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AnimeGO 2023 Report!
I had the opportunity to go to AnimeGO this year! It was a Japanese Pop Culture Festival that had so many things there! There was an arcade there, kimono dressing, yummy food and so much more!
I went with my good friend Pie (@piedivide), which you’ll see him appear throughout this report! Thank you for the fun time, Pie!!! ヽ(>∀<☆)ノ
The report is below the cut!
So, context time.
Pie told me about this festival one day about a month or two ago. I didn't even know it was a thing in all honesty, but it sounded so cool! The tickets were pretty cheap as well, and was filled with things that we both liked (aka anime and Japan lol).
And so, we decided to go!
We bought tickets as soon as they came out, and awaited the day to come.
A few days before the Festival, we met up and looked through all of the activities that it was offering on the day. One of the activities that interested us the most is the Kimono Dressing. It only cost $10 for a ticket and you could dress up in a Yukata and take photos!
We literally bought the tickets right away (I pulled out my laptop just so I could buy it lmao), and we managed to get the same timeslot too!
With all of that, we were ready for Sunday!
Day of the Festival!
Before we went to AnimeGO, we took a detour to the UNIQLO store because they were having a Cardcaptor Sakura collaboration and I wanted to get a top if they had any left. Spoiler alert, they did not have any left ;;
We then went to a new bookstore that opened up in the same building, I had no idea it was even up there. I don't go into the city too often so it's always a surprise for me. The inside was very lovely, and of course we gravitated straight to the manga section.
A lot of older manga were there, especially the first three volumes of Animal Academy, one of my favourite manga! I used to borrow the first six volumes from the library, but they only have the second one now which sucks ;;
And so, I couldn't pass up this opportunity. I bought all the volumes lol
And now all we had to do was find the entrance to the venue.
We knew the general direction, but not where it was exactly. We went up and down, thinking we were going the wrong way until we spotted a Nezuko cosplayer who saved us lol
Pie and I went all the way around to get to the venue and even got on an elevator, when we could have just walked through the train station ( ˙-˙ )
It's about the journey, not the destination! (tells myself that to make myself feel better lol)
We got these little wristbands to prove we bought tickets as soon as we got there and I managed to break the one I got for Pie orz
He had to get a new one. I’m sorryyyyyyyy (シ. .)シ
We paid our respects to our Fumo overlords (or I forced Pie to)
Arcade!! I love arcades.
The Arcade was the best part to me. All because they had Hatsune Miku Project Diva MegaMix + with the the arcade controls!
I freaked out a bit as soon as I saw it. I've never played this game with the arcade controller so I was pumped to try it!
I played Senbonzakura first, although I probably should have chosen the F version so I could have gotten the pretty MV but that's okay! I got to play and that's all what matters to me lol
I then played my favourite Vocaloid song ever, Butterfly on Your Right Shoulder. I actually failed it the first time because I forgot all of the controls for some reason lmao
I redeemed myself at the end and passed it, don't worry. I was so happy to play it. Len and Rin make me happy!
I also did Hand in Hand and that was fun too! Next time I want to play it more!
Pie did Ghost Rule with this lovely Module that looked so pretty. This is Snow Miku 2019!
We tried out Sound Voltex, which was something I never heard of before. It looked sort of confusing at first, but was a lot of fun once you got the controls down! Aqua from Konosuba was the navigator and she made funny faces at you on the results screen if you did not so great.
Would love to play it again some day.
We also played Taikou no Tatsujin and Muse Dash! We played the heavenly melody, the Calamari Inkantation by the one and only Squid Sisters, blessing the whole Festival with squid music.
Muse Dash was very enjoyable, it was my first time playing it. I heard of it beforehand but never had the chance to try it out. I tried playing it without knowing what the controls were but Pie was smart and pulled up the tutorial lmao
After 3pm, they had a prize gacha system in place where you had to play either a full session Taikou no Tatsujin or Muse Dash and you would get a gacha card upon doing so. You would then line up and roll for two coloured marbles from this white dispenser. The colour determines what type of prize you can choose from.
Yellow was the best one.
Although by the time we got there, most of the cool prizes were gone. They had a Lumine and Aether plushie, I would have so loved to have gotten one of them. But alas.
I only got to choose one prize, while Pie got to choose two.
I got this Haru Okumura from Persona 5 clear card hehe that I stuck up on my wall. Pie got a Marth amiibo and a Yusuke Kitagawa from Persona 5 clear file.
We also walked through all the different stalls that were present! We saw a stand that had retro games, and Pie managed to snag the Ocarina of Time 3D for the 3DS for only $40, which is such a steal! I'm glad he was able to be reunited once again with the game.
Pie and I have this tradition where we each buy each other a print (only one, mind you) while at a convention/festival/wherever there is a print, and that’s what we did!
