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Busy in an understatement, luckily there were pockets of space for photos etc.
Each year, the streets of Osaka in the geek district of Nipponbashi, also known as 'Den Den Town' (Electric town) are closed off to traffic to celebrate all things otaku. It is freaking. amazing.
On Sunday 20th March, 2016, the 12th annual 'Nipponbashi Street Festa' took place, the area is absolutely swarming with people, with the event getting bigger each year. The streets are filled with cosplayers, street photographers, tourists and general geeks a like. It's a great event to participate in or simply enjoy all the wonderful sites and high craftsmanship of the many cosplayers. Seriously, the quality of the outfits was phenomenal.
I was lucky enough to get many photos, I hope they prove and show off the cosplayers talent! I will try to name the characters where possible, the event is totally free so I highly recommend visiting next year! I had a giant grin on my face the entire time!
I will let the pictures speak for themselves, enjoy!
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| Vega - Street Fighter |
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| Crazy huge hair! |
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| Hotaru - Dagashi Kashi |
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| Great outfit |
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| Amazing Monster Hunter group, impossible to get a good photo sadly, too many people! |
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| Arale - Dr. Slump |
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| Great Spirited Away group, love group cosplays. |
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| Shirahoshi - One Piece |
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| Love Live - Really popular series to cosplay this year. Fandom is nuts. |
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| One of the best Clouds from FF7, best sword by far. |
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| Fantastic Porco Rosso cosplay, but as the plane! |
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| Great Idea |
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| A Certain Scientific Railgun |
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| Dragonball, lots of the male cosplayers were ripped! Diet inspiration! |
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| More Love Live! |
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| Deadpool! |
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| Creep Ring |
One of the more awkward aspects of Cosplay events are these situations. Usually Schoolgirl character cosplays get an overwhelming amount of attention with swarms of photographers taking photos, usually much older guys. You can often see many of them pointing their cameras from a low angle to try and get a panty shot. Luckily new rules have stopped them being as invasive as they used to. Kinda of a weird situation, since the cosplayers also need their photos in order to spread their cosplay across the community. It's a shame some of the cosplays that are phenomenally made don't get as equal attention.
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| As you can see, nothing out-worldly, just a schoolgirl character? Maybe K-on/Love live. |
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| Awesome Gundam group |
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| Couldn't quite get her scythe in shot! |
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| Attack on Titan, far less cosplayers than I expected. |
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| Fantastic Evangelion duo |
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| Shishio Makoto - Rurouni Kenshin |
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| Gaki no Tsukai runners! |
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| Monster Hunter |
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| Mixture of characters, I was hyped about the One Punch Man's 'Sonic' in black. |
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| Prison School |
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| REALLY Impressive balloon Mario Karts |
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| Such an amazing idea |
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| Great Vash cosplay from Trigun, all his gun holsters etc. fully functioned. |
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| Madoka Magica Maid version? |
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| Evangelion - Race queen version |
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| Doraemon Group |
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| Really cute - Yokai watch? |
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| Amazing Dead Master/Black Rock shooter cosplayers, advertising a cosplay armory company |
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| One of my favorite cosplays of the day. |
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| Awesome |
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| So much awesome. |
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| Dirty Pair - Oldschool! |
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| Another creep wall, look where the cameras are pointing... |
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| She had TONS of attention |
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| You see these uniforms on a daily basis... |
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| Hestia - she is wearing one of those fake chest add-ons, not her real boobs, but effective for cosplay, and modesty! |
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| Yup |
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| Persona 4 - Chie |
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| She really captured the character well! |
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| Friend is a huge fan so I took several poses. |
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| She could pose well too! |
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| Well done overall! |
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| Great Majin Buu, knows how to work with what you have! |
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| AMAZING Rory Mercury from GATE. |
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| Looks exactly like the character - Axe was insane too |
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| Chun - Li - Streetfighter |
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| Chun Li - Streetfighter |
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| More Madoka |
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| wut |
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| Cloud's wig looked great. Sephiroth's foil sword, not so much - but better than what I could do! |
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| Steins Gate! Tu-tu-ruuuu! |
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| Great craftsmanship |
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| Big group of Mechs! |
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| Old school Transformers |
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| Tanks too! Girls und panzer? |
Well, that's the best of the bunch that I took! I hope you enjoyed, it was fantastic fun and a great cultural experienced. I loved how people of all ages took part and shows how much anime/manga is a part of life over here.
Inspired me to maybe do one myself next year, got a whole year to think of something!
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