the post office to mail off a PSP (thanks, eBay!), but I have to stop by Tokyu
Hands to get some styrofoam peanuts. They don’t open ’til 10, and got there
about 15 minutes early. No big
deal.
Except for the gigantic
friggin’ line.
Now, I know Tokyu
Hands sells some nifty stuff, but this is ridiculous. There had to have been at
least 200 people lined up outside the store. That many people can only mean one
thing:
LIMITED
EDITION!
Limited Edition what,
I had no idea. I went off to find a drink and came back shortly after opening
time. Thankfully, the line was just for whatever it was people were after, and
not for store entry. I went in to get my peanuts and saw a special register set
up near the front of the store. The long line ended (began?) here, so I got to
see what all the fuss was
about.
Hello Kitty phone
charms…
As somebody who camped
out overnight (in December) to get a stash of PSPs, I have no real room to judge
those who line up for whatever they’re into – but I really don’t get this one.
They seemed to be Kitty-chans themed on two pop stars. There was one that looked
all sunny and poppy, and one that looked almost goth. Knowing nothing about
J-pop, I couldn’t even begin to guess who these people were, or why they
warranted their own special Kitty phone
charms.
I’m not sure of the people
lined up where J-pop fans or Kitty fans or some merged subset of the two groups.
What I do know is that whoever they were, there were quite a few of them. After
I’d finished at the post office I passed by Tokyu Hands again on my way back to
the station, and the line was even longer than it had been at
10.
And it was now
11….