Alivia loves all things Japanese. It started a couple of years ago when she had to do an assignment for class and ended up writing about Samurais in Japan. After that experience she started to teacher herself japanese and watching anime... essentially japanese cartoons. I had heard that Akibara was the heart of all things anime so we got on the subway to check it out. I also wanted to see if i could find something with Mario Bros for trace.
When you first get there it looks like any electronics district, but if you look behind the veil you see so much more. First what looks like a toy store is more than likely a gambling hall. It is all lit up with toy machines but also slot machines too. As we wandered, we really only saw men and after a few minutes I knew why.
We headed into our first shop and saw some anime figures. Only a few things mario and nothing trace would really like so we headed to the next store. There we found some t-shirts with mario, but they were all $50 which I just couldn't pull the trigger on especially when i could get the exact same t-shirt online for $15. We decided to keep looking Actually i decided, Alivia reluctantly came along.(that girl really does not like to shop!)
As we turned to go in our third store, i notices that there were blow-up dolls in the window. Yes! blow-up dolls and merkins. I was so embarrassed. I apologized to alivia, but she said she was used to it. It seems she had gone on line to look up anime and all these porn sites came up. She was unphased.
Needless to say we didn't stay much longer, but it really gave me a glimpse into the nether world of Japan. It is so fastidious and clean, almost sterile, but underneath the repression is another world. A world i was not going to explore with my 14 year old niece.
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