The Cry of a Mandrake is Fatal to Anyone Who Hears it

Lauren, I hope you got excited while reading that title.

I started writing this a few days ago and came back to it, so this is a few days older. Sorry, sorry. ^___^'

Yesterday, after Grant and I were done with classes, we met and hit up Shibuya.
Here is the tiny animal shop that had tiny kittens in it:

Holy adorable. MoMo probably could have spent the whole day just there.

Luckily we found the Sushi Kaiten place, Genki Sushi, that I went to before with Kirsty, Tom, and Evan on our first few days in Tokyo.

That pork one was awesome. I think the best one (not pictured) was the grilled salmon sushi. It even beat out the tempura shrimp one.
Sadly, I only had 5 plates compared to the 8 I had last time.

After eating, we decided to explore Shibuya a bit, since Grant hadn't before. While we were walking, we passed a sign that said "マンダラケ” "Mandarake"...slowly...beginning to process the Katakana...MANDRAKE! Wait, this place sounds familiar! Wait, I think there are Blythes in there! GRANT, CAN WE GO IN THERE?

Down the stairs we went. I read the description of the store before, that it was located underground, but I didn't think it would be about 5 stair flights down. Grant and I were expecting it to be a very tiny store with a few customers and a really awkward claustrophobic-get-me-out-of-here atmosphere, but we were wrong. It ended up being huge. And yes, THERE WERE BLYTHES. And BJDs (Ball-jointed Dolls)! So many just waiting to be adopted.

Plum?!

And eyechips:

 And even some BJD shoes that were pretty cheap:

 This one had a pretty awesome box (very Monster High-looking) too, but for $667:

It had so many rows of manga and art books. Yeah, Grant and I were in one of the rows and I said, "Man, I really wish I was into this stuff!" and Grant then informed me we were in the Adult Manga Section. The dirty stuff ~manga style~. Oh, gosh halp plz.

 And figurines.

 And big Keys:

 And Gloomy Bear

 And trading cards

 And Nendoroids:

We were really lucky to have found this store, since it closed at 8 and we had to take a different way to get out because they closed off the entrance. Hopefully we'll be able to find it again ^___^'.
Next, we ventured into another underground store that was labeled as a bookstore and had a guy in a panda mask dancing outside. Well, I mean, c'mon. Can't resist a dancing panda.
Yeah, it had way more than books.

 More Blythe stuff!

 And a ketchup gun!

 And old cameras

 OMG, WONKA BAR. ONE DAY. Seriously. I will buy one of these someday. Ughhh, so cool.

I still want it.

And a rifle umbrella! I really wanted to get this for Shawn, but I have no idea how I would get it back. And if he would get arrested. If only he still had his old car, Ruth, to match.

 Snoopy for Beth.

 I got my Christmas shopping done. Haha, seriously.

And that was pretty much the night! The next day, we went to Harajuku and I have a ton of more pictures to share. Lauren will really like that post, too, I think. Man, I really need to catch up! Yesterday, I went to the Fuji Safari Park with Yuuki, Rina, Tomo, and another student whose name I keep forgetting. More on that next-next time ^___^.