This is one of the first polaroids we took of Chiaki J. Konaka during our last meeting, right before we left Tokyo in August 2017. One of our ALT friends from Hokkaido came down and we all had a nice dinner together, spending lots of time talking about anime and cats. We bought him a copy of Close Encounters of the Third Kind on Laserdisc as a gift. The picture's pretty dark but he was wearing a Miles Davis shirt. I can't wait until the final picture we took pops up, the one we got him to sign. He looks so cute! The fact that we had run out of normal film and only had the cute film a friend had given us was pretty entertaining. We met up with him in front of Kinokuniya Books in Shinjuku and we walked back from the restaurant together. It's one of my coolest memories from Japan. It had been a really long, but fulfilling year. I couldn't believe that it had been an entire year since I had first arrived in Japan, walking around sort of drunk with my D-Ark in Shinjuku. It was like living out a fantasy, honestly. On the other hand, I was really thankful to get to end that year with cool experiences like this. We tried to fit a lot into our last few days in Tokyo and I think it was all worth it.
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