A look into an otaku’s room

As some people might know, I just moved house a few days ago. I finally finished unpacking today and I decided to take some pictures.

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The entrance to doom and horror

Warning: Pictures may be extremely disturbing to the uninitiated.

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Rei and Mana

Turn right (although no one in the right mind would do that since you’d be facing the wall) after stepping through the door and you’ll see two large Evangelion posters that identify me as a level 12 Eva fanboy. Mana is hawt. That’s a not-for-sale promotional poster for the PS1 version of Girlfriend of Steel. I found it at Mandarake Shibuya for ï¿¥200. Yay.

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The lair

Right across the door is where I spend 90% of my waking hours, excluding school.

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Generally I do my stuff on the main monitor. The secondary monitor is mostly for IRC, Winamp and some misc. widgets.

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The rig below is a Pentium 3 with a dead HDD. I was using it to run Linux, but it’s dead now. At least until I move a HDD over.

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A Coolmaster case. It’s so cool that the PVC figures above it have not melted yet. In fact, it’s so cool that there’s a penguin sitting on it.

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Louise stands above my Creative subwoofer.

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Behind is the promotional poster for Maaya Sakamoto‘s “Kazemachi JET” single. I have the one for Yunagi LOOP too, but it was damaged when I took it down during the packing. I failed as a Maaya fanboy. orz

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I have no idea why the penguin is there. It just is.

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My wallet’s coin compartment has a huge hole, so I took out all my coins. That’s a Mahora school crest on the keychain.

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When she’s not on a holiday, Saber sits on my desk. Gao.

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Behind Saber is a wallscroll of Tama-nee. It’s a promotional item from Messe Sanoh that came with the limited edition copy of ToHeart2 XRATED. I bought it from Lashinbang in Ikebukuro for ï¿¥2,000.

And now we come to the interesting part…the shelves…

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The storage area belong Kasumi is where I dump everything that can’t be displayed. I should invest more in displayable stuff, like posters.

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I seem to be missing some books. Oh well. Maybe they got lost in one of the bajillion boxes during the move. Hopefully they’ll turn up one day…

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My “study” desk. Do you see any studying materials around? I think not.

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My laptop. It’s trying and failing to boot Linux off a Live CD. Sigh…

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My phone charging. HARUHIISM FOREVER!!!

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My HP printer and, uh, some CDs… Okay this is getting lame. Let’s wrap up with some shots of the posters and pencil boards that are haphazardly pasted all over the place.

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Melons are nice

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The princesses

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The girls with guns

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Setsuna-chan!!! Too bad the game sucked

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This phone card costs more than any single poster

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So…uh…yeah, I like Lacus

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A brave issue of Megami gave up its life

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Pretty bad picture due to the poor lighting (that or I just suck)

And finally…

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FEEEEEEEEEEENA!!!!!!

Everyone knows that I have a thing against displaying posters with folds, but Feena is an exception. :3

BTW my room is defended by a USB missile launcher. So don’t even think about it!

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View the rest of the pictures in the gallery.

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100 Responses to A look into an otaku’s room

  1. RDrake says:

    My room is pretty normal, though that’s something that’s slowly but surely changing.

    Oooh, USB missile launcher…

    @elohir: Guess that when I really fix up a nice room, I shouldn’t let you see it?

  2. Aerokinesis says:

    OMG. David Chan?

  3. NewZX says:

    Holy cow…look at all those stuff. ‘Drools’…

  4. Jun.L/ says:

    oh well.. i guess im the only few guys that have a hikikomori room.. orz

  5. Ronin says:

    I LOL’d like LOL-tan when I saw the USB missile launchers. So that’s how the goods get defended from evil hands. XD

  6. Light says:

    You people and your computers. I barely have one and that’s more than enough to handle. I used to have that HP printer… until it died.

    Anyways, true it is scary to the uninitiated… that or they think it’s a little girl’s room what with all the cute little girl pics (not counting the more suggestive figurines and oics of course.

  7. DarkMirage says:

    Light, are you saying I should flip that Feena poster over? The reverse side. (NSFW!!!)

  8. AK says:

    http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b272/XDKang/AK007.jpg

    Not the best picture of it, but it’s good enough a comparison to your keychain.

  9. Mac says:

    Honestly, I’m most amazed by that Megami poster. North American magazine poster inserts have impossible to remove creases. Looks like I’ll be spending even more for overseas shipping.

  10. Very nice room and a great collection. The USB missile is a nice touch =D. I wish I was able to get even a bit of a collection/collectables going orz. I hate not understanding Japanese and being in the US >

  11. ddaedalus says:

    I took a look at your laptop. Try forcing acpi=off when booting. And be sure to use a new kernel. And yeah, cool room :P

  12. DarkMirage says:

    Now it boots, but I can’t get my integraded WLAN working. Sigh…

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  14. TP says:

    I was thinking, “This room would be perfect for my girlfriend, sans the posters/figurines.” I hope you aren’t gar. I have seen enough gars in my real-life lifetime.

    BTW, what distro are you using to boot the LiveCD? I want to find out more.

    As for the handphone, it looked similar to my 902SH Vodafone, except that mine’s black. Please confirm, over.

  15. DarkMirage says:

    Backtrack.

    It’s a 903SH.

  16. soonkiong says:

    rich guy… =D
    love your room setup… and all those posters…

  17. Syock says:

    Are you still in Singapore? That room no longer has a characteristic of a singaporean room, except for the fact the interiors are bright. I wonder who funds your crazy collection though. I pray that you won`t become a hikikomori like me.

  18. Koren says:

    I remembered I had sold off some of the bedroom set units in the past.

