I can't believe Mr Donut is graduating...
>>86530608>Had to deal with a flood of neckbeard ruffians refusing to leave during holofes>Employees likely killed themselves over it>Closes
So much for FWMC's endorsement having any worth lmao
>>86530608I'm glad I got to go this year when I had the chance. Also I blame FWMO for this and all the harassment they brought.
>>86530608proof that FWMC and more importantly ruffians ruin everything with their autism
>>86530829>>86530844>>86530845>>86530869samefag discord raid nijisissy trannies seething over hobosharties getting btfo
>>86530829>Employees likely killed themselves over itSource: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vC7wFxTmcNg
>>86530969GOOD post
>>8653060852 years kinda nuts tho
I tried a mr donuts and honestlyissa bit small
>>86530608The owner went "I'm gonna have to deal with a bunch of overweight gaijins every march thanks to two Canadians who genuinely think they're japanese, fuck that"
>>86531183>leafs ruin a 50 year old storeWhen will Canada pay for their crimes
>>86530969Whether I like or hate them I won't praise or disparage everything they do anon. It's called critical or independent thinking.
Proof of any claim made ITT?
>>86531342There's pictures of the giant line of ruffians outside the Mr donut. And neckbeards on the upstairs floor camping the place hoping for fuwamoco to show up. They had to make a tweet asking for their fans to behave. I'm sure someone else can post them. I didn't save any of it.
>>86531342I have fact checked the claims in this thread and they are all correct.
It's probably a rent issue and it might be too small.
It was revealed to me in a donut induced trance
>Business operates for 52 years>Gets what is probably the biggest sudden surge of activity it has ever gotten>Decides to close despite thatI thought ruffians being annoying was a meme or a falseflag.
>>86531433And this causes them to shut down because..?
>>86531241Canadians must have been the reason the Geneva conventions exist
>>86530608Legitimately sad news, over a 50 years in business... friends, don't blame the doggos, the economy is most likely the reason.
THE OWNER IS RETIRING YOU TROGLODYTES. HES BEEN OPERATING THE PLACE FOR 52 YEARS
>>86531731Doesn't he have children or relatives?
>>86531731Isn't it a big chain? Just get somebody else
>>86531731Geez, chill out, Mococo.
>>86531774Well apparently no one wanted to buy the franchise
nothing lasts forevereven your oshi
>>86531731>>86531670Do you genuinely believe the people in this thread are being serious? Do you need tone indicators so you know when people are joking?
>>86531731I am in fact an Infernal rather than a normal Troglodyte
>>86531731>Happily run business for 52 years>Meet ruffians >His hope and optimism goneGrim
>>86531762it's japan, of course not.
>>86531774Akiba has been dying since the pandemic. There are fewer and fewer businesses open there every year. It's not a good place to buy into a store right now. Even the maid cafes are dying out.
>>86531910It's a catalog thread, so yes I do
The birthday hat is hilarious
>>86530845>I'n glad I got to go this year when I had the chance.Are the donuts at all worth the hype?
>>86530969I'm getting too old for this shit
>>86532167It turns out when you don't have children that means you'll get fewer and fewer people who are into children's entertainment...
>>86532432Do you not have Misdo in pagpagland?
>>86531762no
>>86533296mogged by dunkin
What the fuck this sucks, I at least ate there last year although I didn't get the window seat because there was like 20 peopleNow how the hell am I supposed to run into Hololive fans randomly when in Akiba?
