Tsutaya in Shibuya

So another test is coming up tomorrow (what the hell am I doing, blogging late at night?!). Decided to study in Starbucks in front of the super busy Shibuya crossroad near Shibuya 109. If you've been to Shibuya, or if you've seen Lost in Translation, you definitely know where I'm talking about.

From the above picture, you can see Starbucks occupying the first and second floor. Remember, in Japan there are no Ground Floors! Anyway, above it is the popular huge LED screen TV. Yup, LED. Still a technological masterpiece till this day.



We had a whole long stretch of sunny days, and today it started raining again. I used to love rain, and I still do to a certain extent. Now I prefer sunny days, definitely coz I do a hell lot of outdoor walking here!

After I chugged my Java Chip Frapp and an entire array of Kanji @_@ I did some walking in the building. Starbucks shares the same space with Tsutaya, a DVD/CD shop. As I walked upstairs, I noticed that there are a whole lot of music CDs up for rent!

Naturally I couldn't resist and applied for my very own Tsutaya card!



And the hunt began! The shelves you see in the picture, my friend, are only a quarter of the entire anime and game CD collection :D Was surprised with the selection, it even included Hirano Aya's latest album which was released only a few weeks ago! Epic win written all over.



They gave this cute black bag to put the CDs in, together with the due date slipped into a little pocket. Too bad I have to return the bag as well :P



Rented 7 CDs, all for the price of 1,500 yen. Have to return them in a week's time. Not too bad, considering one CD usually costs 3,000 yen. I love slice-of-life anime BGM soundtracks, so I grabbed Aria, Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei and, the one I'm listening to now...



... Hidamari Sketch soundtrack! I know it's based on the first season, but haven't had a chance to listen to it. Aaaaa shiawase~ If an anime soundtrack cover takes after the Beatles Abbey Road cover, you know you're gonna listen to good music!

And remember kids, it's not good to rip mp3s out of music CDs. *cough*