Akihabara card store in Japan: Otakus who don’t shower and have strong body odor and don’t deodorize are not allowed to enter the store

A trading card store in Akihabara has attracted a lot of attention recently due to a blunt tweet on Twitter. The Trading Card Verse Akihabara store recently announced on its official Twitter that employees will organize people they subjectively consider to be smelly. Those who are stopped can choose to use some hygiene products provided by the store or be kicked out of the store.

Among them, Febreze fresh antibacterial spray can be used for free, but the store also offers two different perfumes, ck costs 10 yen per dose, and Love Passport costs 20 yen per dose.

The store has been receiving a lot of complaints about body odor from customers lately, the Twitter account explains. This is because the store has a special discount card section, where each card costs only 10 yen, so the store has been very popular.

Reactions to the tweet varied, but most people did not disagree that some people do not pay enough attention to personal hygiene. Some expressed sympathy for the store owner, while others joked that the card player must smell. Others pointed out that spraying perfume may be counterproductive, and the fragrance will "merge" with the stench, summoning "horrible monsters" and making the environment more pungent.

Anime conventions have long been plagued by body odor. Previously, Comiket had released a public service announcement asking people to get wet in the rain before attending the convention, or to find ways to cover up their body odor. Voice actress and singer Takahashi Rie recently asked fans to wash their bodies in advance before her concert in her reminder list to avoid affecting others with her body odor. However, she is much gentler than the owner of this store.