Tuesday, June 7th, 2005
Nerdy neighbourhoods
by Warren
The Washington Post has an article about Akihabara, the nerdiest place on earth (in a good way.) Apparently otakus not only visit but live there now, and choke up the streets with the pitter-patter of anime purchasing. I’ve been to Akihabara twice, and it’s plenty nifty, but there’s only so many pink minidisc players and chicks standing on boxes and ranting into megaphones in Japanese(presumably about the great deals to be had at “Crazy Hiro’s Transistor Emporium”)a brotha can take before you have to head to Shibuya and ogle kogai girls. 🙂
And there may be new geek neighbourhoods soon, as apparently India needs European expertise for the jobs that got outsourced from Europe and North America in the first place.