Today, I had originally planned to go to Roppongi to do some random stuff but decided I would rather do that instead in a few days instead because there's another thing opening then and I don't want to go back to Roppongi multiple times. Like I'm more willing to go to Ikebukuro, Akihabara, etc. multiple times in a trip.

With the decision made to not do my original plan, I decided I would go to the aquarium since it was having a collab with a VTuber I like called Yuuki Sakuna.

Promotional graphic originally from the Sunshine Aquarium Twitter

When I got to the aquarium, I didn't see any collaboration decorations or anything which I thought was strange but figured maybe it was just a merch collab or something (I am dumb). So I bought my ticket and headed right in.

I've actually been to this aquarium before and it was nice like the last time I visted. Because it was the weekday, it wasn't super busy and they had the relaxing aquarium vibe. Actually, do all aquariums use dim lighting where possible and play the calming ambient music? Not like ocean sounds or whatever but some synth-y thing? Know what I am talking about?

As usual I took a ton of pictures of jellyfish, indistinguishable from any I've taken in the past. I also snapped a picture of this rolly polly looking thing.

I think it was like 3 or 4 inches long, which would be pretty creepy if the terrestrial ones were always that size lol

Another exhibit that I feel like I hadn't seen before was this one about aquaponics

And for all my frog lovers out there, saw some cool poison dart frogs. There were other ones in a different tank but the blue ones are the coolest ones in my opinion!

In the outside area, it turned out that collab decorations had been set up - for Demon Slayer!

The final thing I'll share from the aquarium is this exhibit showing that otters can be vicious. The signage seems to indicate that the otters are given old rags or clothes to wipe off and stuff but sometimes they rip them up. The bottom one mentions that this wasn't caused by an attack on the staff lol Otters have more going on than just their cute appearance!

In the end, it turned out that even the gift shop also didn't have any Yuuki Sakuna merch! After reading the details again later, I realized that the collab was only for the evening sessions! This could have been easily prevented if I had read a little more carefully! You live and you learn, I guess. But I will make this mistake again!

After leaving the aquarium, I wandered around for a while looking for lunch and doing general shopping. During that time, I stopped into a capsule toy store and got some random little trinkets that I don't need!

Eventually, I did end up having a super late lunch. I had been craving omurice and luckily I was able to find a place that I thought was pretty good!

As a bit of a side tangent, I got a bit of 'content brain' while eating lunch. I won't go into the details because then I actually got content out of the situation anyway but basically it involved a potential social faux paus by not me (actually not me this time). And at that time I was like oh man I should wait to see what happens so I can put it in my blog. But that is crazy!! I was done with my lunch why would I wait on something stupid like that??

Anyway if even I am getting content brain for a blog with like 5 readers, I can almost understand why streamers or youtubers turn everything into content when they have tens or hundreds of thousands of viewers. It's like psychological.

By the time I left it was pretty close to rush hour and I somehow already had 14k steps (I didn't even do anything!) and my back was hurting like some sort of old man so I decided to call it a day. This is a wake up call to not neglect my streching just because I'm not at home. It's a wake up call for you to be vigilant about stretching too!

Bonus Line Friends display I ran into today