More Akihabara Girls 


Yes, the girls are still around.  Of course, as the weather gets warmer and warmer, I'm afraid that this will continue.  

There was actually a newsreport on while I was in Japan this time saying that the whole "Maid" thing is changing Akihabara.  Basically, this place used to be the mecca of electronics.  Then it started to change and became the place to be for all nerds and geeks :)  Electronics were still around but now there are more places selling video games and anime/manga producs.

But soon, this whole maid-fetish took over.  Akihabara has become not a place where a geek can be a geek (like me) but a place for tourists (also like me) as well.   And of course, where there are tourists, there will be attractions to try to get your money.  Thus, all the girls who worked at the maid cafes and such started to come out and hand out fliers for their businesses in full costume.

This, combined with the fact that they close off the main street on Sundays, is changing what this section of Tokyo used to be like.  Now you see hundreds of tourists snapping pictures of girls in maid and other outfits and they also are working it for the camera.  Many of them also handing out fliers and such for themselves saying that they are trying to make a living as a cosplay model and such.  

(note the crowd.....)

But enough talk.  On to the show! (I should make this a monthly feature...)


These girls just setup their instruments along the street and started a little concert.  Of course, considering where we are, they didn't start playing any Mozart or anything.  In fact, they played anime songs :)  They kicked it off with the intro to Cowboy Bebop.  They were pretty good too.

If you want to hear it, the link is here.  Just be careful as it's a 47MB AVI file :)

Of course, some of you may remember this girl from a preview pic that I sent to a few of you.


I had no idea someone could actually "dress up" like Windows 2000 Professional.  I mean...really....  But I suppose this is as good of a costume for Windows as I've ever seen.  

And now, more generic maid girls!


And the odd poses that they make.....


These girls are...um...pouting...  What's with the hands up there?  Hard to explain.  Just take my word for it.  They're pouting.  But in a cute way.  Really.  Look at the girl on the lower right.


But this girl is NOT pouting.  She's being "cute".  Yes....it's a subtle thing.  Or...something....


Of course, girls in glasses is a fetish too!  ...I do like a cute girl in glasses.  I can do without the maid thing though...really.  Oh, and the Windows 2000 girl was doing the same thing too up there.  ....interesting....


And there were lots of girls like this one dressed up like Gundam pilots and crew members too (well...to be accurate, they are Federation soldiers...but we won't get into details here...).  I guess they are rereleasing Z Gundam and ZZ Gundam.  This is exciting for the probably 1% of the visitors who understand what the hell I'm talking about....

There were more pics.  Lots more.  But I'm tired....so I'll post them later maybe.  Or I'll just upload them so you can see them yourselves.  But that'll be for another time. (^_^)

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