#5 books and 2 picture frames for 9.30€

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[nakasomethingkun]

I went to Tokyo a few weeks ago to attend the Natsume Yuujinchou Exhibition that was held at Matsuya Ginza from March 27th to April 9th. This post is basically a report of what I saw at the exhibition, so here we go. 

(Warning: this is an image-heavy post)

We went on the morning of April 2nd (after spending the night at the airport, I might add). Matsuya Ginza - and by extension, the exhibition - opens at 10 am, so we waited at the entrance for the doors to open from around 9.30 am. When the store opened -- whoo boy, a line was immediately formed from the 8th floor (where the exhibition was) down to the 4th floor. We expected this, because the first 500 guests were to receive a free folder. So we bought our tickets and got our free folders, and the first thing we saw when we entered the exhibition was this:

The first room we entered had, on the walls, Natsume and his friends (with their actual height - they’re all pretty smol lol), a relationship chart, Midorikawa-sensei’s drawings, and this beautiful image of a bird that I don’t really recognize?

The second room we entered was basically a shrine for Nyanko-sensei; there was a montage of some of his most memorable moments, and there was a block of gifs of Nyanko-sensei being Nyanko-sensei. The biggest thing in the room was a life-size figure of Madara.

Along the corridor were videos of scenes from various episodes. My favorite was the scene from episode 11 of season 5, when the Chukyu duo made it rain flowers over Natsume. 

Look at my beautiful baby boy!!!!!! I cry everyday

We entered a model of Natsume’s room next. Nyanko-sensei was laying on a pillow with a bottle of sake next to him, and on the windows, you could see a few yokais pop out now and then. There were even the photos that Natsume put up in his closet! On the opposite wall, they’d put up floor plans of the Fujiwaras’ house. 

Connected to this room was a dark room where Miya’s picture of trees (she’s the yokai from episode 9 of season 2; Yasaka is believed to live within the picture) was pinned to the wall. Slowly, the branches grew out of the picture, over the frame and onto the walls, and sakura bloomed on the tree, just like in the anime. 

In the final room was a life-size depiction of all the yokais that ever appeared in the anime (including the small ones; you can’t see them in the pic because they’re at the bottom lol). Natsume’s Dog Circle was set up so that you could take photos with them. And yes, I am very partial to Houzuki-gami and Fuzuki-gami. Not even gonna deny it

Connected to this room was a display where you could “return” names by blowing into a microphone. There were also two models of the Book of Friends, and a model of the pages fluttering out of the book. 

They put up the characters’ images and messages from their seiyuus on one side of the wall; Kamiya Hiroshi’s and Inoue Kazuhiko’s were signed (they were at the opening of the exhibition on the first day). And yes, I am also very very partial to Natsume’s seiyuu.

Opposite to that wall were drawings made by the anime staff.

The last thing at the exhibition was the goods shop. Needless to say, I spent a lot of money there....   

ETA: This is the Hitoyoshi post, as promised!