Who here ever goes to meetups for their base? Getting up at Japan hours can be kinda fun even if you don't understand it entirely. If it's big enough, you can either use google translate to fudge it, or be that cute retard who can't really speak the language, and meet other people who can share good ideas for avatars with you. 

Me doing this from the first meetup has me occasionally attend a japanese drinking party world where everyone watches nicovideo equivalent of youtube poops. Lately the group has been obsessed with Yugioh, it seems. One of them has been working on an outfit for that slowly.