>>86530969Read this aloud to someone 200 years ago and their head would explode
>>86533490buy the business
>>86533219It's a confluence of things.The Visual Novel industry pivoted hard from PC to mobile, and the sharp increase in production quality (and cost) and marketing power meant that most indie/doujin VNs were driven underground. That shifted that whole market out of Akiba.The anime industry's hard pivot to massed LN adaptations means the majority of old anime fans are pressed out of the hobby while newer fans centralize around LN publishing because that's the primary material. And the preponderance of these cheap advertisement adaptations and scarcity of well-funded or successful originals means much less merch and secondary media coming out of mainstream shows.All of this comes together to mean that anime fans either stop being anime fans or stop going to akiba for anime stuff. It had already been ailing for years, even a decade ago folks were sounding alarms when the bluray transition was hurting businesses. But the pandemic lockdowns drove a lot of small companies out of business and cut into the coffers of bigger ones, and as things slowly close down it creates a compounding effect where everything still around suffers from the area having less and less draw. When there are no cafes then suddenly fewer people show up to shop at the department stores, and when there are no department stores then fewer people show up at the restaurants, etc. This sort of thing happened all over big cities in lots of attractions that weren't anime or subculture related, just because a few little businesses going out of business during lockdowns triggers a domino effect
>>86533296What's pag pag? I keep hearing it everywhere? Is that like South east asian food or?
>>86533700I have like $40,000 kicking around, think ¥11M yen is enough to buy a donut shop?
>>86533853>Instantly assuming it's foodYou think you're so sly huh, pagpag anon?
>>86530608I just went there the other day...
>>86533872Nope.That shit is in fucking akiba anon, the land value itself might be in the millions dollar range
>>86533897Nice projection, but we all know who's the real pagpag here
>>86533971I'm literally eating a pon de ring right now tho?
>>86534023No you don't
>>86533947I blame Feris Nyan-nyan.
>>86534109>Blaming Ferris instead of her grandfatherC'mon now
>>86534083Fuck you, I'm going to buy another one and post it here just to spite your brown pinoy ass.
>>86534202>post it hereDo it, faggot
>>86533853pagpag is filipino onomatopoeia for patting the dust off of something, is a general term for taking something abandoned and recycling it into something new and is used as innuendo to refer to dumpster diving, because widespread poverty and frequent food scarcity (due to comically poor political leadership) means the country is constantly on the brink of famine. It's become so endemic that people will sell pagpag "cuisine" in food stalls and travel agencies need to hand out advisories to tourists so they avoid getting heavy metal poisoning from recycled street meat.
Visited last month. Had a plain and a strawberry pon de ring. Outside of the knowledge that the twins sat at the same chair months ago, the experience was pretty banal
>>86530608good
>>86532167I've been several times and it definitely feels like there are a lot fewer businesses, yet a lot more foot traffic because of the tourism boom.
akiba no longer is the akiba of oldit's just a dirty fuuzoku machi now
>>86533809And if you want a nonweeb stylized example, just look at the death of malls in America for the same thing. Online shopping picked up steam in the 00's and by the 10's tons of small stores were dead in malls that normally would have thrived thanks to lots of foot traffic from random people looking at their 'anchor' stores and just spending time meandering through shops from one side to the other.
>>86533490>Now how the hell am I supposed to run into Hololive fans randomly when in Akiba?Walk around...literally anywhere else in akiba? hololive is incredibly mainstream, anon.
Is Akuba going to die? I've never been there but I watch Minto and she is always talks about how her favorite places are closing down, which is weird since it is a massive tourist attraction
>>86534298I mean, there's not much you can except from a donut shop.
>>86534271Makes you wonder though how these people manage to survive like this even at the risk of their own lives y'know? Poverty can make people do desperate things I guess.
They should buy it
>It's become so endemic that people will sell pagpag "cuisine" in food stalls and travel agencies need to hand out advisories to tourists so they avoid getting heavy metal poisoning from recycled street meat.you have to be actually retarded and are going to all the wrong places to encounter, let alone eat pagpag, lmao. if you manage to accidentally eat one, you honestly deserve it at that point.
>>86535292It's just like the internet, it used to be niche and have lots of genuinely unique shops, but now it's mainstream and boring. It might be prospering, but it's lost its soul.
>>86535292the weak yen is probably not helping
>>86535292see >>86533809tldtr Akiba has lost it's position as THE place for anime fans to visit and congregate and then covid lockdowns pushed them over the edge and sent them into a doom spiral. Soon enough there won't be much seperating akiba from any other district in tokyo
>>86535697it actually should be attracting tourists, but then again these days tourists just order their merch shipped to them online instead of traveling to japan, going to akiba and buying it in person
>>86531957Fuwamoco didn't protect his smile.On the other hand with that customer rush they might have funded his retirement.I'll be pon de ring this one for a while.
