My Early OTAKU Room (2003ish)

[Tasuke]

here's the oldest set of photos i have of my earliest OTAKU/Weeb days, several years before i even had my own actual Internet, in fact,
practically Stone-Age compared to how i have things today.

without the now-indispensable freedom of worldwide online shopping,
i was once forced to satisfy my OTAKU needs with what was locally available to me (which was not much)
and the very occasional opportunity to hit a Comics/Collectables shop in desperate hope to find something better,
about four/six times a year if i was lucky, usually resulting in nothing better than an average GUNDAM kit anyway.

at any rate, Enjoy and Discuss, if you care to, relics from the age when being a western OTAKU was usually H.A.R.D. for the majority...

[Dark Angel]

Hahaha yeah. It was hard back then. I had to rely on garage sales (which were usually fruitless) and the occasional trip to Wizzy Wigs. But it was located in a terribly busy part of downtown with NO parking. So I never went.

[Tasuke]

yeah, WIZZYWIGS, that was one of those all-Anime/Manga supershops regularly advertised in ANIMERICA magazine back in those early DVD Anime boom days that many of us only dreamed of ever being able to actually visit...

[zirconmermaid]

I still remember the very first Anime Iowa, walking into the dealer room was amazing! A whole room of awesome stuff!

[Tasuke]

modern photos for contrast, got things divided up into my main room and computer room these days;






























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[Dark Angel]

That's quite the setup you've got now!
The dollieh wearing the the blue-ish kimono thing, I love the dress. So pretty.

[Tam I am]

All set out where you can see them. How nice. I live in a studio, and though it's a big one, my dollkids have become so numerous that they're threatening to evict me.