It’s the final days and we’re waking tired. It’s time to cross off the remaining things on our ‘lists’, which basically means shopping and game centers!
We returned to Ikebukuro and there was some sort of cosplay event on – we saw people (almost exclusively girls) in full costume everywhere. I noted elaborate uniform cosplay seemed to be very popular, and some of the outfits were amazingly detailed and would have taken vast amounts of work. We visited a cosplay shop and the above pic was the wig section, showing all the colours you can order wigs in. I saw a girl with a photo of 2B (from Nier) trying to pick the correct colour 🙂
And that’s just a selection of the available contact lenses. If you look closely you’ll see many have dark rims around the edge, to make your eye more resemble a drawn anime eye. Some even have white rings at the edge to make your pupil smaller (to make girls look more like boys). The selection is so vast it would be a challenge to choose!
We returned to Akiba and I went to play games while Kristin visited a cat cafe. She said there were more than twenty cats, but it was late in the day and they were full of treats so they didn’t mob her when she purchased a lollipop for them.
The cats roam free in a large room but she said they all had aloof attitudes since they were sick of people! They were all very cute though.
She was there for feeding time, where the cats all line up next to each other for their food. Again, since it was late in the day they weren’t super enthusiastic and lost interest quickly. You’d want to go for the morning feed to see this at its best.
I finally got around to packing, which took me many hours but revealed we’ve still got some space left. I’m sure we’ll try to fill it tomorrow!