To: Fahey
From: Bashcraft

Ahoy! I'm back at home in Osaka. Glad to be home. Good to be home. I took the bullet train home Sunday afternoon, and like every time I take the bullet train home, I got a bentou and two beers. Eating a tasty bentou and drinking good beer while speeding through the Japanese countryside is not a bad way to kill a few hours. Thing is, as soon as I sat down, I fell sound asleep and did not awake until I arrived at Shin Osaka Station. A little kid was actually staring at me when I woke up and asked me in English what my name was. I said, "Brian." She then said, "Nice to meet cho" and shook my hand before going into the next train carriage.

When I got home, the family was glad to see me, which is always a wonderful thing to come home to. (Well, better than when they're pissed off at me.) Told Mini-Bash that there was a music concert at TGS, and nerd idol Shoko Nakagawa was there. Besides being a pop star, she also co-hosts a Sunday morning Pokémon show. Conversation that ensued with kid after the jump.

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Me: Say, there was a concert at TGS and Shoko Nakagawa was singing at it.
Mini-Bash: (very interested) Did you meet Shoko-tan?
Me: No.
Mini: You didn't meet her?
Me: I had to go to some other event.
Mini: You didn't go?
Me: No. I had to do other stuff. Sorry.
Mini: Did you see her?
Me: No.
Mini: I would've gone. You really should've gone, Daddy.

Later, my wife told me that Mini-Bash had said days earlier that when he grew up he wanted to marry Shoko-tan. "Not because she's pretty," he told her, "but because she's pretty and knows so much about Pokémon."

Buddies Patrick Macias and Matt Alt have met Shoko-tan. Lucky them!