“Osaka, Japan. This year, like in the past, the streets are closed off for pedestrians. By that, I mean cosplayers, photographers, and those keen to absorb the festivities.”

What streets? All streets? Some streets? Only the ones in Yao City?

Where? What? Who?

It’s a good thing this crappy company is going down the drain…

The clutch was shit, and the shift point was way too high. The gears were rubbery and lifeless - I literally couldn’t even feel what gear I had engaged into. The steering was soft and wooden. The chassis felt loose.

I too test drove one and came away very unimpressed.

“Visual Garbage”

wut.

“Waiting to lure the women into the host club.”

“...a bunch of fans dressed up for a celebration that shut down some streets in a city”

“...busy Osaka streets are shut down completely in celebration of Japanese nerddom. That’s awesome.

... and was a supremely shitty FWD wagon that had the build quality of a potato crisp.

... Kotaku is a geek culture site?

Holy shit, how far up the authors ass can you go? Can you french his throat from behind? I wouldn’t be surprised.

Yeah... that’s considered a pretty long distance by Japanese standards.

To give you some example of how long that is, I once walked with my friend from Shinsaibashi to Tennoji and back again, and she remarked that it was the farthest she had ever walked in her life.

In terms of Japanese distance, Shinsaibashi is miles away from Nipponbashi. Also, 20 years ago is a LONG time ago. A lot has changed since then - Shinsaibashi is now Osaka’s “5th Avenue/Yorkville/Beverly Hills”.

Looking pretty dry in here, now that Gawker Media may go belly up.

By the way, this is total sarcasm. I’ve never done that.

Guess this is my last chance to get cigars from Cuba, travel back to my home country of Canada, and then bring them down to the USA to sell them on the black market for 8 times the amount I paid for them.

Shit.

This deserves more stars.

Actually, because the author doesn’t seem to know anything about Japan (otherwise he wouldn’t post such a blindsided statement), I’ll elaborate.

In Osaka, people do not like Otaku’s. The majority of the populace actually abhors Otaku’s. That’s why they relegate them to one small section of the city south of Dotonbori…

5 figures is expensive for a restoration?

Actually, I do agree. The humped wheel wells suggest a shape that is a skin of sorts over the mechanical bits, which would make sense to reduce weight.

WEABOO WEABOO WEABOO!

Ebisu is in a highly radiated zone. There’s a reason it’s so cheap.

Used to be the premiere drifting circuit. Now a few others have eclipsed it.