My Otaku Room
Danny Choo has been encouraging folks to post an image of their Otaku room. So I decided to join the bandwagon and start taking photos of my Otaku sanctuary. ^^
When you enter married life, figures, gundams, and other toys will not be welcomed in the bedroom. ^^ Trust me, even if your wife is an otaku, it’s very unlikely she would want your anime posters hanging in the bedroom wall. Besides you wouldn’t want any other distraction there other than your wife. ^^ So naturally you’d have to keep all of those anime goodies and merchandise in another room.
Originally this room was supposed to be an office/den or library, however it has long been overrun by gundams and figures. ^^
The top shelves are where I keep recently built Gundams. A tip: keep them high up to make sure children visitors can’t reach them. ^^
Stuff beside my computer are recently opened figures or built gundams that I play work with while on my desk. ^^;
Win Chan, first saw her on Danny San’s site, wanted her but couldn’t find her, until recently when my wife got her for me via Amazon. ^^ Yatta!!! Btw another figure she got me way back was Aya Natsume.
Halogen lights on display shelves may have seem like a good idea at the time, but I soon realized tis not so good for PVC Figures. ^^; so I keep them off unless there’s a visitor or if I wanted to take a picture of the room. ^^
And yes that’s a My Melody at the bottom of the picture. My wfe has her running around the house like a rabbit. Much to my dis…*ouch* (>.<*)
My Melody Gashapon ball capture technique…My Melody I choose you! pika pikachu! LOL.
Top cabinets still full of unopened GFFs and kits. Gotta find time to build them these days. ^^; Underneath is a foldable sofa bed, just in case the misus throws me out and I have to find company with my gundam…just kidding. In case we have guests who like to be surrounded with gunpla and figures. ^^
Not all me gunpla and figures are here in this room though, left a few up in the attic. Was supposed to convert the area to a living room, unfortunately it too has been overrun, but this time by wedding gifts. hHaven’t disposed of them all yet. Btw if anyone reading this gave us a wedding present… not to worry, your stuff isn’t up here in the attic. ^^; orz
May 23rd, 2008 at 3:41 pm
lovely! i love all those gundams on display. when do u keep all the boxes?
May 23rd, 2008 at 4:00 pm
hey Gordon, I usually bin the boxes after I open them or complete a kit. although my wife would sometimes cut out the boxart and put it on the desk. she says it seems like a waste to throw away something that looks that nice. ^^
May 23rd, 2008 at 5:02 pm
I swear to have a separate room for figures and other geek stuff when I have my own house… room looks good…got the office feel btw.
May 23rd, 2008 at 8:19 pm
A really nice room. And it IS a good idea to put them onto high places. My brother destroyed my RX-93´s head a few days ago. Oh man. Time to move out and get myself an apartement.
Dont worry, Nu. Daddy is here. You are safe now. ;_;
May 23rd, 2008 at 10:12 pm
marvin, i agree with your wife. don’t throw the boxes away!
May 23rd, 2008 at 10:49 pm
I would like to be your guest and sleep surrounded by all the gunpla and figures ^^
Nice display you have, I like those gundams on top shelf.
May 23rd, 2008 at 10:50 pm
Awesome room. XD I love your display cabinet.
May 24th, 2008 at 12:07 am
Samejima, thanks
Ash, sorry for your lost. hope you were able to fix it.
Lsio, lol thanks, let me know when you’re in the neighboorhood.
Snacks, Thank you.
May 24th, 2008 at 9:50 am
I agree with your wife too. I keep the boxes too =X
May 24th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
nice displays man! more displays.. means more cabinets XD
yeah i agree with your wife too
am also keeping the boxes, tho am planning to cut out the main box art and display it as posters
or sumthin…
May 28th, 2008 at 4:36 pm
lol hey guys, my wife is giving me the “I-told-you-so” look. ^^;
June 2nd, 2008 at 2:26 am
Your home-office is amazingly neat! Makes me want to clean my room.
See, women do know best!
June 2nd, 2008 at 8:59 am
mars, lol ^^ and thank you
June 4th, 2008 at 9:23 pm
Your Otaku room is wonderful. My girlfriend said that we should also invest in glass cabinets to display all my units. But she insists that when we get married and have kids I should let them play with my kits or all of them will go out of the house. I didn’t say anything back then, just took-in a big gulp.
Yes, marvin I too do not throw away my boxes.
Hope to see your sanctuary some time soon.
June 4th, 2008 at 10:17 pm
Kaio_enj, you can always give them the cheap SD gundams instead. ^^ then again gundam kits aren’t exactly child friendly and may turn out to be a choking hazard for younger kids. (that’s actually the excuse I give my wife). ^^
July 2nd, 2008 at 9:59 pm
Kind of late but you could always say the paint is toxic (I use lacquer, so there’s my excuse ^^;). If it were me though I’d be worried about my PVCs since those things don’t have polycap joints (I won’t even let my friends touch my Saber D=
July 3rd, 2008 at 10:39 am
lol good point. ^^