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Okay, so I lost my mind and bought a ticket to Zhu Yilong's new movie premiere. In London. Where he will also be. There's a red carpet and a Q&A and everything. Ni Ni will be there too!

I stared at the ticket for a day like, am I really up to this? And then I committed and booked a train (an UNDERSEA TRAIN because why not, let's live in a Miyazaki movie, surely nothing will go wrong) and a hotel across the street from the cinema.

I just hope I can hold up for four hours from red carpet to movie to Q&A afterwards. I suspect this event will be very different from the charming Dutch premiere of Only the River Flows in Amsterdam, in that tiny arthouse theatre with the ripped seats. They didn't even bring the house lights up much for the Q&A with the director, which was helpful when I sat there beet-faced to ask my question.

I'm excited! And nervous. I hope there will be other fans to talk to, and that there will be a fun high energy crowd to watch the movie with. The tickets sold out in a day, so I suspect that last one is a given.