It's 2005 in Japan.
Otaku: I've been called an Akiba-kei [Akihabara-type] otaku before , but I was still stunned into silence at the Christmas Eve Maywa Denki show [buy their stuff here!]. A quorum of Tokyo otaku (mostly female even!) were there, and they made me feel decidedly 'normal'. Who are Maywa Denki? Well, their X'mas eve performance theme was 'folk', and they had their robotic musicians behind them strumming acoustic guitars. But this was Maywa Denki, akiba-kei folk, with songs about Tsukuba engineers, remote controls, and Rubik's cubes . . . (refrain: shikakuii~~, shikakuii~~ = 'it's square, square, with an audience member standing in front, doing the 'air rubik's cube' )
wow. out-otaku'ed.
(n.b. the usage of the Japanese term 'otaku' is not the same as stateside, where it 'simply' denotes an anime fan/freak. In Japan, otaku refers to anyone who obsesses over something, cars, computers, even anime, to an anti-social level.)
Benkei in the House: The new NHK 'Taiga' drama series for 2005 is going to based on Yoshitsune. Yes, the same Yoshitsune from Heike Monogatari. And that of course means that his trusty sidekick Benkei [acted by Matsudaira Ken] will be on TV's all over Japan in the coming months. I full expect to see hundreds of Benkei imposters online when the Benkei-boom sweeps Japan.
Also, I can link to pictures now that I have massive storage on YahooBB.
First snow in Jiyugaoka. Someone forgot to take in their laundry.
Hatsumode at a nearby shrine. The buddhist temple next door.
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believe it or not, that was a just a normal long-exposure shot with my minolta S414 digicam. I had it set for autofocus, etc and let it do it's thing. Kind of creepy though, since it certainly have that background glow in real life.
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