Usually when I hear the words "manga" and "anime" my eyes gaze over, but if you add "festival", "cosplay", and "in my backyard" to that, then I'm there! I spent about an hour running around New York Anime Fest. I swear, it's like walking into Candyland -- I have never seen so much neon blue, lime green, and baby-doll pink....and a whole lot of flesh. (Should there something slightly disturbing in watching crowd of 12 year-olds shrieking "Fan Service! Fan Service!"?)
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Saturday, September 27, 2008
New York Anime Fest
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That must have been GREAT fun!
Halloween came early I see.
Agreed on the effect of the words "anime" and "manga"--such a terribly imploded reality they portray. But yes, a festival sounds like fun...
You've never been to Japan. In Tokyo there are Harajuku Girls. They dress this way all the time-usually on weekends. They're straight laced business women who bring out the neon and all kinds of ornaments and stuff and walk around Tokyo in collectives. It's really something to see. You think it's some kind of convention and it's not.
Then again, in Tokyo there's a train stop on one of the city lines that has the "Astro Boy" theme playing 24/7 in celebration of his being "born" in that district in the fictional year of 1999. So the district dedicated the train station to him. There are animations and statues and everything. As businessmen quietly read their manga books on the subway...it has to be seen to be believed.
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