We went to the main artist alley and spilt up.
Pie got me a Kafka print (thank youuuu, I love it) and I got Pie a Kazuha print!
As soon as I saw it, I knew it was perfect. And it was even more fitting since it was Kazuha’s birthday too! ٩( ᐛ )و
Here is us in our pretty Yukata!
I chose this lovely blue pattern with flowers that caught my eye from the moment I saw it. And I chose well, it looks so good!
I felt so cool in it.
The original hair clip I wanted to use kept falling off my head, I felt bad for the person helping me get dressed aha
And then my hair was literally in the way the whole time, next time I'll tie it up. I did actually bring a hair tie but I forgot about it, welp aha
I'm glad I had this opportunity to do so!
Who knows when I’ll have another opportunity like this (unless I go to Japan….one day I’ll go!)
Food!
There was a lot of Japanese food there as expected from a festival such as this one! We tried this Japanese cheesecake which was really nice. Reminded me of something my grandma would make.
The daifuku was a bit too sweet for us both, although it wasn't bad! We got three different flavours: Mango, Strawberry and Matcha.
Much more squishy than I assumed it would be. I liked the mango one the most, I made a "mmh!" sound because I was so surprised at how mango it was and Pie laughed at me.
I can't understand what Pie meant when he says matcha tastes like a tree, I couldn't taste anything I swear lol
I was sitting there, chewing my heart out but the matcha flavour never came...I think my sense of taste was gone that time...
(i forgot to take a photo of what I ate i'm sorry)
We went to a maid café! It was our first time at any sort of maid café. The maids were very pretty and so kind! I ordered a Matcha Custard Puff and Pie ordered a Pumpkin Mini Loaf, which you can see above!
When I received my order by a lovely maid, I was asked if I wanted my food blessed by them. And of course I said yes!
Gotta go all in after all.
We did this little blessing sequence together and it was actually pretty fun! I managed to say everything properly, I thought I messed it up at the end but I did it!!
The food was pretty good. Blessing worked! The matcha custard was really nice. Even Pie, who doesn't like matcha liked it.
Blessings are powerful.
AnimeGO ended at 6pm, and we were about to head home. It felt sort of unfinished to me, like it didn't truly feel like the end. I didn't want to leave so quickly and so suddenly.
I still wanted to do more.
While I was waiting for my train to arrive, Pie suggested we should go out to the bridge that's outside of the station to kill some time. We walked across a bit of it, and we saw that there was a different festival going on below.
For context, AnimeGO was part of a bigger festival called OzAsia that's been running for the past two weeks I believe. That's the one we saw going on below.
Pie and I saw this other festival from the time we got to AnimeGO earlier in the day, but we assumed that we had to pay to go to that one so we took no heed of it aside from commenting it looked cool.
But that's when I spotted a large sign that said "Free Entry" from the bridge and I was like...we should go there. It was free and we were literally right there. It was still light out!
I never did tell my mum when I was heading home anyway. So it was all finee.
And we did go! It's sort of our thing, doing things rather spontaneously haha
It was the Lucky Dumpling Festival, filled with stalls of food you could buy and a stage with performances! It was really cool.
We saw a stall that sold Takoyaki, which was actually the same stall we bought Karaage Chicken from AVCon!
We missed out last time, so we couldn't miss this chance this time. Pie and I bought one to share, since it was a bit expensive and we weren't sure how much we would like it either.
We had to wait like 20-30 minutes. In the meantime, on the stage arrived three idols.
They started to sing.
And the first song they sang was Saijoukyuu Paradox (最上級ぱらどっくす), Idol Time Pripara's second opening.
When I heard it, I was like "WHATTTTT".
I freaked the heck out, I literally never thought I would ever hear this song in a random festival. I love Pripara, and so to hear this song made me so so SO happy.
Pie can attest to that.
I did not catch nor their names or unit name after the song ended aha
We were sorta far from the stage to hear it properly. But they looked so cool! I loved their outfits. I loved the fact they sang that song like aaaaaaa
And so I stanned these idols who I had no idea what their names were lmao
Our Takoyaki was ready after a while, and we looked for a seat...which was rather hard. There were no seats at all, and we were going to use a random table I saw that we would have to stand at or sit on the grass.
That was until we walked through the front area where the stage was, which had loads of benches.
And lo and behold, there was an empty bench I spotted. Right near the stage. I literally pointed to it aggressively and sprinted to it, so no one could take it. It was ours!
Takoyaki was really good. Like wow! I wished I had more of it then. I am so buying it next time it is available somewhere. So warm…
Of course I am a failure when eating so my Takoyaki balls were falling apart aha ( ´_ゝ`)
We ate it while watching the idols perform various songs and it was so much fun!
