Wackyhabira

Walked a long way through the insane Electronics district Akhihabira. The shop fronts literally scream at you as you walk down the street with high pitched 'look at me', 'look at me' voices and sounds.

We were sort of vaguely looking for the prices of used laptops. But based upon some kind of attractive noise Lisa wandered into a store which turned out to be a holy mecca of geekdom. 7 floors of insane Manga figurines, statues, icons, do-it-yourself projects. Lisa bonded with the large Gerbera (star of many cheesy japanese 50's movies... he must have destroyed Tokyo many times over)





the strangest floor was the dolls... hundreds of obsessive perfect dolls of superheros, children, people, and naturally manga girls with massive breasts and outrageous weapons.













The boxed up ones were strange enough... but the hundreds of DIY packets lining the aisles were strange and somehow very sad, waiting in their little plastic packages to be given some kind of life.

Japan seems to encourage a lot of fetishistic behaviour... I won't begin to speculate much why... I'm sure there are a lot of post-grad thesis written about it... and the whole floor of dolls and fetish objects (some that come with a Birth Certificate!) seem to sum it all up... The store was filled with single lumpy, mostly male but not all, japanese geeks poring over their preferred obsessive object.