The item numbering used in this guide assumes that all DLCs are activated. Which means there are 348 entries in Clothing, 124 Weapons, 32 Accessories and 92 Character Models.

Please look at Passwords section to activate the DLCs.

Character Models are use to change MC and Sister character model in New Game. Although they are not listed inside the in-game Akiba Guide, they are still necessary to complete Nickname #61.

Password are inputted to the Player Name during New Game. This will activate a DLC associated with the password.

There are 3 Passwords

• Falman3
  
• RadioGarden
  
• MarsSystem

The passwords will add 3 character models, 1 Weapon, 1 Accessory and several clothings.
All the equipments are sold at the Junk Shop.

This game has 3 game phases, each that spans across several main missions.

This affects on what NPCs will appear and what their equipments are.

• Opening phase
  This phase spans from the beginning of the game until the mission to defeat SGV
  
  
• Midgame phase
  This phase spans after defeating SGV until before defeating the DBP twins
  
  
• Endgame phase
  This phase spans after defeating the DBP twins

There's also a cutoff point where NPCs will not spawn and thus there's no way to hunt the clothings and weapons from NPCs.
This cutoff point happens after the main mission "Mother Soul Arrives"

For every entry in the Clothings and Weapons, there's approximate information on where to get them.
This information is viewable even if the clothings and weapons has not been found yet.

For every entry, there's information on which game phases the equipment can be found , what difficulty is needed. There's also another info whether that item is a Rare Item or not.

Rare Item generally means that it drops from Named NPCs or Important Characters.

For the difficulty info :

• Low equals Casual Difficulty or higher
  
• Medium equals Gamer Difficulty or higher
  
• High equals Otaku Difficulty or higher
  
• Extreme equals to Holic DIfficulty.

Extreme difficulty items only drops from Important Characters

Do note that although the info listed which phases the item appear, it doesn't necessarily they will appear at the entirety of the phase.

Some may appear at the early part of the phase and some at the last part of the phase. Try to find the items early at each phase and if they don't seem to appear, try at last part on each phase.
This seems to be especially true for some weapons.

• Complete all side missions.
  Completing them usually rewards skills and unique clothings and weapons.
  Each ending routes has its ows side missions. There are also 2 or 3 (semi)hidden side missions.
  Some side missions also yield a unique item that are needed for a nickname.
  Refer to side missions section on further info.
  
  
• Complete the Rooftop Arena
  Weapon #13 is dropped by the final enemy in this arena. You will also get nickname #16. Aside from that, this will also unlock the Akiba Martial Arts Tournament which has more unique clothings and weapons.
  
  
• Complete the Baseball Rock-Paper-Scissors
  This can be found at Rooftop. Talk to named NPC Hokutono to start this. This is especially a good and easy way to collect unobtainable clothing at the early phase of New Game since you can get the clothings without any necessary skills.
  
  
• Complete the Akiba Martial Arts Tournament.
  These technically are included in the side missions. However, they are unique variations for each playthrough and they may reward special clothings and weapons.
  Refer to Akiba Martial Arts section for further info.
  
  
• SW Main Street is a very good stakeout map to collect clothings and weapons at any point in the game. Almost all NPCs can spawn there with the exception of Foreigners. Go to the intersection and you can look all entry points easily and see if your targe NPC appear.
  
  
• There are 2 ways to initiate combat with NPCs.
  First is by shoving them aside. And the second is by bumping into them repeatedly until they get angry.
  
  Sometimes NPCs will run away when you initiate combat with one way. If so, then try do the other way to initiate combat. It may yield different result.
  
  
• The UFO Catcher in Station Front is a place to find many types of weapons. Some of the them are obtainable only at this place. Refer to the UFO Catcher section for detailed info.
  
  
• All accessories except accesory #32 can be bought at the following stores : OKKY, OKKY II, third rabbit at Junk Street and Junk Shop. Accessory #32 can be found at the UFO Catcher. Refer to UFO Catcher section for detailed info.
  
