How do I cope knowing that Akihabara is gone? It's almost entirely foreigners and all the small shops around the station have been bought up, gentrified, and filled with the same One Piece, JJK, and Evangelion figures in every single store. Everyone you go into will have white Luffy laughing and Rebuild Asuka holding the Rebuild spear. All of the R-18 sections are full of the same Taimanin figures and Tenga products. The idea of second hand figurines and model kits seems to have vanished and every Gundam kit is a RX-78 Clear Version, it's so insane.How do I cope knowing it's gone? I used to be able to spend entire days here and never see the same thing twice. Now it's all the fucking same and everyone is Chinese. I can't believe it's come to this. Is there somewhere new to go that isn't just infinite repeats of the same content, anywhere to buy things from 2000-2016? Has that entire era just been erased from the collective unconscious? I hate this so much.
>Is there somewhere new to go that isn't just infinite repeats of the same contentI was this Monday at Osaka's Nipponbashi Denden Town. It has the same otaku-oriented stores like Mandarake, Surugaya, Lashinbang, Animate and Melonbooks as Akihabara, but many of the stores along the main street were average hardware stores selling PCs and such, CD/DVD retailers and restaurants. It really feels like what Akiba used to be (not that I know much about the past, I visited it for the first time in 2023), or at least how it was explained to be as. The same souvenir stores aimed at foreign tourists with shounen stuff are there, but aren't as visibly advertised as in Akiba. It's first and foremost a place to buy technological stuff.If you ever get the chance to go to Osaka, I highly recommend checking out that place. I found a lot of old doujins from late 90s to 2010s from the Mandarake there
>>50231786Lately I've been of the opinion that I like Osaka better than Tokyo. Everyone heard how good Tokyo is so a bunch of huge foreign companies moved in and fucked it up to cater to foreigners. It's really lame. The Mandarakes are still alright, the one in Shibuya had some cool shit.
You were too late 10 years ago.
>>50231884Osaka really is better, but then if you live there you're going to end up being unable to speak 標準語
How many anons on /jp/ about live in or visit Japan?I thought 4chan was a vast collection of (mainly) NEETs and otakus, now its the same 500 or so people on all boards who are middle aged with 6 figure careers with a narcissist complex
>>50236286not me, I'll probs never get to Japan, ever
>>50231687akiba still has the most arcades on a single block you can still have fun there but you should go in with the same expectations you would hold for disneyland. desu though the best thing about japan is that otakushit is just part of the culture there, you dont have to go to animetown to find it
>>502362864chan is that, but as you get older you tend to make a bit more money by necessity and then you're able to go places
>>50237114I think the problem I'm having lately is how standardized it is. Like, yeah, Akiba became Disneyland instead of a carnival. You used to be able to go to any hole in the wall and find figures for decades of series, obscure things and works that have gone out of print, old books from the 2000s, now everything is a brand new sparkly Amazon package and even Mandarake is mostly the same things but from two or three years ago, the 60s freakout stuff notwithstanding.
>>50231884>>50236259Where in Osaka?
>>50236286I want to visit but I never find the time to do so and everytime I check on points of interest of mine, the less of what made them appealing to me remain.
>>50243570Are we going to be orphans in this world???
>>50231687As far as I'm aware the place to go now is Nakano Broadway and Ikebukuro but it won't be anything like the old Akiba. Denden Town might still have that charm as the other anon said but it was almost a decade ago when I went there.>>50236286The former were largely purged by the latter.
