Shimada-san is one of the chefs at Iyashi Cafe, my host's Korean restaurant. Since the day I arrived she showed me how to work everything around the house where I was staying—though my host made me move out of that house after Miska arrived.
I now live in my host's incredibly dirty house alone with her—haha, and I do mean the "alone with her" part because she's never actually around; but sorry, my host is a whole different story.
Dango shop
Kurimu (cream) rice flour snack
This is the Converntion Center before it opened; we got there early because Shimada-san was in charge of the food stand and we had to set it up.
The food stand—at first I saw how much food we were going to be selling and thought it was too much, but in the end we sold out of everything. The woman with the blue glove, that's Shimada-san!
The food stand sold rice with vegetables, fried chicken, hot dogs, uron cha (oolong tea), orange juice, and pastries... this is what the hot dogs looked like.
At about 11 am, a huge crowd of girls with suitcases entered the center and formed a line to enter a dressing-room area where they put on their cosplays. Before leaving, they all went back into the dressing rooms and took off their costumes; this is so they don't cause public commotion outside of the convention area.
I found this odd, since we usually parade in costumes all day after an anime convention back at home; in fact we arrive to the convention center already dressed.
You see that unhappy guy sitting down? Well,
after only three pictures, I was stopped short from taking any more photographs by a security guard, apparently it wasn't allowed xD
There was a specific area for photographing cosplayers, but I wasn't allowed to take pictures because I was part of the food stand. Something that I found out after taking this photograph:
Haha, I was yet again stopped by a security guard
I was finally allowed to take pictures outside, and the cosplays were great!
One of my personal favorites!
Ryotaro Okiayu was the guest speaker at this convention, which was AWESOME!! Unfortunately, I could not take pictures of him, either /:
Overall my day at the convention was amazing, I really enjoyed helping out at the food stand and being able to see authentic Japanese cosplayers ^_^
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