July 28, 2006
Obsessed With Anime
On a rainy Saturday afternoon in the Akihabara section of Tokyo, a long line of college-age men snaked down the stairs of a dingy, seven-story building. They were waiting — some of them for up to two hours — to enter a cafe where the young waitresses wear French-maid uniforms and address their customers as "masters."
The men are otaku, a name given to men and women who are obsessed with manga and anime — Japanese comic books and videos. Many of them
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