The room was decorated in a traditional Japanese style, complete with shojis painted with cherry blossoms. I had to sit cross legged at a table that was only inches off the floor.

In Japan, she's an "otaku". On her purse and backpack, she has countless buttons of Menhera-chan and other cute keychains she's acquired over the years at various cosplay conventions.

In rapid-fire fashion, (11 days!) she and her husband, Brad, transformed their rose-gold Miami-styled restaurant Little Octopus into a cool, casual gathering place for Japanese-inspired pub fare ...

Matt Alt at Alt Japan reports on the latest case of “otaku gari”, the practice of hunting down otaku (nerds) and robbing them of their money and fancy toys. In this case, the hunters were a brother ...