Thursday, 4 June 2009

OTAKU culture - events

OTAKU has lots of events which can be considered as activities of their circles.
They hold culture festivals in BUDOKAN (a big hall centre in TOKYO) every year. They sell and buy fanfic manga, drama or original songs CDs in the hall. Different cycles own their own location in the hall. There is COSPLAY show taking place at the square outside the hall.

This is the link to the most famous and popular OTAKU discussion board in Japan:

http://www.2ch.net/

This is a site on which they are selling products from the 74th festival:

http://www.dannychoo.com/detail/mac/eng/image/6486/C74+Doujin.html


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There is a big event which takes place on the internet of Japan every year, it's called the cutest anime character competetion. People vote for the characters from the anime which come on air during a prescriptive period ( eg. Oct 2008 - Sep 2009). The competition takes 3 months from preliminary contest to final through a knockout system. The winner will be recognized as the cutest of the year.

The official site for most cutest 2008:

http://friend.45.kg/saimoe2008/

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