Hung out with Motoshi in Shin Yokohama today. We ate lunch at the ramen museum. I bought a 1 year pass since it was only 800 yen (regular admission is 300 yen) and if I get hired by ArcSys, I might be going there now and then. X.D
No luck finding the Natsume Yuujinchou ichiban kuji during my trip because all the places I went either didn't have it or were sold out. =.( I did buy some Pino though. X.3 Black Thunder too!
At 4:30, I met up with Casey and we discussed some things about Arc. At 5 he took me up where Sugiyama san had me fill out a form and asked me some questions while explaining what my responsibilities would be. Basically I'll translate documents, possibly do some localization support, be a liaison between ArcSys and American companies, etc, etc. He even mentioned possible business trips to the U.S. .x_x One thing I'll definitely need to do is familiarize myself with games and certain gaming lingo.
Met the president of ArcSys. Laid back guy but it can be really hard to understand him if you're not paying attention because he doesn't speak up. Casey tells me when they have meetings and the president is talking, the people in the back can't hear what he's saying. .^^;
Anyway, if I get hired, I might start in January, assuming all the visa stuff gets cleared by then. HMM~~~ That would mean I could go to Hatano's signing event for his DVD! And maybe even his Animate talk show event? That's at the end of January though. The Yokohama Animate still has quite a few event tickets left. HMM!!!! X.DDD There are a bunch of female designers at Arc too. There's
got to be a few seiyuu fans among them. X.3
They're supposed to be sending me some samples to test my translation skills soon. I guess if it arrives before I leave tomorrow then I can work on it on the plane.
So, had curry at a place inside Shin Yokohama Station. It was yummy. After that we all had to say our goodbyes. Motoshi was also leaving for home in Shiga so ya. On my way back, I accidentally got on the express train instead of the local so instead of going just one station like I needed to, the next stop was like... 4 or 5 stations away. .^^;;; Whoops!
And now here I am. My last night in Japan. I've gotta pack and look up the train schedule for tomorrow. Hauling PG 00-Raiser home is gonna be a pain in the ass. .^^;;
Today's purchases were Voice NewType and the Natsume Yuujinchou Official Fanbook. Was going to make some extra purchases so I could get that second keihin point (I'm about 5000 yen away) but then it seemed like they had taken down the Animate Gold Card exchange sign that I had seen the other day, which made me think maybe the exchange period was over. Now looking on the Animate website though it's until 12/31 and it doesn't say that there's any limit in quantities available at the store so HMM... Might go back to Animate to make some last minute purchases and get that card. Probably requires a Japanese address though. I'll see if I can use Casey's.
EDIT: Meh. Gold Card is suuryou gentei this time around too. Maybe that's why I didn't see the sign for it up at Animate today... They probably ran out. =.\