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And in the evening, I went to Akiba to see the Kotobukiya flagship shop. Exploring Radio City building, I have finally fulfilled a long cherished desire: my long search is now over… the first MegaHouse RAH.DX Lunamaria Hawke (via Hobby Figure Akiba) is finally mine!
Main Office: ‘Because you have yet to reach the primary objective of ComiKet 72, I cannot release your limiter to $$ rank. Will a single $ be enough?’
Zyl: *thinks for a while* Hai! Jyubun ya! ;)
TBC. Apologies, had a really late night last night. Update of yesterday’s Akiba III and Ikebukuro adventure when I get back later.
[Edit: Updates after the jump.]
The Nanoha Mobile!!! Parked along the road on the right of the overhead rail when crossing from Gamers side.
…was what I would have liked to say about yesterday’s expedition to the Holy Land. Instead it was more appropriate to describe it as Akiba raids Zaku wallet. I would orz but I also saw this marvellous sign in a basement shop with a big red circle around and line across OTL - orz is forbidden! Photography was also forbidden in most places; I had to sneak most of my shots from just outside the shops or in the corridors and stairways.
Time to start exploiting the Tokyo trip for posting fodder. This here is the Akihabara branch of an “adults’ convenience store” - seven floors of adult toys and costumes. And their staff dress up in their own wares - gothic lolita, french maid, school girl sailor fuku etc etc. Except that the staff are all *male*. And the management seems to encourage them to have stubble and not shave their limbs. You know, so that no one will actually mistake them as a cosplaying member of the fairer sex?
Speaking of the fairer sex, there are actually gurls who go shopping there too. This is evidenced by the polaroids on the walls, above the costumes (one floor was just for costumes inspired by anime, sorted and tagged by series and character), of these ladies trying on the various costumes. In some of the racier photos, the ladies have their identities hidden by either placing a hand across their eyes or having a black bar drawn across so. Obviously, no photography is allowed in the shop.
Here’s a poorly scanned scan of their card. And yes, they have a website. I wonder if our own local cosplayers have bought or used any of sm’s wares of which the quality varies tremendously as I suspect that different animes licence out the rights to different types of manufacturers. Naturally custom made and probably hand made in Japan costumes (e.g. KISS) will command ridiculously high prices (just like Japan-made figurines, model kits and DVDs) but quality is reputed to be so good that they are apparently very comfortable to wear and actually make the wearer look good.
Well, the advantage of beautiful people is that they look good no matter what they wear (or don’t wear, heh heh) - it’s just a matter of how much better they look when they wear this or that. And whether they’ll actually wear it:
There are some things money can’t buy. For everything else, there’s Gosyuginsama (i.e. Master) Card. - Zyl