otaku & museum

yesterday i went to Akihabara!!!!! the ultimate otaku city!!!!!

omg you should have seen it.....otakus EVERYWHERE!!!!!! my estimate of everyone in akihabara is 90% men, 10% women. and most of then are prob over 30 and single cuz theyre anime nerds

but i guess i can be called an 'otaku' (not extreme or anything) but i do love anime XD

anyways lots of pics! i really liked akihabara lol

 LOTS of arcades. right outside the train station there was the sega arcade. there were lots of sega arcades here

i have been watching tons of UFO catcher videos cuz these machines arent rigged like in america, you just need technique. but i'm still no good, need  more practice

heres the sights

 yup, lots of anime everywhere. i tell you, all the white ppl(or just non azns) that were here were prob otakus too lol

ANYWAYS SOME UFO CATCHER/GAME PRIZE STUFF

 omgomgomg they had the code geass nunnally in wonderland figures ASDFGHJKL!!!!

i just stood and stared for a loooooooooong time. ack i want lelouch T_T but its hard getting boxes...

and this picture of c.c was next to the machine. i dont get why they blocked out her cleavage......

  

note that the pics im showing are in different arcades, not all in the same one.

heres a type where you have to try to get the lever to pull the string off to make ur prize fall

its of uta no prince sama and hakuouki

some miku hatsune stuff. still pretty popular in japan

gahhhhhh its uta no prince sama pillows!!!!!!!! they are in space bags or something so theyre flat. i actually attempted this one. i wanted to get the on on the right cuz it has my fav character ren but the crane was off by like an inch so it didnt pick it up correctly and just ended up slanted, therefore making it harder to win....sigh~

 then my moms like 'oh, just try again in a different arcade' but u know what??? this was the only place that had those...figures.....

oh, but the guy working at that arcade was actually GOOD LOOKING....thats pretty rare. he was cute, reminds me of takeru from SuG

heres a poster thing of hakuouki, i rented the DVD for it cuz it had hot anime guys on it and agh when i go to america im gonna watch it with subtitles cuz i cant really figure out the plot by just watching but it seems like i would like this

speaking of animes.....KAMISAMA KISS IS FINALLY AN ANIME!!!
yuup, one of my fav mangas became an anime and it aired on the 2nd and i obv recorded it. it was amaziiing ^_^ gonna keep watching it til i have to go back home

hmm....and i guess i can tell you what animes seem to be 'in' right now. the TV we have isnt cable so we only get like 12 channels but around 6 they play one or two animes, and of course weekend mornings

some pretty popular ones ive seen around are precure, sket dance, one piece, card fight vangaurd, fairy tale, some others idk. not much naruto stuff anime....good.

in this one arcade there was all this poster stuff of anime girls(actually, u see that everywhere) but here there was a bunch at once so snapped a pic

this led to downstairs and only old guys were coming out so yeah...not a place for me...guess its like a maid cafe or something idk

there were actually lots of maid cafes. on the streets you see girls dressed up as maids, talking in high pitched voices, handing fliers out to invite ppl to their cafe. i took a few invites lol, not that id go(tho i sorta want to.....for the experience) but they make good souvenirs

oh btw, in arcades, you naturally think of games right? well get a load of this:

i have not seen ONE DDR machine....not one!!!! like wtf. i was totally planning on showing off my skills but they are like extinct or something. in the smaller cities i can understand, but in big cities full of arcades i assumed there would be a DDR machine. i mean, last time i went to japan 4 years ago they still had them around but guess no one plays it anymore DX

but they have lots of other games like taiko drum master and those shooting games and poppin music or watever its called. on this one floor i went, it was full of shooting games or something and omg.....so futuristic o.o like ur in some bubble so no sounds bug you and idk, cant explain. cant keep up with japanese technology

 heres some gashapon machines. they are of uta no prince sama and hakuouki again haha

i got an uta no prince sama one the pic is posted kinda below

but first....

I FINALLY TOOK PURIKURA!!!!! ZOMG!!!!!!!

my very first purikura....isnt it beautiful????

 i used a machine that makes ur eyes bigger XD

now all i need to is find friends to take pics with.......

also with i had a cellphone so i can send the pics to it then they can be bigger and clearer but this is still lovely

the cool thing was, where the purikura machines were, since it being akihabara n all, there was a little shop where u can rent all sorts of cosplays to take pics in. *sob* i wanna try cosplaying, but itd prob be expensive(sorta) plus it wouldnt really be fun doing that by myself, and id prob have to change my makeup or something and get a wig too and everything, but still!!! sounds like so much fun!!!

theres a store called don quihote (donkihote) and i watched a youtube video thing of the store in akihabara and they have a cosplay floor and moe floor so i really wanted to go and i diiiid!

they had soooo much school girl cosplay augh they had loose socks! i was tempted to buy it, but decided to get other socks instead

bought these socks

heres the uta no prince same keychain i got. its syo, i like all the characters but i wish i got ren or tokiya

 sorry for nerding out

there were lotssss of cosplay shops too, but they were all expensive T_T

at night my mom met up with her cousin and we stayed at his house for the night but first he took us to some vietnamese restraunt and even though i was STARVING.....i barely ate cuz idk.....nothing really looked appetizing to me. it was all vegetable dishes with some vinegar sauce and there was this chicken i ordered but i didnt know it was mine when it arrived to my mom and her cousin ate it but by the time we realized it was all gone so i had some noodle soup which was decent

afterwards went to a store to buy rice balls cuz i was still so hungry

and today went to ueno to the natural history/science museum wheeeeee

on the way there, saw some tanabata decorations or something but im only assuming cuz they had wishes written on them

 i wrote on too XD

mine said "i want to be famous!" lol

and the museum was pretty cool. we were there for a looooong time. idk wat time we got there but maybe 4 or 5 hours. i didnt take too many pictures

but heres some scary looking fish

 i mean.....that is one huuuuuuuggggggggllllllllly fish

in a way, now that i think of it, kinda reminds me of my scary ppl drawings lol

and heres baby mice or some kind of mouse. they look like gummy bears

only took a pic cuz it reminded me of when my hampster had babies.....lookd just like this T_T 

in this one room there were all these stuff animals and hollyyyyyy crap there was this camel that was HUUUUUGE like it was prob 12 ft tall and stuff. lots of the animals reminded me of narnia lol

 ;lion king' also came in thought many times cuz the scene at the beginning circle of life with all those animals and stuff lol

and heres some prehistoric fossils i thought were cool looking

yuuup that pretty much sums up what ive been doing the past 2 days k bye