Nissei Week 2005

[furtech]

Yesterday I went to Nissei Week to check out the festivities and return a tape. This gets bigger every year: lots of booths, including several anime-merchandise booths. There are a variety of activities over the week, including demonstrations of martial arts, music and dance, anime (drawing, showing, cosplay) and a parade. This is also were the Tofu Festival was-- mostly Asian food booths with decent fare that was -very- cheap (it's a fundraiser, so the food was donated and sold for cheap!). I had a tofu-burrito that was -excellent- (imagine my surprise)! At this rate, I could actually picture myself going veggie in the future (probably not, but at least it's within the realm of believability).

Some pics of the event (all about 130K, with the one exception):

The return of Nissei Week's mascot, Aki Akita!

The Tofu Fest's mascot: TOFUZILLA!


The contestants from the Cosplay Contest in the Grand Parade

Here's a larger version of the above pic of the cosplayers if you want to try and ID anyone...(about 1.3meg)

There was a Bleach Group, but I still doubt that anyone would have understood Komamura...

Kuro-neko!


About midway through the parade there was a near riot: apparently a J-Rock band was in the parade and hundreds and hundreds of fans mobbed the car they were riding. Eventually the police diverted the float off the parade, since the fans were mobbing the car even with a circle of security and police! Has anyone heard of "KAT-TUN"??? Here's the best shot of their heads that I managed


Here's a picture of one of the Taiko groups in the parade (know 'em, Mich?)

Some of the many festival dancers...I miss Obon!


An Akita club had dogs in the parade, including this very unusual Gray-brindled akita!

Dog pretzel

The only thing cuter than a tired puppy...
...is someone holding a tired puppy!

Comments

[waynekaa.livejournal.com]

heh KATTUN.

?!?

[furtech.livejournal.com]

So, I take it you've heard of them?

Re: ?!?

[waynekaa.livejournal.com]

from raving lunatic girls yes.

Re: ?!?

[furtech.livejournal.com]

So, should I have been impressed? Any good songs? I take it from your replies that you're less than impressed with them. I'm not even sure if they played at the festival or not...

[okojosan.livejournal.com]

Wow, that grey-brindled Akita ia awesome! So pretty! I have a weakness for brindles and blue merles.

[furtech.livejournal.com]

I was fascinated by the grey-brindle! Never seen any patternation like it and I was -very- impressed with his striking looks. I'm not usually a brindle fan, but he was neat!

I -do- like blue merles: a friend had a leggy border blue merle border collie (a pound dog) who looked a lot like a Cape hunting dog! Her typical border collie alertness even gave her the body language of a CHD.

[millencolinf0x.livejournal.com]

wow...yeah, never seen an akita like that. Looks interesting.

[furtech.livejournal.com]

They all had good looks and temperaments: the kind of Akitas that make people-who-shouldn't-own-them go out to their nearest puppymill and buy a dog they shouldn't (I've met more undersocialized, poorly bred and vicious Akitas than nice ones...). Still, these were really nice dogs!

[n2kenai.livejournal.com]

Thanks for all those pics. It sure looked like a lot of fun.

[furtech.livejournal.com]

I keep forgetting how enjoyable Nissei Week is...usually I either forget it's going on or just manage to sneak over on the last day! Well worth checking out if you're a Nihonophile!

[c-eagle.livejournal.com]

Wow... and right here in town!

[furtech.livejournal.com]

Dangit! I need your number-- I could have probably dragged you to this!