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Living in Tokyo, you’ll notice many Maid Cafes in the Akihabara otaku shopping district. Here are some maid cafe flyers handed out by maids at the train station advertising their cafes.

Here is a map of England.  Next is the map of England redrawn by the imaginative Japanese users of bulletin board forum 2-channel in the shape of a girl worrying her bust size.

Train and anime okaku will be excited to learn that there is a Doraemon train service running in Japan.  The newest one is the special Odakyu F-Train‘, which began service last summer running along the Odakyu line and was specially made to attract visitors to the Fujiko F. Fujio Museum in Kawasaki.

The ‘F-Train‘ has 10 cars each with their own Doraemon designs  on the exterior and as well as on the interior with Doraemon themed warning stickers, posters and holding straps.

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Young Japanese women dressed up as maids are a common site in geek capital Akihabara (Akiba).  They work in maid cafes or stand in the street handling out flyers to all the otaku who frequent the area.  Here are several photos of the Akiba maids working hard even in this hot summer heat.

Otaku and anime fans will recognize these varied manga drawings of Lum from Urusei Yatsura うる星やつら.

From our popular post of hot Japanese gravure idols lathering up at the bathhouse (sento), here is a 2D image created by some otaku in Japan with a lot of spare time.

Nice drawing. Which do you prefer more for your ideal girlfriend – 2D or 3D girls?

Pretty Japanese gravure idol Yoko Kumada faces off with Otaku comedian Akiba Kanpe on Japanese television.  No contest to who comes out on top.

Japan’s first robot? Japan’s first otaku?

Let’s face it, no one really likes eating alone all the time.  That’s why Oshokuji no Jikan 素人・THEお食事の時間~私といっしょに食べようよ~ is a DVD series aimed at lonely  otaku guys who either work all day, have no friends or have no social skills to land a date or a combination of all three. Luckily for them, the folks at K-Network produced a 3 DVD virtual dinner date series where  the viewer pretends he’s eating a meal with a (girl) friend.  Read more...

Our favorite Otaku comedian Akiba Kanpe 秋葉カンペー has fun with beautiful Japanese gravure idol and TV announcer Waka Inoue 井上和香 on TV show Nep League.