  
• Skills are sold in shops, reward from side missions, related to ending routes and leveling up your character (you need to be lvl 35 to unlock all level related skills).For other special skills refer to Skills section for additional information.
  
  
• There are 4 ending routes. Every one of them is required to unlock unique character models. One of them has 2 variants that also unlocks to nickname#44 and nickname#45.
  
  
• There's a semi missable item (#64) that are required for nickname #54. It is sold at Station Front until the cutoff point. After entering the Station, turn left and past the Convenience Store and talk to the NPC there to buy it.
  Note that sometimes different NPC will not sell this item. If so, just reenter the Station until the NPC that sells it spawn .

Rare NPCs only spawns rarely once every time a map is visited.

If they are defeated or flee, they will not spawn again on that map until you leave and reenter.

• Steel Maids
  These female maids has a unique metallic appearance. They will flee if they see you and cannot be engaged in combat if they flees.
  
  To combat them, enter Camera Mode. Wait until they turn away from you then you can engage them.
  
  This NPC will flee from combat if she receives considerable damage or lost too many clothings. Try to focus on strippng one part of clothing when fighting them.
  
  These maids spawns on Back Street and the Park.
  
  
• Steel Otakus
  The male counterpart of Steel Maids. Their behavior is the same as Steel Maids.
  
  They spawns on Junk Street and Rooftop.
  
  
• Flyer Distributors
  These NPCs stand still in a fixed point in a map. If you talk to them , they will give you a random flyer that counts towards "Frequent Flyer" achievement.
  
  Generally, they will flee if you try to engage them in combat, unless you are hated by the Akiba Residents., which is how you can combat them.
  
  These NPCs have 6 different variations. Each variation has their own unique clothings.
  
  • Women in blue clothings.
    
  • Women in bar maid attire and triangle bandanna.
    
  • A waiter in black shirt and red apron. This variation may also be fought in Sister's room.
    
  • A waitress in black shirt adorned in yellow color and an apron.
    
  • A waiter in yellow shirt and black apron. This variation only appears in Otaku difficulty or higher.
    
  • Women in red clothes. This variation only appears in Otaku difficulty or higher.
  
  Spawn locations :
  
  • Backstreet at the intersection that leads to Maid Cafe and Junk Shop.
    
  • SW Main Street at the intersection to the 3rd exit.
    
  • UD+ at the left side of the big open area.
    
  • Station Front to the next of the Vintage Clothing Shop
  
  
• Sign Holder
  This NPC wear a bear costume. It enters the map from one entry point then walks to another entry point and then disappears and will not reappear again until you reenter the map.
  
  This NPC seems to run away if you try to combat them by pushing them aside. To combat it, bump into it repeatedly until it got angry and attack you. (You might need to be hated by Akiba Residents for this to work)
  
  This NPC is also to be the only source for Weapon #53 and Weapon #62

These lists contains anything that are missables.
This generally means it doesn't drop from normal NPCs, sold on stores, or players just generally don't look in the area.

Refer to the respective sections for detailed info how to get them

CLOTHINGS

• #340 - Special Reward from UFO Catcher.
  
• #268, #275-277, #279-283, #288-290 - From Akiba Martial Arts Tournament
  
• #104-105, #162, #230-232, #302-303 - Hidden Events/NPCs
  
• #252-253 - Sister's Room

WEAPONS

• #13 - Complete Rooftop Arena.
  
• #106, #111, #112, #117, #118, #121 - UFO Catcher Prizes
  
• #109-110 - From Akiba Martial Arts Tournament
  
• #90, #101, #104, #114 : Hidden Events/NPCs
  
• #103 - Akiba Martial Arts Tournament , Hidden Events/NPCs
  
• #113, 124 - Sister's Room

ITEMS

• #35 - From Side Missions
  
• #44, #45 - Can be bought at Maid Cafe
  
• #64 - Buy at NPC. Refer to General Tips Section

Skill #116 is locked to the Shadow Souls route and requires to you to complete side mission with a special requirement.