>>86530608More like Mister Dontnut
>>86534228Fuck you and your Misdo-less country.
>>86535468Haachama spent less than a year in flip and it irreversibly damaged her stomach.
>>86533809>preponderancenijja, this is 4channel and you expect me to know that word? Don't make me look up new things!
>>86535756I saw more people at Sunshine City doing cosplay than Akihabara when I went to visit. Granted, the fact that I visited there during the weekday and Sunshine City on the weekend kinda contributed to that but that is kind of unbelievable to me as an old-school anime watcher where it used to be the center of everything anime.
Reminder
>>86530608He got a taste of the ruffians and he was done.
>>86536772>Putting fast food, famires, chain ramen store, kaiten zushi, AND Misdo in the same tier listRetardo...
>>86536772>bikkuri donki>B
>>86536859They aren't in the same tier. Mr donut is in F
>>86536629>pre = before>ponderance = the quality of being pon-de-ring-likeIt's really not that difficult.
>>86537316kek
>>86536985There's a reason it went into decline during the Heisei era
>>86530969I just wanted to post frogs...
Why are nijixymsters like this?
>>86537806Why are you talking as if bikkuri donki is a historied chain?It's just a theme restaurant with okay-ish gimmick
>>86533490Maybe visit one of the 3-floor buildings dedicated entirely to hololive?
>>86530608KEK saving this for the next time ruffians get uppity
>>86535468Only poor people and tourists buy from random food stalls
You're all fucking retards. Akiba itself is dying. All kinds of shops are closing, gaming centers, manga shops, eroge halls.
>>86536667Sunshine city has frequent organized paid acosta cosplay events on the weekend, so your data is a little skewed. People aren't usually dressing up in cosplay there outside of those.
>>86539766>Denki town>dead>turns into Otaku Mecca>dyingThere's no saving Akiba nor Japan unless they could somehow reverse their birthrate trend.
>>86530998Sixth post best post?
>>86536488>donut from a bagjesus christ, its like posting a bag of cheetos to show off
>>86535001>>86538635I mean meetup, nobody wants to hangout in a random floor of some secondhand shop.
>>86540168It was 10 pm and the only misdo I could get was from konbini, lay off me.
That reminds me, why did they stop mentioning pon-de-rings altogether?It was especially obvious in their 3D reveal stream where they had a whole segment talking about loving "donuts".Pon-de-ring is a specialty from Mr.Donut, but I couldn't find out if there hold a trademark on it.Did they get in trouble with Mr. Donut or is it just Cover being careful?
>>86542094Pon de ring is trade marked by Misdo anon.This is why similar-looking donuts are sold under the name of mochi donut.
>>86530969you lost, incel
>>86535552No idiot, that has nothing to do. One anon already explained itt. If anything it was a miracle that survived this long. But like it past transition from an electronic shop district to an otaku one, it will change into something in the future.
>>86536488are these good?
>>86533357
This was a surprisingly informative thread
>>86531241> When will Canada pay for their crimesA fucking leaf. Every time.
>>86530969Am I having a aneurysm?
>>86531670Imagine the smell
>>86530969That’s a lot of buzzwords
>>86531762Children doesnt want to run a donut shop.
>>86530969Is it that easy to get (You)s?
>>86530969Nijiseethe! or, err, holoseethe. Or perhaps it's homoseethe. Or phaseseethe. I can't tell what kind of seethe.
>>86531670>a bunch of gaijins go to the place>make long lines for the business for a long period of time>place starts to get reputation that it's just some gaijin tourist trap>any japanese people stop going>gaijins leave because holo events are done>stop getting customers
>>86536488japanese misdo =/= stale ass indomaret misdoits not the own you think it is indo bro.....
>>86531693Oh no, we were for sure the reason.
