luke

[bakaomi]

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[bakaomi]

A couple of us are, although I think there's more who aren't.

... although we're not really from the same version of Japan, I think.

[dupelicate]

Not from the same version? [he repeats the words, as if repetition will bring some new meaning.]

What do you mean?

[bakaomi]

Well... where I'm from, it's pretty normal? We don't have monsters or magic or anything like that.

But there are other people from Japan here who have that.

[dupelicate]

[???different japans???]

...How big is Japan? Maybe there's, like... a secret magic monster part?

[he offers, a bit lamely.]

[bakaomi]

...

[dupelicate]

What?

It could happen!

[bakaomi]

That sounds like something from an anime.

[dupelicate]

...What's an anime?

[bakaomi]

... nothing you should worry about.

[dupelicate]

Well, now I'm really curious...

[bakaomi]

... if you watch any of the TVs here you might find some.

[dupelicate]

Seriously? [he perks up. TV! he loves it.]

What am I looking for, exactly? Anime... [hmm.] ...I can't even imagine what it's supposed to be.

[bakaomi]

[ ... ]

Do you know what a cartoon is...?

[dupelicate]

Is a cartoon anime?

[he helpfully makes the jump, connecting these two unknown phrases, despite watching cartoons for most of week 2]

[bakaomi]

Well, it's more like an anime is a cartoon...

[ ... ]

Which you will have no idea what that means.

[dupelicate]

Nope. Not a clue.

[bakaomi]

Hold on.

[ he goes inside the bookstore.

he's looking for manga. ]

[dupelicate]

[Luke watches Taka go, and presses his nose to the window, watching him move around in the bookstore.

...

maybe he's looking for a dictionary.

...

not that he, Luke, could read it...]

[bakaomi]

[ and he comes back with like

some generic shounen title ]

Anime is this, except instead of in book form it's on TV.

[dupelicate]

This? [a book?

he flips it open... and it's a bunch of... pictures!

he flips

and flips

and flips

and flips

and chuckles

and flips]

Hey, I can't read any of this, but it's still pretty good!

[oh no]

[bakaomi]

[ oh no ]

A lot of these are about stuff like going on adventures, and things like that.

[dupelicate]

Wow. [and he means it.]

So anime is... these pictures, but big, on a TV?

[he looks excited.]

[bakaomi]

Pretty much, yeah. You'd probably like it.

[ he is assuming this because of luke's reaction to the manga?

he's so used to things like this that it's kind of nice to see other people experience it. ]

[dupelicate]

Wow. [he says it again, still clearly impressed.]

If it's anything like that stuff they had in the house a few weeks back, I'm definitely going to like it!

[bakaomi]

Oh...

[ he thinks about it. ]

Probably, yeah.