But travelouges are so amusing!

I have heard stories that sea urchin tastes either bland or of pee, so either way I don't think I want to try it xD

I find uni to be pretty amazing and weird. Growing up eating steamed crabs with all of the guts kind of takes the edge off of eating uni.

I'm now horribly curious, because I've never tried it in anything else BUT sushi. Curiousity #2, was the food customary because of the event?

Because I know I'd be weirded out if my toilet began singing at me.

I 've been reading about those luxury Japanese toilets for nearly 20 years so they must be real, but I still can't get over all the things that they do.

To clear up a little of the implied confusion regarding the TV, it was probably the first TV in Japan. Japan was an early adopter alongside the US, but they were not the pioneers of it. Essentially, Germany and France were where the TV was born. The idea was thought up in the late 1800s, and realized very early into the 1900s.
I don't have any exact dates for this, but I did do some research a while back. Baird? I think that's the guy that publicly demonstrated the first TV in the early 1900s. Again, I'm not 100% sure, but this is what I remember finding.

The only problem I have with uni is that it's BRIGHT ORANGE.

The meat of no animal should be bright orange.

Also prawn/shrimp are delicious with the head. When you bite the head (eyes and all), the flavor of the internals (aka brains) just explodes on your tongue and supplies an amazing flavor.

"When in doubt, it's probably uni." Yep, I can relate to that. Hostfather picked the very most expensive little plate with sushi available in the sushiya, saying it was his favourite, one of the finest you could eat, and wouldn't I like to try it?
For anyone versed a little in the Japanese customs and habits, this offering and the fact that my hostfamily explicitly payed for the dinner, will make it clear that I had no way at all of refusing.

And sure enough. Bright orange uni on a small dash of rice, with a piece of nori around. Big public restaurant.
Aaaand... taste and texture something like what brain matter must be. I wish it was possible to switch off one's tastebuds.
So, it was eat, smile and say something nice. "Well... that was certainly like something I never tasted before!"

I still haven't figured out whether it was a "gross out the gaijin"-thing or if hostfather was sincere...

Huzzah for TOTO, for it is the company for which I work at!

Had it before, but only once, it was at a friend's house, and I can't say I enjoyed it nor did I dislike it. It had such a strange taste, that I can hardly remember.
Personally like crab claws, mudbugs(craw fish, or crawdads, or however you call it), or salmon as preferred aquatic foods.

Magic toilets. Just be glad you didn't sit down, then press... the wrong button.

Yuko's Dad is Best Dad

If that's a western-style toilet, I can only wonder what an eastern -style toilet would look like.

Imagine my surprise that on my first ever Free Comic Book Day, at the creator of the event's store no less (imagine my expression when when I found THAT out) that I'd get a cool Avengers comic, a surpringly good Megaman comic, and Atomic Robo, featuring two VERY familiar gentlemen forced to assist a Robot Scientist, and a Mad Genius... Dinosaur...

Seriously, you can't have a better first FCBD than Ananth+George+Robot+GENIUS DINOSAUR!

I flipped out when I read the part about your guest roles in Atomic Robo. I picked it up a while back and thought to myself, "I've never heard the name Ananth outside of Johnny Wander. It must be more common than I thought."
Nope, says I. Good job guys, I'm definitely keeping this issue!