Otaku Flock to Akiba, Lucky Star Shrine for New Year's - The Diigo Meta page

• 05 Jan 08
  

  Nele Noppe

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  • While most Japanese people celebrate New Year's Day at home, more and more otaku are defying their introverted homebound stereotype by celebrating the holiday together — at a symbolic otaku mecca and a literal holy shrine with an anime tie-in.
  • By contrast, many otaku go against the traffic and visit Tokyo during the last three days of the old year because of Comic Market
  • Traditionally, many Japanese people visit a local shrine during the first three days of the year to ask for good health and prosperity during the new year. An estimated 130,000 people went instead to Washinomiya, the Tokyo area's oldest shrine which was further immortalized (in a manner of speaking) by the Lucky Star anime series. Washinomiya's attendance during the first three days of the year is estimated to have grown almost 50% percent — 40,000 more people — this year because of this series which premiered last April.

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