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.
The entrance to doom and horror
Warning: Pictures may be extremely disturbing to the uninitiated.
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 ￥200. Yay.
The lair
Right across the door is where I spend 90% of my waking hours, excluding school.
Generally I do my stuff on the main monitor. The secondary monitor is mostly for IRC, Winamp and some misc. widgets.
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.
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.
Louise stands above my Creative subwoofer.
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
I have no idea why the penguin is there. It just is.
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.
When she’s not on a holiday, Saber sits on my desk. Gao.
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 ￥2,000.
And now we come to the interesting part…the shelves…
The storage area belong Kasumi is where I dump everything that can’t be displayed. I should invest more in displayable stuff, like posters.
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…
My “study” desk. Do you see any studying materials around? I think not.
My laptop. It’s trying and failing to boot Linux off a Live CD. Sigh…
My phone charging. HARUHIISM FOREVER!!!
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.
Melons are nice
The princesses
The girls with guns
Setsuna-chan!!! Too bad the game sucked
This phone card costs more than any single poster
So…uh…yeah, I like Lacus
A brave issue of Megami gave up its life
Pretty bad picture due to the poor lighting (that or I just suck)
And finally…
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!
December 20th, 2006 at 4:56 pm
ERM MIND I ASK, where is your bed?
December 20th, 2006 at 4:57 pm
Real otakus don’t need beds.
December 20th, 2006 at 6:12 pm
LOL this is because he has two rooms. He’s a big boy now.
Btw your cabinets are nice but a horrible colour. And you have so much merchandise you gay fanboy!
December 20th, 2006 at 6:18 pm
“Real otakus don’t need beds” – so true, I usually sleep on the floor or the love sac that I have. Anyways, your room is nice. I especially like the green table/shelve/cabinet set. I could use one of those.
December 20th, 2006 at 6:24 pm
Hey I have those Da Capo mangas as well. I should take pictures of my room, once I get it cleaned up.
December 20th, 2006 at 6:43 pm
i sense neck aches in the morning
December 20th, 2006 at 6:46 pm
Lol, are you always this tidy or is it just for the pictures? ;)
(Err not that I’m that way. Nope, not at all.)
December 20th, 2006 at 6:54 pm
I am…always this tidy.
…
…
ORZ OK THAT WAS a LIE.
I just moved in remember? :P
December 20th, 2006 at 7:15 pm
Hi DarkMirage,
LOL at USB missile launcher. Now you need a USB targetting laser and you have an auto-defense system!
No one touches Mana! XD
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December 20th, 2006 at 7:18 pm
The color combination of your room is considerably *flattering* in otaku society …
December 20th, 2006 at 7:23 pm
Oooo I love your printer.
December 20th, 2006 at 7:29 pm
It’s the most organized otaku room I’ve ever seen.
December 20th, 2006 at 7:29 pm
my god…
December 20th, 2006 at 7:56 pm
which issue was the “brave” Megami sacrificed for the bunny girls poster? Anyway cool room and coms.
December 20th, 2006 at 8:01 pm
Never a good idea to put a subwoofer near a CPU, it will cause interference since subwoofers are never magnetically shielded.
December 20th, 2006 at 8:01 pm
October.
December 20th, 2006 at 8:05 pm
Damn, why does everyone have cool rooms! WHY WHY WHY!!! First tsubaki, then TJ now you! *whips out boxcutter* you know the rest..
December 20th, 2006 at 8:53 pm
Oh such a nice room, I wish I could have one like this (but i’m sooo messy ^^; )
December 20th, 2006 at 9:07 pm
Nice missile launcher there…now i know what to buy for my pc.
December 20th, 2006 at 9:13 pm
nice room…
but you still need to blog about Haruhi @ Gaza ;)
December 20th, 2006 at 9:16 pm
Very nice room setup! But good luck keeping it that clean for very long…. :)
December 20th, 2006 at 9:16 pm
M.D.: Pfft. Everyone else did that already.
