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“Cherry Blossom Viewing”

(Source: posidonia)

Otaku Spaces Shows Off Collectors’ Riches
By Jakob Schiller, wired.com

The new book Otaku Spaces sets out to explain the com­pli­cat­ed sub­cul­ture of otaku through the sto­ries of otaku them­selves. The Japan­ese word usu­al­ly describes peo­ple (usu­al­ly men) who are obsessed with cer­tain forms of pop…

I have no idea why I’m surprised by this, but there’s an entire store dedicated to dakimakura in The Akiba. I don’t know whether to weep for the future of Japan or shell out the ¥15,000 to free my new girlfriend from her plexiglass prison. - http://goo.gl/FY91Z - (Akihabara, Tokyo, Japan - Mar. 2012)