    Pretty nick and spacious when the parents buy the unit set for their children. :)

    Take off the 3′ single bed, which is always noisy if u r too ‘demanding’ using the bed while not long enough for those over 170cm, it makes a nice wall shelve set. Better still, have the ‘leather’ bed head remove it shall be better!

    Strongly ‘apalling’ by the choice of the bedroom set colour. Wasn’t the set have a deep blue colour for choice?

    Anyway, I like your PC table, I would get one myself in future.
    Does your table setup have any PC heat ventilation problem?
    With door close, air-con down, will u sweat to flood and cpu hot as volcano?

  19. someone says:

    ah, chang xi?
    figures.

    nice room u got there anyway. haha, like fantasy room.

    how do u clean ur room with all those stuff ard,

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  21. Haku says:

    Man, you must be rich. PS-Awesome posters, but how did you manage to get that “bunnies” poster out of the Megami Magazine and eliminate the creases.

  22. illusion says:

    shit, i hate living in this shitty country (Norway), it’s nearly impossible to get any good (or new) wallscrolls/posters/anime merchandise in general. I envy you, you bitch. :/

  23. Rufus says:

    illusion, norway is ranked #1 in human development index and like GDP per capita…etc. Don’t you dare call it shitty. Imagine living in say africa for example.. then u can say something like that.

    Oh and nice room btw, the aqua green furniture totally ruins it in my opinion but you probably wont be changing it anytime soon (otakus dont give a damn about furniture)

  24. AOforever1 says:

    *puts up his own USB missile launcher* LOL Wish I had that.

  25. Kousaka says:

    Seems like everyone is a Feena Fam Earthlight fan. I have the dakimakura cover. DM, if you’re wondering where to get one, you should order Dengeki G Magazine Vol. 6. It covers alot of content on Yoake Mae Yori Ruri Iro Na.

    PS do people in Singapore speak English?

  26. Kousaka says:

    Must be very difficult to dust and maintain so many anime goods. How do you do it?

  27. Kousaka says:

    Neutral colors really complement a large anime collection.

  28. Kousaka says:

    Sugoi! I knew Singapore was on of the world’s cleanest countries, but I didn’t it also went for peoples homes.

  29. Kelvin says:

    LOL i wish i had THAT FEENA POSTER but i am still young =( cant order via net or whatsoever and btw we speak english… (saw that create zen V i haf the same thing ^^)

  30. GuyJin says:

    How the heck do you hang up your posters? I tried using this magnet method to hang them but the magnets were simply too weak and they’d end up dropping the poster…

    I don’t see any thumbtacks on your posters… Or magets… And I don’t see any tape either, and they certainly aren’t framed… So how????

  31. Kousaka says:

    Guyjin: If magnets didn’t cut it for you, you should buy the sticky squares that come in a 12 pack. They are used to hang up posters without tearing them and keep them from shifting. They work well. You can get them at Wal-Mart, at the posters section.

  32. GuyJin says:

    Nice, thanks for the reply. What do you think about those sticky pads in comparison to the adhesive putty? I saw both and I was wondering which would be the best overall. Seems like the putty can come off the poster easily (That’s a plus for me since some of my posters are double sided, with an image on either side), but some people told me they leave a slight stain if left for an extremely long period of time.

    Are those sticky pads also removable from the poster itself, or are they more like a permanent fixture?

    Thanks for the info, love your room btw ^^

  33. Kousaka says:

    I would choose the sticky squares over the putty any day. They work very well. They do not stain, as I have been using them for quite some time and they are easily removed without damaging the poster. Also, you can eliminate some its stickiness by aplying some moisture or rubbing off some of the bonding material. In addition, they are super easy to apply and bond to any surface that isnt wet.

  34. Kousaka says:

    Where did you get that Feena poster?

  35. Faro90 says:

    Dah my room is alot smaler and bigger mess, every thing els seams to be the same XP

  36. Kisa says:

    I just ….. got PWNED.

    OMGS… from now on DarkMirage-sama will be my role model … … O.o…

    Urk… I just tidied my room and anime stuff take up less than one drawer in the room… >_

  37. aoi_sora9x says:

    I’m jealous of you, man T_T i want all of ur stuffs :((

  38. yuki takahashi says:

    :D my room is like that exept its covered with anime posters considering im from japan and 4 me all that stuff is easy to atain.I’m happy about that. Even though im emo.D:

  39. darkz says:

    haha, everything i got abt anime is only in my comp, nv had chance to do crazy stuff like these…and i prefer to watch my anime on bed XD
    my bed is only 30 cm from the comp, so it’s the the very first thing i see whenever i open my eyes in the morning.

    (The best place to keep ur H..*cough* is within the comp) XD
    get the 1TB HD and se how many u can keep, HAHA!

  40. Au-chan says:

    Gimme your room! Dx
    So cool! so many manga and s much space! ^^ Lucky!

  41. Aion calamity says:

    NICE…

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  43. NekoRobin says:

    What is the name of the phone you are using?

  44. lol dongs says:

    Far too much Gundam Seed shit
    not enough dakimakura
    not enough Haruhiism

  45. †§eraphim†~ says:

    FRIGGIN AWESOME!!!!!!!

  46. Anto-kun says:

    OMG, i’m in love with your room *0*
    AWESOME!

    Can you tell me the nome of the doll who’s on the same shelf of Meg (Burst Angel)??

  47. Kiniti says:

    Your room is awesome! I am envious!

  48. oniman says:

    your room is awesome, can’t fit too much in my room coz it’s way too small..haha!

  49. Den-O says:

    Waitasec… you’re also from Singapore?! O_O

  50. Encodia says:

    Wish i could trade rooms with you for a month …

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