Chris Michael “A fan's tour of Tokyo's 'geek' district” http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2009/dec/02/tokyo-geek-district-akihabara-japan
『ガーディアン』の旅行欄に載った秋葉原紀行。
というところをカットしておく。
Perhaps the best place to experience moe first-hand is at the @Home Cafe – one of a growing number of "maid" cafes, where waitresses enact a role-playing game with the customer as "master". We take our seats and our maid, Minami, appears in a jangle of hearts, pearls and rhinestone. She scribbles my name in ketchup on my omu-raisu (omelette rice), then we have a rousing game of robot boxing which she clearly loses on purpose.Later, all the maids go up on stage together to giddily belt out some J-pop songs. One man starts making strange gestures, as if pushing a beach ball forward. "Moe," Galbraith murmers. "He's sending love, reflecting it back, showing them their talents are appreciated." This is a version of otagei*1, stylised dance moves with names such as Romance and Matrix, all designed to transmit moe to the performer.
因みに、HEJ*2の秋葉原体験ツアーは\5800*3。
フィリピンではイメルダ・マルコスの復活？
Imelda Marcos, former first lady of the Philippines, has filed her candidacy for next year's congressional elections, joining the country's boxing champion and the outgoing president in the star-studded race for the lower house. Ferdinand Marcos's flamboyant widow, 80, who has fought off more than 900 civil and criminal cases against her, dispatched a lawyer last night to file her nomination papers in Illocos Norte. Marcos will be running in the May 2010 elections against a former vice-governor in the second district of Batac, said Apolinario Saturnino from the elections commission.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/dec/02/imelda-marcos-philippines-election-congress
