Comments on: Japan 2007: Akihabara Electric Town

By: Anagaia Bruno

Anagaia Bruno — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 06:46:08 +0000

Fantastic post. Regards to all from Italy.

By: JeriC

JeriC — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 14:53:54 +0000

> http://comics212.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/098a.jpg

cute, somehow.

Well, I think those drink you bought was somehow like ‘red bull’? I dunno why, I think I have read something like that in the past.

By: matt(kizure)

matt(kizure) — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:08:19 +0000

lol in that last pic, nao has no left shoe or sock! and i bet the maid cafe was awesome!!!(always secretly wanted to go to one) eh! my secrets out!

By: Halliday

Halliday — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 04:21:19 +0000

I think it’d be to ironic if there was a Maid-Themed pornographic doujinshi store that specialized in Maid-Themed pornographic doujinshi… featuring the maids that SOLD THE SHIT TO YOU. Maybe something like that would finally shame Otaku… nothing else does. They are unshame-able.

OMG… the ailes upon AILES of gashapon… I think I would lose my fucking MIND in there. And as a bonus… none of them are covered in jizz. Unless they keep those ones in the back.

I was asking Erik Kim this, but he didn’t really have an answer for me… but do you think an Otaku has ever uttered the phrase, “That was FUCKED UP!”, or is everything so fucked up and crazy all the time, that there’s no novelty in purchasing anything for the fact that it’s completely insane (a la I SHALL DESTROY ALL CIVILIZED WORLD’S, which I sort of see as being more of a novelty purchase for the sheer brilliance of it being so bat-shit fucking crazy, than for actual intellectual interest)? Like… at this point, is there really any way to shock a culture that so readily accepts just about any concept without any sort of social backlash, be it a Maid-Themed anything, pornography that appeals to any and every fetish no matter how socially unacceptable or specialized, or fucked up crazy gameshows which feature people humilating and and causing themselves physical injury for very little return (such as the gameshow where contentants put meat around there necks and play chicken with ravenous reptiles, or get beaten with a cane for failing not to laugh at some poor saps inability to read english).

I hope I’m not coming off as being a judgemental douche-bag, I’m just fasinated by the balls out lack of social restraint when it comes to entertainment and merchandizing.

By: matthew

matthew — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 17:01:12 +0000

heh, it:s funny looking at pictures of where I was a few days ago.
one of my favourite things i:ve seen (which i sadly didn:t take a photo of) was a huge selection of porn manga surrounding a stack of evangelion manga.
at least they know who the fans are…

By: Matt Thorn

Matt Thorn — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 04:29:12 +0000

Actually, that’s not novelty underwear branded by a comedian. It’s novelty underwear branded by porn star KATOH Taka. (â€¢_â€¢;)

By: Simon Jones who is blogless

Simon Jones who is blogless — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 05:14:01 +0000

You will never manage to forget the Don Quioxte song.

Never Ever.

By: Jason Marcy

Jason Marcy — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 23:58:15 +0000

Truly a place of wonders. My God. What a place!!! I’d almost want to live there it’s so crazy ass cool! Awesome photos Chris!
:)

By: kira

kira — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 22:52:13 +0000

like, O.M.G….TOYZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: Dave Merrill

Dave Merrill — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 22:48:31 +0000

WAAAH! X-BOMBER TOY IN THE TOY STORE (in the photo with the Astro Boys)!!!!

We’re going there, and I’m getting that X-Bomber toy.

By: Nadine

Nadine — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 15:16:22 +0000

Out of all those pictures, my brain is still resting upon the Mario question box throw pillow.

Also. Maids freak me out. heh.

By: laurence

laurence — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 13:28:53 +0000

y’know it was probably just vitamin B3 – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicotinamide

that always used to freak me out until i worked out what it was ;]

By: Bitter Matt

Bitter Matt — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 12:26:14 +0000

How is it that your head did not simply explode during the trip? Or perhaps it did, and they have the technology to simply put it back together?

It seems like that would be essential, really…

By: Journalista - the news weblog of The Comics Journal » Blog Archive » Oct. 10, 2007: A better breed of publisher

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 11:59:56 +0000

[...] [Scene] Christopher Butcher went to Tokyo’s nerd Mecca, the Akihabara Shopping District, and all he got for us was this insanely massive collection of photographs. [...]

By: MangaBlog » Blog Archive » New comics, old series

MangaBlog » Blog Archive » New comics, old series — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 11:56:26 +0000

[...] Christopher Butcher goes to Akibahara. [...]

By: s

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 02:45:09 +0000

Cool pics. That bottle looks like a Bacchus-D. Nicotine, huh!

By: Alex Scott

Alex Scott — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 01:50:47 +0000

That wasn’t just any girl in a schoolgirl outfit. It was Cardcaptor Sakura. So if you’ve ever wanted your own life-sized magical ten-year-old without all the hassle of feeding her and caring about her as a person, there you go.