The 8th Nipponbashi Street Festa looks to have been the biggest ever, with 220,000 cramming the streets of Osaka amidst scenes of outstanding cosplay and creepiness.
The 8th “Nipponbashi Street Festa,”, a cosplay street festival held annually on the 20th of March in Osaka’s “Nipponbashi” area (unhelpfully, some Japanese sources have decided to romanise this as “Nippombashi” as well – and neither are to be confused with the identically spelled “Nihonbashi” bridge in Tokyo), saw thousands of otaku flood into “Den-Den Town,” Osaka’s answer to Akihabara.
Media coverage in fact estimated an impressive 220,000 in attendance, with hordes of cosplayers on display amidst creepy otaku and hapless gawkers:
What the… We (friend and I) were in Osaka at this time but we met my penfriend and she suggested to take a trip to Nara what we accepted. Argh~
Damn, that Yui cosplayer is FIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINE!!!
Ok, the 3 pics with the time of 7:12, just want to make me run for the hills. Seriously!
Nappa was missing some onigiris…
ahahahahahahahahah at the last picture NIGHTMARISH But anyone else think the jack sparrow cosplayer looked like freaking johnny depp 😛
dat ManYui hahaha
Not gonna call them losers, they look like they’re having fun. Good for them. But wow they look horrible! Lol
No, some of them look great. Especially that cute Fate cosplayer.
Looks fun. I don’t like that it seems the tv folks are having fun at the attendees expense.
>sailor moon
I was not expecting that
>places on rape beard
let’s rock
O_O I juz saw Gay-ON = w =
Wow! Even Johnny Depp is participating!!
Who’s 008.jpg supposed to be? GACKT? lol I hope not. DON’T MAKE FUN OF OUR GACKT!
did you know that gackt means pooped in another language? just this fact is funny…. ;P
What’s the name of the show where the big-nosed brown thing and the guy in the hat are from? I used to watch the Spanish dub of that show when I was a kid but I could never remember the name of it. 😀
It’s nice to see people still remember Gonta. I loved that show.
fat asian dwarf Data cosplaying as Yui
no i have seen everything
Woah, who was cosplaying as Jack Sparrow? Whoever it was, well done man, that is perfect!
No lie who ever was cosplaying Jack Sparrow looked so real i really thought it was Johnny Depp.
I actually saw that girl on Shinjuku during december
I thought it was Johnny Depp when I first saw it.
^ woops i mean pics 7 and 8 my bad
what made me laugh is the guy from Pic 8 and 9
he says “i came from Shizuoka”.. and for those that can read kanji, Shizuoka means Silent Hill..
now look at pic 9
Nipponbashi by the numbers:
220000, 8, 60.
220000 is the number of attendees.
8 is the number of years that it has been celebrated.
And 60 is the percentage of female characters cosplays that were actually done by men.
If you want to know why they spelled it “Nippombashi” instead of “Nipponbashi”, it’s because of a thing in linguistics called ‘assimilation’.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assimilation_(linguistics)
The second ‘n’ in ‘Nippon’ uses the ‘ん’ character when written in hiragana, which can make either an ‘n’, ‘m’, or ‘ng’ sound depending on what’s near it. Basically, it’s easier to pronounce the ‘ん’ as an ‘m’ in ‘Nippombashi’ because it flows better with the ‘b’ than ‘n’ or ‘ng’ would.
~The more you know~
I vote for wrong spelling.
Captain Jack Sparrow showed up.
looks exactly like him
THIS IS THE TALE OF CAPTAIN JACK SPARROW, PIRATE SO BARVE ON THE SEVEN SEAS.
A MYSTICAL QUEST TO THE ISLE OF TORTUGA, RAVEN LOCKS SWAY ON THE OCEAN’S BREEZE.
FROM THE DAY HE WAS BORN, HE YEARNED FOR ADVENTURE
OLD CAPTAIN JACK GIVING THEM WHAT FOR.
HE’S THE PAUPER OF THE SURF
THE JESTER OF TORTUGA
BUT IS DAVY JONES’ LOCKER WHAT LIES IN STORE!!
I learned so many things from Noppo and Gonta.
Fate is cute, but wow so many people around her!
She is totally outnumbered and her position is about to be overrun.
“Checkmate King, this is Knight One! I need an extraction now! I’m poppin’ yellow smoke. LZ is hot! repeat, LZ is hot!”
sure is cute
There’s only one way this usually ends in…
Well its her or those K-on guys(gilrs?)
Wow, whoever cosplayed as Captain Jack Sparrow did a good job.
wait are you telling me thats not jhony depp?
Naw he’s trollin’ you, that was the real Jack Sparrow.
I am LOVING that Mexican Mario.
Looks like it’s a fun event.
Need tickets to japan so I can get that Fate.
220,000 forever alone.
The irony of alone being anything more than singular
220,000 possibilities to find someone with similar interests.
The whole crowd was bisexual (or homosexual and of one gender)?