It's a Maid-filled Life!
Yes...once again...it just can't be a trip to Japan without some
meantion of the maids and other celeb wannabes in our favorite
freakshow of a town....no not Harajuku...Akihabara.
This time I even have a movie. And it's frightening. A bit big but
might be worth it from a "holy crap" standpoint....
Anyway, on to the fun! Actually,
there's not that many pictures this time since it was looking like rain
the entire time. 2 Sundays in a row that was raining or about to rain
in Akihabara. What is a maid/cosplay/moe girl to do??? Sunday is where
they make their money and livelihood? Ah well.
Anyway, I get off the train and the first thing I run into is a HUUUGE
crowd of people outside of a store called Gamers. Seems they had 3 of
the most popular maid girls from maid cafes in Akihabara and were
interviewing them. It's like they're celebrities or something... And
actually in this small little world inside of Tokyo, I suppose they are.
You can see that each has a slightly different outfit. They are all
unique and each store has their own style.
Oh, and the sign behind them is for a new PC game called True Tears.
The tagline states "The true tears that she sheds". Apparently (and
no...this is NOT a hentai game...), the synopses for the game as
described in the video game magazine Weekly Famitsu is, "You are a
student in his final year in school with 6 months left and are living
the school life. School life has fun stuff like the bunkasai (a culture
fair...the whole school gets together to do displays and shows and
such) but because of graduation around the corner, there are also many
students with worries and stress. The player will meet girls with such
problems and will help them in overcoming them."
..yes...that's the plot. There are 5 girls, each cute in an anime way
and with different personalities (the tomboy, the shy one, the spunky
one, the artsy one, the brainy one...think Charlie's Angels but
underage...) and you have to create a schedule to help them out with
their problems and figure out how to solve all their problems by the
end of the year. You're rewarded with cute shots of them happy or
pouting or crying (...cute?? I guess..in a way...) and such.
Yeah...this will never work in the US huh? Big seller here though!
Aaaaaaaaaaanyway, on to the main strip, not too many of them out this
time because of the weather. When I say not too many, it means there's
probably an assload of them out there by most standards but...for
Akihabara standards it's not too many. Of course, you find girls
working the camera like these two who were handing out flyers as
models/cosplayers and such.
You also find girls like these two who are nothing like maids but are
working the streets handing out flyers for their live show. They are
singer wannabes and they will actually be performin indoors as opposed
to out in the street. Who knows? In another year or two I may see them
on TV or something as the next big pop duet after Puffy Ami Yumi :)
But now for the grand finale.... My ears are still in pain from this...
I was about to leave after realizing that I shouldn't drop any more
money here when I heard a commotion before seeing anything. It seemed
like "singing".....but...at the same time it was so bad I thought it
was a joke.... But then I saw the crowd and all these guys bopping
along and cameras everywhere and I realized that it's not fake nor is
it a joke...it's for real...
A 4 maid singing group.
It was.....it was wrong....
And frightening...
Yet, as a dedicated self made reporter for all of you readers, I waded
into the crowd to take 2 quick pictures from 2 different angles.
Shot 1...
And awwww....they're reaching out to the audience!
....scary...
And yes, I even took a 30 second video. It's 3MB in size
But anyhoo, here
is the movie. If you ever wanted to know what the background
music in hell was like...well....crank this shit up!!!!
*ahem* anyway, this concludes my Akihabara report for this trip.
(^_^)
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