/vt/ - Virtual Youtubers

>>86530608
>Had to deal with a flood of neckbeard ruffians refusing to leave during holofes
>Employees likely killed themselves over it
>Closes

So much for FWMC's endorsement having any worth lmao

>>86530608
I'm glad I got to go this year when I had the chance. Also I blame FWMO for this and all the harassment they brought.

>>86530608
proof that FWMC and more importantly ruffians ruin everything with their autism

>>86530829
>>86530844
>>86530845
>>86530869
samefag discord raid nijisissy trannies seething over hobosharties getting btfo

>>86530829
>Employees likely killed themselves over it
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vC7wFxTmcNg

>>86530969
GOOD post

>>86530608
52 years kinda nuts tho

I tried a mr donuts and honestly
issa bit small

>>86530608
The owner went "I'm gonna have to deal with a bunch of overweight gaijins every march thanks to two Canadians who genuinely think they're japanese, fuck that"

>>86531183
>leafs ruin a 50 year old store
When will Canada pay for their crimes

>>86530969
Whether I like or hate them I won't praise or disparage everything they do anon. It's called critical or independent thinking.

Proof of any claim made ITT?

>>86531342
There's pictures of the giant line of ruffians outside the Mr donut. And neckbeards on the upstairs floor camping the place hoping for fuwamoco to show up. They had to make a tweet asking for their fans to behave. I'm sure someone else can post them. I didn't save any of it.

>>86531342
I have fact checked the claims in this thread and they are all correct.

It's probably a rent issue and it might be too small.

It was revealed to me in a donut induced trance

>Business operates for 52 years
>Gets what is probably the biggest sudden surge of activity it has ever gotten
>Decides to close despite that
I thought ruffians being annoying was a meme or a falseflag.

>>86531433
And this causes them to shut down because..?

>>86531241
Canadians must have been the reason the Geneva conventions exist

>>86530608
Legitimately sad news, over a 50 years in business... friends, don't blame the doggos, the economy is most likely the reason.

THE OWNER IS RETIRING YOU TROGLODYTES. HES BEEN OPERATING THE PLACE FOR 52 YEARS

>>86531731
Doesn't he have children or relatives?

>>86531731
Isn't it a big chain? Just get somebody else

>>86531731
Geez, chill out, Mococo.

>>86531774
Well apparently no one wanted to buy the franchise

nothing lasts forever
even your oshi

>>86531731
>>86531670
Do you genuinely believe the people in this thread are being serious? Do you need tone indicators so you know when people are joking?

>>86531731
I am in fact an Infernal rather than a normal Troglodyte

>>86531731
>Happily run business for 52 years
>Meet ruffians
>His hope and optimism gone
Grim

>>86531762
it's japan, of course not.

>>86531774
Akiba has been dying since the pandemic. There are fewer and fewer businesses open there every year. It's not a good place to buy into a store right now. Even the maid cafes are dying out.

>>86531910
It's a catalog thread, so yes I do

The birthday hat is hilarious

>>86530845
>I'n glad I got to go this year when I had the chance.
Are the donuts at all worth the hype?

>>86530969
I'm getting too old for this shit

>>86532167
It turns out when you don't have children that means you'll get fewer and fewer people who are into children's entertainment...

>>86532432
Do you not have Misdo in pagpagland?

>>86531762
no

>>86533296
mogged by dunkin

What the fuck this sucks, I at least ate there last year although I didn't get the window seat because there was like 20 people
Now how the hell am I supposed to run into Hololive fans randomly when in Akiba?

>>86530969
Read this aloud to someone 200 years ago and their head would explode

>>86533490
buy the business

>>86533219
It's a confluence of things.
The Visual Novel industry pivoted hard from PC to mobile, and the sharp increase in production quality (and cost) and marketing power meant that most indie/doujin VNs were driven underground. That shifted that whole market out of Akiba.
The anime industry's hard pivot to massed LN adaptations means the majority of old anime fans are pressed out of the hobby while newer fans centralize around LN publishing because that's the primary material. And the preponderance of these cheap advertisement adaptations and scarcity of well-funded or successful originals means much less merch and secondary media coming out of mainstream shows.

