Love Live Sunshine‘s main orange-haired protagonist Takami Chika hasn’t been forgotten with the conclusion of her anime as hordes of idol fanatics on social media shared fan-made illustrations, screenshots, shrine photos and official art of the girl to wish the nonexistent idol a happy birthday.
This practice of 2D birthday revelry is still going strong, if this bombardment on social media were any indication:
Happy Birthday Chika! I do hope you start your journey into becoming a Pokemon Master. That way we can battle and be friends.
I want to pump this carrot-top full of cum while she presses her soles on my face
dont waste ur money like this!
Yahoo! Diet-Coke Honoka is now 22 and legal!
But still not as Beautiful/Hot/Cute as Original Honoka.
Japanese otaku are on a another level when it comes to merch collecting.
Merch is a *lot* cheaper in Japan than it is here. For instance, those nesoberi plushes? The small ones tend to be $15-25 here, but you can find them in Japanese stores for 500-900 yen. And the 40cm ones are $30-45 here, but you can find them in Japanese stores for like 800-1500 yen.
I live in Japan and I can tell you that not only are those goods used (and who knows *how* they’ve been used), but our salaries here are also way lower. Good luck reaching $50,000/year here, even in IT.