proper) but they are not the same showers. The shape of the pipes on top are not the same.
Instead of having that bend in the middle, they just stick straight out, and the shower heads themselves face down. Just fyi for anyone that might visit.
After we were satisfied with our pictures and figured we had wasted enough water, we actually showered all the salt water off of ourselves, and walked back to the train station since my friends had to get back to Fukuoka to catch their flight back to Tokyo.
And then I was on my own again.
Before? I was totally cool being on my own. I had no issues not having to work with what other people wanted to do.
After? Once I got myself back to my room later that night, I cried because I was now lonely and the past couple days with other YOI fans had been so much fun.
BUT!!
There was no time to be sad. I had much more food to eat.
Specifically: Katsudon
Yes…
YES…
Guys…
It was heaven.
Legit heaven.
Like, I will never eat katsudon back in the states ever again.
I’ve tried it at many places around where I live. Nothing, and I mean NOTHING, compares to this. And I refuse to ruin the memory of this most amazing meal.
I channeled my inner Victor for a hot minute and inhaled that bowl so fast.
If you did nothing in Karatsu except get the katsudon at Kagamiyama Onsen, you would not regret it.
As I expected, they don’t allow tattoos in the bath areas, so I wasn’t able to experience that, which sucks, but having 5 decent sized tattoos, I’m used to not being allowed in certain places in Japan.
No remember. I had udon for lunch, went to the beach for a little, then had katsudon a couple hours later.
Well, after the katsudon, I had to rush back to my ryokan…because I had wanted dinner.
So for my third full sized meal in several hours was meat shabu shabu.
If you’ve never had shabu shabu, it goes like this:
- Take food
- Put in pot and swirl
- Remove when cooked
- Dip in sauce
And along the way, eat the veggies boiling in the pot as well.
After stuffing myself to the point where I felt like the sheer amount of food in my stomach was pushing back up my esophagus, I waddled my extremely fat ass back to my room as passed out in a food coma for the night.
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So I ordered katsudon…
In honor of the Yuri!!! on Ice marathon tomorrow, and because I’m a fatass, I wanted to eat Yuuri’s favorite food.
It looked promising.
But then I started eating…
…
…
aaaaaaaaand I got this:
There’s like, a salad under my pork.
Never in the history of ever (either in America or Japan) have I had katsudon served like this…
NO ONE WANTS TO PICK THROUGH CABBAGE AND CARROTS AND OTHER THINGS TO GET TO THE RICE GOODNESS!
The carrots themselves created an unpleasant clashing of flavors.
I am upset by this…
Can’t sleep, so I sketched everyone’s favorite pork cutlet boi
