This day will be soley focused
on Anime/Manga type activites, and what place better to go to then Akihabara. This is Tokyo’s ultimate otaku district, and
its famous for its electronic centers, computers, manga, anime and
figurines. It literaly is, heaven on earth for geeky kids that are into comics, gadgets and cartoons (pretty much describes me and my three travel mates!). We will take the JR Yamanoate Line to Akihabara Station, and exit at the "Akihabara Electric Town" exit. When exiting the Akihabara station, we
will go directly to Don Ouijote which is a shopping center filled with anything
and everything from makeup, clothes and accessories. After some time there, we’ll be going anime
crazy at Animate and the Figurine Shops.
Animate is Akihabara’s biggest manage and anime store. It’s an entire building filled with manga,
figurines of manga/anime characters, DVD boxed sets, posters, etc. If we can’t find a find a figurine of our
favourite character, we can go to the Figure Shops around Animate. These shops have figures from Godzilla and
Batman to Naruto and Son Goku (Dragonball).
After lunch, we will have some
manga fun when we travel to Nakano Broadway, by taking the Chuo line to Nakano Station. This is a very entertaining street filled
many shops, but we’ll be heading to Mandarake Store which is considered to be
the largest manga store in the country.
This store has every anime and manga related merchandise new or
old! This will be agreat opportunity to
get some DVD sets from older manga/animes like Sailor Moon and Dragonball. Around 5pm, we’ll head back to Akihabara for
any last minute shopping at Don Ouijote.
When the mall closes, we’ll head to the famous Sega Game Centers. I’m not a great gamer, but it would be
amazing to play the newest games to old style arcade games like my favorite
Street Fighter. Even if we aren’t that
great, it’s going to be fun to see the spectacular skills of the Japanese
regulars.
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| Top Row: Dragon Ball Z posters, Nakono Boardway entrance, Akihabara's vibrant streets, Inside Sega Arcades 2nd Row: Dragonball Z figurines, Don Quijote 3rd Row: Akihabara Animate shop, figurine store 4th row: Sega Arcade, Mandarake Store, Large Picture: Manga Magazines on Sale |
These maids usually greet the costumer with a bow and a "Welcome home, Master/Mistress." For extra fees, they can give back massages, clean your arms/legs and even play cards or video games with you! Due to the influx of women patrons, there are now some maid cafes with male waiters. These men due to the same thing as the female maids, but instead call the female customers 'queen.' For Alex and Lisa, this would be their Ouran High School Host Club fantasies come to life!! (Ouran is an anime based on beautiful boys playing host to female students). For me, this is just another aspect of anime culture, that I would love to take part in!
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| Examples of Maids in Maid Cafes, and Anime Ouran Host Club
Source: A Geek in Japan by Hector Garcia Buy Here
Pictures: Google Images
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