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June 30th saw armies of otaku (Japanese dorks, geeks, etc.) marching through Akihabara in protest of discrimination against their culture, reclaiming Akihabara as their rightful holy-land and home. The rally was organised by 3 Otaku Alliances, the Otakuism Alliance オタク先鋭派 革命的オタク主義者同盟, Revolutionary Moeism Alliance 革命的萌え主義者同盟 and the Revolutionary Rejects Alliance 革命的非モテ同盟.


The Otoki donned a range of clothing (as you would expect...) from standard protest costumes to darth vader and coke machine lookalikes, and walked 1.5km through the city, holding their banners high with pride. I say fair play to them. We see gay pride and womens rights rallies all of the time, so why not Otaku, stands to reason in my opinion.



My guess is at the end of the walk they all jumped on the train and went home... I would not like to have been an unsuspecting school girl on that chikan train to hell!

Lots of coverage of this event at various online vendors, Kotaku, Japan Probe, etc. but this vid was my favourite for its randomness (despite becoming a little repetetive). Anyway, without further ado, here is Danny Choo in Tokyo, in a storm trooper outfit, dancing.

Ashcraft over at Kotaku entitles this "Kid's Say The Darndest Things"

During the weekend, we took a family drive. It was a nice day, so I rolled down the window and let the breeze blow through the cabin. We hit a stop light. At the corner, there was a teen, couldn't have been more than 16 and what appeared to be his girlfriend. My car pulled up to the intersection and stopped. The kid sees me and says to his girlfriend, "Foreigner." She laughed. Rude all around. The rough way he said it, and tone of his voice was closer to "Fucking foreigner," than just "foreigner." The light changed, and I drove off.

Thinking aloud, I said, "I wonder why some people have to act like that?"

Sitting in a babyseat in the back seat, my kid piped up: "That's just something you're going to have to endure."

This coming from a three year-old, who still wets the bed. Well said. It's hard being different, but something tells me that Mini Bash is gonna be alright.