There are kids on my LAWN.
Aug. 23rd, 2009 08:10 pmSo there’s anime and video game merchandise and advertising all over Japan, like you’d expect, and a lot of it I recognize. There’s Pokemon, Fullmetal Alchemist, D. Grey Man, Dragon Ball, Dragon Quest, Gundam 00, Evangelion, Naruto, and Final Fantasy stuff all over the place. There’s a fair amount of Moyashimon, Phoenix Wright, and Naoki Urasawa stuff, which surprised me for some reason - I’d somehow thought those would be more niche concerns. Apparently Beyblade still exists in the public consciousness here. I haven’t seen many Vampire Knight keychains and stuff, but the new volumes and issues of its magazine are always prominently displayed.
Still, most of the stuff I’m really majorly obsessed with - say, Claymore and Kaoru Mori and Moyoco Anno - does not get out much. Today I saw a girl on the train reading Otomen, and was startled because I actually knew what that was.
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