Hilarious: Itasha otaku gone wild!
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People had to pick me up from the floor when I saw this bunch of Itasha Otaku going wild in a parody of the K-ON! intro: OMFGWTF?! (?????)
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Hilarious: Otaku drifting!
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I had some good laughs on this Itasha video posted by youtuubeblows! Especially at the part where everybody starts dancing (@3:11) in their cosplay outfits and with the Evangalion itasha-van (or should that be dekoitasha?)! Not only does it show some Itasha to look at but also a serious otaku driftcar: The Haruhi Racing Silvia…
Otaku car festival
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No, this is not about auto-otakus who love JDM machinery like me, but cars of real Japanese otakus in Tokyo. The otaku car festival featured many many cars all dressed up with anime/manga figures and stickers. Highlights are a Ferrari F430 spider, Lancia Stratos and a BMW M5. I was looking through the photo gallery…
Reading: Train man (Densha Otoko)
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I’m currently reading Densha Otoko (Train man) novel. The book originated inside a thread on 2Channel which is a forum in Japan. This thread was meant for single men on the forum and the writer, later on called Densha Otoko (which mean train man, however Otoko is actually worse than Otaku), wrote that he saved…