On 9/9/05, cuso4@cuso4.com <cuso4@cuso4.com> wrote:
> > From: Dan Hollis <goemon@anime.net>
> >On Fri, 9 Sep 2005, Joe Petrow wrote:
> >> Next week's TV Champion show (Thursday 19:30 on TV Tokyo) will crown
> >> the "King of Akiba", the greatest otaku in Japan.
> >> http://www.tv-tokyo.co.jp/tvchamp/theme/theme.htm

An interesting show.  During the first round trivia stage they had
appearences by Inoue Kikuko (still 17 years old), Hisakawa Aya, and
Shimizu Ai (I think that's her name, I've never heard of her
before...)  They also had tours of maid cafes, trips to various
otaku's homes to show off their greatest treasures, and the finals
were taking "otaku hating women" and transforming them into various
characters, to be voted on by a jury of otaku peers.

I'm glad that the guy who cosplays as various women lost in the finals.  (^_^;)

  - Joe