If Monster Hunter could be summed up in one Tom Waits song verse, it would be from Big in Japan: “I got the moon, I got the cheese, I got the whole damn nation on its knees, I’m big in Japan, big in Japan.” At this point in time, 1 in 5 Japanese PSP owners have a Monster Hunter UMD in their collection. That’s big — crazy big!

Kotaku has a story about a Monster Hunter PSP fan “meet up” that recently happened on the streets of Akihabara (”Akiba,” to those in the know). In a bit of brilliant Japanes-to-English naming, they called their event “Monster Hunter Portable 2nd Street Real Meeting Place.“ Can you imagine WoW/EQ fans dragging their PCs out into the street to hang out (those would have to be some real long CAT-5 cables)?

Babelfish has helpfully translated a portion of this sign as saying: “10 gill cards you aim toward exchange in the hunter and 1 day of first meeting! Dying, you grudge the handling!” I couldn’t have put it any better myself.

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