Otaku Fest II — day one

Good Good Good Good!

Much better than I expected.

First of all the locations: all active, all reach able, all full, all freakin’ sauna hot. All the seats in the viewing are at Suburbia were taken by 1 pm, when I got there and the place became just packed when it came to showing AMV’s from the Sakura Project.

Atelier 35 and had an active crowd with all the places at the SideKicks and Pisica Patrata Workshop taken, walls covers with fan art, local creations and such and free drawing area. Also featuring much welcomed ice-tea (5 ron a cup) and trinkets booth.

The shop with the long name ,aka Kollector Gallery and Ollie Gang Shop, featured some odd toys, 3 Wii stations , offered a few managas for sale aaaaaand…. not so cheap but cool clothes 😀 .

Tech wise all the projection worked, we had sound…so thumbs up even if they were not my cup of tea (or my style of anime).

As for the AMVs , I still think they are over rated:P , however some of them where good and the one where they mixed the humor bits in were funny … be it even in that totally wrong way of mixing old Vacanta Mare sketches with anime.

Cosplay cosplay!!! More than a surprising turn out. Just think how many people could have turned up if they would have given us like a month’s notice … . And we got to see most of the cosplay people on stage with music at Suburbia, which was all in all cute.

oh, my vote for the cosplay event got to Mr. Sandal-Hat, Kisuke Urahara and on another side note : cosplay is not for kids, this is not a pageant!!!

The Viusual Arts Workshop was the only thing that went missing however with all the other stuff going on it wasn’t missed too much .

What a delight it was too see the streets covered with anime people :X

Oh , and one for the “to reminisce about in a few year” some police officers dropped by (at least 5-6 of them) inquiring if we are attending and “emo manifestation” ( !?! =)) ) and picking on the organizers and demanding us to clear the road (and by road I mean the are where you can’t get in unless you bribe some one , cause it’s an pedestrian area…but when pedestrians don’t let cars by in the pedestrian area …well the police chases us off —and if it’s not a pedestrian area then someone give me the legal quote so I can freakin’ put my car there).

Did not stick around for the music side of the evening. The 5 hours in sauna type heat got the best of me.

SO thumbs up for day one of Otaku Fest II , will surely attend day II as well. Many thanks to my school mate, 2D for the company and pix.

Pix on this Blog by 2D

Otaku Festival II

Seeing how exciting this sounds I’d almost ask for a drumroll with the anounucement that on the 17-18 of may in Bucharest the second edition of the Otaku Festival will take place. However considering the 1 week head’s up promotion the organisers are giving I wouldn’t get so excited just yet.

I mean the festival’s website was launched on the 5th , so less than 2 weeks before the event and when googling “otaku” “festival” “bucharest” and other combinations on the theme you do not come across it. What I did come across was a bunch of blog, news and such anouncing the before mentioned even and most were posted around the first of may.

Allow me to doubt the turnout at the event when I bearly found it and trust me I am on enough newsletters to know from minute one. Good thing the Suburbia people caught it. And seriously, someone on some blog was bitching that they are only 15 cosplayers at the contest. Hello!!!! ya’ only give people 2 weeks notice at best to get together a decent cosplay outfit??? That is so not enough to so scavange for bits in bucharest or to order one of the net!!! And someone’s already enterned Matsumoto!!!

Oh yeah, about the festival. It will happen in 3 locations at once Suburbia Club, Atelier 35 si Kollector Gallery&Ollie Gang Shop(that’s gotta be on heck of store with such a name) . Now this would be the second thing that sends my “failed event” sensors tingling . Judging by KYE which had several activities at the same time in the same place and how those guys bearly pulled it off. Hey, maybe I’ll be wrong 🙂

As for the activiries : cosplay, as mentioned before, games, AMV’s and weird music ( no I am not being judgemental but we’re talking about J-goths and game boy beeps ) . Better yet look at it yourselves . I’d post it here but so don’ like the format and am so too lazy to copy it.