13 “…adding ‘Kabuki-cho’ to the word angel.

” Kabuki-cho is major red-

light district in Shinjuku, Tokyo, and is generally considered a seedy area.

14 “…ask Santa for Love and Berry cards?” Oshare Majo: Love and Berry
(Stylish Witch, Love and Berry) is a trading card arcade game. Trading
card arcade games use physical, collectable cards that can then be inserted
into arcade machines to play. Love and Berry has fashion as a theme, and
the main target market consists of little girls.

15 “…why did middle schoolers like Yokado so much?” Ito-Yokado is one

of the larger general merchandise chains in Japan and is a part of Seven &
I Group, which is the parent company of the much more familiar (for
Americans) Japanese chain, Seven Eleven.

16 “Go to Mother Farm or something.” Mother Farm is a farm-themed

amusement park in Chiba.

17 “…it’s Chiba’s thing to obsess over being Chiba-ish in weird ways…”

The New Tokyo Airport, the Tokyo Game Show (an annual videogame
expo), and the Tokyo German Village (an amusement park) are all
actually in Chiba. Chiba is right next to Tokyo and is often just treated
like an extension of Tokyo, thus the inferiority complex.

18 “…the high-class residential area Chibarly Hills…” Chibarly Hills is a

nickname for a wealthy residential district that is actually called One
Hundred Hills.

19 “…the center of a certain type of Chiba subculture.” Animate and Tora

no Ana are retail chain stores for anime, manga, and otaku goods.
Animate leans more toward merchandise while Tora no Ana sells
doujinshi, but there is a lot of overlap.

20 “…my ghost is whispering to me…” These famous words are a quote

from the film and anime series Ghost in the Shell. Motoko Kusanagi, the

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