is you get to watch a shooting for an ongoing drama.
only yesterday out of exhaustion from studying. I got to see parts of the first episode weeks ago on TV (and commentating and spoiling Ali and Alex at the same time) and when I saw the setting, I just had an inkling of where it might be, but somehow I couldn't put my finger on it.
And then this, too. I know there's a Lonlon in Kichijoji but there's one in Mitaka, too.
This should've told me it was Kichijoji, but there were no landmarks I could remember.;A;
If I knew this scene would come a few seconds later, I wouldn't have switched channels. Those kanji characters would've told me everything I needed to know.
But since I stupidly changed channels, when I saw this scene, the place being Inokashira Park was still a hunch.
And then I watched the whole three episodes subbed, and whee~ IT IS KICHIJOJI!
North side of Kichijoji. There's the Yuzawaya, and the JR Chuo Line Kichijoji Station.
Kichijoji Station
Most familiar place. Just near the Park Entrance. There's the Odakyu Bus (the one I take from the dormitory most of the time) and Matsuya, where I sometimes buy gyuudon. Yoshinoya's somewhere on the right.
Street to Inokashira Park
And Inokashira Park!
This was the area from the earlier cap. Prolly the place where we ate lunch when the AIKOMsei went to Kichijoji for the first time, and the same place where Viet Thi and I ate lunch (again) when we went cherry blossom viewing.
Keio Inokashira Kouen Station. I've never taken the train from here but it's on the same line as the one I take every single day I commute to school.
This street...
is the street...
I always take when I come from...
99 (Kyukyu) Shop!
It was just the right timing when I saw that shooting. Carla and I were talking on the train about Last Friends, when she joked that if there
is a shooting, "we might get our chance to be seen on JTV" (verbatim). I never actually imagined that there would be a shooting tonight. I was on my way home and I had to go to 99 Shop to buy eggs, because I was running out of eggs, when I saw this crowd in front of the NiCHE salon. This morning, when I was cycling towards my (illegal) parking space, I made it a point to check which street the parlor was in. It didn't take a lot of time because I'm familiar with the place. I just didn't pay too much attention to the names of the shops there. I guess that's the problem when you're too familiar with the place. You really don't think a lot about the names of the buildings.
So yeah, I got a glimpse of Nagasawa Masami (Michiru). I could've stayed longer if my stomach wasn't making the "kyuu~" sound again, telling me to get my ass home and eat dinner. They might be shooting a scene with Nishikido Ryo waiting outside the parlor again, but then again, you really can't stay and watch there because staff people were yelling "
TACHITOMARANAIDE KUDASAI! TACHITOMARANAIDE KUDASAI!" Honestly, I hate that line. I always hear it in conventions.
TACHITOMARANAIDE KUDASAI!
I wish I could see Ueno Juri, too. I'm totally crushing on Ruka now.<3
Kakkoii~
So yeah, I tried to take a decent picture, but au phone cameras fail miserably.
This is the NiCHE parlor. Sorry for the crappy quality.
It didn't help that I have poor eyesight so I couldn't see much. But anyway, they're shooting in Kichijoji anyway, so there'll be lots of chances to see this... I hope.:P
But I am going to finish this series (this is coming from me, a person who hasn't finished any drama she started watching ages ago) because it's fun to see places you know so well in it. I was able to finish Shikaotoko Aoniyoshi because of Nara, and the deers, of course. But damn, now I know the agony in waiting for the next episode. Alex told me about it when she was watching Shikaotoko, but of course, being the abovementioned type of audience that I was, I didn't really care. But gah! Oh well, at least I can watch it on TV on Thurday.:D
