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Junjou Romantica umbrella
Slowly converting every practical thing I own into something BL or Sanrio related (and having lost the only umbrella I've ever used for the past three or four years), I ordered a Junjou Romantica umbrella.  I'm making rain uncharms in the hope that it will rain on the last day of NYAF so that I can use it and that free medieval festival will get moved to a rain date instead of being on the same Sunday as NYAF.  Two birds with one stone!


Looks good once it's open, but...


...opening and closing this thing was the hardest umbrella activity I've ever taken part in.  The outer edge folds up from the handle instead of down towards it so that when I open it, I have to reach up and pull each corner down.  Closing it, I had to bend each corner back up.  Well, I guess I didn't have to...


...but it wouldn't have fit in its tote otherwise!  (Plus, it would probably be easier to break if not wrapped back up properly.)  There are actually snaps along the side of the tote to wrap around the umbrella snugly.


Unsnap them to hold other things or to air out the umbrella without actually having to hold it open or to be hypnotized by Suzuki-san or whatever.

Frustration would get the best of me if I had to open that umbrella in actual rain, so I'll most likely just use the Suzuki-san umbrella tote with my Totes umbrella.

I wasn't going to open the umbrella and take pictures at first because of the superstition about it bringing bad luck.  Then I remembered that my grandmother opened one in the house last month.  Anyway, if any of these things are real, some friends, some relatives, and I were already in trouble way before this.

Once, I asked my mom about the umbrella superstition because there were a couple of Chinese stories that had (good) ghosts coming out of umbrellas.  Her response was something resembling, "You see what happens?  Don't open your umbrella indoors."