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Getting My Geek On at Wonko’s

August 7, 2009
Austin Otaku Cheering

What is it that makes grown men and women indulge in buying toys, such as action figures? It’s really easy to say that there is some unfulfilled desire from childhood that toys resolve for us or that, to put it more bluntly, we’re just being childish. I’ve been called a “man-child” for my own collection [...]

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Austin Books: Manga Galore and More

August 6, 2009
Austin Otaku Reading

If you think about it, otaku in Austin are quite lucky by comparison. We could be living in a city where the only places to purchase manga are the big, national chain bookstores. Or worse, we could be in a small town without even a Borders or Barnes & Noble bookseller. … Well, at least [...]

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Get Your Anime and Manga Fix at Dragon’s Lair

July 29, 2009
Reading

In Austin, you have to expect that each store you want to visit as an otaku (or anyone for that matter) is far removed from the next store you want to visit. Austin has truly mastered the art of urban sprawl. So it’s a pleasant surprise to find a good source for manga and anime [...]

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Fill Up on Bubble Tea and Kawaii at Momoko

July 22, 2009
I'm Cool

With more than 60 days per year over 100 degrees Fahrenheit, a poorly designed road system, terrible drivers, panhandlers on every street corner, and plenty of ignorant but proud Texans, not much about Austin can be considered kawaii (Japanese for “cute”). So finding a shop that specializes in kawaii items is as rare as finding [...]

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Office Cronies: Corporate America Personified

July 1, 2009
Austin Otaku

If you’ve ever spent any time in Corporate America, you’ve run into people just like them. The utterly useless executive, who earns a lot of money to accomplish very little. The self-important admin assistant, who thinks that because she’s the CEO’s secretary, she’s more important than every other employee in the company. The guy that [...]

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Another n00b moment: the Austin Japanese Meetup Group

June 14, 2009
Austin Otaku

The more I dig into the otaku and Japanophile culture here in Austin, the more I feel like a novice. Despite a couple of decades of reading Japanese literature and watching Japanese cinema, I find so many more people who know so much more than I do. Such was the case again this weekend as [...]

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Asahi Imports: Austin’s Own Konbini

June 7, 2009
Austin Otaku

Nestled between the Dragon’s Lair Comic Book Store and Turquoise Trading Post in a low-key strip mall along Burnet Road in Austin is a quaint, family-owned Japanese grocery store named Asahi Imports. It boasts, rightfully so, that it is the only Japanese grocery store in Austin, and it has been so since the late 1960′s. [...]

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My Weekly Sushi Fix

May 30, 2009
Austin Otaku

There is one place you’re almost guaranteed to find me at least once per week getting my sushi fix – Sushi Sake. My friends and I usually meet there on Fridays in time to take advantage of their sushi happy hour ($1.50 per piece of nigiri sushi). In fact, we’ve gone there so often that [...]

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