Japan has always held me in awe for so long due to a variety of factors starting with The Mysterious Cities of Gold (MCOG), which I found out was a specific style of animation called anime. From that time, I eagerly devoured any manga and anime I could find. I was lucky to visit Japan in 2013 and had an amazing experience seeing the sights and sounds of Akihabara, the gaming and manga mecca. The area was still very busy but I wished I’d seen it in it’s prime before the economic bubble burst. Luckily, David Hoffman has shared his video from his time there in 1993 and the results are amazing. It’s a wonderful time capsule and waves of Fernweh (farsickness) washed over me as I felt homesick for a place I’ve been to but at a different time.

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