>>86537316>ponderance = the quality of being pon-de-ring-like
>>86547267Nice headcanon, but it’s fucking Akihabara
>>86545186Most likely mobile game development offices and hoyoverse stores
>>86530608Cover should by that place
>>86531652Apparently they would camp inside the store for hours not buying anything.
>>86534271>heavy metal poisoningSo if I eat pagpag, I'll suddenly get the burning urge to listen to Megadeth and Slayer?
>>86531762
>>86530969/thread
>>86530998Kek
>>86533357>>86545568>>86549707Abe-san...
>>86533809Why didn't someone just open up a LN store on Akiba, are they stupid?
>>86533423They're literally the same store. Owned by the same company, back in the 90s all stores were converted to one or the other depending on country.
If it's any consolation, there's a Misudo right down the street from Nakano Broadway.
>>86536772Wait, Shakey's Pizza is a real place? I've never heard of it outside of South Park.
>>86530969That's a lot of fucking buzzwords
>>86530608Why is their favourite food place in Japan?How many times they ate there? Ten?
>>86530969And rizzing zesty gyatt to you too
>>86557754That particular Misdo is pretty legendary anon, just look at all the comment.
>>86547267This is an actual good reason. Happen to me in a lot of cafes in Osaka. Most of the people were foreigns and you rarely see japanese people buying it. If any. The sharp decline of Akiba doesn't help either.
>>86551007Shouldn't have backed the degenerate Korean church.Many such cases.
>>86540211It may sound distasteful, because it is, but the respective fanbase trooncords.
>>86533423>>86551513>>86536488>not a j.co chadngmi
>>86559841forgot pic
>>86532432No MisterDonuts is bland like every other big donut chain. The only good donut shops are ones ran by old couples that force their kids to work as free labor.
>>86560044I dunno anon, their black thunder collab donuts are so rich it's almost felt like too chocolatey.
>>86560044I think your taste buds are too americanized to notice subtle flavours of japanese sweets anon
>>86560318I was in Sapporo just a few months ago. I went to Royce, bought a few cheese tarts from a shop at a station, and had some butter mochi. All of it was delicious. I went to Mister Donuts got a pon-de-ring and a chocolate ring. It wasn't awful, but it was easily the most disappointing sweets I had that trip.
>>86560901>Cheese tart>Butter mochiBurger-chama...
>>86559997I have never tried them but I fail to see how Ponderous Rings could be better than those donuts. FWMC have terminal JP brainrot.
>>86530608MISTER DONUT FUCKING SUCKSDUNKIN DONUTS BETTER
>>86560999Yes, anon. I'm a burger. I know donuts, and Mister Donuts is overrated.
>>86561344Have you tried any dagashi at all when you were there?Because most of the time, all the complaints about japanese sweets from burgers are almost always about how it's too bland or too simple of a taste.
Not just Akiba, a lot of the offline otaku stores started to cater more to female shoppers in the past 5 years since female buy more miscellaneous merches and shop offline more.That’s why most Animate in Tokyo except maybe the Akiba one seems to have more niji than holo stuff
>>86561042J.co is an Indonesian donut chain, but they're superior compared to bland Mister Donut or Dunkin Donuts.
>>86561513I did not. I'm fine with subtle flavors. I just don't think it's worth hyping up. Especially not for small junk food like a donut.
>>86530608>open for 52 years>ruffians flood it>closes months laterholy shit
>>86536488>>86545428mister donut, even in japan, is mid at bestpeople only like it here because it's le dog meme
>>86563081>le dog memeFucking zoomer I swear
>>86539766/thread
>>86530969you forgot phasecucks and vhoefags
>>86530608Mr Donut is a fucking chain bakery/restaurant. Why the fuck are they sad?
>>86531774Even in Japan big chains operate on franchising, so if nobody wants to step in and run a particular location they're not gonna keep that spot open.
>>86536772Out of all the western pizza chains out there it's fucking Shakey's that gets to exist in Japan.
>>86542303is it actually trademarked or is it one of those generalized terms like bandaid and nintendo?
>>86569413Well, Domino's and Pizza Hut exist in Japan as well.
