/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>10164572

(Let me apologize in advance for not taking very many/very good quality pictures. I'd blame my phone, but honestly I was just too nervous/full of anticipation to remember to take good ones.)

The event was scheduled to begin at 3. I'd gotten there a bit after 2, so around 2:30 people had started trickling into the shop. The crowd was decent size (by Tohoku standards) but not overwhemling; there were even three other women there that I saw.

At 2:45 the staff made a call for event attendees to line up outside, so we all moved into the outside hall (which was plastered floor to ceiling with posters and decorations and such; they had a giant reproduction of the Gahkthun poster covering the entire surface of the shop door, and I was standing right in front of a life-size Erika standup from Alicetale. I really should have gotten a photo of the hall). It was a bit chilly, although not uncomfortable, but the staff still came around to hand out pocket heat packs after we'd been standing there for a while. Everyone says this, but it really is the little gestures of kindness that make Japan really special IMO; you'd never see that happen on Best Buy's Black Friday line.