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Release events, special events, and conventions are common in Akihabara. Architects design the stores of Akihabara to be opaque and closed, to reflect the desire of many otaku to live in their anime worlds rather than display their interests. [2] [10] Akihabara's role as a free market has allowed a large amount of amateur work to find an audience.
Tokyo Anime Center Tokyo Anime Center. The Tokyo Anime Center (東京アニメセンター) is a facility that was created to market anime to residents of Japan and foreign visitors. The facility hosts events such as live radio interviews with creators, voice actors, and merchandising fairs. It once included the AKIBA 3DTheater.
The club was founded by Akihabara-based promoter DEARSTAGE, Inc., [1] and opened its doors in August of 2009. [2] Its first resident DJ, D-YAMA, had recently begun performing DJ sets incorporating remixes he had found on the video sharing platform Nico Nico Douga, such as Vocaloid songs, and Touhou Project arrangements. [1]
Cyber Team in Akihabara (アキハバラ電脳組, Akihabara Dennō Gumi) is a 1998 Japanese anime television series created by Tsukasa Kotobuki and Satoru Akahori.It aired from April 4, 1998, to September 26, 1998, on TBS and ran for 26 episodes.
Akiba-kei is a Japanese slang term meaning "Akihabara style". It dates back to the early 80s and refers to a subculture of otaku that spends a significant amount of time in and around the Akihabara area of Tokyo and is known for their strong interest in "fantasy worlds...anime, manga, maids, idols, and games". [1]
The Akihabara massacre (Japanese: 秋葉原通り魔事件, Hepburn: Akihabara Tōrima Jiken) [a] was an incident of mass murder that took place on 8 June 2008, in the Akihabara shopping quarter in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan.
Otome Road is located to the immediate west of Sunshine City, near Ikebukuro Station.Bordered by the Shuto Expressway, its boundaries are roughly defined as beginning at the Ikebukuro Animate store and ending at the K-Books Cosplay Store.
Maid cafés were traditionally associated with Akihabara (秋葉原), a district in Tokyo famous for its extensive electronics and anime/manga related stores. Commonly a place for otaku to visit, Akihabara contains several themed cafes, including maid cafes. However, with the increasing media attention on these cafes, they have developed into ...