There was an interview a while back with Your Name director Makoto Shinkai in which he lamented he could no longer visit some of his favorite places in Tokyo because he’d put them in the movie and now they’re permanently occupied by Your Name fans. …Read more »
Production I.G, the studio behind anime like Ghost in the Shell , Psycho-Pass and Blood: The Last Vampire , will open a store based around their properties in hip Tokyo neighborhood Shibuya, reports Anime Anime. As if you didn’t have enough reasons to visit. The …Read more »
We’ve already covered Tokyo’s well-known otaku hotspots like Akihabara and Nakano ad nauseum here at Otaku USA, but it’s always worth pointing out that there are plenty of other areas Japan’s capital city that ooze otaku cred. Ikebukuro, home of the third-busiest station in Tokyo, …Read more »
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