As I have already started talking about education and science, today, for the first time in over a year, I went down to the video shop to pick up a documentary. I didn’t have anything particular in mind, but felt like watching a documentary. (By the way, we still call it video shops, don’t we? They mostly have DVDs though)

Although it was a big video shop, it did not have any documentaries. From the expression of the shop attendants, I don’t think they knew what a documentary was, or at least had never heard such a bizarre request. On the other hand, they had an entire shelf of Japanese animation movies.

I didn’t take any.