You wil doubtless recall that none too convincingly animated psychological strangeness anime Chaos;Head is set exclusively in Shibuya; call it tracing, Photoshopping or otherwise, the resemblance has been carefully achieved (or perhaps just cheaply obtained) by way of reworking photographic scenes, which you can see in comparison below:
Mass media trend watching site Nikkei BP Trendy recently engaged in a spot of schoolgirl thigh and skirt photography, sure to put even the hardened voyeurs of 2ch to shame, and the data gathered may be of interest.
Ostensibly the report examines the purported trend towards longer skirts, as it has been said that very short skirts have come to be seen as “crude”, using some fieldwork in Shibuya to gather data.
Most of this extensive data was in fact photographic in character (see below).
Former seiyuu Aya Hirano performed live for the first time recently, to a packed venue of some 1200 excited fans, as part of the promotional antics for her new “Namida” single.
However, what may have excited the eager otaku rather more than her singing was her choice of miniskirt, and the subsequent propensity of that skirt to flutter up due to her vigorous gyrations.
Naturally, sports newspaper reporters were on hand to photograph the event in detail… You can see the contents of her skirts below.
Shibuya psychological thriller and suspense anime Chaos;Head finally makes its appearance. An adaptation from the popular visual novel by Nitroplus (not an eroge as such), the title promises, and delivers, a very contemporary vision of murder and delusion in Shibuya and on the Internet.
What it does not deliver, however, is much in the way of sound production values.
A girl and her hoodlum accomplice face blackmail charges after they lured a man into underage sex with the girl, and then threatened to expose him if he didn’t cough up ¥200,000.
An elderly lady (79) was arrested after randomly stabbing two female passersby, at Shibuya station in the heart of Tokyo, we hear.
This intimidating three dimensional map is Shibuya station, with the latest addition of the Fukutoshin Line; to say it has a complex layout is an understatement.
Some fantastic maps of labyrinthine Japanese subway and rail stations have been gathered by a conscientious soul here, and what struck him (and me, and likely you too) was not only the terrifying complexity of most of the larger stations, but also how extraordinarily reminiscent the maps are of something you might find in a game, or perhaps a nightmare, although I think few games would dare approach the complexity of layout in their dungeons visible here.
An SM club, or “Domina School” as they call themselves, located in Shibuya has been shut down by police after area residents complained about the noise emanating from the establishment; three of the management have been arrested.
The filming of an adult video, on top of a truck in broad daylight, in the middle of Tokyo, led to arrests on suspicion of public obscenity; police say AV production company “Hot Entertainment” staged a lewd performance on the back of a large dump truck driven through central Shibuya, and have conducted raids on the company’s four Tokyo offices in response.
Though apparently passersby could not see the performance occurring on the bed of the truck, those in overlooking buildings were treated to quite the spectacle, which prompted the vigourous police response.
