He's screaming I don't know if you can hear that
Hello and welcome to episode 5 of the anime expedition exhausted from our not so laid-back camping trip we packed
our things to head out on the search for some light music bye bye ryokan
but before we could even leave the Koan Lodge we were faced with a life-threatening obstacle
cat fight
Oh now he's nyaning
returning to the SS weeb we began the hour-long drive to shin-fuji station
where we plan to drop off the car and board the Shinkansen to school sounds
easy enough right so last night when I was trying to
figure out what time I need to return the car by I thought oh if we leave by
6:30 that'll give us plenty of time to get there and we have got a half hour to
spare in case something goes wrong but then for some reason something happened
my brain and I said 7:30 outloud so then just from there it became 7:30 not 6:30 so we
just kept setting 7:30 so now we're running super late and had to be our
race against the clock to try to get the car back to the Nissan rent-a-car place
so we don't get charged a ridiculous fee for returning it late
Arigato!
There was no fees, we were like 10 minutes late, it's all good
the staff were extremely friendly and despite us returning the SS weeb a little late didn't hit us with any extra
charges without a minute to spare we boarded the next Shinkansen to the Shiga prefecture
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after a relaxing two-hour ride we found ourselves in the middle of nowhere
trying to board a local train in an area where not only could nobody speak any
English but the signs were only written in kanji
so we actually ended up missing our stuff in Toyosato so we have to walk
about 45 minutes to backtrack say an interesting part about making this
series that I didn't expect is it's kind of cool how far off the beaten track it
takes us we're in such a small town right now that we definitely never would
have seen if we had just stuck to the golden route
aside from the heat the walk actually turned out to be a great experience being in such a remote town
the locals would stop and stare at us even going so far as to and I kid you
not clap as we walked by some even use this as a chance to practice their
English
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all right what's the plan gift shop
after opening Heaven's Gate we exchanged our shoes for slippers and walked right
in we were greeted by a small gift shop but just beyond that lay a dream come
true for any HTT fan a multi-story k-on museum housing every single piece of K-On!
merch you could possibly imagine figures t-shirts body pillows and even
the instruments used in the anime
Ari go closer I don't if that says not to sit or to sit
after an extremely thorough exploration of the museum we purchased a souvenir and prepared
ourselves for the real thing it was time to go to school
our plan was to head straight to the club room and work our way down from there
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Sawa-chan sits there when she joins. And then this is Ritsu and right here
obviously it's Yui
what's going on this kid over here is lying on the ground and there's two
people you screaming out if they can hear that do you hear that
well that was disconcerting
so any rooms open
what's in here? I don't know we haven't walked around down here at all yet
Aside from this scale model most of the rooms on the lower floors were locked or being used as an
active Community Center library but there was still one iconic location we
had yet to find
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I think this is my favorite location so far actually because it's been the only
interior location so far which makes it I don't know somewhat more surreal and since
it was a real school long before it was ever the set for K-on!
to see it all makes sense that it seems like a real space
despite having an incredible time in Toyo Sato on our way out I couldn't help but feel sort of
melancholy and it didn't really click into place why until I stumbled upon it
really touching memorial left in honor of the Kyoto Animation tragedy