Okaerinasai! On the last episode of our virtual Japanese vacation, as directed by Go! Go! Nippon! ~My First Trip to Japan~ (~raise your tildes~), we made plans to visit old Kyoto town to cap off what's been an eye-opening excursion to Japan, from its majestic shrines to its bustling metropolitan centers to its naked animes. I hear Kyoto's a very traditional sort of place though, so maybe we'll finally get some peace and quiet.
Yeah, I'm not fooling anyone at this point, am I? Let's get this over with.
Part 05: Kyoto is an Anagram of Tokyo. That's About All My Kyoto Knowledge.
Oh god, Goku just would not shut up about the damn Shinkansen. It's all "Shinkansen this" and "Shinkansen that" since today started.Of course, when you're riding in a goddamn bolt of lightning emanated from the butthole of Zeus himself, I guess that can be exciting.I've generally not been impressed enough by the Ren'Py-esque nature of the artwork in this game to comment on it, as adequate as it is, but I do like the motion effect with the backgrounds of these train scenes. The motion effect I've neglected to capture for y'all because gifs are hard.And we're back to the "All hail Japan!" business for a while.Why don't you just marry Mt. Fuji, Goku?So here we are in Seatt- Kyoto, at last. The game has a lot to say about its history, unsurprisingly. "...And I'm an idiot!"Can't go to Kyoto without looking at a few temples. This is one of them. Apparently Kiyomizu-dera is where you can take a running jump off a waterfall to "prove your conviction". I think I saw that in a Takeshi's Castle episode once.And then we hit Rokuon-ji, which is best known historically for hosting that fight between Wolverine and that old man in the samurai robot. (I just made that up. Not the whole thing, as I'm no highly paid Hollywood screenwriter, just the part where it happened here.)It's funny, when you call them a "high-class" geisha, it's almost as if you're confusing them with a prostitute. This explains Goku's immediate follow-up plan to hire one for the evening."So beautiful we thought it would be an insult to draw it, so here's a cloudy sky again."Wow, so this day kind of just came and went. Lots of sightseeing, very little inappropriate ogling. Maybe they're saving all the fun stuff for tomorrow? We'll find out together, I guess! Sorry today sucked!