December 20th, 2006 at 9:18 pm
Looks like just another regular HDB block bedroom. No offence, and not meaning to boast, but otakus like you need bedrooms like those you find in masionettes, like mine. That extra space always helps.
Two comps and a laptop. Now that I have to envy. Plus all the posters in your room.
I have a necklace with the Mahora logo, just like your keychain. Ironically, gotten from Comics Connection.
December 20th, 2006 at 10:25 pm
My dream room :D~~~
December 20th, 2006 at 10:52 pm
LOL … u bought tat USB missile launcher thingy … i was thinking of getting that too …
well not a bad setup .. just tat its too clean for an otaku … lol
maybe someday i will showcase mine too
December 20th, 2006 at 11:03 pm
wow, nice room! how i envy u. btw on a curious note i see you have only a coolermaster while the p3 is dead, are u running two monitors on the same cpu??
December 20th, 2006 at 11:06 pm
Those furnitures are the same as those I had last time though their of different colour :D
December 20th, 2006 at 11:11 pm
I fail as a otaku, my room is normal. LOL.
ALSO, Tama-nee wallscroll
December 20th, 2006 at 11:31 pm
@kazeto: yes, you can use two monitors for one pc if your graphic card support it
My room is normal though… :P
December 20th, 2006 at 11:32 pm
A much tidier room than mine! O_o
December 20th, 2006 at 11:36 pm
if you were to sell your room, how much would it cost in total? as in the whole comics and galges and H dvds and poster and figurines and computers and carpeting and computer accecersories and games in your room…In total, how much does it adds up? yOu are indeed singapore’s HARDO gay Otaku…We ARE PROUD OF YOU /~_~\
December 20th, 2006 at 11:47 pm
Nice room!
I wish I had more space…orz
December 20th, 2006 at 11:48 pm
The color of your shelf is so gar.
December 20th, 2006 at 11:53 pm
And now, we discover the reason DM never has any money :P
December 21st, 2006 at 12:14 am
Aye…
Tsubaki: not my choice. ;_;
December 21st, 2006 at 12:46 am
omfg Darkmirage you are damn real so many com :). hi may i ask your haruhi wallpaper the one in bunny suit is in which issue of megami ?? and your room got aircon ??
December 21st, 2006 at 12:46 am
oh ok i saw an aircon.
December 21st, 2006 at 12:54 am
Crikey, I need a job like yours.
December 21st, 2006 at 12:59 am
Chicken, I said it already. Megami October issue.
Jimbo, I am a professional hikikomori.
December 21st, 2006 at 1:19 am
Nice room. Just that it looks more like a study room than a bedroom, except that it doesn’t really look suitable for studying in.
I like the penguin though…Where did you get it?
December 21st, 2006 at 3:05 am
For health reasons, you should sell at least some of the stuff on those shelves.
December 21st, 2006 at 3:08 am
yea….you guys totally freak me out .
and all this time i thought i was too much into anime…guess i was wrong..you guys are something else….
definitely scared now ….
December 21st, 2006 at 4:14 am
Otaku + Geek = DM ?
Great combination however ~
December 21st, 2006 at 5:25 am
o_o if you see all your stuff missing it was not my fault o_O oh and also THOSE MISSLES ARENT GONNA STOP ME O_O SO DONT THINK ABOUT IT O_o you well regret posting this so badly you well hate Haruhi o_o all because i stole your anime,manga,computers,and posters!!!!!
MWAHAHAH
haha kidding i would never do that XD
December 21st, 2006 at 6:17 am
DarkMirage, where do you keep your pr0n.
December 21st, 2006 at 7:08 am
LOL @ missile launcher.
…
I hate you, now I want to buy stuff.
December 21st, 2006 at 8:51 am
that will be me someday! i just need to go to college and find a job ;D
December 21st, 2006 at 9:25 am
neat.
