Reader Sam points us to a bizarre new service being offered in Japan for lonely girl gamers. The Secret Otaku Support Commission rents out women knowledgeable in video game culture to lonely girl gamers with a yen to chat it up with one of their own.

"We're an otaku dispatch agency that caters exclusively to a female clientele," Seiichi Hirokawa, the creator and operator of the Secret Otaku Support Commission, tells Cyzo. "Many women otaku don't have other women otaku to talk to and they can get pretty lonely. That's where we come in."

The service charges 12,000 yen for a 2 1/2-hour session.

Support group for female otaku offers Rent-A-Nerd service [Mainichi Daily News]

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