I can’t not post this.
A corporate Twitter account was talking with a random otaku about football. This scintillating discussion suddenly devolved into “anime avatars are gross”, which would be one entirely irrelevant tweet among billions, except that it was being posted from the corporate account of a chicken restaurant, which somehow makes everything wonderful.
I find it slightly absurd that no English blog reported on this, seeing as it was the talk of Twitter all day as well as making the nationwide evening news…
The Akihabara pedestrian heaven (hokousha-tengoku, i.e. hokoten) reopened today after 2 years 7 months. You may recall that it was closed when some insane person plowed his car into the pedestrians and stabbed some people. This morning a moment of silence was held for the victims of that attack and their families. Afterwards the street was opened to pedestrians, for walking only. Akiba’s old tradition of dancing on the streets is unfortunately now prohibited so the celebration was muted. Police were posted on many corners, officially for safety but probably to prevent dance outbreaks. After the initial rush onto the street it just became a big mall, with the occasional cosplayer. Leafleting is also prohibited but who gives a shit about those people anyway?
I changed the title of the blog. Never really liked that one anyway.
In between the not posting, I managed to pick myself up and go to Japan, where all the authors of this blog attended Comiket 79 and made sure not to stand in the Nanoha line. More about this soon, assuming all my mail gets back to me.
P.S.: Don’t stand in the 07th Expansion line.
That would be a great name for a VIP translation blog if anyone wants to start one. I’ll suffice just to translate this one post.
I was going to Yokohama for work today, and stopped at a conbini in Tokyo– and this is what I saw!
319 Anonymous 2011/01/04(火) 21:26:59 ID:jXJ5/ky50
Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeynow why is Manga Home in the adult section? No porn no violence, I promise you that it’s harmless no matter who you are or where you read it! It’s a peaceful 4-koma magazine!
This is a joke, right?
321 Anonymous 2011/01/04(火) 21:29:28 ID:EcGFqTbO0
>>319
You can’t rearrange shelves in the middle of the day as a joke, right?
320 Anonymous 2011/01/04(火) 21:28:54 ID:0r4OysEp0
I only go to Tokyo to visit Akiba but the 7/11 at the station looks like this
327 Anonymous 2011/01/04(火) 21:38:46 ID:rpN3dJPr0
The regulators are obviously selling all non-G-rated comics as 18+ only.
See, Jump’s dangerous too.
333 Anonymous 2011/01/04(火) 21:44:03 ID:jXJ5/ky50
I was depressed for just a moment, but the next moment rage started bubbling up… seeing Manga Home and Manga Club, totally unrelated to porn, completely peaceful and wholesome magazines, moved to the adult corner is truly sickening.
Are we living in a world where people want to see speech regulated like this? If that’s the case, we need to stop kidding around.
345 Anonymous 2011/01/04(火) 21:54:28 ID:aB0sC4F80
Anything that looks like >>316 is clearly just the conbini run loose
It’s an overreaction.
Whoever can should talk to the manager and put the comics back in their original place