December 21st, 2006 at 10:14 am
dark mirage.. man ur name is familiar.are u from RI? or was from RI.
yichen??
December 21st, 2006 at 10:19 am
Yyi: It was given to me by a Linux promoter.
Beowulf: I can’t show you that. It’s where the thieves would go for first. ;_;
someone: That’d be my ex-classmate.
December 21st, 2006 at 10:27 am
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?
December 21st, 2006 at 12:57 pm
OMG. David Chan?
December 21st, 2006 at 3:08 pm
Holy cow…look at all those stuff. ‘Drools’…
December 21st, 2006 at 3:14 pm
oh well.. i guess im the only few guys that have a hikikomori room.. orz
December 21st, 2006 at 3:32 pm
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
December 21st, 2006 at 4:01 pm
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.
December 21st, 2006 at 4:10 pm
Light, are you saying I should flip that Feena poster over? The reverse side. (NSFW!!!)
December 22nd, 2006 at 12:07 am
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.
December 22nd, 2006 at 3:31 am
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.
December 22nd, 2006 at 4:44 am
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 >
December 22nd, 2006 at 6:02 am
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
December 22nd, 2006 at 10:59 am
Now it boots, but I can’t get my integraded WLAN working. Sigh…
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December 23rd, 2006 at 7:24 pm
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.
December 23rd, 2006 at 10:57 pm
Backtrack.
It’s a 903SH.
December 24th, 2006 at 2:16 am
rich guy… =D
love your room setup… and all those posters…
December 24th, 2006 at 4:26 am
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.
December 24th, 2006 at 1:11 pm
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?
December 29th, 2006 at 10:47 pm
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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January 6th, 2007 at 5:39 am
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.
January 23rd, 2007 at 3:00 am
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. :/
February 5th, 2007 at 8:25 am
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)
March 14th, 2007 at 1:09 pm
*puts up his own USB missile launcher* LOL Wish I had that.
April 14th, 2007 at 2:34 am
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?
April 14th, 2007 at 2:37 am
Must be very difficult to dust and maintain so many anime goods. How do you do it?
April 14th, 2007 at 2:39 am
Neutral colors really complement a large anime collection.
April 14th, 2007 at 2:48 am
Sugoi! I knew Singapore was on of the world’s cleanest countries, but I didn’t it also went for peoples homes.
April 15th, 2007 at 4:06 am
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 ^^)
April 18th, 2007 at 12:33 pm
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????
April 20th, 2007 at 4:51 am
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.
April 20th, 2007 at 1:51 pm
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 ^^
April 22nd, 2007 at 3:20 am
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.
May 4th, 2007 at 8:12 am
Where did you get that Feena poster?
June 5th, 2007 at 6:31 am
Dah my room is alot smaler and bigger mess, every thing els seams to be the same XP
June 5th, 2007 at 9:57 pm
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… >_
June 26th, 2007 at 8:24 pm
I’m jealous of you, man T_T i want all of ur stuffs :((
September 27th, 2007 at 10:42 am
: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:
November 15th, 2007 at 9:01 am
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!
December 20th, 2007 at 4:35 am
Gimme your room! Dx
So cool! so many manga and s much space! ^^ Lucky!
January 10th, 2008 at 6:21 am
NICE…
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April 6th, 2008 at 2:39 am
What is the name of the phone you are using?
May 6th, 2008 at 8:30 pm
Far too much Gundam Seed shit
not enough dakimakura
not enough Haruhiism
July 31st, 2008 at 5:35 pm
FRIGGIN AWESOME!!!!!!!
August 1st, 2008 at 1:56 am
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)??
August 17th, 2008 at 6:38 am
Your room is awesome! I am envious!
November 24th, 2008 at 5:03 am
your room is awesome, can’t fit too much in my room coz it’s way too small..haha!
January 7th, 2009 at 2:10 pm
Waitasec… you’re also from Singapore?! O_O
June 11th, 2009 at 5:15 pm
Wish i could trade rooms with you for a month …