a superhero
My, how the mighty have fallen. Yesterday, I saw this superhero putting on a show just outside Akihabara Station, despite the police dragnet that’s supposed to have driven off all street performers from the area after a case of indecent exposure. It didn’t last long obviously.
Actually I first this man over a year and a half ago. He was on stage at CLUB GOODMAN, the “live house” in Akihabara that seems to attract the city’s oddest bands. Then, he was the back dancer for a popular girl duo dressed in pink whose fans – a crowd of geeky men also in pink – danced like Shakers on speed with plush puppets on their hands. It’s something called otagei, and our superhero was the group’s sargeant-at-arms, leading the men in their dance and keeping the peace among them (one or two guys came brandishing home-made light sabres).
Now he’s out of the street, going it alone it seems, with a routine of his own creation. A gaggle of high school boys looked on briefly, grew bored and moved on. Link