>>51010702Whenever I went to an arcade in Japan the only thing I did was take purikura wawa. I always walked by – you know, in arcades it’s usually when you walk through the – the gaming portion, you eventually end up in, uh, at some purikura booths wawa. The gaming things, they always look fun but I never really, um, take time to use them because the reason why I’m usually in there is because me and my friend usually want to take purikura wawa. Whoever I’m with, usually a girl, we usually want to take purikuras to commemorate it wawa.
“What is it wawa?” It’s like a photo booth, but like, a cute one where, um, the machine will kind of, like, “cutify” you by making your eyes much bigger and your skin much shinier, and um, your legs much longer and it’s really cute, and then you – after you take the photos – it’s perfect lighting, by the way – you move over to the other side and you start decorating and there’s a limited time, and then, and then, after decorating with, like, stickers and shiny letters and all that, you, eh, and choosing layouts, there’s, like, a lot of fancy cute layouts, really cute graphic design, and you go to the other side of the booth, and then you wait a little bit and it gets printed out while you’re typing in your email address and it will, like, then send it to your email address and you also get the – get it, like, on a strip, like in a proper photo booth, and then you cut it, then usually after it’s printed out, you would both go to the table, and there’s usually, like, one or two table close to the purikura booth with a scissor, but the scissor is, like, um, on a chain to the, to the, um, table, and then y-you’re like “Okay who – do you wanna cut it, or should I cut it wawa?” and then you usually go “Ah, I’ll cut it, it’s okay wawa” then you cut it really nicely through the middle, and then you say “Uh, I think this one is yours wawa” and then “I’ll take the one that’s mine and I’ll put into my, into my, into my purse wawa” and then we’re both happy, and then you’re like “Yay! Look how we’re looking really cute wawa! Only on those purikuras because they make us a million times cuter wawa”.
Actually, you know what wawa? As a, as a foreigner, it makes you look really crazy cause those purikura booths, they’re usually, like, um, um, programmed in a way that they look really good on – on - on Asian features, face - facial features, um, but as a foreigner going in there, it always makes me look really really fucking crazy, like a fucking alien wawa. Me and my foreigner friends would always laugh about how ridiculous we look wawa. And then sometimes you can, like, choose, like how – how much it’s gonna “alienate” you, like, there’s, like, options like “natural” and even natural is fucking ridiculous but it’s so cute I still like it, yeah wawa. Anyway, I have a lot of purikura, I have, like, a box of all of my purikura that I took, uh, over the course of the past many, many years and it’s nice – a nice memory to look back upon and there’s so many different purikura machines, like, there’s actually a huge fucking, um, business behind that wawa. I once worked with a purikura company in Japan before though, um, and – and – and I – I know how the process is of creating one, and they have so many - they put out so many different every month, so if you go, ehh, to – to the arcades no so often, then – then - then, ehh, then you will see every time you go there there’s new ones wawa.
