One of the whole bunch of bad things of an otaku not being in Japan is missing out Akihabara, Comiket, Figures, WF, WHF, maid cafes, more maid cafes, and more more maid cafes and their maids going “ お帰りなさい、ご主人さま～！<insert name of maidーちゃん> はご主人さま会いたかったです。ね～キスして。”　(Of course the kissing part only exists in the minds of old man and ero-games ^^;

One good thing though, is being able to limit yourself from buying all those stuff. Imagine this, ￥10,000　for each game. ￥3000 ~ ￥30,000 for a figure (with the exception of Haruhi BUBBA kit which was ￥160,000 over at Yahoo Auctions Japan), Candy girls going at ￥500,000+++ which you tell your parents it was used for reference books :p Staying in the core of the otaku world requires sacrifices.

However, with the increase in auction and hobby sites, you can now easily purchase figures easily online. Or visit your local hobby (preferably anime stores) and ask them to help ship it over (includes shipping cost as well).

 ^ Tokyo Big Sight, where otaku dreams come true (Source: Heisei Demo)  

With WHF just over (Event reports over at Heisei Democracy’s post by Shingo and DannyChoo’s post ), I began to look through some of the online hobby sites such as 1999.co.jp and amiami for figures.

<Picture Intensive Post! Might include nosebleeding as well>