17.05.2010 · by Patrick W. Galbraith

Nippombashi in Akihabara

Just walking on a side street in Akiba and looked up to see a giant billboard featuring Neon-chan from Nippombashi. It's for the ita laptop I have been lusting after for a while now. Anyway, back to Neon. I know I shouldn't complain, because she is damn cute, but this is Akihabara. Seriously, we need our own image character. I would suggest POP, but that's too young for some. There is Nishimata Aoi, but she has already done the character for the Tachikawa Project. Maybe Toromi. I love her Kebabu-tan.

BTW, Neon-chan was featured in an anime at TAF 2010, which was cute. Curses! We lose again.

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31.10.2009 · by Patrick W. Galbraith

Neon-chan in Akihabara

It was just last month that I visited Nippombashi and fell in love with their image character, Neon-chan. Now she is in Akihabara, courtesy of an ad campaign for a notebook computer decorated with her image. It's like I never left Osaka. ^^; Seriously, we need an image character in Akihabara. I vote for a design by Pop.

おい!秋葉原なのに。。。なぜか音々ちゃんが。。。


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