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more about #purikura Tom-Servo: Asian girls in glasses *swoon* I love ATLUS they're awesome sauce. more » Jesse in Japan: It costs 400 yen (a few cents above 4 dollars at the current exchange rate) per time to take purikura. I can't for the life of me figure out how it's ... more » FarmboyinJapan: The subtitle reads: 'This is the 5TH TIME THIS WEEK we've done purikura.' more » Sutekh_Slain: Are you sure the girls are japanese? They don't have blond hair. more » SolidOni: wait, Fatlus used to make sticker pictures? more » gique: considering this is a country that already has "women only" subway cars during rush hour, it's obvious that japan has plenty of rampant disrespectful ... more » Mister Jack urges you to buy Machinarium: For a minute I thought guys were photographing their junk or something. more » Baggerschmakle: And what's this about banning groups of guys? What if I want a take tons of photos with my hot guy friends. Brady Quinn is gonna be so pissed, I can t... more » maraxusofk: Do you know how many people in a country need to think it is ok to secretly take upskirt photoes in order for there to be actual signs telling people ... more » FarmboyinJapan: Purikura lights are a couple notches above supernova... As a result, when I get in the booth (although I haven't in years), even though I make sure to... more » denki: Ah, yes. "Kotaku, the Gamer's Guide" apparently also applies to warning pervs they might get caught now at a place unrelated to gaming. Which therefo... more » Chalkdust: "We want young women, the core users, to enjoy creating their favorite stickers without worrying about men's prying eyes, in addition to preventing s... more » NeVeRMoRe666: I don't understand though. What are these guys doing to get them banned from the machine...and how? Not like I'm looking into doing it or anything... ... more » Gyaruson: Too many guys posing with their schlongs? I figured Japan would be the most accepting of that kinda stuff. more » ph15h: I haven't seen one of those booths in years. -_- i remember going to the mall and my friend would go into one of those booths and take pictures with h... more » Koda89: Ouch.....Keitaro Urashima wouldn't like that... more » HK-47: Too many Moonings, I'd assume more » PaineAculeo: When a friend and I went to Japan a couple of years ago, we were about to use one of the huge (and bizarrely complicated) sticker machines in an arcad... more » CatboyMac's angry girlfriend: The world has become too pro-feminist. What about our rights? more » aw3str1k3r: I remember Attack of the Show talking about this when Kevin and Olivia were in Japan. With how these machines do by the high-school-girl demographic, ... more » -
#arcademania
Atlus Leaves Sticker Picture Business
In 1995, video game Atlus maker changed game centers forever when its first sticker picture (called "purikura" in Japanese) machine Print Club exploded onto the arcade scene. More » -
#purikura
No Men Allowed (For A Long Time Now...)
Girls only. Japan's Asahi Shimbun has an article about how Japanese arcades are banning men from sticker picture machines. Why'd they do that? More » -
#purikura
Get Your Own Customized Japanese Arcade Chocolates
Anyone who has been to a Japanese arcade has seen sticker booths. Popular with young girls, sticker pictures these days can be downloaded straight to cell phones. That, and put on chocolate wrappers. Yum.
