Japanese pop culture expert Patrick Macias takes you on a illustrated tour of astonishing people, places, and things found inside Tokyo's underground art, music, fashion, and otaku scenes.
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Here's Beni hanging out in Harajuku sometime in summer 2018...
We usually sing "Benny and the Jets" whenever she shows up.
This is before she got her current job working in a vintage select shop, but her look (which leans towards the dark) seems pretty much the same at the moment.
Beni's super power is her is ability as a portrait artist. She can draw anyone with terrifying realism in pencil. I don't know where talent like that comes from. The human hand, I guess?
People are always walking into those poles like the ones she is sitting on.
I can hear the DING sound of someone connecting with it just sitting here typing...
