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Moving south. On foot again. Bic Camera is around her somewhere. There's a line. Must be over 100 people here, 120 at most. They're not waiting for a chance to buy the PS3, but a chance to enter a lottery to get a chance to buy the PS3. (In the span of the next hour, the line will grown to a couple hundred.)
The guy at the front, with bad teeth and dry lips, tells me he got there at 2:30am.
I'm coming up on Sofmap in Den Den Town. There's a line, doubled up, of about eighty. At the front of the line, there are a handful of guys with orange hair, pierced faces, playing cards. Otaku, these are not.
To not interrupt their game, I ask a pimply-faced guy right behind them what time he arrived. Half past six he says. That's when I see the hat wearing college students. One's in a baseball cap, the other in a bucket hat.
"Hey," they say.
Hey.
Likewise, they're just soaking up the atmosphere. "It's like a festival", Baseball points out.
"Seems like everyone who wanted at console went to Yodobashi Camera," Bucket says. "There really aren't that many here."
Comparatively, yeah. He's right.
"Have you checked out Yamada Denki?"
No, actually.
"You should. You'll be shocked what you see. It's sad, really."
And with that, I'm off.