Skill #115 can be received by defeating at least 100 Shadow Souls and talking to the NIRO employee next to the Info Broker at Back Street.

Skill #80 and #119 can be obtained from the Maid Cafe by acuumulating 50 and 100 Maid Points respectively.

Acquiring all skill will earn you nickname #31.

Side Missions can be taken from the Info Broker at Back Street.

There are also additional side missions available if you complete the Rooftop Arena before the main mission "Crowd Control" is completed. This is very early in the game so it's probably not doable until NG+.

There's also a hidden and missable side mission that can be taken during any one of side missions : "Low-Lens Lowlife" and "Low-Lens Lowlives".
Ask the target to teach you how to shoot photo several times.
Completing this hidden side mission while you are in good relations with all factions will net you nickname #12.

A side mission at Shadow Souls route requires you to be in debt to complete (and probably just to accept). Since this happens at a very late point in the game, the only way to get in debt is to be arrested by the poilce and pay a fine while you have ver ylittle money.
Another possible way is in the earlier main mission where you go on a date with Rui. It's also possible to get in debt at that point.

There's also a semi hidden side mission at Shadow Souls route. Talk to Yu at Shadow Souls' base to accept the side mission.

There are 3 cooking side missions. Failing at those will yield with item #35. Consume this item to earn nickname #48. This item may also be required for nickname #54.

Completing all side missions at least once on all playthroughs will net you nickname #57.

Character Models can be used to change the appearance of the player and litle sister.

In case for the little sister, you can strip the clothings related to that character model in Sister's Room too.

They are unlocked by completeing each 4 endings in non-Holic difficulties and Holic difficulty.

To unlock all character models, all endings must be completed at least once in one of the non-Holic difficulties and in Holic difficulty for a total of at least 8 playthroughs.

Note that for the Shadow Souls route, it is recommended to follow the DBP twins variant, the Rui variant might not worked.

Unlocking all character models also net you with nickname #61.

This series of side missions is only available after completing the Rooftop Arena before completing Main Mission "Crowd Control". Since the difficulty is quite high, it's probably best to wait for NG+ to do this.

There are 5 rounds in the tournament. Each round can only be taken if the previous round is completed. At each round you have to defeat a (semi)randomized unique enemy at the Rooftop. Some of these enemies has unique weapons and clothings.

ROUNDS

• First Round
  The enemy you want to find here is Nadeshiko. She has the appearance of a cheerleader. All 3 pieces of her clothings (#279-#281) are unique and she also has a unique weapon (#110).
  However, if you played on difficulty lower than Otaku, some of her clothings will be replaced by more generic versions
  
  
• Second Round
  The enemy you want to find here is a witch. All 3 pieces of her clothings (#275-#277) are unique and she also has a unique weapon (#109).
  However, if you played on a low difficulty, her weapon will be replaced by a non-unique weapon.
  (At Casual difficulty she has a non-unique weapon, at Otaku difficulty she has her unique weapon)
  
  
• Semi-Finals
  The enemy you want to find here is Mokyurin. She has white clothings and a unique hat (#268).
  However, if you played on a high difficulty, her hat will be replaced by a non-unique hat.
  (At Otaku difficulty she has a non-unique hat, at casual difficulty she has her unique hat)
  
  
• Finals
  The enemy you want to find here is GI Jane. She has the appearance of a soldier. All her clothings are unique (#288-#290).
  However, if you played on a low difficulty, her hat will be replaced by a non-unique hat.
  (At Otaku difficulty she has a unique hat, at casual difficulty she has her non-unique hat)
  
  
• Exhibition
  There's only one possible enemy here and he has 2 unique clothings (#282-283) and a unique weapon (#103)

Completing the tournament will get you nickname #22.


