Friday, 18 December 2015

Japanese Otaku



Last posts were about Korea, so it's time to breathe...

 My dream is travel to Japan. This country fascinate and attracte me longtime. For now I recognize Japan only literary, but perhaps I'll visit  someday this island. Japan is today a melting pot of subcultures. One of them is otaku and their headquarters is the Akihabara district. Otaku is a person who fanatically passionate about Japanese popular culture like anime, manga, video games or movies. Otaku idols are not real people, but the products of artificial reality, literature, computer or comic. These are lil, warriors, monsters, French maids... All of this can be seen in Akihabara, where people parade through the streets dressed in these characters.
 Otaku photograph them, eat in restaurants where characters from the anime give him a meal, buy additional figurines of favorite characters. 
About 10 years ago, the district began to attract tourists. However, otaku don't like mainstream. Therefore there is a high possibility that their center will be moved to another, more secluded where nosy Europeans will not reach. 
I don't think I'll see Akihabara in forme that we see it now ... :)



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