There was death metal screaming and it was incredible. The talent.
Such awesome idols. (*≧∀≦*)
Pie and I learnt that we could actually meet them and buy merch from them after the performance.
And of course we did! We were again there already and it’s not everyday you meet idols!
At this point I learnt they were called A-Muse Project, and there was usually 6 members but there were only three here today. It was their first time in Adelaide in fact! They're from Brisbane!
They were so nice and so kind! It was hard to hear them because we were right next to the stage and the next performance was on. And the wind was freezing by the time we managed to talk to them, I was so cold.
Was worth it. Anything for idols lol
We got these little group Cheki with them for $15 and they signed it too! I've never done anything like this before, but it was a lot of fun!
There were also penlights on sale for about $40, which was a bit too much for us so we passed on them.
We didn’t want the signatures to smudge so we just held them carefully for a really long time to make sure (even if we checked they were dry) lol
It now felt like the day was complete. I'm glad we did go to this festival as well!
It’s my first Polaroid I’ve ever gotten and I stuck it up on my wall hehe
We saw many cool cosplayers too, and we vow to cosplay next time we go because it felt sort of like a missed opportunity.
We didn’t get any photos with any of them because it’s honestly rather awkward asking people randomly “hey, can I take a photo?” while not in cosplay aha（´-`）.｡oO
But I did stare in awe.
There was this maid Xiao that we kept seeing everywhere, quite literally. We saw them at AnimeGO and at the Little Dumpling Festival.
We joked that if we called Xiao’s name, they'll come lol
There was a really cute March and such a cool Stelle! And a really cool Dottore that kept eluding me and disappearing randomly, it was rather incredible and creepy at the same time lol
There was also this Flandre Scarlet cosplayer which I absolutely loved. I watched them play Taikou no Tatsujin while waiting in line for the game.
I want to do that one day too, do that cosplay and then play Bad Apple lol
Point is, a lot of cool cosplay.
This place is literally like paradise for someone like me. I love anime, manga and gaming! People are so nice at conventions, I love the atmosphere and simply, I'll never get enough of it all.
We did so many things. It was such a fun day, and I won’t forget about it for a long time.
Thank you for reading!
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Adelaide bitches will really just see festival and go
#it's me#I'm Adelaide bitches#i say as I'm walking past the festival theatre and festival centre and fan festival and the site of the ozasia festival
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Lucky to get out of that downpour, I had fun basking in the festival atmosphere of AnimeGO! Japan Pop Culture Festival, this time at the Adelaide Festival Centre. As always, I do the best I can with what little I have to capture the energy of the event.
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Big Bao at Lucky Dumpling Market
November 4 and 5, 2023
Lucky Dumpling Market, OzAsia Festival
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Colin Ho
DJ Cookie
Rainbow Chan (DJ set)
Small FRY
Yeo (DJ set)
Curated by Small FRY for OzAsia Festival, Adelaide
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Immerse Yourself in the Moon Lantern Trail: OzAsia Festival 2023
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OZAsia Festival 2023 - Lucky Dumpling Market, Adelaide, SA
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First #OzAsia show on Sunday: £¥€$ (LIES) It was a Belgium/Hong Kong production where you essentially walking into a gambling den with casino tables, and there's a rotating chalkboard in the centre. You play as individual banks, each table a different country, and you play the global economy. It was basically like a massive board game event. Loved it! Our table Casa Del Tom ended up with a B+ ranking (we dropped from A). #theatre #Adelaide https://www.instagram.com/p/B34Br-0AfLM/?igshid=por9982snm4c
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Those fantastic week feels. ❤️
On Monday, I started with my psychologist. We’re working on my anxieties (starting with making and answering phone calls) and I’m feeling super confident in my ability to overcome it!
Wednesday was of course DBT. But it was also Flynn time. And I was made to promise that I would go out to coffee next week with some of my group members as well as say yes to our group dinner at the end of the month. I’m super excited to get to know these guys even better as they are all so goddamn lovely.
Thursday night I had a work dinner with another SM from OzAsia, our production coordinator, and our production assistant, I’ve never gone out for Thai food before and OH MY GOD IT WAS DELICIOUS. New fav restaurant for sure! And it was a super fun evening... I work with some fantastic ladies. And then I headed down to the Arts Theatre to attend the opening night cast party for Mark’s new show.
Friday night was a bus trip from town to Sterling to go see Avenue Q with some of my If/Then buddies. I’ve officially decided that I’m a terrible audience member as I pay too much attention to scene changes and cue points and other bits and pieces. But it was a great, great night.
Aaaaand then Saturday we had our catch up/viewing party for If/Then. Goddamn it was fun watching the show again. And all of us sharing our inside jokes from the run. And I also have a new favourite board game which we played afterwards and, I kid you not, it was the most fun I’ve almost ever had playing a board game. Will definitely have to buy it to introduce to Mark. But it was great to find out my theatre friends are also board game nerds so we’ll 100% be having lots of board game nights in the future.
