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Japan has succeeded in Tokyo bid to host the 2020 Olympic Games.
New problem has occurred here.
It's trying to wipe away the otaku culture from Tokyo Akihabara.
Manga, anime, game, figure, cosplay, maid cafe. Everything.
The government is going to shame the Japanese Otaku culture.
To Olympic athletes, government do not want to be looking at the Akihabara.
It is expected that legislation related to otaku culture to the next six years also increase.
Japan would lose the important thing at the same time as the holding of the Olympic Games.

>> No.11417166

Stop being pedophile for 1 year.

>> No.11417216

Fuck off.

>> No.11417253

Maybe the label will finally depart from being an ironically cool or novel "geek chic" affiliation.

>> No.11417271

That will never happen, the government always talks bad about that stuff, but they'll never take action for real, they'll lose a lot of money.

>> No.11417291

epic!

>> No.11417292

Guys, please let the thread die.

>> No.11417390

Katsuhiro Otomo foresaw this 30 years ago.

>> No.11417429

>>11417292
Why? What's wrong with this thread?

>> No.11417443

>>11417253
>ironically cool or novel "geek chic" affiliation

I was under the impression that this is only the western view of otaku culture; the Japanese themselves don't buy into the BS post-modernist irony.

>> No.11417471

>>11417271
Japan is not the debt abroad. This loss not critical so much.

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>> No.11417487

>>11417471
I don't think you understand how money works.

>> No.11417488

>>11417471
Do you know what you are even talking about?

>> No.11417507

Akihabara sucks. Have any of you actually even been there? There's very little "otaku" shit in plain sight. You have to know where to look.

All the serious advertisements and gigantic displays are mostly for children's toys and games, and gundam. There's a fundamental difference between "otaku" and just mainstream Japanese media culture.

Foreigners eat that shit up anyway.

>> No.11417513

/jp/ doesn't understand Akihabara yet.

Sad day.

>> No.11417537

>>11417507
I've been to Akihabara and it was a lot of fun!

>> No.11417578

>>11417443
Niwaka might qualify in the latter category. There seems to be the sense that there is a group that's "true" and one that isn't. I don't live in Japan so I can't say. All I know is that the "otaku" label has become more and more neutral, and in some cases, even positive to suggest passion or edgy fringe-culture associations.

>Japanese themselves don't buy into the BS post-modernist irony.
I wouldn't say that so quickly. A lot of anime, manga, and games are heavy on pastiche, ironic self-deprecation, and self-reference. The denpa aesthetic in particular is keenly self-aware and very tongue-in-cheek.

>> No.11417589

>>11417507
It was fucking everywhere, dude. Go into a store, go upstairs or downstairs, bam, "otaku shit." And that's only if you're not (why aren't you) heading into any of the side streets.

>> No.11417648

>>11417253
This. We can finally go underground, like it always should have been. Fuck the normies and their shounen vanilla shit.

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I know who can save us

>> No.11418740

>>11417507
Sounds more like you're the one who hasn't been there... You couldn't walk three meters without running into a shop that was openly selling figs, dvds, and all kinds of other goods with anisongs playing in the background. Hell, there was a fuckhuge Madoka billboard right after I exited the station when I was there.

>> No.11418744

Visiting Akihabara in 2013 is like going to ADTRW after 2005.

SAGE

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>>11417507
Yeah, this just incredibly subtle.

>> No.11418793

At least I'll be in my late 30s by the time this happens, RIP my hobby.

>> No.11418799

Nothing is gonna happen because no one cares about your otaku shit.

>> No.11418804

>>11418799
The west does, and the west is invading Japan.

>> No.11418832

It's true ;_;
http://www.tokyoreporter.com/2013/09/13/akihabara-sleaze-to-be-targeted-in-run-up-to-2020-olympics/

>> No.11418844

What will we do come 2020, where will we go.

>> No.11418855

The normals have taken everything from me, why must they take this as well?

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