Manga Kissaten

[NeoNecroNomiCron]

[Caustic Saint]

The one you linked too looks pretty cool. I've never been to one, but I'm guessing you pay an hourly fee to get to hang out, watch movies, surf the net, read manga - or any combination of the above?

[Taro Toporific]

...manga kissa once or twice. So which do you like the best? And for what reasons....

Manga, bah. That's too much like work for me.
Now.... free drinks, net access, free IP phone, a decent couch overlooking Roppongi crossing---I can live that.

Geragera Net cafe
Charge: 100yen/15 min.
Night pack: 680yen/3h, 980yen/5h
Software: Play station and others

Services: Total 200 magazines and photo books in this shop!
*Brown-bagging is allowed.
*All drinks are free!
*International phone call for free

Access: A 1 minute walk from A3 exit of Roppongi station(Hibiya lines). Look for Almond on 1F.

[NeoNecroNomiCron]

The one you linked too looks pretty cool. I've never been to one, but I'm guessing you pay an hourly fee to get to hang out, watch movies, surf the net, read manga - or any combination of the above?

Yes they have an hourly rate, Some Kissas have a special offer like for 7 hours its 1500 yen. But I dont know if that one I said has a special offer as I just went there during the day. The do have a couples rate of 300 yen an hour, its pretty cool. and of course you get net access and all.

I only really like that one becasue the double rooms are so fucking huge.

[Caustic Saint]

Now.... free drinks, net access, free IP phone, a decent couch overlooking Roppongi crossing---I can live that.

Geragera Net cafe
Charge: 100yen/15 min.
Night pack: 680yen/3h, 980yen/5h
Software: Play station and others

Services: Total 200 magazines and photo books in this shop!
*Brown-bagging is allowed.
*All drinks are free!
*International phone call for free

Access: A 1 minute walk from A3 exit of Roppongi station(Hibiya lines). Look for Almond on 1F.

But do they have WiFi?

[NeoNecroNomiCron]

Charge: 100yen/15 min.
Night pack: 680yen/3h, 980yen/5h
Software: Play station and others

Services: Total 200 magazines and photo books in this shop!
*Brown-bagging is allowed.
*All drinks are free!
*International phone call for free

International phone calls for free might be worth investigating. But 100 / 15 mins, most Kissas are 200 an hour a little steep. Does it have playboy? Both the Kissas I mentioned have some very soft skin mags.

[Taro Toporific]

Now.... free drinks, net access, free IP phone, a decent couch overlooking Roppongi crossing---I can live that.
Access: A 1 minute walk from A3 exit of Roppongi station(Hibiya lines). Look for Almond on 1F.

But do they have WiFi?

WiFi works everywhere around Ropongi Crossing in my car: at least 4 "open" access points during the late afternoon--early evening.

[NeoNecroNomiCron]

Taro I checked out that cafe... its pretty ok esp. the free calls. they also have a cheeper rate if you stay an hour or longer.

Anybody have other suggestions. It seems not to many here are into manga kissas'.

[kamome]

Dude, I suggested a long time ago that you should take your chick to a manga kissa. Are you now claiming that it was your idea all along???

[NeoNecroNomiCron]

Dude, I suggested a long time ago that you should take your chick to a manga kissa. Are you now claiming that it was your idea all along???

No but now I am totaly adicted. Chick or no chick. I did know there we manga cafes but I just didnt put 2 and 2 together.

My quest now is to find the best one lol...

[Taro Toporific]

As most you are probably inseparable from you Japanese lifestyles. I am sure you have found yourselves in a manga kissa once or twice. ...

Sheeeeeeee-it.

Law revision eyed to charge royalty on rental books
Monday, October 27, 2003 at 04:53 JST / Kyodo Press
TOKYO —The Cultural Affairs Agency plans to revise the Copyright Law to allow authors of cartoons, novels and other books to collect royalties on rented books, agency sources said Sunday. The agency expects the measure to take effect as early as January 2005...

[shoeface]

hey NeoNecroNomiCron...?
Where'd you get your avatar from?
Know where's there's any more like that?

[Caustic Saint]

hey NeoNecroNomiCron...?
Where'd you get your avatar from?
Know where's there's any more like that?

Where'd you get yours? I'm the resident Mashimaro fan on here!

http://www.fuckedgaijin.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4910

Mashimaro! #1 in Korea and working hard to be #1 in Japan.

SEE?!?

No matter. You can help spread the gospel.

[Taro Toporific]

You might want to avoid kissa for a while...

Police target foreign sex shop workers in visa crackdown
Mainichi Shimbun, Japan - nov 17
... 101 foreigners at 15 sex shops and three Internet cafes used by Chinese people in
Tokyo, officers found that 28 of them had been working despite entering Japan ...