All of this comes together to mean that anime fans either stop being anime fans or stop going to akiba for anime stuff. It had already been ailing for years, even a decade ago folks were sounding alarms when the bluray transition was hurting businesses. But the pandemic lockdowns drove a lot of small companies out of business and cut into the coffers of bigger ones, and as things slowly close down it creates a compounding effect where everything still around suffers from the area having less and less draw. When there are no cafes then suddenly fewer people show up to shop at the department stores, and when there are no department stores then fewer people show up at the restaurants, etc. This sort of thing happened all over big cities in lots of attractions that weren't anime or subculture related, just because a few little businesses going out of business during lockdowns triggers a domino effect

>>86533296
What's pag pag? I keep hearing it everywhere? Is that like South east asian food or?

>>86533700
I have like $40,000 kicking around, think ¥11M yen is enough to buy a donut shop?

>>86533853
>Instantly assuming it's food
You think you're so sly huh, pagpag anon?

>>86530608
I just went there the other day...

>>86533872
Nope.
That shit is in fucking akiba anon, the land value itself might be in the millions dollar range

>>86533897
Nice projection, but we all know who's the real pagpag here

>>86533971
I'm literally eating a pon de ring right now tho?

>>86534023
No you don't

>>86533947
I blame Feris Nyan-nyan.

>>86534109
>Blaming Ferris instead of her grandfather
C'mon now

>>86534083
Fuck you, I'm going to buy another one and post it here just to spite your brown pinoy ass.

>>86534202
>post it here
Do it, faggot

>>86533853
pagpag is filipino onomatopoeia for patting the dust off of something, is a general term for taking something abandoned and recycling it into something new and is used as innuendo to refer to dumpster diving, because widespread poverty and frequent food scarcity (due to comically poor political leadership) means the country is constantly on the brink of famine. It's become so endemic that people will sell pagpag "cuisine" in food stalls and travel agencies need to hand out advisories to tourists so they avoid getting heavy metal poisoning from recycled street meat.

Visited last month. Had a plain and a strawberry pon de ring. Outside of the knowledge that the twins sat at the same chair months ago, the experience was pretty banal

>>86530608
good

>>86532167
I've been several times and it definitely feels like there are a lot fewer businesses, yet a lot more foot traffic because of the tourism boom.

akiba no longer is the akiba of old
it's just a dirty fuuzoku machi now

>>86533809
And if you want a nonweeb stylized example, just look at the death of malls in America for the same thing. Online shopping picked up steam in the 00's and by the 10's tons of small stores were dead in malls that normally would have thrived thanks to lots of foot traffic from random people looking at their 'anchor' stores and just spending time meandering through shops from one side to the other.

>>86533490
>Now how the hell am I supposed to run into Hololive fans randomly when in Akiba?
Walk around...literally anywhere else in akiba? hololive is incredibly mainstream, anon.

Is Akuba going to die? I've never been there but I watch Minto and she is always talks about how her favorite places are closing down, which is weird since it is a massive tourist attraction

>>86534298
I mean, there's not much you can except from a donut shop.

>>86534271
Makes you wonder though how these people manage to survive like this even at the risk of their own lives y'know? Poverty can make people do desperate things I guess.

They should buy it

>It's become so endemic that people will sell pagpag "cuisine" in food stalls and travel agencies need to hand out advisories to tourists so they avoid getting heavy metal poisoning from recycled street meat.
you have to be actually retarded and are going to all the wrong places to encounter, let alone eat pagpag, lmao. if you manage to accidentally eat one, you honestly deserve it at that point.

>>86535292
It's just like the internet, it used to be niche and have lots of genuinely unique shops, but now it's mainstream and boring. It might be prospering, but it's lost its soul.

>>86535292
the weak yen is probably not helping

>>86535292
see >>86533809
tldtr Akiba has lost it's position as THE place for anime fans to visit and congregate and then covid lockdowns pushed them over the edge and sent them into a doom spiral. Soon enough there won't be much seperating akiba from any other district in tokyo

>>86535697
it actually should be attracting tourists, but then again these days tourists just order their merch shipped to them online instead of traveling to japan, going to akiba and buying it in person

>>86531957
Fuwamoco didn't protect his smile.
On the other hand with that customer rush they might have funded his retirement.
I'll be pon de ring this one for a while.

