Akihabara
Had a meeting yesterday in Akihabara with Good Smile and eroge maker Circus who do the Da Capo series.
On the way back to the station, I spotted a bunch of maids, police and media folk. What on earth were they up to?
There are now over 80 maid related shops in Akihabara. Many of the maids have been stalked, touched and had up-skirt photos taken.
You also know that otaku hunting goes on in Akihabara too.
The gathering was to promote "safety/beat crime" in Akihabara - and there is no better way to attract media attention than having maids hand out fliers.
Might as well have a look at the other photos of Akiba that I took.
Lots of construction going on. This spot has been allocated to Mandarake (doujin, toy etc) and will be completed early next year.
Not a lot of people know as It has not been made public but Bic Camera will move in here - got the info from Akiba related sources ^^;
Akiba seems to change every week I go.
Gamers = moe = nosebleed.
The bridge in Chuou Road. KimiKiss poster want.
The new Sofmap - have not been yet. They need more moe posters on the wall.
Construction everywhere. All the small guys are disappearing from Akiba.
Dont forget to pick up a load of free eroge fliers.
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That spot where the new sofmap is was a different building, then a crater, then a construction site each time ive been to japan over the last year and a half. Its finished already! Have they finished that construction by AsoBitCity yet? Wonder what it is...
Yeah - i nabbed a boatload of eroge flyers too - a good source of 2d 'eyes' without the embarrasment of basement hentai hangouts...
Nice to see a Mandarake showing up in the place it deserves to be! Their shibuya and Nakano stores are huuuuuge.
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I'd like to be *anything* by a gorgeous girl. Like punched in the face. :P
Nice pics! I wish I could enter them...
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One thing for sure, Akiba never gets old. I wonder if the place will become all electronics again... It is a shame to see the small shops getting pushed out.
Omg nice fliers. The fliers look like small eroge posters. This is the only type of fliers i dun mind keeping ;)
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Why can't construction be like that here? We've been building a 2 story hotel down the street from me for nearly 2 years. o.O
mahou kishi
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I would like to be there
student
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That's a shame if all the smaller otaku stores are shut down, you might get better deals there compared to the big companies.
Student
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gamers??? o_0 (I don't get it lol)
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Yeah I read about those maids distributing safety fliers yesterday on Mainichi News. They certainly are becoming popular for various use.
=.=!
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akihabara is surely a expensive place to go lol.. it's even changing content really tempt me everytime..
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seems the place is under constant reconstruction now...
Critic of sorts
Were there maids?...awesome...
VF-25 Pilot. Universariate Scholar.
excellent. more construction should mean more otaku stuff coming soon. BTW anyone else here think that maids should be the new national icon of japan??
Student~
stalk > hunt (dun wanang et my money stole) if they ever come clsoe.. it'll turn into higurashi time ^^
soo many free fliers? wow.. if so these could come in handy for photoshop (and its free too)
Student
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If there's one thing that is certain in this new world is that small companies tend to "die" or be bought by big ones and then in its place a new one is born.
I really need to go there someday, making arrangements for 2010 ^^
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I like to keep my money, that's my excuse for voting for stalk.
But being stalked by a maid is quite appealing...*fantasises*
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i'd rather be hunted down by a gorgeous girl as long as it is for love, passion and affection rather than i owe her something XDDD
the face of akiba is slowly changing and i don't know if it's for the good or for the bad ^__^;;;;
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never actually been to Akiba so I wouldn't really get all the changes (tho one of my friends saying that she went, gives me a fairly good idea)
Been to Den-Den town in Osaka tho. that was cool!!
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You've seen them in taxis, you can pay to sleep next to them, clean yer ear, distribute flyers, server customers in a cafe, etc... soon they'll take over the world.
student
so gamers do really exist, i though its some lucky star fictional store
Student
No...it does...Animate does exist too...
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Man, even in just the last couple years Akiba has changed so much. It's kind of unfortunate. It's become a lot more touristy.
These days it seems like all the real otaku action is moving westward, toward Nakano and Tachikawa. :P
medicine student & otaku
i wanna go there!!!! >.
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ITS THE PROMISE LAND! THE PLACE THAT WAS TOLD IN PROPHECY! They said i was crazy, it didnt exist.....But there is! there is a sanctuary!
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Gosh, akibahara is like an otaku paradise :) i wanna go there before i die ... Hmmm, how?
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Akiba should somehow become the Vatican/Mecca/Holy City of of all full-pledge Otakus all over the world!!! Here in our country, there's a place called Quiapo and i consider as our Akihabara! Many electronics gadgets and Anime DVDs. But one missing piece is the cute girls wandering around waiting their pictures to be taken!!! XDD
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IMHO, I've always considered Greenhills as the "Akihabara" of the Philippines. ^^
Student
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I think I prefer being stalked by a gorgeous girl rather than hunted. Probably because if she stalks me then she might be a little shy and you know what they say - the deepest water is the calm one... or something like that.
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wee akiba geek paradise
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This is where the Akihabara Autocourse will be built, and i took the Radio Centre bridge as a point of reference for the Start/Finish straight
Student
their is alot of kawaii maid in the first pic