Akiba Kyun☆

Good evening~

I apologize for the immaturity of my last entry. I will shape up from now on.

Anyways, yesterday was Saturday and I stayed in my room the whole time working on something or other: my project for art class, the manga I'm submitting to the manga club, and of course japanese work.
This is my art project, a scrap journal of our trip to Art-Link:

Today, I went to Akihabara (nicknamed Akiba) with Stephanie, Tsubasa, and Tsubasa's friend Sae.

 Akihabara is well known as the main place to get electronics and manga/anime related stuff. It did have a lot of that and it's probably the only place that you will see so many girls dressed like maids, so many men dressed like female anime characters on the street, and mario, luigi, and princess peach speed down the road in carts (true facts) but it wasn't quite as I imagined it.

The first thing we did was go to a maid cafe. It was the first time for Stephanie, me, and Tsubasa. It probably wasn't the best maid cafe, but our waitress was really nice and a really good artist!

 My strawberry cake.

 Sae's omelette rice. Goku (from Dragon Ball) illustration.

 Stephanie's chocolate cake.

 Tsubasa's omelette rice. Lee (from Naruto) illustration.

Tsubasa and Stephanie ordered milk tea, so in order to mix it in well, they had to copy the maid saying a charm: Mazu mazu (mix mix), Nyan nyan (meow meow), Kyun Kyun (squee squee), Gao Gao (roar roar), PiKAchu!
For the omelettes, we all had to make hearts with our hands and say "Kyun kyun! Oishiku na~re! (Squee squee! Become yummy!)" It was a little embarrassing but fun! Tsubasa especially got super into it. He's hilarious.
Afterwards, Sae had to go to her part time job so it was just me and Stephanie with Tsubasa. Tsubasa is super nice to hang out with us...

But really, otaku culture is incredible...In Akihabara, the girl idol group AKB48 is unbelievably popular and their merchandise is everywhere. Here's the line for the AKB Cafe and Merchandise store:

Also, this American guy said something interesting the other day. He was born in New York and he thinks Japan is really similar, but New York is 100 times dirtier. After all, in New York, rats are everyday friends. Tokyo, on the other hand, is super clean in comparison. No rats. Also, Tokyo has a very controlled society. For example, the government knows all about the yakuza--where they're active etc., the government simply keeps an eye on them and allows them to act as they will without getting too rowdy. Perhaps that is why there is less crime in Japan. The American guy said, yeah America has freedom, but in exchange for freedom, we get crime and dirty streets. It makes you think that freedom may not be such a great thing?