Honestly, I’m living my ideal life. I’ve all of a sudden have a crazy amount of incredible people in my life (between DBT, AFC and Segue) and I’m feeling and getting better mentally and physically and the happiest I’ve been in years and years and years. Here’s to my best year yet! ❤️ and who knows, next year might even top it! (Already got work lined up, as well as 💍💍💍😝)
#personal post#my face#stage manager#stage management life#ozasia#segue productions#if/then#dbt#bpd#actually borderline#health#losing weight quicker than expected#mentally healthy
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OZ ASIA festival. Kinda liked this...looked like a goal lol
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OZASIA FEST LAUNCHES WITH THEIR MOST EXCITING LINE UP YET!
OzAsia Festival has just launched their program and it is outstanding!
It just gets better every year! OzAsia Festival is back in Adelaide with five world premieres, 20 Australian premieres and 22 events exclusive to South Australia are en route to Adelaide.
Unlike any other festival in the country, OzAsia Festival runs from 25 October to 11 November.
Adelaide Festival Centre’s 12th annual OzAsia Festival will feature work from 817 artists with 20 countries…
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When at #OzAsia #RedskinIcecream (at OzAsia Festival) https://www.instagram.com/p/B4ZMy3Jjbszrm1hHVdASb-t8HCduIueQbTWeYM0/?igshid=7ljfiylk49nl
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OMG, OMG! I just won a cosplay comp! I went to Green Room’s Cosplay red carpet which was a pre event for an Ozasia festival event of a Hatsune Miku song. It was so much fun and every cosplayer was on point <3 Much love to them all, and i’ve made lots of new friends because of this event. So thank you Green room for this wonderful event and thank you so much for choosing my cosplay as the winning one. Seriously thank you so much <3
#vocaloid#cosplay#cosplayer#hatsune miku#miku#cosplayers#ozasia#australia#oz#blue#kimono#japanese#aussie#vocaloid cosplay#hatsune miku cosplay#thank you
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Are you ever going to be as happy as me and my Fairy Floss Unicorn.
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OzAsia Review: Electric Fields
Electric Fields took to the Little Dumpling Market stage with a simple set up of a few microphones, a keyboard and a handful of people who had gathered in advance to their set. The Electric Fields duo of Zaachariaha Fielding and Michael Ross were quick to draw in their crowd with their electro-pop-soul blend of music and constant energy on stage. By the end, the strong crowd were up close and dancing while many more had their attention drawn in from their seated position scattered around the venue.
The pair have an incredible stage presence and dynamic. Fielding’s soulful vocals alternated from gentle lead ins, to chillingly powerful and commanding, which contrasted nicely with Ross’s more pop sounding and softer voice. The lyrics are a mix of original songs, Fielding’s traditional language of the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara people, and samples from well known hits.
The full review can be found at http://www.glamadelaide.com.au/main/ozasia-review-electric-fields/
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The End Vocaloid Opera Heading to Australia!
The world’s first VOCALOID opera The End will be making its way to Australia this October for OzAsia Festival in Adelaide! The End debuted back in 2013 and has been shown at different locations in France and Germany; it has even been shown on a beach.
Conceived and composed by Japanese composer (and Miku fan) Keiichiro Shibuya, the show features the vocals of Hatsune Miku, costume designs by Louis Vuitton and visual design by YKBX. Unlike many Miku productions, The End focuses on slightly darker themes as Miku struggles to understand her existence and if she’s like other humans.
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Show Times and Locations
As of now, we are not certain if the show will provide English subtitles, but we can assume there will be.
Location: Dunstan Playhouse at Festival Dr, Adelaide SA 5000, Australia
October 3rd Showing: 8PM
October 4th Showing: 8PM
Ticket Prices
Adult: $49.00 AUD
Concession*: $45.00 AUD
Those who purchase 4 or more shows will receive a discount:
Adult: $44.00
Concession*: $40.00
*Pensioner, Senior, Full Time Student, or Unemployed
GreenRoom Members: $30.00
(Note that all online purchases come with a $8.95 AUD service and handling fee)
For more information on the festival or show (including where to purchase tickets), visit OzAsia Festival’s official site! And keep up with Vocaloid news through VNN!
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We had a great time at the #ozasia #moonlanterntrail #moonlanternfestival last weekend. Click on the link in my bio to see lantern pandas, flying pigs and a 40m long dragon! (at Adelaide Zoo) https://www.instagram.com/p/CVsRSf2hs73Bd9lrELZAMtjFD4zeSpmMwZPfdw0/?utm_medium=tumblr
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