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INTEREST: Halloween Festivals Hit It Big in Shibuya and Kawasaki


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Ulinox



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PostPosted: Tue Oct 29, 2013 12:36 pm Reply with quote
Guy in Skull Knight costume: Winner!
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In that OP group photo, DAT LUFFY WITH A MUSTACHE Mr. Green
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Glad to see the country of cosplay really get into halloween.
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Lol on the Titans.
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Kagamine Len is winner for me.
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I was fairly impressed by the Predator.
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 29, 2013 3:00 pm Reply with quote
...People actually dress up as Hayao Miyazaki for Halloween?
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 29, 2013 3:24 pm Reply with quote
It really sounds like Halloween is catching on with the 15-30ish crown in Japan. Seeing the huge influence of cosplay on the America costuming scene, it's not surprising the reverse would happen. I think my favorite (not best) costumes are the green army men. Or Mr. Tokyo 2020.
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Free!! Laughing
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 29, 2013 7:05 pm Reply with quote
Oh god those Colonel sanders are so scary o_o

I loved quite a few Aya from Touhou, Sailor Moon Crew, Titans and the people, One Piece crew and Master Roshi!
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 29, 2013 7:55 pm Reply with quote
The guy in the Reagan mask, did he just want to be Reagan or was that a Point Break reference?
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 29, 2013 9:16 pm Reply with quote
Cyberphobe wrote:
The guy in the Reagan mask, did he just want to be Reagan or was that a Point Break reference?


Not Reagan. (if you're talking about the last image before the Kawasaki images) It's a Japanese politician.
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octopodpie wrote:
Cyberphobe wrote:
The guy in the Reagan mask, did he just want to be Reagan or was that a Point Break reference?


Not Reagan. (if you're talking about the last image before the Kawasaki images) It's a Japanese politician.


That would be current Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe:

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PostPosted: Tue Oct 29, 2013 9:56 pm Reply with quote
I was wondering a few days ago is Halloween had any cachet in Japan. On one hand, I thought that a nation with an enthusiastically syncretic culture that loves to play dress-up might really go for it, while on the other I wondered if it might be redundant or superfluous given all of the other opportunities to do so. Seems like they're erring happily more toward the first hand.

Those female Marios (Marias?) were pretty great, if a little disconcerting.

enurtsol wrote:


Free!! Laughing


For a second there, I thought that those were from Attack on Titan. Then again, crossing Free! with the Titans would make a certain kind of sense. They might be the only thing with less bodyfat than the Iwatobi swim club boys.
enurtsol wrote:
octopodpie wrote:
Cyberphobe wrote:
The guy in the Reagan mask, did he just want to be Reagan or was that a Point Break reference?


Not Reagan. (if you're talking about the last image before the Kawasaki images) It's a Japanese politician.


That would be current Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe


Let me guess, when he rings your bill he says, "trick or authoritarian historical revisionism."

Oh well, at least he's not raiding the pension fund, dumping chemicals in the ocean and selling out best assets to the Japanese.
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Japan even does Halloween better than us!
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