Tokyo's Latest Governor Wants To Convert The City Into 'Anime Land'

The newly elected Governor of Tokyo, Yuriko Koike, is keen to celebrate the medium of anime and turn the city into a veritable “anime land”.

The timing of this, from my standpoint, is a bit surreal. As only yesterday, I was hoping that someone would create Tokyo Otaku Land from the seminal Gainax anime Otaku no Video (trailer shown below). Well, it seems the first woman governor of Tokyo has a similar idea, though on a far bigger scale.

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