Ringing in the New Year in Akihabara

A clip from an ATV news report about how certain people spent New Year’s Eve:

The person in this clip is Gontada, a 33-year-old otaku who is attending a countdown party　at Dear Stage in Akihabara. Akihabara is the one place where he can truly feel like himself, unlike his company, where he must hide the fact that he is an otaku. Gontada spends the night dancing and singing along with the songs of his idols, and it truly looks like he is in heaven.
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6 comments - What do you think? Posted by James - January 6, 2009 at 6:38 am

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http://swiftywriting.blogspot.com Swifty

With this news report, I guess he doesn’t have to bother concealing the fact that he’s an otaku any more in his company.
PO box

I can’t believe he’s 33. He looks younger than me and I’m 17.

anon

Surprise surprise, japanese people look young.

Bruce Smith

BTW his name is Gotanda-san not Gonda-san.
Catch the Chicken

No Japanprobe article on the Shibuya New Years Eve events??? Looked like a lot of drunked westerners and a few locals in thier low-riders

Also, no post about the re-appearance of unauthorised disney characters in China (‘Disney ice festival’ footage on tokudane this morning)?

Come-on J-probe… you’re quality/speed is slipping.
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