Friday, 9 August 2013

Akihabara - Between Manga, Action Figures and Electronic

Goods from "Danganronpa"
This time, I went with Yoshioka-san to Akihabara, the dream place of every Otaku / Nerd / Gekk / person who likes Japanese subculture ^^

One of the main characters
In this district of Tokyo you have a huge number of shops for anime, cosplay, manga (comic books), novels, goods from manga series, electronic and so on. So for me, my personal heaven :D

At first, we visited the Tokyo Anime Center. I researched about this place and from what I've read it sounded like a big building for anime presentations / museum for this stuff. Unfortunately it was just a room with a small exhibition for a anime series. Nevertheless it was very interesting to see art concepts from the animes and the games of "Danganronpa".
But be careful, the series is a little bit more violent and more for adults ;)

The proof: German is popular ^^
Until the late afternoon we visited many shops, e.g. animate (comic books, novels, anime, cosplay) and Toranaona (focused on mangas and novels).

One Piece was literally everywhere :)
Long story short: In the end I bought a DVD set of the anime "Katekyo Hitman Reborn!" and 3 Mangas of the current number one Anime in Japan: "Shingeki no Kyojin" (english title: Attack on Titans). Yoshioka-san was very kind and gave me at the end a Zorro action figure from "One Piece" as present :)

Streets of Akiba
 After this shopping tour, we went back to Yokohama to eat dinner with Maruta-san, his family, Moritz-san and Christian-san, another oversea student from Germany, in a chinese restaurant in (suprise!) Chinatown ^^
The last station for today was the Irish Pub "Hub" which I already mentioned in the last post :D

Over and Out! ;)






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