The Roving Ronin Report

In July Tokyo Decadance that madcap cosplay melting pot held a special cosplay event where the theme was Animal - real or fantasy. I went as a long-nose winged goblin known as a Tengu. Birds of a Feather Wild Kitty Kats Tengu Lion King on Acid Victim of an animal mauling - the animal of too much alcohol Me Tarzan, You Hot! Kitsune - Fox Spirit

On June 25th I went to the Tokyo Youtube Gathering at the Sports Cafe in Roppongi. Got there late but got my butt kicked by a couple of Oolong Hi's (or was it 4 or 5?) Tokyo Decadance that eclectic hodge-podge of Japanese underground subculture happened to be going on the same night a few blocks away so I donned my samurai armor (which got me a discount at the door) and took a couple of Youtubers over there after the Youtube meet-up. We had a good time and saw some wild stuff which some of it can't be shown here for the obvious reasons but take out word for it - it was wild!

Tokyo Decadance that wild melting pot of subcultures hosted its monthly event this March. Normally the March event is to celebrate White Day March 14th which is the opposite of Valentines. On Valentines, girls give boys presents and on White Day the boys return the favor. This year however the day before the originally schedule event there was a massive earthquake 80 kilometers off the northeast coast of Japan which caused destructive tsunamis which wiped out whole towns and caused enormous destruction and loss of life along the northeast coast of the Tohoku region. Tokyo Decadance was postponed for two weeks and renamed White and Yellow. White for the original White Day and Yellow for support of Japan. Yellow is a positive color in Japan. A percent of the party's profit was donated to the Red Cross. There wasn't as many people out as usual events but there was still a good showing. Kaya was there singing a duet. We had great music played by DJs like Rina Nekko, we h...

A sexy Yoshi with a .....? Tokyo Decadance is a semi-monthly club event in Japan and Europe with different themes sometimes reflecting the holidays and sometimes related with Japanese pop-culture. I went to one event where the theme was old video games such as from Nintendo. There were also some people dressed up as characters from video games or variations of them - a mustacheless Mario (I know - wrong! wrong! wrong!) for example. Some people were apparently dressed as characters from video games that must have come wrapped in brown paper. One DJ played remixes of old video game tunes particularly around 2:50-3:45 and Japanese Chiptune band YMCK made a brief appearance (4:30 in the vid). I could recognize one or two tunes - the mario one was pretty unmistakable but others I have no idea. I never had a Nintendo though I did have SNES and 64. Whoa! I want to play whatever game she is playing! Jesus and a mustache-less Mario

Tokyo Metropolis Halloween Glitterball 2010 Metropolis is a free weekly magazine in Tokyo. They put on a huge party twice a year known as Glitterball. Around Halloween they do a costume contest and some kind of show. This year it was a tribute to Michael Jackson's Thriller with a Michael Jackson impersonator.

Tokyo Decadance 2010 Halloween Bash Sexy Ghouls, Ghosts, Vampires, and Whatnots claim the night Tokyo Decadance is Tokyo's melting pot of Japanese subcultures from lolita, goth, cyber, anime, to anything else. Halloween is one of Tokyo Decadance's favorite times as every style comes out for a bit of madcap fun. This was Tokyo Decadance's 5th Anniversary.