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“I thought I woud work in a manga cafe.”

Edit The Beat 19 Oct 2015
§ The BBC has a short video interview with Attack on Titan creator Hajime Isayama, which I can't embed because BBC ... He says he thought he would end up working in a manga cafe because his art was considered so bad. This is the typical low self esteem expressed by cartoonists, so there is really no difference between manga and US comics. But who is laughing now, with AoT having sold some 52 million copies ... ....

The art of the urban nap: let's lose the stigma of public snoozing

Edit The Guardian 07 Jul 2015
The challenge of staying awake has only risen with the growth of cities, but few places in the world have found a way to incorporate napping into the culture. Could ‘sleeperies’ and ‘EnergyPods’ make nap breaks the new coffee breaks? ... Photograph ... Rockefeller Foundation ... Alamy ... Indeed, even with capsule hotels and inemuri available to them, surreptitious napping in internet and manga cafes is much more common in Tokyo, according to Steger....

ANIME NEWS: Manga on a plate at concierge-manned comic-book cafe

Edit Asahi News 15 Jun 2015
Are you a novice who doesn't know your "Dragon Ball" ......

Before 2020 Olympics, Here's How Tokyo Can Upgrade the Foreign Tourist Experience

Edit Huffington Post 02 Oct 2014
Wi-Fi Access ... Opening the already-extensive wireless grid to short-term users, or at the very least increasing the amount of cafes and hotels offering free Wi-Fi, would go along way toward making tourists feel more comfortable exploring the city ... Some Tokyoites simply stay up all night in bars or manga cafes until the trains start running again in the morning, but a more hospitable option would be some limited train and bus service ... ....

The first wave of the Japan boom

Edit The Japan News 19 Jul 2014
By Robert Reed / Special to The Japan NewsBooks called manga from Japan causing an international boom in things Japanese? That’s no news today—as a visit to a manga cafe in Paris or Los Angeles will tell you. But, how many of the people frequenting them know that the same thing—although with slightly different “manga”—happened well over a century ......

Tokyo nightlife: Night visions after dark

Edit Stuff 28 Apr 2014
These waitresses all possess the healthy dose of "kawaii", or cuteness, required of a manga lookalike ... Those who have lost track of time, who have forgotten the special way it moves at night in Tokyo, might end up at Manboo Manga Cafe, a comic-book store that offers private reading rooms in which lost souls can bunker down for the night, curling up on a couch until that first train is due to roll back out to the suburbs....
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