Japan >> Barnett is Made for Japan

This will not be some well composed essay. But I will try to share some interesting things I had when the Japanese forum members(Griffon, Dragon and I) and some Japanese fans took him to a Tokyo tour. He likes anime ! "likes" is an understatement. His knowledge about anime is absurd. He probably knows more than the average Japanese anime geeks about anime. When we went to anime shopp, he was enjoying the place like a kid. He said he could easily stay there for a day. He took literally 20 minutes to pass a small aisle. He kept asking questions to us more than we could handle. How could we know the names of characters from a TV show of more than 20 years ago. I found a cool Godzilla figure. It looked kind of sophiscated. It was the first time for me to talk to him. I showed it to him, "Do you like this?". He just looked at it with a smile and studied it for literally 20 secs. He said, "This one is really good. I actually already have two Godzilla figures." Oh, my god! We were planning to take him to 3 different places, but we ended up going to only 2 places. Josh spent way too long at the first shop. We literally had pull him out from the shop. He kept saying he wanted to buy the whole damn shop. He said, "I will buy the shop when I win the Pride Granprix" with a big smile. He broght many figures to the counter. He carefully checked his wallet and counted Japanese bills, but only to find out he cant afford them all. Poor champ! He had to drop a 15,000 yen(app.$110) Devil Man figure and some other small figures. I dont know what else he bought, but he still bought many figures, which I probably cant identify. We went to a Chinese restaurant. He used chop sticks easily. He loved the food. We had a gyoza(kind of like small egg rolls) plate. He ate one. He recommended me one. He seemed to like gyoza. There was one gyoza left. He says, "I really hate to eat the last one." looking hesitent He really looked like he wanted to eat the last one. I dont remember who ate the last one. He avidly talked about Japanese prowrestling. He even said Takada is his hero. Too bad, I had already made some Takada jokes by then. One was when he said Sakuraba didnt seem to be focused on the ring, and I said, "Sak really needed Takada as his cornerman then.... Not! LOL!" Josh did look annoyed with me then. (continued ...)