Incidents of my Gensokyo
Me, Mascots, a Flying Shrine Maiden, and More Than Three Years of Blogging.
It’s been a while. After all I’ve been through during the past three months, I’m back. There are many things I would like to discuss, but right now, I must do something very special for this day.
The idea came into me before Valentine’s Day. “Who’s going to be your fictional valentine, and what kind of sweet would you expect from her?” Since I was afraid to ask anybody who’s not into fictional valentines, or anybody who doesn’t like sweets and desserts like I do, I asked 2DT first (which he replied quickly with a nice little post here).
… Yes?
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It’s that time where you can smell the suffocating aggression.
Yup! It’s that time again for us SWR and IaMP people. The tournament for Kansai Taikai the 4th is going to be on November 1st, which might be up on the Japanese IRCnet channel. Depending on how time permits, I might as well tune into if I have the chance. The replays may also be provided by both IaMP and SWR Mizuumi guys, and I might get a copy for posting here as well, so stay tuned.
That was the question I was asking myself over and over and over again. Why was I there? For someone who doesn’t have any special interest in cosplay to be in an event featuring abundance in Bleachtards and Narutards and rarity of “true cosplayers” donning high-class (or high-level, whatever the shit works) stuff, it’s quite… awkward. Add in the fact I was wearing a costume myself and I go “Ooookay… I think I just got so fucked up…”
But anyways, here’s the dish. Cosplay Mania 2008 is an event organized by different cosplay organizations (they power themselves and do not rely on any major group concerning the otaku or cosplay genre) which patronizes the cosplay society. That’s a sweetened term for the definition, no? I think I should just say this is a shit crappy event full of retards and weeaboos everywhere. So much for my meager costume, I didn’t join any event or anything whatever it is. Don’t think you’ve spotted me and my shit. It’s not for you in case you were there.
OSHIT! HIDE YOUR LOLIS!
And I can’t believe they kicked off late! The program starts at 4:00 PM?! THEY FUCKING WASTED SIX FUCKING HOURS ON SICK FUCKING USELESS SHIT! This actually made the event population balloon to unbreathable heights like something near worse than a fully-packed Comiket event. And unlike the excellent discipline Japan uses on their events, this one fails too much. Marshalls are scattered everywhere but can’t control a big crowd. The volunteers aren’t working good enough, and the event organizers are like, y’know, shit.
One order of Bleachtard Bankai Zinger, coming up?
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So, the Japanese Embassy, along with its foundation, organized some kind of event that commemorates J-POP, Anime, and Manga, which are some of the main attractions one can get from the most coveted land of Japan. I was out there for the lulz. Wait, that was wrong: I WAS JUST PASSING BY.
By the way, I didn’t get too much pics since this was be one crappy event, so to speak. Just the main attractions, nothing else.
The J-POP Anime Matsuri (J-POP－アニメ祭り), or J.A.M in short, kicked off by the time the Shang opened up at around 10:30 AM, gathering crowds and crowds of people by the minute. Cosplayers readied up at the backstage, while wapanese people pretending they can read Japanese gathered up at the “lounge” full of Japanese magazines, manga, and drawing tutorials, which were mostly on raw. The officials and important people were reserved at the front seats, while the back seats were occupied by “interested” people.
This human-sized thing was standing right in front of the “gate”.
I dare not call it by its namesake.
Aside from the events listed above, there were also human-sized (not really, imagine 7 or 8 feet sophisticated blocks of metal) mechas, face painting (for those who have little care on their visage and wish to have their faces as available canvas for phail artists) and hair coloring (for those who wish to look like anime-ish just be cause they have different hair). The regime of the program was pretty much all on cosplay, guests speakers (mostly from the embassy), some basic Moonspeak for the aspiring wapanese, promotions on J-POP and some Anime titles as “singers” (because they know Japanese, they can sing it) wear their lungs out on OPs and EDs of some popular titles (yeah, good ol’ Voltes V). Also, the Embassy took its time to bring out the Japanese Language Proficiency Course for people who want to know Japanese, and for people who want to study or work on Moonland. No, there were no prepared somethings for the manga category, so I have to bitch that out.
“Japanization”: Make things look “Moonified”
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