What is Hyper Japan? You ask...
Hyper Japan is a Japanese Festival held every July in London celebrating all things Japanese from Food, Fashion, music,gaming, Anime merchandise & Live music/shows.
Hyper Japan was held for a 3 day weekend this year being Friday 15th to Sunday 17th July
It was held at Olympia
It was held at Olympia
Me and my friend Natasha went on Sunday 17th July
As we arrived we sat at the Hyper Live stage & saw an amazing a singer known as Lightning. This was called Lightning "Break Up Tour 2016". Lightning performed for about 30mins then had a meet & greet after.
My favourite Song of Lightning is Selfish Dance & he is an amazing Gutarist.
Lightning has a
YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/user/lightningcosmic
Me meeting Lightning
We then watched the HYPER J-Style Collection Fashion Show with fashion from Fairy Kei to Lolita. My favourite being Lolita.
Here is a picture of the Fashion Show
The Fashion show ended with a special appearance by Broken Doll who performed & shared advice and interest in Harajuku fashion.
Broken Doll have a YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/BrokenDollSince2006/featured
Here is a picture of Broken Doll talking about Harajuku fashion.
Me & my friend then decided to explore upstairs at Hyper Japan. There was a stall which had a Neko Atsume Raffle. I paid £15 & pull out a ticket from the box. I had a go and picked the ticket with the letter E on it.
This meant I won prize E which was a blind box with 4 different bowls you could win from.
I won prize E-2
Me & my friend Natasha started to feel a bit hungry & as the food court was upstairs we bought some lunch to eat.
I had Chicken Katsu on a stick with seeweed chips & it tasted yummy
Once our tummies were full we decided to finish exploring upstairs & came across a stall called Pixelkei a craft stall with all hand knitted made items including Pokemon.
I paid £1 to guess a Pokemon out of 151 & with 3 chances and 3 pages of 151 Pokemon in front of me. I guessed right on the 2nd go. It was a first generation Water type Pokemon.... Poliwag.
As I guessed it right I got to choose a free item or item to be made & I chose to have hand-warmers made with Slyveon colours.
Pixelkei has a Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/ColafulCrafts/?fref=ts
There were a lot of Kawaii stalls Upstairs
Kawaii Jewellery
https://twitter.com/Thefuzzballs
Some selling Neko Plushies
Anime Merchandise
& Studio Ghibhli merchandise at http://otaku.co.uk/
We then headed downstairs & looked around the Nintendo Stall
I met Mario at the stall
Nintendo also had an area which was promoting Yo Kai watch & the staff were dancing along to the Yo kai watch song
Yo Kai Watch dance & Mario
I even saw the Mascot Cat Jibayan S walking passed the stall
Yo Kai Watch Cat Jibayan S
There were even more kawaii stalls downstairs
https://twitter.com/tofu_cute Candy Festival
https://twitter.com/DreamyBows
Kawaii Cat pencilcases
The NHK World Stand
This was a booth with NHK World & Sebastian Masuda an Artist/Art Director. At this stall you could write a letter then decorate to your future self.
Here is the sign for the workshop
The Time capsule was shaped like Domo NHK World Mascot and this will be opened in 20 years time.
Here is the Domo timecapsule
Beckii Cruel is a Youtuber & Kawaii leader for Kawaii International.
http://www.nhk.or.jp/kawaii-i/leader/3rd_03.html
Beckii taught us the Domobics on the Hyper Live Stage. This is a new aerobic dance craze which is very catchy.
Beckii Cruels YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/xBextahx
Beckii Cruel & dancers posing for photos with Domo
A little while after their performance Beckii & the girls she danced with ,some of them our Youtube fans like myself. They danced at the NHK World stand & invited people to join.
Me being one of them.
me dancing the Domobics
Photo taken my lovely friend https://twitter.com/NatashaBalletta
Once I finshed dancing & posing for photos me and my friend Natasha went to the Tofu cute stall were you can have pictures taken in a bedroom booth
Me on the bunkbed with a Rainbow Alpaca
In a Kawaii Claw machine
We then went back to the NHK World stand & had some crazy pics taken
A pancake hat at the Shibuya Crossing
My friend then tried on the hat & I wore a crown
As the day was coming to an end I spoted Catbus & had to have a picture with it
Me & Catbus
I also met lots of lovely Cosplayers
Misty & Ash from Pokemon
Ash from Pokemon
Misty from Pokemon
Alice & the Maddhatter
Ichigo from Tokyo Mew Mew
The Last thing I did was go to the Origami table but instead of making origami I drew some Cat pictures
My Cat pictures
=^.^= I had an Assume day at Hyper Japan & cant wait for the Christmas Market =^.^=
If you would like to see what I bought from Hyper Japan check out my Haul video on my YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX0NLXOnndg
Thank you for reading my First Blog, feel free to comment & share
Nekogeorgie
=^.^=
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