[Taro Toporific]

You might want to avoid kissa for a while...
Police target foreign sex shop workers in visa crackdown
Mainichi Shimbun, Japan - nov 17...

Runaway arrested over Internet cafe thefts
The Yomiuri Shimbun 2008Sep04
An 18-year-old runaway has been arrested on suspicion of stealing from customers at an Internet cafe in Sotokanda in Tokyo's Akihabara district, the Metropolitan Police Department said Tuesday.
The MPD suspects that the youth stole 550,000 yen from at least 20 sleeping customers at an Internet cafe in Sotokanda where he had been living since May. ....

[vaultdweller25]

I will tell you of my Manga Kissaten experience. I was in Sapporo about 3 weeks before the summit started. Everybody was so god damn jumpy already it was insane. I had already been stopped by the police about 5 times in Hokkaido by this point and I was already well and truly sick of them harassing me.

I was on holiday at this point so I did not have a computer to get on the internet. So what do I do? I went to the "Media Cafe POPEYE" right in the center of town (I got a card from there so I still know the name). As I walked in I could see the unsure look the staff gave me. Maybe I was the first gaijin that had been in there, but I kinda find it hard to beleieve. She told me I had to sign up in order to use a computer, and in order to sign up I needed to produce a form of ID. I was quite hungover and not really up for all this bureaucratic bullshit, but I needed to use the internet, so I grudgingly handed over my alien registration card.

AT first the girl looked at it taking down the details normally. She then paused and asked the manager to come. AT the time I thought it was cause this was the first Alien Registration card she had gotten. Well the manager look at the card for a long while. I got impaitent and asked if I could use the computer now and he said "yes". I sat down at my seat, began using the internet only to be bothered by the magaer one more time. He asked if I would show him my alien registration card again. I was kinda pissed by this point, as usually I just go in to a Manga Kissten, sit down and away I go, without any of this registering crap. Nevertheless I gave it to him one more time, in hindsight I should have known something was up, but I just thought they forgot to take a detail down or something. The manager was really polite about it all so I had no idea what he was up to.

He came back about 5 minutes later and handed me back the card saying thankyou. I continued to use the computer. Five minutes later, two police officers turn up behind me demanding to see my alien registration card. I asked why and they said they had reason to suspect I had overstayed my Visa. I soon realized what the fucking sneaky manager had gone and done. I had the updated dates of my visa on the back of my alien registration card. They are clearly written there on the back and have an offical stamp and even have some holographic tape over em to make sure its not a fake. The manager had only looked at the front of my card, seeing the expired date, jumped the gun and called the cops on me.

The police soon realized the mistake had been made and one actually made a comment to the other how embarassing this was for the business. They were out the door in a minute. I dont think the staff members understood why I had not been arrested as when I walked to the front counter a free man the girl and the manager retreated backwards a little. Maybe it was the anger on my face that was very clearly evident. They apologised, only once, because I proceeded out the door before they could again. I think I would have seriously injured one of them, or more probably myself, if I had stuck around.

[Behan]

I will tell you of my Manga Kissaten experience...

What a bunch of tossers! Why did they need to take it upon themselves to be immigration police?

[Mock Cockpit]

More fool you for showing the jumped up little cunt ya gaijin card. Show him your TASPO card and tell him to fuck off.

[omae mona]

Maybe it was the anger on my face that was very clearly evident. They apologised, only once, because I proceeded out the door before they could again. I think I would have seriously injured one of them, or more probably myself, if I had stuck around.

How angry are you? Especially given the fact that's Debito's neck of the woods, I have a hunch he would be THRILLED if you passed the story on to him. This is a pretty typical headline item for his home page, and he usually follows up by contacting the business's owner, threatening to out them in the newspaper, and trying to elicit a formal written apology. He did this recently with another business .

[Greji]

How angry are you? Especially given the fact that's Debito's neck of the woods, I have a hunch he would be THRILLED if you passed the story on to him. This is a pretty typical headline item for his home page, and he usually follows up by contacting the business's owner, threatening to out them in the newspaper, and trying to elicit a formal written apology. He did this recently with another business .

I like Mock C's idea better. Don't show 'em shit....

[Visitor K]

What a bunch of tossers! Why did they need to take it upon themselves to be immigration police?

i dont remember the name or if it actually went into effect, but when i still lived over there, i remember talk of their being some sort of "conspiracy law" being passed in japan where if someone is knowledgeable of a crime and dont report it that they also will be guilty.
im not trying to justify anything, i think its a bullshit law, im just saying maybe the owners had that on their mind.