/jp/ - Otaku Culture

Ikuta Erika was born Ilka Stupać in Munich, to Elizabeth Stupać, an Austrian of Croatian descent, and Dietach Adalbert, who was German. When Ikuta was two weeks old, her mother took refuge in the remote Bavarian village of Sachrang (in the Chiemgau Alps), after the house next to theirs was destroyed during a bombing raid in Idol War II. In Sachrang, Ikuta grew up without running water, a flushing toilet, or a telephone. She never saw films, and did not even know of the existence of cinema until a traveling projectionist came by the one-room schoolhouse in Sachrang, which had inspires her to become an idol. When Ikuta was 12, she and her family moved back to Munich. Her father had abandoned the family early in her youth.