>>86530608
More like Mister Dontnut

>>86534228
Fuck you and your Misdo-less country.

>>86535468
Haachama spent less than a year in flip and it irreversibly damaged her stomach.

>>86533809
>preponderance
nijja, this is 4channel and you expect me to know that word? Don't make me look up new things!

>>86535756
I saw more people at Sunshine City doing cosplay than Akihabara when I went to visit. Granted, the fact that I visited there during the weekday and Sunshine City on the weekend kinda contributed to that but that is kind of unbelievable to me as an old-school anime watcher where it used to be the center of everything anime.

Reminder

>>86530608
He got a taste of the ruffians and he was done.

>>86536772
>Putting fast food, famires, chain ramen store, kaiten zushi, AND Misdo in the same tier list
Retardo...

>>86536772
>bikkuri donki
>B

>>86536859
They aren't in the same tier. Mr donut is in F

>>86536629
>pre = before
>ponderance = the quality of being pon-de-ring-like
It's really not that difficult.

>>86537316
kek

>>86536985
There's a reason it went into decline during the Heisei era

>>86530969
I just wanted to post frogs...

Why are nijixymsters like this?

>>86537806
Why are you talking as if bikkuri donki is a historied chain?
It's just a theme restaurant with okay-ish gimmick

>>86533490
Maybe visit one of the 3-floor buildings dedicated entirely to hololive?

>>86530608
KEK saving this for the next time ruffians get uppity

>>86535468
Only poor people and tourists buy from random food stalls

You're all fucking retards. Akiba itself is dying. All kinds of shops are closing, gaming centers, manga shops, eroge halls.

>>86536667
Sunshine city has frequent organized paid acosta cosplay events on the weekend, so your data is a little skewed. People aren't usually dressing up in cosplay there outside of those.

>>86539766
>Denki town
>dead
>turns into Otaku Mecca
>dying
There's no saving Akiba nor Japan unless they could somehow reverse their birthrate trend.

>>86530998
Sixth post best post?

>>86536488
>donut from a bag
jesus christ, its like posting a bag of cheetos to show off

>>86535001
>>86538635
I mean meetup, nobody wants to hangout in a random floor of some secondhand shop.

>>86540168
It was 10 pm and the only misdo I could get was from konbini, lay off me.

That reminds me, why did they stop mentioning pon-de-rings altogether?
It was especially obvious in their 3D reveal stream where they had a whole segment talking about loving "donuts".
Pon-de-ring is a specialty from Mr.Donut, but I couldn't find out if there hold a trademark on it.
Did they get in trouble with Mr. Donut or is it just Cover being careful?

>>86542094
Pon de ring is trade marked by Misdo anon.
This is why similar-looking donuts are sold under the name of mochi donut.

>>86530969
you lost, incel

>>86535552
No idiot, that has nothing to do. One anon already explained itt. If anything it was a miracle that survived this long. But like it past transition from an electronic shop district to an otaku one, it will change into something in the future.

>>86536488
are these good?

>>86533357

This was a surprisingly informative thread

>>86531241
> When will Canada pay for their crimes
A fucking leaf. Every time.

>>86530969
Am I having a aneurysm?

>>86531670
Imagine the smell

>>86530969
That’s a lot of buzzwords

>>86531762
Children doesnt want to run a donut shop.

>>86530969
Is it that easy to get (You)s?

>>86530969
Nijiseethe! or, err, holoseethe. Or perhaps it's homoseethe. Or phaseseethe. I can't tell what kind of seethe.

>>86531670
>a bunch of gaijins go to the place
>make long lines for the business for a long period of time
>place starts to get reputation that it's just some gaijin tourist trap
>any japanese people stop going
>gaijins leave because holo events are done
>stop getting customers

>>86536488
japanese misdo =/= stale ass indomaret misdo
its not the own you think it is indo bro.....

>>86531693
Oh no, we were for sure the reason.

