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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