“It’s one thing to make an ad like that for the Internet, but you’re not supposed to make a physical billboard of it.”
The billboard is located at anime and video game specialty shop Traders’ #3 Akihabara branch, which does carry adult products on its fourth floor.
It’s right along the main street that runs through the neighborhood, which just about every visitor to Akihabara, young or old, walks down.
It’s quite a bit harder to argue that any perceived sexualization is strictly in the eyes of the beholder in this ad, however, which was spotted in Tokyo’s Akihabara neighborhood by Japanese Twitter user @m1d0r1_lineat.