Aside from the first round, it is possible to choose the enemy you want for the tournament.
Simply accept the side mission as early as possible but don't complete it and just follow the main missions.
When you get an email that the tournament is almost expired, SAVE ONCE then defeat the enemy at the tournament and continue until you can accept the next round of the tournament.
If the enemy is someone you don't want, just load your savegame and repeat the process until you got the enemy you wanted.
Obviously this trick cannot be used on first round enemies.

• Fighting Sara
  Accumulate 200 Maid Points at Maid Cafe and you'll get an invitation to fight at Rooftop. Defeat her and get her unique clothings (#104-105, #162, #302-303) and unique weapon (#104). You will also get nickname #13.
  Note that she doesn't have her unique weapon at Casual difficulty or lower. She also has a different set of clothes on Holic difficulty
  
  
• Feeding the Homeless
  At the beginning of the game, buy French Bread from the Convenience Store at Station Front. Then go find the homeless man in Back Street. Give him the French Bread. Later on, talk to him again and he will give you weapon #101
  
  
• Book of Secrets
  At Coexistence route, talk to Yatabe to gain weapon #90. You must have full relationship with all factions for this to work.
  To do that easily, donate to fundraisers to the max. The donation can only be done before the cutoff point.
  
  
• Fighting Master
  Defeat at least 300 Shadow Souls and complete the Rooftop Arena. Then go to the park to find her. Defeat her and get her unique clothings (#341-#342) and weapons(#103, #114).
  Note that she can also be fought at a side mission on NIRO route. But she won't drop weapon #103
  
  
• The strongest bear
  Right after the cutoff point and further, if you have abysmall relations with all factions. There's a chance that a bear will spawn at Rooftop near where Hokutono stands. Defeat him to get unique clothings (#230-232) and nickname #14.
  
  
• King's Clothings
  Sell 200 different clothings to Vintage Shop to get this reward.

Here's where you can find the player's little sister.
You can fight your little sister and strip her. Which clothings you got depends on what character model your sister uses.
At completing Sister Route at Holic difficulty, a Holic version of Sister character model is unlocked.

Use that model and strip her to get unique clothings (#252-253)

Every time you enter Sister's Room, there's a chance that a scribble pad will spawn at the floor near where the door is.

Checking this pad at certain times on the game or after doing certain things will add new illustrations to it.
There are a total of 31 illustrations.
Completing all of them will reward nickname #50 and weapon #124.

• Give sister 5M across all playthroughs
  
• Play Holic difficulty
  
• Fully stripped the little sister
  
• Donate 1M to Suzuna's Fundraiser
  
• Buy "Cindy" for 10k or 20/30k. Can only be on different playthroughs.
  
• Clear Sister Route
  
• At Side Mission "Goodbye, Lady" choose "Sorry I died …" at last choice. Then check the scribble pad
  
• Check the pad when you can't have any more clothes
  
• Look at the pad at different time during the game (listed chronologically)
  
  1. Between "Freedom Fighters" and "Meet-Up" (Only NG+)
     
  2. Between "They Call Her the Stripmaster" and "Chasing Shadows" (Only NG+)
     
  3. Between "Hunting for Henchmen" and "Draw Out Yu Abeno" (Only NG+)
     
  4. Between "Crowd Control" and "After the Black-Haired Girl" (Only NG+)
     
  5. Between "The Master's Teachings" and "Accept a Few Side Missions"
     
  6. Between "Meet Mr. X" and "Off to NE Main Street"
     
  7. Between "Serving the Master" and "Stop DBP's Plans"
     
  8. Between "Back to Base, ASAP" and City-Wide Battles
     
  9. During City-Wide Batles

Note :
City Wide Battles is the mission where your have to fight many enemies at different maps. The mission name differs depend on what route you take

There's a UFO Catcher place right at the corner in front of you when you first enter the Station Front.

Here you can get unique weapons that can't be gotten anywhere else :

• #106
  
• #111
  
• #112
  
• #117
  
• #118
  
• #121

Also, if you manage to collect all 5 weapons in just 5 tries (no miss at all) , you will get accessory #32.

Repeat this deed again and you will also get clothing #340.