>>86537316
>ponderance = the quality of being pon-de-ring-like

>>86547267
Nice headcanon, but it’s fucking Akihabara

>>86545186
Most likely mobile game development offices and hoyoverse stores

>>86530608
Cover should by that place

>>86531652
Apparently they would camp inside the store for hours not buying anything.

>>86534271
>heavy metal poisoning
So if I eat pagpag, I'll suddenly get the burning urge to listen to Megadeth and Slayer?

>>86531762

>>86530969
/thread

>>86530998
Kek

>>86533357
>>86545568
>>86549707
Abe-san...

>>86533809
Why didn't someone just open up a LN store on Akiba, are they stupid?

>>86533423
They're literally the same store. Owned by the same company, back in the 90s all stores were converted to one or the other depending on country.

If it's any consolation, there's a Misudo right down the street from Nakano Broadway.

>>86536772
Wait, Shakey's Pizza is a real place? I've never heard of it outside of South Park.

>>86530969
That's a lot of fucking buzzwords

>>86530608
Why is their favourite food place in Japan?
How many times they ate there? Ten?

>>86530969
And rizzing zesty gyatt to you too

>>86557754
That particular Misdo is pretty legendary anon, just look at all the comment.

>>86547267
This is an actual good reason. Happen to me in a lot of cafes in Osaka. Most of the people were foreigns and you rarely see japanese people buying it. If any. The sharp decline of Akiba doesn't help either.

>>86551007
Shouldn't have backed the degenerate Korean church.
Many such cases.

>>86540211
It may sound distasteful, because it is, but the respective fanbase trooncords.

>>86533423
>>86551513
>>86536488
>not a j.co chad
ngmi

>>86559841
forgot pic

>>86532432
No MisterDonuts is bland like every other big donut chain. The only good donut shops are ones ran by old couples that force their kids to work as free labor.

>>86560044
I dunno anon, their black thunder collab donuts are so rich it's almost felt like too chocolatey.

>>86560044
I think your taste buds are too americanized to notice subtle flavours of japanese sweets anon

>>86560318
I was in Sapporo just a few months ago. I went to Royce, bought a few cheese tarts from a shop at a station, and had some butter mochi. All of it was delicious. I went to Mister Donuts got a pon-de-ring and a chocolate ring. It wasn't awful, but it was easily the most disappointing sweets I had that trip.

>>86560901
>Cheese tart
>Butter mochi
Burger-chama...

>>86559997
I have never tried them but I fail to see how Ponderous Rings could be better than those donuts. FWMC have terminal JP brainrot.

>>86530608
MISTER DONUT FUCKING SUCKS
DUNKIN DONUTS BETTER

>>86560999
Yes, anon. I'm a burger. I know donuts, and Mister Donuts is overrated.

>>86561344
Have you tried any dagashi at all when you were there?
Because most of the time, all the complaints about japanese sweets from burgers are almost always about how it's too bland or too simple of a taste.

Not just Akiba, a lot of the offline otaku stores started to cater more to female shoppers in the past 5 years since female buy more miscellaneous merches and shop offline more.That’s why most Animate in Tokyo except maybe the Akiba one seems to have more niji than holo stuff

>>86561042
J.co is an Indonesian donut chain, but they're superior compared to bland Mister Donut or Dunkin Donuts.

>>86561513
I did not. I'm fine with subtle flavors. I just don't think it's worth hyping up. Especially not for small junk food like a donut.

>>86530608
>open for 52 years
>ruffians flood it
>closes months later
holy shit

>>86536488
>>86545428
mister donut, even in japan, is mid at best
people only like it here because it's le dog meme

>>86563081
>le dog meme
Fucking zoomer I swear

>>86539766
/thread

>>86530969
you forgot phasecucks and vhoefags

>>86530608
Mr Donut is a fucking chain bakery/restaurant. Why the fuck are they sad?

>>86531774
Even in Japan big chains operate on franchising, so if nobody wants to step in and run a particular location they're not gonna keep that spot open.

>>86536772
Out of all the western pizza chains out there it's fucking Shakey's that gets to exist in Japan.

>>86542303
is it actually trademarked or is it one of those generalized terms like bandaid and nintendo?

>>86569413
Well, Domino's and Pizza Hut exist in Japan as well.